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Moderate: Racism, Violence
I would have avoided this if I'd been paying any attention to who the author was when I grabbed it from the library. I found The Lost City of Z unreadable when I tried it a few years ago; I don't give a fuck about Grann's experiences researching his books, and he seems to be unable to write anything without injecting himself. I don't care to hear about the filing system in your office, sir, nor do I enjoy faux-profundities such as "[the National Archive] is a testament to humanity's need to document everything" (I don't even know where to begin with this stupid sentence). There's only a very tangential connection to the "birth" of the FBI in this, so the title is misleading, and I feel gross and manipulated when he describes the descendants of murder victims sobbing on the phone to him.
This just isn't my thing.
This just isn't my thing.
So well written. If you like true crime, you need to know about the Osage murders.
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This look was so well written. I enjoyed every minute.
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I couldn't get into it and I am not in the right headspace.
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mysterious
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fast-paced
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i really liked this book. i listened to it as an audiobook and i hope to read it physically one day to catch all the details, spellings of names, and be able to reference earlier parts of the book. i also hope to read it again just to experience the story again and understand it better.
even though this is book is non-fiction, i constantly wanted to learn more and figure out the mystery because of how well the story was told! love a western and love a mystery. i did begin to lose track of some of the names and significance of people, although that’s likely a result of listening to the book vs. reading it. i also forgot the layout of the book halfway through so that contributed to it lol.
i cannot believe i haven’t heard about the osage murders or the osage people until the movie came out a few years ago. it’s SUCH an important case study on the way indigenous people in america have been treated. i appreciate in this book how the effects of the murders on the osage is not understated.
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some quotes that stood out:
“The historian Burns once wrote, “To believe that the Osages survived intact from their ordeal is a delusion of the mind. What has been possible to salvage has been saved and is dearer to our hearts because it survived. What is gone is treasured because it was what we once were. We gather our past and present into the depths of our being and face tomorrow. We are still Osage. We live and we reach old age for our forefathers.”
“Though, I knew in my own way, I was as lost in the mist as Tom White or Mollie Burkhart had been.”
“White found himself wandering through a wilderness of mirrors.”
holy yap fest but i have a lot of thoughts on this book!
even though this is book is non-fiction, i constantly wanted to learn more and figure out the mystery because of how well the story was told! love a western and love a mystery. i did begin to lose track of some of the names and significance of people, although that’s likely a result of listening to the book vs. reading it. i also forgot the layout of the book halfway through so that contributed to it lol.
i cannot believe i haven’t heard about the osage murders or the osage people until the movie came out a few years ago. it’s SUCH an important case study on the way indigenous people in america have been treated. i appreciate in this book how the effects of the murders on the osage is not understated.
~~~
some quotes that stood out:
“The historian Burns once wrote, “To believe that the Osages survived intact from their ordeal is a delusion of the mind. What has been possible to salvage has been saved and is dearer to our hearts because it survived. What is gone is treasured because it was what we once were. We gather our past and present into the depths of our being and face tomorrow. We are still Osage. We live and we reach old age for our forefathers.”
“Though, I knew in my own way, I was as lost in the mist as Tom White or Mollie Burkhart had been.”
“White found himself wandering through a wilderness of mirrors.”
holy yap fest but i have a lot of thoughts on this book!