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Thursday 17th March 2016

2014

A Pleasure and a Calling

Author : Phil Hogan

Summary :
Mr.Heming the small town estate agent who loves and protects his community in a way that is ...

Reviewed by Roger, on 17 Mar 2016

Review of "A Pleasure and a Calling"

Really enjoyed this. Moves along at a good pace with a convincing picture of small town affairs. Possibly slightly misoginistic in that there are no sympathetic female characters (and no really concrete other male charachters apart from Mr.Heming).


Sunday 6th March 2016

2010

Harmony

A New Way of Looking at Our World

Authors : Tony Juniper, Ian Skelly, Charlie Windsor

Summary :
What's what and what to do about what's what that should not be and how to recover what should be ...
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Reviewed by Roger, on 06 Mar 2016

Review of "Harmony"

A really useful review of the state of things and what needs to be done - which identifies a return to a focus on relationship as the key. An attack on scientific materialism and (captialistic) consumption as destructive of the cycle of life and a bit of a call to arms.


Sunday 6th March 2016

2000

The Heart Goes Last

Author : Margaret Atwood

Summary :
Post the next crash a couple forced to live in their car in the NE USA stumble into a final ...

Reviewed by Roger, on 06 Mar 2016

Review of "The Heart Goes Last"

Simply awful. Bad plot, bad characterisation, bad dialogue, bad sex, bad ideas. Not funny. Not clever. Not interesting. The decline of a once great author. Sad and totally pointless


Friday 4th March 2016

1967

The Man Who Went Up In Smoke

Authors : Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo

Summary :
Martin Beck Sweedish detective investigates the disappearance of a journalist on assignment in ...

Reviewed by Roger, on 04 Mar 2016

Review of "The Man Who Went Up In Smoke"

Very pleasing, interesting characters and good plotline


Sunday 28th February 2016

2014

The Bone Clocks

Author : David Mitchell

Summary :
precognition, transmigration of souls, hermetic sects, ancient guardians, working class gravesend, ...

Reviewed by Roger, on 28 Feb 2016

Review of "The Bone Clocks"

yes - first episode excelent (gravesend), second ok (cambridge), third worse (alps), writer tedious hack, then a bit of wierdness, and a coda that comes back to form.


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