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<![CDATA[George added 'Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth']]>
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Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth (Paperback)
byApostolos Doxiadis bookshelves: to-read
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<![CDATA[George added 'Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture: A Novel of Mathematical Obsession']]>
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to: Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture: A Novel of Mathematical Obsession (Paperback)byApostolos Doxiadis
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<![CDATA[George added 'The Tipping Point']]>
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The Tipping Point (Paperback)
byMalcolm Gladwell bookshelves: to-read
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<![CDATA[George added 'The Greeks and the Irrational']]>
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The Greeks and the Irrational (Sather Classical Lectures)
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<![CDATA[George added 'The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary']]>
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to: The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)bySimon Winchester
I haven't finished this book yet, but I am eager to report that it is just brilliant. The man has a beautiful turn of phrase - for example when he writes about farm labourers in Wiltshire, who "with no protection from unions, no solidarity with their fellows, had been paid a pittance to perform pointless tasks for pitiless masters" - don't you just love it? Its not fiction, but it really rivals the best fiction in its language and narrative.