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물고기는 존재하지 않는다 by Lulu Miller

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kana__'s review against another edition

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informative reflective medium-paced

2.0

The scientific ideas were interesting but I found that there author's personal story around

cheating

to not be ingratiating, and had I known there several mentions of suicidal ideation I wouldn't have read this book.
Additionally, I found David Starr Jordan to be deeply unlikeable -his treatment of his family, playing favorites with his children, his likely and alleged

murdering of Jane Stanford

, his role in American (and glabal) eugenics....

I genuine enjoyed some of the philosophical and scientific discussions around language and existence, bodily autonomy, and categorizing the natural world. The peripheral stories just weren't for me

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violargento's review against another edition

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3.75

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emotional reflective sad medium-paced

2.75

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martha_w's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional funny informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

Science biography of David Starr Jordan combined with personal memoir? Seems like a weird combo, but it totally works. In a lot of ways, this reads like a classic RadioLab episode, which I love. But, it is more than that, too.

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challenging dark hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

This was informative, engaging, and a fantastic journey of discovery, both scientific and personal. When I started this book, I did not expect to be taken on a tour through the childhood of this young man who grew up to be a person most would categorize as a heroic figure, battling valiantly against science and nature to add order to chaos, only to end up breaking down the real-world harmful beliefs of this person. Lulu's own personal journey to find meaning is an engaging thread through the sometimes colder threads of science throughout this book and I love the way she's wrapped her own search for meaning into this book's research.

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sierrabowers's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

If you like reading about science and taxonomy, this would be a good book for you. If you’re loosely interested, maybe you would as well. I am not interested in these subjects but the way the author tied the subjects into her own story about life and how the universe is not as it seems… well I was interested to know why fish don’t exist. It was good book! Definitely not what I was expecting but it was enlightening and relaxing.

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emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

I truly did not know what to expect with this book, but on the whole I thought it was a fine memoir/biography with a little bit of science sprinkled in. I don't think it's particularly mindblowing and I think it's definitely overhyped, but overall it was fine. I didn't know anything about David Star Jordan, and now know he was an awful eugenicist (and honestly odd to sort of have that be a Big Reveal when it's in the intro paragraph to his wikipedia page) who probably had Jane Stanford murdered for rightfully trying to get him to face consequences. The best parts of the book are Miller's interviews with survivors of the sterilization program and the bit about taxonomy at the end.

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