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To borrow a reviewer's comment from Goodreads, "This is a delightful mess of a book, one I might not have approached were I not in [the Netherlands]"
I'm enjoying the subject matter but the style can be a little odd ... in fact, the sideways image feels about right. I don't know the author well enough to hear his voice as I read, but it's definitely like a narrative told in a pub or over a meal rather than in a history book. |
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Just started reading this today. Read it years ago, felt like it was time to see how it aged.
I read all of Sagan’s (Carl) books in the past. Might be time to read them all again. I just wish I had bought them back in the day. I tried to download it from my library but there was only 1 copy and 60 people in the queue. |
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The Peregrine
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/bo...book-1.3333957 http://www.amazon.com/Peregrine-Anni...dp/0008216215/ “Wherever he goes, this winter, I will follow him. I will share the fear, and the exaltation, and the boredom, of the hunting life. I will follow him till my predatory human shape no longer darkens in terror the shaken kaleidoscope of colour that stains the deep fovea of his brilliant eye. My pagan head shall sink into the winter land, and there be purified.” FYI peregrines (females are called falcons, males are called tiercels) routinely reach 100mph when stooping (diving) to kill prey. They've been clocked as fast as 240mph. Passenger planes typically fly at 300mph. Woe be the starling that's slashed in midair by that rear talon at 100mph.
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A Gentleman in Moscow was recommended to me so many times that I finally had to at least start reading it, though I prefer nonfiction lately. A page turner of a wonderful tale with great language use.
Everything is predictable, on the history of the Bayesian model, and statistics in general. Yeah, dry at times but not bad. |
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I also stick to nonfiction but delve into spy novels occasionally.
Just finished the Peacock and the Sparrow. Worth reading. I tend to read books on modern Irish history and Say Nothing and Four Shots in the Night are recent must reads. |
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I read a lot of non fiction for work so tend to fiction for bedtime. I have been working my way through the atlantics list of great American novels, and just finished The Dog of the South by Charles Portis (true grit author). Sort of a Ken Kesey/John Kennedy Toole mash up — I really enjoyed it and had no awareness of it…
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Maybe I will take another stab at Dennett. |
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I read Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland about 4 or 5 years ago. It was very good and I have been thinking about it lately. Last edited by dcama5; 11-09-2024 at 04:12 PM. |
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https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0385537603
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Bingham/B.Jackson/Unicoi/Habanero/Raleigh20/429C/BigDummy/S6 |
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With a couple of family members having gone off the deep end, I just ordered this. Probably a rabbit hole I may regret
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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. ~Carl Sagan |
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It's one of the ways the sausage is made. More than that I cannot say.
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