Reviews tagging 'Gore'

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

7 reviews

eclloyd's review

challenging dark sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, and Cancer

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Suicide

laurenjbb's review

challenging emotional inspiring sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Cancer, Vomit, Violence, Terminal illness, Medical content, Gore, Excrement, Chronic illness, Death, and Alcohol

flamingtashhh's review

reflective medium-paced

2.0

I thought this was way overhyped. Summary: guy tries to get as close to death as possible, achieves this goal. Dies. 

In seriousness, I didn’t like the author at all. I cried at the end because of course death is terrible, but this was out of no love for him. He seemed to have a lot of self-importance that was tied to his work. I’m very grateful for medicine, but this kind of arrogance- that which declares medical treatment to be the greatest of all treatment, or at least doctors the best givers of care there are- is dangerous and absurd. It’s like if Jack from Lost wrote a book. I know plenty of people like this author, and none of them are happy and I wouldn’t take seriously any philosophical treatises of theirs, either.

And I’m not going to make a habit of picking apart the prose of a man writing through his last year, so I have nothing to say about the writing itself. 

I actually liked the epilogue a lot, written by the author’s wife. She says there’s a lot he didn’t convey about himself and his values in the book, and honestly I really appreciated that. Her notes, and the pain and hurt in them, really gave another dimension to what would have otherwise been an uninteresting read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Infertility, Chronic illness, Death, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Death of parent, Medical content, Vomit, and Cancer

sassyshark's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring relaxing sad fast-paced

5.0

Genuinely one of the most beautiful books I have every read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Terminal illness, Cancer, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Pregnancy and Gore

booksthatburn's review against another edition

reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Death, Child death, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Blood, Gore, and Vomit

Minor: Death of parent and Forced institutionalization

enbybooklove's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

The book is excellent and should be required reading for every human. The author himself came across as a little arrogant and I wish his workaholism had been acknowledged, but it is still an entirely necessary book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Grief, and Medical content

Moderate: Gore and Medical trauma

Minor: Pregnancy and Infertility

emily_p1's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Medical content, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Blood, Gore, and Grief

Minor: Suicide and Suicide attempt