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| Fine and distinctly Cusk-y. Some lovely descriptions and a few decent insights into life in the modern world, but generally just a bit dreary and sagging under the weight of too many observations. Can where a desk is placed in a room really say that ...more | |
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| Fine and distinctly Cusk-y. Some lovely descriptions and a few decent insights into life in the modern world, but generally just a bit dreary and sagging under the weight of too many observations. Can where a desk is placed in a room really say that ...more | |
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| Quite possibly the best small press book that I've ever read. Such a fascinating subject, meticulously researched. A mystery that takes so many twists and turns, things just keep getting stranger and stranger -- ley lines, vampires, exorcisms. It goe ...more | |
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| Quite possibly the best small press book that I've ever read. Such a fascinating subject, meticulously researched. A mystery that takes so many twists and turns, things just keep getting stranger and stranger -- ley lines, vampires, exorcisms. It goe ...more | |
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| It's taken me a long time to get round to Jeeves & Wooster, not being instantly drawn to the whole upper class mid-30s setting. Finally, though, I can say, believe the hype. A flawless farce written with impeccable style. What a delight. ...more | |
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| Excellently written and thoroughly propulsive. It took me a while to decide for myself what this was actually 'about' save recounting a particularly grim mystery, but by the second half I couldn't put it down. A great investigation into the idea of t ...more | |
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| Excellently written and thoroughly propulsive. It took me a while to decide for myself what this was actually 'about' save recounting a particularly grim mystery, but by the second half I couldn't put it down. A great investigation into the idea of t ...more | |
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| An epic book in which I experienced the full contours and passions of another person's life. Much of it reads a bit like a more mature, considered On the Road, chasing waves rather than hitchhiking, jazz, or booze. In parts truly transportive, with l ...more | |
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| Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Perhaps the best book of this particular kind of non fiction genre I've ever read. Utterly compelling from start to finish, full of twists and turns, and commentaries on different parts of human nature and modern soci ...more | |