My Man Jeeves by PG Wodehouse

Amusing and as one would expect a Wodehouse to be.

This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Islam: The Straight Path by John Esposito

Inside Indonesian Society by Niels Mulder

Awesome book by an anthropologist.

I love anthropologists.

Twilight in Djakarta by Mochtar Lubis

Another one of those left-wing books about corruption, poverty and politics.

Pulp Fiction Indonesian style.

A History of Modern Indonesia by Adrian Vickers

It really needed an editor and some kind of narrative arc or point.

The Year of Living Dangerously by Christopher Koch

The first Australian fiction I've read since Tsiolkas's deplorable Dead Europe and I gotta say I liked it.

Quite entertaining and informative, although the idiosyncratic use of colons and semi-colons was a little strange.

In the Time of Madness by Richard Lloyd Parry

Finally, someone writes in the past tense. Good writer, but I would have preferred something more journalistic and less memoir-like.

The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford

Quite good economics as far as I can tell, but the book really should have had a real writer writing it.

Indonesia: An Eyewitness Account by Michael Maher

A journalist writing a journalistic account of Indonesia's troubled turn into a democracy.

Ordinary but competent.

The People Next Door by Duncan Graham

Somehow, this poor book got a foreword by Wahid and Geoff Gallop.

Even more somehow, the author has a M Phil and a Walkley Award.

Staggering considering some of the insipid comments and terrible writing.

The Indonesian Language: Its History and Role in Modern Society by James Sneddon

So many interesting facts so poorly expressed.

One would think a linguist could string decent sentences together, and if one were thinking of Guy Deutscher as the linguist, you'd be right!, but Sneddon ain't got what it takes.

Indonesia by Sylvia McNair

Although it's not meant for an adult reader and is full of photos, the writing is execrable nonetheless.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier by Alan Moor

Absolutely terrible.

Worse than the worst of comics.

Very strange given who the author is.

Napoleon's Privates: 2,500 Years of History Unzipped by Tony Perrottet

Mouse or Rat? Translation as Negotiation by Umberto Eco

The erudition on display is humbling. The amount of literary allusions in his works generally, astonishing.

Ozonomics by Andrew Charlton

The Unfolding of Language by Guy Deutscher

Brilliant. Entertaining and wonderfully written.

Preacher Vol. 1 by Garth Ennis

Letters from a Stoic by Seneca