Ben Hogan's Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf - Ben Hogan

Advantages: Excellent, well written, well researched biography.
Disadvantages: Not a thing

...there are only 5 books about Ben Hogan, two of which are instruction manuals written by the great man himself! (The Modern Fundamentals of Golf (1957) by Hogan is still the world's No. 1 best-selling golf instruction book, even today.) Most of Sampson’s material for the biography was obtained in the same way Hogan liked to describe his golf game. “He dug it from the ground”. He meticulously researched this book, talking to hundreds of Hogan’s friends, fellow professional golfers, and digging around in old records from his youthful years. ~ ~ What I enjoyed most about this book was the amount of hitherto unknown and unpublished material that Sampson managed to dig up about the great man. All golf fans already know about his near-fatal car crash in February of 1949, when he was finally beginning to achieve the golfing success he so craved. But Sampson... Read review

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Advantages: An interesting alternative history
Disadvantages: Will not appeal to everybody

...The Proteus Operation.. A Novel by James P Hogan The Year, 1974. The Place, America just off the Virginia coastline. The President, John F Kennedy. The Situation, Hopeless. Hitler and the Nazis won the war, England had surrendered in January 1941, and Russia fell to an Atomic attack and Africa during the sixties to the Nazis. Japan has swallowed the Pacific countries one by one and now threatens Hawaii. The Mission To somehow go back in time to 1930's and alter the past. Claude Winslade is the leader of a team of soldiers and scientists who are sent back through time to the America of 1930's. to try to change the outcome of the war. Set up in a warehouse in Brooklin, they have to contend with racketeers and spies to try to get their mission underway. And even then they have some problems. James Hogan has produced an inventive... Read review

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Advantages: absolutely aMaziNgly superBly brillianT !
Disadvantages: ummm???

...Ben Elton’s ‘Dead Famous’ is a modern day whodunit and is a number 1 best seller. The book opens with a police officer (Coleridge) investigating a murder that has occurred. The murder took place in the peeping tom house; (a parody of the reality television show; ‘big brother’) 'a sealed environment; every inch covered by television cameras and microphones; the murder being witnessed by all the camera men and 47 million viewers via live television'. There were six other housemates in the room that the killer left; to commit the murder and; they were still there: when the murderer returned shortly after. Yet somehow the murderer had managed to outwit everyone and kept their anonymity. Coleridge and his team: have to painstakingly watch all the footage of the reality game show; peeping tom. A programme he despises and holds in contempt... Read review

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