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Elric the Albino Emperor is one of the great fantasy characters. Check it out.

This is the only book I know of, fantasy or otherwise, with a title containing the word “Perambulator”. FYI.

Tanks in the future.

The subtitle of this book is “The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care”. A linguist, McWhorter takes pains to explain that this is not another book decrying the “declining” standards of English grammar and that, e.g., there is no meaningful way in which “is not” is more correct than “ain’t”.

Instead, McWhorter offers three theses:

1. American’s relationship to written and publicly spoken language has changed, with formal, carefully prepared prose and speech giving way to informal, off-the-cuff “talk”.

Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. A wonderful novel.

Fiction. That’s the best I can do. Why can’t I remember the books I read, hm?

The story of Adam and Eve based on the style of the Book of J.

No memory. None. Wonder what it was about?

Heavy-handed eco-satire. The same joke gets old after awhile.

This looks interesting, but I don’t remember it. Yes, the author’s last name is repeated twice, perhaps for emphasis, I don’t know.