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Reviews tagging 'Blood'
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetuated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean
6 reviews
siobhanward's review
3.5
All that to say, this was an interesting read overall. I appreciated that the chapters were fairly long, which meant an in-depth look at the topics at hand, rather than short, disjointed pieces. I will say, however, that a good deal of this felt like an advertisement for Kean's podcast - so many footnotes just ended with "for more info, check out episode x of my podcast" which got annoying pretty quickly.
Overall, Kean handles a number of sensitive topics with respect - the topics he chose were interesting and seemingly well-researched, and I enjoyed learning more about things I only had a general knowledge of before (including what an ice pick is apparently, because I realized while reading, I always pictured ice axes before...).
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Violence, Medical content, Child abuse, Gore, and Animal cruelty
Moderate: Blood, Dysphoria, Excrement, Confinement, Colonisation, Body horror, and Forced institutionalization
Minor: Abortion and Antisemitism
gk1412's review
3.5
Graphic: Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Antisemitism, Death, Racism, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Blood, Body shaming, Child abuse, Deportation, Hate crime, Transphobia, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Slavery, Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Classism, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Violence
monstersinspace's review
3.5
Graphic: Medical content, Chronic illness, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness
Moderate: Animal death, Death, Mental illness, Ableism, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, and Child abuse
Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Antisemitism, Blood, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Slavery, Body horror, Child abuse, Colonisation, Death, Drug use, Racism, and Suicide
kc_onmybookshelf's review
4.0
Graphic: Animal death, Antisemitism, Blood, Medical trauma, Animal cruelty, and Medical content
Moderate: Murder, Suicide, and Torture
laurenkimoto's review
4.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Transphobia, Torture, and Slavery
Moderate: Ableism, Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Blood, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Classism, Colonisation, Death, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Genocide, Murder, Racism, Sexism, Homophobia, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Torture, Suicide, War, and Toxic relationship
az_pollock's review
5.0
Fun but can get gross
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Colonisation, Death, Gore, Murder, and Violence