Type: documentary
Status: finished
Author: Paul Davies
Tags: 2006
Description: Fascinating reading - Davies is brilliant at explaining complex ideas. Some of the conclusions...
2007-01-02
Type: fiction
Status: finished
Author: Janette Turner Hospital
Tags: 2006
Description: Completely addictive and pretty powerful. Has inspired me to seek out her other books
2006-12-20
Type: fiction
Status: finished
Author: Claire Messud
Tags: 2006
Description: Dense story of multicultural/multi-generational family in France. Wonderful once I settled...
2006-12-19
& 5 users
Type: documentary
Status: finished
Author: Rory Stewart
Tags: 2006
Description: Well written travelogue of a ridiculous journey. A walk between Herat and Kabul a few months...
2006-12-15
Type: fiction
Status: finished
Authors: Graham Greene Gloria Emerson
Tags: 2006
Description: Vaguely amusing, but not particularly memorable
2006-12-11
Type: fiction
Status: finished
Author: Po Bronson
Tags: 2006
Description: Funny and scathing look at high finance. Bears a huge debt to Catch 22.
2006-12-06
& 9 users
Type: documentary
Status: finished
Author: Michael Pollan
Tags: 2006
Description: Fascinating and well structured - Pollan does a pretty good job of tackling his four meals...
2006-12-06
& 6 users
Type: fiction
Status: finished
Author: Zadie Smith
Tags: 2006
Description: Enjoyable but slightly scattershot.
2006-12-04
& 8 users
Type: fiction
Status: finished
Author: Mikhail Bulgakov
Tags: 2006
Description: Bizarre and intriguing.
2006-11-27
Type: fiction
Status: finished
Author: Paul Auster
Tags: 2006
Description: Paul Auster finally goes too far into meta-fiction for me. The book refers to his previous...
2006-11-27
Type: fiction
Status: finished
Author: Aleksandar Hemon
Tags: 2006
Description: Funny and readable, but a bit directionless towards the end.
2006-11-13
& 1 users
Type: fiction
Status: finished
Author: Jay Mcinerney
Tags: 2006
Description: Empty, shallow, dated.
2006-11-10
Type: documentary
Status: finished
Author: Jonathan Coe
Tags: 2006
Description: Ambitious biography of B. S. Johnson. Brilliantly written, if perhaps overlong.
2006-11-10
& 2 users
Type: documentary
Status: finished
Author: Marc Weingarten
Tags: 2006
Description: Enjoyable summary of 'new journalims', but it sometimes seems like the author is stretching...
2006-11-10
& 5 users
Type: fiction
Status: finished
Author: Ruth L. Ozeki
Tags: 2006
Description: Entertaining enough - despite the big themes tackled, it still seemed a bit lightweight
2006-10-20
Type: documentary
Status: finished
Author: Joan Didion
Description: Thougthful and depressing analysis of politics in the US.
2006-10-18
Type: documentary
Status: finished
Author: Gerd Gigerenzer
Description: Interesting if slightly repetitive. Provided a few things to keep in mind when presenting...
2006-10-16
& 3 users
Type: documentary
Status: finished
Author: Jon Ronson
Tags: 2006
Description: Wonderful - a great idea, well researched and presented. You have to keep reminding yourself...
2006-10-16
Type: fiction
Status: finished
Author: David Peace
Tags: 2006
Description: Visceral account of the coal miner's strike in the UK in '84 -spellbinding at times...
2006-10-02
& 2 users
Type: documentary
Status: finished
Author: Simon Winchester
Tags: 2006
Description: Fascinating.
2006-09-29
Type: fiction
Status: finished
Authors: Paul Chatterton Robert Hollands
Description: An examination of the 'McDonaldsization' of the night time economy. Not entirely relevant...
2006-09-29
Type: documentary
Status: finished
Authors: Dick Hobbs Philip Hadfield Stuart Lister Simon Winlow
Description: Another good book about alcohol and British night-life. Focuses on the role of bouncers in...
2006-09-27
Type: fiction
Status: finished
Author: James W. Blinn
Tags: 2006
Description: Crazy, hyper gulf war novel - it felt like it was trying to be a modern day Catch-22 and was...
2006-09-27
Type: documentary
Status: finished
Author: John Leland
Tags: 2006
Description: Exhaustively detailed, aggravating exploration of 'hip' through the ages.
2006-09-25
