/lit/ - Literature

Pic related is monumental in its significance to mankind

Since it's 800+ pages long, before I venture into reading this, I would like to know: is it philosophical, or is it more science/fact oriented? Is it hard to follow? Does it have an uplifting tone to it? Why is it so long (does it repeat its point, touch a lot of topics, need to lay out a lot of history on religion/race issues/etc before it gets into its thesis, etc)?

And, what books of shorter length touch similar topics (a history of violence, the extremes of mankind, ultimate fate of humanity in relation to ethics, etc)?

OP here. I'm not a teenager nor someone who wants to be "special" because of this minor interest. So a lot of people do it, that's comforting in a way, but I want to know how you guys deal with it? Do you just read about it and forget about it for a few days? That's what I used to do, but I can't anymore. I used to do the same with animal cruelty and a few months ago I became a vegan (which made my view in society a lot more apocalyptic and depressing). So now I'm here, trying to deal with human abuse and I don't know what to do... apparently Haneke's The White Ribbon is about this, so I'll try that. I also found pic related book... some hope exists.

>>6948933
I get what you say, but that feature isn't exclusive to the concrete girl. It's in every single one of these cases. It's normal people getting tortured and killed for (more often than not) no fucking reason. That's why it's so scary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Likens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Suzanne_Capper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kelly_Anne_Bates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jennifer_Daugherty
How are these cases any better than the concrete girl? I think the worst part is: what can we do, as a society, to avoid these things from happening? Can we do anything, at all?