The list below was generated 17/1/07 and contains 285 books read from April 1996 to January 2007. The list can be viewed in three ways,
First read in 91. Authors Prefered Ed. 10am 14th to 7:59pm 16 only having 4 hours sleep. Been rating others too high. Re-read 15-18/12/2000 100/100.
Brilliant ! Good story very well written.
Amazing. Charactors come to life and their faults (while no simpler) are clearer than our own.
Very good book covering many topics related to Nazism and Anti-Semitism.
NON FICTION. A selection of quotes from a variety of sources. Has all the esentials and then a bit more. Covers every thing from Holocauste to Bioethics.
99.9 = 99+
South African story by SA's most aclaimed author. Short but with brilliant discriptions. A heart warming story.
* True Story
Brilliant. Twist at end Amazing.
Fast paced, an interlectual thriller in a way but also a book with strong charactors and a reflection of university life
The true story of Ross Perot's "mission imposible". Director of Electronic Data Systems, a US firm with an Iran contract, desided to break 2 of his emplyees out of Jail after they were arrested and imprisioned wrongfully. A TRUE STORY.
Book3, Liveship Traders set. A much better ending than the Farseer trilogy.
Brilliant story of the creation of Israel, gives some amazing insite into the current political issues the use of the palastinian arabs as a political wepon (considering it was written in 1958.. this is worth reading pg 551 to 554)
By "Killing off" old cast, Feist setups his newer charactors with as much force as he did for Calis, Pug, Tomas, Nicolas and "Jimmy the Hand". Skill and inspiration shines through revealing what he truly can do. Brilliant! I cried when a char died.
As good as brothers by Bernice Rubens
Translation of a spanish novel about a cemetery of forgotten books. Brilliant.
Brilliant flow
NON FICTION: "A history of Israel - from the rise of Zionism to our time." Covers Zionism frm 1800 to Yitzchak Rabins Assasination. Goves both praise and critisism. Lots of quotes, primary and sec.
Looks like the start of a very good serries
Author Recommended by Jeffery Saffer, Counterpoint 97. Extreamely unsetteling. A covert Operation story that's closer to reality than fiction. The 11 Commandment : You shall not get caught.
Powerfull. Pasionate and violent. But mostly VERY powerfull.
Very good but while the sub plots and charactors have depth, they are nto AS deep as in magician. The empathy is there but less than it could be.
NON FICTION. A diary by Dayan's daughter about the 1967 sinai campaign
True Holocauste story. Rec by Warren Lewis.
The evil charactors are positivly evil and very 3 dimentional. The good charactors.. Seem to have a hard time, and often die.
book three of the Farseer Trilogy. Very good, deeply engaging. All it lacks from magician is an element of compassion, particularly the ending where there is no reason to be so harsh.
Very powerful esp. Considering p/g length (under 300). Emotionaly Draining.
A story of the South, Life post holocauste, family and love. As good as magician but in it's own way
Subtitled "The Voyage of the St. Louis." Co Auther Max Witts. TRUE HOLOCAUSTE STORY. Touching with excelent attention to detail.
Read prior to starting this list. Another VERY good Jewish Story. Ab. Ghetto uprising.
Absolutly brilliant. An almost perfect manual to British politics including those of the students union.
book two of the Farseer Trilogy
Brilliant as ussual. Started 9pm finnished 5am.
100/100 if you have the patience ! Dickens like shakespeare is in a class of his own.
Story of life on the streets of Sydney
WWII special operations executive
Book 2 of a requerium for homosepians (The broken god series)
A novel about feminism, writing and life in general. Deep and powerful but often sad.
17/1 11:50pm to 18/1 4am AND THEN 10am to 12pm. Very touching compares well to Greyfriers Bobby.
A bit like "underseige" (the movie). The hijack of a luxury Cruiser, and the attempt to steal $150 mil of goldbeing transported to Fort Knox . . .
2 Newspaper barrons battle it out. Each chapter ends with a new twist in the tale.
Re-read. First read after borrowing from Piano teacher. 95 ? 96 ? Spy story about Mossad tracking down terrorists with the help of a British actress.
Douglas Adams's Ideas explanded by his friend Terry Jones. Light & funny.
A novel about the lead up to the invasion of occupied Europe. - A comic novel. Funny but also very serriouse.
Tom Clancy style novel, but easier to follow. Ab. Second Holocauste
Very good detective / sci-fi novel - but what else would you expect from Asimov?
some very good moments. Book 6 of the Wheel of Time serries.
Fantasy novel (start of series) recommended by person at Wordsworth. Sequel to Wizards first rule.
Book1, Liveship Traders set
continuation of Kane and Able, and the Prodigel daughter
good, definitly the middle of a continuing story though.
Book2, Liveship Traders set
Very Techincal and Very Heavy
Very Moving Story about a dog. English standard is VERY high.
WWII setting. Action packed, similar to James bond. English is VERY dated. I comment sulfurically. :-)
good mystery / adventure story
A story of twin brothers, both fighter piolets, on different sides of WWII. A "Special Opertations Executive" mission in the middle of the war.
Good solid story with a lot of Roman history behind it.
Very funny at times but in a black humour disconnected way
gripping. A naval (submarine) mission with the fate of the war (WWII) in the balance. Very factual, but incorporated well. Not too over the top as per some.
A mix of adverture, mystery and Jewish mystercism
Islamic terrorism novel before it took off. Fast paced but also greatly detailed and researched.
Science fiction novel about advanced societies '000 of years ago, and a warning about aproaching calamity. Well writen, scientific but also adventure based.
Charactors are again 3D
Also very good (as per Complete Yes Minister). A good laugh, but not quite as brilliant as the original politically. Still great though!
Tom Clancy style novel.. But language is not as complicated.
Terrorist negitiation.
Fantasy novel (start of series) recommended by person at Wordsworth.
Modern (fictisous) Dreyfus trial. Jewish / post Holocaste. Dreyfus is falsly accused and the book is partly his biography, and partly a narative. Very Good, hard to put down.
Hard book to read, heavy sci-fi with a touch of fantasy
Brilliant sence of poetic Justice
good fanatasy book
Short stories
The story to the game "Betrayal at Kondor". A "missing" chapter in the Serries. Crit. Glosse sover details too much in an effort to involve as many old charactors as possible.
Very good, though I did see where it was going by the end of book one. Despite all the twists and turns, that's hwere it ended up.
Sequel to Krondor the Betrayal
Very well written, full of twists, good suspence build up. Ab. Stealing of American Dec. Independence by Sadam + CIA and MOSAD's plan to reteive it.
Fantasy novel (start of series) recommended by person at Wordsworth.
A very funny war story about a bunch of actors in the british army that get stranded the wrong side of the front line.
Book 3 of a requerium for homosepians (The broken god series)
Book 1 of the Tawny Man set
Set in 1999/2000 spy/political story. Story: Someone is trying to create a 1 party state in Russia.
Part of Legendas of the RiftWar, writtin with Steven Stirling. A relativly light and very easy read.
book one of the Farseer Trilogy
Book 3 of the Wheel of Time serries.
We written as always.
SF space story. Last book of some serries. Haven't read the rest though. :)
Book two of the Emperor series.
The last 3 lines are unneaded and degrade the ending.
Book 7 of the Wheel of Time serries.
Much less magic that fiests others but a lot of polical integue.
Good Sci Fi
Very Good courtroom Drama
first read of terry pratchet.
Re-Read to refresh prior to reading Rise of a Merchant Prince.
The scientific elementis even more relevant today than at the time of writting. * Earth Quakes, * Plate Techtonics, * Nuclear power / wepons, * Tidal waves.
Continues story of "the burning shore".
A Confederate Colonel goes to Island at the end of the Civil War for peace and quiet. There he enters the fight of the Irish.
The story of the operations that one Haganah member was invovled with durring the british mandate and in the early days of Israel.
Puctuation book. Funny but interesting and useful too.
Make more sernse than Pratchetts usual work
Book 4 of the Wheel of Time serries.
high level English
Book 11, wheel of time.
Good start to a new serries
Philosophically deep. A little harder to read than many other authors, but well worth the effort.
Not as good as Debt of Honour but close ! Compulsive Reading
A good start to a new adventure. Good charactors, though some better than others.
Good charactors, good story.
Middle East story of Terrorists and those trying to stop them.
ab. Obsesion, Depresion and love. Also Med/Phyc 's birth. Based on facts. Involves Nietzesch (a philosopher) Breuer (a top Jewish Doctor) and a young Freud (the father of physcology)
Quite good though depth is somewhat spoilt as humour is attempted in stead.
Book 3 of the disc world serries
Book 5 of the Wheel of Time serries.
Ocean Salvage tug story.
A man looses his memory and finds he;s being shaddowed by the CIA.
semi-light but compulsive read
A connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court. Twains last great novel. Shows his distrust of all forms of Government ! A rather cynical novel in many ways.
Decent story, most charactors are 1 dimentional though.
America plans a quiet take over of Britain. The SIS (MI6) try to stop it.
Funny in an odd sort of way. Book 4 of the disc world serries
A good start.. This could develop into something good but this is only the very start
Fantasy spy story
An ok fantasy story, book is a bit too centered on the film (which I haven'tseen)
A great book, serrious but very entertaining.
A parady of Lord of the Rings
Not too technical. (CF ussual) Actually written by Jeff Rovin (sneeky publishing). Plot simple, but well written.
Charactors lack usual Depth
Disc World Novel number 8
Started afternoon of 22 finished 5am on 23. Very Good, but lacking CF Magician.
Decent, good charactors... Doesn't have the pull the pull of some other similar stories. Could be because it's the start of a trillogy.
A "power plays" novel. High Tech.
Not highly exiting, but very solid. A good set up for the next book in the serries.
book 3Good final novel, only it looks like there's more to come.
ok. Borrows a lot from other classic fantasy books. Still seems to have a Sci Fi core waiting to break through.
book 2
By Raymond E. Feist and William Forstchen
Not as good the 2nd time (read 1st in 95)
Part2 (of 2) of "Mordant's Need". Fantasy about kingdoms and magic mirrors.
ficticous story based around the historical events at Bletchley Park in WWII
(21st Bday present from Sarah.) "To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation"
Book 2 of the Wheel of Time serries.
book 1. Fantasy novel by an Australian author
sequel ro "Talon of the Silver Hawk". A nice relaxing read.
A retelling of the biblical story of the proffet Elija.
Book 8 of the Wheel of Time serries.
Another George Smiley story
Book 5. Started off fairly badly but improved.
Anti-terrorist novel. A bit... Light on story line.
started on train
Part1 (of 2) of "Mordant's Need". Fantasy about kingdoms and magic mirrors.
looks like a good start but.. Charactors lack the depth they could have. Book 1 of the Wheel of Time serries.
Volume 1 of the well of echoes serries
Light Reading
Romance / Jewish History
AFTER STUDY 9/10 Read with out study 5/10
Short book (3 hours to read), but very powerful. Goes through the life of a man in a review process after he dies. Shows the difference he made to others and others made to him.
Light Reading
Sci-Fi about colonising mars,
Much better. NOW, finally, some meaning to whats been behind it all, and some twists. The serries should be reduced to one volume. It's a decent story but told with WAY to many words and volumes.
Volume two of "the well of echoes".
read on train
Different style. Very indian Jones like. More of a movie synopsis than a book. Has the core but is missing the development.
More power than the Talismon of troy. Still very heavy in the research, but a good read.
Spy Novel
Autobiography of MI5's first scientific officer. (Later Assistant Director). Details workings of MI5, MI6 and mentions others eg FBI, ASIO
The Gulf War Crissis. Rec by Warren Lewis.
Based on Gulf war. A spy is run in Bagdad. Mossad, CIA, SAS.
A good read, but light.
Quick read but decent.
Under 3 hours reading, but still very enjoyable. :-)
Although it doesn't look like it for the 1st 1/4, the book is a holocauste story, speciffically about human experiments. Raw Horror.
Funny, short, and quirky. A good read.
Short stories a brilliant! Specially for trail journeys or a short break from work.
book 7 of the "Tomorrow" trilligy. Hmm. Predictable in many ways, but still fast paced, and well written. "Crackles" with tention.
historical and a bit dense. But still a good read.
Language ok, but charctors and plot show certain biases eg main charators are repeatedly told they're "young" and treated like kids, when their ages are given as 25.
Makes heavy on understanding from past books.. Which I don't fully recall. Story line is ok, but a bit disjointed.
Easy reading. Funny, a bit offencive at times, misses some important stuff, but all in an easy going, fun way. Light.
Interesting historicly based novel. Ending a bit of an anti climax. Otherwise would be much more highly rated.
Wheek of time presquel.
3D charactors but no story line.
Set in 2000 which makes it strange. Story line good, but style lacking.
Interesting but hard work to read. Often very like reading through an acadmeic paper (of the more readbale sort I admit)!
Ok, but far from his best.
Full Title: Tom Clancy's Netforce Explorers Shadow of Honour
Nothing Happens ! Very repedative. Creates Cleches
The incorporated blend of history of both church and europe make it interesting.
Sequel to Alistair MacClean's Force 10 from Navarone.
Good book, very funny in places
Book 1 of the disc world serries
Book 2 of the disc world serries
relativly quick read, easy to start and stop. :) About a rescue mission through a country at war, to rescue civilians and diamonds
* Diplomatic deceit, * Flesh and blood, * fright wave. "casefiles, Collectors edition". Good quick read, 1 a day.
Final in the trillogy of the "Knight of the word". More of a thriller then a fantasy book I think.
Story lacking style brilliant.
Decent story but a bit shallow
Very short for a fantasy novel, but compact rather then just shallow.
Abridged Version. (Abridged by Oliver Jones)
Sci-Fi / Spy. Americans are tapping local british calls from there base in England. Plausable plot, good pacing, not too long.
Lancaster station mentioned on page 276!
Mark Twain is a pen name for Samuel Langhorn Clements.
Historical Novel about the bombing of a temple in Atlanta Georgia in 1958. Also about Martin Luther King and Civil rights.
Short Stories. Endings a bit predictable.
A historical analysis of the journey of an Egyptian Princess to England
Written in a confusion manner that only makes sence at the end.
Read in under 5 hours. The "hero" is the bad guy, who seems to be "evil". Story is not at all deep, charactors are also shallow, and structure wonders all over the place as is a bit repedative.
Fantasy but a light read.
Effectivly a collectionof short spy stories
Nivel about an archiological dig in Israel. Story switches between the dig and the story the atrifacts tell. Ok.. But seems to have become a bit dated.
A spy adventure story, but without the depth of research such books usually have. Some things are simply not right.
Vietnam war, airforce story.
Book 6 of the Disc World Serries
Short stories. His novels are much better than this collection of short stories.
Thecnically wrong in placed. Eg uses "un-encrypt" rather then decrypt. (This is annoying).
Book 5 of the Disc World Serries
Fairly to formula. Rather dated in many respects.
Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. A little boring, can't explain why though.
Mark Twain is a pen name for Samuel Langhorn Clements.
Very intersting but also extreamely badly written.
added in 2002 to update DB of some missing books.
Op Center book
added in 2002 to update DB of some missing books.
added in 2002 to update DB of some missing books.
added in 2002 to update DB of some missing books.
added in 2002 to update DB of some missing books.
added in 2002 to update DB of some missing books.
added in 2002 to update DB of some missing books.
added in 2002 to update DB of some missing books.