RaveThe Wall Street JournalIn a high-voltage jolt of insight, Mr. Raffles converts what might seem a dry scientific concept into a potent literary metaphor to help anyone whose sense of time has been fractured by loss ... Unconformities is so rich in erudition and prose-poetry that I read it like a glutton, tearing off big bites of lost time until I was sated ... One hundred pages of notes ground the author’s vivid writing in rock-solid scholarship ... The joy of “Unconformities” is in Mr. Raffles’s language, most exquisite in the form of lists that invite readers to slow down and savor a catalog of names and images ... The Book of Unconformities is a poignant and healing descent into deep time and its relevance to the human experience.
Lewis Dartnell
PositiveThe Wall Street JournalOrigins is a Big History, a grand synthesis that draws from many fields ... Mr. Dartnell’s breezy style is full of word play, setting him far from the plodding crowd of many science writers ...Though Mr. Dartnell’s style is light, extensive footnotes offer delightful expansions of specific topics ...
