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4.49 AVERAGE
4.49 AVERAGE
challenging
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inspiring
sad
slow-paced
Note: AUDIBLE book.
This was more difficult for me to read but I started the audio, and it was much easier for me. So this book was more Audible than it was read, in case that matters.
(I'm not sure why it is easier for me to listen to non-fiction rather than read it but anyway)
So much of this is vague memories of the 80s, of teachers and parents mentioning AIDS briefly, and not really understanding all of the social and political impacts. I found it extremely interesting but also disturbing, and so many similarities and differences related to the Covid responses.
This was more difficult for me to read but I started the audio, and it was much easier for me. So this book was more Audible than it was read, in case that matters.
(I'm not sure why it is easier for me to listen to non-fiction rather than read it but anyway)
So much of this is vague memories of the 80s, of teachers and parents mentioning AIDS briefly, and not really understanding all of the social and political impacts. I found it extremely interesting but also disturbing, and so many similarities and differences related to the Covid responses.
This was well written. It reads like a mystery novel as the disease starts to appear in pockets of the country and physicians rush to connect the dots between the patients. The majority of this book is a steady paced, downward spiral of maddening, frustrating and disappointing politics, ignorance, denial, grandstanding by scientists, greed of shop owners and science, shameful actions of hospitals and blood blanks, and a community of men so anxious and desperate to protect their independence and gains (since Harvey Milk) that they unfortunately sacrificed many of their own.
The amount of detail, interviews, memos, dates, disease data and the ever present disease and death total are impressive. The one area I struggled reading this 600 page book is trying to keep track of the large list of characters, mostly male. After awhile I gave up flipping back to remember who was who.
A must read for the gay community, a "should read" for those into epidemiology. Infectious disease is fascinating but scary. Hopefully when the next big epidemic arrives communications and politics will produce a different outcome.
The amount of detail, interviews, memos, dates, disease data and the ever present disease and death total are impressive. The one area I struggled reading this 600 page book is trying to keep track of the large list of characters, mostly male. After awhile I gave up flipping back to remember who was who.
A must read for the gay community, a "should read" for those into epidemiology. Infectious disease is fascinating but scary. Hopefully when the next big epidemic arrives communications and politics will produce a different outcome.
challenging
hopeful
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reflective
medium-paced
dark
informative
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
informative
slow-paced
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
I owned a copy of And the Band Played On for years & hadn't touched it, but a conversation with a friend who was using the book as a teaching tool prompted me to finally read it.
Wow. Twenty-six years later and this book packs a powerful punch. All the political BS, all the scientific research being thwarted because of huge egos and small budgets, the lack of media coverage. I often thought how different things might have turned out if the Internet and social media had been in play.
Wow. Twenty-six years later and this book packs a powerful punch. All the political BS, all the scientific research being thwarted because of huge egos and small budgets, the lack of media coverage. I often thought how different things might have turned out if the Internet and social media had been in play.