Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

48 reviews

poindextrix's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Alcoholism, and Death

dxnatelli's review

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child abuse, Violence, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Death, Blood, Grief, Racism, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gaslighting, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Death of parent, Hate crime, Gore, Domestic abuse, Colonisation, and Child death

Moderate: Infidelity, Stalking, Body horror, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Classism, Police brutality, and Medical trauma

Minor: Pregnancy, Suicide, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Abandonment, and Car accident

beetree's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Racism, Gun violence, Murder, Death, Mass/school shootings, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism, Colonisation, and Confinement

Minor: Child death and Antisemitism

blaketisdebest's review

dark emotional informative mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

Truly one of the best books I’ve ever read. Chronicles the grotesque history of abuse and extortion of the indigenous in the americas as a legacy that continues today. The author approaches the nonfiction tale as a narrative beyond reality by how shocking and inane the story of the Osage truly is.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Car accident, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, Alcoholism, Genocide, Gore, Drug abuse, Police brutality, Violence, Cursing, Kidnapping, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Colonisation, Racism, Toxic relationship, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Murder, Gun violence, and Hate crime

dontwritedown's review against another edition

dark informative sad tense fast-paced

5.0

I wished I had read this before I saw the film opening weekend.

Being Native and being in Indigenous spaces, this case was familiar to me, though I didn't know the full story.

While I, like many others, would have liked an Osage to tell this story, I do not have an much of a problem with Grann telling the stories. Because Grann is a journalist and stuck to the facts and acknowledged not only in the acknowledgments who he was getting these stories from throughout the book. It is refreshing to hear someone not from our community accurately portray the prejudices Natives face in the court system. He asked "would any white man at the time convict another white man for killing an Indian?" 

I highly recommend, especially if you are Indigenous and had to walk out of the movie due to the gore.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gun violence, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Racial slurs, Death of parent, Blood, Violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Colonisation, Body horror, Medical trauma, Rape, Genocide, and Child abuse

vixenreader's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.25

A non-fiction book that moves with the urgency of a murder-mystery, this account of a forgotten injustice will boil your blood, especially since the crimes were saturated with racism against the Osage First Nations. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Medical trauma, Genocide, Toxic friendship, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Blood, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, and Violence

Moderate: Medical content, Child death, Infidelity, Ableism, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, and Car accident

Minor: Pregnancy, Misogyny, Police brutality, and Physical abuse

Be warned that there is a graphic bombing episode, medical content involving diabetes, covering up crime scenes, frequent poisoning, financial abuse, policies preventing First Nations from accessing their accounts, court scenes, and mention of “burning human flesh” from an electric chair.

unluckycat13's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious sad slow-paced

3.0

I really felt this was mostly a 2 Star or less book. The information is delivered poorly, the choices made for the audiobook are bad, the prose is certainly going to be a matter of taste (but not mine that's for sure). I feel like some people in the book were remembered in a bit of a romanticized matter. 

That being said, I do appreciate the unrestrained calling out of racism, and the systematic institutions that enabled it. I liked that the book also shows that people have always had the choice to be racist and some don't take it. For that alone it's worth the read I guess. I still didn't enjoy it. I feel like I could reliable count on certain YouTubers I watch too deliver this better. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Racism, and Murder

megboone3's review

dark informative sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cultural appropriation, Genocide, Death of parent, Racism, Racial slurs, Bullying, Death, Hate crime, Murder, Classism, Emotional abuse, Grief, Violence, and Colonisation

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Medical trauma

kylasmv15's review

adventurous dark informative mysterious fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Murder, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Alcoholism, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Blood, Death, Death of parent, and Genocide

Minor: Vomit

lindseylosers's review

dark emotional informative mysterious sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Violence, Chronic illness, Death, Racism, Grief, Hate crime, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Xenophobia, Addiction, and Car accident

Minor: Animal death