serenityfound's review against another edition
dark
funny
informative
slow-paced
3.0
It feels like the author is trying to be Mary Roach - with attempts at humor and such - but just does not succeed at it. There are also a number of curious references to "political correctness" that I can't determine the point (or POV) of. I do applaud him for staying largely away from criminal/MI-driven cannibalism in the 20th & 21st centuries out of respect for victim families, though.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Racism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Cannibalism, Medical content, Blood, Gore, Colonisation, and Death
Moderate: Murder, Vomit, Mental illness, and Excrement
smallredboy's review against another edition
challenging
dark
funny
informative
medium-paced
5.0
I absolutely LOVED this book. Cannibalism is a really interesting topic to me and has always been, so I came in with great expectations and Schutt completely exceeded them. The book is funny, dark and informative all at once; I learned so much about cannibalism in the animal kingdom and about cases of cannibalism in the human world, while Schutt clearly took care and respect into account, avoiding to go into cases that had been so greatly sensationalized like the Meiwes case.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cannibalism
Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, Genocide, and Slavery
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