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His description toward the end of Climbing Mount Improbable of wasps enmeshed in Byzantine power struggles with fig trees is a model of nature writing, at once lyrical and lucid.
A history of mad-cow disease by veteran science writer Richard Rhodes ( The Making of the Atomic Bomb ). Critics praise Rhodes' lucid explication of complex virology as well as his range--the book includes digressions on political and literary themes and a section on the scandal surrounding a Nobel Prize-winning expert on the disease who recently pleaded guilty to molesting a little boy.
However, reviewers do praise Reich's lucid prose, pointed observations, and sense of humor: "There is a Thurberesque side to him" (Evan Thomas, the New York Times Book Review ). (See Herbert Stein's review in Slate.
While neither editor deserves high fives for lucid exposition, the message is that different targets were being aimed at, and, unless one wishes to have both books, the choice between them may be thought to remain an open one.
Besides, we read the Economist regularly, such a prize for its fine and lucid prose and its comprehensive worldwide coverage that fills the gaps left by the Times and the Wall Street Journal .