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- The Road Home (1)
- By Rose Tremain
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Finished on Dec 3, 2009
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- I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (1)
- By Harlan Ellison
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Finished in Dec 2009
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I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
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douglas adams on a very bad acid trip. but he wrote the script for "the city on the edge of forever" - though roddenberry marred it - so i bow to his legendary abrasive character.
- — Dec 6, 2009 | Add your feedback
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- A Choice of Gods (1)
- By Clifford D. Simak
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Finished on Dec 1, 2009
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when i first read this book, around, say fifteen, i thought it was a masterpiece, now it looks incoherent, and even a bit silly. that's old age for you.
- — Dec 1, 2009 | Add your feedback
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- The End of Mr. Y (7)
- By Scarlett Thomas
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Finished on Nov 29, 2009
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mostly "matrix" veering into "alice in wonderland", with a hint of "thornbirds", darrida, the birth of homoeopathy, rough sex, the history of time, what else?, neil gaiman, with the benign rats and the london underworld, oh, and genesis 2:16. too much on one's plate to handle, honestly: but she teac ... (continue)
- — Nov 29, 2009 | Add your feedback
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- Fun Home (9)
- A Family Tragicomic
- By Alison Bechdel
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Finished on Nov 27, 2009
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pruned of the oh so very central gay issue, hark hark!, the story is the usual one of a disfunctional family. the young enthusiast lesbian is quite irritating, when she is eager to morph into a boy and blasts her father for being a closet gay - and a manque' interior decorator, as if it was a fatal ... (continue)
- — Nov 27, 2009 | Add your feedback
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- Adrian Mole - The Prostrate Years
- By Sue Townsend
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Finished on Nov 24, 2009
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Adrian Mole - The Prostrate Years
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poor aidy: "for some reason i always feel comforted when i am in woolworths. when i was a child, i spent my first pocket money there. it is good to know that whatever travails we may suffer in life, woolworths will always be there"... not so caustic as the other adrian mole books (townsend had to fa ... (continue)
- — Nov 24, 2009 | Add your feedback
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- The Footprints of God (9)
- By Greg Iles
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Finished on Nov 5, 2009
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part "da vinci code", part "futurama" (the heads in the bell jars), mostly "the fugitive".
- — Nov 5, 2009 | Add your feedback
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- I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud...
- And Other Poems You Half-Remember from School
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Finished on Nov 5, 2009
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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud...
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you can wrap yourself up in this just for the sheer beauty of verse and the evocative poetic images. but reading english poetry aloud is the most effective way to experience the internal rhythms of the language, so different from romance languages (which may sound a little flat in english, since the ... (continue)
- — Nov 7, 2009 | Add your feedback
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- Edith Sitwell a Unicorn Among Lions
- By Victoria Glendinning
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Finished on Oct 12, 2009
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Edith Sitwell a Unicorn Among Lions
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it's hard to be a woman - and more so when you are very plain AND a poet. a biography devoted mostly to her poetical work (which dr. leavis blasted), with heartbreaking glimpses on her personal life.
- — Oct 12, 2009 | Add your feedback
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- Comforters
- By Muriel Spark
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Finished on Oct 9, 2009
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the devil exists, and he can type - or does he? the comforters in the title are the useless friends who assist job - to no avail - in the bible. the book marks the author's conversion from critic and poet to novelist, and her coincident conversion to catholicism. balanced between supernatural mister ... (continue)
- — Oct 9, 2009 | Add your feedback
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- Driftnet
- By Lin Anderson
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Finished on Oct 6, 2009
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- Dark Echo
- By F.G. Cottam
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Finished on Sep 20, 2009
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can a ghost story be boring? oh yes, this one was.
- — Sep 20, 2009 | Add your feedback
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“the grapes of wrath” it isn’t. an east european immigrant lands in london, meets solidarity, friendship and even love (well, sex at least), makes good money working hard and goes back home to a future of relative affluence. enjoyable but banal, a feel-good book very distant from reality. lev can’t ... (continue)
“the grapes of wrath” it isn’t. an east european immigrant lands in london, meets solidarity, friendship and even love (well, sex at least), makes good money working hard and goes back home to a future of relative affluence. enjoyable but banal, a feel-good book very distant from reality. lev can’t manage english but writes XXX in text; and his mission is introducing his fellow countrymen to “lovely britsh food” (!).
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