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Advantages: Concise, honest style of writing, modern themes
Disadvantages: Difficult to get hold of the book because not many people are familiar with the author

...Dictionary of Quotations flinging around the kind of acidic, perfectly timed and devastatingly clever insults that everyone else wishes they could think of. The sum total of her writings is not great considering that in spite of suicide attempts she lived for over 70 years, but it is neverthless surprising that they are not better known and admired. Her poems show the same concise wit and originality as the epigrams for which she is famous, while ...
...sometimes duologues and sometimes omnisciently narrated, the stories use an honest simplicity of language to reflect the poignancy, isolation and brutality of life. In my opinion, Dorothy Parker is one of the best writers of the 20th century and it is a shame that she is not more widely read. ... Read review

Advantages: Funny and all for a worthwhile cause.
Disadvantages: Too short !!!!

I have pondered long and hard about this review and found it quite taxing and emotional, as will be seen in my final paragraph of this review, however, I have decided to take the plunge and my choice of title is to cover all aspects of the content of the review. For those who are aware of this author, I ask for your indulgence in order that those who do not may be enlightened. Thank you. THE AUTHOR. The late Fred Pass was an ordinary working man, ...
...hidden for what, in my opinion, was far too many years. Born in the 1940's, he left school at 15 and spent the 40 years as a scrap yard worker. He would often compose poems which he would relate to people and somehow approached and persuaded to publish them in aid of St. Luke's Hospice charity in his home city of Sheffield. Thus began his short literary 'career '. Two booklets of the poems he wrote were subsequently published and both sold out. ... Read review

Advantages: fantastic use of language
Disadvantages: sometimes hard going to read.

I bought this book several years ago and have been unable to put it down since! It is an honest and fascinating account of Ted Hughes ultimately tragic relationship with the American Poet Sylvia Plath. The couple met at Cambridge University in 1956 and married shortly after. However, their marriage was turbulent and despite having two children together, they broke up in 1962. A year later Sylvia committed suicide. Ted Hughes refused to comment on ...
...publication of this book in 1998 and for that he was accused of being a heartless, callous husband. However one only has to read it to realise that Hughes loved Sylvia very much. I highly recommend reading "18 Rugby Street" and "Life after death" from this collection if you don't read any others! A beautifully written book. ... Read review

Advantages: Powerful, gripping
Disadvantages: not 100% historically accurate.

...Monroe) set in 1692 during the witch trials of Salem, Massachusetts. The play begins with Reverend Parris praying for his daughter, Betty, who is lying inert on a bed. The circumstances surrounding how Betty ends up in an unresponsive state becomes a major theme and discussing point of the play. However, Miller has other central themes and key ideas, for example, reputation and how it alters certain character's behaviour. To convey this, Miller uses ...
...be considered by readers of the play as John Proctor and Abigail Williams. John Proctor is married to Eilzabeth/Goody Proctor and yet, while she was ill for a period of time, had an affair with the manipulating temptress that is Abigail Williams. From the play (although it is not actually part of any of the four Acts) we deduct that Abigail, Betty and several other young girls of the village were dancing in the woods outside the village; it is believed ... Read review

Advantages: Amazing poetry, and a large selection of it
Disadvantages: He can't read poetry aloud...

...world. Boring Stuff Title: Lone Wolf Author: Felix Dennis Publisher: Hutchinson (7 Oct 2004) ISBN-13: 978-0091800352 Price: Amazon: from £0.62 at time of writing RRP: £8.99 Felix Dennis Felix Dennis is one of Britain's best known entrepreneurs, after leaving Harrow College of Art, Dennis wasted a great deal of his youth playing in R&B bands. In 1971he was imprisoned by the British government as a co-editor of OZ magazine at the ...
...recorded a single with John Lennon to raise money for a legal defence fund. Following his acquittal by the High Court of Appeal, Dennis went on to found his own magazine publishing company in 1973. Following a life-threatening illness, Dennis's first collection of poetry, A Glass Half Full, was published in November 2002 by Hutchinson in the UK. It has since become one of the biggest selling books of original verse in England for years. Dennis's ... Read review