Reviews tagging 'Excrement'

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

362 reviews

mikeyz's review

dark sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Vomit, Dementia, Grief, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Infidelity, Animal cruelty, Abortion, Alcohol, Suicide, Trafficking, Gore, Excrement, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Rape, Racism, Cannibalism, Child death, Blood, Death of parent, Infertility, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, and Violence

naereads's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

4.5

Wtf! Disturbing and intriguing. Oofta. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Torture, Animal death, Blood, Cannibalism, Slavery, Drug use, Animal cruelty, Death, Violence, Grief, Body horror, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

heartbug's review

It offered a very weak/not  plausible explanation to justify why the world became okay with farming humans for human consumption… so it was like “let’s patch that massive hole with some masking tape so that we can get to squirm with horror just for the sake of doing so”.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Body horror, and Blood

vanesst's review

dark reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Blood, Cannibalism, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Violence

Moderate: Rape, Torture, and Pregnancy

Minor: Alcohol, Excrement, Death of parent, Dementia, and Pandemic/Epidemic

roxiehrt's review

dark slow-paced

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

3.0

Wow. This book is depressing. I watch depressing true crime docs for a living and this was tough to get through even for me. Very graphic sections of murder, cannibalism, and dehumanizing behaviors…this is one of the most nihilistic books I’ve ever read. I gave it a 3 because it is well written and the intentions of the book really resonated, but it was a challenge to get through because the content was just…a lot…like…A LOT. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Violence, Vomit, Animal death, Body horror, Cannibalism, Mental illness, Murder, Self harm, Classism, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Infertility, Medical content, Sexual content, Trafficking, Death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicide, and Torture

nicoleme1212's review

dark sad fast-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Trafficking, Slavery, Murder, Pregnancy, Cannibalism, Death, Death of parent, Rape, Sexual assault, Confinement, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Terminal illness, Blood, Body horror, Death of parent, Animal death, Excrement, Alcohol, Confinement, and Animal cruelty

maggie_gaca's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense 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

2.5

I am not a queasy reader, but I found this book disturbing. The concept is intriguing and it is written at an easy-to-consume pace, but there is just not enough balance between the brutality and the message the author is trying to portray-- leaving an unnecessarily graphic piece. 

There are moments where I really saw what the author was getting at. Bazterrica briefly touches on racism, classism, sexism, animal abuse in research/livestock industries, government control, and human trafficking. The biggest theme the reader was meant to grapple with is capitalist overconsumption and the general cruelty of human nature. However, it never reaches that poignancy to really make me sit back and reflect. I personally came out of this book with nothing new (except for some gross images), but it was almost there. 

I feeI Iike I can't either recommend or not recommend this book, but it may hit others differently!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Child death, Classism, Murder, Pedophilia, Trafficking, Animal cruelty, Medical content, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual assault, Blood, Body horror, Excrement, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Physical abuse, Gore, Animal death, Death, Racism, Rape, and Violence

beccabees's review

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book is the lengths people will go to dehumanize one another for their own gain. You can simultaneously despise how others approach dehumanization while you do the same thing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Body horror, Gore, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Blood

Moderate: Excrement, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, and Rape

chele96's review

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

This generation's "Brave New World". Deeply uncomfortable and challenging to read.

The author managed to make me disgusted by the actions of others in the book, but then sympathetic towards the protagonist when his actions in the end were just as atrocious. I was sickend by my own sense of relief at the ending.

This story shines a spotlight on our capacity for hypocrisy, regardless of how reasonable and compassionate we see ourselves.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Torture, Infertility, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Excrement, Animal cruelty, Gore, Death of parent, Classism, and Body horror

Moderate: Child death

sarahshock's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Amazing book! Highly recommend. The ending is insane!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Slavery, Child abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Hate crime, Sexual assault, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Blood, Body horror, Excrement, Genocide, Death of parent, Sexual violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Dysphoria, Child death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Torture, and Violence