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A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
22 reviews
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Gun violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Ableism, Alcohol, Classism
Minor: Fatphobia, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation
Moderate: Animal death, Blood
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Pedophilia
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug use, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Suicide attempt, Alcohol
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Colonisation
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Alcohol
This book lacks any kind of structure or coherence. It jumps forward and backward through time, between different topics and narratives, from person to person, seemingly without rhyme or reason. It is impossible to follow any sequence, keep track of any individual, or place any event in time. The book reads like it was cut into pieces and pasted back together random.
The author injects his opinions and prejudices into the book frequently and obnoxiously, and makes no distinction between established fact and wild conjecture. The most egregious example is the entire chapter about Charles Nicolle's research in the early twentieth century leading to Hongoltz-Hetling's completely baseless theory that Toxoplasma gondii may be responsible, to some unspecified degree, for the behaviour of some or all of the bears and humans involved. It's pure speculation but presented almost as fact.
And each chapter begins with a quotation about bears, or that mentions bears, or that just has the word "bear" in it. These quotations don't relate to the subject of the chapter, nor to anything else that I could see. They're just there because the author liked them, I guess.
This book is infuriatingly bad. It should not exist.
Graphic: Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Pedophilia
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death
Moderate: Gore, Gun violence
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Medical trauma
Moderate: Suicide attempt
Minor: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Religious bigotry
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death
Moderate: Death, Gun violence
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore