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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
The World's Best Jokes
The English church down the road was having one of its biannual sales, and we picked up a bunch of books for three Swiss Francs each. The first one I opened when we got home was this 1936 edition of The World's Best Jokes. I cannot recall ever seeing anything quite so toe-curlingly tasteless and unfunny. There is stiff competition, but my current front-runner is the following little poem from Section XXVI, "Negro Dialect":Could someone please assist the lady in the third row? She appears to be unwell...ASPIRATION
Ef I wuz de President
Of dese United States
I'd live on 'lasses candy
An' swing on all de gates!
