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TITLE: Boom!: The Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, and Earthly Mayhem that Shook our Universe [Paperback]
ALTERNATE TITLE: Earth-Shattering: Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, Biological Mayhem, Nuclear Meltdowns, and Other Hazards to Life in Our Universe [Hardcover]
AUTHOR: Bob Berman
FORMAT: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781786075970
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DESCRIPTION:
"Looking at the night sky, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s all quiet up there in space. But you’d be wrong. Extreme events are forever unfolding: galaxies explode, cosmic debris hurtles through the heavens and our own Milky Way is on a collision course with the giant Andromeda galaxy.
Mayhem moulded the cosmos, shaped life on Earth and at times threatened to end it. With an enduring sense of wonder, through cataclysms great and small, Bob Berman presents a destructive history of our universe."
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REVIEW:
Boom! is a popular science book for people who know nothing about the cosmos. Berman's focus is on galactic "catastrophes" (e.g. supernovas and colliding galaxies), with a minor detour into Earth specific and man-made catastrophes (e.g. the Great Oxygen Event and the Chernobyl nuclear accident). The chapters are generally short, somewhat interesting, and rather superficial in contents; the writing style informal and "popular". An easy read for an uninformed adult or something interesting to give to a teenager as a gift.
This second and final volume takes our two adventurers further along their criminal and avenging trail. There are plenty of surprises, bloodshed and betrayal. The comic collection is nicely made and the story moves along at a good pace with large colourful clear illustrations. Surprisingly good stuff and recommended to lovers of action comics with a story to tell.
Another one for the DNF pile.
Just not interested in finishing this novel. It's certainly a very relevant novel, it's about a graduate from a very exclusive private girls school who starts a job with a local newspaper and decides to write an expose on a teacher she had a fling with. The teacher seduced her, made her feel special and then dropped her when she started realising what a mistake she'd made. Something she had been shamed into keeping silent for years. And once the bomb drops...she's not the only victim. Other students from past and present start coming forward and it looks like there's a giant cover up by the school.
Problem is while it's got the markings of an interesting plot, the characters are so flat and uninteresting. There's very little emotion involved, or at least for my tastes, for such a deep subject. I'm finding myself not wanting to pick it up and not really caring about how it ends anymore.
So another one for the DNF pile it is.
Thank you Griffith Moon Publishing for approving my request to view the title.
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