Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

33 reviews

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

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

a_sleepy_berry's review against another edition

challenging mysterious slow-paced

2.0

The science is really interesting but super traumatizing at the same time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gore, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Car accident

leanneymu's review against another edition

challenging dark funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

If you're squeamish, this is not the book for you. But if you can get past chapter 3 (decomposition) then this is a fascinating and funny read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, and Body horror

bronzemist's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Death, and Medical content

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Gore, Child death, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Vomit

dustylola's review against another edition

dark funny informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

This book had a lot of interesting info and I liked the writing style. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cannibalism, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Child death, Body horror, and Terminal illness

Minor: Child death, Death, and Death of parent

sophiemartin's review against another edition

This book is a non-fiction account of an author exploring the different ways a human body donated to science can be used. The information in the book is incorrect, the humour while talking about graphic topics is jarring, and it is clear the author has not done their research correctly and throughly. I could not spend any more time reading the blatant disregard for fact checking. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Blood, Death, and Medical trauma