Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

48 reviews

hevlav's review

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

Incredibly solemn yet surprisingly hilarious. I don’t read a lot of nonfiction, but Roach did a wonderful job of balancing the sad and gory with reflection and fun. I’m glad I already don’t eat meat, because there’s no way I would after the many many comparisons between cadavers and lunch. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Suicide, Animal death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Blood, Gore, Child death, and Death

teganbeesebooks's review against another edition

funny informative fast-paced

5.0

I would be interested to see an updated edition with how practices have changed in the last 21 years. Super informative and I'm looking forward to reading her other books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Child death, Excrement, Gore, Blood, Cancer, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Car accident, Cannibalism, and Vomit

lmneal87's review

challenging funny informative reflective slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Death, Medical trauma, Car accident, Gore, and Cannibalism

klbreyfogle's review

dark funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

This was an interesting read! I listened as an audiobook which was fine for the most part but having someone tell you about mellified man directly into your ears is a little jarring. It’s now a little old so if you regularly consume mortuary content (a la Ask a Mortician/Caitlin Doughty) a fair amount will be familiar, but it’s still very informative and the tone is pretty funny, so overall a good read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Medical content, Animal death, Grief, Gore, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Excrement, Abortion, and Terminal illness

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

challenging dark funny hopeful informative lighthearted reflective slow-paced

3.5

Wasn't expecting a chapter to cover cannibalism so I guess that's where my squeamish line lies in the sand.  I knew some of the info about modern bioethics, and in contrast the historical ethics that were lacking respect, consent, and autonomy, so I was glad to hear that it is an emphasis in cadaver labs.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abortion, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Death of parent, Excrement, Fatphobia, Medical content, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Trafficking, Violence, Cultural appropriation, Body horror, Murder, Animal death, Blood, Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, Chronic illness, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Torture, and Confinement

jhaverinen's review

challenging funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

Moderate: Animal death

bitter_critter's review

funny informative slow-paced

3.25

It wasn't really my thing. I liked learning but by the end I just finished it to finish it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Blood, Animal death, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Minor: Child death

scollazo's review against another edition

funny informative reflective fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

earlgreysnail's review

dark funny informative medium-paced

3.5

Some quite fascinating information you would not normally come upon! Long-winded at times. The animal rights activist in me found some of this super upsetting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Gore, Physical abuse, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Medical content, Death, Car accident, and Blood

caitlinpfry's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Murder, Medical trauma, and Medical content