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71.The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream by: Paulo Coelho September 06, 1999
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I read this because it appeared on the BBC 100 Best Reads list and had some good reviews. I was rather disappointed to say the least. The writing style is simple and lacking in depth, although it may just not translate well. The story is a parable with a message about 'following one's dream'. Although this message is repeated frequently the story line is a bit forced and ends as something of a shaggy dog story. It's a bit like a cross between an Aesop's fable and a self-help book, with a bit of half-baked philosophy in the mix. I think it would appeal to older children and those who like something cheerful and unchallenging.

72.To Dream of the Dead (Merrily Watkins Mysteries) by: Phil Rickman October 02, 2008
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Phil Rickman may have worried about his latest novel, but he he needn't have been. If the last one was his most purely novelistic, this one is a blockbusting potboiler of a book. Phil Rickman has always been so good at engaging you and then cranking up the narrative tension until you really can't put his books down, and this is no different. In fact, like other readers, I'm sure this is the most perfectly realised book he's written yet. He's become a really good writer. And in his latest novel, he's has given us everything we most enjoy in his writing: a hauntingly beautiful landscape, the sense of being at the edge of things, wonderful characterisation, evermore subtle plot lines, and -dare I say it- a sustained side-swipe against the ... Read More:

73.Making Money (Discworld) by: Terry Pratchett June 16, 2008
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Making Money is a Discworld novel and features the Man in the Golden Suit, Ankh-Morpork's Postmaster Moist von Lipwig. Moist is bored. He misses his old, more adventurous life, back when he was Albert Spangler the con artist. So when he's not running the Post Office, he likes climbing to its roof at night, and has already picked all its locks. But when Mrs Topsy Lavish, chairwoman and owner of 50% of the Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork, but owner also of Mr. Fusspot the dog who owns 1%, dies and leaves her shares to her dog and bequeaths Mr. Fusspot to Moist... he has no choice but try and make it work again. It starts with the Mint, which actually runs at a loss. Since making coins costs too much and people are already using ... Read More:

74.Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics) by: Emily Bronte January 13, 1994
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I thought it was time to expand my reading horizons with some classic literature without blowing my budget, so this Penguin Popular Classic at £2 seemed the ideal choice, particularly as, when I used the 'Search Inside' facility, it showed in the list of contents a preface, chronology, introduction and further reading. When I received the book, these 42 pages were missing, and on closer inspection I see the 'Search Inside' facility shows a completely different, more expensive Penguin edition. This seems highly misleading to me - it's disappointing that a publisher with the status of Penguin would mislead customers like this. 5 stars for the story, reduced to 3 for cheating!!

75.A World of Difference: An Anthology of Short Stories from Five Continents from: Palgrave Macmillan July 02, 2008
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I thought it was time to expand my reading horizons with some classic literature without blowing my budget, so this Penguin Popular Classic at £2 seemed the ideal choice, particularly as, when I used the 'Search Inside' facility, it showed in the list of contents a preface, chronology, introduction and further reading. When I received the book, these 42 pages were missing, and on closer inspection I see the 'Search Inside' facility shows a completely different, more expensive Penguin edition. This seems highly misleading to me - it's disappointing that a publisher with the status of Penguin would mislead customers like this. 5 stars for the story, reduced to 3 for cheating!!

76.Devil May Care (James Bond) by: Sebastian Faulks May 28, 2008
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It's my own fault that I really didn't enjoy this book. Faulks makes it clear that he is writing as Ian Flemming. Whether he achieves this I will leave to those more qualified than I. However from reading other reviews opinions seem to be mixed. I suppose I had hoped that he would inject a bit of the Faulks magic into Bond. Devil May Care is almost completely devoid of insight or interesting observation, the plot is thin and unconvincing and place description so cursory you felt you could be virtually anywhere. The characters are superficial and the twist frankly risible. One might feel that Faulks attempts to rehabilitate Bonds reputation as a sexual predator was worthy except for the way in which he then associates this with a loss of ... Read More:

77.The Final Reckoning by: Sam Bourne August 04, 2008
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It takes me a while to get involved in books but this one I stuck with. Although the idea behind it was good there is no real story, and eventually the writer goes off at a tangent and is not talking about the present story line, but another one set 50 years in the past. He also spends far too much time describing the 'passion' between the two lead characters which seemed to come from no where but still be a dominant part of the story for some reason. I think the writer was too involved in this story, and as such kept leading off at tangents which ultimately made me lose interest.

78.On the Road (Penguin Modern Classics) by: Jack Kerouac February 24, 2000
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I first read this book when I was 18 years old and as cliched as it may sound it changed my entire outlook on life. It illustrated to me that rebellion and individuality are the best of things and that even in a world as violent and corrupt as this one, love and friendship can still prosper. The visceral and profound honesty with which Kerouac writes takes the reader to the heart of the action and the unrelenting pace of the narrative propels one on and on, just like Sal and Dean themselves are propelled to "go go go". No literature fan can afford not to read this all time great, that Kerouac never really came close to matching. Simply beautiful.

79.Dark Fire (Shardlake) by: C.J. Sansom May 18, 2007
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I have just finished this book and, after Dissolution, I am well and truly addicted to this series. I really like the lead character of Matthew Shardlake and the other characters in this and the previous book. Will be starting on Sovereign asap and can't wait to read Revelation from what I've read on Amazon about that story. There seems to be a plethora of murder-thriller type books set in the 15th-16th century around at the moment but this is without doubt the best of them all.

80.The White Tiger by: Aravind Adiga March 01, 2008
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White Tiger makes an effective contrast to the tradition of the beautiful, mysterious Indian novels of Rushdie, Seth et al. Adiga shows the unpleasant underside of the Westernisation (aka Globalisation) of Mumbai - and India in general - how it fails to help the poor and how the new system relies as much on the old on corruption and the caste system. Then of course there's the vicious murder committed by an intriguing anti-hero who makes a quite a convincing argument that, for the dispossessed, murder is a useful way of climbing the financial and social ladder. A very promising and entertaining first novel.

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