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Just So Advantages: Brilliant if you're actually studying Kipling... Disadvantages: ...less so if you're not. ...Rudyard Kipling, born in India in 1865, is still the youngest ever Nobel literature laureate. He was a prolific author and at the turn of the century up to the first World War an immensely popular one. Even now he remains the most frequently quoted of all ... hiker 19.02.2013 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of The Cambridge Companion to Rudyard Kipling - Howard J Booth	Degree of Information How interesting was the... How useful was it? Would you read it again? Value for money
Just Hangin' Out Advantages: Hilarious, entertaining, unique Disadvantages: Bunny ears, yikes! Boobadoodle is a book of doodles. On boobs. Fifty doodles on a variety of boobs, some belonging to the author, some to her friends. Quite good friends, I imagine. The idea, the preface tells us, came when the author/artist forgot to get her boyfriend an ... zoe_page 18.12.2012 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Boobadoodle - Rosy Sherry	Degree of Information How interesting was the... How useful was it? Would you read it again? Value for money
The big picture Advantages: Lively account of the cinema and of some of the major films Disadvantages: No illustrations ... Francine Stock is a radio and TV presenter in currents affairs and arts. She has also published two novels. The book Many of us have been captivated from an early age by the world of movies, whether we were introduced to them by ... JOHNV 06.12.2012 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of In Glorious Technicolor: A Century of Film and How it has Shaped Us - Francine Stock	Degree of Information How interesting was the... How useful was it? Would you read it again? Value for money
A painter born under a lucky star Advantages: Detailed, well illustrated account of life to 1975 Disadvantages: None The book As one of the major names of British twentieth century art, David Hockney has always been a larger than life figure. Published to coincide with his 75th birthday, this is the first volume of a biography which tells the story of his life a ... JOHNV 11.11.2012 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Hockney: The Biography - Christopher Simon Sykes	Degree of Information How interesting was the... How useful was it? Would you read it again? Value for money
Tall Poppy Syndrome: be humble and grovel, or they'll get you Advantages: Thoroughly researched, painstaking, very readable account of the 1967 case and after Disadvantages: None From rebellion to the establishment Keith Richards was very scathing in 2002 when his old sparring partner Mick Jagger accepted a knighthood from Tony Blair. 35 years earlier, if anyone had suggested ol’ rubber-lips would be seriously considered f ... JOHNV 21.10.2012 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Butterfly on a Wheel: The Great Rolling Stones Drugs Bust - Simon Wells	Degree of Information How interesting was the... How useful was it? Would you read it again? Value for money