Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke

59 reviews

ms_elchert's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Alcohol

Minor: Dementia, Mental illness, Police brutality, and Suicidal thoughts

jessrock's review against another edition

dark informative reflective slow-paced

2.75

This book is a mix of memoir and nonfiction, illustrated in the manner of a graphic novel. It meanders a lot, and spends more time dispensing factoids than it does really wrestling with what it means to be lonely, and overall never really gripped me with anything it was saying. The second half of the book talks extensively about Harry Harlow and his monkey experiments; I'd read a book about Harlow before (Love at Goon Park) so this information wasn't new to me, but it's a heavy and distressing topic that may take readers by surprise to get halfway into a book about loneliness and suddenly be hit with ongoing discussions of cruelty to animals.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Moderate: Mass/school shootings

shonaholmes's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

Beautiful reflection on loneliness, love, and human nature. Managed to be really quite interesting too!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

valent1ne's review against another edition

3.5

first half was great & rly thought provoking, second half fell flat in comparison & I stopped enjoying it around the 50-60% point.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty

christinesreads's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

kbrsuperstar's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

Hoo boy, I liked this quite a bit but it was emotionally grueling at times. I personally didn't find it hopeful in any way — the gist of it is basically "humans are lonely, it's how we are and how we've always been" — but by the end I was okay with that, if that makes sense. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

amberinpieces's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Minor: Grief, Mental illness, and Alcohol

kimmag92's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

3.5

This graphic novel was both what I expected and not what I expected. It felt both part memoir and part documentary. I did think it would get more into the history of loneliness and suggestions for ending loneliness but it didn’t.

Also, big content warning for towards the end of the book where the author goes into detail about some horrific experiments that were done to chimps.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

greywolfheir's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Rape

paigeinabook's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical content, Mental illness, Adult/minor relationship, Chronic illness, Confinement, Grief, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Violence, Alcoholism, Animal death, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Death of parent, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, and Panic attacks/disorders