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Average rating: 3.83 · 1,848 ratings · 346 reviews · 23 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Devils of Cardona

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We Need to Talk About Elon

In November last year, the writer Joyce Carol Oates delivered an elegant critique of Elon Musk on X, in which she wondered why he never posted about ‘Scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend’s or relative’s accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references t

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Deserts Are Not Empty by Samia Henni
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Outstanding collection of essays, photographs and poems from writers and scholars from different disciplines, reflecting on the colonial/imperial construction of the desert as an ‘empty’ space and the opposite of civilisation. These essays tell very ...more
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No Turning Back by Marcus Sakey
No Turning Back
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Having torn through Good People, I’ve been on a bit of a Marcus Sakey jag. This one didn’t disappoint. The same taut-as-a-bow string prose, the same tension, the same atmosphere of menace and violence. Like Good People, this outing picks up the theme ...more
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Good People by Marcus Sakey
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Five stars for this violent, scorching thriller that you just can’t look away from till it’s over. When Tom and Anna Reed stumble on some hidden money when a tenant dies of a heart attack, they think they’ve found a magic solution to their problems. ...more
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The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes by Marcus Sakey
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Despite its glowing reviews, and my appreciation of Sakey’s narrative talents, I have to say that this did not impress me much. Firstly, I found the lead characters very two dimensional and unengaging. I don’t have to like the characters in a crime n ...more
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The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes by Marcus Sakey
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Despite its glowing reviews, and my appreciation of Sakey’s narrative talents, I have to say that this did not impress me much. Firstly, I found the lead characters very two dimensional and unengaging. I don’t have to like the characters in a crime n ...more
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No Turning Back by Marcus Sakey
No Turning Back
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Having torn through Good People, I’ve been on a bit of a Marcus Sakey jag. This one didn’t disappoint. The same taut-as-a-bow string prose, the same tension, the same atmosphere of menace and violence. Like Good People, this outing picks up the theme ...more
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No Turning Back by Marcus Sakey
No Turning Back
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Having torn through Good People, I’ve been on a bit of a Marcus Sakey jag. This one didn’t disappoint. The same taut-as-a-bow string prose, the same tension, the same atmosphere of menace and violence. Like Good People, this outing picks up the theme ...more
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Deserts Are Not Empty by Samia Henni
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“even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands, and fathers . . . as far as I know, all the fighting men of our army want peace; and it is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated (friend or foe), that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.”
Matthew Carr, Sherman's Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War

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