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Hardcover: 208 pages
Publisher: It Books; 1St Edition edition (December 21, 2010)
spectacular! I loved the story, the insight into Curie's personal life....and the brilliant (and inspiring) way in which the author combined art, history, and story-telling.
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27 of 30 people found the following review helpful
I love science, love the stories of scientists and their lives and was given this book for Christmas 2011 after a review on NPR. I found the book hard to read - disjointed. The book is about 8.5 x 11, is large and is as much about some very creative artwork as it is about the Curies. The font used has an in interesting story behind it, again creative, but not the most legible. The actual text could be crammed into about 20 pages with a 12 pt. Garamond font. The book is beautifully published here in the USA! I know, I know - I'm not being very creative and perhaps missing the point when I view this as strictly a book about two of my heroes and their science. I would strongly suggest using the look inside feature on Amazon to get a sense of the layout of the book before buying.
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I absolutely loved this book, and read it anxiously in one sitting. Redniss really captures the coincidence and fate of these very real characters' lives, braided together by their similar passion for the discovery and production of polonium. I highly recommend this book to people of pretty much all ages (even some older children could enjoy it) interested in the lives of Marie and Pierre Curie and their offspring, and how those lives created a lasting impact on each other and the world forever!
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There are exciting, original books, and then there is "Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout" --- a book so astonishingly inventive that the cover is both a joke and a metaphor.
"Radioactive" glows in the dark.
And that's just the start of the charm and beauty and high intelligence of an oversized book that mixes text and art, documents and narrative, to tell a story that starts with the story of the Curies and then radiates outward.
Image-and-text --- like a non-fiction graphic novel?
Sure, if the non-fiction graphic novel had been drawn by Matisse and Warhol and researched and written by John Didion. The author's description should be the start of you moving closer to the screen and reading more slowly: "a visual book about invisible things --- in this case, radioactivity and love."
"Radioactive" is such a bitch slap to traditional thinking about books and biography and the subject of radiation that --- the metaphor is inevitable --- it really has no half-life. This is a reading/viewing experience you'll never forget. And when you need to give a book to someone who has "everything," it's the obvious choice.
The subtitle --- "love and fallout" --- is the hint that this is a book of mystery and magic, for Marie and Pierre Curie, though two, shared a love so deep they lived and thought and worked as one. And then, as we consider what happened to them, and what their discoveries have meant to the planet.....
But the core of the book is the story of these two great scientists. Marya Sklodowska, a brilliant student from Poland, came to Paris to study at the Sorbonne. In 1894, she met Pierre Curie, an iconoclast who taught physics and chemistry. How deep was their love?Read more ›
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I'm not sure what it was about this book; it's more to showcase an art project by the author than to provide a memoir or something of historical interest. Maybe it's the odd colors -- as others have noted, it is very hard to read. Anyhow, I just couldn't stay interested -- donated it to the library.
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