Reviews

The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, Earl Lee, Kathleen DeGrave

bassnboards04's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.75

quigonchuy's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

 A novel about so many things. The shit immigrant workers go through, the vicious cycle of poverty and the traps in it, the ruthless owner class, and yes, the issues within the meatpacking industry (though this is hardly the focus or the point of the book). This book does so much heavy lifting. Telling a riveting story of immigrants, but weaving so much class consciousness into it. 116 years later, this book is still a must read. Took me a long time to get to it, but I'm very glad I finally did. 

ichthala's review

dark reflective medium-paced

4.0

clara_2021's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Grief, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, and Miscarriage

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Rape

jray136's review

dark informative sad medium-paced

4.0

cwooley0324's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad slow-paced

4.75

bichael's review

challenging dark

3.0

adum_'s review

dark reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

garden_goyle's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.25

avaloran's review

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

4.5