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Advantages: YOUR HOOKED
Disadvantages: NO SLEEP DUE TO NIGHTMARES AND NOT BEEN ABLE TO PUT THE BOOK DOWN

I STARTED READING STEPHEN KING BOOKS A FEW MONTHS AGO AND EVERY NIGHT I HAVE A KNIGHTMARE. THATS JUST HOW SCARY THEY ARE. I STARTED OFF WITH THE GREEN MILE WHICH IS THE BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ. YOU MUST READ THE BOOK BEFORE YOU WATCH THE FILM. YOU GET SO MUCH MORE FROM THE BOOK, THE FILM LOOSES MORE THAN HALF OF THE STORY. IT HAS EVERYTHING IN IT , IT MAKES YOU LAUGH, CRY, GET ANGRY AND HORRIFIED. YOU LOVE THE CHARECTERS EVAN THOUGH THEY ARE DEATH ...
...AS HORRIFYING AS USUAL FOR STEPHEN KING. BUT AS I SAID BEFORE YOU WILL FEEL EVERY EMOTION POSSIBLE WHILE READING THIS STORY. added on sorry about the captital letters my baby was sick on the keyboard and the shift key will not work. so from now on i will type in little letters untill i invest in a new keyboard. anyway to continue after finising the green mile i was desperate to get some more stephen king books and as i have just been made redundant ... Read review

Advantages: Evocative, great story lines
Disadvantages: Long wait between works!

Sarah Waters is, perhaps, one of the most intelligent and appealing writers of sapphic stories. Her real appeal lies in her ability to tell a very good tale, in wonderful detail, without becoming boring. Often, in an attempt to provide enough detail to 'paint the picture' for the reader, authors become muddled, serving only to turn the reader off. Sarah Waters doesn't forget that although the reader is keen to understand all the facets of any story, ...
...to be spoon-fed. This great approach means that the sapphic content is often subtle, sometimes only hinted at. This seems appropriate as for many people, perhaps their own sexuality is part of their make-up, rather than the reason for their existence. It's great to read work written by an author that can evoke an atomosphere and inspire emotion without going into cringeing detail. Well done Sarah, please can we have some more?? ... Read review

Advantages: A fantastic well written book with a great storyline
Disadvantages: Costs £10.99

Just In Case - Meg Rosoff Meg Rosoff was born in Boston USA but she now lives in north London with her husband and daughter. She is the author of award winning "How I Live Now", this is her second novel. Just In Case was published in 2006 and in 2007 it was short listed for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. The Blurb on the back is what first attracted me to this book. It reads: Every minute of every day, a million things happen. A butterfly flaps it's ...
...was feeling. Also I've read Meg Rosoff's first book and absolutely loved it to it seemed like this would be a good book for me. This is a story about a 15 year old boy named David Case. He lives with his parents and baby brother Charlie in the small town of Luton. His life gets turned around one day when 1 year old Charlie try and henceforth almost falls out of an upstairs window. This makes David start to believe he is doomed and that fate is after ... Read review

Advantages: good skills, achieved lots
Disadvantages: plays for manchester united and end of career

...I am a fan of Ryan Giggs because I think he has done so much for English football in the past 10 years or so while he has been in the first team for Manchester United. He has achieved so much that he is widely known as one of the best wingers in the history of the game and is very popular with many football fans. Facts about him: His full name: Ryan Joseph Giggs OBE Date of Birth: 29th November 1973 Current Age: 34 years old Where he is was ...
...best wingers in the game. Ryan holds the record for the highest amount of goal assists with a total of 289 assists in 535 appearances. He also past Sir Bobby Charlton's record of 759 appearances for Manchester United and has become his club's all time best player with the most amount of appearances. Ryan represented England at youth international level because he was attending a English school but then went on to represent his birth country, Wales ... Read review

Advantages: A good writer
Disadvantages: none

Alexander McCall Smith who is known as Sandy was born on the 24/8/1948. In a place called Bulawayo,he is a Rhodesian born British writer.The first stage of his education was at CBC Bulawayo then moved to Scotland where he studied Law at University of Edinburgh.. After that Alexander moved back to South Africa and at the University of Botswana he taught Law. Then after a while he then returned to Edinburgh where he still lives today a long side his ...
...in the late twentieth Century Alexander became a very repected person and an expert on medical law and bioethics and he has been on a number of committees for Britain and Internationally. He was a former Chairman of the British Medical Journal Ethics Committee and he was there until 2002. Vice-Chairman of the Human Genetics Commission of the United Kingdom and a former member of the International Bioethics Commission of Unesco. As he became well ... Read review