This was donated to the WHHS LMC by science teacher Mrs. Poffenberger. I hate to say I didn't like it.
"Part travelogue, part memoir, part history, part biography, and part meditation" is part of the snippet on the back cover. It sounded right up my alley. Unfortunately, I didn't really find myself caring about the author (journalist Michael Paterniti), his travel companion (the doctor who performed the autopsy on Einstein and stole the brain Thomas Harvey), or Einstein (whose brain they are bringing to his granddaughter). There was just too much self-pity going on from Paterniti--I found myself rolling my eyes and even once aloud saying "get over yourself". And really, Einstein's brain is in a Tupperware container? Harvey was nothing more than a thief in my opinion. The travel portions boil down to repetitive descriptions of the similar roadside motels they stay in going cross-country.
If someone is really interested in physical science, I can see being curious as to what happened to the great Einstein's brain after it disappeared. I couldn't get myself to though.
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