Word On The Street: Debunking The Myth Of A “Pure” Standard English – John McWhorter
Wherein I don’t so much review a book as I review John McWhorter.
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Reviews that are really about something else
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum – Katherine Boo
Non-fiction that reads like fiction. Pretty enjoyable, actually.
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50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God – Guy P. Harrison
This is an excellent book on counter-apologetics. It is, however, the last book on the subject I may ever read.
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A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
On the second reading, a decade after the first, I finally got this book.
Failures in Polymathy 