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Should you read this book?

I've pre-read these for you so you don't waste your time. Am through with fiction for a bit so these are mainly non-fiction - especially history and science (both with the "popular" prefix ie. not too hard). PLEASE MAKE SUGGESTIONS IN THE COMMENT BOX!!

Goodbye to all that - Robert Graves

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- October 06, 2017

Another yes to this one.

Period detail and attitudes. The casual humour of the trenches. How the old boys network and the class system work.

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Under the skin by Michael Faber

- September 09, 2018

Yes if you want a brilliant horror story gradually revealed. It put me off meat eating and farming generally. I was a vegan for a few hours there.

Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely

- May 04, 2016

I love Dan Ariely's TED talks and his area of expertise ie behavioural economics. This book takes you quite slowly through a number of his theories, how they developed, his experiments, his methods, his results. Sometimes I wished it would go faster, but then I realised you kind of needed the build up and the rationale. Pretty male-students-in-University-in-USA centred, but I forgive it.

Anthills of the Savannah - Chinua Achebe

- July 08, 2018

No. Probably not. Just read lots of reviews of it and literati are raving. I'm not. It ends with the moral of the story ffs. Glad I went there - to Africa in the middle of coups. But not enough plot.