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  <title><![CDATA[The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher]]></title>
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  <default_description>Continuing the exploration of humanity and its world he began in   &lt;i&gt;The Lives of a Cell, &lt;/i&gt;the acclaimed scientist examines disease   and natural death, cloning, making mistakes, and other timely topics   with his trademark wonder and wit. Reprint.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1979</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lewis Thomas]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sun Jun 21 09:12:19 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jun 21 09:33:29 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have fairly jumbled thoughts about this book - perhaps because the writing style is so disorderly itself.  The book opens with some really interesting and unique perspectives on the state of science and society in general.  There were a few key phrases that really caught my attention and inspired ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60512591">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Jan 09 20:27:59 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the famous first book by this author, &quot;The Lives of a Cell&quot;, way back in my college years and loved it. I think I also read this collection of essays, but when I came across it recently, I felt like it was worth a second look. I enjoyed it quite a bit. The writing style is clever an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42532405">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1980</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this back in high school, but I reread the introduction recently. There's a fascinating discussion of the history of pharmaceutics in the 20th century. When Thomas was trained as a doctor, the pharmaceutical industry, then patent medicine industry, was being placed firmly under the thumb of d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57130186">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41033897">
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Dec 27 15:44:03 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 03 23:53:13 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't found many good non-fiction books recently. The Medusa and the Snail certainly didn't break the bad streak either - rather it capped it with a heaping mass of immaterial, rambling, barely coherent asides. There is little structure in the book and even less worth remembering. It's not that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41033897">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Oct 15 17:14:31 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 15 17:31:03 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[His fascination with language and the roots of words is a tiresome way of structuring his views on the world and science, so I skipped over a lot of these parts of the book. Etymology aside it is still interesting and hilarious, and fresh- his interests and observations are still engaging thirty+ ye...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74670005">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50065969">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Mar 22 10:55:12 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Apr 01 13:09:03 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this man's mind. This is the first I've read by him. I've neglected &quot;The lives of a cell; notes of a biology watcher&quot; despite several people reccomending it to me. Now I am eager to read it. This Thomas is playful, funny and loves biology, music and language and somehow blends the t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50065969">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="36890440">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kathy P]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Nov 04 07:37:48 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 21 06:42:02 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a thoroughly pleasant little book, a compilation of short, simple, thoughtful essays about a random collection of topics by a physician whose interests are centered on biology but range more widely and quite articulately. With that excessively long but grammatically correct sentence, I will ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36890440">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77596176">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a collection of beautiful essays by Lewis Thomas. Think of it as scientific poetry.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[For those with an interest in nature and interesting musing]]></body>
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    <review id="4764119">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1974</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[And another by Lewis Thomas I'd recommend: The Lives of a Cell.  Thomas is another scientist who writes like a thinker-poet.  His writing is elegant.  His novel and unique juxtaposition of ideas is always fascinating.  A good way to start or to continue wondering about life.]]></body>
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    <review id="8061516">
    <user id="47354">
    <name><![CDATA[Dave]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1982</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Followed The Lives of a Cell.  Another remarkable collection of mindful, thought provoking essays on biology and humanity.  Many of my favorites are in this book.  The title essay is good but Transcendental Meta-worry and On Punctuation are great.]]></body>
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    <review id="10562146">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the 2nd book in the Notes of a Biology Watcher series.  Not as amazing as the 1st book, but still pretty fascinating.]]></body>
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    <review id="22419688">
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    <body><![CDATA[Surprisingly the lead for the book came from an unexpected source - The elements of grammar by Margaret Shertzer.]]></body>
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    <review id="1825803">
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    <body><![CDATA[The natural world explored by a scientist for super-natural meaning - essays are thought provoking and amazing.]]></body>
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    <review id="3011620">
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    <body><![CDATA[I have so far learned about the peculiar symbiotic relationship between a jellyfish and a snail.]]></body>
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    <review id="34981640">
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    <body><![CDATA[As quoted in Lecture 2 of Metabolism, &quot;Nutritional aspects of metabolism&quot;.]]></body>
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    <review id="5765134">
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    <body><![CDATA[A great book about ecology for the ecologist and literature lover.]]></body>
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    <review id="14941382">
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the greatest science writers ever IMHO.]]></body>
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