Reviews for Microstructure and function of cells

The average rating for Microstructure and function of cells based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-07-09 00:00:00 Riley Ban What a way to end a series. David Eddings' career was always fascinating to me, largely because many of his fans view it as a parabola. He started out mediocre, and rose to greatness quickly, eventually descending back into mediocrity with the subpar Dreamers saga. But the Elenium and the Tamuli are, in my opinion, beyond anything he's ever written. Being book 6 in the Elenium/Tamuli storyline, I suppose there's no real reason to convince you to read this book because, quite frankly, you've stuck with the other 5 by now and I really can't imagine anyone suddenly deciding to stop without seeing how it all ends. So as a critique, Eddings' wit is amazingly sharp throughout the entire book. I got many a stare bursting out into hysterical laughter while I read this on the train every day. Dry as ever, his dull yet charmingly witty observations, nitpicking details in his own story and playing off the stereotypes of his stock characters leads to expecting yet delightfully accepted humor. The strategies and limits he puts on the forces in this book are one of the things that made me love him. Everything, from man to deity, has its' limits, and in harmony the forces of good and evil fight once more to see who will reign victorious. Eddings has done the "side fueled by a good deity" vs "side fueled by a bad deity" plot in every single fantasy book he's ever written, but none of them were done nearly as well as in these two series. I absolutely recommend the series in general, and hope many people experience it. Eddings isn't the best author, and his books won't teach you much, or reinvent the way you think, but it's an enjoyable, laughable, and exciting story the whole way through.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-06-09 00:00:00 Thomas Cain Finally slogged my way all the way to the end of this, "Book 3 of the Tamuli." Characters ran around, killed other characters, rescued lovely maidens/wives in distress, and eventually pretty much all got married. Again, I know these are huge bestsellers, but they just didn't really do it for me. (Although, I have to admit, the insights here into Troll culture are pretty funny.)