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Title: Why was this a best seller?
Review: Disappointing sums it up for me. If I wasn't interested in geology already I would be even more disappointed. The author could have done more with this interesting saga in the history of geology if he hadn't tried to blow it up into something more earth-shaking than it really was. I think his editors were asleep with all the repetitive foreshadowing and over-the-top declarations of at-the-time unappreciated genius. For a good geology read try John McPhee.
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