![]() ![]() It just kept getting better as I read and it finished socko. It is laugh out loud funny and as edgy, irreverent, and twisty as you could possibly want. Then we hit the third story, "The Night Picnic", which is about the last, isolated, slightly deranged, surviving humans, lost in the cosmos, trying to act like traditional humans, based on old videos, books, and the like. I wondered when the special would start to happen. Well, the first two stories in this collection, (one about a world without men and the other about voluntarily checking out), were slow and bland. A quick survey of her other books more or less confirmed this assessment. I was curious about this book because, as the blurb promised, Suzuki is a "legend of Japanese science fiction and a countercultural icon". A Really, Really, Mixed But Mostly Interesting Bag ![]()
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The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). ![]() “It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” -David Remnick, The New Yorker ![]() “BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY” - Time ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Together, these changes have exerted a profound influence on the quality and variety of cheese available and in overall patterns of cheese consumption. Catherine Donnelly (Editor) 131 ratings Part of: Oxford Companions (14 books) See all formats and editions Hardcover 30.45 9 Used from 18.10 14 New from 27.48 The discovery of cheese is a narrative at least 8,000 years old, dating back to the Neolithic era. This transformation of long-established cheesemaking practices was accompanied by equally radical innovations in product marketing and distribution. 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