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Arthur Millerby: Christopher Bigsby November 20, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of "Pink Floyd": The Inside Story of "Pink Floyd"by: Mark Blake October 01, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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Having read most of the Pink Floyd biographies over the years i was prepared for the worst ie a rehashing of the same old (often apocryphal)stories. But no this uses interviews from just about everyone still around and retains the same comprehensiveness and thoroughness from beginning to end. And refreshingly my unfortunate tendency for retaining ridiculous amounts of knowledge about music in my brain did not lead me to (as it usually does)feel let down by finding factual inaccuracies in the text as I usually do at least somewhere with most books I read ie this is pretty unbeatable accuracy wise. And for a writer rooted firmly in a rock background he even knows that Pink Floyd were one of the few guitar orientated acts influential and played ... Read More:
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Cider with Roadiesby: Stuart Maconie April 07, 2005 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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Stuart Maconie is brighter than a button - witty, angry about things you should get angry about and is extremely articulate.
This book is a great piece of autobiography; a history of thatcher's Britain and a entertaining romp through the history of modern pop music. Fun, funny and cleverly written with a mature writing style that makes for a fabulous read. >>More Details |
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Bring Me the Head of Sergio Garciaby: Tom Cox September 04, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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I haven't played golf in years, but I write lots of golf speeches, which means I need to get some ideas and a feel for the game. I took a risk on Tom Cox, and I was handsomely rewarded. His prose is just sublime, like Guy Browning or Marcus Berkmann, he rolls out beautiful self-deprecatory sentences, one after the other, that keep you giggling for hours. Pity he couldn't play golf like that.
What I really liked about it was the rather melancholy wisdom. To play at the highest level you need to be very narrowly focused, and take everything incredibly seriously. My childhood dream was to be a politician, but it's the same thing in that field, the ones who are heading to the top, limit and constrain themselves in ways that I find perverse ... Read More: >>More Details |
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McMafia: Crime without Frontiers: Crime Without Frontiersby: Misha Glenny April 03, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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An eye-opening look at how the globalisation of organised crime effects day-to-day life-whether we like it or not.
The timing of the liberalistion of the international financial markets and the coincidental collapse of communism in central and eastern Europe and the USSR means that the face of crime has changed for ever. And as the author points out, so long as the profits are so big and demands for illegal products so high, no amount of policing can ever stamp it out. In fact, the more resources poured in to the "War on Crime", the bigger organised crime becomes...... >>More Details |
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Into Thin Air: Personal Account of the Everest Disasterby: Jon Krakauer August 07, 1998 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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This has to be the best book I have read in a long time. I literally could not put it down ! It was gripping. The mountineering side of it is explained in laymans terms and overall it is extremely well written. Probably the kind of book I will even read twice over.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Lifeby: Gerald Martin October 20, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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This has to be the best book I have read in a long time. I literally could not put it down ! It was gripping. The mountineering side of it is explained in laymans terms and overall it is extremely well written. Probably the kind of book I will even read twice over.
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Shadows Of The Workhouse: The Drama Of Life In Postwar London: The Drama of Life in Postwar Londonby: Jennifer Worth June 26, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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Matthew Parris states in the blurb on the back of the book that reading this made him cry on a crowded train. It managed to make me burst into floods of tears in the middle of Schipol Airport at 6am - not many books manage to make me cry anywhere - let alone in public. It's a wonderfully evocative read, based on Worth's life working as midwife in 1950s London. The fascinatingly detailed descriptions of the housing, the patients, the costermongers and the nuns make the book quite un-put-down-able I found. The story of Sister Monica Joan is poignant yet makes you smile with every other line, whereas the story of Joe is heartbreaking from the off. I can't wait for the next instalment of Worth's memoirs!
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Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran: My Life in "Duran Duran"by: Andy Taylor September 04, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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I've read quite a few rock biographies - and this is one of the best.
As a fellow Geordie I had a soft-spot for Andy, although I always thought he was bit of an argumentative sod and so I expected this to be a bit of a bitch-fest. I was wrong - he is frequently critical of himself, and, contrary to a review below does give embarrassing revelations about himself. He clearly has some "issues" with Nick but gives him praise as well as criticism. There's plenty of entertaining stories here - he gives a bit mroe detail on the drugs side of things than was known previously, although he seems to play down the groupie angle to an extent I find a bit suspicious. Well written as well - you can actually tear through the book, even if his turn of phrase ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Cut: The True Story of an Abandoned, Abused Little Girl Who Was Desperate to be Part of a Family: The True Story of an Abandoned, Abused Little Girl Who Was Desperate to Be Part of a Familyby: Cathy Glass August 04, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Biography |
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the third book by Cathy Glass is as moving as the last two volumes. Cathy writes well without being over the top as so many of the "misery memoirs" can be. Cathy paints a picture of her very ordinary family (and I mean that as a compliment, not an insult) trying their best to give Dawn the best life they can. It is to be hoped that the social services do a better job now than they did 25 years ago. Without wishing to spoil the story for others their deliberate withholding of the facts about Dawn's upbringing could have been extremely damaging to the Glass family. The only thing that didn't ring true in fact was Cathys ( and also her husbands) reaction to those revelations........... I would have made an official complaint at least but I suppose that it would have stopped them fostering ... Read More:
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