{"id":21,"date":"2006-01-29T20:52:06","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T03:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/01\/29\/the-darwin-conspiracy-by-john-darnton\/"},"modified":"2015-06-03T19:48:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T01:48:22","slug":"the-darwin-conspiracy-by-john-darnton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"The Darwin Conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by John Darnton<\/p>\n<p>This book was interesting to me because I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know much about the life of Charles Darwin and it provided many insights to not only his life, but the lives of his contemporaries and his family members. The book was a bit dry at times, but I began to feel myself drawn into the intrigue as I got about halfway into the book. The ending was somewhat of a letdown, however, as it didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really lead to anything beyond the final discovery. I could hear myself saying, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153So what?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as I put the book down.<\/p>\n<p>What was really confusing to me, however, was that I never really figured out what the author was attempting to accomplish. If the purpose was to discredit the life and accomplishments of a famous scientist, then why did he attempt to do it in the form a novel, by its very nature, fiction? If the attempt was to pique the readers interest as a piece of fiction, then why did the author discredit the accomplishments of a famous scientist and bring defame him an individual in the process? I just didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get it, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of this apparent confusion, I would not give it an enthusiastic recommendation. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-2-5.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by John Darnton This book was interesting to me because I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know much about the life of Charles Darwin and it provided many insights to not only his life, but the lives of his contemporaries and his family members. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=21\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,19],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction","tag-historical-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}