Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Brave Genius

It's 1940 France. Right In the middle of WWII. Two men, leading entirely different lives become entwined, forming an unexpected friendship. Both will go on to earn a Nobel Prize in their line of work. And both will go on to lead extraordinary lives.

This is a pretty hefty book, starting with it's length. But also due to it's content. I found the war history to be engaging, as I usually do. Especially reading a out it from a new perspective. Camus I alreAdy knew through His literature , but Monod was new to me. A lot of this book was enjoyable, most all of it was interesting, but there were a lot of areas I felt dragged on or were disjointed. I am sure it's hard to make a book connect the dots when you are working with materials gathered over the years and from different resources, but I wish it would have had better flow at times. But overall, I think there was a lot of great and worthy content.
I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.