Is it really the best science book ever written? >On Oct

>>8404828
literally what ?

>>8404869
>Writer Primo Levi (1919-1987), an Italian Jew, did not come to the wide attention of the English-reading audience until the last years of his life. A survivor of the Holocaust and imprisonment in Auschwitz, Levi is considered to be one of the century's most compelling voices, andThe Periodic Tableis his most famous book. Springboarding from his training as a chemist, Levi uses the elements as metaphors to create a cycle of linked, somewhat autobiographical tales, including stories of the Piedmontese Jewish community he came from, and of his response to the Holocaust.

>>8404905
Ah, now it makes sense. Saged.

>>8404914
Wow. Antisemitism doesn't belong here, pol. Ugh. Ah. Ooh.

>>8404921
it's not even antisemitism

we're talking /lit/ value here, holocaust-based novels are all hardcore shilling with no literary merit

>>8404925
primo levi is actually patrician as fuck

there's no victimizing or anything of the sort, and his work is based firmly on the literary tradition.

primo levi can recite dante by heart. what have you done bucko?

>>8404928
I didn't experience an oven ;)

>>8404925
You know nothing about literature if you haven't heard of primo levi.

>literature based around thing I disagree with MUST be nothing but shilling.

>>8404946
;)

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>>8404940
neither did he

>>8404951
but his family did XD

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>>8404925
that's the dumbest opinion I've ever read in this board. It's not really but I just wanted you to know it's a dumb opinion

>>8404928
Correct. Levi is based & patrician.

...so is the book good?

>>8404828
it's certainly a great cover, and that's how I judge most of the books I read

>>8404928
This. Levi is an incredibly good writer.

>>8404828
It's a great book but it's hardly a science book.

>>8404828
>>8404928
Wait can I actually learn science from this or is it just muh concentration camp the book?

>>8404828

I liked Tranquil Star, so maybe I'll check this shit out

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>>8406286
This. This is probably great literature but if there's no actual science, or history of science, in it, I'd hardly class it as a Science Book.

A science book is something like pic related, or A Brief History Of Time.

It's a good read, but the end is a bit lightweight.