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Apr 08

[BOOK REVIEW] I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, by Tucker Max

If you are going to attempt to read this book, here’s a warning: you MUST be able to appreciate a book without aligning the quality of the book with its characters.

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Aug 17

BOOK REVIEW: Day Watch – Sergei Lukyanenko (Miramax Books)

My rating: 4 of 5 stars In the beginning of this book, having been so used to the primary protagonist of the previous novel, Anton Gorodetsky, it took me a little while to work out what was going on. I had no idea who this Alisa Donnikova was or why she was important. Or why …

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Jun 06

[Book Review] RealmShift, by Alan Baxter (independent)

Kudos to Alan for an interesting and gripping dark fantasy. Nice work. RealmShift is the first of Alan Baxter‘s novel-length works that I have read. Having previously published his short fiction, I knew first-hand how talented he is. RealmShift confirmed to me that his abilities in long fiction are equally tight. Not generally a big …

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Jul 25

Mainstreaming Sex: The sexualization of Western culture. Part Three.

Finally, you are all yelling – she’s finished the book! Indeed I have and it’s some cause for celebration. Here is the final round of comments and notes about my thinking centred on the final chapter in Feona Attwood‘s Mainstreaming Sex; once the review itself has been finalised, I’ll post that up here in its …

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Jul 15

Mainstreaming Sex: the sexualisation of western culture. Part two.

Alright, so the first blog on this topic looked at part one of the book that I am reviewing for LipMag. If you didn’t see it earlier, you can access it here. This one covers the chapters in part two, and if you’re coming to this green, these are quite literally notes to help me …

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