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Better than expected...

Revisado: 05-01-22

At first you wonder: a) how will they do an audio edition of a book so hea I'll dependent on pictures and diagrams (I own the hardcopy too,) and b) is the author's voice going to stay stoned and monotone.

The answers are: a) they do a pretty good job of explaining things in a way that at least I (someone with prior building and carpentry experience) can understand (although better when referencing the diagrams of pics in the hardcopy or Kindle editions of the book,) and b) the narrator does eventually develop some inflection in his voice. it's not the material that's boring - it's just he's trying to make points of certain topics, and therefore ends up well pacing his read.

overall good book. The less experience you have with tools and carpentry, the more I suggest purchasing the Kindle or hardcopy editions for visual reference to the audio guide.

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The greatest book I have read/listened to ever!

Revisado: 09-07-21

I am an avid reader of many types, from science nonfiction to science fiction, technical writing, poetry, etc. I have read many books both fact-based and simply exceptional stories of fiction.

I had purchased this book as one I wanted to read or listen to some time (years) ago, but never got around to it until it's mention in another book I was listening to. I then downloaded The Great Influemza, and although it took me a few chapters to get into the narration, once I did I was hooked.

Weeks later - after listening in less than hourly chunks while commuting to/from work - I now consider this to be probably the best book I have read in my entire 45 years on this Earth. It more than tells the story of the greatest pandemic to yet hit this planet in a deeply scientific way yet allowing any layperson to completely understand it; it is a biography of medical science from almost ancient times to the present day. Even for myself - a career Healthcare worker and Laboratory scientist - it amazes me with the brilliance and understanding with which these men of over the ce tury ago knew about immunology and microbiology. While not having developed the technical tools to advance investigation to more and more minute levels, they deeply possessed the greatest tools that any scientist may possess - great minds.

You "pick up" this (audio)book expecting a more or less societal history of a pandemic. By chapters 3 and 4 you're a bit confused - why is this dry-soinding presentation digging so deeply into the Healthcare and science of antiquity when I expected a book about Influenza? Trust me - give it another chapter or two. By 4 and 5 it all starts coming together, after which you are simply more and more amazed at the depth of research and detail to which the author went.

A superb book not only as a nonfiction medical and historical thriller about a topic which touched every human on every continent of the Earth at a time when man barely walked them, but also an extremely detailed history of the science and medicine of the late 19th and most of the 20th centuries.

I am awestruck, I am humbled, and I fervently recommend this book to anyone !!!

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The best Audible "book" I have ever heard...

Revisado: 09-18-20

Perhaps the best audio book / storytelling / spoken word plus music concert that I have ever had the pleasure of lists ing to. Found it completely by accident, as soon as it ended, I played it again, this time with my wife and kids listening in the car to not only hear a fascinating life story and some musical skills too good for me to be able to appreciate, but as a moral example for them all to learn from.

Politics and ethics aside, overall just by far an amazing storytelling. I am still awestruck simply by the man whom I listened to, and hope I find anything that compares at some point but in the future. If I do, I will be a very lucky person to have found two amazing presentations in my life. But in and of itself, well worth listening to under any means...

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So good, I bought the hardcopi then the audio book

Revisado: 08-25-19

Amazing story. Interesting theme. Good voice performance. Strange storyline at first, but then you get into it after the humor grabs you in just the first few minutes. It's been years since I've been able to get into a tilted-universe, philosophically-based type of Sci-Fi like (as mentioned in previous reviews) Douglas Adams, etc. Originally I started reading it on Kindle - liked it so much I bought not only one hardcopy for myself, but a second hardcopy for my oldest kid, then the Audible audio book for myself. Definitely an interesting and unique (but in a good way) work. It's one of those books/stories where I'm sure as I step away from it or discuss it with others who have read it as well, that I will come to realizations that I missed the first time around and be drawn back to read or listen to it again. That is the definition of a good book to me - one that draws you back again and again and again...

Expand your mindfulness. Definitely a worthwhile read...

NOTE REGARDING THE 1-STAR REVIEWS - there is a group of individuals out there (whom I have discovered through research on the author) have a personal vandetta against the writer. You will note that most of the 1-star reviews are NOT verified purchasers, but random (and sometimes anonymous) reviews from trite, childish, cowardly individuals who have not even purchased let alone read this book, but who are set out to effect this author's reputation.

I take great exception to this practice if for no other reason than it attempts to nullify the opinions by those of us who have purchased and have taken the time to read this work. I do not like bullies, regardless of the context.

If you are one who reads reviews like I am, please take into consideration the validity of the review, particularly those that don't even reference the contents of the book. I assure you, if you read the reviews intelligently enough, you can spot the ones who are not intelligent enough to have even read the book. Thank you.

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