The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis

4.3 AVERAGE

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elise_dragon13's review against another edition

4.0
challenging informative reflective tense medium-paced

lyn_g's review against another edition

4.5
informative reflective tense medium-paced
It’s a starling realization just how broken the world ; to never listen to the experts until it’s too late , and even then the  need to swim through layers of bureaucracy , only to be forced to leave is a sad state of this world. 

This book showed all the helpful intelligent  people that can man’s a difference and the huge amount of working people/ parts. 
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maggies's review against another edition

5.0
informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Typical Michael Lewis review of heroes during a historical moment. Enjoyable and frustrating.

moiraburke's review against another edition

5.0
Heroic profiles of public health workers who created an effective strategy to reduce Covid that no one listened to. Most of the book is intensely inspiring, making a reader want to fight the good fight despite resistance, though the last few chapters, in which the systemic problems in the US government overwhelm our heroes, are utterly shattering.

mdross1's review against another edition

4.0
It's a really good book. It's completely enraging, but that's because of the topic discussed, and not the writing or the opinion within it.

bodies_upon_the_gears's review against another edition

4.0
Майкл Льюис давно не расстраивает. Интересно, познавательно, узнаваемо. Мне особенно истории про escape fire и секвенирование генома понравились. Тяжело представить человека, которому сейчас может не понравиться Premonition. Потому что и актуально, и написано легко.

bluerobyn123's review against another edition

5.0
If you thought that the U.S. national response to the COVID-19 pandemic was disorganized, chaotic, and ill-defined...well, spoiler alert! You would be correct. It was. Lewis expertly crafts the story of public health experts (not named Fauci) who knew what was happening but could do nothing to stop it because the system was broken. Actually, broken is being kind. The system didn't exist.

It's a fascinating read. And I will never trust the Centers for Disease Control ever again.

fracingfrog's review against another edition

5.0
Wow, would have never expected a book about the public health response to the pandemic to be so riveting.

jamieroa18's review

4.5
reflective tense medium-paced
Great book spanning the faults of the USA public health system over the 20/21 centuries 

jaredpar's review against another edition

2.0
Pretty poor quality for a Lewis book. I’d comment on the ending but there really wasn’t one.