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4.24 AVERAGE
4.24 AVERAGE
marcnash21stc's review
5.0
Wonderful, might just sneak into my top 10 reads of the year. Poetry, who knew? Actually it reminded me of David Eagleman's "Sum - 40 Tales From The Afterlife"
j3s's review
3.0
This is a heavily researched, technically impressive book that just didn't resonate with me as much as some of Bök's other work. The visual poetry elements were fun and I learned some interesting things, but found myself skimming much more than I wanted to.
nikki_levinson's review
5.0
I really enjoyed reading this book. It provided me with a very interesting and new way to look at not only the structure of the earth and it’s crystals, but also language and how we use it.
valhecka's review
4.0
A really beautifully designed book. The contents have a lot of wonderfully expressed thoughts on language, materials, words, organization, civilization - not to mention gemstones. As a materials scientist I was a bit miffed at some of the fluffed/flawed technical terminology - glass isn't a slow liquid! it just isn't! stop! - but these were infrequent. Really interested in more of the author's work.
prolog15's review
5.0
"Writing represents the superficial damage endured by one / surface when inflicting damage upon the surface of another." (p.124)
Crystallography turns science, language, and space on their heads to form striking metaphors and statements of truth. Bök illustrakes—through poetry, prose, and diagrams—how crystallography is 'lucid writing' and how writing is science is art. Bök's paradigm of crystal language is not only convincing but beautiful, in the way snowflakes are beautiful. Crystallography is a book to be studied, in every meaning of the word.