A review by lewistheeditor
The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality by Richard Panek

2.0

I found it rather boring, actually, and not *that* well organized. I feel like he should have focused either more on the people or more on the science or more on the competition and less on just random facts or all three of them combined. He spent a whole lot of time talking about the biography of Vera Rubin, who didn’t figure much in the actual events except for a few small times. And he randomly gave little one line descriptions of many scientists who he actually talked about more. Then little anecdotes in weird places about random people and events. It felt to me a bit like a list of names doing random stuff.

As always, though, I’m concerned that my lack of interest may actually just be due to my lack of ability to concentrate with audio books. Or maybe the narrator’s style or something, as opposed to the actual quality of the book.

The afterword was kind of cool and interesting, though. So...... there’s that.