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Dynamic League of Lobsters
Mar. 2nd, 2005 11:06 pmThe Dynamic Dance: Nonvocal Communication in African Great Apes, by Barbara J. King
This was fairly interesting but way way too load with jargon and theory. Of course, the author came right out and said, "Dammit, I want to write in a jargony theoretical way, suck it up." so I can't really complain about that. Well, okay, I may have paraphrased her warning a bit, but that was her essential meaning. Anyway, not quite my cup of tea but had some very neat bits.
(36/200)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume 1, by Alan Moore et al
This was lovely. The movie was dumb, if occasionally fun in a B-movie kind of way. The comic is dark and intricate and charming. Fanfic in a refined key.
(37/200)
The Secret Lives of Lobsters, by Trevor Corson
This was just exactly my sort of book. I'd already read a shorter essay version in The Best Science and Nature Writing 2003, so I knew more or less what to expect, but this one was, of course, much more fleshed-out, so lots more lobster science and lots more lobstermen biography and lots more science/gov't/fishermen politics and such. And all told in a very engaging way. Yum. [I have an uncle who is a lobster fisherman, see, so I may be a bit biased.]
(38/200)
This was fairly interesting but way way too load with jargon and theory. Of course, the author came right out and said, "Dammit, I want to write in a jargony theoretical way, suck it up." so I can't really complain about that. Well, okay, I may have paraphrased her warning a bit, but that was her essential meaning. Anyway, not quite my cup of tea but had some very neat bits.
(36/200)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume 1, by Alan Moore et al
This was lovely. The movie was dumb, if occasionally fun in a B-movie kind of way. The comic is dark and intricate and charming. Fanfic in a refined key.
(37/200)
The Secret Lives of Lobsters, by Trevor Corson
This was just exactly my sort of book. I'd already read a shorter essay version in The Best Science and Nature Writing 2003, so I knew more or less what to expect, but this one was, of course, much more fleshed-out, so lots more lobster science and lots more lobstermen biography and lots more science/gov't/fishermen politics and such. And all told in a very engaging way. Yum. [I have an uncle who is a lobster fisherman, see, so I may be a bit biased.]
(38/200)
