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		<title>How I Paid For College &#8211; Mark Acito</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recommended by:: Jonathan Whiting Star Rating:: **** Quick Review:: Ferris Bueller Meets Adrian mole in a hilarious novel set in the 80's. Meet Edward Zanni, a teenager in New Jersey, USA whose aspirations to study at the prestigious Julliard School in NYC are quashed when his father refuses to pay his tuition fees. Thus ensues [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebigbookreview.jki2.co.uk/?p=170</link>
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		<title>Nineteen Eighty-four &#8211; George Orwell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Top 100 Book:: Number 8 Star Rating:: **** Quick Review:: Wow! What a book! Incredibly scary and as has been mentioned in numerous reviews an eerie look at our own world. This story follows Winston Smith works for the ministry of truth in London. Posters of Big Brother cover the streets and every move anyone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebigbookreview.jki2.co.uk/?p=167</link>
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		<title>To Kill A Mockingbird &#8211; Harper Lee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Top 100 Book:: Number 5 Star Rating:: ***** Quick Review:: To kill a Mockingbird is one of those books that almost everyone has heard of! It is one of those books that a lot of kids read in school (unfortunately I was not one of those) and is still a top seller 50 years after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebigbookreview.jki2.co.uk/?p=159</link>
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		<title>Notes from a small island &#8211; Bill Bryson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Top 100 Book: Number 74 Star Rating:: **** Quick Review:: Bill Bryson arrived in Britain back in 1973, got a job, got married and had some kids. Eventually the time came when he decided to head back to his native country the USA but before doing that he embarked on one epic tour of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebigbookreview.jki2.co.uk/?p=154</link>
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		<title>The Remains of the Day &#8211; Kazuo Ishiguro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Top 100 Book: Number 84 Star Rating:: ***1/2 Quick Review:: One of Kazuo Ishiguro’s most famous works, The Remains of The Day is an interesting novel about Stevens, a very creditable English butler reliving his life through this book in order to clarify its meaning to himself. The book begins with Stevens taking a holiday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebigbookreview.jki2.co.uk/?p=150</link>
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		<title>Memoirs of A Geisha &#8211; Arthur Golden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Top 100 Book: Number 39 Star Rating:: ***** Quick Review:: I thought that this was an absolutely amazing book! Full of so much emotion and cultural references it drew me completely from page 1. Memoirs of a Geisha follows the story of young Chiyo-chan an orphaned young girl from a fishing village and her sister [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebigbookreview.jki2.co.uk/?p=145</link>
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		<title>Bridget Jones&#8217;s Diary &#8211; Helen Fielding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Top 100 Book: Number 68 Star Rating:: ** Quick Review:: You must have been stuck in a cave somewhere for the last 10 years if you haven’t heard of Bridget Jones’s Diary! A major movie starring Renee Zellweger as the unlucky in love, eternal spinster Bridget Jones. So you have seen the film, what about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebigbookreview.jki2.co.uk/?p=142</link>
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		<title>The Magicians &#8211; Lev Grossman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Top 100 Book: Not a top 100 book Star Rating:: ***1/2 Quick Review:: To all my friends I have constantly described this book as a dark Harry Potter meets Narnia and from scouring the web it appears others have supported my view. The Magicians tells the story of young Quentin Coldwater who stumbles across the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebigbookreview.jki2.co.uk/?p=139</link>
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		<title>The Time Traveler&#8217;s Wife &#8211; Audrey Niffenegger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Top 100 Book: Number 19 Star Rating:: *** Quick Review:: Now a successful film the Time Traveler's wife is the story of Henry and Clare. Henry has a condition which means that he travels through time regularly and is unable to control it so he goes forward and backwards without any control! I likened it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebigbookreview.jki2.co.uk/?p=131</link>
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		<title>The Wind In The Willows &#8211; Kenneth Grahame</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Top 100 Book: Number 30 Star Rating:: **** 1/2 Quick Review:: Written in 1908, The Wind In The Willows is a "Cutesy" tale of friendship, respect and companionship between wildlife animals, focusing on the lives of Moley, Ratty, Badger and Mr Toad. It's known as a childrens book but I feel us adults can learn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thebigbookreview.jki2.co.uk/?p=128</link>
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