Reviews

This book was pretty dry, even for nonfiction. Also, based on the title and summary, I expected more of it to be about aging in animals and I feel like the animal talked about the most was lab mice? The animals mentioned in the summary were mentioned in the book but I don’t think they were as much of a focus.

And the summary does mention a man who fasted for a year but there’s actually a lot of discussion around fasting and dieting and different diets about 3/4 through the book.

Overall, I’m disappointed mostly because I don’t think the title and summary match the book I just read

bethanu's review against another edition

Go to review page

informative medium-paced

4.25

coffeedragon's review against another edition

Go to review page

3.5

Why do nonfiction titles end up being so misleading sometimes?! This is the second time I start reading a book thinking it's going to focus on animals and it ends up being about people 😂

And as someone who is not interested in living longer, I've always been (slightly?) curious as to why people would want to prolong their lives... This book does give us some insight into information and theories for how to live longer, but how, in general, there are many things to take into consideration and how we haven't really found ways to counteract what aging does to the body (even though some animals have clearly cracked the code)

It was an ok read. I would be interested in reading more on the topic

More...