false 10 269 252 true 5750214 read 5 true 209145 currently-reading 12 true 209144 to-read 71 false 1353043 science-and-nature 21 false 1353576 recent-favorites http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50360768 Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover) by Neil Shubin
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50360421 to: To the Elephant Graveyard (Paperback) by Tarquin Hall
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41493366 The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10145086 Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare : An Ecologist's Perspective (Paperback) by Paul A. Colinvaux
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I've read this series for a long time and it's one of the few books I dog-ear and return to over and over. My copy of this book is gone, so I'll get another one and start again from scratch.

]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39181693 to: Blindness (Paperback) by José Saramago
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Most fiction, film, and performing arts I've encountered has a false step somewhere: A character saying something that doesn't ring true, an awkward scene that is forced and unnatural. A month before reading "Blindness" I saw Beckett's "Happy Days" at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and mention the play because it worked, in my mind, without a single misstep of any kind, the same as Blindness. Both pieces present and examine human interaction and behavior under inconceivable circumstances yet everything - the characters, dialogue, scenes, and behavior - is completely believable. (Seeing Happy Days made me want to revisit Un chien andalou but I haven't found a copy anywhere.)

I reread and think and reflect and try to draw lessons, but I cannot understand fiction like this by myself. I notice the salient elements and observe the ecologies created by each writer without really understanding them. Understanding requires human interaction: discussion, debate, sleep, and tension, and all I own is the latter.
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40515047 Seeing (Paperback) by José Saramago
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10142858 to: Motherless Brooklyn (Hardcover) by Jonathan Lethem
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10142745 to: Bystander: A History of Street Photography (Paperback) by Joel Meyerowitz
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