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Inherent Vice

comment by Richard | 11:20 am, 20/09/2011

Much appreciated for the information and share!


The God Instinct

comment by JJ | 9:05 pm, 17/04/2011

I stepped down as Books Editor a while ago to focus on my thesis. Also, I like the rhetoric: you should write for Critic. However, as there are no arguments in your comment, this response must be perfunctory. I might not have undergrad degrees in theology or philosophy, but my PhD. is in the cognitive science of religion and philosophy of religion. Do I get points for listing my credentials? P.S.: A lengthier, more substantive version of this review is about to be published elsewhere; this one, unfortunately, had all the argumentative bits cut out.


DUD: The Dunedin Comic Revue

comment by Spencer | 7:25 am, 15/03/2011

Hey Sarah, thanks for the review! The next one will be out in late April and will have page numbers and will rock


The God Instinct

comment by John | 11:20 pm, 08/03/2011

For far too long we have read between the lines on JJ's reviews, and noted a trend; a trend of condescension towards the atheist views of far more rational people than himself. Isn't it about time this boy is put in his rightful place, alongside those children who talk down to their parents when they can't see their imaginary friends? As an postgrad student with a double major in CHTH and philosophy, my choice of reading seemed unfortunately to coincide with that which he reviewed. Time after time, his naive slander implicit within his words simply disillusioned myself and my peers, and surely it must be time for a new sheriff to take the reigns of our reviews; for have we not shaken ourselves from our childhood clothing? JJ just needs to remove himself from his mother's teat and wake up and smell the metaphysical loneliness.


Religion

comment by Charlene | 5:28 am, 16/08/2010

Excellent review.


headlines


Incredibly Hot Sex with Hideous People - Bryce Galloway

by Sarah Maessen | 5:06 AM, 10/10/11

(4/5)


The Fat Years

by Sarah Maessen | 4:01 AM, 03/10/11

Author: Chan Koonchung; translated from Chinese by Michael S. Duke Publisher: Doubleday 1/5


Nelson Mandela by Himself - Nelson Mandela

by Sarah Maessen | 6:12 AM, 19/09/11


Bound, Vanda Symon

by Feby Idrus | 2:10 AM, 12/09/11

Bound is the fourth book in Vanda Symon’s crime novel series starring Detective Sam Shephard, and it opens with a hell of a bang (kind of literally; there’s a reason why the murder victim’s face is described as “just dripping meat, bone and brain”). In fact, the opening made me think “Wow, she’s really going balls to the wall, isn’t she? This is going to be awesome!”


Lauren Kate

by Sarah Maessen | 10:32 PM, 22/08/11

The New Stephanie Meyer?