The Book of This and That


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(2.7 stars; 7 reviews)

From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essays on topics as wide ranging as stupidity, Christmas, spring fashions, and the beauty of statistics. - Summary by Larry Wilson (5 hr 45 min)

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Suspicion 11:00 Leído por Tom Penn
On Good Resolutions 11:08 Leído por Tom Penn
The Sin of Dancing 10:09 Leído por CoMo290
Thoughts at a Tango Tea 14:17 Leído por drandall
The Humours of Murder 14:58 Leído por Skip Corris
The Decline and Fall of Hell 9:05 Leído por CoMo290
On Cheerful Readers 10:55 Leído por Dietrich Weber
St G. B. S. and the Bishop 10:44 Leído por DrPGould
Stupidity 14:37 Leído por realisticspeakers
Waste 12:56 Leído por realisticspeakers
On Christmas 12:04 Leído por Larry Wilson
On Demagogues 12:03 Leído por Skip Corris
On Coincidences 13:42 Leído por Kathleen Moore
On Indignation 12:22 Leído por Kathleen Moore
The Heart of Mr Galsworthy 13:11 Leído por Kathleen Moore
Spring Fashions 13:31 Leído por drandall
On Black Cats 9:52 Leído por Devorah Allen
On Being Shocked 14:06 Leído por AnnaLisa Bodtker
Confessions 11:27 Leído por Skip Corris
The Terrors of Politics 11:33 Leído por Greg Giordano
On Disasters 13:55 Leído por Greg Giordano
The Rights of Murder 12:34 Leído por Skip Corris
The Humour of Hoaxes 12:37 Leído por Greg Giordano
Anatole France 11:50 Leído por Skip Corris
The Sea 13:21 Leído por Larry Wilson
The Futurists 14:05 Leído por realisticspeakers
A Defence of Critics 11:12 Leído por Tom Penn
On the Beauty of Statistics 12:18 Leído por Tom Penn

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(3.5 stars)

This curmudgeonly book is entertaining, but sometimes puzzling. The references to 100-year-old scandals, the shock still reverberating over the dangers of walzing, and the outdated (but possibly unconscious) attitude toward "class" have little to do with the 21st century. But there are a couple of essays that are spot on still: Waste and Statistics. If he thought waste was dreadful around the end of the 19th century... And we are, of course, inundated in Statistics, and every PhD candidate churns up more! All the narration is good, with no technical issues.