Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing Book

Despite the fact that this is in my Read shelf, I have never read this book. But I want to talk about its author, Manny Rayner. Manny is one of the greatest people I have ever known. I know for a fact that once, as he was walking in a poor part of the city, he passed a homeless man who was evidently suffering from the DTs. Manny sat with this man, on the filthy, piss-stinking scrub under a bridge, for seven (7) hours, cradling the unfortunate's head in his arms, until the fit passed. Afterwards, the man wept and tried to press into Manny's hands a few grubby coins, which needless to say Manny would not accept.

So no, I haven't read Putting Linguistics into Speech Recognition: The Regulus Grammar Compiler, but how could any book about the Regulus Grammar Compiler fail to be wonderful, written by an author with Manny's heaven-drunk soul?

[PLEASE FLAG THIS REVIEW, AS I AM DOING, FOR BEING ABOUT AUTHOR BEHAVIOR, AND NOT ABOUT THE BOOK.]

[YOU MAY ALSO WANT TO REPORT MY BOOKSHELF AUTHORS-BEHAVING-FANTASTICALLY, AS IT CLEARLY IS AS PERNICIOUS AS ANY SHELF CALLED AUTHORS-BEHAVING-BADLY.]