Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester

5 reviews

kstericker's review against another edition

informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Body horror and Murder

Minor: Pedophilia and Sexual assault

thesonnetsilence's review against another edition

challenging dark informative slow-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Medical trauma, Body horror, and Self harm

Moderate: Murder

kelsea's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Mental illness, Murder, Body horror, and Self harm

Minor: War and Suicide

auntie_em's review against another edition

challenging informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Dementia, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, Self harm, and Physical abuse

beulah_devaney's review

dark informative sad slow-paced

4.0

Just as entertaining and tragic as it sounds. <i>The Professor</i> is about one of publishing's most enduring urban myths: the time the editor of the Oxford Dictionary discovered his chief contributor was resident in a London psychiatric hospital. It's incredibly entertaining and the sections on the history of dictionaries as a form of cultural colonialism is especially interesting.

Content warnings: as you've probably guessed from the title, Winchester talks about everyone who isn't a white wealthy man as if they were some unique, vaguely repulsive alien species. Stand by for racism, sexism, abelism, and in depth discussion of body horror and self-harm.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Self harm

Minor: Bullying, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicide, and Violence