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Mike’s 2020 Year in Books
Take a look at Mike’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
Mike Mitchell
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Being Down and Out
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
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2011
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3 editions
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Deadly Intrigue
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2013
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3 editions
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Deadly Contract and Deadly Intrigue (Two-book edition)
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2014
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Anarchy's Brief Summer: The Life and Death of Buenaventura Durruti
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1972
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20 editions
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An Answer from the Silence: A Story from the Mountains
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1937
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8 editions
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Fire Doesn't Burn
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2009
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9 editions
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The Radio Family
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2011
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4 editions
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| This marvelous book gives the family background prior to the Pepys diary, and then follows the events of the diary, and finally goes in detail over the events in his life, following the diary years. Quite gripping in itself, with him one minute in pr ...more | |
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Spends too much time at the start describing the SMERSH killer and his background. Overall plot is more or less the same as the film. Most of action is in Turkey and then the Orient Express. At end, Bond is stabbed with Rosa Klebb’s poison shoe knife, ...more |
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| Absolutely brilliant! 1000 pages, and a page turner. Events in the 1660's around the English king and parliament (Restoration of Charles 2), war with the Dutch, the great plague, the great fire of London 1666, and also LOTS of his personal life, esp ...more | |
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| Interesting biography of the (retired) Director of British MI5. But I was hoping for a bit more detail about the security services in the cold war, and perhaps less of her early life. Got a bit dull at the end where she moans about unfairness of trea ...more | |
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Diamonds are being smuggled in large quantities from Africa via London to USA. Bond takes the place of a courier to take a batch from London to NY. The baddies this time are organised crime in USA. Maybe most readers like detailed descriptions of peo ...more |
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| I got this for Christmas, and I love it. It's a great reference book of course, but I love the dry humour when he advises against certain usage. For example where people pronounce Chorizo as 'choritso', as if it's an Italian word, he says: "If you wi ...more | |
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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. | |
“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.”
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