(This “review” was originally posted 6/20/2006 at wotmania.com, which closed down at the end of August in 2009. [Most of the members can now be found at RAFO.] It has not been edited, since I cannot remember the novel in question. Seriously. The cover [I read the blue twilight edition) is lovely, and that is all [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘History’
October 31, 2009
The Famished Road, by Ben Okri
(This “review” was originally posted 6/22/2006 at wotmania.com, which closed down at the end of August in 2009. [Most of the members can now be found at RAFO.] It has been edited, just a little, for spelling and grammar. It has NOT been edited for style, and it is blunt and tactless and appallingly unfluid. I [...]
October 30, 2009
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
(This “review” was originally posted 6/22/2006 at wotmania.com, which closed down at the end of August in 2009. [Most of the members can now be found at RAFO.] It has been edited, just a little, for spelling and grammar. It has NOT been edited for style, and it is blunt and tactless and appallingly unfluid. I [...]
May 25, 2007
Hiding from the Holocaust
THIS IS NOT A REVIEW. IT’S A REACTION TO THE BOOK THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS BY JOHN BOYNE. IT CONTAINS BIG MASSIVE SPOILERS. REALLY BIG MASSIVE SPOILERS. THE ENDING OF THE BOOK, EVEN. IF YOU DO NOT WANT SPOILERS FOR THIS BOOK, YOU MUST LOOK AT THE SHOUTING TEXT AND GO AWAY. BIG. [...]
