Intuition (3)

Title: Intuition
Author: Allegra Goodman
Genre: Fiction

There are few things in life more disappointing to me than reading a book I'd been very much looking forward only to find that I don't enjoy itt. I had put Intuition by Allegra Goodman on my Amazon wishlist when it first came out well over a year ago (possibly two?). I finally received a paperback copy for Christmas last month. I could not wait to dive in.

I can't remember what got me so excited about the book. Maybe a review, maybe because my partner is a scientist and I wanted to explore that world a little bit. The only exploration this book caused was for me to look at and realize just how tender hearted I really am. The sections of the book dealing with experimenting on and sacrificing lab animals really disturbed me. So much so that I found myself skipping whole passages that dealt with those topics.

I'll give Intuition credit for one thing. It's a book that you really don't know at all what it's about, what the true heart of the book is, until the final 8 pages and perhaps even not until the last two sentences of the last paragraph on the final page. It takes a gifted writer to build an entire world and tell countless stories about that world but not really let you in to the book's emotional core until right before you finish the book.