Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

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

24 reviews

rivercat0338's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Self harm, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Eating disorder, Death, Alcoholism, Child abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, Pedophilia, Kidnapping, Forced institutionalization, and Emotional abuse

franklybookish's review

challenging dark informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Police brutality, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, and Violence

leah_alexandra's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Violence

chandrajohnson1208's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

3.0

Clearly, Patrick Radden Keefe has done a tremendous job here, but this was a hard, hard read. I'm definitely done with nonfiction for a good long while now. Part of the fault is on me, because I thought the book would be more about the McConvilles and less about Dolours Price, but I was wrong about that. No fault of Keefe's, of course--just a dearth of information about the mother, especially, it seems.
Well-written, well-researched, and well done considering how unsatisfying the situation currently is, and how precarious its future. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Pedophilia, and Police brutality