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Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer


2011
03.25

“A riveting expose which presents the gut-wrenching truth about the price paid by the environment and animals themselves to put meat onto our tables…
Or another book banging on about animal cruelty?
Being a reformed veggie I know most of the details he is reporting so perhaps this is for those who mindlessly eat animals without understanding what/how it appears on our dinner tables.
Good author but I’d read his fiction rather than this.

Score 4/10

Date read 40603

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Freedom by Jonathan Franzen


2011
02.28

“Although I didn’t read The Corrections I will go back and do so.
Critics rate Freedom as inferior, I can’t judge that yet but can say I enjoyed Freedom a lot.
Not a quick read at nearly 500 pages, and can get a bit stodgy in places.
This isn’t a plot driven novel, more a family saga of Patty/Walter/Richard etc. What Franzen achieves is to detail all of the characters and make none of them likeable, the book works because of it.
Don’t give up on it. Our book group loved it and couldn’t stop discussing, we also scored it at a high average for the group of 7/10

Score 8/10

Date read February 2011

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Lights out in Wonderland by D.B.C. Pierre


2011
02.25

“Wow what a book. Best so far this year.
Before I began reading I’d been thinking of writing a novella, but DBC spoils that notion by making me realise what intelligent and great writing is, which in a million years I couldn’t manage.
I’m not going to say much about the book, a guy decides to end it all so travels for one last bender with his mate Smuts. Things spiral around and whatever you decide to read into the meaning of the book, it is a terrific novel.

Score 8.5/10

Date read February 2011

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The Rapture by Liz Jensen


2011
02.20

“Always good writing and different.
This time it gets a bit far fetched.
After being involved in an accident and finding herself wheelchair bound, a psychotherapist is getting her life back together in an institute for mentally insane children. When we begin talking global disaster I found myself wondering off.
I liked though.

Score 7/10

Date read February 2011

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