Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke

59 reviews

stefhany's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

Moderate: Gun violence and Mass/school shootings

lowbrowhighart's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Big trigger warning for animal cruelty/torture! Part of the book details Harry Harlow's experiments with Rhesus monkeys. Wish I would've known that before reading!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Torture, and Mental illness

Moderate: Death, Rape, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Grief, Alcoholism, Mass/school shootings, Sexual assault, and Violence

Minor: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Misogyny, Sexism, Hate crime, Death, and Cancer

tiffanylorraine's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Car accident, Mass/school shootings, and Animal cruelty

otherwisepassenger's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Death

diversifyyourshelf's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Alcoholism

Moderate: Sexual assault

tyrannosaurus_reads's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Mental illness

ka_cam's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

3.75

The graphic novel format makes this book go fast, and I think I’d have found it more engaging if I were 1. more actively lonely right now and 2. Less generally familiar with the history/physiology research (so it would be new). At time moving meditation on loneliness but at other times the transitions between personal narrative and research/history felt choppy. Would recommend for anyone interested in loneliness though, since it is so quick to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Animal death, Abandonment, and Alcoholism

Minor: Death, Dementia, Terminal illness, Emotional abuse, and Cancer

ce_read's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Grief, Torture, Animal cruelty, and Mental illness

Moderate: Abandonment, Rape, Gun violence, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Mass/school shootings, and Suicide

Minor: Bullying

topgung98's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Torture

Minor: Rape

cavernism's review against another edition

informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

I appreciated this book as a piece of art and of storytelling - the way she uses art and real people references is really captivating and cool. And I thought it was an interesting topic to dive into, especially when she examines the gendered perceptions of loneliness. Overall, though, this really bummed me out and didn't fill me with much hope or even much of a conclusive takeaway - there are no suggestions for how to bridge our loneliness gap, but there is a lot of horrific content about Harry Harlowe's sadistic monkey experiments, which I knew about but didn't want to read about in detail. So, the tl;dr is that I appreciated this book's artistry and scope but it didn't leave me feeling very good, and that might just be more about where my headspace is at these days.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty