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Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
adventurous
tense
5.0
"Ahhhhh!! What is going to happen!!??!!?!" - me for the last 75 pages of the book
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
adventurous
informative
mysterious
3.5
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
emotional
informative
tense
4.0
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
informative
medium-paced
2.25
The information in the book is interesting, the author's writing is not.
I rolled my eyes so frequently at the author's "clever" comments that I nearly went blind. With such a broad subject, the author still manages to get FAR off topic. She also talks down to and at the folks she interviews in the book - including reducing an engineer's accomplishments to her looks and traveling to China to ask a funeral home owner if they ate human body parts (rightly so the funeral home manager was deeply offended by the questioning).
I did not like this book, but I did learn some interesting tid bits.
I rolled my eyes so frequently at the author's "clever" comments that I nearly went blind. With such a broad subject, the author still manages to get FAR off topic. She also talks down to and at the folks she interviews in the book - including reducing an engineer's accomplishments to her looks and traveling to China to ask a funeral home owner if they ate human body parts (rightly so the funeral home manager was deeply offended by the questioning).
I did not like this book, but I did learn some interesting tid bits.