Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

5 reviews

seforana's review against another edition

challenging dark informative slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Confinement, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, Pedophilia, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Chronic illness, Body horror, Sexual harassment, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, Medical content, Blood, Grief, Sexual content, Violence, and Gore

emy_clemy's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Mass/school shootings, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Torture, Violence, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Suicide attempt, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Chronic illness, Gore, Domestic abuse, Child death, Abandonment, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Murder, Excrement, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Alcohol, Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Racism, Ableism, Medical trauma, Pedophilia, Suicide, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Car accident

quinoa_x_chaos's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Chronic illness, and Abandonment

Minor: Pedophilia

librarymouse's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.25

This text was jarring in that there was vibrant and comprehensive descriptions of seemingly innocuous details and then facts like Hickock's pedophilic tendencies were dropped into the middle of a paragraph, only to be left and then picked up again after dozens of pages. The descriptions of the Clutters, their family life, their friends, and their pastoral joys made the details of their deaths all the more profoundly upsetting. I appreciated the depth of research that went into this book and the information given on the communities the Clutters and their killers spent time in, but I am also, in some ways, upset with the lengths at which this book works to humanize the killers. It's bitter to feel something akin to empathy with either of them or the men that lived with them on death row.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Gore, Cancer, Hate crime, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Car accident, Sexual content, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Blood, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Animal death, Death, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Grief, Misogyny, Murder, Violence, Gun violence, Body shaming, Pedophilia, Child death, and Confinement

emersonseyeball's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Blood, Alcohol, Death, Child abuse, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Violence, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Gore, and Murder

Moderate: Ableism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Car accident, Chronic illness, Gore, Abandonment, Cursing, Physical abuse, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Classism, Domestic abuse, Rape, Pedophilia, Xenophobia, Homophobia, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual violence