The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Siddhartha Mukherjee with Stephen Hoye (Narrator)

20 hours, 46 minutes first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction health history science informative slow-paced

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and now a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane biography of cancer-from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in...

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informative 97%
challenging 41%
reflective 40%
hopeful 32%
inspiring 28%
emotional 24%
sad 15%
dark 8%
funny 1%
mysterious 1%
tense 1%

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medium 35%
fast 1%

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