Reviews tagging 'Death'

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green

354 reviews

cadybooks's review against another edition

5.0

informative reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Racism, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Colonisation, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Misogyny, Slavery, Transphobia

Minor: Cancer, Violence, War, Injury/Injury detail

planties's review against another edition

5.0

informative reflective sad medium-paced

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I listened to the audiobook which is narrated by John Green. Easy to digest despite the content being pretty science-y. Heartbreaking (F the pharmaceutical industry) but also hopeful, which is very John Green.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Racism, Medical content

hannahrogers's review against another edition

4.5

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Ableism, Child death, Racism, Colonisation, Classism

Minor: Cancer, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Abandonment, War

joensign's review against another edition

5.0

hopeful informative sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Medical content, Classism

sabrinaleaf's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

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4.25 ⭐️ 

I need John Green to write new Non-Fiction books every month. Like, what do you mean I had to wait more than 3 years in between this and Anthropocene?!?

He just has such an easy writing style to follow, and he manages to captivate readers so well while explaining history of something or an idea. I would unironically read his grocery list because I just know he’s making them captivating

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Cancer

sswroman's review against another edition

5.0

challenging hopeful informative sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Racism, Terminal illness

Minor: Slavery

creolelitbelle's review against another edition

3.5

hopeful informative medium-paced

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I would rank higher if I was more inquisitive about the medical aspects. The human and history elements of the book were my favorite parts. I love how the context of tuberculosis's impacts on history are explained well without necessary prior knowledge of details about those time periods, places, or events. In true John Green fashion (and due to no fault of his own for once), many TB patients die in the book, but I found hope in those who survived their diagnoses. I listened to the audiobook, and John Green's narration could make almost any topic interesting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Racism, Blood, Classism

dystopia's review against another edition

4.5

emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Racism, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Grief, Colonisation

Minor: Cancer

literarylily's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful informative reflective

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A truly eye-opening and life-changing read. John Green is right; as someone living in the west tuberculosis is not something I truly ever thought about and viewed more as a "disease of poverty". This incredible eloquent, yet accessible book taught me so much and completely changed my perspective on the disease, its causes and the people suffering from it. 

It's a hard sell but I really couldn't recommend this highly enough. John Green is incredibly well researched, and beautifully tells the story of tuberculosis, and his friend Henry at the same time. I could not stop thinking about it and read it so fast. This is a book that will stay with me for a long time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Death, Terminal illness

Minor: Mental illness, Vomit, Grief, Abandonment

benicetomeplease's review against another edition

4.5

hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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An incredibly informative read that effectively guides the reader through the multiple dimensions that the tuberculosis crisis can be analyzed through. I appreciate the mention of Henry's story throughout the book to help humanize the millions of people that TB infects and amplify the injustice behind the lack of access to adequate treatment.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Colonisation, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic