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I Saw a Man, Once Upon a Time in Russia and How to See the World
El Reg bookworm Mark Diston trawls through the latest from the publishing world encompassing Owen Sheers delivery of an intense portrayal of accidents and their consequences. Ben Mezrich gives a gangster-esque spin through the corridors of power and industry in Russia, and Nicholas Mirzoeff takes on the gargantuan task of how we …
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Sunday 14th June 2015 10:01 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: "you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but [....]"
> It is the publishing equivalent of a mistaken Chinese character being used as a bogan-chav tattoo.
Agreed.
In any case, I did like Diston calling a spade a spade. Too many reviewers go for the apologetic approach when faced with a bad book or an incompetent author.
Also, a supposedly "non-fiction" book by someone who doesn't even speak Russian? How did he do his research? Google Translate?
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Monday 15th June 2015 13:37 GMT Kubla Cant
Blue marble
the famous ‘Blue Marble’ photograph of Earth taken from an Apollo spacecraft, the first time the author claims that humanity could see itself as a whole
It's a beautiful photograph, but my recollection is that the most striking thing about it was that it was just as expected. Terrestrial globes had shown the world in a similar way for centuries. It's a bit like the way the view from a plane window changes from surroundings to map as you climb.