Reviews tagging 'Classism'

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

18 reviews

luckyone's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Antisemitism, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Ableism, Chronic illness, Suicide, Antisemitism, and Stalking

dannythestreet's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicide, Grief, Stalking, Gaslighting, and Classism

waybeyondblue's review against another edition

challenging dark informative tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Suicide, Stalking, and Classism

matildak28's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

this is an incredible piece of non fiction writing — Patrick Redden Keefe is sharp and reflective, presents the facts through a deeply engaging narrative and I literally couldn’t stop listening - I listened to this non stop over the course of 3 days. This may be one of the most precise, excellent non fiction books I’ve ever read. I’ve watched a lot of documentaries about the opioid crisis in America (I’m from the UK and have no personal connection), and all of them have very limited details about the family — I feel like I have learned a lot despite already knowing a fair deal. 

Quite simply, this is incredible and this writer is nothing short of brilliant. I will be seeking out his other works immediately. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Grief, Medical trauma, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

stephaniezd's review against another edition

dark informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

Impeccably researched and compelling in it's telling. Easily the best non-fiction I have read this year. I have already recommended to several people. Jaw-dropping at times in the unabashed ridiculousness that the focuses of the tale engaged in. Just an incredible story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Gaslighting, and Classism

_fallinglight_'s review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Surreal, insightful, albeit and clinical deep dive into the depraved and unhinged Sackler criminal billionaire family. This book is one of many definitive proofs that the billionaire is incompatible with humanity at this point and greed is an addiction as equally destructive and demoralizing as any substance addiction if not more or worse. The lengths the rotting rich go to to keep their corrosive money are so twisted but it's also morbidly impressive how they weave the web of connections and buy their way into getting the results they want. Particularly this family who honestly wouldn't have made it without ass kissers and enablers and unscrupulous people making their perversity possible bc most of them are so offensively insensitive and stupid.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Medical content, and Classism

Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Suicide, Antisemitism, and Suicide attempt

____emily____'s review against another edition

informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Death, Antisemitism, Grief, and Classism

Minor: Mental illness and Suicide

internationalreads's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, and Classism