Why I Chose This Book

This book seems really interesting to me. It's about "self-cannibals". Self-cannibals suffer from a genetic condition, a change in one single letter in the human DNA, that forces them to chew off their own flesh! It's intriguing because the book implies that this self-cannibalism disease may lurk in all of us. Preston also addresses the search for the unknown host of the Ebola Virus, an organism somewhere in the African rain forest. Lastly, this book is about Russian brothers who built a supercomputer in their apartment from mail-order parts in an attempt to find hidden order in the number pi--and in the mysterious Unicorn Tapestries, one of the great works of Medieval art.