April 2010

Record of a generation

Steven Spielberg’s epic World War II movie Saving Private Ryan was one of those gut-wrenching stories that stayed with you long after you walked out of the theatre. The tale of the search for the fourth and only surviving Ryan brother, so he can be sent home to safety, is all the more harrowing because

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Kiwis love Reacher

Benjamin Franklin reckoned there were only two things in this world that could be said to be certain: death and taxes. However, I’d like to add a third item to that list: Lee Child hitting the best-sellers list here in New Zealand with his Jack Reacher novels. Per head of population, the Reacher thrillers outsell

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Worth the wait

Aussie author Colleen McCullough is probably best-known for The Thorn Birds and while I enjoyed that book every bit as much as everyone else in the world, I wasn’t such a great fan of some of the later offerings, particularly the Masters of Rome series. However, I ended up reading the first in the Carmine

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