Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

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

52 reviews

kefink's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Murder, Colonisation, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Hate crime, Torture, Death, Police brutality, Cursing, War, Addiction, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Incest, Cancer, Child abuse, Excrement, Suicide attempt, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Medical trauma, and Suicide

timesnewroman12point's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, War, Eating disorder, Grief, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Police brutality, Sexual assault, Suicide, Mental illness, Rape, Death of parent, Drug use, Gun violence, Religious bigotry, and Torture

nopnutspls's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Religious bigotry, and Murder

Moderate: Suicide and Child abuse

spess's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Gun violence, War, Murder, Mass/school shootings, Death, Death of parent, Violence, and Colonisation

Minor: Eating disorder, Excrement, Alcoholism, and Child abuse

emmaevns's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Murder, Religious bigotry, and War

Moderate: Eating disorder and Kidnapping

marina_s's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

For someone with limited knowledge of “the Troubles”, this was an informative and insightful read. The narrative weaves between characters and through time in a way more reminiscent of a novel than of non-fiction. 

This book centres on the people who lost the most, and gives a real sense of trauma inflicted on everyone both during the active fighting, and the rippling after effects. I kept thinking this was further in the past but the events at the end of the book were well within my adult lifetime. How do people move on, and should they?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Police brutality, Murder, Kidnapping, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Torture, Eating disorder, and Alcoholism

qqjj's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Vomit, Death of parent, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Medical content, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Misogyny, Alcoholism, Grief, War, Confinement, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Trafficking

zombiewilhelm's review against another edition

informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Child death, Death, Genocide, Child abuse, Religious bigotry, Violence, Gun violence, and Grief

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, and War

nitar8's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Violence, Murder, Police brutality, Torture, Death, Kidnapping, Confinement, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Gun violence, and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Sexual assault, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

mmccombs's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

Patrick Radden Keefe is the example of how to do great investigative journalism that blends facts, personal narratives, and emotional nuance. It took a while for me to get fully invested in this one (as opposed to Empire of Pain, which I immediately couldn’t put down), but after I switched over to audio to mix it up, I loved how Keefe guided our view of the Troubles through the lens of individuals and how their stories intersected. He never placed value judgements on any one person’s actions, but didn’t shy away from showing the incredibly devastating impacts of violence on communities. I learned a lot from this one and feel I have a better grasp on what I now realize is a vastly more nuanced, cultural history that is felt today. 

“Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence?”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Eating disorder, and Violence