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When We Cease to Understand the World by Adrian Nathan West, Benjamín Labatut
9 reviews
siobhanward's review against another edition
2.0
I don't love fictional works about real people and this book was no exception. Maybe it's partly because I don't have enough background on the subjects Labatut is writing about to know where the line was between fiction and nonfiction, but I think it's just not a style for me. I found the stories dry and just didn't care for what was happening. Clearly this is a well-reviewed book, so I have a feeling my dislike is because I don't care for the style or much for the subjects, rather than it being an objectively poor book.
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Suicide, and Violence
Moderate: War
trippalli's review against another edition
2.0
descriptions.. The idea of science and breakthrough theories and struggles with mental illness and violence in life experiences in
Is interesting, I don't feel I learned as the real and fiction are mixed without identification and the shock factor is much of the context
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Mental illness, and Excrement
Moderate: Child death
arielamandah's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Drug use, Eating disorder, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Antisemitism, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Dysphoria, War, and Injury/Injury detail
lipka's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
The chapters fling themselves in all directions at breakneck speed. A comet, and a coma. "What wind drags it off with the fury of an angel cast out from heaven, falling, and falling, and falling?" Only the tail end of it can tell.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Genocide, Sexual content, Suicide, Medical content, Suicide attempt, and War
Moderate: Drug use, Mental illness, Sexism, Antisemitism, Murder, and Dysphoria
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Excrement, Vomit, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
albernikolauras's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
It's something that still haunts me, and it brings to question the morality of a scientist entangled in his worth as a scientist in the times of war that these men lived through. It's a quick read, but it does require some background knowledge on different physicists that made key quantum discoveries. I would recommend it, but definitely look at some of the content warnings.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual assault, and Suicide
Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, Antisemitism, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Minor: War
turtleghost's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Death, Genocide, and War
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child death, and Mental illness
Minor: Pedophilia, Rape, Suicide, Excrement, and Vomit
caties_books's review against another edition
2.75
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Medical content, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail
alyx's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Pedophilia, Suicide, Terminal illness, Excrement, Death of parent, and War
Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Drug use, Genocide, Antisemitism, Medical content, and Alcohol
faustinagut_'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Sentí que no esta muy logrado el intento de hacer el relato más literario que técnico (por eso creo que alguien que no conoce o no le interesa el tema puede dejarlo sin terminar), pero la discusión filosófica está ahí, salvando las papas cuando crees que se transformó en una historia de cuántica y nombres famosos. El momento donde la ciencia empieza a ser consciente de que ya no es contemplativa sino que el método científico no puede separarse del objeto que estudia, modificándolo en el camino.
Completamente innecesaria la descripción explicita de Schrödinger siendo un viejo verde, no aporta nada a la historia. La sexualización de menores de edad en manos autores masculinos ya es hartante, por más que en la época se "usara" que hombres estén con mujeres mas chicas (que no), este ni siquiera es el caso y no veo más que morbo de quien escribe en el intento de ahondar en eso.
La presencia del gas presentado al comienzo durante todo el trayecto me pareció un lindo detalle y el momento eureka de Heisenberg con la referencia a la bomba atómica me pareció excelente.
Como terca odiadora de las matemáticas en su expresión más pura y abstracta, no me gustaron los cuentos donde es protagonista. Pero eso es una falta mía.
"No es nuestro lugar decirle a Él cómo manejar el mundo".
Graphic: Sexual content and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug use, and War