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31.Jack Vettriano: Studio Life by: Jack Vettriano March 03, 2008
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I really liked this book, the pictures are great quality and being able to see Vetrianos studies was interesting. However as another reviewer said you don't actually get to see or read much about how the artist works other than some brief talk of music and inspiration, even with these small flaws it's still a book worth reading and one I come back to often for inspiration myself.

32.The Testament of Gideon Mack by: James Robertson January 18, 2007
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Although this book sounded very interesting I couldn't help but feel disappointed after finishing it. The blurb suggested that the book was an account of Gideon's encounter with the Devil and the events that followed afterward. It promised to be dark, quirky and bizarre, but there was not enough quirkiness to my taste. In the prologue of the book a summary of the last months of Gideon's life is given by a publisher who has received Gideon's written account of his life, his testament. The tone is humorous and it completely engages you, warming up to the story to come. But then Gideon Mack takes over, and it sort of falls apart. In a not very engaging tone Gideon Mack starts telling his life story, starting with his bleak ... Read More:

33.Finding the Dream (Dream Trilogy 3) by: Nora Roberts March 06, 2008
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Laura Templeton, on the cusp of her thirtieth birthday finds herself divorced with two girls, battling debts left by her ex husband, and living in the Templeton mansion alone. Her two friends (Margo and Kate) are loved up with their significant others, and once a week, they met up, searching for the coins of Seraphina's chest, a sweet legend and a bond that keeps them true. This is Laura's life, and she's learning to make the best of it, but she's not happy. Not really. Out of the blue, her brother, Josh requests a favour of her: can she rent stable space to Mick Fury (a childhood friend) for a while? Just until he fixes his stables up, see? Because he lost his in a landslide. Laura says yes, and meets Mick Fury, and the attraction ... Read More:

34.Sweet Revenge by: Nora Roberts October 05, 1998
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The idea is inplausible, and the characters are forgetable. It's a book that you'd forget as soon as you put down. I do find that when Ms. Roberts writes about characters and cultures that aren't European, her style suffers as a result. It's one of the few books by her that I'd never reread.

35.The Da-Da-De-Da-Da Code (Gollancz S.F.) by: Robert Rankin July 10, 2008
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latest novel from robert rankin, a writer best described as the english spike milligan. his novels are real world set, usually in brentford, and are highly inventive comic fantasies. If you've never encountered his work before then this isn't probably the best place to start, as whilst you could get into it quite easily some recurring characters and themes do crop up. start instead with his novel the antipope, which is a good book to see whether or not his style is for you. the book is about jonny hooker, a young man living in london who still has an imaginary friend despite being 27, as the friend refuses to go away. he gets a flyer saying he's won a competetion. investigating this further leads him into a tangled web of conspiraces, secret societies, ... Read More:

36.Wide Sargasso Sea by: Jean Rhys April 26, 2001
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The Wide Sargasso Sea is the story of Antoinette Cosway/ Bertha Mason, the mad first wife of Mr Rochester from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. It tells her story, as the marginalised outsider, and shows how she came to be locked in a grey tower in England, guarded night and day, and despised and feared by her husband, from her childhood roots in the Caribbean. It is a brilliant book, atmospheric, passionate and political; still as relevant as when it was first written. It stands alone, without having read Jane Eyre, despite its brevity. However, it is in the context of Jane Eyre that it is really best understood. It is always audacious to take on a classic novel in this way, but Wide Sargasso Sea does so imaginatively and sympathetically, creating ... Read More:

37.Exit Ghost by: Philip Roth September 04, 2008
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It's becoming cliché to talk of Philip Roth's "late flowering". Between his 64th and 73rd years, he reeled off American Pastoral (1997), I Married a Communist (1998), The Human Stain (2000), The Dying Animal (2001), The Plot Against America (2004) and Everyman (2006) -- an oeuvre so rich, so filmable, so devourable that most novelists would happily call it a lifetime's work. For Roth it took nine years. But Exit Ghost (2007) breaks the sequence -- it's his worst piece of fiction since the Eighties. We join long-suffering Roth alterego Nathan Zuckerman in a nervy post-9/11 New York. Aging fast and disconnected from the world, he indulges in a house swap with a couple of trendy creatives so as to reimmerse himself in the "Here and Now". Surprisingly, knowledge of The Ghost ... Read More:

38.Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics) by: Gustave Flaubert January 30, 2003
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This book is probably a masterpiece. One woman's desperate quest for freedom, and the fatal futility of it as she ventures in a wrong direction. It's a tragedy of the human race: too great to live by rules, too small to be free. Overgrown for crude conventions, dwarfed by the challenges when you break them. Madame Bovary can't bear her mediocre existence. She loathes her role of the wife of a village doctor; she has no regard for her womanly duties; she cares little about public opinion. She breaks free from it all, and how? In the most conventional way: she takes lovers. Her affairs bring her no love and only fleeting moments of satisfaction. She eventually incurs debts and poisons herself on the day bailiffs raid her house, unable to take the shame. Could she be blamed for this ... Read More:

39.Holding the Dream (Dream Trilogy 2) by: Nora Roberts February 07, 2008
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but I gave it a try after my husband read it and said he loved it. I'm glad I read Holding the Dream because it was a really good novel. I could not put it down. This book had me on edge and I couldn't help wanting to read more. There were even many times when I actually had in depth conversations with my husband about the book after I had finished it, which is a rarity. If you like books like this I would also suggest reading Tino Georgiou's masterpiece - The Fates, which my husband and I also enjoyed very much.

40.Portnoy's Complaint by: Philip Roth January 03, 1998
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Anybody contemplating reading Zuckerman Unbound (very good read) should perhaps read this first as I am assuming this is the "Carnovsky" book referred to. I read them in reverse order and may read Zuckerman Unbound again as it has certainly given it more depth of meaning. Just a suggestion (or am I the stupid one who didn't realise and you all know!!)

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