Luca

Very poignant examples and vision, with am annoyingly sparse treatment

A nice and comfortable dip in the life of a most mysterious, complex and fascinating scientist.

Simple, but sharp and illuminated

This book could have been just 200 pages with better editors.

This is why good stories don't cover ALL the life of the protagonist. Read the first 20-30 pages and the last 20-30, all the important information is there.

Worst offenders: a very smug protagonist, the abuse of "matter-of-factly" as a term, total absence of world building, female characters that exist only as nurses or sexual objects, and the usage of "galvanic" and "rerum codex" in a world that didn't have neither Galvani nor Latin...