Darwin Country : Or "How The Finch Stole Christmas"

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Summary: Laughing all the way
Review: Darwin Country is a provacative and hilarious midlife search for meaning. It probes some colorful nooks and crannies of the author's privileged Santa Barbara life-style, while examining philosophical and environmental isssues which affect Ecuadorian peasants a world away. Scientists, movie stars, environmentalists, New Age hipsters, bellydancers, wealthy Santa Barbara elite all make appearances in this thought-provoking tale, which prompts us to examine basic ethical assumptions - while laughing all the way.

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Summary: Darwin's Country
Review: Darwin's Country is a highly entertaining extreemly witty philosophical voyage through some of life's vexing questions; from true meaning to a captious look at the growth movements in California. The renowned Galapagos islands and the affluent-protected Santa Barbara provide a backdrop for incisive looks into the often muddled conservation movement and the search for meaning in a shifting universe. Personal, wry, witty and entertaining.

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Summary: Sharp book but grammar and spelling errors abound
Review: I want to like this book, because the premise is humorous and so is the writing. However, I gave up on page 33. Maybe it's just me, but if the author doesn't care enough to check spelling, capitalization and punctuation, I feel like I'm being abused. It seems this book was dictated to a machine, because the spelling errors are due to homonyms: "are" for "our", "where" for "wear", "it's" for "its", "bazaar" for "bizarre". There is something wrong every couple of pages. If you can get past the defects, I think this might be worth reading, but I just kept getting annoyed.