old_man_niemand's review
Far too wordy and repetitive despite its interesting topics.
cinnaminskies's review
challenging
funny
informative
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
Harkness’ humor and joy really comes out in this. The Coda was just brilliant.
lizdesole's review
2.0
Boring. The whole first chapter is only about one block in London where many botanist type people resided during the scientific revolution. It dragged too much for a layperson, in my opinion. Maybe the other chapters were better, but it was due back at the library and I didn't bother renewing
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