rjsthumbelina 's review for:

The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe

4.0

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I read this on audio. It has the entertainment piece down, but I guess I was looking for a little more science. It was about the main players in debates about the origin of human language. I thought that the characters' stories were told in a very interesting manner, and it opened up some lines of their pasts I had never heard of. I didn't enjoy how the 2 main players (Darwin and Chomsky) were almost villainized because of their actions to defend their scientific discoveries. I am not saying what they dod was right, but they probably did what most scientists would have done to try to defend what they thought people needed to hear.

Entertaining stories, but more fluff than I wanted.