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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Alice in the wonderland goes high school





Growing up, we enjoyed an ad for oil where a puri (fried/puffed mini tortilla) rolls down a heap, and a kid has to watch out for that. It was a feast on the table, but the change in the perspective like from the 'Honey, I shrunk the kids', awakens us to our surroundings.
Lenny, the son of scientists is in love with a girl and he's about to change her mind about him at the molecular level. With the power vested in sciences - physics, microbiology, he finds his way into his girl's blood and is hitch hiking to her brain. All the friends (Astrocyte) and foes, he meets on the way of crossing Blood brain barrier make up for a great imagination in progress. To learn and remember the stuff like Perforin in here would take a long time and wouldn't last long in the head if we were to do it from a science textbook. I am taken by the technical in the book. But there's a play going on. You know how it is, when a play is to happen in high school. Drama.
The book alternates with chapters from 3 different point of views. Dan Brown style going on in terms of the frenzy shift.
It reminded me of the 'natural history of things' by Diane Ackerman and 'stiff' by Mary Roach. While these books are static knowledge, the middles schoolers like some action with their vitamin K. If you like knowing things in general and insides of human body in particular, you are in for a read. Watch out for those NKs (natural Killers).
There's a reference to Lunching with sharks.

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