Reviews tagging 'Excrement'

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

14 reviews

jakesdv99's review

adventurous dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

nadiajohnsonbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

I was already a fan of Krakauer, having been at various times in my life obsessed with Into the Wild and Under the Banner of Heaven.

Well, this time he really broke me. I can't stop thinking about Mount Everest and about high altitude disasters.

What Krakauer and his companions endured in 1996 is one of the most harrowing things I've ever read. His reflections of his own grief, the other survivors' reactions, the true misery that they endured during the disaster...I'm honestly haunted by it. It had me sobbing.

Krakauer was clearly deep in his own trauma when he wrote it, and you can tell.

My respect for him as a journalist, a mountaineer, and a human being is higher than it's ever been.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Blood, Colonisation, and Excrement

Minor: Deadnaming, Vomit, Drug use, and Alcohol

snekmint's review

adventurous challenging informative tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Suicide and Excrement

matcha_cat's review

adventurous challenging emotional informative medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Abandonment

Minor: Sexual content, Colonisation, Medical content, Excrement, Blood, and Vomit

danimacuk's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Cursing, Medical trauma, and Abandonment

Minor: Medical content, Drug use, Excrement, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, and Vomit

banannakarenina's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Minor: Colonisation, Vomit, and Excrement

leefox's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Drug use, Excrement, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Mental illness

oceanwriter's review against another edition

adventurous informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Immersive, personal, and adventuresome, Jon Krakauer brings his readers to Mount Everest to recount his disastrous trek up the infamous mountain in 1996. In the style of a novel, the memoir replays the events of the trip from start to finish as the author remembers them (which is easier said than done when dealing with lethally high altitudes).

All I could wonder while reading was, 'is risking your life really worth conquering the summit?'. Apparently given how many have attempted it throughout history, the answer is yes. Simply picking up this book or those like it is a testament to human curiosity and thirst for adventure. While I am personally content to read about other people's travels when it comes to climbing mountains, there were a number of times throughout the book I envisioned myself out there in the below-freezing cold. Though this book is not short on the devastating loss of lives, I can ultimately understand why someone might find the risks and exhaustion worth it.

This was the second book by Jon Krakauer I've read and I enjoyed it just as much as the first.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, and Medical content

Moderate: Vomit and Excrement

lola_milk's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Minor: Excrement

This book contains many graphic descriptions of people freezing to death.

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