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Audio book recommendations?

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    Mik
    wrote on 18 Jan 2023, 21:00 last edited by
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    I have a free audiobook coming on Audible and looking for something spectacular.

    Ideas?

    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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      jon-nyc
      wrote on 18 Jan 2023, 21:12 last edited by
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      In late December I re-listened to “The Emperor of All Maladies” and this month already finished his second and am almost done with the third.

      Check it out and read some reviews. I think you’d like it.

      Only non-witches get due process.

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        Catseye3
        wrote on 18 Jan 2023, 21:13 last edited by
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        https://www.audible.com/pd/Lonesome-Dove-Audiobook/B07BGQ2ZQ3

        Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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          18 Jan 2023, 21:12

          In late December I re-listened to “The Emperor of All Maladies” and this month already finished his second and am almost done with the third.

          Check it out and read some reviews. I think you’d like it.

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          George K
          wrote on 18 Jan 2023, 21:42 last edited by
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          @jon-nyc said in Audio book recommendations?:

          In late December I re-listened to “The Emperor of All Maladies” and this month already finished his second and am almost done with the third.

          Check it out and read some reviews. I think you’d like it.

          Yes, I'm only about a third of the way through it. It's entertaining (in a historical way), engrossing and enlightening. Very readable and not "med-geeky" at all.

          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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          • G George K
            18 Jan 2023, 21:42

            @jon-nyc said in Audio book recommendations?:

            In late December I re-listened to “The Emperor of All Maladies” and this month already finished his second and am almost done with the third.

            Check it out and read some reviews. I think you’d like it.

            Yes, I'm only about a third of the way through it. It's entertaining (in a historical way), engrossing and enlightening. Very readable and not "med-geeky" at all.

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            jon-nyc
            wrote on 18 Jan 2023, 21:43 last edited by jon-nyc
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            @George-K The Gene was just as engrossing.

            The one I’m on now, The Song of the Cell is more med-geeky than the other two.

            Only non-witches get due process.

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              jon-nyc
              wrote on 18 Jan 2023, 21:47 last edited by
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              @George-K I like how wide ranging it is. Historic medical detail, lots of policy stuff. A totally engrossing chapter on the political and scientific battle over declaring cigarette a carcinogen.

              Only non-witches get due process.

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                18 Jan 2023, 21:47

                @George-K I like how wide ranging it is. Historic medical detail, lots of policy stuff. A totally engrossing chapter on the political and scientific battle over declaring cigarette a carcinogen.

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                wrote on 18 Jan 2023, 22:19 last edited by
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                @jon-nyc said in Audio book recommendations?:

                @George-K I like how wide ranging it is. Historic medical detail, lots of policy stuff. A totally engrossing chapter on the political and scientific battle over declaring cigarette a carcinogen.

                Haven't gotten there, only up to the radiation treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma. However, what I find interesting (disturbing?) is that this "history" is coming close to my birth in the medical profession. I'm up to the late 1960s in the "biography" and I started medical school in 1972. All the names of the drugs are familiar to me, and I remember when many of them were "new" when I was an intern in 1976.

                "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                • G George K
                  18 Jan 2023, 22:19

                  @jon-nyc said in Audio book recommendations?:

                  @George-K I like how wide ranging it is. Historic medical detail, lots of policy stuff. A totally engrossing chapter on the political and scientific battle over declaring cigarette a carcinogen.

                  Haven't gotten there, only up to the radiation treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma. However, what I find interesting (disturbing?) is that this "history" is coming close to my birth in the medical profession. I'm up to the late 1960s in the "biography" and I started medical school in 1972. All the names of the drugs are familiar to me, and I remember when many of them were "new" when I was an intern in 1976.

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                  @George-K said in Audio book recommendations?:. All the names of the drugs are familiar to me, and I remember when many of them were "new" when I was an intern in 1976.

                  I started at the National Cancer Institute in 1976, and yes, I knew a lot of the people involved as well as the controversies. Excellent book.

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