Mmm, experimental ! Good for Ballard that he doesn‘t give a monkey‘s. Written in the 70s too, wow. Not for the fainthearted.

One for the hoarders 🙂📚

#TBR #bookpoem

Essential reading to help correct the nonsense spouted by mainstream media and those with power.

A bit clunky and clumsy, and far fetched. Page turner though.

Mildly amusing, can be read in a few sittings.

Very good, especially the concluding part of Rian Malan‘s piece

Very interesting depictions of South America just before the millennium. Also good if you like motorcycles.

Granta 25. Not on Litsy, have suggested it but I don‘t know how long that takes to be reviewed.

An interesting set of stories, from the gripping account of the Gibraltar killings to a murder tale in South Africa which annoyingly continues in the next issue !

Very informative and eye opening history

The premise and the plot, and scene setting, are great, but then it gets a bit waylaid and the ending is a bit weak. Also, he seems to have an odd way of writing about women and non-white people.

Ebook. Thought provoking, and although not right on all fronts this a must read for the historical interpretations and alternative views that most are blinkered to.

Quick read, pleasant enough. Mildly thoughtful. His trilogy was amazing.

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The only time a bookcase makes me sad. #MovingHome

I felt the author could have used better analogies to get across complex ideas. Books like these should be read and reviewed by lay people rather than peers.

A joy to read, effortless 600 pages. Not what I was expecting, a pleasant surprise.

A tremendous overview of the key scientific topics of life in the universe despite some of the theoretical explanations not really being suitable for the general reader.

Not bad, not sure what all the fuss is about. Solidarity with the author. If you don‘t like it, don‘t read it.

Too many non-book posts on Litsy now 😢

Acres of facts

Very interesting, informative, serious yet casual review of the history of the first 21 years (1971-1992) of the UK‘s Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) - ‘Europe‘s most successful consumer organisation.‘ Now for the 40, and 50, year histories !

Counterpoint

Nicely written

Very small book - bit stingy if you‘d bought it !

Although a little flat in the closing chapters it‘s a rip roaring read and a very good evocation of wartime

Whistle stop tour of a convoluted history.

Delightful

A tour de force. Should be mandatory reading for all.

Tremendous

Gentle and pleasant enough read although a tad clunky. Unfortunately it‘s not really a detective novel. And major crime committed by the author in saying that the River Thames starts at Thame !

How the EHRC Got It So Wrong

I wanted to check out our local library for the first time since moving to the area and picked up this Quick Read. A pleasant collection of writing by ‘normal‘ people about their jobs.

Good descriptions and characters but the plot was one dimensional for me.

Very good intro to the subject, readable in a couple of days. Great series of books.

A great refreshing of classic liberalism for our times, and a reminder we must all resist encroachments on free speech. ‘Sunlight is the best disinfectant.‘

A classic.

Idiosyncratic at times, but not a bad experiment.

Wasn‘t sure how Baddiel would transfer to a novel - but this is well worth a read, and the final third becomes more dramatic than the more pedestrian first two-thirds.

What‘s good about this book is the narrative in between the puzzles giving some background to the history of them. Slight downside is that a few of the puzzles are ambiguously worded, and tenuous to say the least.

Writes prose as well as he does lyrics, a genuine Penguin Classic.

My wife bought this for me as something I‘d never buy myself. Enjoyed reading about her life in Queens, and she‘s clearly done a lot of good for the LGBT+ community.

Certainly a worthwhile read but maybe I was expecting more revelation.

Excellent study of dog behaviour and how us and them go together so well. Written by a scientist and a dog lover.

Flipbook format

Excellent textbook on democratic theory and futures.

Chomsky and cricket, that‘ll do for a rainy Saturday morning.

Great little book contains about ten descriptions of various walks around London.

Very good. Savage indictment of Thatcherites.

Well it‘s taken me a while to get through its 700 pages (no fault of the author of course) but yet another tour de force from Dawkins (and his co-author). All of life in one book. The beauty that is evolution by natural selection really is the greatest story of all.