Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcolm Gladwell

15 reviews

sas_lk's review against another edition

3.0

This was one of the best audiobook productions I've heard. The book itself, it was not bad, I think I was just not that intrigued. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and War

florencedobie's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death and Fire/Fire injury

thelibraryskeeper's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

I heard about this audiobook from Startalk - they shared a video with Malcolm and I had to go check it out immediately. I grew up not far from the airforce base discussed in the book and I had never heard of the bomber mafia. This book was incredibly informative. It was also incredibly emotional. 

I have to admit I took stars off because this is supposed to be a scholarly approach and towards the end the book had some religious references that felt out of place and jarred me from the topic at hand. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and War

Moderate: Racism

jstorms19's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative reflective tense fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

jlpearce06's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Moderate: Death, Gore, Violence, and War

justcallmeemily's review against another edition

funny informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

This felt like watching a documentary or a video essay. I definitely recommend the audiobook.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Moderate: Racism and Violence

jspelman14's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

booksandbikes17's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad medium-paced

4.5

Ok , this is not a subject matter I am particularly interested in, but Malcolm Gladwell's audiobooks are so brilliantly put together that they make you interested. This one is no exception - I love how he uses the original audio recordings of interviews and news reports rather than just reading it himself. Makes it so much more engaging. 
In the afterword, he said that this book started off as an audiobook, and then was later put into print, so that is probably why it was so engaging as it was made for the medium. Well worth a listen...I learned quite a lot. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and War

fallenstarr's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

This isn't my usual genre, even within non-fiction I'm not usually drawn to these types of topics. It was informative, interesting, and the writing style was easy to read (even though the subject matter wasn't always what i would call easy reading). I would probably suggest it to people I know are interested in history or the airforce, but this wasn't so life changing and earth shattering amazing that I'm going to run around suggesting it to everybody I know.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Moderate: Child death, Genocide, Violence, Antisemitism, and Colonisation

Minor: Racial slurs and Suicide

rhosynmd's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racial slurs, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail