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A treasure in every sense of the word...

Advantages: Gorgeous photography, wide scope
Disadvantages: A few glaring editorial mistakes in the text

...This is a gorgeous oversized hardback showing off the treasures in the Cairo Museum. The book opens with a brief history of the museum and details of its layout, before sweeping through Ancient Egypt in a burst of dazzling colour. Amenta takes the rea ...

elliepotten 28.11.2008 · Read full review
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Review of The Treasures of Tutankhamun and the Egyptian Museum of Cairo - Alessia Amenta and Araldo de Luca

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West of Eded by Harry Harrison

Advantages: well written, good storyline
Disadvantages: very long winded

From the moment i picked up this book i was unable to put it down. Harry Harrison manages to capture the readers attention from the very start and keep you in suspense throughout the whole novel. The novel is vey well written and is full of twists and tu ...

wizkidoli 11.11.2006 · Read full review
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Review of West of Eden - Harry Harrison

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This book is BORN TO RULE

Advantages: Exceptional writing and research. Very challenging and difficult decisions to make that will stretch your morals to the brink
Disadvantages: The third book is not a patch on the first

...What can I say? These books are simply fascinating in a grim, incomprehensible way. Basically this is an alternate histoy which will completely alter your perceptions on the superiority of democracy and destroy your assumption that freedom will always w ...

Morgan500 11.10.2001 · Read full review
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Review of The Domination - S.M. Stirling

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Great Follow up to World War Series

Advantages: The Best Yet of Turtledove's Work
Disadvantages: none

This is a series of three books that follows on from the Worldwar Series where an Alien species called the race invades Earth during World War Two. This group of books is set in the 1960's after Human's managed to halt the Race's Advance although at great ...

lukerussell 28.05.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Colonization: Aftershocks - Harry Turtledove

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The Celts are coming

Advantages: plot, characters, details
Disadvantages: none

Boudica is one of those figures, her name evocative, and her legend of rebellian against Roman imperialism one to cheer any dweller in these isles. She's a romantic, enigmatic figure because history really hasn't gifted us with much detail about the warri ...

Bryn_Pearson 19.04.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Boudica: Dreaming the eagle - Manda Scott

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