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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

Le Sursis (Les chemins de la liberté, Vol. 2)

Le Sursis  (Les chemins de la liberté, Vol. 2) - Jean-Paul Sartre Cameron and Clegg

I'm trying to imagine what it would have been like to have been a left-leaning French intellectual in 1939. You're used to defending Stalin on the grounds that he's at least against Hitler. Then he suddenly goes and forms an alliance with him.

Sartre does his best to convey how this felt, as does de Beauvoir in the second volume of her memoirs. But I still can't really grasp it. Oh well.