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Title: Of Flies, Mice, and Men by Francois Jacob, Giselle Weiss ISBN: 0-674-00538-4 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 1.75 (4 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: Goes nowhere
Comment: I agree with the other reviews -- this book, by a Nobel Prize winner, no less, has a fascinating topic; yet, over and over, the author starts building up to a conclusion, and just as he's about to reach that conclusion and share the learned insights, he goes off on another path.
He also makes glaring mistakes about relativity and astronomy when he claims "that if you travel long enough and fast enough through the galaxies, you'll become young again" and "our entire world came into being in a few hundredths of a second."
Instead, very fast travel will make you age more slowly than your non-traveling and relatively fast-aging peers, but you won't "become young again," and the Earth was formed in a very slow process -- it was the initial Big Bang, not the creation of the Earth, that was fast.

Rating: 1
Summary: Starkly Mediocre
Comment: Like music out of the romantic period, this book starts going nowhere, then promises to go somewhere, but ends up going nowhere.

The middle chapters talking about Lysenko and his anti-science... and the parts about genome research were interesting.

Rating: 2
Summary: Neither fish nor fowl
Comment: Perhaps it's the translation, but this book dances around its point, and lacks coherence. It's meant, I think, to convey a sense of how it feels to work on science, particularly biological science, but it never really draws us in. Written more as a series of independent essays, it turns out to be not all that memorable, and not all that interesting.