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Robin’s 2024 Year in Books
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Robin Newbold
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in London, The United Kingdom
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Graham Greene, Bret Easton Ellis, Jake Arnott, Alan Hollinghurst, Jame
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Member Since
July 2019
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Bangkok Burning
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Bloody Summer
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2012
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Vacuum-packed
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2014
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Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season (Mcnally Editions, 41):
"The antithesis to a tourism ad, Vegas is full of such outlandish, larger than life characters that if the book were set literally anywhere else I would be convinced they were made up. Alas, in Las Vegas expectations must be adjusted to account for th"
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Competently written but doesn’t really go anywhere, even though it’s a road trip. Details the mid-life crisis of a fairly privileged middle-class American man. Who cares? No idea how this was shortlisted for the Booker prize. I was once told by a lit ...more |
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| Unfortunately this was a complete slog. Lyse Doucet is one of the BBC’s best correspondents, with a fascinating life reporting from war zones yet she only appears in this story in third person. The bulk is reduced to pen portraits of workers in a hot ...more | |
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Robin Newbold
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Mark Cornelius's review
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The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan:
"Lyse Doucet is a fantastic journalist, who is rightly held in high esteem for her reporting and her courage. But this should not colour our view of her book, as it really is not very good. It’s meant to be a history of modern Afghanistan told through"
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Robin Newbold
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Bethan's review
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The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan:
"Written by the BBC's chief international correspondent, this reads rather like a foreign correspondent broadcast. The idea is to relay the history and story of the Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan. As you can imagine, a lot of regime cha"
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| I first read the diaries 20 years ago when I had just graduated and was in awe of Joe Orton. Funny how time and experience have removed the scales from my eyes. Nothing can condone his sexual predeliction for teenage boys, which he luridly details in ...more | |
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