A review by apetruce
Anthill by Edward O. Wilson

3.0

I read this because E.O. Wilson is such a notable and Pulitzer winning natural scientist. I heard the NPR interview with him that described that he thought there was so much in the natural world for writer's to turn into fiction (This is his fist attempt at fiction.)and I had thought the same thing myself. The book is ok-to-good. Parts are really good and other parts are so slow...too non-fiction-like for my tastes. But I learned a lot. I guess my main criticism is that passages are either all fiction or all fact...and Wilson doesn't do a good job of blending them together. It's on the NYT bestseller list though, so what do I know?