Answer:
the speaker's point of view is to persuade everyone into wanted to read his book into making a counterclaim in an argument to discuss more things on getting more interested in it then usual books
What do you think happens for him to react, was he his favorite person, daughter etc, or what?
To fix the sentence, change "," after 2004 to ";" and remove the "and" before scientists. It makes the sentence sound better.
I hope that helps!