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I listened to the BBC abridged audio book as I often do before ordering it. I like hardbacks so I try and be sure first I want to read it. I didn't like it enough. I loved The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer but couldn't feel that deep interest with this one.
Now it could be that the book is fantastic and it had a lousy editor at the BBC. Oliver Sacks autobiography, On the Move: A Life is a 10 star book, but the abridged BBC one is terrible, mostly the wrong episodes chosen. But st ...more
Now it could be that the book is fantastic and it had a lousy editor at the BBC. Oliver Sacks autobiography, On the Move: A Life is a 10 star book, but the abridged BBC one is terrible, mostly the wrong episodes chosen. But st ...more
A beautiful non fiction work about Genes. You get a bit of everything with this one. Some history, biology and life lessons wrapped in a nice little helix package. The layout is quite nice. The content is good the writing is lovely. Something about this book was not quite as visceral as the Emporor of All Malaldies to me though. Definitely worth a read if you have any interest in a broad overview of genetics. I would have liked if this book also went more into the bio-ethical realm. He kind of t
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