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— 23 Feb 2004 Geeta Dayal Comment

Juicy quotes:
The reviewer died of boredom while attempting to find interesting lines from this book.

MACROECONOMICS Olivier Blanchard.

Okay, so the link between ‘economics’ and ‘science’ is pretty thin. But here we have i[…]

Here’s what I noticed
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— 23 Feb 2004 Tom Comment

Here’s what I noticed at the wedding disco I was at this Saturday: nobody knows how to dance to The Darkness but everybody wants to. Obviously the standard of dancing at wedding discos is not too high anyway, and there’s a lot of coming a[…]

It’s very annoying to go away for a couple of days
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— 23 Feb 2004 Tom Comment

It’s very annoying to go away for a couple of days and discover that the only book you’ve brought with you is a resounding DUD. This is what happened to me with What Does A Martian Look Like?, filed under ‘popular science’ and[…]

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