Title: Really macho. Really tiresome.
Product review: I wish I would have read the review in Science Magazine April 27 edition before I wasted my money on this book. I totally agree with the very well known and respected volcanologist who wrote the review that this book is more of a "macho" book than an interesting account of science. It doesn't take a genius to see that these people in the crater didn't need to die and certainly weren't doing any life-saving research. I also agree that most of the book is "filler" and is just regurgitation of what's already been written on past eruptions. The other book on the Galeras tragedy NO APPARENT DANGER is far, far, better. It is exciting and comprehensive and, possibly because a women geologist wrote it, it is not nauseatingly macho.
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