First let me be honest. I didn't finish this book. I only got under 100 pages in. It's very very rare for me to not finish a book, in fact, I don't think I've ever stopped in the middle of one before.
The writing is excellent. I enjoy the pace and the style of her writing. But apparently my skin is too thin for this. I have experienced darkness in life and I do not seek it out in books.
Had i read page 1 when I got this book, I probably wouldn't have bought it. (I bought it based off the blurb on the back). Had I read the last page of the book, I most certainly would not have bought it. It was accidentally skimming the last page that made me set this book down.
It is told in a cold, calloused way and based on truth (Daniel Carleton Gajdusek).
Many of the reviews I have since read for this book give it 5 stars and talk about how much it broke them. So i suppose if you are looking to be devastated by a book (that does not have an upside what so ever), this book is for you.
Fair warning.
The writing is excellent. I enjoy the pace and the style of her writing. But apparently my skin is too thin for this. I have experienced darkness in life and I do not seek it out in books.
Had i read page 1 when I got this book, I probably wouldn't have bought it. (I bought it based off the blurb on the back). Had I read the last page of the book, I most certainly would not have bought it. It was accidentally skimming the last page that made me set this book down.
It is told in a cold, calloused way and based on truth (Daniel Carleton Gajdusek).
Many of the reviews I have since read for this book give it 5 stars and talk about how much it broke them. So i suppose if you are looking to be devastated by a book (that does not have an upside what so ever), this book is for you.
Fair warning.
Norton Perina is a scientist who is brought to an island to study a very unknown race of people. He discovers many things about their culture and learns that they are much older than we are accustomed to people being.
He learns the secret of their long lives and earns many awards in doing so. In time, he adopts some of the children from the island and brings them back to the United States and raises them.
This was extremely well written and fascinating in its whole way of being done as a reference novel about Norton Perina.
He learns the secret of their long lives and earns many awards in doing so. In time, he adopts some of the children from the island and brings them back to the United States and raises them.
This was extremely well written and fascinating in its whole way of being done as a reference novel about Norton Perina.
