- Anything Goes – John Barrowman.
Quite entertaining
An autobiography
Who knew he was gay? - Dorian - Will Self
Wildean and dark
Mindboggling last chapter
Foppishness gone mad - Down and out in Paris and London - George Orwell
Not disarming, as
I lack the prejudice that
This book challenges - A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby
Thoughts on suicide
How it’s attemptable if
You don’t want to die - The Futurological Congress - Stanislaw Lem
From one sci-fi world
To one the protagonist
Doesn’t understand - The Autobiography of a Flea - Anonymous
Those Victorians
So repressed yet so raunchy
Filthy buggers all - The Surrealist Manifesto - André Breton
Mind over matter
Only the marvelous is
At all beautiful - The Stars’ Tennis Balls - Stephen Fry
A retelling of
The Count of Monte Cristo
Sharp, witty and dark - Surely you’re joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard Feynman
Fixes radios
By thinking, and other
Eccentricities
- What do you care what other people think? - Richard Feynman
Working for NASA
His wife’s tuberculosis
And lots of sketches
- Bad Science - Ben Goldacre
Homeopathy
The scientific method
A nonsense shredder
- The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
The game is afoot!
Holmes and Watson at their best
Solving mysteries
- High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
Our relationships
How they can be okay, and
How they can go sour.
- The camera my mother gave me - Susanna Kaysen
Required reading
For women who suffer from
Vulvodynia.
- Slumdog Millionaire - Vikas Swarup
Touching, engrossing;
What a story. Plus, I loved
The surprise ending. - The Fry Chronicles - Stephen Fry
Patchy in places.
Love his engaging voice, but
It felt a bit rushed - Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
O! Electric Monk
Maths, programming and beauty
Sofas and dodos - The Sociopath Next Door - Martha Stout
A chilling look at
People who live among us
Who have no conscience - The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
Reminded me why
I adore science fiction
Beware the Morlocks! - A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
I get the point, but
Violence ain’t human nature.
A horrorshow read. - In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto - Michael Pollan
The history of
Nutrition science. In short:
Eat some vegetables. - You Talkin to me? Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama - Sam Leith
Was actually
Expecting a manual
Thought it was okay - Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers - Grant Naylor
Anarchic sci fi
Echoes of Douglas Adams
You utter smeghead - The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Exploded rabbits,
A seriously messed up
Very strange young man - Better Than Life - Grant Naylor
Spring on Garbage World
Christmas Eve in Bedford Falls
The Talkie Toaster - Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
The Dresden bombing
As told by Billy Pilgrim
A time traveller
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