Lessons in Chemistry

1DISCLAIMER I AM RIPPING THIS BOOK APART , I AM ALREADY IN ABAD MOOD , AND THIS BOOK DIDNT HELP , IF YOU LIKED DONT READ

A fantasy book , with a good premice and bad execution with a fundamental misunderstanding on how institutional sexism work , or anything else really


“Bovary's a great example,” she said. “Here, where Emma licks her fingers? Some believe it signifies carnal lust; others think she just really liked the chicken. As for what Flaubert actually meant? No one cares.” 1


She intend it as a superbole probably but it illustrate perfectly this book lack of subtlety in this author writting , I promise you the reader is not a moron and dont need to be lectured by textbook tirades , show dont tell
Also those characters are caricatures , the pure archetype no more no less , Zott is not a product of her time with revoluyionary ideas , she is the self insert 21 century woman , who is a cartoon scientist genuinely , she travelled through time and dont fit at all , and brought with her some social justice textbooks probably ,i understand the feminist message but why not a more organic one , she lived all her life with the same ideas hammered at her , she isnt going to have the same mindset at us
her colleague are infruating , but i let it slide , it could be , even if the odds of a whole research department not understanding their own results , the whole departemnet not some of them , all of them , are morons , that need help , tbr how do you think they arrived at their positions ? they had an advantages in comparison to zott , but a harvard graduate is still an extremelly sharp individual
no one is that important

also her show would have got out of air the second she oppened her mouth , suspension of dibelief to what level tho , it 50 ies usa , she is going to get a communist allegation , and loose everything , the mom of five just becoming a doctorate like that is, cmon , she have five kids and no support , the poor woman already in the trenches

also this book have a strong r/atheist vibe , those edgelords kinda ambiance going for it , look at this woman lowkey proving atheism , wich girl no she isnt , also every single religious figure is crooked or evil and just lying to others about faith , i am no christian , but is it hard to fanthom some people actually are believers , i understand maybe she intended to have some exploration of religion for financial or political but it fell flat as the rest of the book



in sum , dnf a third through , could have been a good , insightfull read but this is a big fumble , but any surface white feminist might appreciate it , solvimg structural issues and racism one virtue signaling at the time
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