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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

A la recherche du temps perdu (coffret volumes 1-3)

A la recherche du temps perdu - Stéphane Heuet, Marcel Proust If you like Proust and haven't already come across the B.D. versions by Heuet, they're brilliant. All the text is taken directly from the original. Here's a sample, a scene near the beginning of Combray:

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By the way, it just occurred to me, apropos my classification, that the two ladies you see in closeup in the final panels are indeed Marcel's maiden aunts Céline and Flora. (Maiden great-aunts if you want to be completely pedantic about it). I am sure they would be appropriately shocked if they saw the scene with Vinteuil's daughter and her lesbian lover, which is done pretty much as in the original.