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Title: Brothel in Pimlico by Roy Brooks ISBN: 0-7195-6028-4 Publisher: John Murray Pubs Ltd Pub. Date: April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: True stories!
Comment: This book's property reviews are startling in their candor. It's startling that one man dared be frank about the condition of the property he hoped to sell or rent--and hilarious that he included impressions of the former owners.
I bought it excitedly after having heard about it on the radio. Then, when I finally got it, I realized I'd basically heard the best ones on the radio--but they're buried in there for you to fine. And the less-than-best are still quite more interesting than anything you'd find in circulation today. Mr. Brooks has a great vocabulary and a wonderful way of reducing many a dynastic saga to a column-inch.
I have withheld the fifth star because of the printing rather than the "work". It seems the novelty of a narrowly shaped book was deemed necessary to further titillate the prospective reader-far more necessary than legibility. As other reviewers indicate, it's hard for the American reader to get some of the jokes unless she's spent some time in London and has a familiarity with the neighborhoods. Further, the abbreviations standard to a newspaper in another era, in another country in my case, are indecipherable. Each of these shortcomings could have been addressed with a map of the city and a key to the abbreviations and their meanings-either of which would be far preferred to the hasty and uninspired line drawings the publisher saw fit to include.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Bathroom Reader
Comment: Since the real estate listings are so small they make perfect bathroom feeding fodder. I have this book on the back of the throne and break it out whenever I wish to spend a few minutes relaxing.
The listings are generally quite funny (although the humor can be a bit tame). Some references are obscure for Americans (as the real estate listed in in London).
Decent book if you like this sort of thing.
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Title: His Current Woman by Jerzy Pilch, Bill Johnston ISBN: 0810119188 Publisher: Hydra Books Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Gullible's Travels : The Adventures of a Bad Taste Tourist by Cash Peters ISBN: 0762727144 Publisher: Globe Pequot Pr Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Bibliotherapy : The Girl's Guide to Books for Every Phase of Our Lives by Nancy Peske, Beverly West ISBN: 0440508975 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 06 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Book Lover's 2004 Calendar by Thomas J. Craughwell ISBN: 076112828X Publisher: Workman Calendars Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Consent : A Novel by Ben Schrank ISBN: 0812966821 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 11 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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