If it wasn't for a couple of hilarious anecdotes including the encounter with Swedish king and surfing episode after he got the Nobel prize, this would have been a very boring book with a title "Rambling of a rummie with a PhD". Mullis is eager to share his opinion on almost anythng and he should stick to surfing and molecular biology as he is not doing too good with almost anything else. He should have hired a decent ghostwriter as his writing is still "work in progress". And it was so easy to notice that his effort dwindled down in last couple of "chapters" that it became pathetic at times. Better luck with his next book, but I am definitely not going to read it.