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Mar 31, 20161 min read
388. P. J. O'Rourke - Holidays In Hell
Didn’t enjoy this at all; very dated and the humour seemed to me to be 2nd rate Clive James. Not entirely sure why I read it; except that...
Oct 1, 20151 min read
341. William Boyd - A Good Man In Africa
I am sure I read this about 2 years ago and hated it. This time round it was very good, maybe in contrast to the excess Kate Atkinson in...
Sep 11, 20151 min read
336. Kate Atkinson - When Will There Be Good News
Enjoying these so much, I immediately bought the 3rd Brodie novel (no.335 is the 1st and no.336 the 2nd). This took a bit of time to get...
Sep 4, 20151 min read
334. Kate Atkinson - One Good Turn
I am obviously becoming a fan. This is another very good book, quite different, a comic private eye novel featuring Jackson Brodie,...
Jun 26, 20151 min read
318. Saul Bellow - Humbolt's Gift
Tried, but failed to finish this at the end of the holiday. Bellow now seems to me to be very overrated; some Jewish humour, but pretty...
Sep 5, 20141 min read
241. Michel Houellebecq - Whatever (Serpent's Tail)
Undoubtedly the worst and stupidest book I have read for a long time. The plot, if it has one, is about an incredibly cross Frenchman,...
May 15, 20141 min read
207. Henry Fielding - Joseph Andrews
Never read any Fielding. This was actually quite fun; a take on ‘Pamela’ (Joseph is her disappeared brother). A big rumbustious (is that...
Nov 16, 20131 min read
163. Lawrence Block - Hit Me
I have read quite a few of the Matt Scudder novels, but this is a new book with a new (anti-hero?) Keller. Keller is a semi-retired...
Oct 21, 20131 min read
157. Graham Greene - Travels With My Aunt
Spent my Waterstones birthday token from Dan on a couple of books. I had never, except by name, heard of this but the blurb on the back...