Showing posts with label book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book. Show all posts
Thursday, 7 August 2008
The Righteous Men by Sam Bourne
Finally had a chance to sit down and finish this - if you didn't like the Da Vinci Code, you might wish to steer clear - if you did then this is well worth your attention. Into the last third and I couldn't put it down. An excellent read, pacey and exciting. And an insight into a world I knew nothing about is revealed as the text unfolds.
Wednesday, 30 July 2008
3bt: One week in and counting …
Taking the boys clothes shopping - and arriving home all in one piece. On the way, hearing ‘Planet Earth’ , them for the first time, me for the first time in years (yep, it’s in the loft). Dig that nifty bass riff; John Taylor was heavily influenced by Bernard Edwards, if I recall, which could explain why it appealed to me so much .
Excellent customer service experience from the Uni of Kent Centre for Learning - friendly, helpful and efficient. A real pleasure to do business with.
Just finished reading Charlaine Harris’s ‘Club Dead’, a Sookie Stackhouse Vampire Mystery - great fun. If you’re a Buffy/Angel fan, give it a try.
Excellent customer service experience from the Uni of Kent Centre for Learning - friendly, helpful and efficient. A real pleasure to do business with.
Just finished reading Charlaine Harris’s ‘Club Dead’, a Sookie Stackhouse Vampire Mystery - great fun. If you’re a Buffy/Angel fan, give it a try.
Thursday, 31 January 2008
Reviews
Book: ‘Making Money’ by Terry Pratchett (ISBN 978-0-385-61101-5)
Property dealings - Making a mint - Cabbage - V - Collectables - Habby arse Corparse! -Gollups - Cash flows - Splot - Guards, Guards - Solid investments - Clown to the left - Cometh the hour, cometh the Taxman - Jokers to the right.
Loveable scoundrel, Moist von Lipwig returns in a sequel to Going Postal, the hero of a comic narrative on a subject dear to all our hearts. Chocolate, I hear you cry! No, the other one - money. (Unless you’re me, of course!) Doubleday Publishing meanwhile, could quite possibly be accused of insider dealing, hitting the bookshelves just as we entered the run on Northern Rock. It also serves a timely reminder that some postal services are so efficiently organised, the Boss is literally climbing the walls with boredom. (Mr.Lipwig, where are you when the Roundworld needs you!).
Drawing on his immense stock of familiar characters - we’re treated to cameos from both Death and Vimes, always good value - Pratchett also introduces a new family of villains who literally receive their just desserts. Trust me, they really do! However, a large chunk is given over to the deadly dry wit of Lord Vetinari, the Patrician (i.e. tyrant) of Ankh Morpork. Every Discworld fan has their own favourite citizen; Vetinari is growing on me as I follow the series. It’s a part destined for Alan Rickman if ever there was - a cross between Severus Snape and The Sheriff of Nottingham. Can you imagine? Of course you can. Moist is made another offer he can’t refuse, and our golden suited hero is reluctantly left holding the leash of Mr Fusspot, Chairman of the Royal Bank of Ankh Morpork and claiming the title ‘Master of the Mint‘ for himself.
Unusually for Pratchett, as with ‘Going Postal’, so ‘Making Money’ has numbered chapters (and in numerical order too - he so must have been tempted) with a keyword synopsis heading each one instead of a title. Meaningless, naturally, until you work your way through. It’s book 31 of the hugely successful Discworld series - if there weren’t so many, we’d have seen one of them nestling in the Top Five of the BBC’s Big Read countdown not so long ago. They really should hold a vote for favourite author: T. P - top three, undoubtedly.
Property dealings - Making a mint - Cabbage - V - Collectables - Habby arse Corparse! -Gollups - Cash flows - Splot - Guards, Guards - Solid investments - Clown to the left - Cometh the hour, cometh the Taxman - Jokers to the right.
Loveable scoundrel, Moist von Lipwig returns in a sequel to Going Postal, the hero of a comic narrative on a subject dear to all our hearts. Chocolate, I hear you cry! No, the other one - money. (Unless you’re me, of course!) Doubleday Publishing meanwhile, could quite possibly be accused of insider dealing, hitting the bookshelves just as we entered the run on Northern Rock. It also serves a timely reminder that some postal services are so efficiently organised, the Boss is literally climbing the walls with boredom. (Mr.Lipwig, where are you when the Roundworld needs you!).
Drawing on his immense stock of familiar characters - we’re treated to cameos from both Death and Vimes, always good value - Pratchett also introduces a new family of villains who literally receive their just desserts. Trust me, they really do! However, a large chunk is given over to the deadly dry wit of Lord Vetinari, the Patrician (i.e. tyrant) of Ankh Morpork. Every Discworld fan has their own favourite citizen; Vetinari is growing on me as I follow the series. It’s a part destined for Alan Rickman if ever there was - a cross between Severus Snape and The Sheriff of Nottingham. Can you imagine? Of course you can. Moist is made another offer he can’t refuse, and our golden suited hero is reluctantly left holding the leash of Mr Fusspot, Chairman of the Royal Bank of Ankh Morpork and claiming the title ‘Master of the Mint‘ for himself.
Unusually for Pratchett, as with ‘Going Postal’, so ‘Making Money’ has numbered chapters (and in numerical order too - he so must have been tempted) with a keyword synopsis heading each one instead of a title. Meaningless, naturally, until you work your way through. It’s book 31 of the hugely successful Discworld series - if there weren’t so many, we’d have seen one of them nestling in the Top Five of the BBC’s Big Read countdown not so long ago. They really should hold a vote for favourite author: T. P - top three, undoubtedly.
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