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Loading ...Gerald’s Game is set around a lakeside holiday cabin in the USA. A married couple, Jessie and Gerald, have gone there for a ‘naughty’ break. However, during the game that Gerald likes to play Jessie realises that she’s had enough. She wants him to stop, but he doesn’t stop. And quick as a flash Jessie [...]
(1 votes) Loading ...The Piaculum is set in some unspecified time, but could be interpreted as a future Earth. At one time there was great technology in place but it was all destroyed during some form of catastrophe. This world is populated by two tribes of people, the Mone and the Kathe. The two tribes share a joint [...]
(1 votes) Loading ...Essentially Toby Young started off life working on his own publication in a spare room where he was living. However, after awhile he managed to get a break and landed a glamorous (?) job at Vanity Fair. The problem is that Toby Young decides to continuously antagonise his employers, shirk off work responsibilities and generally [...]
(1 votes) Loading ...This book is a masterpiece. Bullock interweaves the lives of these two tyrants, chapter by chapter, setting them against the political background of 20th century Europe. From childhood, through their respective rise to power, to the build up of and aftermath of WW2, this book is full of insight into their personalities, behavior, and motivations. [...]
(1 votes) Loading ...Aleister Crowley ‘the wickedest man in the world’ was known as a poet, magician, mountaineer, polemicist and pornographer. He’s probably most famous for his work in the occult and the debauchery that went with it. However, the question everyone wants to know is, was he real or a fraud? Now of course that question is [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Jack Torrance and his family have been going through troubled times. He lost his job through alcohol, so when his friend found there was an opportunity for work their troubles appeared to be over, at least for a while. However, the job was to look after an old hotel over the winter where they’ll be [...]
(1 votes) Loading ...Stalingrad was one of the major turning points of World War II and became an almost personal struggle of power between Stalin and Hitler. Neither would allow their armies to withdraw, and neither would accept defeat, although it did come and the Germans suffered heavily for it. The conditions that the soldiers of both armies [...]
(1 votes) Loading ...Set at the end of 1941, when it was becoming obvious to the u-boat crews that they no longer ruled the Atlantic, Das Boot is an enlightening read. Sailing for week after week with no sightings of enemy ships, the taste of diesel in their mouths and the close proximity of the living conditions conspire [...]
(1 votes) Loading ...This book is many things. As a biography it has been criticised for it’s lack of reliability, possibly by people who ignore it’s part in the Hitler myth. As a political tract it has been criticised for being half-baked, possibly by people who forget that Hitler uses the words Jew and Marxist interchangeably, that the [...]
(1 votes) Loading ...I have a theory about children and money that is not rooted in science. I believe that babies pop out with ingrained personality traits that translate into the way they handle money from the time they are little to adulthood. This may not sound like the beginning of a promising recommendation for a book like [...]