David Morrison, editor at Systematic Biology, has given me a very nice and well informed and researched review for my book Species: A history of the idea. He even likes the cover. I have had some good and mixed reviews, but this one took time and effort, and he gets it right. I particular liked being called “the most readable philosopher that I have ever come across, as I hardly ever needed to use a dictionary to understand his words.” This might go against me in the next Philosopher’s Guild meeting, though…
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Could be useful come job application time.
Gonna go pick it up from the library now!
Hey!, cheapskate, buy it! It’s got interesting & attractive cover art by Ernst Haeckel ; as such it impresses friends who see it on your coffee table, especially when you tell them you know the guy (not Haeckel).
Why shouldn’t it get a good review it’s an excellent book.
Maybe you should send a copy to your former employers.
I doubt they could read it.
There could be a knighthood in this for you. Sir John Wilkins sounds pretty good.
From Sweden? Morrison works there. I would love a Swedish knighthood. If it was good enough for Linne, it’s good enough for me…
Congratualti0ns, John. Also, don’t worry. You future books might be completely unreadable.:)
My conversation is increasingly incoherent, so I hold out high hopes…
Perhaps you should try holding the conversations before the second bottle of whisky.
Why? I’m sorry, but I don’t understand…
Incoherence is directly proportional to alcohol consume
I see your familiar with my posting MO then. Where’s that beer?
Well, I suppose that the Philosopher’s Guild seeks a coherent unreadableness, which I’m fully confident that you’ll one day achieve because I’ve seen you do it in the past.:)
Anyway, John, Merry Christmas.:)
I’ll be buying that book!
It really is an excellent coffee table book
…sarcasm? irony? ESL?
Could be ESL, I don’t know what that is, but neither of the other two.
People visit, see it, pick it up from the coffee table and then actually start reading it.
ESL = English as a Second Language I believe.
…which is completely the reverse of what I would consider a coffee table book – hence the snark – kind of like “inflammable”
All books on my coffee table are, by my definition, coffee table books :o)