
Caffeine
How Caffeine Created the Modern World
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Narrated by:
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Michael Pollan
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By:
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Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan, known for his best-selling nonfiction audio, including The Omnivores Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, conceived and wrote Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World as an Audible Original. In this controversial and exciting listen, Pollan explores caffeine’s power as the most-used drug in the world - and the only one we give to children (in soda pop) as a treat.
Pollan takes us on a journey through the history of the drug, which was first discovered in a small part of East Africa and within a century became an addiction affecting most of the human species. Caffeine, it turns out, has changed the course of human history - won and lost wars, changed politics, dominated economies. What’s more, the author shows that the Industrial Revolution would have been impossible without it. The science of how the drug has evolved to addict us is no less fascinating. And caffeine has done all these things while hiding in plain sight! Percolated with Michael Pollan’s unique ability to entertain, inform, and perform, Caffeine is essential listening in a world where an estimated two billion cups of coffee are consumed every day.
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Interview with author Michael Pollan
Our favorite moments from Caffeine
Drink coffee, not too much, mostly decaf?
If you love coffee as much as I do, you’re probably drawn to this title like a fly to honey—or perhaps I should say a caffeine addict to a Starbucks—but you’re also probably a little frightened of what you might learn. No spoilers here: the news isn’t simply good or bad. It’s highly engaging, relatable, and informative—about what caffeine does to our minds and bodies, but also what it’s done to our culture, society, and international relations. Continuing the experiential journalism on display in his last (excellent) work, How to Change Your Mind, Pollan’s deep dive into the origins of the world’s most popular legal drug isn’t just an interpretation of mountains of research, or merely interviewing the experts (though there is just enough of that here), but also an engaging observation of an author fully living the phenomenon he’s writing about. And because his own caffeine addiction is a primary "character" in the work, it’s fitting that Pollan is the one narrating. You can almost feel him craving that java fix right through your headphones.

About the Creator and Performer
Michael Pollan is the author of many books on food, cuisine, and addiction, including How to Change Your Mind, Cooked, Food Rules, In Defense of Food, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and The Botany of Desire, all of which were New York Times bestsellers. A longtime contributor to The New York Times Magazine, he also teaches writing at Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley. In 2010, TIME magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. In addition to his reporting and writing, he has garnered praise for his narration; Audible listeners have hailed Pollan’s audiobooks as "especially marvelous [to hear] in his own voice."
Photographed by Jeannette Montgomery Barron
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A worthwhile listen
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Good information, well written
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What also annoyed me, is the constant repetition of "quote", "quote", "quote" for the information that was taken from different sources.
It's OK as a freeby, but not really worth buying.
Not inspiring at all
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Lighthearted, yet informative history of caffeine
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Read at 2x speed to fully experience caffeine joys.
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Not quite what I expected
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The most used drug in the world
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could use some coffee
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Caffeine, is it really that bad?
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a comeuppance
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