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– Personal ramblings, thinly veiled as thoughts on what I read

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Comedy, English, Fiction, Humour, Novel  2 Comments

August 5, 2022August 22, 2021

Right ho, Jeeves – P. G. Wodehouse

Jumping into a novel in the middle of a series is never a great idea.

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Comedy, Fiction, Humour, Novel  0 Comments

May 27, 2022July 28, 2021

Florence of Arabia – Christopher Buckley

While the story was interesting enough, the humor failed to deliver.

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Comedy, Fiction, Humour, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

May 22, 2020April 12, 2020

Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Safe Drivers – Grant Naylor

A book that is a rehash of a TV show could be disappointing, unless it is a really good TV show.

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Essays, Humour, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

March 6, 2020September 21, 2019

The Portable Curmudgeon – Jon Winokur

The Portable Curmudgeon is a book of vignettes held together by the slightest of threads

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Essays, Humour, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

February 7, 2020September 18, 2019

How to travel with a Salmon – Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco’s ‘How to travel with a Salmon’ and other essays show a different side of him – well, to most of us.

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Fiction, Humour, Parody, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

August 30, 2019April 17, 2019

Redshirts – John Scalzi

I was initially concerned that, not knowing anything about Star Trek, much of the point of this book would be lost. That wasn’t the case.

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