Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty

23 reviews

specificwonderland's review against another edition

dark informative fast-paced

3.75

Liked the writing and narration. The topics stayed somewhat surface level. The end turned into a textbook or philosophical exercise. It was like the first 3/4 was saying, "Ewwww isn't this wild?" and the last 1/4 was about the future of the funeral industry and how we do/should/could view mortality. It was ok. I also added a few trigger warnings to larger bodies. I thought the scene felt a little (more accurately "moderately") judgey/predatory. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Fatphobia, Medical content, Death, and Body shaming

taleofabibliophile's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, Child death, Suicide, Car accident, Cannibalism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Gore

Moderate: Mental illness, Dementia, and Pregnancy

Minor: Drug use, Racism, Sexual harassment, Terminal illness, Cursing, Cancer, Colonisation, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, and Sexism

CW: mention of JKR

motypeandroid's review against another edition

medium-paced

3.5

3.5 stars
I really enjoyed learning abt the inner workings or the mortuary world, and would probably read more it given the chance. However, I realized while listening to the audiobook that I don’t like how miss ask a mortician speaks about certain topics. Those things might have changed since this book is nearly a decade old, but it just irked me a bit. Idk. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Child death, Blood, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Fatphobia, and Suicide

Minor: Xenophobia

starsreside's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny inspiring medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Medical content, Death, and Suicide

Moderate: Racism, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Xenophobia, Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Sexism

Minor: Miscarriage, Animal death, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, and Dementia

erica_reads_things's review against another edition

dark funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

Very intriguing, well written book. Pretty graphic but not for shock value. Caitlin writes about death and the things that she saw working in a crematory in a very matter of fact way that made it so interesting to learn about. Weaving in historical pieces on death practices in different cultures and throughout history was fascinating too. 

There was a pretty abrupt and random chapter with some, in my opinion, unnecessary fatphobic themes, but other than that I really enjoyed the process of reading this book and thinking about death myself. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cancer, Suicide, Body horror, Death of parent, Gun violence, Gore, Grief, Child death, Cannibalism, Blood, and Medical content

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Fatphobia, and Drug use

sammantha's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, War, Fatphobia, Car accident, Addiction, Animal death, Blood, Cancer, Cannibalism, Suicide, Child death, Colonisation, Drug use, Medical content, Animal cruelty, Death, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

westmezzanine's review against another edition

funny informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Fatphobia

katdoesbooks's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia and Body horror

morbidanatomy's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Medical content, Fatphobia, Suicide, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

Moderate: Suicide attempt and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Sexual harassment, Misogyny, and Racism

mermaidsherbet's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child death, Death, Vomit, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, and Excrement

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, Body shaming, and Grief

Minor: Addiction, Cancer, Chronic illness, Classism, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness