Robert Skinner
Författare till Skin Deep, Blood Red
Serier
Verk av Robert Skinner
I'd Rather Not: Essays 8 exemplar
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 1 exemplar
I'd Rather Not 1 exemplar
Bird Habitats on Missouri Prairies 1 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Kön
- male
Medlemmar
Recensioner
this was a quick and easy read. it was written to be popular with the masses, so it was "witty", and had basically zero references to anything that might have backed up the bold claims made in it. it did have an extensive list of studies and articles at the back of the book, but that doesn't really tell me anything. i do find this topic really interesting though, and plan on reading up on it more. hopefully the next book will succeed a little better in convincing my inner sceptic, as well.
Priser
Statistik
- Verk
- 20
- Medlemmar
- 143
- Popularitet
- #144,062
- Betyg
- 3.8
- Recensioner
- 2
- ISBN
- 33
- Språk
- 1
Skinner, from Australia, is extremely funny at times and entertaining throughout. I laughed out loud several during some stories, while others were enjoyable, although perhaps not as genuinely humorous to me. As I was reading this collection it did seem that citizens of Australia might appreciate all of these stories more than I would. Other readers should appreciate musings about his job history and other adventures. This collection can be read all at once or one at a time.
Some highlights (not quotes, modified) that had me laughing in tears include: a remark about holding racism against the Swiss; leadership defined as when you to jump in front of a pack of charging camels after being told to; needing money from a first magazine issue to pay for the second being a Ponzi scheme; people compared to pack animals who need to know their place to thrive (still laughing over the context and complete paragraph); listing his reason for visiting a country as "Idiot." This is a quick, easy, entertaining collection with a gorgeous book cover on the edition from Steerforth.
Disclosure: My review copy was courtesy of Steerforth Press via Edelweiss.
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