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.The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Definitions)
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by: John Boyne

February 01, 2007
It is difficult to review this book without giving out the plot details, and half the fun (an incongruous word given the plot matter) is in slowly discovering the context of the story, the plot setting and the truth about the characters in the background

The book starts off looking like a growing-up story of a nine-year old, before the mood gets darker as the plot is revealed. The author's light touch and his success in showing the mindset of an ordinary cheerful kid creates a disturbing effect on the reader - the story gets progressively darker while the main character remains oblivious to the reality of the events around him.

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.The Audacity of Hope
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by: Barack Obama

February 07, 2008
Barack Obama clearly has a lot to say about vision, but when it comes down to it, not enough reality to talk about. The first few chapters about this book are about visions, values, morals, goals, beliefs, ideals, principles and expectations, and then go on to talk more about visions, values, morals, goals, beliefs, ideals, principles and expectations but around a different theme. This type of talk no doubt works brilliantly as a passionate speech, but reading at this level of detail gets tedious pretty quickly. Fortunately, in between all that there are stories to tell that embellish points effectively and there are other points of reference, but compared to other political books I have read, this one took much longer to make its points.
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.The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream
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by: Paulo Coelho

September 06, 1999
I doubt I would have been so offended by this book had it not been for the pretentious fawings of so many people who claimed it had changed their life. I was intrigued. I was then very disappointed. What a load of new age drivel. Change my life my foot. This book is pretentious and seems to have been lifted from an array of other superior novels and fables. I felt cheated by the rave reviews and am still somewhat dumbfounded by it.
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.The 4-hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich
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by: Timothy Ferriss

April 03, 2008
I really liked several things about this book, not least that Tim Ferris didn't make it all sound easy, but rather, showed us why it is important to find a way to be financially free. Driven, successful people often find it hard to just lie on a beach, and how would you just take off on your own if you have always had people around you.....it sort of put me off a bit - which could have been sabotaging my long term success! I've always struggled with the idea of what to do when I no longer have to stay in the UK, when the kids are grown up, but can travel the world drawing a passive income from my business.....well, thanks to Tim, now I know what I'm going to do, I'm going to have "purposeful holidays". I'm going to go and live for 3-6 months at a time in ... Read More:
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.101 Low-fat Feasts (BBC Good Food)
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by: Good Homes Magazine

June 05, 2003
be aware that some of recipes have a lot of added sugar. Not good if you're on any kind of diet!
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.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
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by: Mark Haddon

March 31, 2004
This book is bloody awful. The entire central premise is patronising gibberish. If this book was written by an aspergic person about his life it would excuse the bad writing. If it was an intelligent, well written explanation of an aspergic child's life then it would be alright but it's not. This book is poorly written gibberish with the pretense of being written by an Aspie to cover up its bad writing. This is so patronising it's unbelievable. If this was done of any other social group there would be howls of protest and quite right to. It's no more subtle than a white person putting on blackface for a good 'ole minstrel show.

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.Random Acts of Heroic Love
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by: Danny Scheinmann

January 01, 2008
I normally like the Richard and Judy choices, and I thought the title was beautiful and it sounded amazing from the blurb on the back. Normally I would check the inside and read a few pages to check I can get into the authors style. In this case I didn't andI regret it. It is an awfully written book with no cliche left unturned. I gave it 50 pages and then stopped. Maybe I will go back one day and give it another go, but I would avoid it to be honest there are many better books out there.
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.Anyone Can Do It: My Story
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by: Duncan Bannatyne

September 03, 2007
It's all in the title, buy it.

Best investment I have ever made.

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.Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake 3)
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by: C.J. Sansom

March 16, 2007
Having read the previous Matthew Shardlake novels I was eager to read this one. I wasn't disappointed - it is easily the best one yet.

What I liked most was the brilliant evocation of the cruelty of Tudor England. The religious fanaticism has been done before, as has the treachery and power politics along with the corruption, but the way these were all melded together and the thorny subject of judicial torture thrown in it made the story basically become a lot darker.

The idea of the events taking place within the enclosed world of the Royal Progress was a nice way of taking a murder mystery staple plot device and making it relevant to the period, a kind of Tudor "Murder on the Orient Express" if you like.

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.The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers
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by: Martin Evening

August 14, 2008
Having read the previous Matthew Shardlake novels I was eager to read this one. I wasn't disappointed - it is easily the best one yet.

What I liked most was the brilliant evocation of the cruelty of Tudor England. The religious fanaticism has been done before, as has the treachery and power politics along with the corruption, but the way these were all melded together and the thorny subject of judicial torture thrown in it made the story basically become a lot darker.

The idea of the events taking place within the enclosed world of the Royal Progress was a nice way of taking a murder mystery staple plot device and making it relevant to the period, a kind of Tudor "Murder on the Orient Express" if you like.

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