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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

21 reviews

annamwallace66's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Blood, Cursing, Drug abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Torture, Violence, War, Vomit, and Drug use

Minor: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

thesapphiccelticbookworm's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Child abuse, Grief, Murder, War, and Drug use

Moderate: Trafficking, Death of parent, Slavery, Rape, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, and Vomit

Minor: Animal death

ghost_rider's review against another edition

dark emotional informative medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, War, Drug use, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Addiction, Drug abuse, Child abuse, Gun violence, Gore, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

hamletslover's review

dark emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Child death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Sexual violence, Torture, Blood, Physical abuse, Police brutality, War, Slavery, Emotional abuse, Rape, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders

kayminne's review

adventurous tense fast-paced

4.0

This book is beautifully written. I appreciate how the author, Ishmael Beah, ends the book in particular. It doesn’t allow you to forget the journey and is very impactful. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Child abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, Gun violence, and Death

I believe it be good for people to be aware that these things take place in this book. I do not wish for it to hold them back from reading. The author did a wonderful job of conveying his experiences without painting graphic pictures.

shigre's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Death, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, and War

Moderate: Gun violence

alexisgarcia's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

this was absolutely devastating but a story that needed to be told. Beah’s “recovery” and healing were so nice to see. be careful with content warnings!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Death of parent, Death, Child abuse, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Murder, Addiction, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Violence, War, and Rape

shontellereads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.0

I think the content is as harrowing as it is interesting but the writing really didn't do this memoir justice, unfortunately.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, War, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Child death, Death, Gore, Murder, Violence, Grief, and Gun violence

jaidenmarie11's review

dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

I think I’ll always give memoirs a 5 star unless it or the author sucks but fortunately that was not the case. This book was so harrowing and made me truly reflect on the ideals of morality and innocence. I will never forget some of the scenes from this book and it’s absolutely heartbreaking that a child had to experience this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Gore, War, Death, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Torture, Blood, Murder, Addiction, Cursing, and Rape

chrisp189's review

challenging dark hopeful informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Drug abuse, Drug use, Child death, Child abuse, Death of parent, and Death