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Advantages: It is a read the you will never forget
Disadvantages: You have to try and get used the language she uses

It was an amazing read taking you through various emotions in which you get caught up in the romance and fall in love with the characaters. Every emotion is described beautifully by Jane Austen and the continuous darama and unexpected twists keeps you moving forward. from the very first line you are captivated by what it to come next. It is the perfect book to curl up with. The way that Jane Austen interwove verious stroylines through the book and ...
...excited and catching up on a story. Furthermore, it was also interesting as the book is written through the view point of one the characters Elizabeth Bennet, it is exciting to see how she views situations and the mistakes she makes, in which you almost start to understnad her emotions and move through the story with her. The story also reflects the society of that period of time beautifully and the sopcial beiefs and etiquette of that time. ... Read review

Advantages: humour
Disadvantages: obscurity

...where Rabelais effectively lays out a humanist manifesto for education in a letter from Gargantua the father to Pantagruel the son. This is a great read but its repetitive sex, and shitting can become nauseous and boring for a twenty first century reader who has moved on from toilet humour. ... Read review

Advantages: a nice book, interesting one .
Disadvantages: not anything as such. may be small kids may not understand.

I bought this book to recall the halcyon days of my secondary schooling in the years 1957 - 61. Then the book was an assigned text for all students in English in New Zealand. The language and the concepts were then frankly beyond the comprehension of 15 year olds. As I grew older, I became aware of the position Kipling held in the Late Victorian era, and the period following the end of the First World War. I came to understand a little of what the ...
...owed by the world to the British Army which subdued Iraq, Pakistan, and the Indian Continent for almost 200 years. Without the benefit of the bomb, with a tiny armed service, and a desire to provide fair and equitable government, the Raj governed fearlessly through the efforts of the thirds sons of many of the great English Families, while the fourth sons provided the humanity of the Church. Patterns we could well emulate again today! This was bread ... Read review

Advantages: Compelling reading, beautifully written
Disadvantages: Leaves you wanting more

Every now and again, I get terribly ashamed that I know so little about the Middle East when it seems to play an increasing role in our everyday life. So when my local library decided to have a promotion of books translated from Arabic into English, I borrowed a couple that looked interesting. This was the first one that caught my attention. As the first novel in a trilogy, it introduces a family living in Cairo between the two World Wars, describing ...
...time affects them. I was hooked from page one. Vividly written, it inspires sympathy for the family and a strong desire to find out what happens to them. The story Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad rules his family with a rod of iron. His wife, Amina, waits on him hand and foot while he spends his evenings cavorting with other women. His two daughters, Khadija and Aisha are trapped within the household, waiting until their betrothal. His son by his ... Read review

Advantages: Character developement on the level of Anne is compelling
Disadvantages: Character and story developement elsewhere is lacking

Persuasion is indeed a fantastic book, but as one of her later novels it lacks the emotions and detail to the story that earlier novels such as Pride and Prejudice have had. Anne, the stories heroine is developed thoroughly throughout the novel and the other charaters are seen as important depending on their situation and effect on Anne. Anne is, as Jane Austen herself perfect "A heroine too perfect even for me." Unlike in other novels Anne does ...
...as has her hero, she continues to maintain that she was in the right over the situation with Captain Wentworth when he first asked her to marry him. Compelling and Romantic as this book is, i think it lacks the story that other books of hers have, The situation with the evil cousin Mr Elliot and Mrs Clay is never described in as much depth as it should be, it is simply passed by, when both of them seem to be very much in the wrong. The character ... Read review