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Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
5 reviews
trippalli's review against another edition
2.0
descriptions.. The idea of science and breakthrough theories and struggles with mental illness and violence in life experiences in
Is interesting, I don't feel I learned as the real and fiction are mixed without identification and the shock factor is much of the context
Graphic: Mental illness, Excrement, Animal cruelty, and Animal death
Moderate: Child death
arielamandah's review against another edition
- 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
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
theabee's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, and War
Moderate: Excrement, War, Genocide, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Addiction, Death, Self harm, and Grief
Minor: Suicide
lipka's review against another edition
- 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
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.
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
caties_books's review against another edition
2.75
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