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Collection of short stories.
Lots of points well-made. Suffers from a little repetition and a slightly hectoring style which comes across more in the author's audiobook narration.
Lots of points well-made. Suffers from a little repetition and a slightly hectoring style which comes across more in the author's audiobook narration.
Unreadably dry, partially plagiarised. Has value, I suppose, among AASR masons as a reference work for the degrees it covers. Among the big and "difficult" books I have attempted to read I've made more progress in "Ulysses" and "In Search of Lost Time" than in this turgid tome.
Unreadably dry, partially plagiarised. Has value, I suppose, among AASR masons as a reference work for the degrees it covers. Among the big and "difficult" books I have attempted to read I've made more progress in "Ulysses" and "In Search of Lost Time" than in this turgid tome.
“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.”
Bill Bryson and his family live in a …
"The life story of one of the most admired and controversial public intellectuals of our time"--Provided by publisher.
Jay Kinney: The inner West (2004, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin)
ENGLISH FOOD reveals the richness and surprising diversity of England's culinary heritage. Fully updated and revised by Jane Grigson before …
David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. The novel's full title is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and …
A preeminent scientist—and the world's most prominent atheist—asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has …
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years -- as well as interviews with more than …
Amusing and articulate rant at some easy targets. A little too self-deprecating at times and not clear what the goal of the book is, except to let off steam at the absurdities of organised religion. Still, worth a listen to the audiobook where it comes over more like the stand up routine it originally was.
