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D.B. John
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The United Kingdom
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The Girl With Seven Names
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Star of the North
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2018
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Kochav ha-Tzafon
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| A really quite gripping account of the author's brush with a violent, public death. Utterly shocking, even if a part of him may long have expected it. ("It's you," he thought, as the assassin ran toward him at a crouch). Couldn't put this down. I'm a ...more | |
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| Superbly well-plotted thriller in which a great deal of accurate and convincing information has been neatly managed and well judged. Hits the sweet spot for the thriller market, I think. Pacy and topical, and, as in Damascus Station, the dictator at ...more | |
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| A highly enjoyable, well written, well constructed novel. It's Boyd's first one (I think), but it reads as maturely as his later works. Found it kind of refreshing that the main protagonist, Morgan Leafy, is rude, selfish, lazy, dyed-in-the-wool shit ...more | |
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| The best WWII book I've read in a long time. Highly recommended. Superbly written in a light, almost humorous style (it was translated from the French by the author himself). It's a shame it hasn't received more publicity. This is an important book a ...more | |
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| Readers who interpret this book in light of current thinking may feel righteous in condemning it. Some of the reviews, I notice, cite Chinua Achebe's critique of the book as racist. Others replicate Achebe's position in making no distinction between ...more | |
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| When a president of the United States used the immense authority of his office to tell his followers that his election was stolen from him, many of them naturally believed him. But on the day after the election, no one surrounding the president � not ...more | |
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| A gently entertaining comedy of manners. Wry, observant, and witty, as if Jane Austen were writing in 1958. The story centres on the rather small world of Wilmet Forsyth, a young, privileged, stylish London housewife. Unusually for a novel of this ti ...more | |
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| When a president of the United States used the immense authority of his office to tell his followers that his election was stolen from him, many of them naturally believed him. But on the day after the election, no one surrounding the president � not ...more | |
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| A gently entertaining comedy of manners. Wry, observant, and witty, as if Jane Austen were writing in 1958. The story centres on the rather small world of Wilmet Forsyth, a young, privileged, stylish London housewife. Unusually for a novel of this ti ...more | |
“His hair was fine and white, and cropped very short, like a lawn after an early frost.”
― Star of the North
― Star of the North
“No matter what someone’s race, age, gender, background, or creed, all humans know what it means to feel love, bereavement, guilt, regret, and so on—the experiences that shape character.”
― Star of the North
― Star of the North
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