I'll admit that I did get to the end of this. It's not the book's fault, but I just found the letters to be a bit too cringeworthy for my liking. Despite that, it's good, clean fun. I'm a fan of this sort of humour, even if I can't quite bring myself to read it.
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Paul Holloway reviewed The Timewaster Letters by Robin Cooper
Review of 'The Timewaster Letters' on 'LibraryThing'
4 stars
Paul Holloway rated Down under: 4 stars
Down under by Bill Bryson
In a Sunburned Country is the 2000 travelogue book about Australia written by best-selling travel writer Bill Bryson. The title …
Paul Holloway rated The Road to Wigan Pier (Penguin Modern Classics): 4 stars
The Road to Wigan Pier (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in …
Paul Holloway rated How to Be Alone: 2 stars
How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen
Collection of some of Franzen's essays, including the one known as "the Harper's essay". Some are edited or tweaked from …
Paul Holloway rated Nineteen Eighty-Four: 5 stars
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (Penguin classics)
Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist …
Paul Holloway rated Animal Farm (Penguin Modern Classics): 4 stars
Animal Farm (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell (Modern Classics)
Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. The book tells …
Paul Holloway rated The wind-up bird chronicle: 4 stars
The wind-up bird chronicle by Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル, Nejimakidori Kuronikuru) is a novel published in 1994–1995 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The American …
Paul Holloway rated CUTTING ROOM: 4 stars
LOUISE WELSH: CUTTING ROOM (Undetermined language, CANONGATE BOOKS)
CUTTING ROOM by LOUISE WELSH
When Rilke, a dissolute and promiscuous autioneer, comes upon a hidden collection of violent and highly distrubing photographs, he feels …
Paul Holloway rated What I talk about when I talk about running: 3 stars
Paul Holloway rated Once More, With Feeling: 3 stars
Victoria Coren: Once More, With Feeling (2010, Fourth Estate (reissue))
Once More, With Feeling by Victoria Coren
Vicky and Charlie, 20-something, one the son of a vicar, the other daughter of a much loved Radio 4 and …