Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt

6 reviews

asiaasiaja's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Violence, Murder, Hate crime, Deportation, Antisemitism, Xenophobia, War, and Physical abuse

giuliii's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

It took me an embarrassing long time to actually finish this book (around a month, although I annotated it all) but I actually found it to be an extremely interesting read once I got the hang of it. It's really compelling from a psychological viewpoint because it analyzes the mind of Adolph Eichmann and National-Socialists and delves deep into what it really means for evil to be banal, without subtracting the fault out of it. It also allowed me to expand my knowledge on the events of the war and the politics of it, so now I feel like I have a better understanding of that time period. If interested in the topic or even if it's an academic demand (as was mine), I really encourage whoever to read it, you won't regret it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Slavery, War, Child death, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Torture, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Antisemitism, Deportation, Mental illness, Trafficking, Violence, Classism, Gun violence, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, and Racism

Moderate: Homophobia and Ableism

I mean, it's a book about world war two so it's pretty self explanatory

megb64's review

challenging dark slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deportation, Genocide, Grief, Antisemitism, Child death, Confinement, Hate crime, Death, Kidnapping, Murder, War, and Violence

linneak's review

challenging dark informative slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Death, Grief, Xenophobia, Deportation, War, Genocide, and Confinement

Minor: Kidnapping, Murder, Child death, and Suicide

zakcebulski's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

Rarely am I hit by a book in such a tangible way as I was while reading this book.
This book was absolutely frightening as it discussed how truly evil people can be the most boring, tepid, insipid fucks that have ever walked the Earth. But, if they haven't the ability to question the orders which they are given, they are capable of unspeakable horrors.
This book was highly fascinating, teaching me about the true impact which Adolf Eichmann had on the Holocaust, and how, without him and those like him, the Holocaust would largely have occurred differently and not to the level which it reached.
This book is tragic, it is heart wrenching, it is soul numbing. To think about the true impact of dozens, hundreds, thousands, millions of lives all wiped away by a bunch of people who high command was comprised of a bunch of failures, is sickening.
I can say that though I did not comprehend everything in this book, and stand to learn and remember much, much more upon subsequent re-reads, this was a book that I am glad to have read. It is important to read books that describe the atrocities in which humans inflict on one another in hopes that we can learn from history lest we repeat it. 
I cannot give this book a rating, but, I do highly recommend anyone to read it. It is insightful, moving, and terrifying when you think about how the most sub-average stooge is able to inflict so much misery and pain on the world. It changes your perspective on things a good bit. 
The last paragraph is some of the most poignant writing I have had the pleasure of reading this year. 
#FuckEichmann #FuckNazis

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Murder, and Racism

elenamarmiroli's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

3.75

Non lo so, credo mi aspettassi di più da questo libro avendone, in passato, sentito parlare bene a scuola. Inoltre, avrei voluto vedere maggiormente esplorata la banalità legata al male, in maniera più generica ed esplicita.

Ciò nonostante la lettura si è rivelata interessante ed istruttiva.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Murder, and Genocide