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Long for This World

The Strange Science of Immortality

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Long for This World

By: Jonathan Weiner
Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
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“[A] searching and surprisingly witty look at the scientific odds against tomorrow.”
—Timothy Ferris

Jonathan Weiner—winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and one of the most distinguished popular science writers in America—examines “the strange science of immortality” in Long for This World. A fast-paced, sure-to-astonish scientific adventure from “one of our finest science journalists” (Jonah Lehrer), Weiner’s Long for This World addresses the ageless question, “Is there a secret to eternal youth?” And has it, at long last, been found?

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I loved this book. way interesting to contemplate. did get a little long in some areas, but that's expected. thought it was very interesting that the Christian bible was referenced several times. evolution was still the belief, but they inputed the bible as a history book, I believe, which is a cool way to think about it. the author is an amazing writer.

not into scientific journals? still worthwhile

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This book is a sort of biography of a present day micro biologist and study of the aging process. Mr. Weiner is a journalist and he writes in present day language describing the researchers he encounters and work they are doing as well as their opinions. It is quite enlightening and entertaining. I would recommend it to those who have an interest in science and specifically the aging process.

Educational and entertaining

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You may love the narrating style but I hated it. The reader changes his voice to mimic the actual speaker. For example, Woody Allen actually has his vocal affect and so on. But the story is another story. The author had a hard time being neutral to his characters. He seemed to dislike the main contributor. The story alternates between unbearable fluff and dense esoterica. To be fair, there are passages that even I could understand. I hoped there would be more focus on the issue of genetic errors over time and what approach science would take to address this. Additionally, the role of telomeres in aging was not addressed to any satisfactory level. On the overall this book left me on the edge of my seat. I am exited to see the breakthroughs that's coming down the pike. We will have to completely re access what it means to be human. These advances will inevitably ask more questions that the questions they answer.

Maybe another book

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The first half has the interesting science. It blends into a journalistic story of conversations, and toward the later end it is more of a story and dialog. I'm more interested in the science myself, but I think it was worth the buy.

-Scott

interesting

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