Reviews tagging 'Cannibalism'

The Lost City of Z: a legendary British explorer's deadly quest to uncover the secrets of the Amazon by David Grann

11 reviews

girrllie's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

2.0

Soooo boring reading about someone else’s obsession with an explorer and everything the author is reading about him. My parents lived in the Congo in the 60s and had many stories about botflies and my own mother actually had elephantitis at one point. They are both long passed away so the disease and pestilence parts felt a little like home. The personality conflicts were interesting too. And the information about the tribes. But those four things don’t make a whole book. I felt like I was slogging through the book like someone slogging through the jungle. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

directorpurry's review against another edition

adventurous informative mysterious medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Racism, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death and Cannibalism

courtknee_bee's review against another edition

adventurous informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

4.5 stars

I loved this, but just a touch less than The Wager, which kicked off this whole non-fiction moment I'm having. Key takeaways are:

• The Amazon is terrifying and we should never, ever go there ever.
• The things maggots can do to you is ... upsetting. 
• Men make really bad decisions.

I really, really loved the ending. Much more satisfying than The Wager.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Slavery, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, and Injury/Injury detail

clarabooksit's review against another edition

adventurous informative mysterious medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Colonisation

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Mental illness, Sexism, Violence, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Ableism, Gun violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Cannibalism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

grace_b_3's review against another edition

informative sad slow-paced

2.0

I really liked Killers of the Flower Moon, but this one wasn’t as compelling for me. 

This was an earlier book by Grann, so part of it may be him figuring out his writing style and such. I didn’t like how present he was in the narrative of this book. 

I also found the subject matter of Killers more interesting. There were things in this book that I would like to learn more about (mainly about the various Amazonian tribes and the lost civilization found there), but the focus, Fawcett, is what I found the least interesting. I did like the angle of his family and learning how his and Jack’s disappearance affected them, but the actual narrative of various expeditions to the Amazon was not what kept me reading.  Exploring the Amazon seems like a horrible experience and reading about someone repeatedly subjecting themself and others to it just wasn’t for me. 

If you find people pushing themselves to the limits of their endurance in harsh environments compelling, this might be the book for you.

Especially if you enjoy a story with a tragic, doomed air—from the start you know he went into and never came out and the book is just building towards that moment.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Slavery, Violence, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Torture and Abandonment

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ezulc's review against another edition

adventurous informative mysterious medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug use, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

cait's review against another edition

informative mysterious slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

lautreamont's review against another edition

je l'ai oublié dans le train

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Genocide, Slavery, Violence, and Cannibalism

alicelalicon's review against another edition

adventurous challenging medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, and Cannibalism

katie_nash's review against another edition

adventurous informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual violence, Violence, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, and Injury/Injury detail