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A review by nathanjhunt
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution by Nick Lane
challenging
sad
slow-paced
1.0
My 38th book finished in 2023.
My friend Stewart gave me this book before I left the UK. I've been carrying it around the Caribbean, South America and Asia since then. I began reading it in Peru, then started again three months later in Vietnam. I left it in a homestay in Hue.
I hated this book. I hated every single thing about it. With every turn of the page, I had to quell the urge to kill myself. This rubbish took me three months to get through, and I could only do that by playing it through text to speech using Google Lens.
Nick Lane is a talented author - talented at turning the most curiously interesting subjects into the most mundane droll trash I've ever heard. How can he possibly make evolution, sex, dinosaurs and death so goddamn boring??
I absolutely hate myself for sticking with this book. By far the most boring thing I've ever had the displeasure to put myself through.
My friend Stewart gave me this book before I left the UK. I've been carrying it around the Caribbean, South America and Asia since then. I began reading it in Peru, then started again three months later in Vietnam. I left it in a homestay in Hue.
I hated this book. I hated every single thing about it. With every turn of the page, I had to quell the urge to kill myself. This rubbish took me three months to get through, and I could only do that by playing it through text to speech using Google Lens.
Nick Lane is a talented author - talented at turning the most curiously interesting subjects into the most mundane droll trash I've ever heard. How can he possibly make evolution, sex, dinosaurs and death so goddamn boring??
I absolutely hate myself for sticking with this book. By far the most boring thing I've ever had the displeasure to put myself through.