Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall

5 reviews

barefootsierra's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Cursing, Racism, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Trafficking, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

ashwaar's review against another edition

adventurous informative inspiring fast-paced

3.75

Born to Run is a hybrid non-fiction of investigative journalism, a journey to self-discovery and an exploration of the evolution of modern running. I love reading non-fiction about topics I previously knew nothing about and I found the chapters on ultramarathons and the development of the running shoe to be pretty interesting. But I found the writing style to be quite dramatic and exaggerated like McDougall expects everyone else to be as automatically passionate and flabbergasted by these running discoveries as he is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Death, Racism, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, and Colonisation

meganpbell's review against another edition

adventurous informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

This pasty nerd never thought she’d be hanging on to every word of a book about long distance running! That’s how riveting, joyful, meaningful, inspiring, and fun this book about racing, community, physiology, prehistory, and the world’s greatest runners—the indigenous Tarahumara—is. A modern classic published nearly 15 years ago, the science here may be dated in places (including fatphobia), but it remains an important, beloved book sure to have you running out the door, Nikes on or no!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Chronic illness, Fatphobia, Sexism, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

euphemiajo's review

adventurous challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Medical content, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death and Cursing

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

adventurous informative medium-paced

4.0

Not bad! I don’t care much about sports/running, but this was an interesting way to learn a very small bit about the Tarahumara tribe and about a big race in my home state. Some rumblings of eurocentrism and colonial mindset, but nothing like outright xenophobia. The author does give sexism in sports a pass by including it without commentary. Otherwise, an interesting read. Loved the vivid and creative descriptions throughout. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Vomit, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexism and Colonisation

Drug cartels, cartel violence