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Manny Rayner's book reviews
Manny Rayner's book reviews rated it 16 years ago
There are some books you love because you feel that the author is taking you into their confidence, and treating you as an equal. Catherine Townsend's Sleeping Around is my favorite kiss-and-tell book. It's just as if she's giving me the latest gossip about her wonderfully disorganized life over a f...
Manny Rayner's book reviews
Manny Rayner's book reviews rated it 19 years ago
The definitive book on Bobby Fischer; what's funny is that Kasparov is simultaneously the best-qualified and the worst-qualified person in the world to write it. Here's the analogy that occurs to me. Suppose Mohammed had written a long, carefully researched book on Jesus. He'd have all these killer ...
A little tea, a little chat
A little tea, a little chat rated it 23 years ago
Such a dreadful book - paranoid vitriol on every page - that I've let it put me off having any positive thoughts about the man. Evidently I have to change my tune and read his series on his predecessors, even if the point of it is to indirectly bignote himself. Okay, okay. I will have nothing but th...
Manny Rayner's book reviews
Manny Rayner's book reviews rated it 34 years ago
To quote the Swedish proverb: även solen har sina fläckar. Even the Sun has spots.
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