Student Book World - My reads2005&06

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My reads2005&06

	Absolute Friends by John Le Carre Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £0.01 My 2nd Le Carre, my 1st disappointment. Cold War seems easier to write about than War on Terror
	Oh, Play That Thing by Roddy Doyle Buy new: £14.44 / Used from: £0.01 My least favourite Doyle book. Can we go back to Barrytown and the eejits?
	Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.23 Yossarian lives!
	Stick It Up Your Punter!: The Uncut Story of the "Sun" Newspaper (Pocket books) by Peter Chippindale Buy new: £6.13 / Used from: £2.26 Riveting rollercoaster read. Bit difficult to find - had to request mine from library.
	Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell Buy new: £5.07 / Used from: £1.19 26 years to get round to it, 1 night to read it. Simple, chilling, sad and deservedly a great book
	The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden Buy used from: £0.01 Idi Amin, his madness and his physician.
	Margrave of the Marshes: His Autobiography by John Peel Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £0.01 Poignant, funny and great remider of the loss to radio
	The Insider: The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade by Piers Morgan Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Gossip heaven although liberal with the actualite at times
	The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £0.01 Bryson back on form evoking memories of a golden age
	The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Not a laugh-a-minute. Scathing attack on modern life
	Platform by Michel Houellebecq Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Prosaic filth
	The Know-it-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the world by A.J. Jacobs Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £2.26 How many times can you say "Did you know?"
	The Young Lloyd George: [1] by John Grigg Buy used from: £17.95 Readable biography of a political heavyweight
	Diaries: In Power TV Tie-In by Alan Clark Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £0.01 Unashamed diaries of a political maverick
	Amsterdam by Ian McEwan Buy new: £5.41 / Used from: £0.01 Gets bad Amazon reviews but well written. Nasty characters though
	Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £0.01 Highly acclaimed but not my bag
	The Secret History by Donna Tartt Buy new: £6.89 / Used from: £0.01 You'll go far to beat this for characterisation. Worthy of modern classic status
	Golf Dreams by John Updike Buy used from: £0.01 Sums up the frustrations with wit and verve
	The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £0.01 Pompous title but overall great insight to some of the 06 world cup nations
	The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth by Malcolm Pryce Buy used from: £0.01 Not quite Last Tango - still laugh-out-loud at times
	Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden Buy new: £4.28 / Used from: £0.01 Evocative and absorbing. Read the book - don't watch the film
	The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith Buy new: £4.53 / Used from: £0.01 Highly readable but I won't be following Precious' later expeditions
	Archangel by Robert Harris Buy used from: £0.01 About as plausible as snow in June
	The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Buy new: £5.03 / Used from: £0.01 Enjoyable if you forget everything you've ever learnt about good writing
	Good News Bad News: Home by David Wolstencroft Buy used from: £0.01 By the creator of Spooks. That it ain't unfortunately