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I was fortunate to attend a piano recital by Yevgeny Sudbin and found his playing remarkable. Be reassured, if you are unfamiliar with these artists, that you are listening to musicians who will become legends. The pieces are darkly dramatic, as you would expect, and the programme is full and varied. Top class music; top class musicians.
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0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Marias unpeels every moment, examining it from every angle, exploring all its associated memories, all its biases and promises. A single event can take fifty pages to explore - it's like watching a Grandmaster at chess, or swirling a vintage cognac in a glass. Let it linger on the tongue. Don't hurry it.
The story is half-seen, half-noticed: a man is recruited by an odd organisation to give his opinion on other people who appear for interviews. There is a hint of the diplomatic intrigue behind the scenes and of the main character's personal loss that always affects every judgement.
This is magnificent writing. Marias is destined to win the Nobel Prize before… Read more
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
Brian Switek is a science writer with a flint axe to grind! The book opens with his outrage at a recent 'Missing Link' claim, then takes a deep breath and sets the context for the book, with Lyell's work on geology and Darwin's theory of evolution. Successive chapters deal with particular issues in evolutionary history: what evidence is there for fishes emerging from the oceans onto land?; where did birds come from?; how did a mammal become a whale?; how did elephants evolve?; what do horse fossils tell us about evolution?; and what are the missing links between man and apes?
His answers are detailed and entertaining. The earliest fossils were shoe-horned into proving the… Read more
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