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141.Innocent Traitor by: Alison Weir June 07, 2007
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History is my favorite subject and this author came highly recommended. This is the first book I have read by her and was extremely disappointed. It lacked a true atmosphere of the time,that this was set in. I really could not picture any exacutioner, living during Mary's reign, thinking the thoughts that this author had written. The terminology was all wrong, the dialogue sounded 1970's. The characters all appeared wishy washy. It is far more a type of Barbara Cartland for the history lover, than any serious attempt to understand or explain how these events really played out. It is an easy light read, ideal for train travel or just before going to sleep. The Tudor/War of the Roses have been far ... Read More:

142.The Notebook by: Nicholas Sparks May 04, 2006
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A simple but beautiful novel about true love and what it means to find your soulmate. An old man in a nursing home reads to an old woman who no longer recognises him. He tells her the story of Noah and Allie, a young couple who fall in love and spend one beautiful summer together before Allie's family leave town again. Fourteen years later, Allie is engaged, but is drawn back to Noah in an attempt to find out whether this was true love or whether he has forgotten her. Although he is older and wiser, he is everything she remembered and they fall in love all over again. But will she choose her new life with her new man, a high-flying lawyer, or will she stay with her soulmate, the gentle and hard-working country boy? The book only ... Read More:

143.Midnight's Children (Vintage Classics) by: Salman Rushdie May 01, 2008
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It's hard to live up to the "Booker of Bookers" tag but this comes nowhere near. Rushdie can write: bursts of compelling narrative display that. Unfortunately the whole story is trussed up in that clever "flash-back", "flash-forward" conceit which eventually bored me. No, I didn't finish it. I got a little further than I did with Ulysses, but eventually hurled this into the same Pseud Bin. I've read somewhere that the author intends the time switching to be like the digressions of an oral storyteller but I think that's like trying to capture ballet in a poem or the moon in a bucket. The device is overused and tiresome. Want a Third World Magic Realism Family Saga? try "House of the Spirits".

144.The Brass Verdict by: Michael Connelly October 16, 2008
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It's hard to live up to the "Booker of Bookers" tag but this comes nowhere near. Rushdie can write: bursts of compelling narrative display that. Unfortunately the whole story is trussed up in that clever "flash-back", "flash-forward" conceit which eventually bored me. No, I didn't finish it. I got a little further than I did with Ulysses, but eventually hurled this into the same Pseud Bin. I've read somewhere that the author intends the time switching to be like the digressions of an oral storyteller but I think that's like trying to capture ballet in a poem or the moon in a bucket. The device is overused and tiresome. Want a Third World Magic Realism Family Saga? try "House of the Spirits".

145.We Need to Talk About Kevin (Five Star Paperback) by: Lionel Shriver May 09, 2006
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There can only be one true word to describe this novel, Dire. Without any apprehension, I can honestly say this is by far the worst book I have ever read. Anyone who thinks the whining and whinging of the irritating 'Eva' to be a compelling read needs to get out and buy another book, any book is better than this. Not only do we know what happens before the story begins, we have to endure what seems like a never ending tide of drival about how Kevin's mum felt before his birth, after his birth and after the event. This really is a case of 'The Emperors New Clothes', one critic says its brilliant and the mindless masses go and buy it, only to find it's rubbish. Not wanting to be singled out, they all nod and agree how wonderful the book ... Read More:

146.Wrath of a Mad God (Darkwar) by: Raymond E. Feist September 01, 2008
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This volume has never been proof-read by anything or anyone with a level of consciousness above that of an amoeba; at best it was processed through an automated grammar and spell checker; it's full of typographic errors, it's full of incorrectly utilised words, it has missing words, it has repeated words, it has .... the list goes on. Worst of all these errors are persistent and frequent. It's a rare page that doesn't have one error or another, many have several. One expects and allows for the odd mistake or typo, but this is at the level which - if one is in the least bit sensible of language - utterly destroys the enjoyment and readability of the work. Frankly, I'm exceptionally disappointed in Harper Collins, and I'd ... Read More:

147.Down River by: John Hart June 16, 2008
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This is one of the those books that creates a world that you keep wanting to return to; you think about it during your working day and can't wait to get back into it. It is not just the quality of the thriller that does this, but also the complex interplay of the characters and their relationships. There's always some new insight waiting for you every few pages. Adam Chase makes an interesting hero. His anger and resentment keep surfacing and you understand how his impetuousness leads him into trouble, but comprehend why he does what he does. The rest of his family is well-drawn, especially the step-brother Jamie and his sister Miriam. The character of Robin is slightly weaker, though not disappointingly so. She is a mature woman who has had ... Read More:

148.When the Eagle Hunts (Roman Legion 3) by: Simon Scarrow May 06, 2003
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Simon Scarrow is a teacher at a Sixth Form College. He has run a Roman History programme that takes parties of students to a number of sites and museums across Britain and I assume that while doing this he gleans lots of useful information for his books on the Roman Centurion, Macro and his Optio, Cato. First published in 2002, this is the third book in the series. The book opens in Britain in the year 43 AD. The Emperor has returned to sunnier climes leaving the Roman army to continue its rape of Britain. After a protracted effort the Second Legion have been instrumental in quashing resistance in Camulodunum, leaving time for Macro and Cato to rest with the rest of the Legion. Their General, Plautius has had the distressing news that the ship carrying his ... Read More:

149.Catch-22 by: Joseph Heller October 06, 1994
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Catch 22 is the best book I've ever read. This may seem to be a trite statement but of all the brilliant books I've come across, this one always rises to the top. It's humour is clever, persistent and cruel in places but that's life and you have to look on the funny side. It's absurdity is something you can relate to and the characters are wonderfully 3D. It's not a war book, though this is all it's about, instead it's a book which gives you hope because the anti hero triumphs. I love the journey through the time slot where every chapter is seen through another character in the story's eyes. So even people you despise at least you understand and can put them in context. It's a book to unfrustrate you, make you laugh, understand yourself a bit better and take you through any time of your ... Read More:

150.Purple Hibiscus by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie February 07, 2005
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My sister recommended Purple Hibiscus to me sometime last year. However, I was reluctant to read the book because I was not sure that it could live up to Half a Yellow Sun, Adichie's other book. In hindsight, I was right. The novel is narrated by Kambili Achike, the fifteen-year old daughter of a wealthy Nigerian businessman. The book begins with a description of her family life: Her wealthy father, Eugene Achike, whom she called Papa, had made good in life. He had numerous factories and a newspaper, which took an uncompromising stand on the corruption of the ruling elite. To cap it all, he was a philanthropist par excellence, supporting many causes. Beneath the respectable veneer, however, all is not well. Her father, supporter of all noble causes sacred and secular, was ... Read More:

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