Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

2 reviews

carmentxx's review

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

5.0

on my cover Mary Wesley writes that ‘it is impossible to exaggerate the important of this book’. in my ignorance i said to my friend, how important can it be? yeah, pretty fucking important. one of the only truthful, harrowing, beyond emotional memoirs to come out of the apocalyptic, cultish nightmare that was 20th century china. how can you give this book anything other than 5 stars? this book took me through every inch of human emotion and poured every detail of the horror- and small amounts of relentless hope- that maoist china enforced. mao was a psychopathic sadist who thrived on horror, destruction, and genocide of his own people. we can never forget. we will not forget. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, War, Xenophobia, Violence, Confinement, Death, Police brutality, Body horror, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Torture, Murder, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Bullying, Child abuse, and Medical content

temsu's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Death, Medical content, Blood, Murder, Bullying, Child death, Torture, Death of parent, Gore, Misogyny, Mental illness, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Suicide, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders