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    Eternity Soup: Inside the Quest to End Aging
    Eternity Soup: Inside the Quest to End Aging
    Eternity Soup: Inside the Quest to End Aging
    Audiobook6 hours

    Eternity Soup: Inside the Quest to End Aging

    Written by Greg Critser

    Narrated by Erik Synnestvedt

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    What happens when you mix modern medical entrepreneurship with one of the most ancient of human desires-the desire to live forever? The answer is today's multibillion-dollar antiaging industry, which promises everything from restoring lost vitality to actually turning back the hands of time for aging boomers. But who, exactly, makes up the antiaging movement, and what do they expect from the vast and growing antiaging apothecary? Who is simply manufacturing money from spurious claims and dubious products, and who is performing legitimate scientific research? One thing is clear: by the mid-twenty-first century, America will have one million centenarians. How much older, then, can (and should) we get?

    Sharp, funny, fast-paced, and deeply informed, Eternity Soup is a full-course meal about our quest for immortality, spiced with human vanity, chicanery, and cutting-edge science.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJan 26, 2010
    ISBN9781400185610
    Eternity Soup: Inside the Quest to End Aging

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    • 4/5
      Only three things are important to me, and about equally...

      Narration: 7.5/10 - I enjoyed the narrator's voice (male, celever, bright) but not his cadence. Half way through I changed the speed to 80%. Seventy-five precent would have been perfect but Scribd has a whole bunch of speeding ups but only one slowing down.

      Writing: 9 /10 - This was the best part. I can forgive horrible content, but seldom bad writing.

      Content: 8/10 - I learned a lot. I especially liked the way the author seemed to be genuinely keen to discover the scientific reality of anti-aging medicine rather than be a propagandist for or against. Never the less, he reinforced my skepticism but also my hope that some therapies might actually prove reliable and safe.

      TOTAL: 24/30 - a good writer and researcher. I call this entertaining investigative journalism

      Comments: I will listen to this again and take notes... somehow. This is my first Scribd 'a'-book. Only things that could really improve it would be notes, brief biographies (I forgot all the names) and a reading list -- all at the end . I come from a non-science (religion and history reading background) and I found it accessible and a little stretching for my incompleted liberal arts education.

      Context: male, 60+, Canadian. I mean who cares what anybody thinks of a book if you know nothing about them?
    • 4/5
      I read an 'immortality' book every two years or so. Why? I dunno. I have no illusions or goals of living a really, really, really long time myself. I just find it comforting that every generation produces obessives seeking the fountain of youth. This effort brings me up to date on some of the research and crack-pot theories making the rounds. In these books, we are always only five to ten years away from huge breakthroughs in human longevity. Will it ever happen? I've got my doubts but I'll probably seek out another immortality book in a couple of years.