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Cityboy: Beer and Loathing in the Square Mileby: Geraint Anderson June 26, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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I began working in the City in 1987 and having spent long periods on the buy-side and sell-side, I found Geraint's work an extremely accurate reflection of working life, in particular the brittle financial machinery, hideous & hilarious manipulation on both sides, psychological conflicts and social shenanigans. It was interesting, funny and very well-written as it is the TRUE inner voice of a young City broker and was well-structured and well-characterised. In fact, I found Geraint's portrayal of the main character's painful conflict between his social conscience and darker side extremely convincing.
To those who haven't worked in the City, you would find City Boy entertaining, insightful and educational, particularly in the ... Read More: >>More Details |
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The Blair Yearsby: Alastair Campbell May 01, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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Campbell has a sharp eye for personal description and these pull the reader through the book, they are funny and rude. He has no confidence in the abilities of MPs and Cabinet Ministers. Sadly neither Blair nor Campbell were able to encourage the abilities of those who could have been working with them, instead they laughed at them.The book shows the egoism and fragility of both men, who steamrolled others throughout their reign.
The book was also totally dishonest about so many political incidents. EG: the contentious Dome, Weapons of Mass Destruction and Mandelsons's resignations are all skated over. There is no development and no analysis, political or otherwise. On this level the book is a lightweight sham. Campbell obviously needed people ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Marching Powderby: Rusty Young July 02, 2004 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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Great, well detailed description of the coruption within the prison system! Really enjoyed this book. Could not put it down! Opened my eyes to how how cocaine is made and exported out of the prison into the market-place! I could not believe how people could be treated in such a way.
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Newcastle: My Kind of Toonby: Bobby Robson October 16, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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Great, well detailed description of the coruption within the prison system! Really enjoyed this book. Could not put it down! Opened my eyes to how how cocaine is made and exported out of the prison into the market-place! I could not believe how people could be treated in such a way.
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Into Danger: Risking Your Life for Workby: Kate Adie September 04, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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Great, well detailed description of the coruption within the prison system! Really enjoyed this book. Could not put it down! Opened my eyes to how how cocaine is made and exported out of the prison into the market-place! I could not believe how people could be treated in such a way.
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Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchessby: Alison Weir August 07, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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Katherine Swynford is a bit of enigma. She's arguably one of the most important figures in British history; she's the ancestress of every monarch since Edward IV, no less than five US presidents and Winston Churchill, among others; and yet most people, if they know of her at all, have only heard of her because of an historical romance, Anya Seton's Katherine. That's largely because so little is known of her, and Alison Weir does a good job piecing together what few fragments of information can be found about her. It's clear she has an affection for her subject, which I always like to see in biography. It may not be entirely unbiased, but I hate reading biographies written by people who clearly have an axe to grind or preconceived conceptions. This is a very good ... Read More:
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Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshireby: Amanda Foreman June 07, 1999 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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Although 'Georgiana' is competently written and well-researched, I am frankly amazed that it has achieved such massive success and popularity since its first publication ten years ago. As other reviewers have pointed out, it perhaps fulfills a useful purpose in putting women back in the 'front-line' of the eighteenth-century political scene but, speaking for myself, I found the exhaustive discussion of the ups-and-downs of the Whigs and Tories tedious in the extreme and an almost total turn-off. This was doubly disappointing, since the rave reviews had led me to expect so much more.
Strangely enough, the most engaging part of the book was the introduction, in which the author writes with real verve and enthusiasm of how she was first 'introduced' to the duchess ... Read More: >>More Details |
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3 Commando Brigadeby: Ewen Southby-Tailyour August 28, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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I can only echo the good reviews of this book and demonstrates yet again the heroism and professionalism of our armed forces.I've read "apache","3 para" and "into the killing zone" recently and never fail to be awe struck by the people in our armed services.The book itself covers 3 Commando Brigades tour of Helmand in great detail and is well written capturing very well the heat and danger of battle, aswell as the difficult conditions our forces have to work in.
However, there are several comments in the book that seem to have a bit of "a pop" at the Paras. The inside cover accuses them of "a tactical retreat". The book does not really go on to say why this is the case. There is the odd inference but no real criticism from the actual Marines themselves often saying the Paras went ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritanceby: Barack Obama August 21, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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I am always interested in people's life story, especially that of famous people. He is the proud of black people. I am still reading this book, haven't finished it yet, but really enjoying it. I can learn a lot from it.
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Codaby: Simon Gray November 06, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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I enjoyed this book, even though the subject matter is dark and the overall tone of the book is rather melancholy. He writes extremely well; the only mild irritant is his tendency to waffle on and on, making a sentence extremely long and sometimes a little boring and you begin to wonder when he will finally place a full stop.A little like that!
On the whole though, highly recommended and can be read as a ' stand alone ' book, although it is beneficial to have read The Smoking Diaries. >>More Details |
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