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19 Mar, 2007

My Life by Bill Clinton

Posted by: Rob

Further to my post about Hillary Rodham Clinton’s memoirs, Living History, after receiving Bill Clinton’s autobiography for my 24th birthday back in 2004, I’m very pleased to announce that I’ve finished it at long last!
I have to say that Bill does certainly know how to waffle. However, I appreciated the detail, honesty and frankness [...]

29 Nov, 2006

The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

Posted by: Rob

I’m at a lost what to say this evening, so I thought I’d do a book review. The book of choice is Stephen King’s The Dark Tower; the seventh and final book in the series.
The series is King’s most accomplished work to date. They make you realise just what a clever writer King [...]

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08 May, 2006

Bogside Reading

Posted by: Rob

I had to laugh, but in order to tell you about why I had to laugh, I have to make a confession about what some of you may consider as “eew”!
I’m a bogside reader.
There.  I said it.
How has this confession come about?  Quite simple, really. I’m reading Kate Fox’s Watching the English at the moment, [...]

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15 Jan, 2006

Eats, Shoots and Leaves

Posted by: Rob

Having just finishing reading Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss, seeing as I enjoyed it tremendously, I thought I would write a review.
Now, you wouldn’t think that a book about punctuation would be a source of laughter, would you? You’d be surprised by Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Lynne Truss’ writing style is to [...]

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19 Oct, 2005

Fantasy excitement

Posted by: Rob

I am so excited because books by two of my favourite authors, Robert Jordan and George RR Martin, are being or have been released this month.
George RR Martin hasn’t published in years, even though he is currently writing a series of books called A Song of Ice and Fire which are breath-taking in their scale [...]

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Why North of the Stupid Line? It's quite simple: to signify an individual of subnormal intelligence and general social ignorance. This blog belongs to Rob Wilks (never!) who can be summed up thus: Deaf, married, daddy, happy chappy, smiley, solicitor, Welshman, Cymru.