Not of any interest to me. Neutral in my criticism as I did not read more than the first section, browsed through the rest, and found nothing to read of interest, nor anything worthy of my time. It is hoped his fiction is better for me of which I have one in the mail to me and another being held at ...
Dr. RaynerDr. Rayner has just finished reading Mr. Phillips, a novel he greatly enjoyed, and now he walks to work along his usual route thinking about the review he is planning to write. Dr. Rayner has recently learned, from an online friend he feels he knows quite well but has never met in person, ...
blurb - Capital - the new novel by John Lanchester is the story of one south London street, which has seen a hundred years of fortunes made and lost, of hearts broken, of first steps and last breaths. And then, one day a card with a simple message drops through each letterbox: 'We Want What You Have...
Like a lot of people in the world today, I've been struggling for a while to truly understand just how things got to be the way they are right now. Even with everyone and their uncle talking about the crisis, most of what is said concentrates on throwing accusations to one another, and I've missed s...
From time to time I like to read about the recent financial collapse in an effort to try to understand what happened. This book is written by an author who normally writes novels, so he knows how to explain things very simply. In the early part of the book it was so simple that I thought it might ...
This brilliant, scary little book is the first account I've seen of the credit crunch which truly made sense. I read it in a day, and, if you're at all interested in politics, economics or current affairs, I can't recommend it too highly. Lanchester is an acclaimed novelist, which shows in the witty...
A delight.----------------------Added after reading Manny's review of this book and having but one vote for my own...NGE sits despondently on park bench, thinking:If each two words of a review get one vote, then Manny is going to get 346.5 votes.And let's face it, he only gave me that one so that I'...
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