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Very interesting book about the women that worked for a dials company painting the numbers on dials with radium so they could glow in the dark for the military. Radium in the early 1900s was used as a cure all and placed in a lot of things. What people didn’t realize is the effects that radium has on the body. When it was to late to do anything about it companies didn’t want to shell out money to help the people that were effected.
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The Radium Girls has incredibly amateurish writing. Yes, that is the first sentence of this review because it was what stuck out at me when I first started reading this book. The writing is repetitive (the same phrases are repeated over and over again in the same page, sometimes even in the same paragraph) and downright clunky (she refers to a woman bleeding profusely "down there." Really? Down there? We're all adults here. Just say "vagina." It's okay, I promise). However, my biggest issue with
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I don't know how to rate this book. It's a 4-5 for story (the story of the girls is fascinating), but I'm not sure I liked the writing. I kept putting it down (but it only took me 5 days to read). I recommend it because I think everyone should read their story.
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Wow! What an amazing (and horrifying!!) story. I did nothing for two days but listen to this book! It is heartbreaking to hear these women's stories as they fight for recognition and compensation for their radium poisoning. It's disheartening to see the extent people will deny how their business hurts/kills people in order to keep bringing in those dollars. I kept thinking - why is there so much of the book left when it's so clear that these women should win their court case? - and it just kept
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DNF. This was a little too repetitive and confusing. I think that too much narrative was focused on the fact that the girls were pretty, maybe so the horror seems worse. I also think there are too many girls named individually. I understand that it was probably done to show the broad scope of the problem, but trying to keep track of all of the girls was too difficult.
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