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Thursday, March 30, 2017

Academia's introverts

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The push now moves STEM curricula forward, shoving aside the liberal arts and all those impecunious pursuits unable to be justified by th...
Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Liza Knapp's "The Giants of Russian Literature": Audiobook Review

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  I checked this out [in The Modern Scholar series at over seven hours total] via my library to hear, as an introduction to the big four,...
Sunday, March 26, 2017

"V for Vendetta": Audiobook Review

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"The inch of integrity" Would you consider the audio edition of V for Vendetta to be better than the print version? You ...
Friday, March 24, 2017

"Fodor's Essential Prague": Book Review

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Fodor's guides tend to be more traditional than their Rough Guide or Lonely Planet competitors. More like Frommer's, Fodor's ...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Jay Garfield's "The Meaning of Life": Audiobook Review

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"More spontaneous, less calculating" If you could sum up The Meaning of Life: Perspectives from the World's Great Inte...
Monday, March 20, 2017

Herman Melville's "Redburn": Audiobook Review

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"A leisurely if perplexing voyage " What did you like best about Redburn ? What did you like least ? I liked the hints of the t...
Saturday, March 18, 2017

Philip Freeman's "Celtic Mythology": Book Review

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  This professor of Classics and Celtic Studies, Harvard-trained, brings a compendium of interwoven tales, from sources translated from a w...
Thursday, March 16, 2017

David M. Emmons' "Beyond the American Pale: The Irish in the West, 1845-1910": Book Review

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"Beyond the pale" originated from the limits, the palisades that the Normans erected around their incursions encircling Dublin....
Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Benjamin Black's "Even the Dead": Book Review

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This seventh entry in the Quirke series set in mid-1950s Dublin satisfies. It circles back to elements of the first installment, Christine ...
Sunday, March 12, 2017

Cradle Catholic

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"I was educated in public + parochial schools in L.A. and was raised very Catholic. I was taught by and still know many devoted peop...
Friday, March 10, 2017

John Irving's "A Prayer for Owen Meany": Audiobook Review

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"The crack of the bat" Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not? As the novel is so lo...
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Wednesday, March 8, 2017

George Saunders' "Lincoln in the Bardo": Audiobook Review

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"The American Book of the Dea...
Monday, March 6, 2017

Tom Wolfe's "The Bonfire of the Vanities": Audiobook Review

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Overall Performance Story "You turn into a cipher" Would you listen to The Bonfire of the Vanities ...
Saturday, March 4, 2017

Richard Dawkins' "The Selfish Gene": Audiobook Review

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"The immortal replicator" Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why? Yes, if he or she had some patience...
Thursday, March 2, 2017

Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels": Audiobook Review

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"Not the children's book you think" Where does Gulliver's Travels: A Signature Performance by David Hyde Pierce rank...
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John L. Murphy / "Fionnchú"
Los Angeles, California, United States
Medievalist turned humanities professor; unrepentant but not unskeptical Fenian; overconfident accumulator of books & music; overcurious seeker of trivia, quadrivia, esoterica. Born in Los Angeles but should have been born in my parental Ireland. Eclectic music, reading, ideas-- often Celtic and/or medievally oriented. Tá Gaeilge a chuid feín dom faoi láthair, ach nílim cainteoir líofacht fós! Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg tipyn nefa'.
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