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Garnethill
From Amazon.com: Garnethill (the name of a bleak Glasgow suburb) won the John Creasey Memorial Award for Best First Crime Novel--the British equivalent of the Edgar. It's a book that crackles with mordant Scottish wit and throbs with the pain of badly [... more]
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Modern Classics Vile Bodies Centennial Edition
Wry, wonderful, witty Waugh!: One of the wittiest, and ultimately saddest, novels about the "lost generation" of the early 20th century. Waugh writes about arrogant, self-centered, wealthy, vapid, young socialites in the period of The Great War, [... more]
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Frangipani
Wonderful: I love this book. It is very difficult to find books about Tahiti, and the life of Tahitians from a Tahitian perspective. Most literature about Tahiti is to attract tourists, or about Gaugain, or sailors that have sailed there. This is written [... more]
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Deception
Deception is the right title: The plot is not particularly interesting. Mina tries to drag us from place to place, but nothing happens. What is really interesting is her husband's personality. She analyzes it very well. Author: Denise Mina Binding: [... more]
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Not the End of the World
Not the End of the World...: These short stories were not really enjoyable to me. I found the humour bland, the characters shapeless, the plot in the stories ordinary (to put it mildly...) Short stories by Nadine Gordimer or Raymond Carver are in my view [... more]
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Case Histories
An Amazing Book - Buy This novel. NOW!: Jan 1st, 2006 - I just finished the last page of this amazing novel a few minutes ago and was compelled to post a review immediately. I was quite surprised to find the review section for this novel on the amazon.ca [... more]
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The Hamilton Case
"Obey by name, Obey by nature...": Sam Obeysekere seems never to entertain a moment of self-doubt or humility, defined by his embrace of everything British, raised in a country whose values are dictated by the strict conventions and morality of [... more]
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Breadfruit
Author: Celestine Hitiura Vaite Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92 EAN: 9780316016582 ISBN: 0316016586 Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: 2006-09 [... more]
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The Lost Cities of Africa
Sorely needed and with great promise, but lacking....: Davidson's contribution is masterfully presented and I came away with the impression that he is a leading authority. However, this book is lacking in two area. First, there is a stunning dearth of [... more]
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My Father's Keeper: Children of Nazi Leaders--An ...
Sitting on Hitler's Lap...: In 1959, a German journalist interviewed the children of a number of leading Nazis and four decades, later, in 2000, his son interviewed them again and the result is this book. It must be hard to be so overshadowed by a parent [... more]
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The Artful Universe: The Cosmic Source of Human Creativity
Author: John D. Barrow Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 111.85 EAN: 9780316082426 ISBN: 0316082422 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: 1996-09 [... more]
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Resolution
What a grand finale: If you're a fan of murder/mystery/swearing then don't buy this book, buy the first two in the series and start from the top, and come back later. Good glad you bought both the first two, now this one, "resolution", simply [... more]
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