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Books I've Read
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Little Brother by Cory Doctorow Harper Voyager 13/10/2008 384 pages Description: After a terrorist attack in San Francisco, a group of teenagers are arrested. They become freedom fighters against the over-policed US Homeland Security. Comment: Great. |
15/11/2010 |
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A Taste for Death by P D James Penguin Books Ltd 5/10/1989 514 pages Description: Inspector Dalgleish solves a murder in a church. Comment: Churches are obviously dangerous places. |
17/10/2010 |
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Darkness, be my Friend by John Marsden Pan Australia 1/8/2008 288 pages Description: Book 4 in the Tomorrow series from Australia. Sent over by Karen, Cindy's friend. Australia has been invaded by an un-named Asian country. Comment: Not so much happens in this one, but still it was a gripping read. |
15/10/2010 |
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Corvus: A Life with Birds by Esther Woolfson Granta Books 1/6/2009 352 pages Description: Heather's bookgroup choice. All about crows, ravens and magpies. Comment: Interesting. Lots of stuff about bird mythology, natural history and the author's life! |
15/10/2010 |
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Skellig David Almond Hodder Children's Books 19/4/2007 176 pages Description: An angel or a man, or their imagination. Comment: I've recommended this for book group, and will be very interested to see what everyone thinks of it. I think that it's magical. I really like that it isn't all explained at the end. |
10/10/2010 |
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The Strain by Guillermo del Toro Harper 13/10/2011 496 pages Description: Eddie's choice for book group. Another vampire book. A plane lands safely and normally in New York, but then it all goes quiet. All the passengers and crew are dead!! Comment: Quite exciting. It's the first of a trilogy, and I don't think I'll bother with the other two. |
6/10/2010 |
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Map Addict by Mike Parker Collins 1/4/2010 336 pages Description: A totally geeky map obsessive writes about maps. Comment: Lots of fun facts! |
1/10/2010 |
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The Passage by Justin Cronin Orion 24/6/2010 784 pages Description: A vampire virus is created by the US army as a weapon. Then the virus escapes and kills almost everyone. Comment: Blah. I read to the end because I wanted to see what happened, but it was way to long. Not good. |
1/10/2010 |
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Zero History by William Gibson Viking 2/9/2010 416 pages Description: Third book in his branding trilogy. Comment: Loved it. Great ideas. Is it science fiction? It's set right now and comments incredibly interestingly on branding, cool, technology and society. It also made me laugh out loud! |
1/10/2010 |
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Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd Penguin 1/4/2010 288 pages Description: A series of murders in 1980s London have a mysterious link to Wren's assistant who is building churches after the Fire of London. Comment: I remember loving this book when I first read it 20 years ago (or more). Didn't really understand what I'd seen in it. Realised that there was a mixture of truth and fiction in the historical section and that I didn't know the real history well enough to know what was what. |
1/10/2010 |
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Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 2/3/2009 320 pages Description: A Jewish boy escapes his Polish village as it is destroyed by Nazis. He is brought up by a Greek archaeologist. Comment: It was interesting rather than distressing as I thought it might be. Lovely writing. |
1/10/2010 |
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Pompeii by Robert Harris Arrow 1/10/2009 416 pages Description: A detective story set around the eruption of Vesuvius that buried Pompeii, featuring a protagonist who is a water engineer. Comment: Very well plotted. Excellent Roman background. |
1/10/2010 |
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Blood Sport by Dick Francis Pan Books 1/8/1969 345 pages Description: Skulldugery in the horse breeding world. Comment: Awful!! Even by Dick Francis' standards - normally he managed an exciting plot, but not this time. |
1/10/2010 |
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Black Man by Richard Morgan Gollancz 1/11/2007 640 pages Description: Science fiction about genetically enhanced super soldiers. Outlawed, rounded up and exiled to Mars. One comes back and is hunted down by another who works for the government. Comment: Great storyline, but also it also explores really interesting ideas about discrimination and prejudice. Loved it. |
1/10/2010 |
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American Tabloid by James Ellroy Penguin 29/4/1993 848 pages Description: An ex-policeman in 1930s Germany. 3 books in one. Comment: Too much all in one go, but very interesting. |
1/10/2010 |
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American Tabloid by James Ellroy Windmill Books 3/6/2010 592 pages Description: Cuba, the Mafia, the FBI, the Kennedys and politics in late 50s, early 60s America. Comment: Fascinating, but repulsive characters. How much is true? |
1/10/2010 |
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Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 7/6/2010 403 pages Description: A scientist goes on the run, hiding in London. Comment: Fun - a good thriller. Not as good as his previous book - Restless. |
1/10/2010 |
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The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Vintage Classics 4/2/1999 112 pages Description: An old man goes fishing. For three days! Comment: A book group book - I don't think I'd have read it otherwise. But it was great - really gripping. The relationship between the man and the fish is extremely well written. |
1/10/2010 |
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And Then You Die by Michael Dibdin Faber and Faber 2/12/2002 192 pages Description: Another Aurelio Zen thriller earlier than the last one I read. He's recovering from a Mafia car bombing, hidden under a false name. Comment: Not as good as the last one, but still a great detective novel. |
30/6/2010 |
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Caught Inside by Daniel Duane North Point Press 1/5/1997 256 pages Description: A surfer spends a year surfing a very small section of the Californian coast. Comment: Great observations of wildlife and people on the sea. Still not as good as Walking on Water as a book about surfing! |
20/6/2010 |
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