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Manny Rayner's book reviews
I love reviewing books - have been doing it at Goodreads, but considering moving here.
Currently reading
The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence For Evolution
R in Action
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
McGee on Food and Cooking: An Encyclopedia of Kitchen Science, History and Culture
Epistemic Dimensions of Personhood
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)
Relativity, Thermodynamics and Cosmology
The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition
- Kids today! I wonder if the 70s won't be even worse than than the 60s. Honestly, you don't know what to think, dropping out of school, letting their hair grow, rock and roll music, free love, drugs...- Another martini?
- Oh, why not! Thank you. As I was saying, I don't understand young people any more, as they would say, I just don't "get" them...
- Have you read the new James Mitchener? The Drifters?
- No?
- You should take a look at it, he'll answer your questions. Great piece of work. A bit shocking in places, he's not afraid to use crude language, hit you with the occasional motherf-
- Harold!
- Sorry. I tell you, I've been reading Mitchener since 1947 and he just gets better. Wish I knew how he did the research for this one. A week ago, I was as "square" as they come, but now, "man!", I'm "with it".
- Harold, don't show off.
- But really, it's opened my eyes! I even went and bought the new Doors LP. L.A. Woman. My secretary recommended it. Shall I put it on?
- Harold, was that the girl at the office party who-
- Ah, yes, that was Karen.
- I think I'd rather have some more Frank Sinatra.
- But-
- Sinatra, Harold.
- Sorry darling. Maybe we should talk about something else. What do you think of Nixon's chances in '72?
- My friends in DC tell me it's a sure thing.
- Well thank God for that anyway. And here are our martinis. Cheers!
- Cheers!
