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Boring, disjointed

Revisado: 12-01-24

Hard to tell what this book was about. A series of disjointed chapters some of which contained long lists of prices, numbers, etc. and some very politically incorrect narratives. It was a slog to get through.

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Important medical history grippingly told, multiple pronunciation mistakes

Revisado: 11-22-24

This book reads like a novel but tells of an important snd neglected piece of medical history. The author brings individual stories, scientific advances and the scope of an epidemic fully alive. As a physician, there are multiple mispronunciations of medical words throughout the text (e.g., sulfonamide, opisthotonus) as well as some simpler more commonplace words. The author or editors should have listened to the audiobook and corrected this. It was quite distracting to hear these words mispronounced and detracted from the overall listening experience. Kudos to the author though for a wonderfully researched and written book.

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Terrible narration, disjointed story

Revisado: 09-17-24

The narrator mispronounced many common English words (vehemence, patent) and butchered Hebrew/Yiddish words including the Kaddish prayer (prayer for the dead). This seems especially disrespectful in a book dealing with the Holocaust. I wanted to like the story but it was so disjointed and there were so many characters and places it was hard to keep track of it all. I never got to know any character well. The ending where we find out who sent the postcard was very anticlimactic. So much promise for this book but so disappointing.

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Horrible narration ruins excellent book

Revisado: 05-09-23

This landmark book is ruined by horrible narration. The reader sounds like a robot and mispronounces so many important names (Ferenczi, Fonagy, Elie Wiesel) and commonly known words (mentalization, respite and others). It was painful to listen to and does a serious injustice to this important work. As someone in the field, Dr. Herman deserves better!!

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Terrible narration with constant mispronunciation

Revisado: 01-21-23

This book was negatively impacted by the narrator who constantly mispronounced multiple scientific words (e.g.,oxidative, corticosterone, polyphenol, pipette) and multiple nonscientific words alike (e.g., respite, naïvete and many others). Particularly annoying was her continual mispronunciation of Jack LaLanne. It is pronounced “LaLane” (rhymes with rain) not “LaLan” (rhymes with can). Where were the editors on this? The poor narration interfered constantly with the enjoyment of the book. In addition, there was an affected/odd quality to the narration with odd pronunciations (e.g. been was repeatedly pronounced like “bean” in a sort of British way). This odd narration with multiple mispronunciations detracted in a major way from this enjoyable book.

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Beautiful

Revisado: 03-15-20

A perfect novel in all ways. Beautifully written and narrated. So glad I stumbled upon it!

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Wonderful

Revisado: 08-29-18

Loved this book! Laugh out loud funny at times and very touching and thoughtful. Perfect narration by the author.

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Fantastic book not to be missed!

Revisado: 02-12-18

A beautiful, deep character portrait with psychological complexity and spare, evocative writing. Perfect narration. One of the best Audible books I’ve listened to. This novel has been underappreciated and deserves a wide audience. Loved, loved, loved it!!!!

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Great content marred by narration

Revisado: 02-03-18

Wonderful, comprehensive read but the narrator should have learned how to pronounce the names of psychiatric meds and other key words correctly before taking this book on. Mispronounced Depakote, Nardil and other meds multiple times which is grating to listen to as well as other names like Kraepelin and, astonishingly the word Haitian (pronounced Ha-yee-tian). Where were the editors or the author in this? I’m a psychiatrist so listened to this book from a different vantage point but appreciated the wonderful review and synthesis of data and especially the personal stories which conveyed the enormous suffering and toll depression takes.

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