Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba

2 reviews

ikiteahill's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

This book is going on my list of books I'd recommend to literally anyone. I feel like even people who don't typically read a lot or say they don't like reading would enjoy this book. I learned way more about how electricity works than I ever expected to and it's made me curious to learn more and be more adventurous with experimenting and inventing and being resourceful and responsible with our resources. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal death, Body horror, and Medical content

Minor: Violence, Ableism, Colonisation, Religious bigotry, Classism, Vomit, and Bullying

multilingual_s's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted medium-paced

4.0

An entertaining book that lives from the fresh and unusual perspective of the narrator. A few more illustrative sketches to go along with the technical descriptions would have been fine, but for me it was understandable. Especially because I took some electrical engineering courses at university this was a nice reminder what human ingenuity can achieve. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Grief, Medical content, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Sexism, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, and Excrement