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The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
2.0

Lmao y'all were scared of this book?? Couldn't possibly be me. I mean it was entertaining for what it is but I don't think it answered many questions for me. The writer is also low-key orientalist and sexist. The way that every woman had some relationship or family drama or some petty and vain reaction was annoying and I don't even think it was intentional. The way the author writes is annoying and repetitive too, with unnecessary purple prose and elucidating over irrelevant details.

My favorite part is how this book portrays the army and CDC as rivals in how much they cared about public health when we know after three years of plague that this is patently not fucking true lmfao. Really annoying military propaganda but it's entertaining enough.