Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Časy zo second-handu: Koniec červeného človeka by Svetlana Alexiévich

10 reviews

bridgeman98's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, and Torture

Moderate: War and Antisemitism

mondovertigo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Torture, Religious bigotry, Murder, Violence, Death, Racism, War, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Suicide, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Police brutality, Rape, Animal death, and Child death

wifeslife's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Classism, Cultural appropriation, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Hate crime, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Pregnancy, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Abortion, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Deportation, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Genocide, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Religious bigotry, Self harm, and Sexism

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, and War

chelsl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Homophobia, Mass/school shootings, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Suicide, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Police brutality, Sexual harassment, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Islamophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Toxic relationship, Murder, Confinement, Suicide attempt, Torture, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Child abuse, Child death, and Death

_shonahenderson's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, War, Violence, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Sexual violence, Racism, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Murder, Death, Drug abuse, Torture, and Grief

jacobinreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.75

It is often said that to better understand a people, to read their fiction and their poetry, to read their history and culture through their own eyes and words. Frankly, there could be no better time to read this book than now, to understand the character of the tragedy which has been unfolding for the last three decades in the world's largest country.

This is a multifaceted and deeply empathetic look at the ravages of the brutal transitions and rapacious systems of the 'new' Russia, the nostalgia of generations of people, and the penury the everyday Russian is forced into by a new era of police brutality, robber-baron oligarchs, criminality, and the greedy ambitions of the "democratic" Russian state. However, this book also chronicles amazing and beautiful strength and character in the face of these tragedies, and adds a vivid dimension to the average citizen's thoughts, feelings, and way of life.

Reading this book, I really felt a strange parallel to the great Russian literature of the past, it reflected deeply on the soul, in a sort of ethnographic way. I highly recommend it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Xenophobia, Violence, and Torture

Moderate: Sexual violence

emilyplun's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Violence, War, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Grief, Murder, Racism, Torture, Police brutality, and Physical abuse

dominicangirl's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Murder, Police brutality, Suicide, Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Torture

Moderate: Kidnapping, War, Confinement, Death of parent, Hate crime, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Infidelity, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racism, Sexism, and Suicide attempt

srm's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

A brutal, difficult read, and absolutely worth it. Alexievich somehow gets these remarkable personal stories from people, and then presents them in such a compelling way, that no matter how painful, you just have to keep reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Abortion, Antisemitism, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, War, and Xenophobia

Minor: Gun violence, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Trafficking

skitch41's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

The fall of the Soviet Union is a watershed moment in the history of the 20th century and is often viewed by the West as a triumphant moment.  But what about the people of the Soviet Union who lived through it?  Svetlana Alexievich attempts to gives voice to the ordinary Russians and people living under the Soviets in this book and, many times, offers compelling oral testimony about what the end of communism looked like on the inside, but too often is unbearably slow and lacking in any meaningful context to help a Western reader orient themselves.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Murder, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Antisemitism