| Our Man in Havana | By: Graham Green | Type: Fun Story |
| 80% : Funny, believable and flowing | |
| Review : A master : making fun of the secret service and exposing it's fallability, the thing is I can believe it really is so incompetent.(I got the BBC audiotape version..V good) | |
| meaning : don't put too much faith in authority.. they are not any better than us | |
| comments : I'll read anything he's written. |
| The Confidential Agent | By: Graham Greene 1939 | Type: Thriller |
| 75% : Brilliant and tense |
| Review : Greene himself ..puts this novel down..saying it's just a production line novel. Even so he can't help putting a lot of insight and poignency into it. |
| meaning : life is futile, life is difficult because of the class system, the futility of war |
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| Paradise News | By: David Lodge 1991 | Type: light novel |
| 70% : a good story teller |
| Review : Good real but funny characters, with a hidden analysis of relationships and religion. |
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| The World According To Garp | By: John Irving 1976 | Type: deep novel |
| 75% : A good read |
| Review : clever though I am not sure that real people would behave as the characters do. He uses clever devices such as characters who are writers, so you get novels within a novel |
| meaning: life's a bastard |
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| Ladies and Gentlemen | By: Terry Pratchett 1992 | Type: Fantasy |
| 75% : Typical Pratchett, fun and flowing yet insightful |
| Review : Readable funny, insightful...well then it should be he steals stuff from all over the place..the plot was definately Shakespeares "The Taming Of The Shrew"..with some modern lines thrown in .."Go Ahead..", "Make my Quiche"; (parodying Clint Eastwood) |
| comments : I like him , such agreat style to be able to hide such poignent thoughts in something so easily readable |
| Eric | By: Terry Pratchett | Type: Fantasy |
| 75% : Typical Pratchett, fun and flowing yet insightful |
| Review : Young Eric in the mystical land of incompetent Wizards |
| comments : I like him , such agreat style to be able to hide such poignent thoughts in something so easily readable |
| Riding The Iron Rooster | By: Paul Theroux | Type: Travelogue |
| 70% : Interesting insight into China |
| Review : It reads very well, though it's claimed that he made most of it up... well TRUTH is a God to me |
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| Fatherland | By: Robert Harris | Type: Political Thriller |
| 65% : Gripping, twisting plot |
| Review : Reinforces the horror of totalaitarianism and Nazism, set 20 years after Hitler has won the war |
| meaning : reality of the futilty of life and it's unfairness..it could really happen ..everyone is against you and you know you're right... |
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| Pleasant Vices | By: Judy Astley | Type: light novel |
| 60% : A very good comic romp |
| Review : The extrodinary adventures of a family living in a miiddle class close in London. Lots happening and characters of true precision and depth; from the leader of the neighbour watch to the anxious adolescents, to middle aged men with their mid-age crisies , to the unruly , devious , michievous little children . |
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| Don't Laugh At Me | By: Norman Wisdom with William Hull | Type: autobiography |
| 60% :good read |
| Review : The extrodinary adventures of a working class boy made good...he walks to Wales to find work. |
| meaning : you can do anything if you try |
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| Sophies World | By: Josteien Gaardner | Type: novel |
| 70% :everyone should read it |
| Review : pretty neat way of writing a book to get some heavy ideas across |
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