transtwill's Reviews (554)

In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took on the US Army

Charles Barber

4.0

emotional informative fast-paced

Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books

Aaron Lansky

3.75

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

Scott J. Shapiro

5.0

funny informative fast-paced

Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers

Andy Greenberg

4.25

informative fast-paced

The Falling Sickness: A History of Epilepsy from the Greeks to the Beginnings of Modern Neurology

Owsei Temkin

4.0

challenging informative slow-paced

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prolly one of the densest texts i’ve read since leaving school, and a micromanaging nightmare to run through text-to-speech due to the footnotes on the bottom of every page (sometimes taking up almost half the page themselves!). i entirely understand why the author chose this route, vs putting a whole half the book’s length of notes at the end, but definitely not the most accessible of options

Whole World on Fire

Lynn Eden

4.25

informative fast-paced

Disaster in Aisle 13: A Case Study of the Coliseum Explosion at the Indiana State Fairgrounds, October 31, 1963.

Thomas E. Drabek

informative slow-paced

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Black Box: KAL 007 and the Superpowers

Alexander Dallin

4.0

informative medium-paced

River of Lost Souls: The Science, Politics, and Greed Behind the Gold King Mine Disaster

Jonathan P. Thompson

4.0

informative medium-paced

Fire in the Night: The Piper Alpha Disaster

Stephen McGinty

3.75

informative tense fast-paced