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“It’s hard for us paleontologists to admit that neo-Darwinian explanations for the Cambrian explosion have failed miserably....Meyer describes the dimensions of the problem with clarity and precision. His book is a game changer.” (Dr. Mark McMenamin, paleontologist at Mt. Holyoke College and coauthor of The Emergence of Animals)“Darwin’s Doubt represents an opportunity for bridge-building rather than dismissive polarization—bridges across cultural divides in great need of professional, respectful dialogue—and bridges to span evolutionary gaps.” (Dr. George Church, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and author of Regenesis)“Meyer writes beautifully. He marshals complex information as well as any writer I’ve read....a wonderful, most compelling read.” (Dean Koontz, New York Times bestselling author)“Darwin’s Doubt is by far the most up-to-date, accurate, and comprehensive review of the evidence from all relevant scientific fields that I have encountered in more than forty years of studying the Cambrian explosion.” (Dr. Wolf-Ekkehard Lonnig, senior scientist emeritus (biologist) at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research)“Meyer demonstrates, based on cutting-edge molecular biology, why explaining the origin of animals is now not just a problem of missing fossils, but an even greater engineering problem at the molecular level....An excellent book and a must read.” (Dr. Russell Carlson, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Georgia and technical director of the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center)“Darwin’s Doubt is an intriguing exploration of one of the most remarkable periods in the evolutionary history of life.... No matter what convictions one holds about evolution, Darwinism, or intelligent design, Darwin’s Doubt is a book that should be read, engaged and discussed.” (Dr. Scott Turner, professor of biology at the State University of New York and author of The Tinkerer's Accomplice)“It is a tour de force…This book is well informed, carefully researched, up–to–date and powerfully argued. It confronts Darwin’s doubt and deals with the assumptions of Neo–Darwinism. This book is much needed and I recommend it to students of all levels, to professionals and to laypeople.” (Dr. Norman C. Nevin OBE, BSc, MD, FRCPath, FFPH, FRCPE, FRCP; Professor Emeritus in Medical Genetics, Queen's University, Belfast)“Darwin’s Doubt is another excellent book by Stephen Meyer. Stephen Meyer has clearly listened to the arguments of those who are sceptical about intelligent design and has addressed them thoroughly. It is really important that Darwinists read this book carefully and give a response.” (Dr. Stuart Burgess, Professor of Design and Nature, Head of Mechanical Engineering at Bristol University)“I spend my life reading science books. I’ve ready many hundreds of them over the years, and in my judgment Darwin’s Doubt is the best science book ever written. It is a magnificent work, a true masterpiece that will be read for hundreds of years.” (George Gilder Technologist, economist, and New York Times bestselling author George Gilder Technologist, economist, and New York Times bestselling author George Gilder Technologist, economist, and New York Times bestselling author George Gilder Tec)“The issue on the table is the mechanism of evolution—is it blind and undirected or is it under the control of an intelligence with a goal in mind? In Darwin’s Doubt, Stephen Meyer has masterfully laid out one of the most compelling lines of evidence for the latter.” (Dr. William S. Harris, Professor, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota)

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The Evidence That Darwin Could Not ExplainCharles Darwin knew there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. In what is known today as the "Cambrian explosion," many animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record 530 million years ago without apparent ancestors in earlier layers of rock. In Darwin's Doubt, Stephen C. Meyer tells the story of the mystery surrounding this explosion of animal life and makes a compelling case for the theory of intelligent design as the best explanation for the origin of the Cambrian animals and the biological information necessary to produce them.With a new epilogue responding to critics

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A tough read, a bit hard to get through, but very thorough as I suspect he needed to be. Anyway, all real scientists already know about the cambrian explosion. Meyer once again nails every last little detail to the wall and leaves no doubt, again well done.

Comment on “Darwin’s Doubt,” by Stephen C. MeyerI highly recommend reading this book. it isn't an easy read, but very interesting and well worth reading with an open mind.When Darwin wrote his famous 1859 treatise on the Origin of Species, there were two issues he glossed over: 1.) The origin of the first living cell, and 2.) The so-called Cambrian, or Silurian, explosion of complex animals. At the time, he, and scientists in general, knew nothing about the details of the functioning of a biological cell, but believed that life somehow originated in the chemical soup that supposedly existed early in the earth’s history. He also acknowledged that the sudden emergence of the Cambrian era animals cast great doubt on his theory of evolution through random mutations and natural selection over long periods of time. However, he expected that later discoveries of fossils would show ancestors of the Cambrian animals in earlier geological strata.Since Crick and Watson deduced the structure of DNA in 1953, based on then-recent work of many biological scientists, science has come to understand that the work of DNA, RNA, and other molecular structures in a living cell is based on highly complex functionally specific code. In his earlier book, “The Signature in the Cell,” Dr. Meyer, citing the work of many modern biological scientists, mathematicians and others, showed that for such complexity to have arisen by chance arrangement of the nucleotide building blocks of life would have required many times the number of available chances in the life of the universe. The post log to the latest edition addresses the criticisms that have been written on that earlier work.In this book Dr. Meyer addresses Darwin’s Cambrian doubt and builds on his earlier book by pointing out the even greater complexity (by many orders of magnitude) of the specified information required to arrange cells into complex animal body plans, such as the 20 or so new phyla found in the Cambrian layers. Even with deep sea drilling, deep drilling on land and in other forms of exploration, scientists have yet to discover any significant fossils of the supposed ancestors of the Cambrian animals. Dr. J.Y. Chen, a Chinese paleontologist and an expert on the Cambrian era fossil deposits discovered in China, was once asked when presenting his findings at the University of Washington if he wasn’t worried about contradicting Darwin, quipped, “in China we can criticize Darwin, but we can’t criticize the government. In the United States, you can criticize the government, but you can’t criticize Darwin.”As Dr. Meyer points out in this book, “Scientists attempting to explain the origin of life must explain how both information-rich molecules and the cell’s information-processing system arose.” As he further notes, “Whenever we find functional information—Whether embedded in a radio signal, carved in a stone monument such as the Rosetta Stone, etched on a disk, or produced by an origin-of-life scientist attempting to engineer a self-replicating molecule — and we trace that information back to its ultimate source, invariably we come to a mind, not merely a material process.”In “Darwin’s Doubt” Dr. Meyer examines the various theories that attempt to explain the geologically sudden emergence of so many new, fully formed animal body plans, and shows that each theory, however subtly, postulates pre-existing information-rich sources of data upon which their theory is based. For example, scientists have discovered entities called developmental gene regulatory networks (dGRNs) that play a key role in the development of a grown animal from an embryo. Studies have determined that simple random individual changes in the dGRN will destroy the organism. Any changes in one part must be coordinated with changes in the other parts, which again requires an enormous infusion of new information. After examining the many theories that scientists have proposed and demonstrating essentially the same flaw in each of them (i.e., the supposition of a pre-existing source of the complex information required), Dr. Meyer concludes that intelligent design is the only explanation that meets the necessary scientific criteria to truly explain the origin of life and the complex form in which all life exists today. In arriving at that conclusion, he uses the same scientific method used by Charles Darwin and most other scientists trying to understand historical events; that is, the abductive method of inference to the best explanation based on currently known processes. In this case, the known process is that complex, functionally specified information is, in our everyday experience, created only by an intelligent agent. Since no scientific theory has yet been proposed that shows any means other than design by an intelligent agent, Dr. Meyer argues that intelligent design is the best, most scientific explanation available today. This is especially true since all of the other purportedly materialistic naturalistic theories that have been proposed start off by assuming the prior existence of the vast amounts of complex specified information necessary to the existence of any life form. They fail to explain where that information came from in the first place. Intelligent design, and only intelligent design, explains the origin of vast amounts of functionally specified information.

If you are a thinking person and you have ever doubted the existence of God, this book will give you a lot to think about.. Evolution has been debunked for what it really is, a theory, not scientific fact. Thinking people can now know that there is a creator and we no longer have to believe we evolved from nothing starting with a "Big Bang" and continuing by chance. I do not know about anyone else, but I prefer to think I was created and not evolved from a lower form of life on planet earth. I also know that there are many who do not believe or think as I do. All I say is, read the book before you judge.

The more scientists learn about the complexity of life, the more difficult it is to believe in Darwin's theory of evolution. This book presents a compelling case for examining intelligent design as a more plausible source of information in DNA than mutations and selection. It is easy to understand and enjoyable to read.

This is a sequel to Stephen Meyer's first in this area, "Signature In The Cell." It is a continuation of the hypothesis of Intelligent Design in the creation of life on this planet, highlighting the increasing number of problems found in Darwin. Darwin, BTW, was quite aware that his theory of evolution did NOT address the ORIGIN of living cells, only their evolution in response to changing environments and other impacts of nature. Make no mistake, this is not a text of opinion or hypothesis ... it is based on factual evidence found in molecular and chemical biology. The fact is that Darwin's theory of natural selection can do nothing to explain the origin of a life form nor the source of novel variation. All natural selection can do is to "select" various traits that already exist. How did that life form spring into existence in the first place? THAT is the question! The fact is that Darwin, dead now for 137 years, had NO IDEA about the tremendous growth in the biological sciences since his theory was first published. He did not know about the magic -- and the power -- that lies in every living cell, about the operations of the literally millions of sub-cellular organisms, including the workings of RNA and DNA. Meyer simply argues for a more comprehensive theory of the origins of life based on modern science. I urge anyone interested in this fascinating field READ THIS BOOK!Linda Kerth, Ph.D.

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I'm a little over 100 pages in, and the author's already got me pretty much convinced. He presents a pretty tireless array of verses supporting his thesis, most of which are rendered with little to no meaning above an almost pointless poetic esotericism without his arctic interpretation in mind. I'm very impressed at just the sheer quantity of evidence he is able to point to in order to support his case. I would have given it 5 stars just for the amount of valuable information I'm getting, but there are minor issues with the printing: (I got the Arktos 2011 Edition) There are frequent typos, spaces or periods that don't belong, etc (neither of which impede the understandability of the text; not a big deal, but noticeable), AND, more frustratingly, the author makes references in the first couple chapters to different graphs and figures he drew out to illustrate his explanation of certain phenomenon related to precession which are not replicated in the text. Fortunately, I had read about these phenomenon before, and so was able to follow, with a bit of difficulty, and pick up the gist. Also fortunately, only a few pages each were devoted to talking about these non-replicated figures; it wasn't too big of a deal either. I'm glad I bought it, but, all the same, think the book's overall published quality could have benefited from a better editing process.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak is the Benjamin Franklin of India. He was an early advocate of Indian independence from Great Britain as well as a journalist, teacher, and scholar. In this work, Talak takes the Vedic Hymns and seeks to determine where the Indo-Europeans originated.His determination-somewhere north of the Arctic Circle.He makes his case by examining the hymns and applying what they say to known astrological data, historical climates, and past geologic conditions. It's a compelling case, especially when he compares Hindu myths to how the sky and stars appear in the far north.The book is dense with facts. In addition to the above, Tilak compares the mythologies of other Indo-European people to make his case along with some references to the Hebrew Old-Testament.A mind expanding book at a minimum.

A great book but poorly and lazily formatted, a more competent publisher would have been wonderful. As it is, its poorly formatted, footnotes appear in the middle of the page, symbols randomly appear. Tilak is a good writer and thinker and deserved better than this.

Mind blowing that history experience has been so narrowly awakened until I read Tilak's possibility (probability) that our cultures have evolved in a completely different scenario than usually portrayed

Undoubtedly, this book is very innovative. Written well beyond its perceived time - portions of the book seem futuristic. Bal Gangadhar Tilak's approach is innovative and quite non-traditional. Tilak definitely was thinking differently from his kinsmen when he wrote the book. Though his theory is not exactly accepted, but it definitely leaves room for thought. The text in the Vedas is not easily understood - pre-dated Sanskrit was Dev-Bhasa – spoken differently with fewer complexities than its morph in latter periods like the Axial times and the rest of CE. There is much that needs to be explored around the Vedas – beyond the dogmas into what may have prevailed at the time they were written. This book is perfect for those looking to seek answers without being bogged down by ritualism, dogmas and blind faith.

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A unique mix of police procedural, personal memoir and political thriller, this true-life tale of the author's research into the death of CIA agent Freddie Woodruff makes compelling reading. The story involves complex post-cold war political intrigue, but the narrative is tightly driven by the core story of Pullara's investigation into the unsolved murder. A great read.

Freddie Woodruff was a CIA station chief in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, who was assassinated in 1993 on a remote highway outside of Tbilisi. Michael Pullara is a lawyer with years of experience in the field of international human rights. Their connection is the rural town of Searcy, Arkansas, where they both grew up.In 1993, Mr. Pullara happened on a New York Times article describing the death of Fred Woodruff. He recognized him as someone from a family he knew in Arkansas and wondered what this man had been doing in Georgia that led to his death and to the sham trial of the man accused of murdering him.This curiosity led to his self-styled “quixotic quest” for the truth behind the murder. And to the intriguing story of espionage and international legal wrangling.After extensive research and personal investigations on site, Mr. Pullara was satisfied that he had enough information to help Mr. Woodruff’s family understand what happened in 1993. But Georgia Woodruff Alexander, Fred Woodruff’s sister, learning that an innocent man was in prison, had a challenge for the lawyer who thought he had finished his work: “What are we gonna do, Michael?”Thus began the real work and the ultimate exoneration of the accused, Anzor Sharmaidze. We follow grueling, painstaking investigations and learn a lot about post-Soviet Georgia, Russia, the CIA, the FBI and international intrigue.It is a fascinating read which gives us detailed insight into the arcane and frightening world of espionageP. Day

I was familiar with the tragic death of Mr. Woodruff as I had worked at US Embassy Tbilisi in the 90s, and had been responsible for processing a number of FOIA requests related to the case. More recently, I thought the matter had been completely forgotten so I was pleased to see the a book had been written about it. I enjoyed the book and I think the author nailed the cultural and political complexities of the era pretty well. However, although there were certainly grounds to be suspicious, I think the author's opinion that Russian intelligence was behind Mr. Woodruff's death is just speculation based on poor analysis and questionable sources. More likely than not, the fellow who was convicted was probably the shooter who killed Mr. Woodruff when he took a drunken potshot at a passing car. Although I don’t agree with the author’s conclusion, this was a good read and would probably make for a good movie.

A most compelling read. Every page filled with political intrigue. A spider's-web of information about post-USSR/Georgian/USA cunning relationships all centered about the murder of a CIA agent. Kudos to the author for his perseverance in getting to the truth behind the murder of CIA agent Freddie Woodruff.

This is a Great Story, even greater because it is ALL TRUE. It required many years of research. It is interesting to learn about the world of spying.Michael Pullara is a great storyteller. I loved his word choices and descriptions of so many people, events and places. I see why reviews include the comment 'this is his first book.' This is spell binding reading. It will also make a great movie.The Russian names are a bit of a challenge. In the front of the book Mr. Pullara has put a key to all of the names. I kept a sticky note there to help me quickly check on people.

I stopped reading a little over a quarter of the book. I wanted to learn about this murder and how the various governments reacted to it. It was more about the author and his feelings. If there was a "hook" in the story to keep me interested, I could not find it by page 102.

Brilliant first person story. Riveting account of an unknown international incident on the personal level. Great detail. Superbly written. I could not put it down. Hopefully, the author will write more !

A complicated case, carefully told.

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I found this a very readable and informative book. As a serious photographer, currently enrolled in a three year professional photography program, the author's ideas and pictorial examples where thought provoking and provided creative seeds for my own exploration and image creation.Another feature of the book which I liked was Michael's recommended topics, concepts, or individuals to do Web lookups. I pursued some and learned much. This permits the reader to pursue his/her interests and makes the book itself easier to read.I read the Kindle edition and found both the layout and the orthography challenging. Where the author speaks about ideas or concepts related to a given image which in the printed version is probably on the same or opposite page in the Kindle edition you might find it several "pages" away which makes the dialogue harder to follow. This, coupled with misspellings and lack of capitalization of cities, towns and countries caused me to only give the book a four star rating

Having recently purchased and read both The Photographer's Eye and The Photographer's Mind by Michael Freeman, I will review both. Eye is easily the most helpful book I've read on photographic composition, discussing in clear terms framing, design basics, graphics, light and color, intent, and process. What I found especially helpful was the section on gestalt theory. While I have read about gestalt theory before, I have not found it quite so clearly discussed as here. Eye is a book to return to again and again.Mind, though it falters slightly near the end, for the most part maintains the same high level of quality as Eye in discussing "intent" and "style." Especially interesting is the section on beauty and the sublime ("Dead Monsters"), which dips into classical aesthetic theory going back to Burke, Kant, and Addison. In a book geared for the practitioner, such theorizing can easily go too far, but that is not the case here. In fact I could have done with a bit more classical theory. Even if one chooses to eschew classical principles, I believe it is better to do so knowledgeably than ignorantly. The cataloguing of styles is helpful. I found that I already use a number of styles in my photography, but I can now do so with greater awareness and confidence. I appreciated the web links throughout the book and the references to various photographers whose styles are discussed.I can highly recommend both books to amateur and advanced amateur photographers.

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"A rare book that transcends the narrow interests of wine lovers."―The New York Times, named a Best Wine Book of 2014"In the end, the book turns out to be less about a dastardly crime than about the powerful mysticism surrounding Burgundy's wine culture....Powerful."―The New York Times Book Review"SHADOWS IN THE VINEYARD details the tale of a threat so bizarre it seems unreal: one deluded man's attempt at a big score by threatening a true culinary treasure...the prose is evocative...and captures the gravitas of a crime with deep cultural resonance without becoming wonky."―San Francisco Gate "Books I devoured in the last few weeks impressed me mightily:...SHADOWS IN THE VINEYARD, a nonfiction blending of several genres - culinary, travel, history, true crime by Maximillian Potter, who's an enviably nimble writer."―Frank Bruni, New York Times "Mr. Potter...tells the story quite vividly-and the book delivers a happy ending as well."― Wall Street Journal, Great Reads"A gripping crime drama more creative than most procedurals, and Potter does excellent working in fleshing out both the involved players and the historical context of the Burgundy region and its oenophiles."―The Daily Beast"[Potter] places the crime in a broad, rich, historical and cultural context that is engaging"―USA Today"Inspired by a daring crime that a lesser writer might reduce to police procedural, Maximillian Potter has opened a portal into a fabled world unknown to outsiders. The story he so compellingly recounts in SHADOWS IN THE VINEYARD breathes, like the hallowed wine at its heart, with life and history and wonder."―Benjamin Wallace, author of The Billionaire's Vinegar"Aubert de Villaine is the legend behind the legend. DRC is the most celebrated wine on the planet and the place where the alchemy of the soul of the earth, combined with the elements, as well as the knowledge and wisdom of craftsmen, are united to create this magical nectar. But out of nowhere, the dark side interfered and this inconceivable thriller began. This riveting story, where good ultimately triumphs, instills a renewed appreciation of the Côte d'Or region, its people, and the passion that is the fortitude behind this incredible wine."―Eric Ripert, chef and co-owner, Le Bernardin, author of Avec Eric"A gripping, real-life mystery and an intimate portrait of one of the world's great wine-makers as he battles the man bent on destroying five centuries of greatness. Maximillian Potter has always been an outstanding reporter and now he reveals the fascinating story of France's legendary vineyard, Domaine Romain Conti."―Michael Hainey, author of After Visiting Friends

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Maximillian Potter is Esquire magazine's Editor-at-Large. Formerly the executive editor of 5280: Denver's Magazine, he has been a staff writer at Premiere, Philadelphia, and GQ, and a contributor to Vanity Fair. He was a senior adviser to Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, with whom he co-authored the governor's memoir. Potter is native of Philadelphia with a BA from Allegheny College and MSJ from Northwestern University's Medill School.

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Hardcover: 304 pages

Publisher: Twelve; 1st Edition edition (July 29, 2014)

Language: English

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ISBN-13: 978-1455516100

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I have been torn between my competing impulses of not being able to put "Shadows in the Vineyard" down and a contradictory desire to extend the time it takes for me to finish this book for as long as possible so as to prolong its enjoyment. The character development and imagery are incredibly vivid and seamlessly melded across time and geography. When you combine this with a love of historical writing and historical fiction as well as crime and mystery novels, "Shadows in the Vineyard" has accomplished at least a trifecta of everything that is dear to me in a book. Although this book is non-fiction, it reads like a novel and keeps you on the edge of your seat.

This book is beyond being entertaining, or informative. It is wise in a pragmatic, life-grit humanistic way, which I find preferable to the crystalline abstraction of philosophy. As I said, it is not a smart book – it is a wise book. To begin with, it is an unusually structured book, and, in essence, it is one continuous exposition from beginning to the end, with stories and facts offered unhurriedly, when they are needed. The pacing is perfect – not hectic-fast, yet not too slow either, requiring reader to slow down just enough to start appreciating the turn of language here and the turn of thought there, and simply start enjoying the process of reading it.Subject-wise, this book mixes history, agriculture, biography, and uses crime more as a pretense to expand on multitudes of topics. If anything, this book falls in line with a well-established literary tradition of books about nothing in particular but everything at once, written by what used to be called “men of letters”. Such mosaic of stories results in a “cumulative” effect, when by the end it grows bigger than the sum of its parts. In other words, one has to complete reading it in order to fully appreciate what a rare gem of a book this is. Which should pose no problem to anyone, unless a truly severe remission of ADHD gets in a way. I personally managed to finish the book in two sessions of about one hour and half each. Very Highly Recommended. Hope this helps.

The language with which vintners, connoisseurs, and critics talk about their favorite subject often resembles religious ecstasies, making the use of sacred wine for Christian communion services seem not only appropriate but completely right. In this book, which is "the true story of the plot to poison the world's greatest wine," however, author Maximillian Potter, a journalist, takes a much more secular approach to the subject, as he investigates the very real 2010 plot to poison the vines at the Domaine Romanee-Conti on the Cote d'Or. With its Pinot Noir regarded as the world's greatest wine, and its availability limited because the vineyard itself is small, the interest of sophisticated criminals in this wine is not surprising. At auction, a single bottle of Romanee-Conti from 1945 was then fetching as much as $124,000.The 2010 crime within the French vineyard itself is daring, potentially devastating to the vineyard, and both complex and time-consuming to pull off, as an unknown person or persons sets out to extort a million euros from M. Aubert de Villaine, the seventy-one-year-old "Grand Monsieur" who runs the Domaine with his cousin Henri-Frederic Roch. When Aubert de Villaine does not act upon receiving a message, the extortionist gives one last warning, providing more specific information and indicating that he has already drilled the bases of seven hundred vines and has already begun injecting them with poison. He will continue to do this if his terms are not met.Author Potter's broad approach to this subject resembles a compilation of stories about the vineyard, its owners, and its history, jumping back to the time of Louis XV and Madame Pompadour, and then jumping forward to the present, then toggling back and forth. While some might argue that such an approach slows down the narrative, others will treasure the insights gained into the whole subject of wine-producing. Throughout the book, Potter keeps the personalities of his subjects front and center, giving life to a subject which might otherwise feel static. King Louis XV, Madame Pompadour, and the Prince de Conti, an ancestor of the vineyard's owner and cousin of Louis XV, share space with scenes of the extortionist, living in a tiny eighty square-foot cabin carefully disguised on the de Villaine property, while two police try to discover who he is.In the last pages of the book, the author raises questions regarding the succession to M. Aubert de Villaine's position and who the choice may be. He talks about his own background and his reasons for writing the book and his opinions about wine critics with their elaborately over-the-top descriptions of wine, then describes having his first taste of Burgundy in the cellars of Domaine Romanee-Conti, with M. Aubert in decidedly different terms. He tells le Grand Monsieur: "This may sound crazy to you, but when I was a kid there was a candy called Pop Rocks. It was like candied sand and when you put it in your mouth, it sort of bounced around and filled your mouth. "[This wine] is like divine, liquefied Pop Rocks that make me feel lightheaded - the kind of happiness that I felt after I first kissed my wife."

This book exposes quite the caper. A bungled attempt by a not-so-clever French ex-con to extort money from one of the world's most prestigious wineries, the Domaine de la Romanee-Conti (DRC to its friends and lovers-and there are many). The author paints a very good, very considered portrait of DRC's proprietor Aubert de Villaine, a man of deep thought with an almost other-worldly connection to his vines, which in turn produce some of the world's most highly sought after Burgundies. The writing, while not great, is solid and tells the tale. If you're a fan of wine or of true crime stories, this one is worth the effort. Very good.

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