On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Thaths <tha...@gmail.com> wrote: [...] > * Alice Albina's Empires of the Indus
I've just started on this one, it is just amazing! > * The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer > <http://www.amazon.com/dp/1439170916/> by Siddhartha Mukherjee. An > excellent exploration of the history of cancer treatments and mankind's > experience with the malady. I read this tome this year. Not impressed due to some reasons: * 200+ pages spent on just cutting out breast tissue (breast cancer). No one in the world needs to know this much details :-) * Descriptions of doctors and their new procedures is way too flowery. It's the literary equivalent of a person prostrating to the feet of a doctor :-D * Too focused on the hospitals in Boston and the celebrities and their endorsements for cancer and such. * This book is too long. It could be easily sliced in half while retaining all the content and energy. ~ash
