Reviews with content warning for Animal death - Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

If people can be less cruel to rats, if it even crosses their minds to be less cruel to a rat, then things are heading in a good direction. Not just good for rats, maybe also good for humans. “If man can be taught to respect the home of the worm,” wrote the nineteenth-century historian Léon Ménabréa, “how much more ought he to regard that of his fellow man.”

A little dull in parts but definitely an interesting look at an area of study I knew absolutely nothing about. I would read anything by Mary Roach, to be honest.

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emilyceratops's review against another edition

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adventurous funny informative medium-paced

3.0

Interesting and amusing. It's funny to me that the book affords all the animals reference with at least a little personality and agency, but refers to them as objects with the pronoun 'it'.

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jes312's review against another edition

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informative sad medium-paced

3.5

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siobhanward's review against another edition

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informative medium-paced

3.0

I think my challenge with Roach's books is that I go in expecting one thing (funny deep-dives into different, serious subjects) and find myself reading a surface-level, lighthearted view of a topic, that is neither funny nor deep. She scratches the surface of these fascinating topics without ever diving deep enough to keep my interest for long. This book in particular was a challenging read because overall it's just sad - nature wouldn't be "breaking the law" if we hadn't shown up and started living in their homes. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it felt like this book just came up short

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gloriazthompson's review against another edition

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challenging dark funny informative medium-paced

4.0

Funny, informative, surprisingly brutal. Stories about how wildlife and humans intersect (and mostly how problems occur because humans are the ones causing them or not fixing them in the right way).

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boerow's review against another edition

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funny informative fast-paced

5.0

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