Peter Farness’s Reviews > Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic > Status Update

I was looking forward to reading (National Geographic and Outside Magazine's) Quammen's best known book. The writing in the second chapter, "Thirteen Gorillas," is uneven: discursive in parts with a few good vignettes and profiles. The wave/particle analogy at the end is pretty goofy. Maybe Quammen felt overshadowed by Richard Preston's sensational account of the same subject but didn't know what direction to take?