Reviews tagging 'Death'

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham

31 reviews

aniagajecka's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

trapdorr's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

3.75

Interesting and intriguing for a historical narrative. Could be slow at times and there were a lot of characters with unfamiliar names to follow their storylines in audio format. Good representation of cascading failure and propaganda. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death

Minor: Cancer and Medical content

vavocado's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Gore

Moderate: Death

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

dark informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

this was such an amazing read. i didn’t even notice how long this was because the writing was so smooth and engaging. this was such an amazing depiction of the Chernobyl disaster.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

freesiaelect's review against another edition

informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Cancer, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

leontyna's review against another edition

dark informative slow-paced

4.0

It reads like a well researched book, with lots of annotations and an extensive bibliography. The style was quite dry at times but I guess it's to be expected from nonfiction. I would have loved to have more details about health effects of the catastrophe but I guess it's a subject for another book and as the author mentioned lots of documeiis missing or falsified. Overall an interesting read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

unsuccessfulbookclub's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative slow-paced

5.0

I have never even considered what happens in a nuclear reactor nor had I thought much about Soviet politics or the Chernobyl disaster and | feel like | have taken a well-taught graduate level course on all of those things now. This book was riveting. I listened to quite a bit of it - the audio had a wonderful narrator (Jacques Roy) 

If you like apocalyptic science fiction, you will like this. 
Higginbotham puts so much humanity in the story of atomic disaster and political maneuvering giving this beefy nonfiction intense plot points to pull you through the story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Suicide, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

jowestendorf's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

nikkimouse_16's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Grief, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

krystalframe's review against another edition

slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Cancer