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Pharmacology (2011)

by Christopher Herz(Favorite Author)

2.99 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1612181384 (ISBN13: 9781612181387)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

AmazonEncore

review 1: The synopsis of the book sounds great. The writing seems hip. I got maybe 1/3 through the book and I kept waiting for a Plot. I read books for plot and storyline. If you do too, don't bother reading this book.The main character wonders around: new roommates, new city, new drugs, maybe new guy, new zine. ZERO plot. Maybe the plot is at the end of the book? she hasn't started working for a drug company. No idea what her zine is about after she's talked about it a few times. I just stopped reading the book, and nothing makes me want to pick it up and ask, 'how does it end?' because I can't even answer the 'how does WHAT end?'
review 2: I have never ever heard of this book and found it when I did a search for audiobooks narrated by Kate Rudd. You know Kate! She ... morenarrated The Fault In Our Stars! I loved her work with that book so much it made me purchase this one solely based on her work (and the price of course). This story centers around Sarah Striker, a young high school graduate who moves to San Francisco to make some money to help pay for her father's cancer treatment. At the time of her leaving Kansas City, Mo. San Francisco is on the verge of the 90's internet boom and there are new and exciting things popping up everywhere. Like cafe's offering internet and computer usage. This story was not a huge hit for me. There were a few things I was not really into. Most of the male authors I have read that write from a female perceptive seem to get women. Really get them in an eerie kinda way. It's like they become a women while writing the book. I didn't have that feeling at all with this book. Sarah just seemed to be so one dimensional and have no real interest. She just hung out with friends who had interesting drug habits and almost surreal lives. I found it hard to connect with her and I really wanted to. Also, I am not really into the young drug addicts slowly killing themselves stories. (a la Trainspotting). Those kinds of characters are everywhere in this book and in Sarah's life. Is that normal for a non-drug using 18-ish young girl from Missouri to get hooked into that crowd and stay clean the whole time?There were some great points to this story. Really! One, the overall topic of where and who created ADD as well as the behind the scenes of the big pharmaceutical companies was extremely interesting. I have to say now I don't look at their commercial the same way anymore. I have no idea if the author based the story point on real information but it seems real to me. Second, Kate Rudd (narrator) did a good job. In the beginning of the book she was not as "ON" as she was toward the middle and end of the audiobook. So far, The Fault In Our Stars is by far her best. I will be looking at other audiobooks by her. less

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