He has relationships with family members (a mother and brother), and we actually get the impression that he experiences genuine feelings through all these interactions. And there isn’t quite the same “Reacher against the world” feel as in the other book. [...]
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Watching what may indeed have been Darwin’s own thought processes, as he engaged in his specimen collecting and drew near to the fateful Galapagos Islands where everyone’s lives would be changed forever, is a goosebump-inducing imaginative exercise. [...] I want to read this book, in a way, because it makes me afraid. But I feel like I need to know these things, and that somehow we have to force governments and megacorporations from going what they’re doing. [...] You know the two major Greek mythological epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey? They could take lessons in greatness and epic sweep from The Ramayana and the other, even more massive Hindu epic, The Mahabharata. [...] |
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