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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
De Alfonce Tennis
Probably one of the ten most bizarre books I have ever read, this is a novel (of sorts) masquerading as the rules and history of an invented game. It's amusing in places, like all of Donleavy's work, but I must admit that I didn't really get it. Not remotely as good as The Unexpurgated Code.____________________________________________
Well, that was what I thought a quarter of an hour ago. Now, I've poked around a bit on Google - Donleavy claims that the game of De Alfonce Tennis actually exists, and that people play it. Though I'm still sceptical. Anyway, if he's gone to these lengths to confuse the issue, the book does somehow appear funnier!
