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Bruno Ramos brunosramos — LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS BOOK

Eugene Lazarenko 1lazarenko — I loved this book! It was very well written; instead of being annoyed by the switch in narrator voices I felt that the technique enhanced the plot and solidified the character development. Now I can finally go see the movie.

Andy Harrison andyharrisonphoto — This book was fine, just not nearly so good as others I've read by Ms. Thomas. In one of the classic downfalls of a romance novel, I began to care more about the secondary romance (Freddie and Angelica) than the primary one. I also felt that there were unnecessary complications added to the story: (view spoiler) Finally, I feel like this book deserves a trigger alert: (view spoiler)

Dmitrii Last dlastd740 — This is a little embarrassing to admit, but I've been reading a lot of YA fantasy/SF novels aloud to my husband while he paints his new 40k army. I guess if you're going to dork out and regress, it might as well be all the way. So I pulled this novel out of the vaults--my fifth grade English teacher assigned it as part of an inspired introduction to genre fiction unit. This was our introduction to science fiction. I blame her for launching a number of excessively awkward adolescences. Anyway, this book is better and more exciting than I remembered. It's about an alternate future, though a near future, where aliens called tripods have taken over Earth, putting humans under their control by capping all the adults with a mind control device. There is a small band of rebels in the mountains who have managed to escape capping and the novel follows three boys who are running away to find these rebels in the mountains. Very exciting stuff. And there's a really wonderful and real pettiness and sense of competition among the three boys that sets this novel apart from others like it.

Patrick Jilbert patrickjilbert — The master of Sword and Sorcery. Great stories that scare and delight; a hero, who's strength and cunning go unrivaled, and a good dollop of other-world building that make all Conan's novels great reads.

Bassem Zein bassemzein5c17 — although informative and well researched... i found it to be a tad pointless.

Aimmika Yuarong _ — I did not like.

Shannon Kane _hannon_ane — My friend got this book from the author and raved about it and insisted that I had to read it. I was kinda hoping that she’d forget about it after a while since I didn’t really expect to enjoy a novel about high school girls in a town I’d never been to. My friend kept bugging me – did you read it? did you read it? I finally started just to get her off my back. I wanted to hate the book so that I only had to read a few pages. Except by ten pages in, I wanted to find out more. Then I couldn’t put it down. Then I read the last half in one day. Now I’m the one bugging people about why they haven’t read it yet. Katie Fitzpatrick is that girl we all knew in high school. She’s kinda our friend, because she’s not snobby or full of herself, but she’s one of those people for which everything goes right. She’s smart and pretty and good athlete. She’s the type of person that you don’t wish that bad things would happen to, but you do wish you could have the life she appears to have. I say appears because as we all remember from high school, things aren’t exactly what they seem. The face we show to the world isn’t necessarily the face we see in the mirror. The author does such a good job of making Katie a real person through situations that we’ve all been in and peaks and valleys that we’ve all been through. The scenes are so richly painted that it is almost like you are a part of them, making this book quite emotional. One of the author’s gifts to the reader is that the teenagers talk and think and act like teenagers. This isn’t high school kids being adults, it’s high school kids being high school kids and it really takes you back. This book is set in the 1990s, so if high school is a few years in your rear view mirror like it is for me, you’ll appreciate the occasional reference to Sixteen Candles or the Challenger accident. I found this book to be a page turner of the extreme kind. Although it lifts slowly, once the high drama kicked in, I completely understand why. In 100 pages, Katie goes from someone we’ve never met to someone we feel that we’ve known all our lives. Therefore, when something bad happens to her, we feel like it is happening to a friend of ours, not some detached sympathy for a friend of a friend who we’ve never met. After that first bump in Katie’s road, just sit back and enjoy the ride. It will have you riveted until the very last page.

Angelliki Liamis angelliki — This book paints a painful picture of the AIDS epidemic as it unfolded in the early 1980's. It chronicles the despair felt by sufferers and researchers alike as their pleas for help went unheeded. It is incredibly dense and took me a very long time to read, otherwise I would most definately reread it frequently. I will have to stick to rewatching the movie, which is also incredibly good.

Leah Malmos lamalmos8bf1 — ** spoiler alert ** George is a fun character because he's so fun to hate. He's just this whiney, spoiled rich kid, but he's not enough to carry the novel. The majority of it is upper class families gossiping and how this family that does nothing but live off their wealth, can't function when the world changes around them, their properties loose value, their investments tank, and they have to live in apartments and get jobs. The last part is actually interesting and I wish more of the book had been devoted to it instead of George trying and failing to win over Lucy. The writing is decent enough, but Tarkington does a lot of overwriting for his character's expressions, the way they say things, their moods. Most of it is redundant. Apparently, this book is some sort of classic but there's nothing remarkable about it. I'd skip it.

Thanh Huong thanhhuongc3e9 — This was a quick read. very interesting coming from the child's POV.

Eri Chian shanguitou — At first, I wasn't sure I was going to be able to stay with this book, since it had been so many years since I read the last one in the series, but I stuck with it and I am glad I did. The whole setting and everything about the Bookworld of Thursday Next is so creative and fun, when you get the jokes! People who love reading should at least give these books a try!

Rafal Ejchorszt ejchorszt — Very lucid explanation of modern physics. The early chapters on quantum mechanics and relativity are especially clear and provide a good basis for the more abstract topics to come. It seems that there is something of a fissure in the physics community, so the fact that he is a string theorist injects a bit of bias. The title doesn't lie--he emphasizes the "elegance" of the theory--at times, almost as though it proves the theory's validity.

Andy Ko andyko — Reading it years later I found it not as amazing as I remembered, although some of the stories are superb. Some, though, don't work at the same level, but Lahiri is a talented writer. Her upcoming book, Unaccustomed Earth, is her best yet, I think.

Isagus Extroversions _sagus — This was another of my favorites as a teen, and it seemed a fitting follow up to the last book I listened to, Many Waters. Poly O'Keefe is the niece of Sandy and Dennys of that book, and, though there are a few books that come between these, plot wise, these two are closely tied together because they both deal with time travel. The time travel of this book seems to be a more spiritual form of time travel than that of Many Waters. Whereas Sandy and Dennys travelled through time due to science and messing with their dad's experimental computer, Poly's time travels are less explained by time than by some sort of spiritual connection. Not only do Poly, Bishop Colubra, and Zachary travel back through the time game, into a different "circle of time," but both Karralys and Anaral, druids from 3,000 years earlier, are about to travel forward into the present circle of time. There is no reason given for why the circles of time opened at all, let alone a scientific one, or a reason why it was for those specific reasons. In the end, the only guess that Karralys can make is that God opened the gate so they could eventually help Zachary (be less of a self-centered jerk and also heal his heart). One of the main issues in this book is sacrifice. The tribes in the past come from a culture where sacrifice, both animal and human, was seen as necessary for survival. The earth required it to give them good crops, for rain to be sent, for their people to prosper. Tav, who came with Karralys from England, believed that way, and so did the People Across the Lake. There is a distinct different, however, in blood that taken by force versus blood given, with Jesus as an example. Karralys and the People of the Wind believed the opposite of Tav and the other tribe. They believed that the Mother, the earth, was good, and only wanted their love, which is a much more modern view of religion. In the end, Tav's heart was changed not only because he came to care for Poly as a person, but because he truly realized that the Mother didn't require blood. Zachary's relationship to sacrifice was different in that he would never admit to himself until the end that he would sacrifice Poly's life for his own. Zachary was the ultimate symbol of selfishness. Even though he didn't actually know Poly that well, he insisted on visiting her frequently, charming her and taking advantage of her kindness and good nature, even going so far as to kiss her at times. Even though it was explained to him very clearly that Poly was at risk of being sacrificed if she went back in time again, Zachary chose to believe that the threat of death wasn't real and literally dragged her back to the past with him. When he could have stayed with the People of the Wind and seen if they could heal their heart, Zachary willingly abandoned them to go across the lake because he heard their healer was more powerful. When the chief of that tribe demanded he bring Poly to them before seeing the healer, Zachary arranged for her forceful abduction from the People of the Wind's camp. Even though he kept denying it, Zachary must have know all along what the chief intended for Poly: that her blood be sacrificed to bring rain to their side of the lake, and to provide their healer with more power. It wasn't until her death was eminent that Zachary repeated and realized what he had done. Of course, once all was said and done, they still did everything they could to heal his heart. And then Zachary has the temerity to ask Poly if he could see her again?!? I don't know if you can tell, but Zachary is one of my most despised characters ever. I wish Poly had just left him at that camp to rot, but she wouldn't have been able to live with herself if she had abandoned him, and going back for him allowed for her to negotiate peace between the two tribes. The healers in the past were interesting in their power is not something that can be explained. They are not doctors, with scientific knowledge of how things work, but rather some sort of magical power workers, who can feel the energy in people and manipulate it to bring about healing. Poly experiences this herself, as she seems to have the healing touch herself (and had there been more books, I bet Poly would have gone on to medical school). Her thoughts on good power versus bad power were interesting as well -- can good, positive power work together with bad, malignant power? Or are them incompatible? Would the power give to the healer through the spilling of Poly's blood have been able to increase the strength of his natural, loving power? Luckily, they didn't have to find out. Once of my favorite parts of this book was always the sweet relationship between Poly and Tav. This is another relationship that would never work like Yalith and Dennys/Sandy, both between of the time distance between them and the cultural differences as well. It's another example of love that is true, but not Poly or Tav's only love, one possible love. As much as Poly and Tav were drawn to one another, and truly began to care for each other, and could have possibly built a wonderful, loving life together, had the circumstances been different, I fully believe that they each could go on to love again, and find someone else to spend their lives with, someone who is equally compatible and lovable. That doesn't mean that Poly and Tav will forget each other; it's more like they'll remember each other in their hearts, as one does with someone who has died. Just as Poly thinks of Max out there, enjoying herself in whatever state she is in, be it Heaven or not, she will also think of Tav in that way, I hope. Overall, this is definitely a book I still love, and one that makes you think. Some of my favorite moments were the clash of cultures, like when Poly was showing off all her pocket items to the tribesmen, and I will never forget the visual of the blood red moon on the lake, and the canoe rising up in front of it, with Karralys and Og in the front, and the Bishop holding Louise the Larger in the back.

Chuck Harrison _outt_8 — alright, well i don't know if i'd consider myself an atheist by the definition given in this book, but somewhere approaching that designation. maybe agnostic? this book articulates very well some of my reasons for those beliefs, whichever category/s i may be classified under.

Yuyu Yi _iefen — Not only a good read, but a personal and thought-provoking look at our relationship with substance.