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An Enjoyable Romp
by: rogerco
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Shrines of Gaiety
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on: 18 Feb 2024
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An enjoyable romp through 1920's Soho clubland
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Emotionally Gripping
by: rogerco
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Prophet Song
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on: 17 Jan 2024
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If I read a more powerful novel this year I'll me amazed.
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Another stunning american social-realist novel
by: rogerco
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Pigs in Heaven
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on: 30 Nov 2023
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Better than The Bean Trees, possibly one of her best.
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Enjoyable but flawed
by: rogerco
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The Sea of Tranquility
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on: 05 Nov 2023
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It was a good read, and I liked the way a couple of characters from her previous book, The Glass Hotel which I read recently, were woven in. ...
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Surprisingly shocking
by: Roger CO
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Deep Deception
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on: 29 Oct 2023
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Although we have heard the story - and in a sense always known it; the existence of police spies in activist groups is assumed to be true as a basic security princple - to read the first hand accounts of the way a selection of women were targetted ...
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A Bright Penny in a Muddy Puddle.
by: Roger CO
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Lily
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on: 25 Sep 2023
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Excellent writing and read on holiday in Ireland. ...
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Getting Better
by: Roger CO
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Death's Own Door
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on: 19 Sep 2023
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As they go on the Lydmouth series seems to be getting better. ...
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Doppelgangers Unleashed
by: rogerco
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The Anomaly
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on: 16 Sep 2023
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Using the simulation hypothesis as a hook (see also Emily St.John Michael's Sea of Tranquility ) this keeps away from the sci-fi future stuff to explain what's going one but plays around with the consequences in our own time-line. ...
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Outstanding
by: rogerco
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Demon Copperhead
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on: 22 Aug 2023
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Compelling first person narrative painting a believable picture of back-country life in small town redneck country
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A well written good read. Contemporary.
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The Glass Hotel
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on: 25 Jul 2023
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A really good read, modern and topical covering the period 1998 to 2018. Well written with good characters
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More of the Same
by: Roger CO
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The Lover of the Grave
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on: 12 Jul 2023
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Still in the 1950s small town bubble
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One part excellent, one part naff
by: rogerco
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Bear Witness
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on: 08 Jul 2023
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Eco-warrior story very good, but the sex-life story very naff.
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Somewhat Disturbing
by: rogerco
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Oryx and Crake
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on: 01 Jul 2023
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Somewhat disturbing, although perhaps not as likely as when it was written
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A bit Midsommer Murders-ery
by: rogerco
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The Mortal Sickness
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on: 18 Jun 2023
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Simple and quite well told but the milieu is unconvincing
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Nice slice of flyover life
by: Roger CO
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The Bean Trees
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on: 01 Jun 2023
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Social realism of the Southern States
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Somewhat like the previous one with added comedy
by: Roger CO
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The Rabbit Factor
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on: 29 May 2023
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Comedy and gangsters with a bemused statistician
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rating of "Moving Pictures"
by: Roger CO
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Moving Pictures
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on: 22 May 2023
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Simple Rules Create Complex Social Systems
by: rogerco
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The Dawn of Everything
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on: 29 Apr 2023
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1. Freedom to Move
2. Freedom to Refuse an Order
3. Freedom to Create New Forms of Social Reality
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The prize is in the reading
by: rogerco
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The Silence of the Girls
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on: 16 Apr 2023
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First class writing.
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A Life in Transistion
by: rogerco
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A Fortune-Teller Told Me
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on: 20 Mar 2023
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The year of not flying certainly seems to have changed him for the better, from the hard boiled journo to someone a lot more aware of the darker side of the rising tide of capitalism.
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Not successful
by: rogerco
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Utopia Avenue
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on: 19 Feb 2023
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A collection of cameos by dead musicians
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rating of "The Siege of Krishnapur"
by: Roger CO
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The Siege of Krishnapur
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on: 25 Jan 2023
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rating of "Unsheltered"
by: Roger CO
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Unsheltered
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on: 24 Dec 2022
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rating of "Agent Running in the Field"
by: Roger CO
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Agent Running in the Field
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on: 28 Nov 2022
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Classic Pynchon
by: rogerco
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Bleeding Edge
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on: 26 Nov 2022
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New York in the aftermath of the dot-com crash of 2001 provides a natural landscape for Pynchon's
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