Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

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

28 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

oliviamich's review

adventurous dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Probably my favorite book ever. I could reread this anytime any where and get lost in it. Hell, I could probably open it up to any page and take off from there. Krakauer is such an engaging storyteller and while this book makes me NEVER want to climb Everest it has given me an understanding of the people who feel called to do so. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Death

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Colonisation and Classism

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

jillianlovesbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.75

WOW and OUCH
that book was a little intense but such an important read 
it hit me right in the gut 
loved it tho!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Medical trauma, Chronic illness, Medical content, Death, Body horror, Cursing, Gore, and Grief

the very end of the book when he talks about that girls death and how he never looked back to help her really just punched me in the gut because that pain has to be terrible

albon's review

adventurous dark

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Car accident and Drug use

hellavaral's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood, Medical content, and Vomit

gomoon's review

adventurous dark informative tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

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

waywardcrow's review

adventurous dark informative sad tense medium-paced

4.75

Well damn. I don't know what exactly I was expecting when I picked up this book. I knew it would be tragic but nothing could have prepared me for how graphically and vividly Krakauer was able to portray the failed expedition. Even though it was hard to remember who was who in the long list of people on the mountain, I still felt deeply saddened by every death. This is an incredible accounting of such a traumatizing experience. This book really makes you think deeply about human mortality and the psychology behind those who are willing to jeopardize their lives to accomplish the most dangerous exploits. It also makes you think about humanity's respect (or lack thereof) for nature, the inability to admire great beauty from afar to the point that beauty is destroyed. On a lighter note, I learned a lot about climbing and there's much more still that I couldn't quite grasp. Maybe once I recover in ten years, l'll read again to try to understand more about the geography and climbing techniques the author did so well in attempting to describe.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Moderate: Medical trauma, Vomit, Grief, Body horror, and Medical content

caidyn's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative tense medium-paced

4.5

Damn, what a sad book. There was a great buildup from the author to introduce people and the conditions of that year. Very sad, but also a very good book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, and Medical trauma