October 2011
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Review: The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, #1) by ...
Okay. This is the big one. As the Twilight films come to an end, the film of this book is supposedly coming into to fill the void. Rightly so. Without getting into a long Twilight rant THIS is the sort of book I would like. Yes, the main character can be blind to blinding obvious. “He says he likes me…HE’S A GOOD ACTOR!” But the narration is first person present so you can forgive that....
Oct 2nd
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Review: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
You know how it goes. You have a friend who kind of annoys you. Never pays for himself, a bit of a loudmouth bigot. So you and your friends push him into a ravine because hell, it’s what the Greeks would have done! The narrator Richard Papen transfers to Hampden College in New England where he joins the Ancient Greek course taught by Julian Morrow, an elite group of just five. Richard manages to...
Oct 2nd
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Review Rivers of London (Peter Grant, #1) by Ben...
This is sort of a U.K version of the Dresden Files. A London P.C tries to take witness statement after a grizzly murder. Turns out the witness is a ghost. This kicks things off with vampires and the war between the personification of the various rivers that make up the Thames. And people’s faces fall off which is always a plus. It’s pretty dark urban fantasy but not to a Constantine level....
Oct 2nd
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Review: Anthropology by Dan Rhodes
“Review”: My girlfriend didn’t leave me or do much, mostly due to her lack of existence. Instead of spending time with her, braiding her hair or painting her nails various blues I read this short book. One hundred and one short stories about complicated relationships each lasting one hundred and one words. Obvious problem being that it is stupidly quick to read. Yet I see this as being the sort...
Oct 2nd
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Review: 'Tis by Frank McCourt
I read this because I like to complete what I’ve started. I got the three books that make up McCourt’s trilogy a few years back, starting with Angela’s Ashes. This has become a stable of reading lists for school children and I thought I might as well give it a try. I guess the sucess come from the usual guilt trip for the kids. “You have your own bed and running water? HE DIDN’T! HE SUFFERED AND...
Oct 2nd
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