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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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I loved this wonderful book! It is about a woman chemist in the 1950s and her struggles and successes. It was funny and heartbreaking and terribly clever. The characters are so endearing - from your daughter Mad (her name is just part of the story) who is so precocious, her neighbor Harriet who is a tough broad, her wonderfully bright perceptive dog (Named Six Thirty-also part of the story)to her lover Calvin, brilliant in chemistry, and the love of her life.
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so this book was very hyped up but i had it on my to-read list for a while so i was kind of glad that one of my book clubs chose it so i would read it finally. while the main character was kind of robotic at times, i liked that she was a strong and independent woman who didnt take anyone's crap even though her attitude wasnt widely accepted by most of her colleagues, nor was a woman scientist taken seriously enough. it took her being in relationship with a well-respected scientist to get somewhe
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The author hates men, religion, the workplace. We have a thoroughly modern book here, set in 1950/60s, but with another autistic lead character that's so in vogue at the moment.
The whole book was a rolling pin in the face of messages: sexist males, abusive males, discrimination in the workplace, weight stereotypes... Battered in the reader's face by the angry main character.
All worthy causes, just crudely delivered. It bored me. I got 3/4 of the way through the book, before rolling my eyes for ...more
The whole book was a rolling pin in the face of messages: sexist males, abusive males, discrimination in the workplace, weight stereotypes... Battered in the reader's face by the angry main character.
All worthy causes, just crudely delivered. It bored me. I got 3/4 of the way through the book, before rolling my eyes for ...more
