Ishmael Beah is from Sierra Leone. Between the ages of 13 and 16 a lot of nasty things happened to him. His whole family was killed by rebel forces in a bloody and brutal civil war. He and a group of friends tried to escape from the fighting on …
So you think you’ve got a community, huh? How much does your community care about you? To what extent does your community get off on the idea of working together to realise a dream? Would this community of yours rally round and propel your book to #1 on Amazon on …
I always complete my own review of a book before I read anyone else’s. Hopefully that stops me sounding like a book reviewer. Sometimes, if another reviewer agrees with me, but expresses my feelings better than I could, I’ll quote and link to them in an edited version. Or I’ll …
This is a review of the Millenium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. The Girl Who Played With Fire. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest. Millenium is a monthly magazine, based in Stockholm, with a reputation for investigative journalism whose purpose is to expose corporate …
Gerry Farrell, the creative director of The Leith Agency would sometimes describe an advertising idea as having “got the Zeitgeist by the bollocks.” Well this book put the Zeitgeist’s wedding tackle in a vice back in 1998 and, rather than loosening its grip in the intervening years, it’s slowly been …
God I was looking forward to reading this again. I don’t know how many years it is since I first read it but my abiding memory was of general originality and awesomeness and a vague recollection of a surprising twist in the tail that I just didn’t see coming, the …
Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67, on arrival Midwestern American airport greater xxxxxx area. Flight xxxxxx. Date xxxxxx. Priority mission top success to complete. Code name : Operation Havoc. Chuck Palahniuk is an extreme dude. Correction, I have no idea what kind of dude Chuck Palahniuk …
This book moved me. I read a lot and derive some form of pleasure from the vast majority of books. But to be moved is unusual. This book made me reconsider my views on an important contemporary issue. This book made me laugh on several occasions. Particularly the exchange early …
The woman – whose name was Bev – said, “Craig, the hardest things in the world are being unique and having your life be a story. In the old days, it was much easier, but our modern fame-driven culture, with its real-time 24-7 marinade of electronic information, demands a lot …
