Craig

Reviews

• The Big Sleep reviewed by @books_and_bins

  9/ 109 out of 10

  Every line's a wee gem! Plot makes nae sense, the chauffeur's never explained, and I couldn't care less.

  The Big Sleep

• Guns, Germs, and Steel reviewed by @books_and_bins

  4/ 104 out of 10

  One idea, said eleven times, slow. Is that a book? Skimmed the last third and missed nothing.

  Guns, Germs, and Steel

• Snow Crash reviewed by @books_and_bins

  5/ 105 out of 10

  Starts like a rocket. The pizza run at the start is brilliant. Then a man explains Sumerians at you for what feels like a fortnight and I was done.

  Snow Crash

• Atomic Habits reviewed by @books_and_bins

  3/ 103 out of 10

  Pish.

  Atomic Habits

• Pride and Prejudice reviewed by @books_and_bins

  6/ 106 out of 10

  The mother's a nightmare and she's the best thing in it. Who's this Lady Catherine and why's everybody feart of her? Rest of it is folk walking about being polite at each other.

  Pride and Prejudice

• Freakonomics reviewed by @books_and_bins

  3/ 103 out of 10

  Party tricks.

  Freakonomics

• Sapiens reviewed by @books_and_bins

  4/ 104 out of 10

  Big claims, thin evidence, and awful pleased with himself about it. Gie it a bye.

  Sapiens

• The Road reviewed by @books_and_bins

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Two nights, then I phoned my boy for no reason. Bleak as anything. It's the tinned peaches that got me.

  The Road

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reviewed by @books_and_bins

  9/ 109 out of 10

  Read it at fifteen, read it again on a night shift. Still daft! The dolphins get me every time.

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

• The Three-Body Problem reviewed by @books_and_bins

  5/ 105 out of 10

  Decent idea buried under a load of physics chat. Liked the countdown in the eyes. The rest was a slog and I've no plans to start the next one.

  The Three-Body Problem

• Slaughterhouse-Five reviewed by @books_and_bins

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Whoever put 1956 on this needs a word with themselves.

  Slaughterhouse-Five

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• Influence reviewed by @books_and_bins

  7/ 107 out of 10

  Useful, that.

  Influence

• Shoe Dog reviewed by @books_and_bins

  6/ 106 out of 10

  Half a decent book about a man who cannae stop selling you the shoes.

  Shoe Dog

• Thinking, Fast and Slow reviewed by @books_and_bins

  6/ 106 out of 10

  Aye, alright. Half of it's stuff my granny knew and the other half's a graph I didnae need.

  Thinking, Fast and Slow

• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy reviewed by @books_and_bins

  10/ 1010 out of 10

  Best of the lot.

  Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

• Catch-22 reviewed by @books_and_bins

  9/ 109 out of 10

  Laughed out loud on the bus at Milo and his eggs. Then it turns and you feel like an idiot for laughing. Best thing I've read this year.

  Catch-22

• A Short History of Nearly Everything reviewed by @books_and_bins

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Bryson's the boy for this stuff. I now know roughly how big the earth is and who worked it out first, which is more than school managed.

  A Short History of Nearly Everything

• Dune reviewed by @books_and_bins

  6/ 106 out of 10

  Everybody telt me this would change my life. It's a decent desert war book with a glossary at the back. Six.

  Dune

• Crime and Punishment reviewed by @books_and_bins

  7/ 107 out of 10

  He does the murder early doors then greets about it for the rest of the book. Porfiry's worth the ticket, mind. Long, but no bad.

  Crime and Punishment

• Mistborn reviewed by @books_and_bins

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Belter of a heist!

  Mistborn