comrade_anka 's review for:

The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee

3.0

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I think I must have had higher expectations after his book about Cancer. I enjoyed the first 15-20% of this book when he was writing about the history of scientific discoveries, but then he switches to a long chapter on the politics of 20s-40s and that's what I find to be annoying in many non-fiction books these days. I didn't mind the parts where he tells about his own family history of mental illnesses, but sometimes they felt out of place. I was also a bit irritated by his constant jumps from one topic to another, since I was listening to the audiobook version - I sometimes kept loosing track of the chronological events.