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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
One of the most cogent criticisms of Longfellow's famous poem can be found in Monty Python's Famous First Drafts sketch. I present their argument here in its entirety:Well, I don't know about you, but I can't help feeling they might have a point.By the shores of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
By the Iggy Piggy Booboo
Higgy Tiggy Riggy Poo
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis.
