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The Celestine Prophecy It neatly treads the line between novel and self help / spiritual book. The ideas it presents are a mixture of cod-psychology and Star Wars calibre metaphysics but somehow it works. It wants to be taken literally but it is only a nice idea. If only it were true then maybe we'd all be better off.
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An anthology of 17 short stories featuring some of The Doctor's many companions before, during and after their travels with him. Some are traditional, some are experimental. Some are good, some are bad. That's how it goes with short story collections. The amusing "The Man From DOCTO(R)" and the brave "A Boy's Tale" are probably my favourites so far.
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Based on the website of the same name, this book "celebrates" the kind of dumbness than only pro wrestling promoters could ever think was a good idea.
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Everyone knows that working sucks the fat man's balls. Everyone except perhaps the wisest man on Earth...
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For some reason this is the one Jeeves novel to have slipped past me over the last 15 years. Unaware even of its existence until a book club special offer got me a box of 10 Wodehouse novels for £10 and this was one of them. Hurrah for book clubs.
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I'm still ploughing my way
through the
Agatha Christie Collection and this
latest one has Miss Marple investigating a crime that is announced in the
press before it is committed. The death of someone so apparently
unimportant adds an extra level to the mystery. Can the aged sleuth crack
the case or will she instead spend the whole book talking about how air
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In the future we will all be so proud of our employers that we will take their name as our own. But beneath the capitalist utopia is an Orwellian nightmare of corruption and greed. The book is over the top enough for the named corporations not to get twitchy about suing Mr Barry and this, perhaps, takes the edge off it a little.
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