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How to be a billionaire
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 06/01/2014
» Of all books published, the most common belong to the "how to" genre. There's no limit to the advice authors give readers. Experts tell you how to build a house from the ground up, learn a language, be a successful businessmen, become a chef, design, repair, maintain, alter. Anything you set your mind to.
It beats me
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 07/10/2013
» The question asked by homo sapiens looking up, down and around is what is the meaning of it all? Priests and scientists make a stab at the answer, as do philosophers and astrologers, intellectuals and mystics _ none satisfactorily. Which brings the query back to us.
The aggrivated
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 22/07/2013
» If there's one thing people the world over agree on is that while they love their country, it needs improving. The Establishment isn't right. Election promises notwithstanding, national and private grievances are being ignored, if not aggravated. Is too much expected of democracy?
Until death, anyway
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 01/04/2013
» Glancing at the title Friends Forever by Yank author Danielle Steel, who has been penning romantic fiction like forever, this reviewer realised that I wouldn't be able to identify with the story, the characters or the plot. Because while I've had friends in my life, they came and went, none lasting the course.
Dirty politics abound
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 25/03/2013
» Every two, four, six years, posters fill the streets of men or women with the same message: "Vote for me for a better government." They also appear on TV saying the same thing, with the additional assertion that the others saying it are lying scoundrels, not to be trusted.
Rogue agent
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 04/03/2013
» If crime thriller novelists are to be believed, CIA agents rival politicians and lawyers as the least trustworthy professions. Intelligence salaries and pensions are so low that they accept bribes from America's enemies to turn a blind eye to their heinous activities. Some, such as Aldrich Ames, are caught. How many are not?
A satisfying read
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 04/02/2013
» An author who can be depended on to consistently give us an interesting, enjoyable, compelling read is Yank James Patterson _ with and without a co-writer. His plots aren't taken from yesterday's headlines, rather, they are the product of a fertile imagination. Contrived, with clever twists, at times implausible, always exciting.
Punishing the innocent
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 13/08/2012
» Looking at the name of the author of 15 Seconds, I did a double-take. I knew that I hadn't reviewed a book by Andrew Gross before, so why was he familiar to me? The thumbnail sketch of his background provided the answer. Gross is in James Patterson's stable of writers.
A Washington thriller
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 20/02/2012
» No country is free of corruption, least of all the US as stateside author David Baldacci has been reiterating in his two dozen political thrillers to date. He doesn't name names, but he names titles all the way to the top.
As good as it gets
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 06/02/2012
» As reviewing everything that comes along is part of the territory, critics are steeped in mediocrity. We wonder why the publishers accept the manuscripts and turn them into books. Perhaps because they think critics are perverse enough to like them, the public following our advice. Whereupon money is paid for them.