Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

29 reviews

nila's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death

Moderate: Suicide, Sexism, Pregnancy, Drug abuse, Terminal illness, Miscarriage, Addiction, Suicide attempt, and Medical content

shaniad's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.0

The book was interesting and informative enough to keep me reading and I finished it in a day. The book lacks a story though, most of it is the rambling thoughts of Caitlin and the book flies through her life so quickly that I developed no connection with her. I’m not really sure what the point of the book was

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, and Suicide attempt

mermaidsherbet's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child death, Death, Vomit, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, and Excrement

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, Body shaming, and Grief

Minor: Addiction, Cancer, Chronic illness, Classism, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

kb_sherman's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Drug abuse, Grief, Medical content, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Addiction, Blood, Cancer, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

elizlizabeth's review against another edition

informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

5.0

I saw many of my concerns and thoughts about death reflected and answered in this book, and I was given lots more to ponder. Caitlin has a way of writing these things nonchalantly and straight to the facts, while mantaining an engaging and eerie, reflective vibe.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

Moderate: Suicide, Terminal illness, Abandonment, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Vomit, Trafficking, Cancer, and Miscarriage

apersonfromflorida's review against another edition

dark funny informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Death of parent, and Gore

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Drug abuse

zarazim's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death

Moderate: Child death, Gore, and Fatphobia

Minor: Blood, Cannibalism, Car accident, Terminal illness, Suicide, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Medical content, Drug abuse, Addiction, Cancer, and Death of parent

jobalharrie's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Blood, Car accident, Drug abuse, Excrement, Gore, and Medical content

j_squaredd's review

emotional funny informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

Moderate: Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide