Reader of a wide range of genres, including a lot of non-fiction. I’m an active member of a sci-fi book club and occasional attendee at a post-apocalyptic book club.
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50% complete! Paul has read 25 of 50 books.
Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of …
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What …
The first book in the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary's series which follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as …
"We are witnessing the greatest shift of wealth from poor to rich in history. In the United States alone, the …
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin form a friendship in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic …
Struggled to get anywhere with this book, it seems to plod along whilst bamboozling the reader with as much naval jargon as is possible. A slog compared with Hornblower.
The first of William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, Neuromancer is the classic cyberpunk novel. The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and …
I picked this up in an attempt to find out more about the conflict, particularly after Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The book fulfils the remit of its title, although such a complex and long-running conflict really requires more than 100 pages and I came away knowing only a little more than when I started reading.
