Reviews tagging 'Mass/school shootings'

Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth by Elizabeth Williamson

12 reviews

rebeccaz's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Minor: Murder, Violence, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Racism, and Death

dev921's review

dark emotional informative slow-paced

4.75

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Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, and Murder

sparky_lurkdragon's review

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

5.0

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Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Death, Child death, and Gun violence

ruthypoo2's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Moderate: Death, Murder, Stalking, Child death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Mass/school shootings, Violence, and Gun violence

Minor: Cursing, Suicide, Religious bigotry, and Mental illness

samarakroeger's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

A thoroughly researched account of the scum of the earth (aka Alex Jones) and the spread of harmful conspiracies surrounding the horrific school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012. Williamson draws strong ties between these decade-old lies propagated by Jones et al. and the rise of Trumpism and “alternative truths” that have proliferated through the under regulation of social media, especially through conspiracy groups on Facebook, culminating in the popularity of QAnon and the January 6th insurrection on the Capitol. 

After I had gotten this book from the library, there were two more mass shootings in quick succession. WTF is wrong with this country. 

There were a few instances where I noted repeated phrases and quotes from earlier in the book - but it is certainly challenging to edit a book of this scope and length and it didn’t detract too much from my reading experience. 

I feel for the many hours of InfoWars spewing Williamson must have had to watch for this book. And the interviews with conspiracy spreaders? Sketchy, indeed. I’m glad deplatforming has been fairly effective in at least some of these cases. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Stalking, Grief, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Death, and Murder

Minor: Eating disorder, Suicide, Self harm, and Mental illness

ralbert89's review against another edition

emotional informative sad

5.0

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Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Child death, Gun violence, Violence, Murder, Grief, and Death

jennymcwhinnie's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Graphic: Mass/school shootings and Gun violence

Moderate: Misogyny

el_nation's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Child death, Gun violence, and Bullying

katymul's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

I once read a piece from a reporter on internet stalking and violence that almost every time she traced someone in Nazi or Nazi-esque subgroups through to their turning point, it led back to Gamergate. It made her think how sad it was that the community bluntly refused to take the terrorizing of women seriously or listen to those women about what was really happening and the toll it took. So now it's happening to more and more people.

This book makes that argument about fake news, alternative realities, deep state conspiracies, and the "feral lack of empathy" so often shown. It's convincing.

The story is heartbreaking, and it will happen again. It already is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Gaslighting, Grief, Hate crime, Child death, Emotional abuse, and Suicide

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Suicide

This book is hard to read. It is also important.

gersandelf's review

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

Very informative for understanding the current (at time of this review) Jones trial in Texas. It's a terrible read (nothing about Sandy Hook could be otherwise) but very well put together and very worth reading to understand much of what's happened to American culture in the past two decades.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gun violence, Violence, Stalking, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Sexual harassment, and Antisemitism