With much bore and listlessness, I recently finished listening to the last of Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander series. Character development throughout these books was so slow that it took me two entire novels to care what happened to the male and female leads. When I did, I was sorely disappointed with soap opera drama fit for daytime TV. The timeline was inaccessible and plot twists predictable. All in all, it was acceptable company for hours of studio work filing and soldering and zoning out.
In contrast, Richard Dawkins' "The Greatest Show on Earth" was charming and informative. The structure of his arguments for the theory of evolution leave the reader/listener nodding his/her head along with the text, following with no room for doubt or argumentation. Dawkins' narrative style is at once sharp tongued and humorous. I recommend this book to anyone curious about evolutionary theory or to any persons lacking science and entertainment in their diet. Satisfactory read, good company.
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