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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
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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
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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
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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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rating of "The Black Swan"
by: Roger CO
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The Black Swan
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on: 01 Sep 2022
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Easy reading
by: rogerco
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Ross Poldark
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on: 15 Aug 2022
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A quick light read. ...
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A stoned shaggy dog's tail
by: rogerco
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Inherent Vice
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on: 14 Aug 2022
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A gripping return to form in true shaggy dog form
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A Lost Opportunity for a good book
by: rogerco
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The Lost Apothecary
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on: 27 Jul 2022
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The eighteenth century story is competently told although seemingly a little unlikely, the probelm comes with the appalling wet american woman and her nasty husband in the today section. ...
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How the Gods Live
by: rogerco
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Circe
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on: 16 Jul 2022
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Fabulous storytelling
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Poetical writing at its best
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Hamnet
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on: 24 Jun 2022
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Engrossing and affecting tale
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