3.96 avg rating — 146 ratings

"Who would have thought there had been enough Utopias written about to fill an anthology!"

4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings

"Church and clergy have always provided a rich vein to be mined. Sometimes you dig up a diamond, sometimes uncover fools gold. Here's a little gem from the poem : What is a Puseyite? "But hark! With what a nasal twang, betwixt a whine and groan, he doth our noble liturgy most murrously intone" "

3.95 avg rating — 59 ratings

"Ha if Kureishi and Jon Savage have put together a veritable cornucopia of writings on the great and the good and the downright abysmal in the pop world from 1942 to 1994. Ok so it's way out of date but hey it's history man but not as we know it. A random glance at the index finds Adam Ant nestling up to Anthrax while Woodstock rubs shoulders with the Bishop of Wolwich. Love it or hate it dipping into this book reveals a whole new world. "

3.75 avg rating — 172 ratings

"In case any goodreads reader ever need a poem in an emergency! So far I have faced many emergencies without resorting to poetry but there's a first time for everything. "

4.08 avg rating — 703 ratings

"Where else could you find such varied eye witness accounts as an account of a dinner date with Attila the Hun, Amerigo Vespucci's report of South America, the report that inspired Coleridge to write the Ancient Mariner, Walt Whitmans account of Lincoln's assassination and the fall of President Marcos? Unadulterated history. "

2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings

"The art of seduction is in the subtlety and the suggestion. Sometimes less is more. "

3.92 avg rating — 56,162 ratings

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"Celebrating women's writing. "

3.87 avg rating — 47 ratings

"Well it's an excuse to revisit one of my most favourite sit coms. "

3.62 avg rating — 24 ratings

"It's brilliant. "

3.94 avg rating — 66 ratings

"Courage, tenacity, stubbornness, true grit. I's all here. "

3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings

"An anthology to dive right into. "

4.29 avg rating — 109 ratings

"To counter balance white middle class literature. "

4.33 avg rating — 96 ratings

"Because laughter is the best medicine. frank Muir has collected some of the best in comic writing. "

3.69 avg rating — 26 ratings

"Why not?"

4.15 avg rating — 132 ratings

"Women hold up half the sky. "

3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings

"Endlessly fascinating."

3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings

"Clever stuff. "

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