Good, short book

It's a fine book with an entertaining story and a great vocal performance by the author. Love to hear authors narrating their own books.

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Coffe everyday

Short, Interesting and educational. Was wortht my time and I will reduce my coffee drinking.

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Food for thought.

A new perspective on a daily substance. Didn’t seems bias or superficial, but still gives a crazy and astonishing realisation over our addiction as a society.

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informative, short and easy listening

I learned many facts I was unaware of. In particular the historical side was very informative. It certainly made me more aware about the typical behavioural patterns whilst observing my immediate surroundings and it's people. Well worth listening to. Food for thought.

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Interesting but strangely incomplete

I won't deny that I learned things from this book. I absolutely did and I do not regret listening to it. But at the same time, it has a lot of very strange blind spots that can't help but put in question everything else the author is telling me.

So does the book not only completely ignore the existence of caffeine sources like Guarana and Guayusa, both of whom have long histories with indigenous populations, it also misses vital differences between tea and coffee. The book spends a not inconsiderate amount of time talking about the difference in perception between tea and coffee but seems to have entirely missed that caffeine from tea is generally considered to absorb slower than caffeine from coffee, thus creating very different effects on the drinker. That might be a misconception-I have not yet searched for research on the topic-but it should have at least been discussed.

The author also quits his caffeine habit cold-turkey, something generally not recommended. Shouldn't a person researching the topic have known that?

All of which together makes me question what else the author might have left out or misrepresented that I simply didn't catch. So I sadly can't give it a higher score, even if I enjoyed it.

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Nice piece of writing!

Insightful view on the importance of caffeine in the economy, history and our daily lives.

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Brilliant! Warning: can be life-changing

Coffee controls humanity. Coffee has domesticised humanity. Coffee provides itself as a solution to the problems it creates itself. Coffee has enabled enlightenment as well as capitalism.

Bold claims. But well researched and pretty convincing.

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Shot decent listen about coffee

A bit of history and general things about coffee, works well as an intro in the subject

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Enjoyable, funny and with a story

As we are used, Michal Pollan is a good story teller. A really nice and relaxing story about the history of coffee, addiction and personal experience.

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Light and interesting

Light read narrated una fun way. Suma risas lots of other info quite well but does not go deep.

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