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.44 Scotland Street
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by: Alexander McCall Smith

August 11, 2005
More and more I find that the hype for films and books way, way exceed the actual product - and this book is yet another example of this.

Admittedly some sections were entertaining but, on the whole, the writing is dreary and concentrates on a bunch of self-absorbed people. Perhaps a matter of personal taste. I found the characters annoying and trite - a narcissistic former tenant of 44 Scotland Street, daddy's little rich girl, a feeble art gallery owner etc etc. The most interesting character is probably Cyril the dog. Probably would have been more interesting if Cyril had contracted rabies and bitten them all.

My personal opinion and I doubt I will be reading another McCall Smith book.
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.The Dangerous Days of Daniel X (Daniel X Adult Edition)
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by: James Patterson

July 03, 2008
I bought this book expecting it to be as page turning as other Patterson books, and I was a bit disappointed, it is worth reading just to see if you are going to like this series, but for me it was a one off, I found Daniel to be lacking in character and the plot lacking in suspense it is of course a book for teenagers so maybe I was expecting too much. I wish the Daniel X series luck, but I will not be buying further books in this series.
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.Boy A
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by: Jonathan Trigell

October 25, 2007
i thought this was a really good book. Not what i expected to be honest as I didnt think i would warm to the character but you do. he is a different person from the child 11 years previously and you want him to have some kind of normality.
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.The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
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by: Maggie O'Farrell

May 17, 2007
I read this book because I had nothing else to read and loved it. I couldn't put it down and when I did, I couldn't stop thinking about it. It's well written, sad, shocking in parts and thought provoking. i recommend it and I shall read more of Maggie O'Farrell books.
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.Tears of the Giraffe (No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency)
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by: Alexander McCall Smith

August 07, 2003
This is the second book in the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency Series, and begins as the first book finishes. Unlike other sequels there is no intervening period, which will therefore need explaining throughout the book, just in case you did not read the first.

You need to read the first, to understand the characters of Mma Ramotswe, Mr J L B Maketoni and Mma Makutsi and the relationships they have between them. Along with beautiful setting of Botswana. The descriptions of the area and places further a field are still rich and colourful, giving a true sense of the place.

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.The Pagan Stone (Sign of Seven Trilogy 3)
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by: Nora Roberts

December 04, 2008
This is the second book in the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency Series, and begins as the first book finishes. Unlike other sequels there is no intervening period, which will therefore need explaining throughout the book, just in case you did not read the first.

You need to read the first, to understand the characters of Mma Ramotswe, Mr J L B Maketoni and Mma Makutsi and the relationships they have between them. Along with beautiful setting of Botswana. The descriptions of the area and places further a field are still rich and colourful, giving a true sense of the place.

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.The Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy
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by: Fiona Neill

January 31, 2008
I began reading this book with an open mind - I read all sorts of fiction and whereas I wouldn't have picked this out myself (it was nominated at my book club) I thought it might be a fairly amusing summer read. However, as the characters are revealed and the plot develops, Neil presents you with a portfolio of stereotyped, unappealing characters getting up to nothing of any real significance. I'm tired of reading about North Londoners working in 'The Media' and women who constantly worry about their weight yet portray thin women as uptight neurotics. It would be inspiring one day to read about a woman aged over 30, who's healthy, focussed, and successful ...a real heroine.
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.A Thousand Splendid Suns
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by: Khaled Hosseini

September 18, 2008
I began reading this book with an open mind - I read all sorts of fiction and whereas I wouldn't have picked this out myself (it was nominated at my book club) I thought it might be a fairly amusing summer read. However, as the characters are revealed and the plot develops, Neil presents you with a portfolio of stereotyped, unappealing characters getting up to nothing of any real significance. I'm tired of reading about North Londoners working in 'The Media' and women who constantly worry about their weight yet portray thin women as uptight neurotics. It would be inspiring one day to read about a woman aged over 30, who's healthy, focussed, and successful ...a real heroine.
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.Kafka on the Shore
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by: Haruki Murakami

October 06, 2005
"Kafka on the Shore" richly deserves its praise by The New York Times as one of its most notable books of fiction in 2005. On a more personal note, I regard it as the most compelling new work of fiction I have read this year, and substantially more absorbing a read than the novel which I regard now as a distant Number Two, Rick Moody's "The Diviners". But I do wonder whether it is truly one of Haruki Murakami's masterpieces; of these both "Norwegian Wood" and "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles" are genuine literary classics of modern world literature. In stark contrast, I agree with a previous Amazon reviewer that the Kafka Tamura saga - one of the two intertwined plots - is reminiscent of "Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World". And yet here, unlike in the earlier novel, ... Read More:
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.Skeleton Coast: A Novel from the Oregon Files (Oregon Files 4)
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by: Clive Cussler, Jack DuBrul

June 26, 2008
I've been a Cussler fan for over 30 years and have hugely enjoyed most of his books but this was a real stinker. The science regarding the hurricane generator was nonsense and it felt like it had been sponsored by ESSO or George Bush. Perhaps I'm just getting too old for this stuff...
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