A 3.5, really, with moments of brilliance and imagery that will linger even if the sum was a double rather than a homer.
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Ted finished reading Every Man for Himself and God Against All by Michael Hofmann
Ted started reading The Notebook by Roland Allen
The Notebook by Roland Allen
We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did this simple invention come from? How did they revolutionise our lives, …
Ted rated Circe: A Novel: 5 stars
Circe: A Novel by Madeline Miller
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe …
Ted rated Larry Mcmurtry: 5 stars
Ted reviewed Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
On the island of Sicily amid the Peloponnesian War, the Syracusans have figured out what …
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3 stars
Ted rated Four Thousand Weeks: 4 stars
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
The average human lifespan is absurdly, outrageously, insultingly brief: if you live to 80, you have about four thousand weeks …
Ted rated The Big Sleep: 5 stars
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (Philip Marlowe, #1)
Philip Marlowe, a private eye who operates in Los Angeles's seamy underside during the 1930s, takes on his first case, …
Ted rated Le meurtre de Roger Ackroyd: 4 stars
Le meurtre de Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot, #4)
Cela fait tout juste un an que le mari de Mrs Ferrars est mort. D'une gastrite aiguë. Enfin, c'est ce …
Ted rated Artists in crime: 4 stars
Ngaio Marsh: Artists in crime (2012, Felony & Mayhem Press)
Artists in crime by Ngaio Marsh
It was a bizarre pose for beautiful model Sonia Gluck--and her last. For in the draperies of her couch lay …
Ted rated Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery): 4 stars
Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery) by Dorothy L. Sayers (Lord Peter Wimsey (9))
Ted rated The Third Man: 4 stars
Ted rated Editor's Burial: 5 stars
Ted rated The Long Good-bye: 5 stars
The Long Good-bye by Raymond Chandler
In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the …