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Rock and Roll!

Advantages: Very funny with many plot twists
Disadvantages: Familiar characters somewhat sidelined

Robert Rankin resurrects one of his older characters, Soap Distant, the traveller from "beloooow" in order to give us his expectedly twisted look upon the world of rock music. Featuring appearances from most of his regular characters including Norman the ...

ppyrdlm 24.01.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls - Robert Rankin

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1-in-a-million, ROCK ON!!

Advantages: Highly Entertaining
Disadvantages: Time Travel creates some confusion

This author is SERIOUSly underated! Everyone should have heard of Rankin - He is a genious! This book is for music fans, time travellers and anyone who wants a laugh. The main characters include a guy named Soap Distant, John Omally, Jim Pooley and ...

twilliams 21.01.2004 · Read full review
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1'st Sight of Brentford

Advantages: Music, Time Travel, Strange Moustaches Etc etc
Disadvantages: Time Travel makes me dizzy

I read this book on holiday it was meant to last me through the holiday but I actually read it in 1 day. Mostly because I stayed up all night reading it. This book should come with a disclaimer not to read it when you have a drink as time travel makes ...

bellybee 27.11.2004 · Read full review
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A Question of Honour?

Advantages: Questions of honour in ordinary lives, wrapped in a modern tale.
Disadvantages: None

With its subtitle "Forbidden love in the kingdom of faith and honour", I expected something entirely different from ''Sharaf'' to what it delivered. For the second time in as many weeks I had misjudged a book by, if not its cover exactly, certainly by it ...

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Review of Sharaf - Kumar Raj

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New author on the block

Advantages: It's Star Wars
Disadvantages: Same old thing...another terrible threat to the New Republic...

...Her first real outing in the world of the Star Wars Extended Universe, The New Rebellion sadly lacks on a few basic levels. The main problem was that she obviously had little to work with. Most of the good storylines and possible new foes for the New R ...

poodu 10.07.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Star Wars: the New Rebellion - Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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