I loved the biographical information in the book. The stories Professor Graves tells about his life are compelling and when he discusses his life, the book is difficult to put down. There is much more about his career that I would be very happy to read about. But, when he discusses his work, I felt that the book turned from being a conversation to being a sermon or lecture. The play-by-play description of a debate he took part in was much too long. The science gets needlessly complicated and the pacing slows to a crawl. I also found some of the statements Professor Graves makes too self-congratulatory, even though they’re true. There were times I wanted to give up on the book, but I felt that the book tells too important a story for me to stop reading. Unfortunately that story suffers from a lack of compelling story-telling. Thank you to Netgalley and Basic Books for the advance reader copy.