Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

Night by Elie Wiesel

28 reviews

tidals's review against another edition

dark hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

Great book to add to your collection if you’re fascinated by the Holocaust. Strikes noteworthy spiritual tones..nice vivid descriptions. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Police brutality, Suicide, Child abuse, Racism, Deportation, Genocide, Grief, Confinement, War, Murder, Physical abuse, and Death

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Excrement, Gun violence, and Child death

Minor: Pedophilia and Rape

philosopher_kj's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Antisemitism, Child death, Grief, Xenophobia, Genocide, Confinement, Torture, Violence, Deportation, Body horror, Death of parent, and Racism

Minor: Pedophilia and Excrement

brookey8888's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

This is obviously a very important book. It was interesting and heartbreaking to hear his story. This is to me very textbook like, which is fine, but was hard for me to fully comprehend and connect with it. I do think everyone should read this because we cannot forget. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Classism, Death, Murder, Antisemitism, Child death, Bullying, Genocide, Emotional abuse, Grief, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Torture, Violence, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

geffen_alon's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

It really helps portray the brutality and severity of the holocaust 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Body horror, Child death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Religious bigotry, Antisemitism, Blood, Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Torture, Sexual content, Racism, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Kidnapping, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, and Murder

jeremie's review

dark emotional fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Torture, Violence, Gore, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Deportation, Police brutality, War, Confinement, and Death of parent

jaidenmarie11's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

Extremely hard to read and one of the most harrowing, disturbing, and tragic books I’ve ever come across. I think it’s also one of the most important books ever written, the perspective shows that whatever you thought was troubling can get darker.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Deportation, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Torture, Death, Hate crime, Child death, Racial slurs, Genocide, Police brutality, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Medical trauma, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Grief, Emotional abuse, and War

Minor: Homophobia

carleereads__'s review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Death, Eating disorder, Violence, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Genocide, and War

queerloras's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Hate crime, Murder, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Mass/school shootings, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Torture, Violence, Antisemitism, Trafficking, War, Child death, Deportation, Genocide, and Gun violence

Minor: Sexual content, Medical content, and Adult/minor relationship

124smilehd's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

4.75

I remember reading this book in high school and not being as interested because it was something I had to read. Rereading this as an adult has made a whirl of a diffrence. My copy had the preface, forward from the original french publication, and speech from the Nobel prize award which gave me so much more context and insight. It also helped me delve into further research about the topic and Wiesel himself.

The story itself is a dark and honest recount of a boy who survived the holocaust and it shows the progression of his lost of hope, faith and even humanity. By his own admission, by the end when his

father dies

he feels nothing but relief, just as others before him had abandoned loved ones in order to keep themselves alive. As a reader you can't help but feel the heartbreak as he breaks both from internal and external tortures.

The book is beautifully written, with phrases that I will never forget and will probably keep me thinking for years to come. This is thanks to the tremendous skill of his wife, Marion Wiesel, who is the translator of this edition.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Genocide, Antisemitism, Violence, War, Gore, Child death, Death, Police brutality, and Suicide

Moderate: Medical content and Deportation

shrutislibrary's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, War, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Genocide, Child death, Death of parent, Violence, Torture, Medical content, Death, and Antisemitism