Customer Reviews: A little too cuteMarch 29, 2000 3 out of 4 found this review helpful
There is good information here, and if you study the cartoons you can come away with an understanding of the immune system's parts and processes. But I found the drawings too cute and flashy, even distracting. They look like an attempt to make the book appeal to the MTV crowd. In this attempt I think the book loses something. The drawings take away from the text and terms, and impede my understanding. I don't appreciate a cartoon of a monocyte as a shark and a macrophage as a bigger shark. (Other cells are depicted as elephant, octopus, beaver, whale....) This only adds another layer of work for the reader -- remembering which animal corresponds to which cell. And do I want my doctor, or a research biologist, thinking "Macrophage... macrophage... oh, yeah, that's Seymour the Shark in my book. Now I've got it"? (To top it off, the cartoons aren't even drawn that well, and they're surrounded by distracting blobs of color. I wasted time just trying to decipher what the cartoon was before I could get around to trying to follow the story.)
A better choice is Playfair's _Immunology at a Glance_. It, too, uses pictures to convey the processes and components of the immune system, but with much more clarity and directness (e.g. cells are just drawn to look like cells).
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