WHAT A BEST TELLER!

If you ever wanted to understand anything about such mysteries as soviet leaders’ funerals, church and state in New York (and elsewhere), cloning, stem cells research, and body worship, just to name a few things that matter, THINGS THAT MATTER is the book to read. I do not have a scientific background and this scientific author held me spellbound till midnight. And if I were a young person, probably scared to death too! Three-fourths way through this extraordinary book, I’ve read nothing of complaint about the author’s own handicap, and what science might do for him. I believe he must think, if anything comes from much of this research, it may be hundreds or thousands of years away. And what evil men could do with it! Krauthammer is an honorable man. I think he would opt to live in his wheelchair the rest of his life than to have “one of these least” embryos misused.

I must explain my title here. In the few days since I’ve first written about this book and this author, 113 viewers have clicked on my first post about man and book. The related posts are now climbing. While his work is a best seller, he is indeed a best teller. Even with his fabulous vocabulary, he makes everything easy to understand, sometimes with extra effort for the reader, but not often. Vocabulary is where the English major has an easier time with the non-scientific words than many other people. And just think, Krauthammer knows it all.

One last note: in one of those recent interviews of his, after a question, whatever it was, he said, in essence, “I can say anything I want to say,” meaning he was free to do so; he isn’t censored. He spoke these words with grace and grin. More later, you can bet.

You must read this book. ♥♥♥