My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’ve been wanting to read the works of Dr Julia Shaw for quite some time now after reading about her research into implanting false memories – which was absolutely fascinating. Her book on this subject is next on my to-do list, but this one on evil – which is… Read More Book review: Making Evil: The Science Behind Humanity’s Dark Side by Dr Julia Shaw
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’ll be blunt and say ‘Tales of the City’ is not the kind of book I would normally bother to read; and having now read it, it’s not a classic, I should warn you. I got hold of it because it is… Read More Book Review: Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
The Butterfly Effect by Jon Ronson My rating: 5 of 5 stars I often find myself championing strange, even unpopular, causes. Prostitution, for instance, is something I’d like to see un-demonized. Not because of some perverse predilection of mine (I’ve simply never found the idea of ‘stranger sex’ appealing) but because of following the blogs… Read More Book Review: The Butterfly Effect by Jon Ronson
Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is the first book I’ve read by Paulo Coelho and, I suspect, it won’t be my last. The whole novel is, in many ways, a contradiction in motion and, true to that spirit, much of what I think of it is contradiction too.… Read More Book Review: Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho
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