Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson

8 reviews

rosa_lina96's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

3.75

What a book. Erik Larson is so skilled at writing nonfiction that sometimes it hardly seems real- it's gripping and full of details that would probably otherwise have been passed over, enough that it's hard for me to want to put down one of his books once I start reading. Though this one doesn't grip me quite as much as his others (I once stayed up far past my bedtime to finish Dead Wake even though I knew what was likely going to happen), it's still a compelling read about human arrogance and overconfidence in the face of Mother Nature-something which almost never ends well. It's also a fascinating look into how hurricanes form and move in the first place, even if the scientific jargon gets a bit hard to read at times. Definitely worth a read if you want to find out more about meteorology in general. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

mald626's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

vireogirl's review against another edition

adventurous informative sad medium-paced

3.75

Such a devastating storm. Glad they’ve gotten better at predicting and protecting since then. 
The details swung from too much to too little. For example, there was a very detailed map, but when I tried to look up places in it, they often weren’t there. And many places on it didn’t seem to appear in the book. 
Another example is giving a date trajectory map of the hurricane but then referring to the day of the week instead of the date. 
Overall I enjoyed it and the window into early 1900s life. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Death of parent

caribbeangirlreading's review

challenging emotional informative tense medium-paced

3.0

The first 30-40% of this audio just dragged. And then just like a Category 4 hurricane, the paced picked up FAST.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Animal death

heypretty52's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Death, Animal death, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Racism

lmneal87's review against another edition

challenging informative sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, and Death of parent

beholderess's review against another edition

informative sad medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Death, and Death of parent

swimmingwolf59's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

This wasn't the best of books to read while also living through a time where man's arrogance leads to thousands of people dying, but it is a very well done and powerful book. The science discussions about the hurricane could have been clearer--some diagrams would have helped immensely--but otherwise a very enjoyable and interesting read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Child death and Death of parent