A review by spinnerroweok
Electric Universe by David Bodanis

3.0

I got about halfway through this book before I discovered that it was abridged. I found the information interesting, but I could defnintely tell information was missing. Even at the end the narrator talks about the story starting with Volta, but in this abridged version it didn't. It definitely felt as if there were other gaps in the story of electricity. Also, the author changed his approach in a few of the stories. The first two stories start out kind of mysterious, the story on Hertz is told almost entirely from his own diary and other documents. The end of the chapter on computers sounds like the conclusion to the entire book, but it's not.

Still, in spite of all its flaws, I would still recommned. In fact, I'm looking for an unabrided text to read the missing parts. I'm pretty sure they cut out entire stories, but I also suspect that there was some internal editing within the stories as there occasionally seemed to be gaps in the narrative.