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  • strident, not so convincing

    Oscillates between anedoct and statistics. To convince us that GMO cotton is bad for farmers, he tells us the story of how bad it was for one specific group of farmers in Africa.

    What is more, he does not provide us with a credible alternative. It fashionably badmouths the green revolution.

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    ― Posted on Jun 18, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  • interesting, but...

    the writing style is journalistic and painfully repetitious. Inside these 400 pages, there is a very good 250-pages book screaming to get out. I guess this is the fate of American books...

    The repetitions manage to water down some compelling, apparently well researched and well written pieces ... (continue)

    the writing style is journalistic and painfully repetitious. Inside these 400 pages, there is a very good 250-pages book screaming to get out. I guess this is the fate of American books...

    The repetitions manage to water down some compelling, apparently well researched and well written pieces on the morality and the consequences of eating (or not) certain categories of good.

    I particularly enjoyed the hunting-related change of opinion, when the writer finds on his face the same stupid grin he used to hate in photographs of Hemingway.

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    ― Posted on Feb 16, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  • if you don't know how to close a book

    ... and this has always been Stephenson's problem, being a genius at setting up incredible situations, complex characters, weird genius and almost-historical crises, perhaps a good solution is never to come to a close: or to borrow the closing from history.

    And this is more or less what happen ... (continue)

    ... and this has always been Stephenson's problem, being a genius at setting up incredible situations, complex characters, weird genius and almost-historical crises, perhaps a good solution is never to come to a close: or to borrow the closing from history.

    And this is more or less what happens in this third book of the Baroque Cycle.

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    ― Posted on Mar 22, 2009 | Add your feedback

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