WHEW!! That was a long haul! What I liked:1) Really great, evocative, authentic writing. Charles Dickens. Dickens's words in Prebble's mouth had the effect of plopping the reader right down in the same room with these characters. The story was very vivid because of the combined talents of thes...
(This is a review of the audiobook.) ★★★★✩ I never anticipate listening to Simon Prebble narrate. He just is not someone I look forward to reading me a love story. I think I'd like him telling me a tale from another genre. Luckily, my library had this available, so I tried it. Even so, once he ...
This was exciting! I recommend this book to those who want to throw themselves into another world, albeit a world cold, wet, icy and filled with fear, exhaustion and hunger. Ernest Shackleton set out in 1914 to cross the Antarctic from west to east. Yes, WW1 had broken out and he had Churchill’s go-...
I want to make a confession. This is the first vampire book I've ever read. I've never been interested in vampires, ghosts, werewolves and other manifestations of superstition and the supernatural. Indeed, for as long as I can remember, I've avoided horror - gothic and otherwise - in both literature...
Dickens bores us readers to death by describing everything down to the smallest detail, leading me to DNF amid the third chapter at which point disturbingly little had had taken place.
Like most people, I was interested in this book because I’m a fan of Hugh Laurie and I was curious to see if his comic talents extended to his writing.The Gun Seller is a spoof on the classic spy novel. The protagonist, Thomas Lang, is an ex-military man who gets himself caught up in a conspiracy of...
Like most people, I was interested in this book because I’m a fan of Hugh Laurie and I was curious to see if his comic talents extended to his writing.The Gun Seller is a spoof on the classic spy novel. The protagonist, Thomas Lang, is an ex-military man who gets himself caught up in a conspiracy of...
The title of this book is misleading. It should be called Napoleon's Diplomacy. I bought it thinking it was a discussion of Napoleon's battles, his tactics, strategy, etc. Instead, it is a discourse on Napoleon's political machinations with allies and enemies, domestic and foreign. Battles are barel...
Of the eight stories in this book I enjoyed the following:- The Ladies of Grace Adieu- The Duke of Wellington Misplaces His Horse- Mr Simonelli, or the Fairy Widower- Tom Brightwind, or How the Fairy Bridge was Built at Thoresby- John Uskglass and the Cumbrian Charcoal BurnerI listened to the audio ...
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