Reviews tagging 'War'

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown

8 reviews

arturo_luzen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Death, Grief, Classism, Child abuse, War, Death of parent, Religious bigotry, Genocide, and Antisemitism

Minor: Sexual harassment

slahlum's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Absolutely fabulous book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, War, Racial slurs, and Grief

abicaro17's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny informative tense slow-paced

3.0

I wanted to like this so much more than I did. Its my favorite kind of story: American underdogs beating the odds to show the world what America can do. Unfortunately both the formatting and pacing makes this a super slow and difficult read. The interesting and relevant tales of the actual boys in the boat are sprinkled in with side plots varying between Nazi Germany setting up for the Olympics to the Dust Bowl. This made it hard to read as a lot of information could not only be condensed but also wasn't necessarily relevant to the story. The last three chapters really pulled it together for me though as it was what we all came for: the 1936 Olympics. In short, would I read this again? No. Would I recommend it? Maybe. If you like historical sports novels definitely! Otherwise maybe just watch the movie? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Homophobia, Abandonment, Cancer, Mass/school shootings, Vomit, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Murder, Addiction, War, Racism, Violence, Child abuse, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Police brutality, Racial slurs, and Slavery

rochelleisreading's review against another edition

challenging inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Pregnancy, Hate crime, and Classism

Moderate: Genocide, Bullying, and War

Minor: Alcohol

thebookishmuggle's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Abandonment, and Antisemitism

alenert's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

This book was so freaking good.

Audio is great. It had me audibly reacting alone in my room. “WHAT?!” at the start of the Olympic race. Like, how was it THAT CRAZY??? “THAT’S THE END??!” when the narrator said “Epilogue.” Their bond 🥹

TW: Hitler Germany, Nazi propaganda in action, antisemitism, war, child neglect/abandonment

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Xenophobia, Genocide, Religious bigotry, Grief, Bullying, Death of parent, War, Emotional abuse, Classism, Antisemitism, and Child abuse

Minor: Cultural appropriation, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, and Medical content

hlipman22's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Death of parent, Antisemitism, Grief, and War

emmstuke's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism and War