Z's review
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
by Oliver W. Sacks
Z's review
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver W. Sacks
Z's review
rating:
bookshelves:
2007,
non-fiction
I enjoyed this considerably more than The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat, which partly just reflects my relative levels of interest in chemistry and neuroscience, but also reflects the way this book interleaves scientific and wartime memoir -- the Second World War being a topic which interests me more than either of the above, at least from a pleasure-reading point of view. (Plus, I learned a few more obnoxious chemistry trivia facts, the better to torment family and friends.)
