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The Plague Year: America in the Time of COVID by Lawrence Wright

benrogerswpg's review against another edition

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4.0

Outstanding read on COVID and how it affects the world.

One of the best books on this pandemic that I have read.

I liked the mix between politics and medicine, health and science.

Important read.

Highly recommended for all.

4.5/5

brixdan's review

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dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

tearainread's review

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challenging informative sad medium-paced

4.5

lauramfarrell's review

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dark informative slow-paced

3.75

jeremyanderberg's review

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4.0

Not the most organized of Wright's books, but essential reading to get the scoop on COVID in a linear and non-real-time way.

bkish's review against another edition

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5.0

This is an important book as all of us now have been affected by SARS 2 COV iD im multiple ways. WRight is a journalist and this is. Journalism
If you admire 45 President Trump this is Not your book and you will ris k your health to read it.
He begins in Wuhan which is. Where it began in 2019 not. In the animals market rathere in a lab. What chinese govt did w this is criminal and reprehensible acting as if all that matters is some public persona of CHina as pure and untouchable. Its a view as what in parallel was growing here of isolation and performance generated. It set back the rest of the world months w people, dying getting infected transmitting death.
Here Wright takes us reader thru the maze step by step and familiarizes us w people he met people he observed in this cast of characters and he brings us to the insurrectionist coup on january 6.

ericabo_louise's review against another edition

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4.0

Know your bandwidth for this because it is obviously not easy breezy but it was superlatively informative and enraging and Jared Kushner should be in jail!

ncalv05's review against another edition

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dark informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

reenum's review

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challenging emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

3.75

nakenyon's review against another edition

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dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75