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Wednesday 12th February 2025

An Officer and a Spy

Author : Robert Harris

Summary :
Story of the Dreyfus Affair 1896-1906 in France

Reviewed by rogerco, on 12 Feb 2025

Surprisingly Enjoyable

Despite misgivings before never having read any Robert Harris but having a slightly negative impression of him this turned out to be quite a gripping read. Story very clearly told and carried one along



Thursday 30th January 2025

2023

Held

Author : Anne Michaels

Summary :
Episodic story across generations from 1920 to 2000+
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Reviewed by rogerco, on 30 Jan 2025

Ultimately Disappointing

At first I was quite enjoying - the episodic literary writing style was starting to weave a coherent pattern, but then it all fell apoart in the last third as we lost sight of the core charaters and loads of other random people statrted appearing with no apparent connection. Finished confused and annoyed



Wednesday 22nd January 2025

Collected Stories of Arthur C Clarke

Author : Arthur C Clarke

Summary :
From 1937 to 200. 104 short stories - some less than a page, some many pages.
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Reviewed by rogerco, on 22 Jan 2025

Variable quality, but interesting

Took a long while to read. They come in historical order which shows an interesting development in complexity and a surprisingly persistent belief in techno-utopia as the end game. Only in the last few is this slightly moderated. Length and quality variable and not correlated.



Wednesday 11th December 2024

Human Croquet

Author : Kate Atkinson

Summary :
16yo girl in small town england in 1960
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Reviewed by Roger CO, on 11 Dec 2024

Review Summary :
Poetic writing but random towards the end

Starts well, fell off cliff at end

At first it seems a fairly straightforward family story with a mystery disappearance of her mother when she was about 4, and then her father absent for a few years, but that gets resolved about half way through and it becomes confused and seemingly random, although still pleasingly written.



Friday 1st November 2024

The Dark Forest

Three Body Problem book 2

Author : Cixin Liu

Summary :
Spool forward about 100 years from first book and earth is grappling with the coming invasion fleet
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Rated by Roger CO, on 01 Nov 2024



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