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Challenges the mind at any age.

Advantages: Works well as a children's fable or a political satire alike.
Disadvantages: Some of the characters are played down from their political inspiration.

I read and studied Animal Farm back in secondary school and did well in my exam for English literature based in part upon it; but I thought it time to revisit with the old favourite and see how time and life experience had altered my outlook. For those who haven't read Animal Farm, it is a political satire on the Russian Revolution and the rule of Stalin and ousting of Trotsky, after the death of Lenin in 1924. It like Orwell's later novel 1984, ...
...of political corruption and the decay of humanity brought about by power seekers of the higher classes. Though in contrast to 1984, this is seen to be a light hearted fable and a children’s book on one level, because of all the funny animals, especially the crazy pigs that end up becoming all too human by half! It's hard to imagine these two elements fitting together in one story, but that demonstrates Orwell's remarkable talent as a writer and his ...

Callinore 20.07.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Animal Farm - George Orwell

She is no Angel - Angel Uncovered

Advantages: Good story and characters
Disadvantages: Not the best book ever

...one a go. Angel Uncovered is about a girl called Angel who is a famous glamour model. In the book 'Angel' she was just starting out on her career and managed to get herself in some sticky situations with men and drugs. She managed to get through it all though and in the end got together with family friend Cal, who was an up and coming footballer. In Angel Uncovered we find Angel married to Cal with a baby called Honey. She is living the high life ...
...to make the situation worst. Angel doesn't want to move away from her family and friends to a place where she doesn't know anyone and will be all alone with her problems. Little does she know that the worst is yet to come. When you read this book you can see Katie Price's influence throughout. If you have read her autobiography a lot of the elements of her own life seem to come through. There is the obvious, that the main character is a glamour model ...

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Review of Angel Uncovered - Katie Price

Well Worth Bothering With

Advantages: Funny, easy to read.
Disadvantages: None

...and ability to make such a tale an absolute page-turner, I knew his next one would be a must read. Strangely enough, though, it took me nearly three years to read A Spot of Bother. My brother lent me the paperback version, and it then went on to sit on my book shelf for far too long. He kept asking me if I had read it yet, to which I would reply No, and therefore fear that I may get into a spot of bother because of this… But during a recent holiday ...
...So what about A Spot of Bother? This is the story of the dysfunctional Hall family. 57 year old George is suffering deep anxiety and is slowly going mad, not before finding out his wife is having an affair, which sends him further over the edge. Jean Hall is having said affair with George’s ex work colleague David. Their daughter Katie has announced she is going to get married again, this time to a man all the family hate and whom she wonders ...

Borg 15.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon

Atonement - Tragically slow-moving

Advantages: Good, strong characters, and detailed descriptions.
Disadvantages: Slow-moving, and quite a disappointing ending.

I read this book after watching the film adaptation of it, and plodded through it mainly to see what happened at the end - as I heard it was different. I loved the development of the characters created by McEwan, the depth he goes into when describing different aspects of each characters personality is fascinating, and by the end of the book I really felt like I could relate to the characters. I found that his description of the settings and the ...
...something to marvel at. What did disappoint me, however was just how exhausting it is to read. Probably because of the immense depth of description, the story moved along very slowly indeed. Frankly, the ending disappointed me, it had none of the emotiveness of the film adaptation's ending, where I was expecting it to be more powerful. I cannot quite bring myself to rate this book any lower than three stars due to the literary talent of McEwan, ...

chloe-goes-bang 25.02.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Atonement - Ian McEwan

thrilling exciting read!

Advantages: it is thrilling throughout,exciting and the characters are believable
Disadvantages: you may feel like you have heard this story before

Angel, the first novel by celebrity and business woman Katie Price aka Jordan. I must say at first i was nervous about reading this book yet I must say in my opinion this was one of the most thrilling, exciting books I have ever read!. It was full of comedy, drama and sex everything a girl loves to read about. Based on a glamour models career from the bottom and all the way to the top. sound familiar maybe. The characters are believable and are, ...
...what they looked like and what they acted like. I think that this book is really easy to read, its light, fun and interesting. It isn't all fun and games however, I thought at times this book was sometimes sad and harsh yet it appealed to me because it was about real life and what happens when things dont turn out the way you want them too.. there are plenty of twists in there so expect a rollercoaster ride of emotions whilst reading this book. ...

Princess18chan 13.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Angel - Katie Price