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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
4 reviews
harrimyers's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, and Car accident
Minor: Cultural appropriation and Colonisation
briar_nettleroot's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Suicide, and Medical content
Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Grief, Car accident, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
oliverreeds's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Dementia, Grief, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
marisa_n's review against another edition
3.0
I found the information about the day-to-day operations of a crematory interesting and informative. Some of the discussions on culture and politics were also good food for thought. Overall, I learned a great deal while reading this. I also thought the author handled the subject matter respectfully, without making it dry/boring.
However, as interesting as the subject matter was, I disliked the writing style. I found the storytelling to be jarring, and the transitions non-existent. Her life story is told in a linear fashion, but she consistently breaks into lengthy side tangents (about culture, politics, etc.) that are only tangentially related to the current subject at hand. There also seemed to be little rhyme or reason to her storytelling-- in one sentence she's talking about her day, and the next she's talking about cannibalism. I found these conversational leaps frustrating, as it made it hard to stay engaged in the story. While her main point was clear--we need to become more comfortable with death and re-evaluate our current death rituals--she never truly connected these side-tangents to her thesis.
Overall, informative read, but it could have benefited from a good editor.
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Blood, and Grief
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Addiction, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, and Dementia