Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

6 reviews

hollydyer328's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.0

A well-reported story of a tragedy on Mt. Everest; amazing that Krakauer lived to tell the tale. I can’t say I’m surprised by the turnout; I feel like you’re asking for it if you try to climb and summit Everest. Probably the most surprising thing is the whole industry and profit around expeditions—if you dream of climbing Everest, you better be able to drop $65K+ to do it. The story was confusing to follow at times; there’s a lot of people involved and he switches between first name and last name interchangeably. He’ll also recount stories of previous expeditions that took me out of the primary one. Needed to re-listen to the last 25-30% to make sure I knew what happened.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Vomit, and Medical content

madeline_p4's review against another edition

adventurous informative fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, and Grief

jakesdv99's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Excrement, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

jillianlovesbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.75

WOW and OUCH
that book was a little intense but such an important read 
it hit me right in the gut 
loved it tho!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Gore, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Medical trauma

the very end of the book when he talks about that girls death and how he never looked back to help her really just punched me in the gut because that pain has to be terrible

armontheroad's review

adventurous emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

Excellent memoir depicting the1996 Mount Everest Disaster. Was thoroughly obsessed with this and would have given it five stars if not for the transphobia and ableism. This did strick up a new hyperfixation, though, which I am very happy about. I really liked Jon Krakauer’s voice and would be interested and reading more of his work. I did appreciate his mentioning of how fucking racist and ignorant the white climbers of Everest are to the lovely locals. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Racism, Sexual content, and Transphobia

belle2008's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Excrement, and Vomit