tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690077250072100801.post5259315231791318274..comments2024-02-26T11:04:22.115+13:00Comments on Reid's Reader – A Blog of Book Reviews and Comment.: Something NewNicholas Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05497366104216216952noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690077250072100801.post-693260490603709632013-01-21T12:11:17.553+13:002013-01-21T12:11:17.553+13:00Thank you for your complimentary comments, Anonymo...Thank you for your complimentary comments, Anonymous. I must admit that I had to re-read my own review (from nine months ago) to remember much of this forgettable pot-boiler, but, yes, you are right. it is cut-and-paste history as most so-called "historical novels' are.Nicholas Reidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690077250072100801.post-12626681286158546932013-01-21T11:27:09.077+13:002013-01-21T11:27:09.077+13:00I am so delighted to have found your blog, and wha...I am so delighted to have found your blog, and what a well written review, I found myself laughing almost hysterically when the white, then the black baby were delivered.<br />To describe this book as a "penny dreadful" would be too complimentary. I think this author may have exhausted his "copy and paste" resources of the history of the British colonisation of East Africa.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com