Top Ten Biographies

The first genre I ever fell in love with was autobiography; I loved the immediacy of being plunged into people's lives, and the voyeur in me was aroused at the insights I could gain. Over the years, I've read more and more fiction, yet there is still a warm spot there for this genre, and the following are the best of the best. Some of this review is taken from my other reviews (didn't see the point in re-writing about the same book), so forgive any de-ja-vu will you? **NO.10: 'My Booky Wook' - Russell Brand** Only just gets into the top ten this one, but it is a good read, so it's there! I first got into Russell Brand a couple of years ...  Read the complete review

question: what is your favourite genre? answer: I love scifi and fantasy, I like my escapism to be as unreal as possible- there's enough reality in the world without encouraging it any more! Even so, I'm not above picking holes in a plot if a book takes unreality too far without backing itself up in any way, either by using real or unreal facts. I really love the idea of worlds and univeres where anything can happen, it gets you away from the mundane for a while. ______________________ q: do you read the classics, i.e., the great authors of the 18th and 19th century? a: Not recently, but I have done. I enjoyed reading DH ...  Read the complete review

Next up on my suggestions for literary Christmas presents I'm going for adults that don't like reading fiction. I know how they feel. I'm off fiction at the moment. I do that. It's a bit like overloading on Thornton's Continentals and finding yourself yearning for a bar of plain old Cadbury's Dairy Milk or putting It's A Wonderful Life on the video after a jag of straining your brain with art house films. I'm a bit bored with pretend stories. I'm reading lives just now. I like lives; they're interesting. And I reckon they'd make good Christmas presents. LIGHT MY FIRE ? RAY MANZAREK (for fans of music) ...  Read the complete review

If you are a pretentious git and you are reading Tolskoys second thirty years with the feet on the coffee table resting on Stephen Hawkins “Brief History of Time, then you wont want to be reading this opinion for inspiration and further reading hints. Where as if you are totally normal and read books that make you smile, and not a git, then read on. Ten good reads and not in order. 1) GARY NELSONS “LEFTFOOT FORWARD” It’s probably the definitive football book on the life and time of the contemporary lower football league player. As an ex slugger out in division one and two, the Charlton player s autobiog covers his root ...  Read the complete review