Isaacson has a knack for writing flowing non-fiction prose that make for a great read. Sometimes the detail can border on excruciating but he seems to have resolved this in his later works.
Awesome comment. Thank you.
Re:Books I loved reading this year
by kingcharles on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @10:54AM
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Thank you for that - I'd recently read A Crack in Creation and thought the same question you had posed.
Well, I read both books, and Isaacson's is much better. In fact, Doudna's book was largely written by her coauthor, her then-graduate student Sam Sternberg, based on long interviews. This is the same process Isaacson used. But, in my opinion, Isaacson does it better, incorporating more of Doudna's personal anecdotes with similar levels of science.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30971755-a-crack-in-crea...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54968118-the-code-breake...