Top Ten Biographies Reviews

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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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, ...  Read the complete review