Christie's: The Jewellery Archives Revealed
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For centuries, the stories of the world's great jewellery collections have lain hidden within the...
Shakespeare in 100 Objects: Treasures from the Victoria and Albert Museum
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Within the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the world's leading museum of...
Wise Trees
Diane Cook, Len Jenshel and Verlyn Klinkenborg
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Leading landscape photographers Diane Cook and Len Jenshel present Wise Trees--a stunning...
Back to the Boy
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'The thought behind this book is not just me wanting to tell my story in the standard...
Why You?: 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again
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**Revised and updated for 2017 with ten extra tech questions.** Learn the secrets to excelling at...
Beginning Programming in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself
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If you want to learn computer programming but don't know which language to start with, this is the...
To be or Not to be
Douglas Bruster, Simon Palfrey and Ewan Fernie
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"Shakespeare Now!" is a series of short books of truly vital literary scholarship, each with its own...
Laid Bare
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Whilst I was in the process of editing this collection on the train en route to a gig in Birmingham,...
Simplified Triz: New Problem Solving Application for Technical and Business Professionals
Kalevi Rantanem, David W. Conley and Ellen R. Domb
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Simplified TRIZ is a pragmatic book. It is in the first order a nuts and bolts how-to guide for...
My biggest surprise when reading the first few chapters was the realisation that this book isn't what the Christopher Nolan film Insomnia was based on. I cant even tell you why I thought this in the first place 😕 Once I got over this, I really got into the book or at least the first few hundred pages. As always with King, the book is very well written with a likeable protagonist and well developed secondary characters. The problem is that the story is maybe a little convoluted and isn't helped by the sheer length of it all. 200 pages in I was wondering how this could be dragged out for 650 pages and whilst it never gets as tedious as you'd imagine, this is definitely longer than it needed to be. Whilst the plot is typical King, it gets a little confusing and 'out there' even for him and I think he could've simplified this a little. Because of this I could only read up to 100 pages at a time as it made me feel rather sleepy - a perfect cure for insomnia I'm sure.
By the end of the book I did come to at least enjoy this story more than I thought I would, and even shed a tear or two. This definitely isn't a book for casual readers though and not one of King's best. But if you're looking for a door stop sized challenge, you could do much worse than this!
Ross (3284 KP) Jun 17, 2020