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comment by tacocat

I'm embarrassingly close to finishing The Emperor of All Maladies. But I've been painting since I got back to my apartment a few weeks ago and it's distracting me from reading and writing another Hubski modern art lesson.

The book is so good. I love history and reading about when people blamed things we didn't understand on the most ridiculous shit but there's not too much of that. The author makes modern scientific research pretty enthralling and it puts into perspective how short a time we've been medically competent instead of rubbing leeches and chicken blood on each other. It makes me appreciate what we actually do right given all the time we were amputating everything