Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Chaos: Charles Manson, the Cia, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill

16 reviews

o_w_e_n's review against another edition

challenging dark informative fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Death, Violence, Blood, and Sexual assault

ipoppycat's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Sexual content, Suicide, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Murder, Self harm, and Violence

chaylilee's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

linklotz's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious medium-paced

4.5

oh my god i loved it and also by the epilogue i totally understood what o’neill said by falling down conspiracy theories because i certainly did reading what manson said in their interview 😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Racism, Suicide, Sexual violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pedophilia, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Antisemitism, and Torture

Minor: Pregnancy

amandas_bookshelf's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious reflective slow-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Violence, Gore, and Murder

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Rape, Abortion, and Domestic abuse

emi98's review against another edition

dark informative slow-paced

4.0

This book is for all the people who go down rabbit holes in history and find out everything bad or crazy is because of the CIA, and no, that isn't a exaggeration. The fact that I cannot listen to the Beach Boys in the same way again, whereupon I retired an old teddy bear of mine from my abuelita that sang in (now) ominous tones "God Only Knows", attests to the impact this book brought me. Although I'm pretty seasoned in different political and true crime areas, this really did bring in some new light/angles, and now I'm the person at parties who isn't surprised at much anymore. By about three-quarters of the book it can get a bit monotonous,  coupled with the author's own existential crisis in between facts, but definitely worth a read. 

Also, my library keeps declining people to take out this book, and now I wonder if that's intentional. Who knows! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Drug abuse, and Trafficking