Title: The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Author: John M. Barry
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2004/2005
560 pages
Don't, as I did, make the mistake of reading this on a plane, or you, too, will have an influenza/Twelve Monkeys experience of others' ubiquitous pathogens.
Barry is repetitive at times. I didn't mind the long tangential segments that provided background for his flu-based sections. It felt grand and sweeping rather than disconnected. It probably helped that I read this as an audiobook, so it kept moving along. However, there was a lot of dramatic buildup for what felt like an anticlimactic conclusion.
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