An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist

You know how sometimes you sit down with a grandparent or elderly relative and you think they're going to tell you an awesome war story or about something crazy that happened when they were younger, but instead they just bore you with the minutiae of what they ate at school as a child? That's pretty much how this book is. The first 220 pages are wordy and and boring. It's only toward the end of the book, when Dawkins starts to discuss his research and writing, that things get intriguing. I liked the last three or four chapters. I felt like I learned a lot from him at that point. But reading anecdotes about classmates from school when he was a child? Not so much.

Being an amazing writer on religion led me to reading everything Dawkins has written. This biography details his life and inspiration that drove him towards a life in science. Interesting subject, but reading about years in boarding school and all about academia wasn't that interesting to me. His background in coding was the most interesting part, but covered quickly.

Being an amazing writer on religion led me to reading everything Dawkins has written. This biography details his life and inspiration that drove him towards a life in science. Interesting subject, but reading about years in boarding school and all about academia wasn't that interesting to me. His background in coding was the most interesting part, but covered quickly.