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I wasn't a big fan of Keen's previous book The Disappearing Spoon, so I was a little hesitant to pick this one up. Eventually I gave in to all the good reviews and I'm really glad I did. Keen takes a subject that could easily get boring and manages to fill the book with interesting facts and stories all explained in a way a layperson can understand. His style reminds me a lot of Mary Roach, who's also written popular science titles. I might have to go back and give spoon another try… ...more
This one took me FOREVER. It was much more dense than Sam Kean's other works and harder to get into. The research and information was, as always, phenomenal and a little disturbing. References are made in later chapters to information in earlier ones - given my limited knowledge of genetics, I mostly had to go back and look stuff up. Footnotes were great and I loved the cultural/historical content. Recommend to anyone curious about genetics.
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Apr 24, 2017
Angie
marked it as non-fiction-to-read
Nov 30, 2021
Emily
marked it as to-read
