It's always a thrill to get a celebrity endorsement, especially as they don't happen very often, so I am unreasonably tickled with a review of A (Very) Short &c &c in the book blog of Eric Idle. Just mosey over to his reading blog, or, for the hard of scrolling, read this:
My favourite book of the year and maybe the decade. Henry Gee is both brilliantly funny and brilliantly informative. So many times I found myself saying out loud “Oh my gawd” as some fact or information came at me. We are not the end of evolution. We are not even the summit of it. We are mistaken about our place in the incredible and very long evolution and continuous breaking of new life forms on earth. I shall read this book again and again. You might find the early chapters a little dense because there are so many monocellular Latin forms of life. Don’t be afraid to skip, move forward, the story gets better and better with incredible chapters on animal life and the evolution of mammals. Learn your place in the Universe, which is both incredible and unlikely and puny.
This has to be the apotheosis of my zenith this week. Especially as he says my book is 'brilliantly funny'. Now, that's a compliment and a half.
I am so envious. Only an endorsement from Spike Milligan would exceed that, especially as he's dead.
ReplyDeleteWell, he did tell us that he was ill.
ReplyDeleteYer, his knees fell off.
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