Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

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

11 reviews

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

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

drcasey's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Death, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Suicide, 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

mscalls's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Terminal illness

bookishlysophie's review against another edition

emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

My favourite book on the tragedy. This take covers the context behind the disaster as well as it’s impact on the civilians. I’d highly recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide and Suicide attempt

corvidaeus's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Chronic illness, Death, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Animal death, Medical content, and Alcohol

zalouis's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Cancer, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Terminal illness

Minor: Addiction, Child death, Infertility, and War

sepitz's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Gore and Cancer

Minor: Suicide and Suicide attempt

sonygaystation's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, Medical content, and Terminal illness

Minor: Suicide and Suicide attempt