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...book treads through territory familiar to anyone with a passing knowledge of the Beatles’ history. Their rough early years in Liverpool as the Quarrymen; the band’s evolution as a cohesive musical force in the decrepit red-light district of Hamburg; their subsequent return to Liverpool; the sudden stardom; their appearance on Ed Sullivan and Beatlemania in America; their reinvention amid the “Sergeant Pepper” years; and finally, the break-up, infamously hastened by tensions from Linda Eastman and Yoko...
Despite his obsession with the band, Spitz refuses to glorify his subjects and portrays them in a strikingly truthful and complex light...
...Emotion Machine” features rudimentary illustrations and graphs to supplement many of the key notions, which are often presented conceptually, and in a light that would make them easy for any reader to understand. As Minsky states, “any theory has to begin with a highly simplified version...
...first time through, I had exactly the same reaction, until I realized that this book is presenting a very new perspective, and is intentionally and necessarily painted in a very basic light. The book doesn’t deal with the structures of the brain in its explanation because, as Minsky states, “research on this is advancing so quickly that any conclusion one might make today could be outdated in just a few weeks...
...into the motion to give a woman second-thoughts, administering a cool corrective, sometimes called a douche, to a fantasy that she had only moments ago begun to entertain, namely that she and Alasdair would find themselves exiting the concert at the same moment, hitting the night chill, the light snow drifting counterclockwise through the lamps in front of Sanders, and that he would first laugh to see the fresh ecstasy of Linus—tiny clustered prints in the white—and then recognize her, Oh!, which would prompt one or the other to start...