Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

King: A Life by Jonathan Eig

5 reviews

awebofstories's review

informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Hate crime, Infidelity, and Murder

mysterymom40's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Stalking, Police brutality, Infidelity, Racism, Hate crime, and Violence

Moderate: Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, War, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Mental illness, Murder, Classism, Sexism, Gun violence, Homophobia, and Suicide attempt

brookiet1220's review against another edition

dark informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

A well-researched biography that addressees the quest of “Who was Martin Luther King”?  Using interviews of people close to him and newly declassified FBI files Eig provides a picture of the man whose birthday we honor every January.

While there is a single narrator, each person has distinct voice.  The baritone voice he uses for King transports readers to a speech or sermon.  The Nobel Prize and the anti-Vietnam War speeches are not known like the I Have a Dream but are equally as eloquent and enthralling.

The post March on Washington chapters of the book were informative.  These sections reveal how public opinion turned on King and the Civil Rights movement and its impact on his inner circle.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Infidelity

fkshg8465's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring sad slow-paced

4.0

This was a long book. I had to fight the fatigue, but I could get through it because learned a lot from it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Child death, Death of parent, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Classism, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Gun violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Violence, and War

oliviaja's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Classism, Gun violence, Murder, Hate crime, Grief, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Death, and Racism