Matthew Kreilein

Can’t wait for Vol 2 and 3

Revisado: 09-13-19

Fantastically written and performed story. As great as it was to listen to, I’m somewhat disappointed because Vol 2 and 3 aren’t out yet and I’m craving more.

It’s at the top of my best books written and performed list for sure.

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A Truly Fascinating Story

Revisado: 04-17-19

This book is a wonderful history and story.

The level of scientific exploration, work, and drive that it takes for dedicated researchers to come up with a vaccine is wonderfully woven into the history, personal accounts, and cost of disease outbreaks and their harm.

To those who doubt the power and safety of vaccines, listen to the book. To those who doubt their effectiveness and impact on human health and relief if of suffering within your lifetime, listen to the book. To those who want to know what it takes to develop and make a vaccine for the planet, whether a scientist, scientifically inclined, or not, listen to the book. You will NOT be disappointed.

The performance was high quality. My only small notes were that the narrator’s voice, on occasion, sounds like a GPS and there were occasional mispronunciation of scientific terms.

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Engaging Story and Performance

Revisado: 02-11-19

One of those audiobooks where you hope for traffic so you can finish the chapter you are on or start a new one.

The story is great. Fascinating tale of how charisma helped pull the wool over lots of eyes until it was all torn down. To that point, it’s a reminder of how important it is for “regular employees” to speak up when they know something just isn’t right or is illegal. A reminder too about how important good investigative journalism is to keeping people safe.

Solid narrating performance overall. Good inflection and seriousness when needed. Occasional shifts to “feminine whisper voice” were unnecessary and kinda hokey but not detrimental to the overall performance.

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Probably not what you are after

Revisado: 07-02-17

First, it's read by the author. I've been burned before by this mistake and this one burned me again. Authors write narrators narrate. They should have stuck to that model for this book.

Second, overall, I was quite disappointed by this book. It's quite one-sided and basically goes like this:

1/2 of book: Clintons are dirty and have been for 30 years. Here's a huge list of their scandals.
1/4 of book: Trump is Mr Real Estate in Manhattan. He took $ his dad gave him and successfully became a self made awesome real estate guy.
1/4 of book: Trump beat Hillary in the election. P.S. he said some inappropriate things during the election but let's not talk about that or any shady things he may have done in his life.

Unfortunately, you don't realize that nothing on Trump and his skeletons will be included until it's too late.

I'd recommend "Shattered" if you are looking for a book with some good insight into and story of the Clinton election campaign. It's quite good.

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Excellent read on Nixon

Revisado: 07-02-17

Having been born after Nixon, I was looking for a good story on this figure who is so famous (or infamous I guess). This book absolutely filled the bill. It covered so much in just the right level of detail. It was NOT simply Watergate and covered his life from WWII to the resignation in a perfect amount of detail.

I learned so much about RN that I never knew and found his story fascinating. So many accomplishmets essentially erased by a really bad mistake.

If you are interested in RN, I highly recommend!

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Revealing Account of "What went wrong."

Revisado: 06-19-17

As I moved through this book, I found myself thinking, "C'mon, get to the Presidential election already." as a significant portion of the book focused on the primary battle with Sanders. However, I quickly realized that so much time was spent there because that's where the errors we made, never recognized, and never corrected.

I found the stories of dysfunction fascinating. I gained quite a bit of insight into how it all didn't come unraveled but how it was never there to start.

I enjoyed both the story in this book and the performance of it and highly recommend.

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A must read biography of one of the most influential Founding Fathers

Revisado: 08-11-09

Honestly, there is so much in this book that is fantastic that it can't be captured. Really this review is this long just to fulfill the word requirement as all I can say is you MUST listen to this book.

You will enjoy the flawless and masterful performance of Scott Brick and the superb story from Chernow. And, like me, you will listen to it multiple times for years to come.

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