Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

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

120 reviews

beetree's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcoholism, Confinement, and Colonisation

Minor: Child death and Antisemitism

blaketisdebest's review against another edition

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

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

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

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

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

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.

leefox's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious sad slow-paced

3.75

“The blood cries out from the ground.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse

megboone3's review against another edition

dark informative sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Medical trauma

yeld_o's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Rape, Violence, and Murder

morethanmylupus's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

3.0

This has been on my TBR for years and I finally prioritized this read this before the movie came out. 

This was a hard read for a number of reasons: 
1/ The treatment of the Osage was atrocious and appalling 
2/ The book centers the white narrative as both the villains and the saviors and the 
3/ Most of the book lacks context and only fills in relevant elements of centuries of genocide, land grabs, and numerous other atrocities where the author thought they made sense

For me, too much context can be annoying, but in this case it only served to further center the white narrative and I found that frustrating. The story was still interesting and compelling to read, but I will be reading native voices on this topic to understand the complete picture. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, Murder, and Colonisation

xoshee's review against another edition

emotional informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

5.0

Incredible book detailing the events of the 1920s Osage murders in Oklahoma and the subsequent creation of the FBI. David Grann takes a creative approach to this investigative nonfiction, resulting in an immersive and emotional read. Even so, Grann takes special care to properly cite all references and quotes used throughout the book. I started this book with zero knowledge on the Osage murders and did not feel lost or that I needed more background information at any point, Grann covers it all in great detail without being dry. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, and Violence

aparizo704's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Gun violence, Racism, and Grief

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, and Alcohol