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No More Tomorrows: The Compelling True Story of an Innocent Woman Sentenced to Twenty Years in a Hellhole Bali Prison

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by: Schapelle Corby, Kathryn Bonella

June 05, 2008
Ms Corby has over a dozen web sites supporting her innocence, and dozens of bloggers from both sides. The pro camp insist that she was set up for the Bali airport bust where over 4kgs of hydroponically grown marijuana was discovered as she landed from Sydney, while the against bloggers grumble that she must have been aware of the contents of her oversize `boogie' surf-board bag. They point to her party-loving family and friends but scarcely prove much. The book is naturally in the pro group building a case only slightly marred by feverish insistence and sentimentality.
Professionally written by a journalist working with Schapelle, No More Tomorrows keeps interest high even if questions remain. The book is among the better of this year's ... Read More:

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Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma

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by: Michael Peppiatt

September 11, 2008
A fascinating study of the great man and his work. Peppiatt knew Bacon from the 60's onwards, thus the biography feels intimate and true to life and is successful in depicting the flamboyance, complexity and sheer charisma of this important British artist.

Bacon's father is depicted as a key figure, as well as a leitmotif of brutal masculinity in Bacon's paintings. A tyrannical, martial man, (according to Peppiatt, he has his teenage son horsewhipped by his grooms in order to `make him more of a man') he is the very antithesis of the highly intelligent, young, unconventional Bacon. This early encounter with such brutality goes some way to explaining the power and masculine energy so apparent in Bacon's paintings, as well as the sado ... Read More:

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A Taste of My Life

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by: Raymond Blanc

October 10, 2008
A fascinating study of the great man and his work. Peppiatt knew Bacon from the 60's onwards, thus the biography feels intimate and true to life and is successful in depicting the flamboyance, complexity and sheer charisma of this important British artist.

Bacon's father is depicted as a key figure, as well as a leitmotif of brutal masculinity in Bacon's paintings. A tyrannical, martial man, (according to Peppiatt, he has his teenage son horsewhipped by his grooms in order to `make him more of a man') he is the very antithesis of the highly intelligent, young, unconventional Bacon. This early encounter with such brutality goes some way to explaining the power and masculine energy so apparent in Bacon's paintings, as well as the sado ... Read More:

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Business Nightmares: When Entrepreneurs Hit Crisis Point...

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by: Rachel Elnaugh

May 01, 2008
Quite a good interesting book at the beginning, but faded towards the end, the last chapter is of no inspiration to any would be entrepreneur. I sympathize with the fall of the business, but someone who has clearly lost what they passionately loved and still carrying certain resentment in my opinion would not be an ideal person to be seeking guidance from, possibly in the future when all has cleared then who knows.

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The Dirt - Motley Crue: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

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by: Neil Strauss, Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Nikki Sixx

July 04, 2002
I was a fifteen-year-old bookworm with a taste for soft rock, when my black-clothed, metal-haired TOTAL rocker classmate told me I should buy the Dirt. I went and bought it, took one look at their hair and makeup when I got home and thought... nyah, I'll save it for a rainy day.
One rainy day almost three years later, I opened the book and started reading it. I'd never heard a Mötley song in my life, but my music tastes had rotated towards hard rock and heavy metal. The book was fascinatingly disgusting from the start, and absolutely gripping. I loved it (although it does get fairly depressing after Vince Neil's car crash and the splitups and all that.)
I read it in just a few days. When I finished I thought - What if I don't like their ... Read More:

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"High School Musical": 101+ Secrets, Facts, and Buzz About High School Musical (Star Scene)

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by: Michael Anne Johns

August 06, 2007
This book is the best and I encorage you to read it too your children

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My Family and Other Animals

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by: Gerald Durrell

August 03, 2006
Funny, insightful, a delightful description of a childhood without rules. A must read for everyone, showing how a great man began life.

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My Booky Wook

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by: Russell Brand

November 15, 2007
Excellent read,full of things you would never have imagined to have happened to one of the greatest men on the planet(but then i am a fan so i would say that!)

Definately worth a read

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Bring Me the Head of Sergio Garcia

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by: Tom Cox

September 04, 2008
Mr Allwright seems to have missed the point in its entirety (see his (weak) amazon review). He is clearly a (golfing, humour, general) philistine.

Managed to nick this literature from husband who was annoying me by laughing every page, per night, up until Chapter 3. So I swooped. It was mine.

I laughed until it was completed, and like the best books, looked forward to getting to bed to savour the next unfolding.

Cox depicts the soul destroying nature of life on (Europro.........if you say it quick enough it sounds like European.....) Tour heart wrenchingly and acutely. Cox is self depreciatingly honest throughout. His conclusions are appropriately respectful, but endearingly reassuring that real life exists above and beyond ... Read More:

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Frank Skinner on the Road: Love, Stand-up Comedy and The Queen Of The Night

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by: Frank Skinner

October 02, 2008
Mr Allwright seems to have missed the point in its entirety (see his (weak) amazon review). He is clearly a (golfing, humour, general) philistine.

Managed to nick this literature from husband who was annoying me by laughing every page, per night, up until Chapter 3. So I swooped. It was mine.

I laughed until it was completed, and like the best books, looked forward to getting to bed to savour the next unfolding.

Cox depicts the soul destroying nature of life on (Europro.........if you say it quick enough it sounds like European.....) Tour heart wrenchingly and acutely. Cox is self depreciatingly honest throughout. His conclusions are appropriately respectful, but endearingly reassuring that real life exists above and beyond ... Read More: