Reviews for Methods in enzymology

The average rating for Methods in enzymology based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-05-20 00:00:00 Michael OHanlan I didn't care for this book... at all, really. It just felt so awkward. The main character was written as if he was from the 1950s. I still don't understand what really happened at the end, with the last assignment, and I don't care to try and figure it out. Maybe it's just me, but I felt as if there was some awkward sexual tension between Mark and his mother. Some of my favorite WTF quotes regarding the two: "'Ah,' she said knowingly. She ran the tip of her tongue lightly across her upper lip and then smiled at him again. Mark smiled back but felt himself flush. He looked quickly out the windshield." "Once, when he'd been younger, in grade school, he'd been alone in the house and had gone into his mother's bedroom, where he'd opened the drawers of her bureau one by one. He'd found Tampax, though he hadn't known then what it was, and in another drawer, a small one, under a lot of handkerchiefs, there were several pairs of see-through black lace panties and a manila envelope full of what looked to be old letters. He'd run downstairs then and outside to the open air." "He looked down at his mother's heaving shoulders, at her thick, dark hair, dark as a raven's wing, and into his mind came an image of her naked in a bed, moaning with pleasure. He shivered as though with a chill." Maybe it was just to emphasize how his father wasn't around and the close relationship he had with his mother. The subject of his sexual nature, so to speak, was so touch and go though, that these quotes were the most sexually explicit in the entire book. It wasn't sexually explicit at all, which is why it stood out. And they were about his mother? Weird, man. Just weird. Ah book sale finds. Off you go to the Goodreads book swap program!

Review # 2 was written on 2020-10-19 00:00:00 Melanie Makortoff This book started out as a very intriguing mystery, but the end just left me saying, "What?" Maybe there's some deep meaning I missed, but I found it disappointing.