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The End of All Diseases: An Obscure San Diego Genius Develops A Cure For Cancer in 1930

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I am not very happy I purchased this book. In fact I felt cheated of my money. Looking at the front and back cover of the book, you would expect to find something more serious than a paperback fiction story. I was expecting some serious analysis of Mr. Rife's life and his ground-breaking work; what I ended up with is a third-rate story purporting to be a thriller.

The first chapter is good, though the author digresses into the story of Mr. Rife's father-in-law, and how he became a local tycoon, but then comes back on track. The third chapter starts a protracted description of Mr. Rife's apparatus, extending from p.20 through p.38, most of which would make little sense to many people: you really don't want to go through that unless you happen to be good in physics.

I think by mixing fact and fiction, the author has seriously undermined the veracity of Mr.Rife and his excellent research. I mean, where in the book does one draw the line between fact and fantasy?

I would definitely not recommend this book to anybody, since it fails both as investigative medical journalism as well as a good story.

The first chapter was great, ... but then the rest of the book felt like a fictional story. This book does not portray the events of Royal Rife very effectively, and the author's attempt to put himself into the classics of the Rife story has failed to impress me. I think there are better ways to tell the story than leading the reader on a fantasy tale.

This book would have scored better had it an introduction that stated the objective of the book. The first section, about Rife, we know is true. After that it becomes muddled as whether or not the other characters in the book truly exist at all (or ever did). If the remaining chapters are completely fiction, based loosely on facts, or "only the names were changed...," then it would have been better, and a lot less confusing, if the author had informed us. Perhaps there was a clue somewhere, but if so, I missed it. I'd STILL like to know.

This book should be a movie.The author does what no one has done before, he found a way to dramatize and emphasize the importance of what happened and the significance of the conspiracy against Rife and his methods. It is not the usual recapping of the Rife machine but rather deals more with the ramifications to everyone who has suffered, perhaps needlessly, from a disease that was cured in the 1930's but not allowed to be used.

By the cover you would never know it is a ( VERY Poor) piece of fiction, written as if an adolescent was given a high school assignment and was just passed an article about Royal Rife the day before. I'd say someone owes me 10 bucks, but that old adage of a fool and his money soon being parted, keeps running through my mind.

Save you money on this turkey...I was looking for facts, not fiction. Of all the books I have read on Rife, this was close to being the worst of them all. Patric

If one is interested in getting serious information on R. R Rife, avoid this book. This title is a bit misleading; it should probably be marketed as a chic novel and/or made into a movie as suggested in another review. The search for salient information on Dr. Rife is scant and literature involving sensuality and sexuality is rife (sorry for that), in my opionion when I want to read the latter I'll go to a place where other writers are much more facile with the erotic genre. I give this one star for the information implied within.

This book combines a scanmag account of a persecuted man with an unintelligible description of his device that only a mad scientist could love or understand. There's only a small bit that I as a practitioner/patient might find actually useful.

What makes Rife's life worth knowing about is just how significant his work was. It undermined the theories that Pasteur died defending--though ironically his journals told a different story. Its application was simple and practical, provided that a practitioner learn how to tweak his machine for each patient. Tragically, that is the knowledge that died a premature death with Rife.

Happily others are now picking up its trail again. A quick search of this very site will also lead to many books from scientists who have been building on Rife's work; from these we can find tools for our own healing.

In the meantime, for those interested in the life of a fascinating yet sad figure, there's a much more judicious account of Rife's life and work in the much better book "50 Years of Suppression: The Cancer Cure that Worked". That book also makes clear the scientific implications of his findings in the context of other scientists of his times. Look for it.

To much conspiracy to be beleivable. However, it is a fiction so it does not have to be believable. Not very well written in my opinion.