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Chris’s 2025 Year in Books
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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 | |
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| A great book about the craft and business of writing from one of the art form's masters. The general tone was a bit like a book length "introduction" to one of Maugham's books, which is catnip to me, though to get the most out of this, it probably he ...more | |
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| A lovely introductory sweep to Britain's folkways, which also does a great job of expanding them beyond the island's shores, and knits together a great proposal for modern British identity. ...more | |
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| Maugham knocks it out of the park as he always does with this great meditation on morality in exotic locales. A very solid, very well written, and thoroughly diverting book. When AI really gets it together, my feeling is it's works like this it will ...more | |
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| Both page-turning true crime and a fantastic lens through which to consider modern London. Any issues I had with this book come down to personal taste. First, a slight queasiness about turning actual human tragedy into such compelling entertainment, ...more | |
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| A fun and informative look at Britain, full of facts and anecdotes, plus many snippets of etymology that are good to bring up in future conversations. At its best in the extended interview sections with the likes of Winchester Geese shaman John Const ...more | |