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MannyRayner

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
Richard Dawkins
R in Action
Robert Kabacoff
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
Douglas R. Hofstadter
McGee on Food and Cooking: An Encyclopedia of Kitchen Science, History and Culture
Harold McGee
Epistemic Dimensions of Personhood
Simon Evnine
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)
Christopher M. Bishop
Relativity, Thermodynamics and Cosmology
Richard C. Tolman
The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition
Julia Herschensohn, Martha Young-Scholten

Total Khéops

Total Khéops - Jean-Claude Izzo
Everyone has now heard the story of the Chevy Nova and its inexplicably poor sales record in Spanish speaking countries. Today, walking past General Dufour's statue on my way home, I saw the French version: a truck with the name "KHEOPS CONSTRUCTION" on the side. I've just looked them on the web. They're apparently a successful company that's been doing business here in Geneva for a while.

Well, perhaps the slang in Izzo's book is very specific to Marseille - I'm sure I don't know. But in that part of the world, at any rate, "total khéops" apparently means something like "complete fuckup"...