Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Columbine by Dave Cullen

64 reviews

writeasiread's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Death, Child death, Grief, Murder, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Suicide, and Violence

abicaro17's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.25

Wow. I mean a book about the Columbine High School shooting isn't going to be easy to read AT ALL but, this book is an amazingly interesting and informative collection of the facts and events of April 20th, 1999. The author both recounts events from eyewitness, police reports, and security footage. The book complies the psychological states of both Eric and Dylan, the effects on parents, students, and locals, and the global response following the events. As someone who was given the Rachel Scott presentation in middle school, I feel like misinformation on this event spreads even to this day. I was told that Eric and Dylan were loners who hated jocks and popular kids. They were infact psychopaths (or at least Eric was) who planned to blow up the school and didn't have a list at all. The whole book is so interesting and godawful its hard to like or dislike it. The rating is based solely on the slurs (which I assume are quotations but that's not always clear) and the actual nature of school shootings being a traumatic subject (specifically talk about VA Tech shooting). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Suicide attempt, Violence, Child death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Toxic friendship, Homophobia, Murder, Suicide, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Antisemitism, Gun violence, Medical content, and Religious bigotry

avroc's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Violence, and Child death

Moderate: Medical content, Racial slurs, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Homophobia, and Cursing

Minor: Rape, Suicide, Sexism, and Misogyny

pagesofpemberley's review against another edition

dark informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings and Gun violence

Moderate: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

myiahjay's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Violence, Murder, and Mass/school shootings

Moderate: Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Self harm

savreads28's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Death of parent, Antisemitism, Cursing, Death, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Alcohol, Mental illness, War, Animal cruelty, Suicide attempt, Body horror, Mass/school shootings, Racism, Child death, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Violence, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

dev921's review against another edition

dark emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Death, Mass/school shootings, Violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Gore, Racial slurs, Suicide, Alcohol, Child death, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, and Suicidal thoughts

dubtronius15's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Suicide

shakira19's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Grief, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Suicide, Violence, Death, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Mass/school shootings

toxxicwasste's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Blood, Death, Violence, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Gaslighting, Child death, Grief, Toxic friendship, Genocide, and Mental illness

Moderate: Death of parent, Antisemitism, Alcohol, Bullying, and Sexual content

Minor: Cursing, Drug use, Hate crime, Racism, and Rape