Tag: book review
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February 04, 2009 07:04 PM EST --
I recently recently reread this book after 25 years which, again, proved to be an intense experience. Mailer carefully details the events leading to and following the murders committed by Gary Gilmore. . . .
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September 25, 2008 07:02 PM EDT --
Kathleen Kent's debut novel is an intimate look at the Salem witch trials through the eyes of a child, 10 year-old Sarah Carrier, whose mother has been convicted of being a witch. In the Heretic's . . .
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February 05, 2009 09:52 AM EST --
A fantasy which won the Booker Prize in 2002, Life of Pi tells the magical story of a young Indian, who finds himself shipwrecked and lost at sea in a large lifeboat. His companions are four wild . . .
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October 08, 2008 07:29 PM EDT --
The Story of Lucy Gault has the same sense of historical sweep as many of Trevor's other novels and short stories about the protestant Anglo-Irish landowner class in Ireland. It is set at . . .
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January 14, 2009 07:39 PM EST --
I am a true fan of horror fiction and especially vampires novels. But I have to say the Twilight series is extremely way too childish for me. Here is a great link to The Vampire Library. . . .
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January 18, 2009 11:14 AM EST --
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo is an amazing book with love, death, war and politics. All the contents of a great book. Jean Valjean is a thief and crook at the beginning of the book but throughout the . . .
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January 24, 2009 10:33 AM EST --
An exhilarating horror novel by Stephen King called Dreamcatcher caught my attention from the very beginning. Henry, Pete, Jonesy, and Beaver were friends since their early childhood. Together they . . .
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January 30, 2009 06:38 PM EST --
Joyce's towering masterpiece is a modern interpretation of Homer's Odyssey. The book was written over a number of years, then censored due to its sexual content, and was finally . . .
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February 01, 2009 09:14 AM EST --
Last of the Mohicans tells the story of the colonial scout Hawkeye, real name Natty Bumppo, with his 2 Indian companions Changachgook (his Mohican father) and his mohican brother Uncas. They stumble . . .
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February 01, 2009 09:26 AM EST --
Genly Ai, an envoy from the human galaxy is sent to the alien planet Winter/Gethen on a mission to bring the planet Winter into the fold of an evolving intergalactic civilization. He must do so by . . .
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February 04, 2009 06:43 PM EST --
This is a curiously flawed but still fascinating book. The author's great contribution (if his findings are confirmed by others) is to show that Stalin was more intellectual, more of a committed Marxist-Leninist, . . .
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February 05, 2009 09:59 AM EST --
In the late 1970's, and for over a decade, thereafter, the currency of Che Guevara's image was down-valued. That image still appeared emblazoned on tourist and teen commodities across . . .
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June 11, 2009 10:38 AM EDT --
I have been reading a lot of world literature lately and came upon this book about the nightmarish tyranny of the unknown.
One day in August a man has disappeared. The man was an entomologist and had . . .
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September 25, 2008 10:34 AM EDT --
This is powerful tale of a Maori Family struggling to make their way in life. But t is only when they re-establish their cultural roots that they can move forward. This theme resounds . . .
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September 25, 2008 07:12 PM EDT --
In this book, the first part of his Riverworld series, Farmer introduces what is one of the most ambitious concepts in Science fiction. All of mankind who live to adulthood find themselves . . .
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September 28, 2008 10:42 AM EDT --
In her tweeds and sensible shoes, Miss Jane Marple of the quaint village of St. Mary Mead initially seems to be like any other elderly British Spinster-the type of sweet old lady who lives for . . .
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October 08, 2008 07:35 PM EDT --
Dolores Cannon is a regressionist, which is a hypnotist that specializes in past life therapy, reincarnation and the research and investigation of this phenomenon. She has regressed many people and discovered . . .
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October 08, 2008 08:41 PM EDT --
I love Stephen King's books a lot, but I find his novellas to be among his finest work. The work is tight and to the point and Cycle Of the Werewolf is no exception. The story is divided into 12 chapters, . . .
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August 23, 2009 10:57 AM EDT --
The old west was not as romantic as people thought. It was a land of violence, scarcity and unknown danger around every corner.
1. The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. Two young . . .
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September 20, 2009 09:37 AM EDT --
Survival for the sake of surviving. What is the point? I really find myself asking this question after reading this book.
Let me preface by saying that this book is not for the faint of heart. There . . .
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