Genetics
Here are two books, part of a previously seen series, which warn us (on the back cover, to protect the sensitive) that they are 'newspapers'.
Now, newspapers hide their best bits for days - weeks even - revealing them only when they're being used for their secondary purpose of cleaning windows, covering the carpet or travelling to the paper-bank. It is then that the truly engrossing and informative paragraphs leap out and stop you in your tracks. So, for me at least, the idea (not at all new) of dressing up a book as a newspaper and using the tabloid's blunt instrument technique to hammer home facts and evoke opinions is to induce a punch-drunk apathy. In these days when every information-orifice emits 'news' at a virtually inassimilable rate, surely the bandwagon is full to bursting.
So the way to get the best out of this couple is not to sit down and read them end to end -- that's a total turn-off -- but to leave them lying about available for occasional dipping-in, when the true value (often very high) of the facts and comment will hit home.