Jon Queijo

This is a book that was both fascinating and boring. The subject matter alone was fascinating - The 10 Greatest Discoveries in Medicine . Some of them, such as the discovery of X-Rays, the discovery of vaccines, and the discovery of drugs for madness, Sadness, and Fear were particularly fascinating. But the boring part was in the manner in which the author chose to cover the topics. He began most chapters with a brief summary of the discovery and then proceeded to use almost the exact words and phrases when elaborating the topic in the chapter itself. And then to make matters worse, at the end of the book he sums everything up by once again using almost the exact same words and phrases. What's the matter Queijo, do you think we the reader are not intelligent to grasp your points? Is that why you kept repeating them over and over again ?… (meer)