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Starts great, too chem detailed for this reader

Revisado: 02-24-25

I consider myself familiar with biochemistry and organic chemistry, but this gets way too nuanced into the chemistry for my taste in audiobooks. I put it down at 3 hours.
Please don’t consider my review if: you are a professor of organic chemistry, research the origins of life, or really like chemical reactions of phospholipids, nucleotides, etc. in an audiobook.

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Great - skip epilogue

Revisado: 11-29-24

The story line regarding MLK assassination is complex. This book does an excellent job, and was my first time learning this story. It repeats the story from different angles and witnesses. The author develops the storyline in a coherent fashion.

I would avoid the epilogue. It’s is a bash on US government relating to the time this book was published- the 2000s. To me it was not relevant to the assassination.

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Difficult problem is well thought, felt partisan

Revisado: 09-24-24

I like the examples of pharmaceutical industry failing to be honest to many stakeholders, especially doctors and patients. I didn’t like the fact he is associated with Harvard university, and the few times politicians are mentioned, he includes presidents Biden and Obama but leaves out Trump. They all worked to improve healthcare, but the overall outcome in 2022 was the same- prescription drugs cost the US double the next highest paying country. The author also brings up Congress failures of the right, but I never hear when the left fails unless it was bipartisan.

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Good attempt

Revisado: 01-16-24

The author is someone I’ve enjoyed reading many works. The subject matter here was not his usual historical science topics, and lost my interest.

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Great message covering a broad subject

Revisado: 11-27-22

This audio book progressed well for me (someone in healthcare with a bio science background). It delivers on the title, never promising an easy solution, while offering detailed approaches to mental health issues.

The author succeeded in addressing a complicated subject to a broad audience in audio form - bravo! Some times audio books need diagrams or reference material, this one did not.

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Long time fan, great stories

Revisado: 12-25-21

Folds entertains here as narrator. I enjoyed the history, and how he matured in various ways. As a fan, it filled gaps of the song writer and his music that I’ve enjoyed for years.

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Useful, re-invigorates good work in modern life

Revisado: 08-06-18

Many applicable suggestions, audio format is easy to digest with the exception of a few “http://...” references (one can search for later).
Content-wise, I will re-listen and clip. Next time will not be while working on a ladder.

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Great history of health care before us

Revisado: 11-27-16

As someone working in life sciences / healthcare, it's humbling to hear how sulfa drugs came to be. Lessons learned, the stress during life in 1900-1950 Europe.
My one criticism was the epilogue goes off into the author's opinion. This was brief, no reason one should end the work early.

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Interesting, with British slant

Revisado: 09-18-16

I enjoyed this story despite my minimal exposure to things British (I'm a midwest American). Avoid if you don't enjoy British accents, British history, or measurements in metric units.

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Great listen

Revisado: 03-28-15

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This non-fiction work was laid out very well, it had many sub-stories that teach the overall theme. Overall it builds the ideas and progresses in such a way that I was not bored or confused. Plus, I learned different facts about history I did not know (e.g. history of Mozart).

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