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Juan Pablo _uan_edin — This is a really great story. The book is well written and often gripping, but there are almost as many tangents as in a Victor Hugo story; they add some nuance, but I kept getting the impression that he was aiming for some particular page count.

Brothers Art _rothers_rt — Not an easy read

Laura Arlotti _aura_rlotti — I must be one in a million. It seems like everyone who reads this book LOVES IT! I mean LOVES IT!! It's normally in their Favorites or at least in the Best Books Read in (insert year). That is why I wanted to read it. .... or might I say LISTEN to it. I wanted to see what the hype was all about. I figured since it was a short listen/read it would probably be fabulous... for I am one of those people who get excited over short books and movies. They tend to hold my attentionspan. But "Stolen" didn't. The only thing I can think of is the way that it was told... in letter form. At first, I had no idea it was a letter. Yeah, I'm observant... it's in the title!! But after a while you figure it out... or at least you think it might be a diary. But I just didn't dig it. I found it kinda bland and boring. I kept wanting to nod off and take a nap (which is a big NO NO because all audiobooks are listened to during turtle walks). I kept having to stir myself awake. Had this have been a paperback that I picked up, I probably would have flopped it. I know that I would have found myself curled up on the couch. Now, I'm not saying that this is a bad book. I did think that the ending was fabulous and I rather enjoyed all the animals. And I learned when you go to Australia you should wear boots in order to protect yourself from snakes. I also learned that they have packs of wild camels there. At least where this story takes place. I rather enjoy captor stories... this just wasn't my spot of tea..or coffee... or Hugh Jackman... one of those has to be Australian ;) It would make for a really good movie, though!

Iriam Salazar iriam54 — This book changed my entire outlook on diet, health and fitness. She advocates eating only "real, whole food" as oppossed to processed junk, which granted isn't revolutionary, but she got me thinking about this topic in ways I never had before. I read all the time about eating whole foods and how whole foods are so good for you, but not until I read this book did I understand exactly what whole foods are and why they are good for you. I've been trying to make all my own food ever since!

Svetlana Emelianova _vetlana_melianova — http://iwriteinbooks.wordpress.com/20... Alas poor Yorick, I knew him well… In Shakespeare’s famous graveyard scene, Hamlet, our young and depressed Danish prince, takes up the skull of the deceased court jester to say the above quote. I couldn’t think of a better line to use, leading in to my review of Michelle Ray’s Falling for Hamlet. The book wasn’t horrible but the humor, like the famed court jester, was sadly dead. Now, I know what you’re thinking: Hamlet is a tragedy. Tragedy as it may be, it was still born of Shakespeare’s pen and thus has this inherent humor to it in word plays and ironic minutia. Unfortunately, the humor wasn’t the only theatrical element missing from the retelling. Because Ray chose to tell the story from Ophelia’s point of view, it felt as though many of the original scenes were left on the cutting room floor. Many of the interactions between the teens’ parents and friends were lost, as were the scenes in which Hamlet and his deceased father’s ghost. As so many historians will tell you, these are really what drive the whole story, setting the scene for the revenge and the creepiness that the original capture. The setting also proved to be a bit of a thorn in my side. I’m pretty sure that most of Ray’s references to pop-life, while tricky and well placed, in theory, wouldn’t translate to modern-day Denmark. Because most of the “royalty” issues were similar to those of a pop-star, I think it would have been a better fit to place the story in L.A. (ala Baz Luhrmann’s 90′s Romeo and Juliet) and play it out that way, as it seemed way too fakey and American as it was written. My biggest pet-peeve in this area was the reference to a fictional Denmark State. Denmark isn’t a state and thus doesn’t have a state university. With very little research, a more believable fictional back-up school could have been created. So, did I hate it? No, of course not. I was in an eight grade performance of Midsummer Night’s Dream and, personally, I thought it was phenomenal. I think that if a person’s heart is in it, any adaptation is worth watching or reading. Adaptation and interpretation are human instinct and Shakespeare has been subject to both for years and years. I did enjoy many parts of the story, though, I think that I would have enjoyed it much more if I hadn’t read or seen the original. I made the very bad mistake of reading the original script while reading this one and I think that it really undercut the otherwise probably minor faults in the YA edition. As a hugely positive note, I will say that where Ray stuck to reinventing exact scenes as opposed to going off script, the reworking was superb and really, quite funny in its modern portrayal. The places where she was able to most precisely translate the script to the more modern stuff seemed to really capture the essence of the play, rather than her guesses at what Ophelia (really, an obscure character in the play) might have been going through. Well, there you have it. I think, as far as adaptations go, this one was luke-warm. I’ve seen worse but I’ve definitely seen better. I’ll definitely give Ray another chance if she promises to leave the adaptations alone.