Reviews tagging 'War'

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey

5 reviews

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Classism, Racism, Death, and Slavery

Moderate: Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Medical content, Physical abuse, Suicide, Gun violence, Violence, Torture, Confinement, Child death, Medical trauma, Genocide, Colonisation, Gore, Forced institutionalization, and Ableism

Minor: War, Pandemic/Epidemic, Pedophilia, Rape, Car accident, Animal death, Mass/school shootings, and Infidelity

hexedmaiden's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

One of the best books about ghosts. As someone who does believe or at leasts wants to believe the possibility of ghosts I loved the way that Colin Dickey talks about how we the living make these places haunted more than any ghost could. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Slavery, and Racism

Moderate: Colonisation, Child death, and Genocide

Minor: Sexual violence, War, and Rape

ninjamuse's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery and Racism

Minor: War, Hate crime, Suicide, Sexual violence, and Violence

j_squaredd's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Violence

Moderate: Racism

Minor: War

savvy999's review

dark informative mysterious medium-paced

4.25

Dickey serves as an apt and able guide through an American landscape of the deceased. With pointed social commentary and well woven historical research, and illuminating storytelling this book  managed to excavate a very American fear and guilt of what we have done to make ghosts in/ and of this country. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Slavery, and Violence