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Within each ranking, some or all of the remarks may apply to any particular review. one star -- irredeemably flawed, unenjoyable, fell well short of expectations and hype, has little to recommend it to anyone. two stars -- has redeeming facet, but not enjoyable enough to be able to recommend; probably only of interest to fans of the genre/author. three stars -- enjoyable enough to recomme… Read moreWithin each ranking, some or all of the remarks may apply to any particular review.
one star -- irredeemably flawed, unenjoyable, fell well short of expectations and hype, has little to recommend it to anyone.
two stars -- has redeeming facet, but not enjoyable enough to be able to recommend; probably only of interest to fans of the genre/author.
three stars -- enjoyable enough to recommend with a few caveats, may have left me with feelings of ambivalence -- some things I liked, others I didn't.
four stars -- highly enjoyable, works on many levels, may have an aspect that falls flat but barely detracts from an otherwise fine work.
five stars -- thoroughly enjoyable, thought provoking, any flaws -- if they even exist -- are so slight or so diminished by the brilliance of the bulk of the work as to barely register in the overall experience, usually a work which reveals new levels of meaning and intriguing new details upon multiple reading/viewings.
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I've resolved to use the term "fair and balanced" as often as I can when in public. I'm off to a slow start as I've only done it once so far. Well, twice if you include the "fair and balanced" in the first sentence there. And three times if you include that one. See how easy it is? I encourage everyone to start using it as much as possible. With Fox fighting all these lawsuits, maybe Rupert Murdoch will eventually go broke! Okay, let's clear up some misconceptions about "Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them) A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" -- those misconceptions propagated mainly by the one-star reviews written by people who obviously did not read the book. The book is… Read more
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Maybe it's the wide variety of styles and motifs used in this psychedelic hippy dippy slide show as we jump from vignette to vignette that added - intentionally, I'm sure - to the disorientation and vertigo I felt trying to slog my way through Gravity's Rainbow. But I'm not convinced my rising gorge was caused so much by brilliant exposition as by the sensation of Pynchon casting about like a man going down for the third time, grabbing at any piece of flotsam floating through his consciousness at the moment. This can lead to some creative anecdotes, I grant, but there are just too many ancillary passages that peter out into ". . . . . ." when the steam's run out that I'm quite convinced… Read more
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Learning about walking whales is just one reason to buy this book. As Carl Zimmer so concisely points out in Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea, no scientific theory can ever be directly proven. But a theory generates hypotheses that make predictions, and these can be tested. Zimmer, delivering the most up-to-date information on the scientific consensus, shows that evolution has amassed over a century's worth of such testable predictions. He explains evolution's global journey, extracting the most important points and illuminating with representative examples along the way. In one chapter of the book, Zimmer delivers a brilliant knockout punch to Intelligent Design, exposing it as… Read more
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