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Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future by Gloria Dickie
10 reviews
talonsontypewriters's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
Moderate: Violence, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Gore
Minor: Excrement, Death, and Rape
Animal attacks. Climate crisis, extinction.saint_eleanor's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty
podanotherjessi's review
I also am quickly learning that a pet peeve of mine is nonfiction with too much focus on what the author did to research the book, and this one has a lot of that. Dickie tells a lot of stories about the trips she took to see bears, and it was just not to my taste. I lost interest whenever the book switched to first person.
Graphic: Animal cruelty
kld2128's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Animal death and Animal cruelty
rosie_b's review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Animal cruelty
jazhandz's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
Moderate: Gun violence
nautilus18's review against another edition
Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Trafficking, Gore, Violence, Gun violence, Body horror, Death, Torture, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail
sarahweyand's review against another edition
4.5
The author did well to make the longest and most in-depth chapters of her book focus on the lesser-known bear species, like the sloth bear, spectacled bear, and sun and moon bears. I am so glad she did. I appreciated the mix between textbook-like factual information about the bears and their history juxtaposed by the author's visits to the bears' native habitats and primary accounts of the species. The chapter about the sun and moon bears was, in particular, gut wrenching. I was very close to tears and we all know by now that books don't make me cry.
I appreciated the pragmatic approach to talking about the futures of these bears, which was sad and blunt without hyperbole, or including false hope to make the reader feel better. Frankly, I wish this book was longer and included more information. I'm trying not to let it affect my rating too much, but I also didn't love the audiobook narrator for this. Her voice wasn't particularly grating, but it's a pet peeve of mine when narrators pronounce foreign names and places in a very butchered/Americanized way, and a large portion of this book involved foreign travel and experiencing other cultures. Just unfortunate.
Overall, I think this is a must-read for people to understand how delicate our planet is and the impact we can have on it. I will absolutely read anything else Gloria Dickie puts out. What a delightful debut.
Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty
Moderate: Gore and Medical content
kirstym25's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
linneak's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Blood