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Bruno Vincent – Five Go Gluten Free | Review

Title: Five Go Gluten Free

Author: Bruno Vincent

Type: Fiction

Page Count/Review Word Count: 107

Rating: 4*/5

Vincent Bruno – Five Go Gluten Free

I picked this book up for 50p for a car boot sale and so it was hard to go wrong, although I don’t think I’d pay full price for any of these. In this book, Vincent once again dons his Enid Blyton persona to see what happens when the Famous Five decide to change their diet.

This children’s book for adults was fantastic and I particularly related to it because I’m currently switching from being a vegetarian to being vegan. It’s worth a read.

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Charles Bukowski – Hollywood | Review

Title: Hollywood

Author: Charles Bukowski

Type: Fiction/Non-Fiction

Page Count/Review Word Count: 268

Rating: 5*/5

Charles Bukowski – Holiday

I’ve been kind of saving this one because it was the only Bukowski novel that I hadn’t read. But then I saw Paperback Junky on YouTube talking about Bukowski and it made me want to pick it up and tick it off.

It was worth the wait. If you’ve read Bukowski before and you’re familiar with his history then you’ll even be able to tie this book back to the events that it covers. Bukowski wrote the autobiographical screenplay for a movie called Barfly starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway, and this novel basically covers the period of his life around the writing of the screenplay, the shooting of the movie and its eventual release.

Of course, we’re also told all of this through the persona of Hank Chinaski, and Bukowski has always blurred the lines between fact and fiction in his work. Nevertheless, if you’re interested in his unique style of writing or if you want an honest book about Hollywood life then you’re going to enjoy this one, and if you haven’t watched the film then it’ll increase your enjoyment if you watch it after reading the book.

All in all, I enjoyed this book just as much as I expected to, and that’s saying something because I went into it with high expectations. I probably wouldn’t recommend it as your first Bukowski novel because it’d work best if you read them in chronological order, but I read them out of order and still loved it. It was excellent.