0668 | Dining on Stones | Iain Sinclair
You know you’re in for a rough ride when the book you’re about to read is recommended by the lamentable Will Self. When everything else fails, fall back on doctored…
You know you’re in for a rough ride when the book you’re about to read is recommended by the lamentable Will Self. When everything else fails, fall back on doctored…
On the flyleaf of my edition, it says that this has been compared to The Name of the Rose. Either the person who wrote this has never read The Name…
Oh my… but this was so profoundly awful on every level that I can hardly believe I read it, let alone that for some unfathomable and criminal reason, it was…
This is not one of Adams’ best. I sincerely hope it’s his worst because if there is a worse novel by him out there, it must be atrocious. An explosion…
Oh my goodness me. I haven’t read anything this bad for a long, long time. And I haven’t read anything this long and this bad for as long as I…
Absolutely awful, long-winded and over-elaborate. The novel doesn’t deserve a lengthier review than that. Evelina was bad enough, but Burney has yet another novel, Camilla, on the 1001 list. If…
Start to finish: badly-written, moralising drivel. If this book hadn’t been as influential as it had been, this would probably have received my lowest rating. It did however prove inspirational…
Context: Bought this at a charity shop and walked onto Hartham in Hertford to sit and read it and almost immediately had company in the form of 2 swans and…
Context: Read this as we took our first flight on the double-decker A380 from Dubai to Seoul. Very nice. REVIEW Never heard of this until, scanning my copy of the…
Context: This was my toilet book at Field View. It’s amazing how much you get through on the loo and while brushing your teeth. REVIEW Take a ball, a lovers’…
Context: Finished this off while using a hot water bottle to ease an ache in my hamstring. Too much jogging. REVIEW A good ethnography gives you an inside view into…
Context: We listened to this in the car over weeks and weeks. Less than twenty minutes after we finished, the car’s engine died and had to be scrapped. REVIEW Murakami…
Context: Listened to this from librivox.org as we moved from Piddington back to Bar Hill. REVIEW Get a good look at that cover because that’s as scary as this ‘tale…
Context: Took this along as Mrs Arukiyomi and I walked up the hill at West Wycombe and took in this view of High Wycombe from our favourite bench up there….
REVIEW If you’re into Welsh, this is the book for you. I’m not and I’m reading this in preparation for language survey work in PNG. So, was it relevant? Juuuuuust…
If you’re here looking for v4 of the spreadsheet then you’re following a bad link I accidentally posted on the web. The new version of the spreadsheet is HERE If…
Context: Finished this off in bed at my in-laws’ place near Cambridge, UK. REVIEW Nothing much to report here. This was an entirely predictable Bronte piece which, unlike her sisters,…