Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

7 reviews

readingsponsoredbybts's review

informative mysterious tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Drug use, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Cancer, Bullying, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Misogyny, Stalking, and Cursing

plumpatio's review against another edition

informative mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

 Late to the party, I had yet to watch any adaptations or read beyond the headlines when I downloaded this audiobook. Read by the author, this account layers the various accounts from his reporting for WSJ and, toward the end, provides insight into his own encounters with Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes as the fraud began to unravel. Helpful in providing detailed context to what I already knew broadly regarding the biotechnology startup, I appreciate Carreyrou's refusal to speculate wildly about motivations, but am still left wondering how exactly Holmes rationalized her behavior and how she expected to pull it off. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Blood, Suicide, Bullying, and Ableism

Moderate: Medical trauma, Stalking, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, and Death

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

dc0901's review against another edition

informative tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Blood

Moderate: Suicide, Chronic illness, and Cancer

mermaidsherbet's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical content, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Cancer, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Stalking, and Chronic illness

Minor: Suicide

junefish's review against another edition

reflective tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Medical content and Suicide

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Gaslighting, Misogyny, and Sexual assault

rini's review against another edition

informative tense medium-paced

4.0

Very interesting listen!
I just wish authors would stop using ableist language like "crippling" and appropriating language like "powwow".

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Death, and Medical content

Moderate: Ableism, Cancer, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Suicide, and Terminal illness

Minor: Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Sexism, and Sexual assault

missybird's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Chronic illness, and Emotional abuse