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Mike Mitchell
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August 2011
Have finished reading 'Down and Out in Paris and London' by George Orwell. Glad I was never in that position... I've heard before about attitudes to hygiene in some restaurant kitchens, but hopefully it's not as horrendous as in Orwell's pre-war experience!
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Deadly Contract
— published 2011 — 3 editions |
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Deadly Intrigue
— published 2013 — 3 editions |
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Deadly Contract and Deadly Intrigue (Two-book edition)
— published 2014 |
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Anarchy's Brief Summer: The Life and Death of Buenaventura Durruti
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| Sold a million in US and worldwide. Very short book. Life of a seagull, that aspires to better things, and its move to ‘heaven’. I liked it. It was a nice story. | |
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| Over 1000 pages, and an epic. TV mini-series was just as good. | |
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Espionage before World War 1. Written in 1903. Nice style, but of course language is old-fashioned. Lots of tension and mystery when it gets going. If you've ever been sailing, it captures the atmosphere of lonely tidal anchorages perfectly. Prefer th ...more |
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| Sets the scene well, with upper-class young people on Long Island. Lot on their character as well as physical description. It was fairly slow up to half-way, then things happened faster. | |
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His jottings through life, from 1892 to 1949. Lots of amusing anecdotes. eg. · Unselfish parents have selfish children. · Fools don’t become less foolish when they grow old, and an old fool is infinitely more tiresome than a young one. |
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| First of the ‘Barsetshire’ novels. The intrigues of a vicar and clergy. I found it slow going, albeit amusing at times, and didn’t finish. Some wry humour at the expense of the established church. | |
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| Ok, albeit some corny stuff, like the cell phone battery going flat at time of crisis, and happening to have a pocket knife at the right moment. | |
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| The usual good quality read from Grisham. At the start, it isn't clear who the lead character is, as Patrick is seemingly the villain. Then reader gradually gets to identify with him, so we want him to succeed whatever, as he seems a lot better than ...more | |
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| Excellent book. But the movie was even better! | |
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| Opening pages are a bit dull, but he puts a taster at front of the book, an extract from page 83. (seems a bit of a cheat to me) Maybe publisher suggested this? Chap 3 annoyed me, as it was a boring digression about him running. Chap 4 equally annoyi ...more | |
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
― Calvin Coolidge
― Calvin Coolidge
