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Review of "The HiddenTruth"
by: rogerco
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The HiddenTruth
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on: 01 Mar 2025
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Very enjoyable fast read with intriguing plot idea well executed. ...
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Surprisingly Enjoyable
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An Officer and a Spy
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on: 12 Feb 2025
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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. ...
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Review of "Bleeding Heart Square"
by: rogerco
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on: 02 Feb 2025
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Enjoyable read with convincing setting. ...
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Ultimately Disappointing
by: rogerco
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Held
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on: 30 Jan 2025
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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 ...
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Variable quality, but interesting
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Collected Stories of Arthur C Clarke
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on: 22 Jan 2025
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Took a long while to read. ...
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Starts well, fell off cliff at end
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Human Croquet
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on: 11 Dec 2024
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Poetic writing but random towards the end
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rating of "The Dark Forest"
by: Roger CO
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The Dark Forest
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on: 01 Nov 2024
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rating of "You Can't See Me"
by: Roger CO
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You Can't See Me
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on: 18 Sep 2024
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Classic excellent Kingsolver
by: rogerco
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Animal Dreams
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on: 16 Aug 2024
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Classic Kingsolver with themes that she continued to explore in many later books. A very engrossing story
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rating of "A Room Made of Leaves"
by: Roger CO
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A Room Made of Leaves
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on: 11 Jul 2024
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rating of "Reykjavik"
by: Roger CO
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Reykjavik
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on: 24 May 2024
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rating of "Light Over Liskeard"
by: Roger CO
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Light Over Liskeard
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on: 24 Apr 2024
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Review of "Fearsum Endjum"
by: rogerco
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on: 26 Mar 2024
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Written partly in a voice speaking misspelt english which takes a bit of decoding, but pretty good picture of the consequences of virtuality Set on earth long after most of humanity has left on interstellar exploration. ...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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