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A review by greerd
Turbulence by Giles Foden
3.0
2.5 stars.
There was so much in this book that would have been more interesting than what Foden actually wrote about. Habbakuk (version 1 or 2)? The science of peace? The discovery of the rhesus factor and its role in miscarriages? Lev the mine-hunting sealion?
Instead, Foden chose to write about a sexually frustrated, socially awkward, white male academic, with a smattering of ill-explained meteorology. The narrative jumps around from present to past (WW2) to even further past (Meadows' childhood in colonial Africa) with the turbulence of the title, making it much more difficult to read than it needed to be.
Yawn.
There was so much in this book that would have been more interesting than what Foden actually wrote about. Habbakuk (version 1 or 2)? The science of peace? The discovery of the rhesus factor and its role in miscarriages? Lev the mine-hunting sealion?
Instead, Foden chose to write about a sexually frustrated, socially awkward, white male academic, with a smattering of ill-explained meteorology. The narrative jumps around from present to past (WW2) to even further past (Meadows' childhood in colonial Africa) with the turbulence of the title, making it much more difficult to read than it needed to be.
Yawn.