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Driving Mr. Albert
Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain | Michael Paterniti
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Albert Einstein's brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in a gray duffel bag in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling across America. Driving the car is journalist Michael Paterniti. Sitting next to him is an eighty-four-year-old pathologist named Thomas Harvey, who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 -- then simply removed the brain and took it home. And kept it for over forty years. On a cold February day, the two men and the brain leave New Jersey and light out on I-70 for sunny California, where Einstein's perplexed granddaughter, Evelyn, awaits. And riding along as the imaginary fourth passenger is Einstein himself, an id-driven genius, the original galactic slacker with his head in the stars. Part travelogue, part memoir, part history, part biography, and part meditation, Driving Mr. Albert is one of the most unique road trips in modern literature.
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Addison_Reads
Addison_Reads
Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain | Michael Paterniti
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Mehso-so

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

I've had this book on my shelves for at least 6 years, so I'm glad to finally read it and pass it on. 😀

This was an okay read, but it was a tedious, and at times boring read. The author has a promising writing style, but perhaps this just wasn't the right subject. I did enjoy some of the witty conversations between the young journalist and the elderly doctor.

TheAromaofBooks Great progress - always feels good to get one off the way-back list! 4y
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Tex2Flo
Tex2Flo
Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain | Michael Paterniti
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#riotgrams day 2 orange covers

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anneofgreentables
anneofgreentables
Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain (Bound for Schools & Libraries) | M Paterniti
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Books about travel for traveling times.

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BookishMarginalia
BookishMarginalia
Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain | Michael Paterniti
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Mehso-so

This book disappointed me, mostly because I just don't see the point of it. Frankly, neither the author nor the protagonist (the pathologist who dissected and took Einstein's brain from his body) were particularly appealing or interesting. The writing style felt overwrought, and the audiobook narrator's attempt at voicing characters (especially the pathologist) just made me cringe. Ultimately, this turned out to be a forgettable travelogue. Meh.

IamIamIam Oh, that's really disappointing!!! 8y
high_shelf_esteem I totally agree! I read the book and had high hopes, it couldve been super interesting, but fell way short. I was very disappointed. 8y
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BookishMarginalia
BookishMarginalia
Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain | Michael Paterniti
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New #audiobook!

Jayhawk_In_Texas I have this one and was planning to listen on a road trip in a couple of weeks. Can't wait to hear what you think! 8y
BookishMarginalia @Jayhawk_In_Texas - unfortunately, this one just left me cold. I found it superficial and just not well-written. Hope you have better luck with it! 8y
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