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lucy_castle's review

5.0
challenging dark tense fast-paced
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jonasanderson's review

3.75
challenging dark informative fast-paced

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rosatibiscotti's review

4.25
challenging dark informative sad fast-paced

andalva's review

5.0
informative sad tense

teacherdude22's review

5.0
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trishasamson's review

5.0

i am absolutely terrified. everyone should read this before the election
challenging dark informative sad tense medium-paced

An okay book, to inform the reader of the short lived nuclear war scenario that likely ends with almost complete destruction, although Jacobsen imagines a remnant of man being preserved.
I would have liked it better had it included some scientific exploration of the nuclear weapons and processes at hand, however that is not the author’s field so I understand. Overall, I thought that focus on government processes was a bit dull and unnecessary, and I found perhaps the author had an anti-American tendency overlooking the disaster that much more radical, anti-human societies present having nuclear power. Power itself is not an evil, it is the way it is used.