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marimbagirl22's review against another edition
4.0
Pretty detailed with names and dates but if you read for the general bits and ignore the weeds it is a crazy, wild ride. We'll see if the last trial is still summer 2020, but the fact that this situation didn't gain more news astounds me.
a_chickletz's review against another edition
5.0
When purchasing this book the person who was ringing up my purchase asked me if had watched the videos of her and or the documentary/special on TV regarding her/her company. I indicated that I had not but a lot of people on goodreads had read it and said it was a wild read.
Finally diving into my true crime/cult pile, I pulled this out when I was in a bit of a book lull.
I DEVOURED IT. Working in the healthcare, and during when all this was going on, I'm surprised I never heard a thing about it. It infuriates me that someone like this exists. Someone so... awful exists.
This is a well documented detail of a woman on a one-way-ticket to crazyville - jail. I can't tell if she was mentally all there, a criminal mastermind, or our government and old white men (since that's what most of these people were that were approving her without credentials) were just stupid. I want to say it was all those things!
I am astonished on the people who were complicit, the people who didn't speak up for others. I want to applaud those who risked so much to come forward and those who benefited from this book.
I feel awful for all the tests done that were fraudulent and the lives that may have been lost under this bitch.
Finally diving into my true crime/cult pile, I pulled this out when I was in a bit of a book lull.
I DEVOURED IT. Working in the healthcare, and during when all this was going on, I'm surprised I never heard a thing about it. It infuriates me that someone like this exists. Someone so... awful exists.
This is a well documented detail of a woman on a one-way-ticket to crazyville - jail. I can't tell if she was mentally all there, a criminal mastermind, or our government and old white men (since that's what most of these people were that were approving her without credentials) were just stupid. I want to say it was all those things!
I am astonished on the people who were complicit, the people who didn't speak up for others. I want to applaud those who risked so much to come forward and those who benefited from this book.
I feel awful for all the tests done that were fraudulent and the lives that may have been lost under this bitch.
meagan_young's review against another edition
5.0
As an actual laboratory scientist, this book was TERRIFYING. Downright horror novel. I can’t believe this was allowed to happen in real life. I’m shocked. I will never complain about regulatory inspections or surveys again! Haha
p_t_b's review against another edition
4.0
so i am in the midst of a quarantine-induced anti-corporate freakout whereby i decided to de-bezos my life, which meant killing my audible subscription and going to the (non-corporeal) library to get my audiobooks. i didnt know anything about theranos/elizabeth holmes other than she was a scammer. what this book taught me is that she was a HUGE scammer
honestly a surprisingly satisfying and almost true-crimey story. i mean "almost true-crimey" in a genre sense -- there is no almost about the crimes theranos did. does a good job of contextualizing theranos in the silicon valley vaporware phenomenon but also stipulating that holmes and her partner sunny were extra-sleazy lying liars.
sort of fun to read a story where a pathological liar who knows how to rope-a-dope the people and systems of the american elite gets punished in the end, as opposed to i dont know, becoming president through a horrible intersection of blind spots/bad choices/racism/sexism/historical coinkydinks/god punishing us. not for nothing though, elizabeth holmes was on stage with the clintons during 2016 campaign events and hung out with biden and obama, so it's not like this should be read on a left-right vector -- more like, why is there like a moral timber line? once your money climbs above a certain level, it seems like right/wrong just kind of trails off into mumbling
anyway i have to go do dishes ttyl
*i realized just after posting this that jeff bezos owns goodreads too. barf
** somehow naturally progressed from this to a biography of PT barnum
honestly a surprisingly satisfying and almost true-crimey story. i mean "almost true-crimey" in a genre sense -- there is no almost about the crimes theranos did. does a good job of contextualizing theranos in the silicon valley vaporware phenomenon but also stipulating that holmes and her partner sunny were extra-sleazy lying liars.
sort of fun to read a story where a pathological liar who knows how to rope-a-dope the people and systems of the american elite gets punished in the end, as opposed to i dont know, becoming president through a horrible intersection of blind spots/bad choices/racism/sexism/historical coinkydinks/god punishing us. not for nothing though, elizabeth holmes was on stage with the clintons during 2016 campaign events and hung out with biden and obama, so it's not like this should be read on a left-right vector -- more like, why is there like a moral timber line? once your money climbs above a certain level, it seems like right/wrong just kind of trails off into mumbling
anyway i have to go do dishes ttyl
*i realized just after posting this that jeff bezos owns goodreads too. barf
** somehow naturally progressed from this to a biography of PT barnum
emmarena's review against another edition
5.0
So good. Honestly, it's so unbelievable at times that it reads like fiction. You'll be shocked, horrified, and disgusted, but you won't be able to put it down because you just have to know how the house of cards finally falls. Definitely a great non-fiction piece for those (like me) who are more commonly fiction readers.
careycarpenter's review against another edition
2.0
This was an interesting idea to write about but it was monotonous reading about the same thing repeated over and over and over again. The story could have been cut by at least 100 pages and condensed to “she lied and screwed everyone out of money”. I made it through and am interested to follow all the legal stories and see how it ends.