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Love Songs For The Shy And Cynical (2009)

by Robert Shearman(Favorite Author)
4.26 of 5 Votes: 4
ISBN
1844354369 (ISBN13: 9781844354368)
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English
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Big Finish
review 1: Okay so I got the book thanks to Mr Shearman's involvement with Doctor Who. I'm not ashamed and I'm sure Rob would be pleased that fans find their way to his writing in this fashion. Love Songs is a very readable collection, at times macabre and at times poignant but whatever the story you are compelled to keep reading. My favourite...One Last Love Song - which validates that age old idiom...always save the best until last!!!!
review 2: I loved this book to bits; the conversational tone of it, the bizarre yet mundane events contained within... it's a book ABOUT love, but the stories aren't love stories, not in any traditional sense. Rob Shearman's voice comes through loud and clear here, making reading the book a strange kind of delight, like eating a box of c
... morehocolates with a guide sheet written in Swedish. You never know quite what you're gonna git! less
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Michelle
Marvellous... of course. I did not expect otherwise. I now want to make a small nation disappear.
sols
Utter, utter brilliance. Robert Shearman effortless moves into my must read author list.
uhmel
I'm not the biggest fan of short fiction but I thought this book was marvellous
books
Good stuff - very "quirky", very British. Well worth a read.
Ash
Collection of quite quirky stories.
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