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Nov 24, 2014 06:22AM
THANK YOU! -to my new friend with the exceptional beard!
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Thank you Ted! It's starting to feel like the Goodreads equivalent of appearing in the TLS...
I've bookmarked your review of Min kamp I, I assume you know where.
Thank you Saman, and happy to be your friend! I'm afraid it's an old picture though :)
Hey Manny. Thanks for accepting my friend invite. I love your reviews. And you look awesome in those pictures, by the way. ;)
Hey Manny. Thanks for accepting my friend invite. I love your reviews. And you look awesome in those pictures, by the way. ;)
Don't try to refute it. Instead, go one better@Samadrita, Manny. I found something similar: when you get to the point of looking at it in serious detail, near-infinite numbers of variables are introduced eg fixed stars -especially fixed stars because there are so many and astrologers pay attention to different ones - exact degrees of placement, multiple different house systems which can produce different results, it becomes evident that it can be made to say pretty much anything you want it to. When it's one-to-one stuff, cold reading too.
Also, sometimes people need to want to quit, as with an addiction, as the beliefs serve a purpose for them.
Samadrita wrote: "Manny, is there an easy-peasy way to convince a person with little to no knowledge of astronomy that astrology is bullshit?"As I just said in my Sladek review, the best argument I have ever seen against astrology is presented in Arachne Rising . Don't try to refute it. Instead, go one better and see what happens.
Manny, is there an easy-peasy way to convince a person with little to no knowledge of astronomy that astrology is bullshit?
Thank you Nandakishore! I may decide to grow my beard a little longer...
Manny, your reputation as a Good Wizard is getting firmly established. ;)See here.
You actually do have a resemblance to Dumbledore; physically as well as attitude-wise. LOL!
Grant wrote: "Hello Manny, I noticed that you have read over 1900 books. I absolutely love reading but have not completed nearly as many books as you have. I am wondering if after having read so many books wheth..."Well... I've reviewed the majority of the books I've read, so hopefully I can remember something about them...
Hello Manny, I noticed that you have read over 1900 books. I absolutely love reading but have not completed nearly as many books as you have. I am wondering if after having read so many books whether you can recall information from most of them? The thought of having a large repository of information gleaned from hundreds of science books is really exciting.
Mt wrote: "Wanna be another you, I just wanna read books whole life!"Thank you Mt, but I must warn that overindulgence in books can have a downside. Enjoy responsibly.
Wanna be another you, I just wanna read books whole life!
Dear author and book-lover,My novel MUGGER, is now released in e-book too and available on www.Amazon.com in Kindle Edition, Barnes & Noble on NOOK devices and Apps and orders.india@partridgepublishing.com.
MUGGER is also available on paper-back in :- Flipkart, Infibeam, Crossword, uRead, Power-publishers etc. Its Hindi version too awarded by NHRC for safeguarding human rights.
If any book-lover wants to review MUGGER, please drop message on E-mail : rawatarjunsingh62@gmail.com, I will mail them the PDF file.
Regards.
Thank you for accepting my friend request.
Congrats on Sir Prooooooost.Happy New Year, Manny - all the best for 2014!
Also another Merry Christmas - you can never have too many um Manny! Glad to see you've continued adopting the proper rules of reviewing!
Thank you rachel. But you know what? I still haven't received a clarification. They say they care about it, but they don't really. Not like I do.
I want to know how to use my writing to optimize Amazon sales....This is a matter of vital importance to meThis gives me the giggles. Your "About this author" is a thing of beauty.
Peepee/Kaka wrote: "you look weird"Peepee, I'm sure you said that before. I admit it. Can we move on?
Always happy to be friends with an ethnic person, Luis!
Thank you trivial! But you ain't seen nothin' yet :)trivialchemy wrote: "Manny, I saw your Hydra plot has made it into the semi-mainstream media:
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/23/how_a...
Congratulations on what must be a very big day for you!"
Manny, I saw your Hydra plot has made it into the semi-mainstream media:http://www.salon.com/2013/10/23/how_a...
Congratulations on what must be a very big day for you!
Thank you Manny for accepting my request. I really enjoy your reviews and am delighted to speak further, about books with you :D
And also..._____________________________
Hello Manny,
The other reviews that you re-posted - for The Hydra and Civil Disobedience and Other Essays - have also been removed, as you have already been notified that these reviews violate our guidelines.
Additionally, your review of Non Censure has been removed. Please note that any reviews you post must contain your own original content (see our review guidelines). Any reviews that are simply copy-pasted duplicates of other reviews will be deleted. We have attached copies for your personal records.
Sincerely,
The Goodreads Team
And also...Hello Manny,
The other reviews that you re-posted - for The Hydra and Civil Disobedience and Other Essays - have also been removed, as you have already been notified that these reviews violate our guidelines.
Additionally, your review of Non Censure has been removed. Please note that any reviews you post must contain your own original content (see our review guidelines). Any reviews that are simply copy-pasted duplicates of other reviews will be deleted. We have attached copies for your personal records.
Sincerely,
The Goodreads Team
This just in. People curious about the deleted reviews can find them on my BookLikes page.I am particularly interested to see that my review of Moving for Dummies was flagged as "potentially off-topic". Nearly a hundred people had voted for it when it was taken down, and I'd received numerous comments saying that it was rather useful.
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Hello Manny,
It looks like you re-posted your review of That's Not What I Meant!, despite our notification that the review violates our review guidelines. As the review still violates guidelines, it has been deleted once again.
Additionally, your reviews of The Art of War and Moving for Dummies were recently flagged by Goodreads members as potentially off-topic. As the reviews are not about the book, they have been removed from the site. You can find the text of the reviews attached for your personal records.
Please consider this your final warning. If you continue to violate our guidelines or re-post content that breaks our rules, your account will come under review for removal.
Sincerely,
The Goodreads Team
Indeed, it can get quite philosophical at times. The interesting thing is that the topic which gets censored most often is precisely censorship :)
Manny, Quiet a burning discussion you are having... brings me back to the question of what are the parameters of censorship.. and "How to write a book review?... naked truth or diplomatic truth .. or just forget it..
Thank you Rabbit!Samandrita, you are of course very welcome to repost Hydra or any of my other reviews. In general, anyone who wants to do this has my explicit permission.
Manny, I am reposting your Hydra review as well. This is to formally take your permission which I am guessing you will be giving me anyway.
Mariel wrote: "I can't believe anything you wrote would be removed. :("Thank you Mariel! Three of my most popular reviews too.
I believe they will soon be up though on Cerdiwen's Tumblr...
I can't believe anything you wrote would be removed. :(
PS If anyone else is curious to get a copy of the texts of these reviews, now that they are no longer available on the site, please message me. The easiest thing will be to give me your email address, and I will mail you back.
I was wondering why no one was noticing me! But it seems service was just a little slow:Goodreads
To Me
Today at 8:41 PM
Hello Manny,
Your reviews of the following books were recently flagged by Goodreads members as potentially off-topic:
That's Not What I Meant!
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays (Collected Essays)
The Hydra
As the reviews are not about the books in question, they have been removed from the site. You can find the text of the reviews attached for your personal records.
Please note that if you continue to post content like this, your account may come under review for removal.
Sincerely,
The Goodreads Team
Check out Ceridwen's brilliant piece,
By the Numbers: An Analysis of the Reviews Deleted in the Goodreads Policy Change
. Next time I need an example to show people how the internet can be used to fight arbitrary abuse of power, this is what I'll quote.
Manny wrote: "Thank you Dustin, and very happy to be friends with someone who gives five stars to No Country for Old Men!"Hehe, how could I not? I LOVE Cormack McCarthy, and No Country for Old Men is surely one of his best!!
