| Category | Title | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| Airport novel Fiction Legal thriller John Grisham Book Review Dell law moral dilemma race | Book review: A Time To Kill by John Grisham | Rating: 6 of 10 |
A Time To Kill is the first novel of John Grisham, written in 1989. And it’s not half bad, if you’re into that kind of thing. | ||
| Contemporary literature Fiction Science fiction Chuck Palahniuk Book Review dark Doubleday rabies rant | Book review: Rant: An Oral History of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk | Rating: 8 of 10 |
If this was a car, it would be going cheap—a DeLorean someone died in. Pay cash, clean it yourself. | ||
| Contemporary literature War Bernhard Schlink Book Review sensual Vintage International world war two young | Book review: The Reader by Bernhard Schlink | Rating: 8 of 10 |
In a generation struggling to come to grips with what the generation before them has done, The Reader is the story of love, betrayal, war, and reading aloud. | ||
| Airport novel Crime fiction James Patterson Book Review cheap crap female thriller Warner Books | Book review: 1st To Die by James Patterson | Rating: 3 of 10 |
Why do I do it to myself? No, really, why? The only saving grace is that it was over in a couple of hours... oh yes, and I get a kick out of reviewing trash every now and again. | ||
| Contemporary literature Chuck Palahniuk Book Review deformed humour monsters horror transsexuals W. W. Norton & Company | Book review: Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk | Rating: 9 of 10 |
In a world where beauty opens every door, can a person be brave enough to be everything they don’t want to be? | ||
| Contemporary literature Mark Haddon adventure aspurges Book Review dog teenager Vintage | Book review: The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time by Mark Haddon | Rating: 8 of 10 |
When autistic fifteen year old Christopher John Francis Boone discovers his neighbour’s dog, Wellington, dead on the lawn with a gardening fork sticking in his side, he decides to investigate. | ||
| Crime fiction Reginald Hill Book Review british crime dalziel and pascoe Dell humour | Book review: A Pinch Of Snuff by Reginald Hill | Rating: 8 of 10 |
A rollicking adventure starring Peter Pascoe, about blue movies, dubiously moralled Kinema Clubs, even more dubiously moralled girls, the women’s liberation movement, and whether or not the dentist did it, orchestrated by the fat and brilliant Superintendent Dalziel. | ||
| Autobiography Humour Non-fiction David Bennun Book Review Britain Ebury Press humour south africa student | Book review: British As A Second Language by David Bennun | Rating: 6 of 10 |
If this was a restaurant, it would serve Springbok kebabs with a union jack spiked, half-jokingly, into the top. | ||
| Horror Stephen King Book Review ghosts horror hotel murder Pocket Books shining spirits | Book review: The Shining by Stephen King | Rating: 6 of 10 |
Some people have it, and some people don’t—the shining, the ability to see what others don’t, the ability to commune with spirits... Five year old Danny Torrance has the shining. But will this be a help or a hindrance at the haunted and desolate Overlook Hotel, where the spirits don’t know their place? | ||
| Horror Stephen King Book Review dark Hodder & Stoughton salem vampires | Book review: 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King | Rating: 7 of 10 |
The second novel of Stephen King—the phrase “classic seventies horror” isn’t necessarily a bad thing! | ||
