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The Good Food Guide 2009

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from: Which? Books

September 08, 2008
As usual this guide makes compulsive reading, if you're interested in good food. For the last two years there's been a greater use of colour printing and the whole appearance of the book is more attractive. It's inevitably weighted towards more populated areas with very few entries for far-flung places, where in truth one needs guidance even more. The Guide is limited by he fact that it is alerted to good places by recommendations from the general public to which it then sends inspectors. So, for example, an excellent eating place in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland will have a lesser chance of inclusion if a volunteer inspector is unavailable to travel and stay there (at their own expense) to do the inspection--most inspectors only get the ... Read More:

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LeapFrog Explorer Globe

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from: LeapFrog

September 08, 2008
This globe certainly is a fantastic idea. My seven year old was desparate for a globe for christmas, and this seemed the ideal choice as we would all be able to play with it together over the holiday. How dissapointing then when he opened it on Christmas morning and discovered that it was convinced that most of the northern hemisphere was the artic ocean! We are sendning it back (to Santa) for one more go.

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Thailand (Lonely Planet Country Guide)

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by: China Williams, Aaron Anderson, Becca Blond, Brett Atkinson, Tim Brewer, Virginia Jealous, Lisa Steer

August 01, 2007
This globe certainly is a fantastic idea. My seven year old was desparate for a globe for christmas, and this seemed the ideal choice as we would all be able to play with it together over the holiday. How dissapointing then when he opened it on Christmas morning and discovered that it was convinced that most of the northern hemisphere was the artic ocean! We are sendning it back (to Santa) for one more go.

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Don't Stop Me Now

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by: Jeremy Clarkson

May 01, 2008
I went to school with him, and contrary to what he says in the Sunday Times, he was expelled for smoking dope at the prep school !
I am a fan , however; Top gear is great and his books are good fun to read but give me a break , they are all the same !
I live abroad , but when I come back to visit I like to go into the big bookshops and am invariably bombarded with the latest Jeremy Clarkson offering. This is getting annoying .

However funny he might be , there is only so much that can be written about cars, late seventies rock music and what there is still good about England.

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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of 'The Great Railway Bazaar'

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by: Paul Theroux

September 04, 2008
I have enjoyed Theroux's books of his other rail journeys, particularly Black Star Safari but this one left me cold and bored. There's little or nothing in this book that hasn't been said before and you will get neither a sense for a country nor will you learn anything particularly new.

Apologies to Macclesfield, by the way

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101 Weekends in Europe

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by: Robin Barton

September 26, 2008
I have enjoyed Theroux's books of his other rail journeys, particularly Black Star Safari but this one left me cold and bored. There's little or nothing in this book that hasn't been said before and you will get neither a sense for a country nor will you learn anything particularly new.

Apologies to Macclesfield, by the way

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Jupiter's Travels

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by: Ted Simon

January 25, 2007
I really enjoyed reading the first part of this book as Ted travelled down through Africa. He seemed focussed on the journey ahead, seemed interested in all the contrasting people around him and included lots of detail about his bike. From South America onwards however, he seemed to lose interest in the trip and dwelled far too long on certain events. He also skipped through whole countries in a matter of a couple of pages. His philosophising on whether he might be a God was irritating and at this point I found myself skipping pages. Disappointing in places.

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Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour

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by: Kate Fox

April 11, 2005
I was given this by a Canadian colleague to read. She thought it was hysterical. I am irked that those from abroad will take this as truth. The "class system" here is ever changing and we really are not so archaic as this book would have others believe. We are not the quaint, backward group of red bus riding, "Blimey Guvnor" people that this book would have them believe. I think that this book has put us back 50 years.

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Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain

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by: Roger Deakin

May 18, 2000

I'm only about a third of the way through this book but wanted to add to the reviews on the site. If, like me, you happen on this page by accident and think "why not?" please follow through with that first thought and buy this amazing book. It's so rare to find work that really cant be criticised and this, the eloquent reflections of what must have been a wonderful man, could well be one of those rare finds. It's exceptionally well written, filled with intimate details of what England must have been like in less commercial times and as fluid, rhythmic and enchanting as the rivers and streams the author so clearly loves. Did I mention you should buy it?

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The Cities Book (Lonely Planet Pictorial)

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from: Lonely Planet Publications

March 01, 2006
The Cities Book is a wonderfull brief look at 200 cities around the world. As I go on 5-6 city trips a year I have found it invaluable as a quick quide to where to visit next. But oh dear, there are so many mistakes here. Both descriptions of cities, misnamed photos, innacurate statistics. Did no one ever proof read this book. Please Lonely Planet, send me the next one and I'll do it for free!