
Lost Causes: Narrative, Etiology, and Queer Theory
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Lost Causes stages a polemical intervention in the discourse that grounds queer civil rights in...
The Sporting World of Lewis Carroll
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Charles Dodgson (or Lewis Carroll as he was usually known) lived through a period of rapid change....
Education in the School of Dreams: Travelogues and Early Nonfiction Film
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In the earliest years of cinema, travelogues were a staple of variety film programs in commercial...

Rockets and Revolution: A Cultural History of Early Spaceflight
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Rockets and Revolution offers a multifaceted study of the race toward space in the first half of the...

Tequila: A Global History
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With its unique aroma and heady buzz - the perfect accompaniment to even the spiciest tacos -...

The Nerdy Nummies Cookbook: Sweet Treats for the Geek in All of Us
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The Nerdy Nummies Cookbook is quirky, charming and fun, featuring the recipes behind Rosanna...

The Taste of Belgium
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First published in 1996 (and selling over 50,000 copies) but out of print for many years, now back...

David McK (3508 KP) rated Angels and Demons in Books
Jul 4, 2021
And, like, I'm sure, many others, I actually read that sequel first, only later discovering it was such (although, admittedly, not a direct sequel) and going back to read the first on the series.
This is the one largely set in and around Rome, with a high-tech ticking time-bomb counting down in Vatican City as the Cardinals all meet to elect a new Pope following the death of the previous incumbent of that role. It also makes lots of the (supposed?) divide between religion and science, drawing on lots of conspiracy theories and bringing back into the realms of popular culture that old secret society, the illuminati.
I have no problem with any of that, and I do like a bit of derring-do, mystery and romance, but even I found it hard at times to swallow some of the outlandish scenarios and set pieces of this novel - I think, for me, the icing on the cake was the surviving-a-jump-out-of-a-helicopter-without-a-parachute bit towards the end!

Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won't Save Black America
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A challenge to the cultural tradition of corporal punishment in Black homes and its connections to...
Psychology social sciences parenting

Lonely Planet Kuala Lumpur, Melaka & Penang
Lonely Planet and Simon Richmond
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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Kuala Lumpur, Melaka &...