Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

69 reviews

kingsteph's review against another edition

challenging dark funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Medical content

Moderate: Gore, Murder, Death, and Child death

rachael_jo's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative inspiring fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Medical content

pagesonfire's review

challenging dark informative lighthearted reflective

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, and Gore

Moderate: Medical content and Injury/Injury detail

vale_reading's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny informative reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Violence, Animal cruelty, Car accident, Cannibalism, Murder, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Death

Moderate: Xenophobia and War

Minor: Suicide and Death of parent

coco78337's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Gore, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Medical content

b10tch's review against another edition

dark funny informative medium-paced

4.5

Very interesting. Read this through several meals and am realizing how high my gore tolerance is. (Because boy is there a lot of it).  My favorite thing about Mary roach is that she makes nonfiction accessible. Her books are often narrative based, humorous, and lack the density that I find makes many nonfiction books hard to finish.     

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Medical content, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Death

rowanbg's review against another edition

funny informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Death

dionaeau's review against another edition

dark funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

A wonderful, humorous read about what happens after death. Well worth the read, even so long after being published. Descriptions in this book about various decomp stages as well as how bodies are handled and looked are quite graphic, which wasn’t a problem for me, but should be taken into consideration.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Medical content, Body horror, Blood, Cannibalism, and Death

jonie_rich's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

4.75

I really loved this book, but I had to skip over the parts about the dog surgery (that is putting it sooooooo mildly). I recommend it, and I think it educates a very overlooked part of our lives as humans. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cannibalism, Child death, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Suicide, Medical content, Body horror, Blood, Gore, Animal death, Murder, Medical trauma, Torture, Car accident, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Excrement

hyeetles's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Animal cruelty, Excrement, Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content