The Greatest Traitor - Ian Mortimer

IAN BROWNS THE GREATEST!

Advantages: EVERYTHING YOU COULD ASK FOR FROM HIS SOLO CAREER
Disadvantages: NO ROSES, NOT EVEN ANY CHOCOLATES!

?! Being a fan of Ian Brown, my suggestion would be to go out and buy ?The Greatest? on all formats. If you can?t afford to?SAVE! Given that there is an amazing amount of content on all releases, I?m going to have to award Mr Brown 10/10 for effort, technique, resilience and above all, his out performance of all his old Stone Roses colleagues solo careers combined. ...

ANTACID 14.05.2007 · Read full review
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Ian Brown's Greatest Hits

Advantages: Perfect collection of contemporary music
Disadvantages: Could be seen as repetitive because of the large number of tracks

of Ian Brown's Greatest Hits is the large track number. This is theoretically good because it offers more music for your money, but when the influences and style of the music is so strict, it can become a bit repetitive. The cover sleeve is another let down of this CD, where one might expect pages of lyrics and insightful illustrations, this simply has a an assortment of photographs highlighting some of the up-points in Ian Brown's career. If you are the sort of person that likes to slowly read through the cover sleeve whilst listening to the tracks, this is not an album for you. Overall though, this album does manage to create enough inquizative originality in its style to justify purchasing it: where it may be lacking aesthetically, it makes up for in its well maintainted tone and rhythms...lyrically speaking its not to bad either ...

SamJohnson 19.01.2006 (23.01.2006) · Read full review
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Biographies of medieval sovereigns come little better than this

Advantages: Well-researched, sympathetic but not uncritical
Disadvantages: May require prior thorough knowledge of the period

Kings of England, at least those prior to King Henry VIII, seem on the whole a shadowy crowd nowadays. Maybe they come half-alive, or a little less than that, through our knowledge of occasional legends, battles fought (and preferably won), and characterisations in Shakespeare's plays. Yet they still seem very remote and two-dimensional, though that?s hardly surprising if we are going back five hundred years or more. Dr Ian Mortimer has written several excellent biographical studies of Kings and others in medieval England. This is a sympathetic yet certainly not uncritical portrait of Henry IV, and goes a long way towards adding to our knowledge of him. Henry Bolingbroke, as he is otherwise sometimes known, was indeed a self-made King in that he grew up in the shadow of his cousin and exact contemporary, the inept Richard II ...

JOHNV 19.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Fears of Henry IV - Ian Mortimer