Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

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

20 reviews

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

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

matthewosborne's review

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

The portions of the book covering the initial days of the disaster were the best part of the book. 

Following that period the book slowed down for me quite a bit.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Medical trauma

colter_hoen's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Medical trauma, Medical content, Cancer, Addiction, Gore, Vomit, Suicide, and Alcoholism

clairedrum's review against another edition

informative reflective tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Medical content, and Vomit

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

limdurlu's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Vomit and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Pregnancy

hannah_et1982's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

No matter how much I learn about Chernobyl, there is always more to discover. The audiobook narrator did a wonderful job and it was incredibly interesting to listen to.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Chronic illness, and Death

thebearnest's review against another edition

dark informative tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Chronic illness, Medical content, Alcohol, Cancer, and Terminal illness

kelsea's review against another edition

dark informative tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Terminal illness

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Suicide attempt, Cancer, and Infertility