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    4 Stars Bumbling Boris's Brill Book 09/07/2009
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    Advantages Advantages Funny, engaging and witty - the book and Boris!

    Disadvantages Disadvantages First half a little slow and repetitive

    Boris Johnson is not the first MP to write a novel but his is certainly the first I have been tempted to read (sorry Miss Widdecombe but the idea of you writing romantic fiction is quite stomach churning). To tell the truth, “Seventy Two Virgins” was an impulse purchase on an occasion when I darted into the Oxfam bookstore to shelter from the rain. Although I have read and greatly enjoyed some of his political writings, I was initially unsure about Boris the novelist but after only a few pages I was hooked by his effortless and engaging style. The story covers just a few hours on a day that ... more
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