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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
In 2009 it was Richard Holmes's "The Age of Wonder", the following year it was "The Emperor of All Maladies".
Universally admired, winner of a Pulitzer prize, this book annoyed me so profoundly when I first read it that I've had to wait almost a year to be able to write anything vaguely coherent about it.
The flaws that I found so infuriating a year ago seem less important upon a second reading.
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Though I still think it is a poorly conceived book, executed in a manner that lacks all restraint, it's nowhere near as terrible as I remembered.
As I recall, the aspects of the book that most annoyed me were:
(a) the author's anthropomorphism of cancer -- a stupid, unhelpful, and ineffective metaphor.
In general, I detest this practice of attributing personalities to diseases. Perhaps it's a necessary psychologi