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Roland’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Roland’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Roland Howard
Goodreads Author
Born
in The United Kingdom
Genre
Influences
Joseph Conrad Graham Greene John Le Carre
Member Since
September 2013
Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron): a floater
Gravity is heavy stuff. “Gravity” the (misnamed) film purports to be heavy. As in "This is deep shit, profound; dude, you’re in for some heavy spiritual moments, an epiphany." At the same time it is trying to be a Fast and Furious in the sky, the race circuit just above the atmosphere; a thriller with no villain and no characters. Houston, we have a problem.
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Rise and Fall of the Nine O'Clock Service
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1996
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Charismania: When Christian Fundamentalism Goes Wrong
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1997
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Shopping for God: A Sceptic's Search for Value in Britain's Spiritual Marketplace
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2002
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Power in the Blood
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2013
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* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
Roland’s Recent Updates
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| Fascinating, infuriating, confident, thoroughly researched. Did you know Trump’s Campaign manager was working v closely with Russian spies? Me too, but this lifts the lid on the whole episode and puts meat on the bones of what you’d also suspected: a ...more | |
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| Fascinating subject matter, gripping, with its heart and mind in the right place. A bit generic and indeed with a character not unlike Robert “Generic “ MP. Slimy, cynical, amoral. | |
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| Interesting record with powerful photos , testimony and context on Ukraine until the mid 90s. | |
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| A wonderful debut, gritty realism with magical highlights, sad with frequent hilarity on which to surf the tragic soviet undertow. Georgia is magical; Georgia is full of rough enchantments- this novel captures both. | |
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| Interesting and unsettling. Before putin’s invasion when it seemed unlikely. | |
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| Reminiscent of Conrad and Greene , who le Carre references, a complicated adventure with more action and desire than usual. Best read quickly because of the number of characters. Set in Hong Kong , Thailand, Laos and Vietnam. | |
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| Fascinating book about a man who history forgot but who chronicled events and a period that without him, would have been unknown. | |
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| A more explicit, reverse Lolita. I found it gripping and troubling, funny and chilling. Memorable, perhaps too memorable. | |
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| I enjoyed this a lot. Though Robert graves seemed to develop into a self deceiving libertine, the Mallorca described by his son is fascinating - I am biased, having visited the island for nearly 50 years! | |
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
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I can't believe there's no group on here for the wonderful Scottish mainstream/sci-fi writer, Iain Banks, so I thought I'd create one. This group is f ...more
