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Review of "The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest"
by: Roger
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on: 17 May 2013
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More from the spring of scandinavian noir.
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Review of "Our Kind of Traitor"
by: Roger
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on: 30 Apr 2013
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Not one of his best, story unfolds routinely and the ending is a cop-out
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Review of "Roseanna"
by: Roger
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on: 05 Apr 2013
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ok. Pre-dates the current fashion, a lot of time spent on realistic evocation of how slowly an investigation can proceed. ...
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Review of "Human Traces"
by: Roger
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on: 10 Mar 2013
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Actually as I read this I realised that I was re-reading it
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Review of "Why Are We The Good Guys?"
by: Roger
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on: 08 Mar 2013
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The first section is all well known stuff (to me) but well set out and referenced. ...
Full review 53 words
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Review of "The Girl Who Played with Fire"
by: Roger
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on: 24 Feb 2013
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Took a while to get into but mercifully less graphic sexual violence ethan the first book although still there as a strong undercurrent. ...
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rating of "The Song of Achilles"
by: Roger
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on: 17 Feb 2013
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Review of "The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared"
by: Roger
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on: 12 Jan 2013
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Hilarious and compelling. ...
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Review of "The Last Englishman"
by: Roger
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on: 04 Jan 2013
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Fascinating story, a whole new angle on the Russian revolution of 1917-1924 plus background to the nice perfection of Swallows and Amazons
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rating of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
by: Roger
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on: 15 Dec 2012
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Review of "Kind of Cruel"
by: Roger
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on: 14 Dec 2012
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Complete rubbish which Jane bought by mistake on Amazon. ...
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Review of "Shieldwall"
by: Roger
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on: 06 Dec 2012
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By comparison with Wold Hall which I just finished this is a complete load of c**p. ...
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Review of "Wolf Hall"
by: Roger
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on: 24 Nov 2012
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Two minor annoyances - the way it is written makes it hard sometimes to work out who is speaking, and the story of Cromwell has little dramatic tension - he just rises. ...
Full review 41 words
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Review of "Chavs"
by: Roger
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on: 10 Nov 2012
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Yes, I agree. ...
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Review of "The Great Night"
by: Roger
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on: 03 Oct 2012
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and they kept on dancing, though the band's all packed and gone - were they every here at all, but they kept on dancing ...
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Review of "Goethe's Science of Living Form"
by: Roger
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on: 25 Sep 2012
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Interesting way of going beyond intelectual scientific alienation from the subject (cf the Theodore Roszak book)
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Review of "The Blue Fox"
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on: 20 Sep 2012
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Short, slightly poetic, hard life in snowy wastes of iceland
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Review of "Ragnarok: the End of the Gods"
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on: 13 Sep 2012
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not as good as I had hoped
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Review of "Where the Wasteland Ends"
by: Roger
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on: 28 Aug 2012
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An important book. ...
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rating of "The Book of Lies"
by: Roger
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on: 10 Aug 2012
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Review of "This Is Paradise"
by: Roger
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on: 22 Jul 2012
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took a bit of getting into at first as wasn't sure why I was reading it or what it was about but once there found it very compelling and strangely beautiful writing about alzheimers and death.
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rating of "Angelmaker"
by: Roger
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on: 09 Jun 2012
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Review of "Trusted Mole"
by: Roger
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on: 19 May 2012
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Absolutely gripping account of a nasty war (aren't they all)
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Review of "The Prague Cemetary"
by: Roger
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on: 03 May 2012
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Fascinating weaving of a tale intersecting with truth and history. ...
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Review of "The Etymologicon"
by: Roger
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on: 22 Apr 2012
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Entertaining and informative
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