Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

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

7 reviews

askhualrak's review against another edition

informative tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Bullying

Minor: Terminal illness, Suicide, and Cancer

echood's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical trauma, Suicide, Gaslighting, Stalking, and Medical content

Minor: Cancer, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Terminal illness, and Death

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

cammiem8's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious slow-paced

4.0

Filled in some gaps left by the tv show and was clearly well researched. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, Suicide, and Blood

Moderate: Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Cancer, Gaslighting, and Medical content

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

alisonvh's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

4.5

This book does an excellent job of diving into a complex story of how one company managed to hoodwink investors, journalists, and eventually the country.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Terminal illness

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