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Reviews tagging 'Animal death'
Ryövärikarhu ja murhaajapuu: luonto ihmisen lakeja rikkomassa by Mary Roach
89 reviews
piker89's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Animal death
daniellekat's review against another edition
2.75
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Forced institutionalization and Colonisation
acebookwyrm's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Vomit, and Car accident
violentbear's review against another edition
4.0
Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death
madalynn_owens's review against another edition
3.75
I think this is definitely one of her better ones where she seems to have done a lot more research before and after meeting with these experts. And found the subject matter to be a lot more enjoyable to read about in length in her style.
I truly don’t know if she does this to “immerse” the reader in the scene/conversation but the way she sometimes adds in truly unhelpful/unflattering quotes really paints a negative light of the person taking tremendous amounts of time and effort to help her (for no compensation!).
She has a habit of adding just strange asides of people, like saying a geneticist won the gene lottery and then embarking on an in depth description of her looks (when she’s only mentioned for one page). If she did this with everyone, sure whatever, but in this example there’s another person mentioned in the same sentence that just gets a brief name mention and nothing else!
All in all, the best Mary Roach book I’ve read so far. Will I continue to read more because I love women in nonfiction and enjoy her more lighthearted approach? Probably.
Graphic: Animal death
Moderate: Animal cruelty
mandi_lea's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
clynns's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
pipn_t's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
caljmarr's review against another edition
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
Minor: Ableism
ireadinbed's review against another edition
4.5
I loved the subject matter, learmed a lot and had to question some if my biases.
Would be a 5 except i could not read more than a chapter at a time and i started avoiding it. Wish i hadnt started it with my kid because i think it slowed me down.
But i am so glad i finished because i got a ton out of it, including laughs.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Vomit