Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

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

12 reviews

owl_eerie's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

3.25

Not exactly sure how to rate this one. I enjoyed the writing, but I did not feel emotionally gripped by the

self-induced

struggle of the climb.

As a friend put it... There are significantly cheaper ways to off oneself. I'm sorry Krakauer was traumatized, but I'm not sure if I am able to feel badly for the deceased.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror and Death

julierose_mann's review

adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Medical content, and Medical trauma

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

albon's review against another edition

adventurous dark

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Drug use and Car accident

waywardcrow's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative sad tense medium-paced

4.75

Well damn. I don't know what exactly I was expecting when I picked up this book. I knew it would be tragic but nothing could have prepared me for how graphically and vividly Krakauer was able to portray the failed expedition. Even though it was hard to remember who was who in the long list of people on the mountain, I still felt deeply saddened by every death. This is an incredible accounting of such a traumatizing experience. This book really makes you think deeply about human mortality and the psychology behind those who are willing to jeopardize their lives to accomplish the most dangerous exploits. It also makes you think about humanity's respect (or lack thereof) for nature, the inability to admire great beauty from afar to the point that beauty is destroyed. On a lighter note, I learned a lot about climbing and there's much more still that I couldn't quite grasp. Maybe once I recover in ten years, l'll read again to try to understand more about the geography and climbing techniques the author did so well in attempting to describe.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Medical trauma

elizakay's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Body horror

magsbord's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Abandonment, and Colonisation

alphacenterin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Medical content and Medical trauma

prairieraven's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Deadnaming, and Abandonment

Moderate: Medical content, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Excrement, and Vomit

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