Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

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

10 reviews

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

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

elizakay's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Body horror

magsbord's review

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Body horror, Colonisation, and Death

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

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

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.

book_addict's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, and Death