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Annoying but quite good  

by: rogerco

Any Human Power  

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on: 16 Jul 2025

A bit overwritten and annoyingly perfect people in the main family and the last third degenerates into a boring election story, but some good stuff in there

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rating of "The List of Suspicious Things"  

by: Roger CO

The List of Suspicious Things  

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on: 01 Jul 2025

No summary or review available

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rating of "Exterminations"  

by: Roger CO

Exterminations  

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on: 01 Jun 2025

No summary or review available

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rating of "Number 9 Dream"  

by: Roger CO

Number 9 Dream  

on: 01 May 2025

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rating of "The Year of the Flood"  

by: Roger CO

The Year of the Flood  

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on: 01 Apr 2025

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Review of "The HiddenTruth"  

by: rogerco

The HiddenTruth  

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on: 01 Mar 2025

Review extract: Very enjoyable fast read with intriguing plot idea well executed. ...

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Surprisingly Enjoyable  

by: rogerco

An Officer and a Spy  

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on: 12 Feb 2025

Review extract: 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

Bleeding Heart Square  

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on: 02 Feb 2025

Review extract: Enjoyable read with convincing setting. ...

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Ultimately Disappointing  

by: rogerco

Held  

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on: 30 Jan 2025

Review extract: 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  

by: rogerco

Collected Stories of Arthur C Clarke  

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on: 22 Jan 2025

Review extract: Took a long while to read. ...

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Starts well, fell off cliff at end  

by: Roger CO

Human Croquet  

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on: 11 Dec 2024

Poetic writing but random towards the end

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rating of "The Dark Forest"  

by: Roger CO

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

You Can't See Me  

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on: 18 Sep 2024

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Classic excellent Kingsolver  

by: rogerco

Animal Dreams  

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on: 16 Aug 2024

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

A Room Made of Leaves  

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on: 11 Jul 2024

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rating of "The Systems View of Life"  

by: Roger CO

The Systems View of Life  

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on: 12 Jun 2024

Review extract: A dense slow read - it took me almost a year to finish - but well worth the effort.Up their with Goldsmith's The Way as an absolutely key text to understanding the world and our place in it.

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rating of "Reykjavik"  

by: Roger CO

Reykjavik  

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on: 24 May 2024

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rating of "Light Over Liskeard"  

by: Roger CO

Light Over Liskeard  

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on: 24 Apr 2024

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Review of "Fearsum Endjum"  

by: rogerco

Fearsum Endjum  

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on: 26 Mar 2024

Review extract: 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

Shrines of Gaiety  

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on: 18 Feb 2024

An enjoyable romp through 1920's Soho clubland

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Emotionally Gripping  

by: rogerco

Prophet Song  

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on: 17 Jan 2024

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

Pigs in Heaven  

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on: 30 Nov 2023

Better than The Bean Trees, possibly one of her best.

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Enjoyable but flawed  

by: rogerco

The Sea of Tranquility  

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on: 05 Nov 2023

Review extract: 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

Deep Deception  

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on: 29 Oct 2023

Review extract: 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

Lily  

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on: 25 Sep 2023

Review extract: Excellent writing and read on holiday in Ireland. ...

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