Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

49 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

wandering_canuck's review

funny informative medium-paced

3.5

This is my second reading of the book and I found it less intriguing than previously. Roach is a good writer who is adept at delivering death in a way that is neither too depressing nor too blasé. Not for the faint hearted, but even those to whom the idea of death is a bit "icky" will find this a compelling and lighthearted read. I believe I previously rated this 5 stars; my reduced rating is likely due to it being a reread. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Car accident, Child death, Medical trauma, Blood, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Abortion, and Death

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

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

librarianeno's review against another edition

dark funny informative medium-paced

3.75

This book was both disgusting and yet oddly satisfying and informative. There is very vivid description of dead bodies and cadavers and of what people do with dead bodies and cadavers. But I learned a lot about the death industry. I love Mary Roach's writing style. This book was written in 2003, so I'm going to be doing some research on what is happening with the composting of cadavers. There's also a discussion of a flesh-eating bacteria as a way of composting humans I want to know if it has developed more or gone by the wayside. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Gore

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

weebit's review

funny hopeful informative medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Cannibalism, Gore, Medical content, Blood, Murder, Abortion, and Animal cruelty

lanid's review

adventurous informative reflective

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Blood, and Medical content

Moderate: Animal death, Cannibalism, Animal cruelty, and Excrement