0084 | 1421 – Gavin Menzies
Context: Finished this in Shanghai at the house of my mate Gavin whose collection of novels got me back into fiction after many years away. REVIEW According to Menzies, it…
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0082 | Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
Context: Read this as we travelled from Korea by sea and train to Japan.REVIEW This started out as an interesting alternative to American Psycho, which I read before Arukiyomi got…
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0069 | The Invisible Man ~ H.G.Wells
REVIEW This is what happens when science goes to your head. At least that’s what I think Wells was on about.
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0067 | Walden ~ Thoreau
REVIEW This started out really well with some very erudite remarks about the way the material world, if you, Atlas-like, manage to find a position to observe it correctly from,…
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0064 | Metamorphoses ~ Ovid
REVIEW This is a 400-page poem. It’s over 2000 years old to boot. If ancient poetry grabs you, this is your thing. Is it mine?
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0063 | Orlando ~ Virginia Woolf
REVIEW I’m firmly convinced now that, for all her genius, Woolf was also bonkers. This novel had me completely lost until the Wikipedia entry gave me the key to understanding…
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0061 | Istanbul ~ Orhan Pamuk
REVIEW A friend at work bought me this for my birthday way back last May. I’d said I was interested in it after reading Pamuk’s The White Castle while I…
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0056 | Unless ~ Carol Shields
REVIEW Described on the back as “breathtaking… a masterpiece” I was delighted to find that a healthy cynicism of cover blurb reviews is entirely justified.
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0054 | The Famished Road ~ Ben Okri
REVIEW Erm… well… this was fantastic. Quite literally fantastic.
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0049 | England Made Me ~ Graham Greene
REVIEW Not one of Greene’s best but certainly a novel that plots his development as a novelist on his way to his later greats.
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0048 | Cloudsplitter ~ Russell Banks
REVIEW This is a huge book at just over 750 pages. But, while it is an interesting insight into life and events running up to the start of the American…
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0047 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ~ John Le Carre
REVIEW Not read an overt spy novel before. Never read any Carre either. Not sure I’ll read either anytime soon…
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0046 | The Time Machine ~ H.G. Wells
An audio book from www.inaudio.biz and read by Ralph Cosham. REVIEW Another product of its time. I found this better written than the couple of Verne’s books I’ve read.
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0042 | After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
If you enjoyed this book, you’re going to love the map. REVIEW More from Murakami. To be honest, if this hadn’t been 100 or so pages long, I wouldn’t have…
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0039 | The Book of Laughter & Forgetting – Milan Kundera
If you enjoyed this book, you’re going to love the map. REVIEW Erm… if anyone can enlighten me on what it is I’ve just read, I’d be more than grateful….
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0029 | The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
REVIEW: I’ve never read an Atwood and I was disappointed. I will read more so you Atwood fans can take your seats again. Perhaps this is not her best. That’s…
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