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Nathaniel Lachenmeyer
Autor(a) de 13: The Story of the World's Most Notorious Superstition
Obras de Nathaniel Lachenmeyer
The Outsider : A Jouney into My Father's World of Madness. 1 exemplar(es)
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- Data de nascimento
- 1969
- Sexo
- male
- Locais de residência
- Near Atlanta, GA
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 12
- Membros
- 369
- Popularidade
- #65,264
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Resenhas
- 22
- ISBNs
- 32
- Idiomas
- 1
Still, I respect how much effort the author put into researching the topic, and I did learn some interesting stuff. I was particularly interested to read about the existence of Thirteen Clubs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, whose members enjoyed flouting, defying, debunking, and generally having fun with superstitions. They sound like my kind of people. For my own part, I've always had a real fondness for the number 13. Partly because I dislike superstitions and am happy to champion an unfairly maligned numerical underdog (an attitude that the author also talks about a bit in the book), but also because I turned 13 on a Friday the 13th and have 13 letters in my full name. I've always said that if there was anything at all to superstitions about the number, I would never have survived to adulthood!… (mais)