I was more than skeptical at the start. I had read Giordano's La Solitudine dei Numeri Primi and found it rather bland, so when I borrowed this (e)book my expectations were rather low, but hey I was proven wrong!
Tasmania was such an unexpectantly pleasant read that it actually took me a while to fully admit to myself its many qualities: the prose is that of a very talented writer, and the scientific knowledge that of a great disseminator (how good a physicist Giordano actually is, I have no idea). And while the couple dynamics between the narrator and the love of his life at times leave a little to be desired, those between him and his main academic point of reference are absolutely fasciating (and it's great to see Giordano showing how - looking at the same dataset - academics can often come to diametrically opposite conclusion and decide to completely overlook some variables).
And maybe, after all, we should all just consider moving to Tasmania. Just in case...
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