Harry Sivertsen

classy, different and a first rate read the crime detection genre.

A most intriguing first novel set in familiar country…quite local to my home. The author will certainly create a large following with this classy introduction. A female coroner…not the usual crime detection lead…but very good.

I anticipate the next book titled the Disappeared, will be even better
Interesting concepts with the book requiring further editing.

This is an imaginative tale. The ideas are good but the narrative requires further editing. The primary problem here is that the dialogue elements are a too ‘schoolgirlish’, not of a sufficiently mature nature. The concepts are fine but some further attention to detail and sequence is required.

While this is not really my type of reading if presented in a more mature style I would find it a much more enjoyable read and perhaps sufficiently intriguing to look for further stories in the collection.
If you thought Morse was good read Banks!

Robinson’s Inspector Alan Banks, like most of us, is a complex character; he is depicted as the troubled human side of police work; he is compassionate and honest; he is emotional but whatever it costs him personally he gets the job done.

Robinson has created a fully believable character, in fact characters as all his actors show familiar characteristics [except some of the villains who thankfully are a very rare sort of animal] He manages to describe characters and events with a minimum of text yet his narrative is not clipped or terse. He is a master of his craft.
A fascinating insight into dyslexia

This is a quality introduction into an area poorly understood by most. It demonstrates well the problems encountered…and advises how to deal with them. However the book in reality goes further than intended as much of the advice applies to those of us who do not have this problem. The advice would be well given to any child as it details methodologies for dealing with personal efficiency.
It is thoroughly recommended
An enjoyable insight into the world of hippy dreamers

Yoghurt Weaving in a Nutshell

Perhaps the title ought to be Yoghurt Weaving by Nuts. The author has revealed numerous weird concepts that apparently are commonplace among Yoghurt Weavers.
But what, you may well ask, is a Yoghurt Weaver? Basically it is one of those strange people who have what to the sensible folk among us, are very strange experiences that produce nothing of value and are frequently brought about by the imbibing of substances that the remainder of us have more sense than to try. These people have �otherwordly� beliefs and practises.
Yet most of these folk are not generally harmful to others, unlike too many of the �normal types� who manipulate lesser mortals for their own ends; no these are those who seemingly requires a belief in something even less grounded in logic than the major religions, at least these do preach care for others. Here we have the Galactic sources of goodness that will save the world and other such freakish notions. Too many variant concepts are mentioned in the book to be repeated here the sheer variety is mind boggling.
Ancient concepts from India get confused with ideas from American Indians and then mixed with elements form Egypt etc�I have seen some of this in my reading over the years and thought that such mindless wanderings were the province of a very small minority�now I am not so sure that the minority is as small as I previously imagined.
One is bound to query the lack of logic among one�s fellow humans, people in a modern scientific environment who ignore knowledge has taken, effectively, thousands of years to accumulate and develop. In many cases these same people ignore the traditional religions and belief systems and invent their own�but these are the more �normal� variety and not just the followers because these have a goal in sight. While portraying themselves as spiritual beings these are those who subscribe to the free enterprise concept and peddle their wares to the other more susceptible of the Yoghurty folk. They are no different to the money making churchmen of a couple of hundred years ago. Then, as practised by the church in mediaeval times, the practise of healing via close proximity to the bones of a saint was a cure for those with the money to pay�not �Suffer little children to come unto me.� but �Suffer if you can�t pay.�..�and the church charged highly for the privilege. Of course in those days it was easier to cure a mad dog, merely stroke the poor animal with the key of a church and a miraculous cure would be manifested�little changes; if you cannot afford an overpriced amalgamation of pieces of copper pipe and few strings to purify your energy centres then chomp on a magic mushroom�same difference but cheaper, it all depends upon your financial situation�spiritual? Energy purifying?
As the Yorkshire saying relates, �There�s now�t as queer [and that is not sexual] as folks�. It seems that no matter how much we learn, there is always the need for something illogical, mind bending and downright silly�
Yoghurt Weaving in a Nutshell reveals many of these crazy practises and the attitudes of their purveyors and devotees. While written in a somewhat insulting and amusing manner it is an enlightening book�but what does that mean?…for a Yoghurty definition of light see page 76. Then try to evaluate �normal�.

Yoghurt Weaving in a Nutshell

Perhaps the title ought to be Yoghurt Weaving by Nuts. The author has revealed numerous weird concepts that apparently are commonplace among Yoghurt Weavers.
But what, you may well ask, is a Yoghurt Weaver? Basically it is one of those strange people who have what to the sensible folk among us, are very strange experiences that produce nothing of value and are frequently brought about by the imbibing of substances that the remainder of us have more sense than to try. These people have �otherwordly� beliefs and practises.
Yet most of these folk are not generally harmful to others, unlike too many of the �normal types� who manipulate lesser mortals for their own ends; no these are those who seemingly requires a belief in something even less grounded in logic than the major religions, at least these do preach care for others. Here we have the Galactic sources of goodness that will save the world and other such freakish notions. Too many varia…

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Could this happen in Britain? or To what extent is it already happening in Britain?

This is a book that should be required reading. While I disagree with the inaccurate use of ‘Marxist’, it is utilised as a denigrating term in America hence we have to accept the terminology but not necessarily the implication.
We have here a run down on the mass manipulation of peoples thinking. This has been greatly extended into the school system and one is left wondering what the American Nation can get out of all this except control over its apparently increasingly uneducated and unthinking population.
Ample evidence is supplied in the work for its assertions and while state control of individuals appears to be the ultimate aim, purportedly for security reasons, one is left wondering how the nation will manage when most of its inhabitants can barely read and write as in the future will be the case if the scenario described is correct.
However, it is a stark warning to all.
This book should be read only after Susan Blackmore’s work The Meme Machine has been absorbed as Blackmore’s work reveals just why we allow such manipulation of thinking to occur.
The implications of Eakman’s work are frightening, even more so with an understanding of the why and wherefore of our acceptance of such manipulation.

This is a book that should be required reading. While I disagree with the inaccurate use of ‘Marxist’, it is utilised as a denigrating term in America hence we have to accept the terminology but not necessarily the implication.
We have here a run down on the mass manipulation of peoples thinking. This has been greatly extended into the school system and one is left wondering what the American Nation can get out of all this except control over its apparently increasingly uneducated and unthinking population.
Ample evidence is supplied in the work for its assertions and while state control of individuals appears to be the ultimate aim, purportedly for security reasons, one is left wondering how the nation will manage when most of its inhabitants can barely read and write as in the future will be the case if the scenario described is correct.
However, it is a stark warning to all.
This book should be read only after Susan Blackmore’s work The Meme Machine has been absorbed as Bla…

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