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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

Last Plays: In Good King Charles's Golden Days / Buoyant Billions / Farfetched Fables / Shakes Versus Shav / Why She Would Not (Penguin Plays)

Last Plays - George Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence I'm not sure whether George Bernard Shaw's last play was ever performed, but I've taken the liberty of shortening it slightly and adding a few modern references - perhaps that will help. So, with apologies to Madeline, may I present

Shakes versus Shav (abridged version)

[Enter SHAW PUPPET dressed as KIM JONG IL from Team America: World Police]

SHAW PUPPET: [singing in melancholy tone] I'm so ronery/So ronery/So arways and onry arone...

[Enter SHAKESPEARE PUPPET dressed as HANS BLIX]

SHAKESPEARE PUPPET: Oh, hello George! I...

[SHAW PUPPET presses button, opening trap door. SHAKESPEARE PUPPET falls through and is noisily eaten by a GIANT SHARK]

SHAW PUPPET: Fuck you, Mr. Shakespeare.

THE END