Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy Book

Interesting topic, but the prose was so purple it became almost unreadable at times. Every other word has about five syllables crammed into it ("totipotency" seemed to be a favourite) and every sentence is bulging with so many qualifiers that you forget what was being said. The early chapters were worse for this than the later ones and I did enjoy the section on Australia's relationship with sheep, but overall this was simply too wordy for me and my attention kept wandering. This is probably better used as a textbook for biology students; the layman will want to look elsewhere for a less dense and multisyllabic account of Dolly's life.