Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson

7 reviews

dorottyagoston's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Drug abuse, and Grief

Minor: Rape, Pedophilia, and Sexual violence

arsenic_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Incest, and Pedophilia

lauradvb's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, Murder, and Death

dorsetreader's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, and Medical content

annecharlotte_reads's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

In the vast expanse of true crime writing, this book brings dignity, depth and beauty -- there's no voyeuristic aesthetisation of the death of women but the writing itself is beautiful and soft and hard in all the right places. Maggie Nelson is both a poet and one of the most interesting thinkers of our time. She deals with autobiographic material in a subtle and powerful way, never relying too much on metaphor or obvious connections. I found particularly interesting to read this after The Argonauts and measure just how much, between these books, some of Nelson's central themes (women's bodies and autonomy, violence, mortality, what it means to be a family) and original thinking have developed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Sexual violence, and Murder

demo's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Grief, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Drug use, Gore, and Kidnapping

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, and Rape

nmp's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Sexual violence and Grief

Minor: Blood, Stalking, and Medical content