Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World's Most Infamous Prison by Sarah Mirk

10 reviews

elizabeth_1898's review

informative reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Xenophobia, Torture, and Islamophobia

Moderate: Death

Minor: Medical content, War, Suicide, Religious bigotry, and Murder

maxmaxmaxo's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Death, Racism, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Blood, Body horror, Torture, Physical abuse, Islamophobia, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Deportation, Animal cruelty, and Confinement

mizreads's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

This took me a while to get through - mostly because I got busy with school, but also having to read just how torturous and painful the experiences people went through was really heavy. The art is fantastic. The narrative is fantastic. This is such an incredible look at non-fiction writing and art.

"They're there for a reason," came the closing lines, and I started crying. They're there for a reason, yes: because of white supremacy, of Islamophobia, of racism and injustice. They're there because America doesn't want to be held accountable for their actions, because people will continue to convince themselves that to keep them imprisoned for years without end is "safe, humane, and legal." How can people believe that this is good? How can anyone believe that any of this is justice?

Sarah is an amazing person. I met them in the fall semester of my freshman year and they gave me a copy of the book. I asked if they were sure, and they told me that as long as I paid it forward, they wouldn't mind. I'll be donating this to my local library soon.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia and Torture

smilagros's review

dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

Normally I can rate non fiction graphic novels but rating this makes me extremely uncomfortable because GITMO is still around today.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, War, and Violence

uglypopcorn's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Violence

peachani's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Islamophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Torture, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Cursing and Kidnapping

Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, and Blood

chelleivancic's review

dark emotional informative fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

gloriazthompson's review

challenging emotional informative sad tense

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Torture

olivia_piepmeier's review

challenging dark informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This is a great example of one of those books that just completely alters the way you think about the topic at hand. Honestly, I didn't know much about the prison before, but now? ...um...wow. I had to take a break in the middle of reading it because it was so intense. Definitely not for the faint of heart. Such a cool text to consider the role of research in creating a comic, too. I loved the information included at the end about how it was created.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Racism, and Xenophobia

zehroni's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

 was reading this when tr*mp got acquitted and I am exhausted with this government. will no one ever face repercussions for anything, damn. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture