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The Winter of our Discontent - John Steinbeck

Advantages: Exceptional writing
Disadvantages: Not the author's best work

The Winter of our Discontent - John Steinbeck Toccata: A musical composition intended to display the skill and technique of the performer. If ever a novel could be sub-titled Toccata it would be John Steinbeck's 'The Winter of Our Discontent'. It is a piece of writing so skilful and so masterful that you are left in awe of the writer's ability to use the written word. This isn't the greatest story ever told, it isn't even the author's best novel despite winning the Nobel Prize for literature in 1961. It is, however, the best written novel I've ever read. It is a painful paradox that here am I, with my sixth form grasp of English, trying to convey exactly why I think this is the best and I know I am destined to fail. John Steinbeck was born in 1902 in Salinas, California and spent much of his life in Monterey County also in ...

brereton66 12.03.2007 · Read full review
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This Winter Wii Are Going To Vancouver

Advantages: Some great events and a chance to dress your Mii up for winter.
Disadvantages: This game will hold your attention, but for how long is a different matter.

With the Winter Olympics fast approaching it?s time for the old rival companies Nintendo and Sega to reunite for their third game outing together to feature characters from the two respective gaming series? in the form of Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympics. The game is the first in the range of various games that are being released to coincide with the upcoming Winter Olympics in Vancouver and will be exclusive to the Wii and Nintendo DS, well after all Nintendo aren?t going to let Sony and Microsoft get their grubby little hands on their prize characters now are they. For those of you who did not have the pleasure of playing the Summer Olympics game that Nintendo released for the Beijing games this game works in a very similar fashion with you taking control of your chosen character/athlete and competing in ...

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Decent Winter Reading

Advantages: A beautifully layered story
Disadvantages: Too expensive for a purchase

A few years ago, I read Christopher Fowler's ''Full Dark House'', a detective story partly set in the midst of the Blitz. The restrictions imposed by being in the middle of a major city at war put a different spin on solving a crime and I'd never read anything quite like it until I came across Rennie Airth's ''The Dead of Winter'', which was set under similar circumstances. During the blackout, an Air Raid Warden in London bumps into a young woman out alone. A short while later, he literally stumbles across her dead body. It appears to be a crime without motive and with very few clues. With police resources already stretched by the war and by criminals taking advantage of it, it's a crime that looks likely to remain unsolved. Especially as witnesses are murdered almost as quickly as the police can find them. However, the murdered woman ...

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