The Quick and the Dead

De: Cynric Temple-Camp

Narrado por: Mark Davis

True stories of life and death from a New Zealand pathologist

From the number one best-selling author of The Cause of Death comes an audiobook about the unlikely, extraordinary, obscure and often tragic ways humans meet their end.

A dead body without a trace of trauma; alien parasites; worms of the brain; crocodile attacks and bizarre eating disorders....In The Quick and the Dead, pathologist and self-confessed death-aficionado Dr. Cynric Temple-Camp takes listeners into a world of disease and death as he seeks answers for those who were unlucky, and those still alive to tell the tale.

©2020 Cynric Temple-Camp (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers

New favorite

Dr Temple-Camp is one of my favorite authors in the medical writing category.
I look forward to more.
The reader was excellent.

Great book but very low volume recording

Very interesting and compassionate stories. Enjoyed as much as it's prequel and hope there are more to come.

Really, really interesting stories

This is a book about real people, who have faced the ends of their lives in sometimes tragic ways. I loved that the pathologist had enough compassion for their dignity, and curiousity-to make time to get to the bottom of every case.

Not for the Faint of Heart

Well, I don't think this is the kind of book you can call an "enjoyable" read, but it is fascinating! Naturally, I found some of the stories more interesting than others. But overall, this book kept me engaged. Definitely not for the faint of heart!
The performance was good, but the volume of the recording was very low. This meant that I could not listen to it if there was any background noise.

More stories of a caring pathologist.

I really enjoy this authors perspective on life. I would love to have a conversation with him. I read his first book and really enjoyed it. This one is a little different but i enjoyed it as well. Well worth listening to.

Fascinating, amusing and heart breaking.

I was a nurse for over 40 years. This gives an excellent overview of health care in their country.
Our country? Not so much.
I would have liked a bit about the Dead, but not departed.
I worked in several areas with these.
I always encouraged them to move on because they were done on this earth and had things to do elsewhere.

sort of a case study series

The author is an excellent story teller. In this book, some of the cases arent his patients. i also enjoy the differences of experiences he sharex from both africa and new zealand.

Engaging narration of the life of a pathologist

I found the book fascinating! I was disappointed when it finished. I would love to hear more from this author.
One problem was that the audio was so quiet that I had to turn up the volume almost to maximum.

Bad narrator.

The narrator mispronounced African words and medical terms. The accent attributed to the author is badly misplaced. I know Cynric and his is NOT an Afrikaans accent!!! All very irritating. He doesn’t even attempt the New Zealand accent. Where did you dredge this clown up from?