Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

En fruktansvärd grönska by Benjamín Labatut

16 reviews

siobhanward's review against another edition

medium-paced

2.0

NYT Notable Books 2021: 13/100

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. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: War

donumexiitiale's review against another edition

dark reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

A lyrical journey through modern history with a spotlight placed on leading figures in the development of quantum mechanics. But the spotlights are just that: in the shadows lurk more stirring reflections on nature and man’s place within the cosmos. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia

Minor: Animal death and Sexual content

Moderate discussion of events surrounding the holocaust

aweekinthelife's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

 fiction that reads like a memoir, except these are stories of scientists who have changed the trajectory of our world and there’s no possible way the author could know anything about some of the moments described. the book makes you contemplate the human costs of progress and scientific achievement/progress. a brilliant work that is unsettling at times. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Pedophilia, and War

Moderate: Suicide

josemoya's review against another edition

funny informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Benjamín Labatut ficciona cuatro grandes descubrimientos del siglo XX (los fertilizantes, la geometría no euclidiana, los agujeros negros, la mecánica cuántica) trazando un camino de hilos que engarzan las vidas de los científicos implicados en estos descubrimientos.
A veces terrible, a veces inspirador, en cualquier caso es un ejercicio de narrativa fantástico.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Genocide, Suicide, and Excrement

trippalli's review against another edition

2.0

Very disturbing directions
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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Mental illness, and Excrement

Moderate: Child death

arielamandah's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced

• 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

What in the world did I just read? This is a strange, ambitious novel that’s part philosophy, part historical science, and part terrifying walk through the horrors of the modern world. And some very odd sexual scenes, to boot.  It feels like there’s a lot of mixing fiction and science here - blurring those lines. And, truly, it was very dark, violent, and explicit about the horrors of war and chemistry, and the scary parts of math and science. (It didn’t make me walk away from it feeling very good - mostly just sad, disgusted, and a little WTF.)

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Content Warnings

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

netylu's review against another edition

challenging slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

Part facts, part fiction. It's about scientists who changed how we understand the world by showing there are things beyond our understanding, and, contrary, that knowledge can be dangerous. Also includes descriptions of a drug-induced vision, gory lifestyles of men becoming obsessed with their work and ideas, and a bit of romanticizing all of that, how intelligent and great they were. Nonetheless, the book touches upon very interesting and very powerful ideas.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

theabee's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Mental illness, Self harm, Excrement, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and War

Minor: Suicide

hexlibris's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Chronic illness, Medical content, and War

Moderate: Pedophilia

lipka's review against another edition

dark emotional informative tense fast-paced

• 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

        Un verdor terrible is... blue, black, and devastating. It's a strange moment: the reality and unreality folded together, nonlinear and noneuclidean. You really could blot out the sun with this book. Hold it just high enough—the shadow it casts is a dark, ancient thing.

        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.

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Content Warnings

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