Immunology Made Ridiculously Simple 1st Edition

Only at chapter 2, but loving it already! Simple language, lots of illustrations and it appears quite comprehensive!

I love it, easy to read and understand

My college biology student loved this book

My immuno prof. recommended this book, and being that he's conscientious of the high prices we pay for our texts I took the recommendation seriously and I'm glad I did. This is a very useful book for a topic that is generally not very well explained in most other formats.

I had not reviewed or read anything on immunology in over 10 years. This is a good review of the basic science and summation of the current status of clinical applications. It is a quick and informative read.

I haven’t finished reading the book but it was delivered in great shape and so far the info is clear and easily comprehensible. It’s a good introduction to the topic

This book might be well suited to a high school or maybe college cell bio course with a unit on immunology, or a quick overview to get your bearings when starting a medical immunology course. But it is just the bare bones of the different cell types and immunological reactions and a couple of examples without any significant mechanistic or integrative insights. I really liked the Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple, but this one was a great disappointment in comparison. It is dry, has few mnemonics or tricks for memory, it is a terrible combination of painfully boring and not much useful content. The more complicated (i.e. board relevant) info( like cytokines, complement, pathways that involve multiple cell types, etc.) is barely mentioned and/or inserted in table form with no useful way to remember or integrate it. It was a decent refresher of the most basic principles which I guess was a good place to start for me since I bombed immunology initially and am having to start at square one for board studying, but I feel my time would have been better spent just going straight to First Aid General Principles or other clinically thorough but brief/basic text, which is necessary after this in any case. Starting with this book was not any value added, I'd have been just as well skipping the 6 hours or so I spent on it. The good thing is it was short and only $20 so I don't feel extraordinarily ripped off.

This is an excellent book for medical students and whoever is interested in getting an outline/overview of what immunology is about. You may not get the most out of this book if you just want to use it for boards. But you will find it very useful if you use it as a review/summary book for immunology or if you want to know the basics of immunology. In this regard, therefore, it is a short and concise book and great for its value.