Reviews with content warning for Racial slurs - Hidden Figures

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Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

12 reviews

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

informative inspiring sad slow-paced

3.0

an amazing part of history that was unfortunately not written great imo. the writing was incredibly slow and it felt more like an information dump rather than an engaging read. still worth reading though for the history alone.

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directorpurry's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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elindseyr190's review against another edition

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informative slow-paced

4.25

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laurataylor's review against another edition

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informative inspiring relaxing slow-paced

3.0

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readingelli's review against another edition

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informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

I love reading about the scientists who lay the foundations for my own journey. Well written, very informative, I learned a lot.

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chandranolynne's review against another edition

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challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.0

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outsmartyourshelf's review against another edition

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informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.0

Whenever I've seen anything about the moon landing or space flight in films or TV, it's men who dominate whether physically carrying out a spacewalk or sitting at a computer in mission control. The average person could be forgiven for not knowing about the huge contribution that women made to the US working for NACA during WWII, the beginnings of NASA, right up to landing a man on the moon & beyond. This is because we were simply never told about them, they had been practically airbrushed out of history.

This book looks at the lives of several African-American women who worked as 'computers' as they calculated complex equations which contributed to the development of better, faster airplanes & eventually the trajectories of launching a rocket into space. Their stories should have been fascinating & I'm not sure if it is just how the book is written, but it was quite difficult to get through as it was rather dry. At the end I didn't feel that I knew anything really about the different women, very little personality came through on the page. It's a real shame as their stories deserve to be told. I may try watching the film instead.

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