David’s Reviews > The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer > Status Update

This has received such extravagant praise in the media that I feel I should try it. Even though I really detest the anthropomorphization of diseases in general, and "cancer" in particular. Then there's the whole question of portraying "cancer" as a single disease. (It lurks outside your window, like a menacing teddy boy. What white-coated hero will swoop in to vanquish it and earn mankind's undying adulation?) Meh.