The first 75 or so pages of this book I was convinced that I was too stupid to read this book. I took several college level natural science courses including genetics, biology, botany, and I even student taught for environmental science for a semester. However I found myself looking up terms and even googling a few things to better understand what they were talking about. After page 75 or so the entire book did a 360 and it turned into more or less a version of, "Honey, I shrunk the Graduate Students." I'm sure many of us remember the 80's movie, "Honey I shrunk the Kids"? Just replace the kids with 7 graduate students and the dad with an evil businessman of a nano tech company bent on killing anything that did not agree with him.
I spent the next couple hundred of pages thinking to myself that this was one of the most ridiculous books I have ever read. It reminded me a lot of Jurassic Park. I don't really know what happened to me. All of a sudden I started enjoying the book. It was fun and I started to enjoy the written description of our world told from a micro human. I have sat out in my garden planting and just watching all the small insects, worms, and other bugs working their magic and wondering how much more I could see if I were as small as they were. We need these little creatures as much as we need food, air, and shelter.
So did I enjoy the book? Yes, I did. I think it's worth giving it a read. It is a bit campy, but so are so many other things that we enjoy.
I spent the next couple hundred of pages thinking to myself that this was one of the most ridiculous books I have ever read. It reminded me a lot of Jurassic Park. I don't really know what happened to me. All of a sudden I started enjoying the book. It was fun and I started to enjoy the written description of our world told from a micro human. I have sat out in my garden planting and just watching all the small insects, worms, and other bugs working their magic and wondering how much more I could see if I were as small as they were. We need these little creatures as much as we need food, air, and shelter.
So did I enjoy the book? Yes, I did. I think it's worth giving it a read. It is a bit campy, but so are so many other things that we enjoy.
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