Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Hopefully we don’t ever have to eat people

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

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This book is a wild and disturbing ride. I’m not sure how to talk about it without spoilers, so if you haven’t read it and want to – don’t say I didn’t warn you. In the world of this book, all animals have contracted a virus that makes them poisonous to humans. And when I say all animals, I mean cows, pigs, chickens, and other livestock, but also birds, and cats and dogs, and squirrels. And believe me, I KNOW the animals being poisonous was […]

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, Sarah Moses (Translator)

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

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Trigger warning: Rape Not going to lie, if I had read this last year, I would say, no way would the world do something like this, but now in the year of 2025, I doubt there would be any reluctance for people as long as they got their meat. Honestly, not too much to say here. This was a great and terrible read. I also have to say that I was fooled by the character of [redacted]. I thought they were a good person and then […]

(Not) pleased to meat you.

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

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First of all, I’m not even sure which category this goes in. Science Fiction? Short stories? Speculative Fiction? Cooking/Food? Horror? Oh, the horror! I’ll just settle on fiction. This book ponders what might happen if all the animals in the world became inedible due to, say, a nasty virus. Surely, you think to yourself, we would all just become vegetarians and learn to love the lentil! I guess if you took any hints from the title of the book (and this review), you’ve figured it […]

The future, the present and the past are all scary places

The name of the rose by Umberto Eco

The searcher by Tana French

The push by Ashley Audrain

The hunting party by Lucy Foley

Snow crash by Neal Stephenson

Ready player two by Ernest Cline

Tender is the flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

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My final review dump and then I’ll be all caught up! Woohoo! These books are about the past, the present and the future. The name of the rose by Umberto Eco Eco is my dad’s favourite author. He’s read all of his books, some of them probably several times. I, on the other hand, had never read anything by Eco before. I had seen bits of the film years ago that had intrigued me enough to want to read the book but for some reason […]

Unhappy Meal

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

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Imagine a world ravaged by diseased animals, where humanity collectively agrees to cull all animals and, in their place, breed humans for consumption. That is the terrifying premise at the centre of Tender is the Flesh, a dystopian novel by Argentine author Agustina Bazterrica (translated to English by Sarah Moses). This book disturbed me to my very core and motivated me to cancel my recent butcher-box delivery subscription. The novel describes, in great detail, the process of slaughtering humans for meat. Though never explicitly said, […]

“In the end, meat is meat, it doesn’t matter where it’s from.”

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

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Because a virus has infected all animals and made their meat poisonous, a new product has been established: “special meat,” which means human flesh. Since the death of his child, Marcos, the manager of a slaughterhouse, has become frustrated with his job and the realities of the society he lives in. If you didn’t know how animals are processed in a slaughterhouse, how they are stunned, bled, dismembered, skinned and gutted, then you will learn a lot about it in this book because Agustina Bazterrica […]



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