Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick

9 reviews

bilbili's review against another edition

emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Violence, Torture, Child death, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Gun violence

Minor: Cannibalism and Abandonment

sapphicshark's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Child death, and War

Moderate: Violence, War, Trafficking, Torture, and Suicidal thoughts

marillenbaum's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

An incredible, though difficult, read, this look into life in North Korea as told by its defectors is a rich and fascinating portrait of a world staggeringly different from our own. I especially appreciated the afterward to the new edition, with the latest updates on the people we had come to root for. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Violence, Suicide, and Police brutality

marissab's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Medical content, Death, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Violence, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and War

Moderate: Classism, Grief, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Child death, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Slavery, Deportation, Terminal illness, Torture, Xenophobia, and Gun violence

parasolcrafter's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

5.0

this is another one of those books that ive read that i really dont know what to say because it really does speak for itself. i really appreciate how in depth it went into everything because North Korea really isnt a country i knew much about going into it and the atrocities that went on there, so this book is quite invaluable in the knowledge it has

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Emotional abuse, Suicide, War, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Animal cruelty, Death, Genocide, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Medical content, Abortion, Addiction, Animal death, Confinement, Death of parent, Deportation, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Sexism, Slavery, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Terminal illness, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, Pregnancy, Torture, Trafficking, Colonisation, Murder, Racism, Rape, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, and Drug use

Moderate: Excrement and Cannibalism

marsbabs's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

helenamichelle's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Medical trauma, Torture, Classism, Violence, Suicide, Death, Sexual violence, and Grief

astrangewind's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

4.75

This book is intense, but worth the read.

The oppression faced by North Koreans is unimaginable, and this book brings that to life through a cast of defectors. The facts tell their own story of the struggle to survive. Reading about the famine was almost too much, but I enjoyed reading about their escape. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Death of parent, Violence, and Child death

Moderate: Animal death, Physical abuse, Deportation, and War

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Trafficking, and Cannibalism

stevie's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, Trafficking, and Violence

Moderate: Abortion, Blood, Domestic abuse, Excrement, and Gun violence