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Review of "Consider Phlebas"
by: Roger
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on: 26 Mar 2010
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Although this is the first of the culture series, having read two others it seemed very formulaic An enjoyable enough read but not earth shattering.
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Review of "The Reluctant Fundamentalist"
by: Roger
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on: 12 Feb 2010
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Quick and easy to read, slightly contrived format and ambiguous in its conclusion. ...
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rating of "Night Train to Lisbon"
by: Roger
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on: 05 Feb 2010
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Review of "A Most Wanted Man"
by: Roger
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on: 05 Jan 2010
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Gripping read right up until the end which was strangely unsatisfying - simplistic and arbitary
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Review of "The Road Home"
by: Roger
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on: 01 Jan 2010
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Very engrossing read, totally invoved in Lev's journey - and not everything comes right in the end which is quite satisfying.
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Review of "Matter"
by: Roger
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on: 21 Dec 2009
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All the grand sweep that you expect from these books with some interesting ideas (Shellworlds) and crosslinks between the mundane savage emerging civilisations and the overarching galactic Culture with hints of things beyond even that. ...
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Review of "When Will There Be Good News?"
by: Roger
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on: 09 Dec 2009
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Enjoyable read but perhaps too many cross linking plot lines interwoven to ever be fully satisfactory
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Review of "Against the Day"
by: Roger
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on: 03 Dec 2009
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The great Tristram Shandy updated and expanded to cover the lives and loves of the Traverse family scions of Webb the anarchist. ...
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rating of "The Transition Handbook"
by: Roger
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on: 01 Oct 2009
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rating of "Green Economics"
by: Roger
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on: 01 Jun 2009
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Review of "The Steep Approach to Garbadale"
by: Roger
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on: 24 Dec 2008
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Great read, interweaving the present (200x) with the early 80s and the early 90s to uncover the dark secret of Alban's past. ...
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Review of "Then We Came to the End"
by: Roger
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on: 22 Dec 2008
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Very funny and true to life
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rating of "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell"
by: rogerco
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on: 01 Jan 2008
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Review of "The Secret River"
by: Roger
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on: 01 Jan 2007
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excellent
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rating of "The Road"
by: rogerco
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on: 01 Jan 2007
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Review of "Cloud Atlas"
by: Roger
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on: 01 Jan 2006
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Why are we how we are. ...
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Review of "The Fourth Hand"
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on: 01 Apr 2004
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good read interesting writing style
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Review of "What I Loved"
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on: 01 Mar 2004
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weakness in failure to resolve the enigma of painter's son but otherwise gripping
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Review of "Look To Windward"
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on: 01 Feb 2004
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same extraordinary vision & scope as the novels set in present
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Review of "Riding High"
by: Roger
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on: 01 Feb 2004
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interesting but not very engagingly written
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Review of "Close Range"
by: Roger
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on: 01 Jan 2004
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absolutely brilliant writing
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Review of "Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps"
by: Roger
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on: 01 Dec 2003
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readable (laugh out loud on train) & interesting
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rating of "Fever Pitch"
by: Roger
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on: 01 Nov 2003
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Review of "Baudolino"
by: Roger
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on: 01 Oct 2003
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i enjoyed the historical bits but found some of the excesses of fantasy in the search for the land of Prester John a bit wearing in other words the bits like Name Of Rose good the bits like Island Of Day Before bad
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Review of "If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things"
by: Roger
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on: 01 Oct 2003
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poetic & lyrical description of an emotional world intersecting with the physical one
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