Multitudes, Multitudes - Amy Clampitt

Advantages: Witty dialogue
Disadvantages: predictable

...If you like books like Bridget Jones' Diary, Lucy Sullivan is getting married, High Fidelity, Turning thirty and the other multitude of books coming onto the market with the late twenties/young thirties still single but still really really looking syndrome, then you'll love this. Does it sound as if I am going to give this book a poor rating? The reason I sound so disparaging is because although I want to hate books like this I really love them. It's like going out for a night out and S Club 7 are playing 'Reach up for the stars' and you know deep down you shouldn't like it as it goes against all your musical principles and morals, nevertheless you end up the one dancing on the table pushing your hands up in the air, thinking 'bloody good song this'. The story Jack, a part time gallery clerk and struggling artist meets Amy, a bored... Read review

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Advantages: An easy read, light-hearted
Disadvantages: Quite predictable

.... The plot is fairly predictable, though the story-lines an situations in which various events happen are less predictable. The fact that this book is continuously written from the two main characters perspectives, alternating in each chapter gives the book some originality and sets it aside from the multitude of books out there with a similar story to tell. After reading the first couple of chapters I felt well acquainted with the characters - not only Jack and Amy, but their friends and other characters mentioned within the story. All the characters are realistic. WORTH READING? This book is worth reading if you want to read a light-hearted book that won't take you long to get through. The book is 295 pages long and therefore makes for relatively quick reading. Although not a classic, the book is though... Read review

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Advantages: horror
Disadvantages: lack of story

...This is a typically shocking work of Kafka’s. It describes an instrument used for torturing and killing prisoners who have disobeyed. Kafka describes the instrument (a harrow) with upsetting detail. By means of a multitude of spikes it engraves in the prisoner’s back the sin which he has committed and then drops acid down into the cuts. In a grim reversal of fate the executioner himself is killed on the instrument and all this is watched by a traveller who calmly leaves at the end. It is a story positively oozing horror, but detailing in physical form the tormenting process of writing that Kafka found himself in.... Read review

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