Sean Gursky reviewed The lion in the living room by Abigail Tucker
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2 stars
Maybe a lion purring in our lap or cavorting in our living room evokes our global mastery, our total control of nature.
Abigail Tucker did a deep dive for The Lion in the Living Room. Tucker made sure the history was thoroughly researched and ensured all topics between past and present were carefully articulated.
Cats, though, are self-contained. They don't need people to complete them. They are the most at home in perfect isolation, whether in nature or the virtual world.
Unfortunately I felt the book to be incredibly dry. I had a difficult time feeling motivated to read the book and found the chapters exhausting. The book is insightful but it felt like an onslaught of information, and sadness.
Cats are ruining ecosystems, cats are poisoning us with toxoplasmosis and cats don't need us. I identify as a cat person but after this book I feel a little …
Maybe a lion purring in our lap or cavorting in our living room evokes our global mastery, our total control of nature.
Abigail Tucker did a deep dive for The Lion in the Living Room. Tucker made sure the history was thoroughly researched and ensured all topics between past and present were carefully articulated.
Cats, though, are self-contained. They don't need people to complete them. They are the most at home in perfect isolation, whether in nature or the virtual world.
Unfortunately I felt the book to be incredibly dry. I had a difficult time feeling motivated to read the book and found the chapters exhausting. The book is insightful but it felt like an onslaught of information, and sadness.
Cats are ruining ecosystems, cats are poisoning us with toxoplasmosis and cats don't need us. I identify as a cat person but after this book I feel a little ashamed for fostering destructive creatures in our household.
I'd never thought of them as sacrificial animals, but perhaps in a sense they are - the secret price of the almost spiritual pleasure that we get from our feline companions.
This is a well researched book but it's a lot. I found very little levity and the book read like a tragic accident that humanity is now unable to reverse and correct.
