Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut

10 reviews

donumexiitiale's review against another edition

dark reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

A lyrical journey through modern history with a spotlight placed on leading figures in the development of quantum mechanics. But the spotlights are just that: in the shadows lurk more stirring reflections on nature and man’s place within the cosmos. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia

Minor: Animal death and Sexual content

Moderate discussion of events surrounding the holocaust

gunnarvon's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Child abuse, Mental illness, and War

josemoya's review against another edition

funny informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Benjamín Labatut ficciona cuatro grandes descubrimientos del siglo XX (los fertilizantes, la geometría no euclidiana, los agujeros negros, la mecánica cuántica) trazando un camino de hilos que engarzan las vidas de los científicos implicados en estos descubrimientos.
A veces terrible, a veces inspirador, en cualquier caso es un ejercicio de narrativa fantástico.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Sexual content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Excrement, Suicide, Drug use, and Genocide

arielamandah's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

What in the world did I just read? This is a strange, ambitious novel that’s part philosophy, part historical science, and part terrifying walk through the horrors of the modern world. And some very odd sexual scenes, to boot.  It feels like there’s a lot of mixing fiction and science here - blurring those lines. And, truly, it was very dark, violent, and explicit about the horrors of war and chemistry, and the scary parts of math and science. (It didn’t make me walk away from it feeling very good - mostly just sad, disgusted, and a little WTF.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Medical content, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Mental illness, Dysphoria, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Antisemitism, Blood, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Gore, War, Violence, Torture, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Racism, Racial slurs, and Physical abuse

mcordell's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny informative medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing

lipka's review against another edition

dark emotional informative tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

        Un verdor terrible is... blue, black, and devastating. It's a strange moment: the reality and unreality folded together, nonlinear and noneuclidean. You really could blot out the sun with this book. Hold it just high enough—the shadow it casts is a dark, ancient thing.

        The chapters fling themselves in all directions at breakneck speed. A comet, and a coma. "What wind drags it off with the fury of an angel cast out from heaven, falling, and falling, and falling?" Only the tail end of it can tell.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Genocide, Suicide, Suicide attempt, War, Medical content, Sexual content, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Mental illness, Sexism, Dysphoria, Antisemitism, Drug use, and Murder

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Excrement, Rape, Vomit, Homophobia, Forced institutionalization, Pedophilia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Xenophobia

solanum's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Sexual harassment, Animal death, Gore, Pedophilia, and Sexual content

Moderate: Death of parent, Suicide, Vomit, Death, Excrement, and War

cass_lit's review against another edition

1.5

No. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Pedophilia

caties_books's review against another edition

dark informative reflective slow-paced

2.75

I am fully ready to admit that maybe I'm not as smart as all the people who love this book or maybe I'm not the right audience, but I didn't understand this book at all. It's a very confusing type of not understanding because I read the description again after reading and yes, I did read about and comprehend all the things mentioned, but overall, I was just left unsettled and confused. I don't like not knowing which parts were true and which weren't. I don't understand the point of the book. There wasn't any sort of cohesion that felt solid to me, it felt scattered and separate. Idk. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Sexual content, Suicide, Antisemitism, Infidelity, Child death, Death, Death of parent, War, Animal cruelty, Genocide, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Physical abuse, and Violence

faustinagut_'s review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

Azul de Prusia y el cuento principal sobre el origen de la mecánica cuántica son definitivamente los highlights del libro. Se disfruta mucho más teniendo un entendimiento previo mínimo de las teorías atómicas, del mundo subatomico y la física que trata de describirlo.

Sentí que no esta muy logrado el intento de hacer el relato más literario que técnico (por eso creo que alguien que no conoce o no le interesa el tema puede dejarlo sin terminar), pero la discusión filosófica está ahí, salvando las papas cuando crees que se transformó en una historia de cuántica y nombres famosos. El momento donde la ciencia empieza a ser consciente de que ya no es contemplativa sino que el método científico no puede separarse del objeto que estudia, modificándolo en el camino.

Completamente innecesaria la descripción explicita de Schrödinger siendo un viejo verde, no aporta nada a la historia. La sexualización de menores de edad en manos autores masculinos ya es hartante, por más que en la época se "usara" que hombres estén con mujeres mas chicas (que no), este ni siquiera es el caso y no veo más que morbo de quien escribe en el intento de ahondar en eso. 

La presencia del gas presentado al comienzo durante todo el trayecto me pareció un lindo detalle y el momento eureka de Heisenberg con la referencia a la bomba atómica me pareció excelente. 

Como terca odiadora de las matemáticas en su expresión más pura y abstracta, no me gustaron los cuentos donde es protagonista. Pero eso es una falta mía.

"No es nuestro lugar decirle a Él cómo manejar el mundo". 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Drug use, Animal death, Child death, War, and Death