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katiewilk02's review against another edition
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3.5
amberboo61997's review against another edition
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4.25
Killers of the Flower Moon is an intense, yet fascinating true-crime historical narrative where David Grann tells the story of the Osage Murders from a straight-forward and almost impartial point of view. The short length of the book may surprise people given the subject matter, but a lot of this tale is tainted with false reports, hearsay, and limited information thus stunting Grann's (and even the FBI's) ability to tell the entire "truth". It also doesn't help that while writing the book Grann uncovered numerous other murders and conspiracies that added onto the insanity of a story that was already riddled with disbelief and purposefully hidden from public knowledge.
I believe the book is a good read even if a common critique is its lack of descriptive details into certain parts or aspects of the subject matter. It's a good introduction if you want to look into American stories hidden or deleted from history by the "winners" and shows how a government organization such as the FBI began and operated on its own self-serving needs.
I believe the book is a good read even if a common critique is its lack of descriptive details into certain parts or aspects of the subject matter. It's a good introduction if you want to look into American stories hidden or deleted from history by the "winners" and shows how a government organization such as the FBI began and operated on its own self-serving needs.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Torture, Murder, Genocide, Racism, Hate crime, Racial slurs, and Death
Moderate: Medical trauma, Medical content, and Physical abuse
Minor: Alcoholism and Domestic abuse
tichamm's review against another edition
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An amazing book and even more amazing narration. So so interesting.
As an european, this whole reality native Indians faced due to the hungriness other people had over their money and possesions. Absolutely discusting stuff.
A great non fiction book indeed, loved how it was split in 3 big parts, narrated by different people as well.
Will watch the movie for sure.
As an european, this whole reality native Indians faced due to the hungriness other people had over their money and possesions. Absolutely discusting stuff.
A great non fiction book indeed, loved how it was split in 3 big parts, narrated by different people as well.
Will watch the movie for sure.
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Wow. It feels like such a move of national erasure that this story and knowledge of the Osage murders isn’t told in more history books and I’m glad this book (and now movie) has brought a new awareness to the story and the lives of these people. I can’t even fathom the experience of the Osage people and how horrific it all is and the greed and racism that spurred their terrible treatment.
The story is important and poignant and honestly just so tragic, but I hate to say, the writing of this book was sort of disjointed at times. I get it, and I’m not exactly sure how I would write it differently, but I found myself having to reread a lot and I still feel like I missed things. It might just be the nature of the story, but it was almost difficult to read at times.
The story is important and poignant and honestly just so tragic, but I hate to say, the writing of this book was sort of disjointed at times. I get it, and I’m not exactly sure how I would write it differently, but I found myself having to reread a lot and I still feel like I missed things. It might just be the nature of the story, but it was almost difficult to read at times.