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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup | John Carreyrou
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keithlafo
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An astonishing story. I‘d heard a little bit about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes, but I didn‘t know the full story. The level of deception and fraud that was committed is truly horrifying.

Smrloomis This book was so gripping. I even watched a documentary after it and was still shocked. So awful! 1mo
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jack777
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Totally engrossing. Fascinating characters. Good pace for nonfiction. Makes me wanna watch the series on it.

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TheSpineView
Bad Blood | John Carreyrou
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Eggs Great choice ❤️🩸💉 8mo
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Blueberry
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Eggs Great book and documentary 👏🏻👏🏻 8mo
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Parvez
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John Carreyrou is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at the Wall Street Journal.

The book chronicles the rise and fall of “Theranos“ and its founder Elizabeth Holmes. A Biotech startup based in Silicon Valley was once the talk of the town for its revolutionary idea to transform the healthcare industry.

Reggie She‘s crazy. I read that she intentionally got pregnant hoping it would sway judgement and sentencing. 8mo
Parvez @Reggie She is a crazy, delusional, Sociopath with little to no conscience. She has no regrets about what she did. 8mo
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Texreader
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I‘m not the least bit sympathetic having read this book (one of the best books in my opinion). In fact, just 11 years? A man died and many more could have died thanks to her fraud.

More here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12136295/Elizabeth-Holmes-spends-final-...

GinaKButler Zero sympathy for her. Her kids, maybe, but her? No. 10mo
Susanita Yeah. Boo freaking hoo. 10mo
manifestsanity She can rot. 10mo
Vansa She is an absolutely heartless, unscrupulous person who seems completely amoral,and not remotely contrite. It's good justice is being served and she's going to prison. 10mo
mrp27 Agreed! No empathy for her. 10mo
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kwmg40
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I couldn't believe that a true crime novel not involving murders or missing persons could be so absolutely riveting. I found it especially interesting since I've been working at a small tech company for over 20 years, and this book is essentially a guide on how NOT to run a tech business!

#MagnificentMay @Andrew65
#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

Andrew65 Sounds excellent. Well done 👏👏👏 10mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 10mo
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Bookish.SAM
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Very late to the table on this one but…🤯🤬
I‘ve generally been fairly uninformed about the goings-on in Silicon Valley but have read a couple of books about how things go there and, just, wow!

Jaw dropped repeatedly listening to this one!

#audiobook

TiredLibrarian Read this for a book group and loved it! Amazing how Elizabeth Holmes fooled so many for so long. 11mo
Bookish.SAM @TiredLibrarian wild, right?!? I couldn‘t believe every time more details came out that should have toppled the whole thing, more ppl would get on board and/or support the her! 10mo
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Eggs
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The story of Elizabeth Holmes is fascinating. I recommend the Carreyrou book, but have not read Billion Dollar Facade (free on Kindle Unlimited).

#TrueCrime #MarchMagic @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️📚🖤 13mo
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AlaMich
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The ‘hound is ready to get this show on the road NOW PLEASE!!!

I‘m doing the print and audio versions of the appalling saga of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. I‘ve already seen the documentary series and the drama series but I‘m still hooked by this story.

#nelson #greyhounds #dogsoflitsy

Ruthiella That pup is prepared! ❤️🐶 14mo
DogMomIrene She fascinates me too. I watched the documentary, but I couldn‘t get into the series. May try again. Looking forward to seeing how you like this book. 14mo
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AlaMich @Ruthiella Custom made coat because greyhounds have such wacky bodies. (edited) 14mo
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AlaMich @LeahBergen Today is warm! 35° baby!! ? 14mo
batsy It's fashion! 😁 14mo
AlaMich @batsy If it were up to me, Nelson would have a wardrobe of winter wear! 14mo
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keepingupwiththepenguins
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Bill Gates said: “Bad Blood tackles some serious ethical questions, but it is ultimately a thriller with a tragic ending. It‘s a fun read full of bizarre details that will make you gasp out loud,”. It also serves as a testament to the power and importance of unbiased investigative journalism. It had my jaw dropping and my tongue wagging for days, and I highly recommend it. Full review: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/bad-blood-john-carreyrou/

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vivastory
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One of my most recommended nf books of the past few years; I just noticed that Holmes was sentenced today:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/18/tech/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-sentencing

EKonrad 11 years - yikes! 😳 1y
Leftcoastzen Should have been more years . 1y
vivastory @Leftcoastzen She'll probably be out in 4 years 🙄 1y
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Hooked_on_books I‘m glad she got a lot. She should have. I‘m a bit disgusted that she‘s pregnant. You know you‘ve been convicted and are going to be sentenced, so you get pregnant?!? What in the actual fuck? 1y
Aimeesue @Hooked_on_books Yes! Why would you do that to a child?? 1y
squirrelbrain I thought exactly that too Holly @Hooked_on_books - she must have planned it, thinking it would get her a more lenient sentence. 1y
Hooked_on_books @squirrelbrain Sadly, that conclusion simply can‘t be ignored, and it‘s just grotesque. What a tremendously selfish thing to do! 1y
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MommyWantsToReadHerBook
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Thoroughly enjoyed this! Good writing, clear and precise, and the story basically tells itself in all its horrifying details. Topped with a little morbid fascination to see footage of her (and her voice) on YouTube to complete the experience. The psychology behind her ability to string along so many powerful people is fascinating! ⭐⭐⭐⭐

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BeckyWithTheGoodBooks
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I have consumed everything I can about the story of Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos, and her defrauding of her investors. Carreyrou‘s reporting on this case is excellent. #scarathlondailyprompts #lies #teamslaughter

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Mindelan
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What a wild ride. It is just unbelievable how long investors and the health care industry continued to nod along when basic fact checking/peer review would have revealed huge problems. Interesting, exasperating, sad and occasionally funny from the sheer audacity. At one point Holmes uses the phrase “a chemistry is performed” to describe one of the processes of her machine in in an interview, and I am still reeling.👇🏻

Mindelan All of the perspectives were a bit hard to follow in the audiobook, might be a better experience to read. TW for suicide.

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Mindelan
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This book is such an interesting but frustrating experience. It is massive red flag after massive red flag, then they check in on the date/year and you realize it will be years before it starts to fall apart.

If you‘re a McElroy fan, it is like the longest, most frustrating episode of Sawbones you can imagine (Justin not included).

Things are getting wild and I still have 4 hours left, I imagine I will be yelling in my car on the way to work 😆

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Blueberry
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Monica5 I'm wanting to read this book. I think it will be interesting. 2y
Eggs It‘s good 👍🏼 2y
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Cinfhen
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#ManicMonday
📕 Bad Blood
✍🏻 Geraldine Brooks
🍿Beautiful Mind
🎤Bruno Mars
🎵Bittersweet Symphony

CBee Good answers 👏🏻👏🏻 Thanks for playing! 2y
KarenUK Love that song! 🎶 💕 2y
Cinfhen It‘s one of my top 5 songs of all time @KarenUK 🥰🎶 2y
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sebrittainclark
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#LetterB recs:

Bad Blood by John Carreyou
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall

#AlphabetGame @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @rachelsbrittain

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Kerrbearlib
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Got bored and drew a picture of Elizabeth Holmes. (I haven‘t mastered noses yet, lol!) The more I listen to this audiobook, the more I can‘t understand how people believed her lies.

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Kerrbearlib
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Happy birthday to this little bugger. Boots turned 13 today. We adopted her when she was 1 1/2 and she‘s been one of the best parts of our lives since. She is sweet, spunky, and aggressively affectionate when she‘s hungry. I was listening to this audiobook this morning and she was so aggressively affectionate that she headbutted my headphone off. Love her to pieces.

#catsoflitsy

sarahbellum Happy birthday, Boots! 🥳😺 2y
Leftcoastzen Awww! Happy Birthday kitty! 2y
Catsandbooks Happy Birthday sweet kitty! 💕 2y
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Kerrbearlib
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Just started watching The Dropout on Hulu and thought I would read this book. The story about Elizabeth Holmes and Thernos is fascinated and baffling. It baffles me that anyone believed her, but apparently she was very charismatic and persuasive. I feel for all the people who were misdiagnosed by her company‘s blood testing.

Tera66 This book had me 😳! 2y
Kerrbearlib @Tera66 me too! 2y
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kimmypete1
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I was enthralled. Everything that happened is just messed up. So many people (men, ok) blinded by Elizabeth.

Eggs Wasn‘t that amazing?!? And well written 2y
Texreader This was a fantastic book and I‘m so glad with how the criminal case against her went. 2y
DisneyFan I loved this book! There were several points where I had to stop and remind myself that this is NOn-fiction. It really happened. The trial was close to where I lived . I was so tempted to drive over and see if I could watch. 2y
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kimmypete1 @Eggs yes!! 2y
kimmypete1 @DisneyFan I felt like I was reading fiction too, but you know what they say: Truth is stranger than fiction. And that definitely applies here! 2y
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jackday
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Totally engrossing. Fascinating characters. Good pace for nonfiction. Makes me wanna watch the series on it.

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TashaLeigh
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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EmilieGR
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I‘ve read/ watched/ listened to a lot about Elizabeth Holmes, so the information wasn‘t new, but I loved hearing about how Carreyrou constructed his story and how the downfall of Theranos played out. A highly recommended read.

Dostoyes Excellently paced book - I found it riveting!! 2y
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abbyreadz
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This book was crazy. I cannot believe the lengths she went to to cover a lie. What makes me mad is how she paved the way for women and then ruined it for all women in Silicon Valley after her. She was not the next Steve Job but she was the next Jordan Belford.

coffeeandwashitape Ohhh I loved this one! I still think about it lol 2y
abbyreadz @coffeeandwashitape omg did you hear about the musical they‘re doing about it 2y
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ElizaMarie
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Listened to this one on my weekend (end of the week) get away with the hubby. OMG I knew the story but... didn't realize the whole story till now ! This woman! I am super excited to watch the Hulu Adaptation now!

#the52bookclub2022 5: Prompt: Chapter has Titles

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DebinHawaii
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The Dropout, the limited series on Hulu is my latest obsession. At first I wasn‘t convinced Amanda Seyfried was going to be a good Elizabeth Holmes but I think she is nailing it. I read the tagged book a couple of years ago & the series seems to be aligned from what I remember. I binged the first 3 episodes & have caught the last 2 episodes as they were released.

AmyG Oh, I need to watch this! 2y
Leftcoastzen It looks good, I need to get to the TV series , the book was amazing. 2y
JenReadsAlot I need to watch this! 2y
Megabooks I‘ve only watched the first episode but I agree that it‘s a great casting choice! 2y
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Jadams89
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Starting this one today. #LMPBC #Round13 #GroupT

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Mitch
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The first session of this podcast lead me to read Carreyrou‘s book - which I loved. So now digging in to the section batch of these podcast episodes!

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Ahrabs
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**** A good read with lots of details I hadn‘t heard anywhere else

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Bookwormjillk
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Reading this as part of #LMPBC was a wild ride. Great choice!

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Caroline2
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Wow! This is a shocking but fascinating story. How Holmes thought she could get away with it? Blind optimism? Too much faith in her ideas? Did she set out to deceive everyone? Be interesting to see what sentence she gets. Thank you for putting this on my radar @shadowspeak17 #newyearwhodis #nywd

janeycanuck I highly recommend listening to The Dropout podcast - the first season covers what you‘ve read in Bad Blood but the second covers the trial. 2y
PathfinderNicole I read yesterday that one of the streaming services (Hulu I think?) is making a show about this based off The Dropout podcast! 2y
Beachesnbooks i'm obsessed with this story--the Dropout and Bad Blood podcasts are also worth a listen!! 2y
shadowspeak17 I‘m glad you liked it! It really is such a fascinating story. 2y
BiblioLitten Oh my husband would love this one! 2y
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slavens89
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Started a little slow, but definitely got good once you were in it!

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nitalibrarian
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It was above zero finally today after a few days of extreme cold, so we did a walk. It was still very windy, but Peri was happy to run around and sniff things (her favorite activity).

I'm about halfway through listening to this audiobook and completely fascinated. I'm glad I started it. #audiowalk

cariashley Such a good book! And great pic. 2y
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Bookwormjillk
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Just got mail for the first time in five days and this was in it. Perfect timing @BeckyWithTheGoodBooks

Annie1215 Seriously perfect timing! 2y
Jadams89 I‘ll be shipping out my book tomorrow. Sorry I‘m behind - I‘ve been dealing with vertigo for the past few days 2y
DogMomIrene Ohhh, I‘ll be looking for your review. Her whole deception fascinates me! 2y
BeckyWithTheGoodBooks Yay! Glad you got it! @Jadams1776 So sorry to hear about the vertigo. I hope you feel better soon! 2y
CaramelLunacy I found this whole story fascinating since I was first recommended the podcast The Dropout (which has been doing weekly recaps of the trial). Definitely an interesting read 2y
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nitalibrarian
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I haven't listened to an audiobook in a while and my Audible credits are stacking up. I just saw Elizabeth Holmes was found guilty of fraud and it reminded me that I wanted to read this book. I'm going to start it while making supper.

melissanorr My book club read this and found it very interesting. 2y
jlhammar Great choice. Excellent audiobook. Enjoy! 2y
AmyG She was just found guilty on 4 counts of fraud and conspiracy today. She could get up to 20 years for each. 2y
mdemanatee Totally worthy of your time! I devoured this in audio and then forced my book club to read mostly so I could have people to go “what?!” with and we still talk about it 2y
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BeckyWithTheGoodBooks
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The wild story of Elizabeth Holmes and her startup company, Theranos. I was pretty familiar with the chain of events, but Carreyrou‘s investigation into Holmes‘s deception and fraud is riveting. I am completely baffled by Holmes‘s ability to lie and charm so many powerful people in her pursuit of power and money. This was especially timely as we await the verdict in Holmes‘s trial for 11 federal fraud charges.5⭐️#wintergames2021 #averymerrybingo

BeckyWithTheGoodBooks @Jadams1776 This is for AVMB Prompt 24! I love true crime! 2y
Jadams89 🎅🏻🎄👍🏻 2y
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LiteraryinLawrence
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I don‘t read a lot of non-fiction, but this was riveting. What a despicable person. Glad I read it!

vivastory This is one of my most frequently recommended books IRL 2y
JenReadsAlot It's a good one! 2y
ChaoticMissAdventures This whole story is wild. Have you been following the trial? I liked how this book is laid out, if you would like a similar banana story 2y
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Smrloomis Yup, this one is incredible! 2y
Leftcoastzen Banana pants crazy! 2y
Kayla.Adriena @ChaoticMissAdventures I was following the trial just a little, there were some odd reportings about her father in law 2y
Hooked_on_books He has a podcast out now about this called Bad Blood: The Final Chapter. It‘s good! 2y
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ncsufoxes
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Well this was the wildest book I‘ve ever read and the wildest part is that it‘s all true. I haven‘t been following the trial, although I need to now. My husband does oncology research & drug development & gets frustrated by greedy & unethical companies like Theranos. He feels that this is what makes it so difficult for small companies to get funding or taken seriously (especially when coming up with novel ideas to treat diseases). It‘s just sad to

ncsufoxes Think about how many people were affected by Holmes‘ greed & incompetence. It was amazing that it took so long for her lies to final be exposed. Very well researched story that finally took down Theranos. 2y
Smrloomis Completely agree! I thought this book was amazingly enlightening and infuriating all at the same time 🤬! 2y
ncsufoxes @Smrloomis I think the saddest thing was the last line saying that about $1 billion dollars was lost investing in this. All I could think is how that money could have went to actual viable treatments, hospitals, researchers, social causes. I think that it makes me frustrated to think people invested money to make more but they won‘t invest in causes to help people (food insecurity, housing, education) 2y
TheAromaofBooks Great progress!!! 2y
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ncsufoxes
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Taking a break from Christmas books. I just started this today & already a 1/3 of the way through the book. My reading buddy is ready for bed but this story is so bonkers I can‘t stop reading. I remember reading an article years ago when the company first started & thought how interesting it sounded. Never would I have realized what was happening behind the scenes.

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Annie1215
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Mehso-so

Finally finished my #lmpbc book! It will on its way to you shortly @BeckyWithTheGoodBooks

Fascinating and truly bonkers story. It felt a bit slow at times and I wonder if it was just because it was so science based and technical. Still really interesting!

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MaggieCarr
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I had no idea the trial was going on when this title made it to the top of my TBR list. I'm emotionally invested in seeing Elizabeth be prosecuted for her narcissistic approach to business.

"Hyping your product to get funding while concealing your true progress and hoping that reality will eventually catch up to the hype..." ?

"Like her idol Steve Jobs, she emitted a reality distortion field that forced people to momentarily suspend belief."?

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Annie1215
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I had to fly for work this week (the first time in 2 years 😬) and started on my #lmpbc read. It‘s gonna be a wild one!

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shadowspeak17
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#OctoberWrapUp
Bad Blood was my favorite of October. Uzumaki was also good and was a hit with my book club. I also FINALLY finished Flights after starting it back in June. I didn‘t really end up enjoying it, but I‘m glad I stuck it out and finished it.

Total: 6
Print: 1
Ebook: 3
Audio: 2
Fiction: 4
Nonfiction: 2

#lmpbc: 1
#booked2021: 1
#friendrecchallenge: 0

kamoorephoto Have you listened to the Bad Blood: Final Chapter podcast? You should check it out!!! 2y
shadowspeak17 @kamoorephoto Oh, I hadn‘t heard of that. Thanks for putting it on my radar. I‘ll definitely check it out! 😃 2y
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Texreader
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Interesting update on the Theranos/Elizabeth Holmes‘ trial:

https://apple.news/A4mmZnNOySJqpRyxLP6xueA

IamIamIam I watched the film and it was all so bizarre!!! I can't imagine Pfizer having anything to do with this tech! 2y
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cdreincarnate
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This book is so fascinating and the audiobook narrator does a fantastic job. I highly recommend it.

Blueberry After all the postponements her trial is finally going on currently. 3y
cdreincarnate @Blueberry I know. I wanted to read the book so I could keep up with the trial. 3y
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