Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach

52 reviews

boerow's review against another edition

funny informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

Moderate: Animal death

readerette's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative medium-paced

5.0

My other favorite Mary Roach book is Stiff for its highly practical knowledge and guidance related to matters of human dying and cadavers. This book is now tied for favorite because of its similarly practicality, providing tons of context on and insight into various animal control methods and their effectiveness and consequences over time and around the world. 

I found myself laughing at Mary's anecdotes and asides (seriously, do not skip the footnotes) and crying about the deaths of all these "vertebrate pests" she researched for this book as well as the ongoing efforts of various humans to find the balance between acceptance and control. 

I want to give this book to my tween brother because he loves this sort of niche/dark knowledge (he has always loved reading about disasters, for example), but there are a few too many adult subjects his parents would object to at his age (ejaculation, copulation, details about pain related to killing methods, etc).

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, Medical content, Violence, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

cait's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, and Violence

jen_again's review

adventurous funny informative medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty

rmagika's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

sea_level's review against another edition

Plan to go back to (probably)- A lot of interesting (and strange) history, and Mary Roach is often hilarious, but  a lot of the book is ultimately about people (especially white Americans) being cruel to animals just for being doing what animals do. Can't handle it right now. On p. 173/ 54%/ loc. 2385

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

maddox22's review against another edition

funny informative medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

dreamdoughnut's review against another edition

funny informative medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Moderate: Death

Minor: Blood, Excrement, Genocide, Violence, and Vomit

Focuses on heavily on removal. Most mentions are somewhat lighthearted or at least pragmatic. I skipped the Killing with Kindness chapter about humane killing because it was too intense for me.

marmageddon's review against another edition

informative sad slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

kerttuli's review

funny informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, and Animal cruelty