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Book Review of F5: One Town's Survival of the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the Twentieth Century

F5: One Town's Survival of the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the Twentieth Century
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F5 is a really good non-fiction book that reads like the best type of fiction -- action, adventure, thriller, family drama. It's the true-life accounts of what many people lived through in April 1974, when the US suffered the deadliest outbreaks of tornadoes on record.

I read this book in a day, mostly because I didn't want to stop reading once I had started. Mark Levine has truly done his research, but he's written the story of these tornadoes in a way that never seems overbearing or gets so bogged down in pure science that you want to stop reading.

A great book and highly recommended.