Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

6 reviews

fiannah's review

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Violence, Toxic friendship, Terminal illness, Sexual violence, Gun violence, Mental illness, Drug abuse, Suicide attempt, and War

bigheadcam's review

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

An absolutely incredible, fascinating, and perfectly paced narrative nonfiction on the Troubles. Radden Keefe is very careful to specify that this book is not "historical" nonfiction because a lot of the information in this book is derived from oral accounts. He did his best to reconcile these accounts by corroborating them with more official records and reports, but the Troubles are not well documented and were a truly chaotic time.

Radden Keefe's writing is objective and informative while also remaining gripping and maintaining an excellent storytelling tone. I was consistently impressed with how well he kept every subject covered interesting, and how he manages to switch contexts without losing the reader or making it jarring.

Thanks to John Oliver for recommending this on Hot Ones. I'd happily do the same for anyone with an interest in history, radical ideologies, revolution, and modern struggles for independence as well as the cost of said struggles.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Cancer, Bullying, Murder, War, Blood, Child abuse, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Terminal illness, Confinement, Classism, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Suicide, Gun violence, Police brutality, Alcoholism, Body horror, Excrement, Physical abuse, Violence, Child death, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Self harm, Colonisation, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Forced institutionalization, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

kefink's review

challenging dark informative sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Murder, Colonisation, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Hate crime, Torture, Death, Police brutality, Cursing, War, Addiction, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Incest, Cancer, Child abuse, Excrement, Suicide attempt, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Medical trauma, and Suicide

meredith_peruzzi's review

challenging dark informative fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Death, War, Violence, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Torture, Mass/school shootings, Police brutality, Murder, Death of parent, Gun violence, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Gaslighting and Alcoholism

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Terminal illness

imds's review

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Colonisation, Grief, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Genocide, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Violence, War, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Body horror, Gun violence, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Self harm, Addiction, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Cancer, Death of parent, Drug use, Suicide, Confinement, Physical abuse, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Religious bigotry, Torture, and Xenophobia

emmyinthestacks's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Police brutality, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, and War

Minor: Suicide, Sexual assault, and Pedophilia