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Book Review - The Witch's Guide to Cooking with Children
The Witch's Guide to Cooking with Children starts with a forward by the witch Fay Holaderry relates her love for eating children, how she traps them, how some parents actually ask her to get rid of their children this way and, at the end, cautions th...
Book Review - Three Men in a Boat
I’m sure you’ll already have heard of Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome. I’m sure you’ll have also heard how brilliant it is. Well, if you haven’t, let me tell you. If you have, let me tell you anyway.The narrator is a medical curiosi...
Book Review - Nightfall
Originally a short story by Isaac Asimov, this novel is the expansion of that story with Asimov being co-authored by Robert Silverberg.Imagine a world with 7 suns, where at least one of them is shining at every hour of the say. Imagine a world where ...
Book Review - Krondor: The Betrayal
OverviewKrondor: The Betrayal is the novelisation of popular computer game of the same name. In his foreward, Feist describes how he was approached by the game designers to write a novel based on the game and how he went about this task – which is ...
Book Review - 1066 and All That
1066 And All That is indeed a unique book. I first read it as a child – my dad remembered liking it when he was a kid and got it for me (everybody say aaaaaaaaah…). Like many things it got lost duringthe passage of time, but I recently rediscover...
Book Review: The Lord of the Rings
What can you say about what many people consider the greatest work of fantasy fiction ever? Er… they’re right?Known commonly as a Trilogy (Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, Return of the King), some people won’t realise that it’s actual...
Book Review - The End of Eternity
This book is about a group called “Eternals”, who travel up and down the stream of time, observing and analysing events in an attempt to see where catastrophe’s can be averted and the human condition be bettered in general. Andrew Harlan is a T...
Book Review - The Light Fantastic
Discworld is a place of magic. As such, there are magical people, like Wizards, floating around. Rincewind is a wizard - he just happens to be amazingly bad at it. There are 8 great spells (8 is the magic number on Discworld) and one of them got into...
Book Review - The Colour of Magic
The book that started off the Discworld series, The Colour Of Magic is primarily concerned with the escapades of the Disc's first tourist, Twoflower, and an inept wizard, Rincewind. Rincewind is incapable of becoming a capable wizard, as one of the e...
Book Review - Bored of the Rings
Bored of the Rings is, unsurprisingly, a parody of Lord of the Rings, by The Harvard Lampoon. (The authors later went on to establish National Lampoon). It's apparently been around in America for three decades and more, but was released in the UK for...
Making Money by Terry Pratchett - Full Review
I've lost count of how many Discworld novels I've read... anyway, here's my review of the latest, Making Money.It's not quite as good as Going Postal, but it's still very good. Apparently Moist's next job could very well be reforming the Inland Reven...
The Last Frontier - review now on Epinions
My review of The Last Frontier by Alistair MacLean has now been posted on Epinions....
The Last Frontier by Alistair MacLean - Full Review
The Last Frontier is an amazingly tense spy thriller by Alistair MacLean. It’s also fairly unique in that, while it starts out as a typical East vs West espionage story, it promotes the idea of striving for unity between the cold war factions rath...
New Book Review - "Night Without End"
I recently re-read the first Alastair MacLean book I ever read - Night Without End - and thoroughly enjoyed it after all these years, though I did have a couple of issues with the writing style.Read my review of Night Without EndCaptainD - Book Revie...
Review of "Ice Moon" by Jan Costin Wagner
Ice Moon by German author Jan Costin Wagner is a rather unusual, somewhat disturbing, and highly engrossing psychological thriller set in Finland. It features Kimmo Joenta, a detective who at the start of the book suffers the long-awaited but to him ...
