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Russian Schlock Makes Good by Caractacus
Book: Night Watch
Author(s): Sergei Lukyanenko
I've spent a couple of months making my way through the first two books of Sergei Lukyanenko's Night Watch Trilogy classed variously as either fantasy or horror. So while waiting for the third book - Twilight Watch, to come out in the small paperback edit more ...
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Submitted: Mar 6th 2008 @ 19:22
Russian Schlock Makes Good by Caractacus
Book: The Day Watch (Night Watch)
Author(s): Sergei Lukyanenko
I've spent a couple of months making my way through the first two books of Sergei Lukyanenko's Night Watch Trilogy classed variously as either fantasy or horror. So while waiting for the third book - Twilight Watch, to come out in the small paperback edit more ...
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Submitted: Mar 6th 2008 @ 19:21
The Funny Man by Caractacus
Book: The Cricklewood Diet
Author(s): Alan Coren
The late Alan Coren was one of the funniest men in Britain. He wasn't a comedian as such, just a genuinely witty man who would have you chuckling every time he appeared on tv, which was not often enough. His recent death was very sad and so when I saw thi more ...
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Submitted: Dec 19th 2007 @ 00:00
Endurance by Caractacus
Book: South
Author(s): Sir Ernest Shackleton F.Jack Hurley
In early 1914, Ernest Shackleton and his crew set out on their ship Endurance to become the first men ever to cross the Antarctic Continent. They never even made landfall. Their ship was caught in pack ice and crushed. Only the three small life boats more ...
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Submitted: Dec 2nd 2007 @ 14:33
Oom Kroop Der Poop by Caractacus
Book: Antrobus Complete
Author(s): Lawrence Durrell
To read Durrell's other writings, you would not think that he had so much of a sense of humour. His novels are pretentious (deservedly so, since he had the talent to get away with it) and you have to understand the man bubbling underneath to find the humo more ...
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Submitted: Dec 2nd 2007 @ 14:13
The Enemy infiltrates the Magic Kingdom by Caractacus
Book: Disney War
Author(s): James B. Stewart
In the early nineties, Disney had their first renaissance with a string of hits from The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King. And then? What happened? James Stewarts Disney War is a fascinating read into how the Magic Kingdo more ...
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Submitted: Dec 2nd 2007 @ 14:03
Devastating by Caractacus
Book: Where angels fear to tread
Author(s): E M Forster
I'd always had a merchant ivory tinted view of E M Forster. And never even been patient enough to watch one of their films on him. Dry and dusty would have been my impression (Because Schools fail in giving us proper appreciation of literature). Then I more ...
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Submitted: Dec 2nd 2007 @ 13:44
Woolf finds her feet (only to lose them in the Ouse) by Caractacus
Book: Jacob's Room
Author(s): Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf's first stream of consciousness novel in which we meet Jacob. No stream of consciousness novel is ever easy, but this has an even stranger tack as Woolf only ever looks at Jacob through other peoples eyes. We meet him at various stages o more ...
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Submitted: Dec 2nd 2007 @ 13:34
Education. Do we really need it? by Caractacus
Book: Deschooling Society
Author(s): Ivan Illich
This is a small book. 116 pages long in my edition. it took me nearly two months to read. That's not to say it is a bad book. Ilich puts forward an incredible argument about the simple destructiveness of schools and how we have been railroaded into more ...
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Submitted: Nov 29th 2007 @ 18:46
Chilly by Caractacus
Book: Wintersmith
Author(s): Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett is one of the finest writers in fantasy. Or at least he was.The past five years or so have seen a serious decline in the quality of the Discworld series. The last Discworld book I felt was truly outstanding was Jingo. It feels a long ti more ...
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Submitted: Nov 29th 2007 @ 18:38