Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account Of The Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

39 reviews

shelfofunread's review against another edition

challenging funny reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Injury/Injury detail

alphacenterin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Moderate: Medical trauma and Medical content

rjansen282's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Injury/Injury detail

madelinekramer2021's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Injury/Injury detail

prairieraven's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Abandonment, and Body horror

Moderate: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Minor: Drug use, Excrement, Vomit, and Drug abuse

armontheroad's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

Excellent memoir depicting the1996 Mount Everest Disaster. Was thoroughly obsessed with this and would have given it five stars if not for the transphobia and ableism. This did strick up a new hyperfixation, though, which I am very happy about. I really liked Jon Krakauer’s voice and would be interested and reading more of his work. I did appreciate his mentioning of how fucking racist and ignorant the white climbers of Everest are to the lovely locals. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Vomit, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Moderate: Sexual content, Transphobia, Ableism, and Racism

horizonous's review against another edition

adventurous informative sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Death, and Vomit

Minor: Blood, Racism, Animal cruelty, Car accident, Excrement, and Suicidal thoughts

◦ Death = Friends
◦ Mental illness = Survivor guilt

belle2008's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Blood, Excrement, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

niltic's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Wonderfully pulling together a frantic series of events and cast of characters, Krakaeur explores his personal role and experiences relating to the electric events of 1996. His historical background, insight into mountaineering, and interviews with the other survivors bring depth and complexity to one man’s account. His reflections feel fair, but very occasionally overstep his own expertise given his background as an experienced mountaineer but relative novice high alpine climber. The book may have benefited from interviews with other high alpinists who were not present at the events to add weight and nuance to some of Krakauer’s judgements. Otherwise an excellent read by any measure.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Grief, and Abandonment

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Medical content

Several people die, are injured, traumatised, and abandoned during the events. Descriptions are not gratuitous, but the unprocessed trauma and grief of the author make it relatively raw to read.