Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

Columbine by Dave Cullen

4 reviews

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

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

brookey8888's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

This is such a hard book to review. It’s very graphic so be warned. It goes into so much detail and it’s so disturbing to read. I would recommend this book if you want to learn more about it and the misconceptions about this and all the coverups and things of that nature that happened during this time. I did appreciate learning about the victims and their lives before and after. I do have to say when reading this how I was thinking that nothing really has changed to make these less common, which is just so awful. I did read this when I was in middle school( the author spoke at my school), it was good to read this with an adult brain. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Child death, Gore, Murder, Cursing, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Violence, Grief, Racial slurs, Antisemitism, Blood, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Sexism, Mental illness, and Religious bigotry