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Bill DeSmedt
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Singularity
   393 avg rating — 168 ratings
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The Tunguska Event (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
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Prologue to SINGULARITY
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| Immense in erudition, but the tone is grating throughout. Heilbron, perhaps on the model of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, aims at irony, but mostly succeeds in sounding jaundiced. One happy exception the comment on how perilious life in Pisa must have b...more | |
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| Lively and fast-moving, albeit riddled by glaring inaccuracies. One small but telling error: the misinterpretation of Galileo's attitude toward Tasso's poetry, and the misquotation in support of it (p. 42). | |
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The Wolf in the Parlor: The Eternal Connection between Humans and Dogs
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| Human-canine symbiosis? I'm afraid Jon didn't quite sell me. His thesis would have made for a great 50-page essay; at 274 pages, it's a bit much. | |
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The Islamic Antichrist: The Shocking Truth about the Real Nature of the Beast
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Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis: The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbers
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