Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

8 reviews

bambicat234's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

I can not recommend this book enough. Everyone should read it. It's unique in being told from two perspectives: the perspective of the man himself and the perspectives of the men who got to know him well. You can personally observe his moral, religious, and political transformations throughout his life and especially at the end of it. 
Everything he says here is relevant today in some way or another. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Murder, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, and Addiction

Minor: Antisemitism, Mental illness, and Racism

fjordpingvin's review against another edition

challenging dark informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Misogyny, Murder, Racism, Sexism, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Drug abuse, Hate crime, Slavery, Addiction, and Death

Minor: Pregnancy, Mental illness, and Police brutality

jourdanicus's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

I wanted to read this as a foundation text for my personal study in race and anti-racism in the US. It definitely fulfilled that for me. Much of what Malcolm X observed is still relevant today, I find. He was a very interesting and important figure in the civil rights era, and I feel that his time on Earth was cut much, much too short.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, and Racism

sylvestra's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Hate crime, Racism, Religious bigotry, Antisemitism, Murder, and Police brutality

michaelion's review

challenging dark funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

Aside from the early 1900s slang, I would consider this a contemporary autobiography. Everything said in this book 57 years ago could have been said by someone yesterday. You don't have to look real hard to see things really have not changed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Addiction, Classism, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Toxic friendship, Xenophobia, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Murder, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Slavery, Ableism, Bullying, Cursing, and Death of parent

Minor: Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, Gaslighting, Mental illness, and Rape

lucyy's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Addiction, Death of parent, Misogyny, Sexism, and Trafficking

Minor: Antisemitism, Domestic abuse, Police brutality, and Slavery

dandelion27's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Hate crime, and Racism

Moderate: Antisemitism, Child abuse, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexism, Slavery, and Violence

maryshelleys's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Slavery, Racism, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Mental illness, Hate crime, and Death