Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut

4 reviews

josemoya's review against another edition

funny informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Benjamín Labatut ficciona cuatro grandes descubrimientos del siglo XX (los fertilizantes, la geometría no euclidiana, los agujeros negros, la mecánica cuántica) trazando un camino de hilos que engarzan las vidas de los científicos implicados en estos descubrimientos.
A veces terrible, a veces inspirador, en cualquier caso es un ejercicio de narrativa fantástico.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Sexual content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Excrement, Suicide, Drug use, and Genocide

espringer43's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

3.0

2 stars removed for very unnecessary pedophilia that went on for way too long

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Genocide, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, and War

caties_books's review

dark informative reflective slow-paced

2.75

I am fully ready to admit that maybe I'm not as smart as all the people who love this book or maybe I'm not the right audience, but I didn't understand this book at all. It's a very confusing type of not understanding because I read the description again after reading and yes, I did read about and comprehend all the things mentioned, but overall, I was just left unsettled and confused. I don't like not knowing which parts were true and which weren't. I don't understand the point of the book. There wasn't any sort of cohesion that felt solid to me, it felt scattered and separate. Idk. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Sexual content, Suicide, Antisemitism, Infidelity, Child death, Death, Death of parent, War, Animal cruelty, Genocide, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Physical abuse, and Violence

alyx's review

challenging dark informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I'm still trying to figure this book out. I'm not sure what I think about it, but I know I'll be thinking about it for a long time. A frequent word I've heard used to describe When We Cease to Understand the World is "haunting," and I can't imagine a more apt descriptor.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Terminal illness, Animal death, Pedophilia, Chronic illness, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Excrement, and War

Moderate: Alcohol, Medical content, Cancer, Child death, Antisemitism, Drug use, and Genocide