hagar reviewed Orbitsville Judgement by Bob Shaw
Better story-telling than orbistville
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hagar reviewed Orbitsville Departure by Bob Shaw
Too much magic
3 stars
hagar reviewed Orbitsville by Bob Shaw
Not quite as loose as I expected
3 stars
Protagonist a bit too sterotypical for my taste
hagar reviewed No simple victory by Norman Davies
Enlightening
4 stars
hagar reviewed Europe - A History by Norman Davies
Europe: A History is a 1996 narrative history book by Norman Davies.
Rekindled my wonderment of history
4 stars
hagar reviewed The Isles by Norman Davies
Written by one of the most brilliant and provocative historians at work today, The Isles …
Succeeds in keeping our biases at bay
4 stars
Well balanced but sometimes gets tangled up in family trees
hagar reviewed Vanished Kingdoms by Norman Jordan Davies
Loses his way sometimes
3 stars
Gets caught up in trying to make a narrative of a list of royal personages for example toward the end of the Kingdom of Navarre/Aragon
hagar reviewed A Climate of Fear by Fred Vargas
Serpentine and Secretive
5 stars
An a free history lesson on Robespierre and his friends
hagar reviewed This Poison Will Remain by Fred Vargas
So French
5 stars
The cast of bizarre characters and their obsessions: with food, english tailoring, broken cigarettes, moray eels, and yet more food