Reviews tagging 'Stalking'

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer

6 reviews

gwynian's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Cursing, Sexual violence, Stalking, Incest, Pedophilia, Body horror, Sexual assault, War, Infidelity, Racism, Rape, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcohol and Miscarriage

eegred's review against another edition

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Blood, Sexual violence, Sexism, Incest, Violence, Religious bigotry, and Murder

Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, Stalking, and Kidnapping

Minor: Animal cruelty

librarymouse's review against another edition

challenging informative fast-paced

4.0

The murders of Brenda and Erica Lafferty we're horrendous. This book does a lot of work to explain how religions like Mormonism, especially radicalized fundamentalist Mormonism, can warp the world views of it's followers, shaping some into devout followers who are used and abused in the name of God by those in power and to create powerful, often delusional believers who are willing to kill, rape, and defile anyone from family members to strangers for the sake of their personal perception of God's will.
In the author's notes at the end of this book, Jon Krakauer addresses the path his writing process took. While his end product was not what he initially intended it to be, it was enriched by the research he'd done on the history of Mormonism. Having grown up in an area with a few Mormons, but not enough for them to be the dominant social group, I'd just lumped them into the group of people from religions I was not a part of. This peek at their storied history, historic and continued racism, historic and continued sexual violence and pedophilia, and the lengths to which the current church goes to hide the past from followers gives a suspicious tilt to the religion's intentions.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Blood, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Violence, Suicide attempt, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Child death, Adult/minor relationship, Gore, Racism, Racial slurs, Grief, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, Suicide, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual violence

lomur98's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Incest, Violence, and Stalking

Minor: Xenophobia, Racism, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

quirkko24's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Stalking, Sexual violence, Sexism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Religious bigotry, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Mental illness, Incest, Death, Child abuse, and Blood

ekmurray's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

I thought this book was a sensitive and well-researched investigation into not only a compelling true crime story, but the whole history of Mormonism and Mormon Fundamentalism, a darkly fascinating faith.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Child abuse

Moderate: Racism, Suicide attempt, Stalking, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Pedophilia, Miscarriage, Kidnapping, Incest, and Adult/minor relationship