Book Reviews
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Book ReviewsDigital Evolution: What Can Gaming Teach Us About Where Life Came From And Where It's Heading?
In answer to the question posed by the event's title, 'not much' was the general consensus, at this well attended, thought-provoking discussion. 'But just yo... Read more »| 13 Feb 2009 -
Book ReviewsElegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica
Last year Polygon revived interest in the work of the Scottish poet and folklorist Hamish Henderson by publishing a fantastic biography by Timothy Neat. They... Read more »| 04 Feb 2009 -
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The Bird Room
The Bird Room is a contemporary, fast-paced, blackly comic story focusing on the lives of and interactions between four characters (Will, William, Alice and ... Read more »| 04 Feb 2009 -
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Pentti and Deathgirl
Pentti and Deathgirl are two separate narratives, making this book less of a graphic novel than two graphic short stories. The first focuses on the titular P... Read more »| 03 Feb 2009 -
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Laid Bare
After twenty years in the sex industry, New Zealander Rachel Francis has penned a detailed account of her experiences. What sets her apart from the ‘ha... Read more »| 26 Jan 2009 -
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The American Dream
On his quest to experience the American dream from a variety of starting points, writer and comedian Harmon Leon goes undercover, and in doing so comes up ag... Read more »| 22 Jan 2009
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One Moonlit Night
The actual title is Un Nos Ola Leuad – this is a book that was originally written in Welsh. It’s a gem too – one of those stories that’s told from the perspe... Read more »| 22 Jan 2009 -
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life by Gerald Martin
This mammoth biography takes in 80 plus years of the life of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, as well as setting that life inside some extremely eventful Latin Americ... Read more »| 11 Dec 2008 -
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Stolen Stories (by various writers)
The best stories are the simplest Read more »| 10 Dec 2008 -
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Daniel X: Alien Hunter by James Patterson (and Leopoldo Gout).
‘From the No 1. International Bestselling Thriller Writer’ proclaims the front cover of this title. True, James Patterson has written some succes... Read more »| 10 Dec 2008 -
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Look Both Ways, by Jennifer Baumgardner
"Part memoir, part pop-culture study, part feminist theory," enthuses the blurb on the back of the book. Maybe that’s the problem: Look Both Ways tries... Read more »| 06 Nov 2008 -
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Solo Faces by James Salter
Verne Rand is a born climber, a man so at ease on tricky ascents that it’s as if he’s part of the mountains. He’s the fascinating (fictiona... Read more »| 03 Nov 2008 -
Book ReviewsThe Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman, in addition to being the award winning graphic novelist who wrote the Sandman series amongst other things, and the award winning writer of print... Read more »| 28 Oct 2008 -
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Have You Seen...?
David Thomson's Biographical Dictionary of Film is pretty essential for any serious film buff. Yet this is the first time that Thomson has produced the obvio... Read more »| 22 Oct 2008 -
Book ReviewsSpider by Linda Strachan
Spider follows three characters, Andy, Deanna, and of course Spider, with sections told by each. They're teenagers, who go joyriding, and the book is about t... Read more »| 22 Oct 2008