Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

31 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

graysondyed's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child abuse, Grief, Murder, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Mental illness, and Racial slurs

paronomaniac's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gun violence, and Murder

Moderate: Racial slurs, Child abuse, and Child death

Minor: Animal death and Mental illness

s_mivsek's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

3.5

Well written, would recommend to people who enjoy real crime; just not my cup of tea

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Gore, Physical abuse, Death, Confinement, Violence, Murder, Child abuse, and Blood

Moderate: Racial slurs, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Infidelity, Grief, Dysphoria, and Abandonment

Minor: Cancer, Animal death, Self harm, Death of parent, and Suicidal thoughts

readbymadi's review against another edition

dark informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This is one of the most well-written and unsettling books I've ever read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Racial slurs and Mental illness

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

dorynickel's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

4.0

Weird how much this reads like 
a modern true crime podcast... But not in a bad way. To take a novelist as talented as Capote and unleash him on an Investigative story like this was a master stroke, such an engaging book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Mental illness

kfergy's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

4.0

Considered the first contemporary "true crime novel," the writing is very compelling and the quotes from and conversations between characters/witnesses is a really interesting approach to telling the story. It makes me wonder slightly about creative licence on the part of the author, but I dig it. Huge warning for racist slurs though - you could say it goes with the territory for the place and time, but a warning nonetheless. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Alcohol, Violence, Murder, and Gun violence

Moderate: Sexual content and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Cancer, Pedophilia, Child abuse, and Mental illness

calamityin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

1.5

While it's one of the cornerstones for True Crime as a literary phenomena, it's incredibly insensitive to the victims and those around them.  It's frankly a bit disgusting the way that Capote describes these horrible acts as if they didn't happen to real people who had real hopes and dreams and lives.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, Classism, Death, Racial slurs, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Racism, and Car accident

Minor: Fatphobia, Alcoholism, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

gh1's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Child death, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Racism, Murder, and Sexual content

Moderate: Toxic friendship