Category: Book Review
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The Kite Runner
A Novel by Khaled Hosseini – Book review by sirpeterjamesdotcom. Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-born American novelist and physician. After graduating from college, he worked as a doctor in California. The Kite Runner became a bestseller after being printed in paperback and was popularized in book clubs. It was a number one New York Times bestseller for two
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The Seven Daughters of Eve
Author: Bryan Sykes A Book Review, by sirpeterjamesdotcom This book, for me, was a very appealing read. Aside of the many pages of scientific technicality (Bryan Sykes is after all, – a scientist and not a novelist). Yet, I thought, considering the scientific information that was required to explain how he and his team achieved
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The Science of Success
Wallace D Wattles – 1860–1911 A Book Review Who should read this book? I rather like the way the author himself suggests who should read these pages: “This book is practical, not philosophical; a practical manual, not a treatise upon theories. It is intended for men and woman whose most pressing need is money; who
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Illusions – The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
The glorious best Seller by Richard Bach. -Book Review- What are you? If you a dreamer who believes their dreams are coming true at any moment. If you have smelled the dew drenched open fields of corn and hay in the early morning. If you enjoy lying on your back, looking up at a gazillion
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This Little Britain
-How One Small Country Built the Modern World- By Harry Bingham – A book Review This read is a must for all Brits, and if you are naturally curious about the behavior, both past and present, of your global neighbors, then it’s a must for you too. Harry Bingham is an accomplished author and writer
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The Alchemist – by Paulo Coelho
A Book Review. “At that moment, it seemed to him that time stood still and the Soul of the World surged within him. When he looked into her dark eyes and saw that her lips were poised between a laugh and silence, he learned the most important part of the language that the world
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Where My Heart Used To Beat
By Sebastian Faulks – a book Review “Dark House by which once more I stand, here in the long unlovely street, doors, where my heart used to beat so quickly, waiting for a hand….” ‘In Memoriam’. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
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Long Walk To Freedom
The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela “The Autobiography succeeds because the vicissitudes Mandela has gone through, in the course of his life, are so dramatic that the reader cannot help responding to them as if to a fairy tale or moral fable of some kind. No hero of legend ever went through such
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen A Book Review on Paul Torday’s publication – ISBN 978-0-7538-2178-7 As the book suggests, ‘Credo, quia impossibile est’ –‘I believe it because it is impossible’. Hooking salmon in the desert? Surely not! My first impression at seeing the video title, was, “Is this real? Then on watching the video
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The Keeper
The Keeper By Marguerite Poland The author is South African and the story takes place in and around the southernmost point in Africa, the south eastern coast of South Africa. Who should read this book? • Those that are interested in the history and mystery of lighthouses, of the many stories these tall concrete edifices could
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