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Excellent read. Not too technical with a good glossary. Writer convinced me that this is their world and we just happen to share it with them. I learned a lot.
This book started off strong, but in the middle there are several chapters on various natural cycles (sulfur cycle, carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle) that are incredibly boring. In these chapters, it reads like a textbook and I would know because I've read that textbook already and found it boring then. I found it to have lots of fun microbe facts, some I knew about and others I didn't. The last few chapters were again interesting. I like the idea of writing as if you were on a microbe hunt, searchi
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written for the layman, this book is my advanced microbiology class, but fun. proton pumps, woese, archea, it's all there. the cycle chapters were a bit boring but thorough. also he tells a lot of interesting facts i didn't know--for one, how cherry cordials are made. read this if you're a science buff, definitely!!
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