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Concerning my ratings: down to three stars the book is still of some value to me, and two stars merely means I wouldn't buy the book for myself, but wouldn't bury it if I had been given it (I bury one star books). Tendency is to over rate one's review when the book was pleasurable and to systematically attribute five stars when one really means three or four. Not to content myself with a bad/good… Read moreConcerning my ratings: down to three stars the book is still of some value to me, and two stars merely means I wouldn't buy the book for myself, but wouldn't bury it if I had been given it (I bury one star books).
Tendency is to over rate one's review when the book was pleasurable and to systematically attribute five stars when one really means three or four. Not to content myself with a bad/good binary evaluation, I am trying to take advantage of the rating latitude, reserving five stars for real masterpieces and enduring classics.
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This introductory text by Griffiths has two major advantages: first it is exceedingly interesting to read, at such an extent one could believe the material is easy. Exercises are challenging enough to show it is just an impression. Second, the text covers a rather big amount of the (non-relativistic) theory, in a concision which is exemplar. It is a short text, which travels in the corners of the field: quantum statistics, solid state physics, perturbation theories, scattering... Of course the counterpart is those topics aren't dealt with at depth. This is a book to see things, before to work on them. For all those reasons, it is a very, very bad reference, but it is not its purpose. For… Read more
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So Long is the best in the "trilogy of four" of the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, after the unexpected surprise of the first, and the two funny yet low-paced sequels. There, Adams finds out a solid thread to elaborate upon, even if a classic one and at the detriment of his zany humor (there's still the rain god, though). Arthur gets back on earth where he falls in love with that lady who had a glimpse of the ultimate truth, of the meaning of it all, but just when the earth evaporated under a giant laser beam to make way for an hyperspace bypass. Now she forgot it, and they manage to find it back together. The love story is touching and incredibly realistic, while of… Read more
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Arthur Dent, a thirty years old man you'll find easy to identify with, gets bugged this Thursday morning by the council's willing to knock his house down to build a bypass. This is how the book starts. When it is about to end a mere hundred pages later, you find yourself having hitchhiked all around the fancy places of the galaxy, and discovered at just about the other end of it that you don't in fact belong to the most intelligent species on earth but ranks only third and that earth itself isn't just this charming little blue planet it wants to appear to be. It'll take seven and a half million years, but yeah, you'll eventually learn the meaning of life too, though you won't like… Read more
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