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As an occasional migraine sufferer (mostly visual auras followed by confusion rather than headaches), recently being hit by the things more often, I had no idea how many of the other annoying things I've been experiencing were related, or how varied migraines can be. Genuinely fascinating - and actually making me much less of a hypochondriac now I can begin to connect the dots.

A bit obvious, and a bit slow. This is a short story stretched out to novel length, probably ten times longer than it needed to be. But entertaining enough.

This is a very good book. That simple.

Still not sure if I like this book. The protagonist is a pretentious idiot, everyone else is an exploitative bastard, and the author appears to find rape funny. Yet from the other reviews it seems I must be missing something. Deciding whether or not to persevere.

This is fun, but dense as hell. A huge chunky book with small print. Regular print size this would be well over a thousand pages. Could take a while...

Random second hand shop purchase, picked up on a whim. Enjoyably readable so far, with few obvious pretensions. A relief after a recent slew of try-hard literary historical fiction, though as a result seems to lack much depth. Still, strange that a translation in a similar vein reads better than Mary Renault... She was a bit clunky, I found.

Very readable so far, chugging along nicely. Not the usual Dee mystical crap, but solid history. Decent.