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I went to go write my review of "How to Make Love like a Porn Star" and, lo and behold, someone had already written what I wanted to! Kudos to you. And thanks for making me feel sane again.

posted by DistortedSmile at 6:06 pm (EST) on Apr 20, 2009

Regarding your review of *How to Make Love like a Porn Star*: Amen!

Congratulations on a refreshingly frank review and observations on Jameson and her ilk.

posted by Toolroomtrustee at 1:54 am (EST) on Feb 19, 2009

So glad you've tried a Robert Parker mystery! Do you plan to read more? My husband and I started reading him a few weeks back, when my husband was ill -- you can read a book a day. His plotting is varied and good, and his characters keep reoccuring, across all three (Spenser, Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall) series. Nice reads that almost always end well. Martha Huntley

posted by MarthaHuntley at 4:52 pm (EST) on Jan 28, 2008

In your review of Animals Without Backbones by Ralph Buchsbaum, you commented that the oceans seemed to be dominated by animals, whereas land was dominated by plants. Actually, in both areas there is a trophic pyramid resting on plants to fix solar energy, where green plants probably represent more than ten times the biomass of all other life. In the oceans, much of the biomass is represented by single celled plants. Because they live in the ocean they do not need the heavy apparatus developed by the vascular plants on land to bathe the cells in water and nutrients, so they can be single-celled. However, many of the dominant 'plant-like' animals living on surfaces such as sponges, tunicates, anemones and corals, etc. host endosymbiotic algea - such that these animals are actually primary producers in their own rights.

posted by BillHall at 10:55 pm (EST) on Jan 9, 2008