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The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World by Patrik Svensson

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challenging sad slow-paced

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I thought this book would be like Gerald Durell’s book My Family and Other Animals. Oh boy was I under the wrong impression. This book is not for me. Including my journal entry impressions.

19% 
Absolutely disgusting. The discussion of Freud being a fucking skeez and all the killing of eels feels like violence. It’s gutting to hear of all the killing of thousands eels to learn NOTHING for decades. Absolutely sickening. Freud sounds like a damn dangerous creep and this book speaking with esteem for him in conjunction with the endless descriptions of eels writhing in pain under knives is deeply unsettling. 
 
34% 
The book goes on and on to describe everything miraculous and stunning about eels and then goes on to describe all the ways they’re destroyed by people wanting to behold them. This alongside the discussion of freud’s volatile love of a TWELVE year old and his belligerence against women he couldn’t have highlights the dangers of being in a world where men believe that to behold beauty means they’re entitled to conquer, behold, and destroy it until satiated. It’s appalling to wade through these casual descriptions of violence. I feel confident that the same type of person who enjoyed Catcher in the Rye would enjoy this book. 
 
37% 
This book is about the unrelenting hunger of colonial consumption, not eels. 
 
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