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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
The Swords of Lankhmar - Fritz Leiber This classic sword-and-sorcery novel contains a rather unusual scene involving a threesome. The hero has made a romantic tryst with the mysterious woman he's been pursuing. He's surprised when she turns up together with her faithful maidservant, and even more surprised when she tells him what the deal is. He can kiss HER all he wants, but he has to do it while embracing the other chick. This unorthodox arrangement works out surprisingly well.

It turns out later that the mysterious woman had her reasons. I didn't guess them ahead of time, and neither did the hero!