Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Zeg niets: Moord en verraad in Noord-Ierland by Patrick Radden Keefe

29 reviews

megsrowley's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Grief, Confinement, Murder, Torture, War, Violence, Police brutality, and Mental illness

kt2e56's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

An unnerving look at the Troubles and the trauma it unleashed on an entire nation for generation after generation. The author is able to clearly and concisely describe what occurred in a matter-of-fact way without coming across as cold or indifferent.

The contrast between Gerry Adams who has done very well for himself, and those under his command who were forever scarred and traumatized is particularly unsettling.

This is a book that’ll stay with you for a long time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Torture, Eating disorder, Death, and War

Moderate: Mental illness and Alcoholism

Minor: Sexual assault and Child abuse

hannahquin's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, Mass/school shootings, War, Sexual violence, Violence, Hate crime, Blood, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Child death, Child abuse, Mental illness, Alcoholism, and Drug abuse

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, and Pedophilia

sjanke2's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Suicide, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Abandonment, Addiction, Violence, Religious bigotry, Sexual violence, Rape, Police brutality, Mental illness, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, Kidnapping, Eating disorder, Confinement, Cursing, War, Gun violence, Gore, Pedophilia, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Suicide attempt, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, Torture, and Grief

atsundarsingh's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Exemplary writing. The Troubles are such a hard thing to write about, precisely because the story of the violence is still such a live issue. Still, this is a tightly coiled and deftly rendered dig into some of that hard history. Since it's such recent history, it was also really cool to be able to look up some of the obits and editorials that he discusses online, and know they were only a quick search away. Finally, and this is historian brain speaking, the absolutely essential nature of oral history projects especially to peace and reconciliation efforts is on full display here, and so is history's present-day relevance. A very well-deserved award winner, and likely to send me on another full anti-empire rabbit hole of books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Grief, Medical trauma, Addiction, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Police brutality, Confinement, Toxic friendship, Blood, Colonisation, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Religious bigotry, Violence, War, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Torture, and Toxic relationship

danidamico's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

5.0

Hace años que tenía ganas de leer Say Nothing, pero siempre me intimidó un poco. Finalmente me animé y fue una experiencia increíble, por momentos un poco densa en cuanto a información, pero cada capítulo terminaba valiendo la pena. Hace poco cursé una materia que se llama Taller de Crónica, en la que vimos que una de las cosas más importantes de la crónica es que el cronista logre mostrar los hechos y no sólo contarlos. Patrick Radden Keefe lo logra, durante los cientos y cientos de páginas te transporta a cada lugar, como si él mismo hubiera estado ahí cuando todo ocurrió. El laburo que hizo para que semejante cantidad de información pueda ser narrada de una manera atrapante y disfrutable es admirable. Prácticamente se lee como una novela, transitando momentos de mayor tensión, de suspenso, de tristeza y hasta pequeños destellos de humor.

Con esta bestia de libro, Radden Keefe intenta relatar la historia del conflicto armado en Irlanda del Norte, en especial el período conocido como "the Troubles", desde 1969 en adelante. Pone especial énfasis en ciertas figuras del IRA como Dolours y Marian Price, Brendan Hughes y Gerry Adams, como también en el secuestro de una mujer llamada Jean McConville. Empezar esta lectura es como embarcarse en un viaje que te va llevando por lugares insólitos, sorprendentes y frustrantes, y cuando creés que todo terminó, aparece algo nuevo que te deja con la boca abierta. Es una historia fascinante y el autor sabe cómo contarla.

Say Nothing es, sin duda alguna, una de mis mejores lecturas del año y mi favorita de no ficción junto con Putas y Guerrilleras. En fin, no quiero seguir elogiando a Radden Keefe, hay miles de cosas para decir sobre este texto, pero no sé ni por dónde empezar. Creo que si tuviera que señalar lo que más me gustó es que nunca cae en el blanco o negro, buenos o malos, sino que se sumerge en las contradicciones y complejidades que caracterizaron a este conflicto histórico. Radden Keefe no subestima a nada ni a nadie, no simplifica, al contrario, te deja con preguntas abiertas. Te deja pensando. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Torture, Suicide, Addiction, Child abuse, Colonisation, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Police brutality

slantrhymes's review against another edition

dark emotional informative tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Violence, Eating disorder, Confinement, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Alcoholism and Torture

Minor: Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, and Suicide

meru's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Mental illness, Eating disorder, Suicide, and Alcoholism

horizonous's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Mental illness, Eating disorder, Suicide, and Excrement

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, and Racism