Title: an exciting life made boring
Product review: Jim Clark is charismatic ! Jim Clark is a genius ! Jim Clark is a megalomaniac ! This should make for a fascinating read, but the author is a smart-alec who in trying to be humorous trivializes most every incident in the story. Why so much text ( 2 chapters plus other minor parts ) should be spent describing how Clark vaporizes millions on his toy- the yacht with the world's tallest mast - and the endless details of its misbegotten trans Atlantic trip is beyond me. So boring I had to force myself to finish it. A much more interesting and palatable overview of Clark, in the perspective of all the other geniuses in the Valley is presented in The Silicon Boys.
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