#NonFicNov25 The Heat Will Kill You First

by Jeff Goodell

Finish date: 17.11.2025
Genre: non-fiction
Rating: D-
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Personal:

I’m learning to critically read a book and want to avoid praising it on the basis of emotion. Yes, some of the anecdotes that Goodell (BTW, he’s a journalist not a scientist!) uses are intimate and heartbreaking personal stories to emotionally supercharge his works. That’s what sells!

There are a few interesting chapters but many were just info dumps about his travels and irrelevant people he met along the way. I don’t care who invented the air-conditioner or whose bright idea it was to put names on heat waves. Read some of the 1 score reviews  on Goodreeads…(R. Wilson and J. Farnsworth)…then you will get the gist. One reviewer put is this way: a book that could have been a blogpost!