Comments on: Two DEATHLY reviews

By: NiteSkyGirl

NiteSkyGirl — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:44:13 +0000

Chris is such a professional geek ya gotta love it!
just busting a gut here laughing at the crooked glasses after the book hits him.

Looking forward to buying & reading your book when it comes out in paperback Phil .

By: Bzero

Bzero — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:06:48 +0000

I’m amused that Amazon lists your name as “Ph.D., Philip Plait (Author)” for “Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End . . . “, as opposed to just “Philip C. Plait (Author)” for “Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing ‘Hoax’”. I think someone at Amazon doesn’t know how to correctly list Ph.D. after a name. B^)

By: Davidlpf

Davidlpf — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:37:53 +0000

Only in chapter 2, but dffently know the hard cover is hard.

By: kroosing 2 '42' via '37'

kroosing 2 '42' via '37' — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:23:45 +0000

Did you see Kate Pickert’s comment on a similar book “The End” by Marq de Villiers in Time of December 1, page 14? Her choice of Read-Skim-Toss?
“Skim.”

I’m looking forward to receiving my copy of Death, though, and I will Read-Read-Read it!

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:22:17 +0000

I’d just like to say, your book is a pretty good, quick read. It has one major failing however,,,it’s about 300 pages too SHORT.

One of the reason I like being under employed is because it gives me lots of free time to just think and read. All that time goes to waste if what I’m reading slides by too fast. So, Phil, could you make the next one 600 pages???

GAry 7

By: Tim G

Tim G — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:11:12 +0000

The paperback edition will be less painful.

By: bloo

bloo — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:00:44 +0000

Sid’s review definitely explained the obvious. Phil learned the use of footnotes from HBB*.

*His Big Brother

By: Mike Torr

Mike Torr — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:47:53 +0000

Biased or not, Sid’s review was a lot more informative!

By: quasidog

quasidog — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:37:30 +0000

Looking forward to finding the book on the shelves at my local book shop. That however was the worst review (Chris) I have ever heard/seen. The stereotypical ‘geek’ thing is unsettling. I didn’t bother with the other one. A review from a sibling is gonna be biased. I am certainly going to buy it however, when I see it on the shelf.

By: Zurack

Zurack — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:02:43 +0000

I need this book! Sadly there’s no plans for translating it to portuguese, looks like I will have to buy the english one from Amazon.

By: Carey

Carey — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:01:30 +0000

Bill7718 – solidarity, my brother.

By: critter42

critter42 — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:49:40 +0000

I love contextual ad algorithms – they often lead to unintentionally hilarious results – as of the posting of this comment, the inline Adsense ad is for “Death records search”.

By: zeb

zeb — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:43:28 +0000

I like how at around 3:35 Chris says that a black hole colliding with us would “kind of suck” while you spell out in graphic detail what would happen in your book. He’s in for an interesting read.

By: The Chemist

The Chemist — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:00:43 +0000

You’re the number one science blogger? I thought that was Pha-

*Book flies out of nowhere and knocks The Chemist unconscious*

By: BILL7718

BILL7718 — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:00:24 +0000

Curse my YouTube filtering workplace!