Neil Hopcroft

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Book review

Book review: Stupid White Men

After reading this book a whole bunch of things start to make more sense. And I think I’m angry about that, but I’m not sure. He knows his market and he’s playing to their righteous indignation. This book is full of the kinds of things that make people angry about politicians but it doesn’t examine […]

Book review: Use of weapons – by Iain M Banks

I’m not entirely convinced I understand this book. Partly because I was a bit intermittent reading it so tended to lose the plot a bit, and partly because of its structure – there are basically two related storylines running forward and backward through the book, so everything keeps flipping around and my poor little head […]

Book review: Travels in Dreamland – Phil Patton

This is the first in a series of brief, random and intermittent book reviews… Travels in Dreamland is a peculiar book about Area 51 and its relation to the UFO watching community in America. It describes the birth of the skunkworks, a fascinating and extremely intense lab/research department. There is also a lot of discussion […]