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Chernobyl by Frederik Pohl
3.0

I listened to the abridged audiobook.

I'll have a hard time giving a fair review, since the World Market Thrift only had the abridged version of this book. As it stands, I think Pohl did a fine job recreating the political atmosphere that led up to the Chernobyl disaster. The explosion and subsequent mitigation efforts were gripping without falling into over-dramatization.

The audio quality wasn't great. I'm not sure if the narrator was really uneven or if the mixing was poor, but the book jumped from murmurers to staccato quite a bit.