Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

76 reviews

vale_reading's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny informative reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Cannibalism, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Xenophobia and War

Minor: Suicide and Death of parent

coco78337's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

b10tch's review against another edition

dark funny informative medium-paced

4.5

Very interesting. Read this through several meals and am realizing how high my gore tolerance is. (Because boy is there a lot of it).  My favorite thing about Mary roach is that she makes nonfiction accessible. Her books are often narrative based, humorous, and lack the density that I find makes many nonfiction books hard to finish.     

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, and Medical content

rowanbg's review against another edition

funny informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Gore

dionaeau's review against another edition

dark funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

A wonderful, humorous read about what happens after death. Well worth the read, even so long after being published. Descriptions in this book about various decomp stages as well as how bodies are handled and looked are quite graphic, which wasn’t a problem for me, but should be taken into consideration.

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Content Warnings

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

jonie_rich's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

4.75

I really loved this book, but I had to skip over the parts about the dog surgery (that is putting it sooooooo mildly). I recommend it, and I think it educates a very overlooked part of our lives as humans. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Suicide, Torture, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

hyeetles's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

rachbake's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Medical content

a_sleepy_berry's review against another edition

challenging mysterious slow-paced

2.0

The science is really interesting but super traumatizing at the same time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

nrogers_1030's review against another edition

informative lighthearted medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Gore