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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OMG, just came in here to recommend the spirit catches you. So wonderful.

More a story of malfeasance, but Bad Blood is an absolute banger of a book—you won’t be able to put it down.

I love And the Band Played On—poignant, heartbreaking. [/quote]

Do you have an opinion between And the Band Played on and How to Survive a Plague? I heard the former was great but there was a lot that was corrected in the later. I don’t know enough to know if that’s true.[/quote]

I didn’t read How to Survive a Plague. I’ve heard it’s excellent. What’s clear in Randy Shilts’ writing is that it feels so immediate—he was writing it within a decade of the first cases, and it was published in 1987. And so it’s therefore incomplete, and there’s a lot we know now that we didn’t know then (honestly, even as he was finishing the book the science, the sociology and the political and cultural environment of AIDS was changing). So in that way, it’s a little dated. But the immediacy and poignancy comes through and that’s what I love about it.[/quote]

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