Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach

52 reviews

koplomps's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative slow-paced

2.5

A very interesting and informative read, but also so slow, and filled with so much unrelated chatter about somebody's clothes etc.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Vomit, and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

tomasalbanez's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

3.75

Very interesting and fun to read! Ends up being more about "the ways to deal with wild animals" than about people suing crickets for the destruction caused to their crops. Coexistence is not only the best way to deal with these animal hazards but, apparently, the only one that shows good results.
The book draws itself out a bit lo ger than I'd like, but it might be cause I read the e-book version.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Excrement

Minor: Child death, Death, and Car accident

charlatte_lee's review against another edition

challenging funny informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty

sshinesea's review

informative sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

mechameowru's review against another edition

funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death and Animal cruelty

kcbatts's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Death

Moderate: Child death

another_dahlia's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Excrement, Murder, Animal death, Child death, Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

mateoj's review against another edition

funny informative medium-paced

3.75

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty

emilyceratops's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty

gloriazthompson's review

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death