Book review for Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds
Write the book review report about these two books: Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom by Katherine Eban & Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds by Lauren Slater.
Book Review Overview
For this course, you will be reading two books. The first is Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom by Katherine Eban, and the second is Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs That Changed Our Minds by Lauren Slater. Although each book tells quite a different story, they do have some things in common.
Both books are very nice pieces of investigative journalism relating to the history, science, ethics, and morality of drugs that society uses daily.
While Bottle of Lies focuses on generic drugs, Blue Dreams focuses on drugs specific to neuropsychology.
Each book review should have several sections as outlined below. In each section consider the following questions while you are reading the book.
Introduction – the introduction should summarize the main themes and ideas of the book
What are the main themes and ideas that the author explores in this book?
What do you think are the authors main take-home messages?
Critique – pros and cons of the book based both on fact and opinion
What information did you find compelling to reinforce major ideas or themes?
Was there any information that you felt was lacking?
Where there any major themes or ideas that you felt could have been expanded or shortened?
Closing paragraph(s)
What really resonated with you and why?
Would you recommend this book to othercgos? Why or why not?
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