Hungry Beautiful Animals
The Joyful Case for Going Vegan

As someone that's been vegan for over a decade, I try to give 5 stars to any book advocating for veganism. But I just couldn't with this one. I found the content OK at best, but it was mostly the authors writing style that turned me off so much. I have never read a more "wordy" book in my life. I rea......more

If you’re tired of food rules, this book is for you. If you’ve ever felt joy or shame while filling your plate, this book is for you. If you eat breakfast, lunch, or dinner, this book is for you. Hungry Beautiful Animals defies expectations from page one. A book more focused on the gruesome consequen......more

Thank you to Netgalley, the publisher, and the author for providing a free e-arc of this book on veganism. I am not a vegan, but I always love reading different points of view on the stance and I'm more so interested in the health benefits with scientific studies of a vegan diet, but this book was mo......more

As the title somewhat suggests, this book reads more like an intimate, hilarious and—even—juicy memoire or confessional than it does a structured "case" (joyful or otherwise) for going vegan. Seems like some of the negative reviews on here lament that Hungry Beautiful Animals does not arm the reader......more

The first big surprise of this book is that it's so ticklishly funny. The subtitle refers to a "joyful case," so I should have seen the humor coming. But I didn't expect that joy to arrive in such a hilarious register. In a way, the book reminds me of G. K. Chesterton's work in that its deadly serio......more