Reviews 

21.03.2013 Meanwhile, where I am now halfway through 'War & Peace', which I started post no.83. It is good but hard work - last night's...

Didn't enjoy this for reasons I find hard to understand. Some Green is fantastic; others of his do little for me. In theory, I should...

Hadn't read this for years, if indeed ever. Very slow to get moving. I thought it was quite DH Lawrence-ish; love across the social...

I normally hate Dickens and bought this on my Kindle just to show my dad that you can get an out of copyright book for free. Thought I...

Read this as we are going to see it open-air next week. Just a vehicle for Wilde's wit with one-liners, but there is plenty of that. Get...

Thought I had better read a non-crime book. Haven't read any Hardy for years; don't know quite what to make of this. Hardy obviously took...

I hated this; just couldn't get into it at all. Green should have stuck with the tortured Catholic middle-class world that he knew (or...

This is a wonderful book. I expected to find it hard work (it was at times) but as a chronicle of American naivety, Puritanism and I...

I thought, rather to my surprise, that this was complete tosh. Badly written (or translated? I know Flaubert is supposed to be a master...

Hard work, but very, very good. Heard on Radio 4 news that 'if you are running a book club, don't choose this'. It is very long and has...

Haven't read this for about 40 years since studying it as an A-level set text. Found it surprisingly hard work; enjoyed it enormously at...