Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

In the Heart of the Sea: The Incredible True Story that Inspired Moby-Dick by Nathaniel Philbrick

5 reviews

genz_reads_classics's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

Oh boy this was so gripping but not worth the emotional pain

I think it was perfectly written and the last paragraph about bones is INSANE 🔥

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child death, Gore, Murder, Animal death, Blood, Death, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

snowdropwhiskey's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This isn’t the type of book I normally read, but I was greatly intrigued by it. This book was incredibly interesting, amazingly well written, and I’ve been thinking about it for months after reading it. There are lots of tangents in the book, but these tangents are in themselves interesting to hear about. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Gore, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Eating disorder, Death, and Racism

laurenwash's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Gore, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Cannibalism, Xenophobia, and Suicidal thoughts

matcha_cat's review against another edition

emotional informative sad slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Cannibalism, Death, Grief, and Gore

Minor: Colonisation, Racism, Religious bigotry, Violence, and Murder

jhbandcats's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This is such a powerful book. I have learned so much more history since graduating from high school and college than I ever did when I was taking classes. I love history, I love sea stories, I love adventure / disaster stories. And this is a great one.

Philbrick gives a brief history of Nantucket and the whaling business that dominated the island in the late 1700s and early 1800s. He gives background on the family and island ties, people bound together by their being Quakers in a town with a singular focus on building wealth. He shows how outsiders - either mainlanders or non-Quakers - were ostracized. And he shows the compulsion to be better, faster, more successful than friends and neighbors.

All that came to bear in the disastrous voyage of the whaleship Essex, the ship whose destruction by an angry whale inspired Melville to write Moby Dick. The privations of the men were terrible - I think the worst is having to kill one another to survive. I can see how desperate people would be forced to eat anything they could, even if it were other people, but to eat people who have died is very different from drawing lots to determine who's going to be the next meal. How do you live with that?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Classism, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Grief