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Two rather low-grade Arthur C. Clarks. Both have an unfortunate combination of not-terribly-interesting storylines, combined with his rathe...

A classic - look it even says so - a portion of Livy's History of Rome . Not being a scholar I forget the exact details but much of this...

Another Christie. Quite good I think, but nonetheless I shall pick at flaws. We're back in the usual Christie-like England: secretarial...

Christie / Poirot again. Not her finest I fear; indeed, as a detective story rather poor; but as a book to read, not bad. Wiki is not kind...

This is a collection of essays by  Joseph Needham about science in China and the West. The nominal question to be answered is "why, gi...

See wiki . The usual group of suspects is gathered in isolation at a dig in Iraq. I rather liked this, and enjoyed reading it. The denoumen...

I wanted to get a towbar, trailering for the purposes of . I ended up going to Towbar Express, or rather they ended up coming to me, since ...