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marie
4.0 out of 5 stars clever and witty
Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2012
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This is a quick and fun read with some very touching moments. This is subtitled a nature versus nurture tale and the author takes great pains to show how different these Einsteins are physically and mentally. You can guess the answer from the books description that nurture wins. The first person narrator is preachy but this makes sense in the end. He takes shots at both sides, liberal and conservative. There's a funny parody of NPR being sponsored by Agri-Tech -"At Agri-Tech, we turn corn into food."
There are funny references to Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller Catch-22. The war parody is savage, as one reviewer said. The Rumsfield character, Montjoie, is some kind of mold creature that lives in the White House woodwork and materializes when "humid desperation" it in the room. Then there's the ban on Spanish things, and Congress changes the name of the Spanish fly date rape drug to Liberty Fly. There are many laugh out loud parts easy to miss. My only criticism is the story is script like -like a movie. There is so much clever writing though that the story moves along.
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Hey, Einstein!: A novel about nature and nurture
byChristopher Wanjek
3.4 out of 5 stars
7 global ratings