Tag: books
group name: randomreviews
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March 25, 2007 11:48 AM EDT --
I’ve read countless books dealing with the ideas that were brought up in the book by Dan Brown.
There have been books about the historical Jesus – and other characters from the Bible – . . . more
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December 30, 2006 07:11 PM EST --
The special effects were great, I loved Jeremy Irons and the costumes were awesome. I thought it was interesting how they traveled light, but still had new clothes to wear, but if you believe . . . more
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August 28, 2006 09:24 AM EDT --
Christopher Moore is under-appreciated. Sure sure he has a cult following and is slowly growing in popularity, but his name is not on everyone's lips as it should be. I'm telling you right now . . . more
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March 02, 2007 08:37 AM EST --
By Sue Grafton
I've read quite a few in this series. The last one had been Q is for Quarry.
I enjoy the writing and the female private investigator. The books are rather formulaic . . . more
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September 25, 2006 04:14 PM EDT --
I'm not sure why "Flight" is the title story of José Skinner's splendid (2002) collection of short stories. It is one of the wry New Yorker-style stories that deftly sketches a situation . . . more
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October 23, 2006 10:57 AM EDT --
I don't usually go in for what I term Housewife Porn, but sometimes a cute title does sucker me into it. Such is the case with Michele Beardsley's I'm the Vampire, That's Why! Don't . . . more
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April 17, 2007 11:36 AM EDT --
Peter Swanson's Hollywood Sinners is a loopy "Wizard of Oz" where
assorted down-at-heel characters, all of them of questionable virtue,
cross paths in 1930's Hollywood -- specifically . . . more
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October 25, 2006 03:38 PM EDT --
It's hard to contemplate anything having to do with the fate of empires without imaging reflections from the chas of Iraq, though even George W. Bush's harshest critics imagine that his military . . . more
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November 18, 2006 09:38 PM EST --
This is the third of (so-far) sixmystery novels in which murders occur around Nick Hoffman, an Edith Wharton scholar soon to come up for tenure in a rancorous department at the State University of Michigan . . . more
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January 18, 2007 04:14 PM EST --
After working on research for The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody for 16 years, Author Will Cuppy died. That's a damn shame because he was a freakin genius. I've not yet read any of his . . . more
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March 05, 2007 11:29 AM EST --
I am drowing in books. There are stacks of books to pass on to worthy companions and stacks of books to read.
I have about 20 bookcases in the house - they are ALL filled and books are stacking up in many . . . more
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March 03, 2007 07:02 PM EST --
Written by Guillermo Martínez
I left the house without a book, so bought this at the thrift shop before coming home. I read it on the bus, then at home until I finished it - less than 200 . . . more
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January 20, 2007 07:56 AM EST --
I have been an avid reader since my earliest memories. I constantly have a book by the bedside, and tons more waiting in line to be read. My interest run a very wide range of genres, but my favourites . . . more
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April 15, 2007 06:38 PM EDT --
Author - Steve Berry
As much as I like the genre of historical thrillers, I think I had my fill at this point.
The premise here is that the library of Alexandria had been saved - or at least part of . . . more
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January 02, 2007 04:07 AM EST --
By Elizabeth Lynn
A(nother) book review
Took a bit of getting involved with, but I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
There are changelings - hawk, wolf, dragon - kings, nobles, vengeful wars, family . . . more
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March 02, 2007 06:03 AM EST --
First to ask, first to receive - leave me your address, and I'll send the books out.
Homeless Bird- Gloria Whelan - a young woman in India is forced into a marriage. Cultural differences. . . . more
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October 26, 2006 04:44 PM EDT --
"Not Quite a Memoir" is a peculiar title, though it succeeds in raising curiosity about what the book is. The subtitle starts to narrow the focus with of films, book," but then opens up . . . more
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February 08, 2007 02:24 AM EST --
"Philosophy and theology have no effect on [Pastor Primus], much less plain common sense. Impossible to convince this man by argument. But humor he always listens to, even though it be ill humor. . . . more
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April 28, 2007 01:38 PM EDT --
Earlier this month I was asked by some wonderful people at gather if I'd be interested in trying out and reviewing a Sony® Reader PRS500. My first thought was "Who wouldn't?!" and . . . more
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September 22, 2006 07:12 PM EDT --
If I waited a long time to get around to reading A Purity of Arms, I waited much longer to get around to reading Sherri Cavan's Hippies of the Haight. which was published in 1972, eight years before . . . more
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