The Waste Books Fiction_Gift_Guide “One of the best thrillers

“One of the best thrillers of the year”—The New York Times "The book is many things: a crime story

and personal enjoyment

not the pulpit

Sturgeon populations worldwide have declined seventy percent in the last twenty years

Gloomy yet hopeful

The Waste Books Fiction_Gift_Guide “One of the best thrillersGerman scientist and man of letters Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was an 18th century polymath: an experimental physicist, an astronomer, a mathematician, a practicing critic both of art and literature. He is most celebrated, however, for the casual notes and aphorisms that he collected in what he called his Waste Books. With unflagging intelligence and encyclopedic curiosity, Lichtenberg wittily deflates the pretensions of learning and society,