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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
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This is a perfect nonfiction book for people who do not read nonfiction. It covers a lot of ground and is very easy and accessible. For me, this book was way too surface and lacked the authority of an expert and felt more like a person reciting facts they learned on a topic they're obsessed with (which Green basically admits is what is going on here).
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Are you in my brain? 1/3 in and just went to text a friend this very sentiment
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I know what you mean, but that’s what I loved most about it. It’s like listening to someone full of passion telling you about what they’ve just learned, and you can’t help but say “And then what happened?!” along with him
This is the perfect review for this book. I was thinking along the same lines but this puts it more succinctly than I could’ve. I’m almost done with it and some of the “trivia” has been interesting but it’s not my cup of tea. I also didn’t like where he inserted his own thoughts on different topics. I was expecting history and a story about a boy with TB and it’s just not my favorite. It does make me want to pick up some really good non-fiction about TB though.
That’s EXACTLY what makes it so good
1/2 through and I do kind of agree with this. I don’t dislike it by any means but I was expecting something… different?
I feel like “lacking the authority of an expert” would be true of every work of nonfiction written by a journalist. People synthesize other people’s research all the time. I think it’s fine to prefer books that focus on the scientific aspect, but I find it grating that a book that focuses on the human/policy side is dismissed as unserious.
