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by Steven Johnson (Author)

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Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Penguin; First Thus edition (31 Jan 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0141029366
ISBN-13: 978-0141029368
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting but overlong, 16 April 2008

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I read this after it was recommended on Radio 4's book club, and thought that it was generally pretty good. It was obviously well researched and the writing was engaging. My only complaint was that the story did not have enough substance to justify a book that is couple of hundred pages long. Initially, I really enjoyed the book, with its evocative descriptions of Victorian London - night soil men and all. However, the author soon began repeating himself and labouring certain points (I lose count of how many times he stated that Dr Snow and Rev Whitehead were mutually dependent on each other when it came to solving the problem of how cholera is transmitted - but it felt like too many!) My overall impression was that this story would have made a good article, but that it had insufficient depth to require a book of this length.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, 18 May 2008

By	D. Rook (England) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A really well detailed account, and interesting history of the battle with Cholera by Dr. Snow and his colleagues in Victorian London. Anyone who is considering a profession in health care or studying medicine at university, i strongly recommend this book. It manages to portray health care at the time of the epedemic with plenty of background knowledge and scientific reasoning which makes it insteresting and very informative.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A riveting read with a flawed ending, 2 Nov 2009

By	JJA Kiefte "Joost Kiefte" (Tegelen, Nederland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Steven Johnson's narrative initially grabs you by the throat and the book is literally a page turner if there ever was one. A parade of the most appaling professions with which people eked out a meagre existence, the hairraising living conditions of the majority of Londoners and the very vivid and utterly dramatic description of the course of the disease (most people who contracted cholera died within 48 hours and knew it; they often saw their families dying before their very eyes without being able to do anything) makes you realise how lucky we are to be living in the present and not in Victorian times. But after 228 pages Johnson loses his thread somewhere and the remaining thirty-odd pages are quite frankly awfully boring and have little or no bearing on what went on before. An editor would have been welcome indeed. But since the lion's share of the book deserves eight stars and only the last tiny bit two, my verdict in the end would be five.

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