Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Los peces no existen by Lulu Miller

99 reviews

confuzzledsheep's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

2.0

If you are not a biologist, or even yet a Taxonomist, and want to reflect deeply on one's own sadness in the story of the author and David Starr Jordan, then this may be helpful for you. As a depressed biologist who's been long disillusioned with the myth of a Sole Genius Scientist and has already had many of the discussions within this book, I will rate it as passing. I found this book lacking in detail on David Starr Jordans life that I expected it to have- furter discussion of the problems with the Holotype model of taxonomy, the sheer brutality of scientific discovery during the time period. This book touches on those, but never gets as deep as it could. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Colonisation, Infidelity, Ableism, Alcoholism, Death, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Forced institutionalization, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Child death

londoncaten's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

very interesting, I really enjoyed the plot twists and learning about new things. some of the concepts were a little confusing, but the author broke it down and explained it very nicely. great read! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt

notmeganyoung's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

alexandryareads's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Racism, Ableism, Medical content, and Medical trauma

crunchotter's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring relaxing fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

gmdho2023's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Medical trauma, Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, and Infidelity

dckathleen's review against another edition

hopeful informative lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.5

A book about taxonomy and seekinh inspiration in the face of personal failures...and also murder, eugenics, and proving that the category of fish isn't accurate. Oh, and a very flawed hero. 

CW for self harm. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Suicidal thoughts

emmettdakool's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Xenophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Forced institutionalization

bookbrig's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

I learned a lot from this relatively short audiobook, but it wasn't quite what I expected. Which is my own fault for not reading a summary first, but for other readers have a heads up that there's a lengthy dive into eugenics that is well reported and interesting, but heavier than I was anticipating from the cover. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Death, and Racism

Minor: Suicide attempt and Infidelity

nhewitt99's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt