by Scott Brick, John M. Barry
THE definitive book on the subject of the 1918 influenza pandemic. More recent and way more detailed (and referenced!) than Gina Kolata's book, Flu, which I also read. The particular value of Barry's book, in addition to tracing the actual courses of the global waves of infection (there were at leas...
Don't, as I did, make the mistake of reading this on a plane, or you, too, will have an influenza/Twelve Monkeys experience of others' ubiquitous pathogens.Barry is repetitive at times. I didn't mind the long tangential segments that provided background for his flu-based sections. It felt grand and ...
Read it for a biotech class in college and really enjoyed it- I mean, it shined pretty brightly compared to my biochem textbook
Very interesting. Other reviewers thought the book should have been written as 2 books - one on the scientists, one on the epidemic - but I thought it was fine. This is mainly a book about American scientists (you get the feeling that they were the only country working on the influenza epidemic but ...
Two things kept me from enjoying this book. The first was that it could have used some editing. It was so long that Audible split its audiobook file into three parts, and a huge portion of the first section was concerning, not the 1918-1919 pandemic, but the history of medical education in America. ...
I highly recommend this book! It reads like a "who-done-it", except that you know who did it (the influenza virus) and you are watching the medical scientists struggle to find solutions while the wild-fire of the 1918 influenza pandemic raged all around them. Will they find a solution in time? (s...
NTS - This looks as if it's about America only, which is not what I am looking for. Given the reviews in regards to editing (or lack of it) I shall place this in room 101
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One of the problems with audiobooks is that you hear every single word, so poor writing and bad editing are impossible to ignore. I'm interested in this subject, but the repetition, the scattershot narrative and long dull sections are making it a tedious book to listen to.I wish I could skip the fi...
not great writing. He uses "literally" correctly, but too often
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