On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:43 PM Ashwin Nanjappa <ashwi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Thaths <tha...@gmail.com> wrote: > [...] > > * Alice Albina's Empires of the Indus > > I've just started on this one, it is just amazing! > Indeed. BTW, Albina wrote a fiction book after this. Don't even try it. Simply awful. > > > * The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer > > <http://www.amazon.com/dp/1439170916/> by Siddhartha Mukherjee. An > > excellent exploration of the history of cancer treatments and mankind's > > experience with the malady. > > I read this tome this year. Not impressed due to some reasons: > * 200+ pages spent on just cutting out breast tissue (breast cancer). > To be honest, I didn't really read it either. Listened to the audiobook (at 1.25x speed). Much more doable that way. Thaths
