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Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, Xenophobia, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Abandonment
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The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained
DID NOT FINISH: 2%
Looks down on cryptozoology in the introduction as “not real”—then what’s the point of his book? Second DNF of his work.
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Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Gore, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Cannibalism, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
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I read it before her Children Who Kill book, and she made the same erroneous statement in both books, without sourced material. I say it's erroneous as a former (disabled) therapist, who has studied this material in great detail, and I quote directly:
Psychologists say that everyone who attempts suicide has at one stage wanted to kill someone else.
What psychologists? Who? This is a false, dangerous, and hurtful statement, and again, it's in both books. There can be anger and even rage involved in some suicidal ideation. Not all. And those feelings are not always aimed at other people. This really disturbed me, to the point of almost DNF.
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Interesting, but I think it's telling that I forgot that I had already read it. I read it on the heels on her Women Who Kill book, and she made the same erroneous statement in both books, without sourced material. I say it's erroneous as a former (disabled) therapist, who has studied this material in great detail, and I quote directly:
Psychologists say that everyone who attempts suicide has at one stage wanted to kill someone else.
What psychologists? Who? This is a false, dangerous, and hurtful statement, and again, it's in both books. There can be anger and even rage involved in some suicidal ideation. Not all. And those feelings are not always aimed at other people. This really disturbed me, to the point of almost DNF.
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Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Abandonment
This is a succinct explanation of the Sylvia Likens abuse and murder case. This is graphic and disturbing, but needs to be in order to be honest about what Sylvia and her sister, Jenny, suffered.