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
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.
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.
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
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
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...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. (more)
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