Joshua T. Bozeman
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On Call
- A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
- De: Anthony Fauci M.D.
- Narrado por: Anthony Fauci M.D.
- Duración: 19 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,357
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,234
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,234
Anthony Fauci is arguably the most famous–and most revered–doctor in the world today. His role guiding America sanely and calmly through Covid (and through the torrents of Trump) earned him the trust of millions during one of the most terrifying periods in modern American history, but this was only the most recent of the global epidemics in which Dr. Fauci played a major role. His crucial role in researching HIV and bringing AIDS into sympathetic public view and his leadership in navigating the Ebola, SARS, West Nile, and anthrax crises, make him truly an American hero.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A man of worth
- De debra en 06-24-24
- On Call
- A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
- De: Anthony Fauci M.D.
- Narrado por: Anthony Fauci M.D.
Fascinating telling of an amazing life
Revisado: 11-26-24
Dr, Fauci has, by any objective measure, lived in amazing life- one of service to millions of people, a classically trained medical doctor turned head of NIAID, one of the top guys in charge of the fight against HIV/AIDS, the face of the COVID 19 battle in the US, and a mainstay at the White House over decades- giving his advice to those in charge, offering his expertise to the medical community, governments, US presidents, and being the face of the medical community to the media in various public health battles. A brilliant man who has had a storied life and done some amazing things.
This book traces his life, his fight against HIV/AIDS, and finally being the very public face of the COVID saga in the US, often demonized by those who want to make him out to be a monster. Good luck on that front, because he comes off so genial, well-meaning, professional, and kind throughout this autobiography. He genuinely seems like a good person who has dedicated his life to helping battle, and hopefully (very often, successfully(, eradicating infectious disease.
His telling of the HIV/AIDS era is fascinating and worth the price of the book alone. He helped the US during the 9/11 attacks, offering expert advice to President Bush on how to defend against possible bioweapons attacks such as anthrax and smallpox. He was even paramount in helping get George W. Bush's PEPFAR program of and running- an HIV/AIDS fund that has saved the lives of estimated tens of millions of people in Africa alone.
It's when he gets to the COVID chapters in the end that you realize how terrifyingly stupid Donald Trump is, and how dangerous a man he was during COVID and to this day (pray no pandemic takes place in the next 4 years). Fauci is respectful but honest about how, let's be frank, insane Trump is and how badly he handled COVID- obsessed with making it about him, his presidency, and how "well" he did compared to other leaders and other countries. Listening to this, I realized how much I forgot about 2020, and how truly awful Trump was in so many ways. Fauci notes that his first meeting with Trump was respectful, and he was even nice in person- despite Fauci's knowledge of Trump being so horribly dishonest a person in general...but immediately, we see how terribly Trump handled COVID- Fauci relays his first meeting, he thinks his expertise was listened to, but then Trump gives a press conference calling COVID the "democratic party hoax." And things go to hell from there, only getting unimaginably worse.
Fauci does a very nice job of picking apart all the bad ways in which Trump handled COVID, how many more people needlessly died under his watch, and how the man so brazenly and perpetually ignored sound expert advice, relying on his own hubris, thinking he knew better than any of the experts. At one point, Fauci mentions how Trump put Vice President Pence in charge of the COVID taskforce, taking the job away from medical experts...and how oddly Pence would place such effusive praise on Trump, going as far as to tell the medical experts on the taskforce, "there are many smart people in this room, but none is smart as the man upstairs" referring to Trump. That was, as Fauci, explains, an odd and consistent thing he saw in this particular White House- nearly otherworldly praise for Trump and how he was the smartest person amongst all of them. Truly bizarre and terrifying stuff, a man obsessed with his own vanity over the lives of millions of people. We lost far more people than we ever needed to, and though professional throughout, Fauci makes it clear that one man was mostly responsible for the mess, and that man is Donald Trump.
You have to respect Fauci's honesty and out of the world bravery for telling it like it is on so many topics, especially COVID 19, So much gratitude to the man who led the country and our various leaders through so many medical adventures, saving lives along the way. We need more people like Anthony Fauci, and when he's gone, he and his heartfelt compassion for those in the most dire medical situations will be sorely missed.
The only complaint I would have here is how SLOW Fauci reads. The first few minutes, I honestly thought I had the speed set to .5, but it was, indeed, his normal speaking voice. I listened to the book at 1.7 speed and only then did it sound what I consider normal speed for audiobook narration.
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The Mugger
- 87th Precinct, Book 2
- De: Ed McBain
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 175
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 151
A beat cop winds up on the trail of a deadly mugger, but when it suddenly gets personal, his own life might be the next thing to be snatched….
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4 out of 5 stars
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50's Cop Series
- De Aaron en 11-30-14
- The Mugger
- 87th Precinct, Book 2
- De: Ed McBain
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
great book, horribly laughable narrator
Revisado: 02-20-23
I love the 87th precinct novels and finally decided to read all the ones I've missed and do the entire series in order. The story here is, like most of them, gritty and dark. I thought it was better than even Cop Hater. thankfully these all seem to be available on Kindle unlimited with the audio versions available as well.
I like to listen to books at work, but the narrator here is horrendous and ruins everything about the book. I have no idea what possessed the audio book producers to turn these into a laughingstock, trying to make them comical, over the top, and silly by using this narrator with these voices.
After testing COP HATER on Kindle then listening to this, I was immediately confused..."did they make the series a comedy for part 2?!" I immediately asked myself. Nope. it's just the outlandishly silly voices the narrator uses. Every cop sounds like he's trying to do a stand up comedy routine. None of these sound like actual humans, let alone police officers in a mostly dark cop series. Everyone sounds like a caricature of what someone would humorously THINK cops sounded like in the 1950's. The narration choices are utterly bizarre, and I have no clue what they were thinking with these.
great book, wonderful series, but skip this terrible narrator and the confusing choices they made in terms of the narration tone.
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Yard Work
- De: David Koepp
- Narrado por: Kevin Bacon
- Duración: 1 h y 54 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6,101
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 5,647
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,609
This wasn’t the plan. Judge Herman Calvert, 88, never thought he’d outlive his beloved wife, Marie. Yet now he finds himself alone, a grieving widower, desperate for escape from the home they built together, where every turn brings a painful reminder of his late wife. So the judge retreats to his lake cabin in rural Wisconsin, a place where an old man can find peace and solitude. A place where nature can take its course. But something new has moved in.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Depicting Grief's Worst Entaglements
- De Amazing en 09-03-20
- Yard Work
- De: David Koepp
- Narrado por: Kevin Bacon
Loved the narration from Bacon, but not the story
Revisado: 10-05-20
Kevin Bacon does a great job here. The voice of the judge is a bit silly, but overall it's good narration. The story, however, is a whole bunch of nothing. There's just not much here. Way too repetitive for a nearly 2 hour story. This should have been a 25 min story at most. Old guy and the vine. The end. It's really very simple. The writing is competent, and often quite impressive (it's Koepp, after all), but the storyline really is 100 mins of zzzz to me. Reminded me of Stephen King in a lot of ways.
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Identity Thief
- This Can't Be Happening Collection
- De: Rachel Rosenthal
- Narrado por: Rachel Rosenthal
- Duración: 1 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 833
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 706
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 704
Who would want to steal the identity of a minimum-wage employee at a children’s museum? In this harrowing real-life detective story, a woman searches for the truth, clue after startling clue. Rachel hit the jackpot with her doting fiancé, Zach, who was starting a promising new political career at the Massachusetts State House. Then came money problems - Rachel’s was mysteriously disappearing, bank account by new bank account. She and Zach, her only lifeline, decided to play amateur sleuths. And they had to act fast. Because Rachel’s crippling paranoia was growing.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Flinch more than twice
- De jen4choice en 01-03-19
- Identity Thief
- This Can't Be Happening Collection
- De: Rachel Rosenthal
- Narrado por: Rachel Rosenthal
a bland 10 minute story turned into a 1 hour book
Revisado: 01-21-19
I don't believe most of this actually happened. Way too many logical insanity here. That destroys the narrative. Because she so strongly telegraphs the reveal, there's little reason to care. We know from the first two minutes what the reveal will be, and because of that there's to tension, no surprise, and because so much of this could not have happened the way she describes, I was just annoyed and wanted it to end. Why would their landlord let them live in an apartment they hadn't paid rent on in 13 months? Why would he have only called her a year into the lease, $13,000 unpaid, only AFTER she actually paid the rent? No way it happened like that, so you have to wonder if any of the story is true. Even if it is, why do you care, when she tells the story is the most anticlimactic fashion?
It feels like a story she would tell her friends at a party, but it should have taken 5 minutes to tell start to finish. Instead this is an hour of a story you can deduce the ending from page one. Furthermore, unless you happen to be really really clueless, this would never happen to you. Who is this cautionary tale for? The dumbest among us? How she was in the dark the entire time (5 years or so?) is mind boggling. So, in terms of a cautionary tale it falls completely flat. Just as a story about not putting metal forks into wall outlets would be pointless. No duh... I knew now to do that when I was 6 years old.
The narration isn't terrible, but it feels unpolished and amateurish overall. Instead of picturing here in a professional studio with a thousand dollar mic, I pictured her in a studio apartment with a one hundred dollar mic. Good thing this free, because it doesn't feel like something you would ever take to pay for.
I finished it only to say I didn't quit, because it was short enough (I listened at 2x's speed), but even that felt like wasted time with so much better content out there.
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