Recommend & Review

[channingonfire]

I read it in a night because I had to write a paper on it and it was due the next day (Lets here it for slackers!) so I'm just surprised that I can remember what happened in it, though I think the only reason I do is because I had to quote almost every chapter. Didn't help that I got confused with the timeline and thought it was WW2 when it was really WW1. Still a really good book, great for discussion on just how far should the first amendment go. He brings up many valid points even if I didn't equally agree with him.

[mS.loVeLy]

A Rose For Melinda by Lurlene McDaniels is a good book. about a girl who has cancer and her childhood sweetheart. It was a very emotional book, sad and romantic

[lostflight2]

I was first introduced to Cornelia Funke in The Theif Lord. I liked it so much that I was very excited to read Inkheart, and Inkspell, a series which follows a little girl Meggie whose father has an extraordiany gift when it comes to reading aloud. I would highly reccomend this book to everyone, and, although it is a bit long, it is great for parents to read with their children, so they can be transported to the fantastic world in which I found myself when I read Inkspell, which now claims the coveted number one position on my long list of favorite books. This summary poured out of me when I finished it.

Cornelia Funke is a magician, and her magic wand is her pen. Her words take me into the Inkworld, summoning me into their story, as fluidly and effortlessly as Meggie’s gentle voice. When I read the descriptions of the Wayless Woods, of Ombra, and the Laughing Prince, or even the Silver Palace, I feel as though Mo’s magical reading has taken me there, just as it did his wife Resa, so many years ago.
When Farid and Meggie find out what true love is, I cannot tear my eyes from the page. And when Roxane loses true love, her tearing heart fuels my tearing eyes. I am trapped in their story, just as Dustfinger was in ours for those long ten years.
As I approach the last words on the last page, I realize my journey through this incredible story is almost over. I begin to frantically read aloud, trying, as Meggie did, to slide between the pages and be at the mercy of Fengolios ever-growing story. But I am not as successful as the daughter of the legendary Silvertouge. I cannot visit the world where words are the most powerful weapon and can change and grow as if they were alive. I despair and know I would even put up with the cheese-faced Orpheus, if only he would take me to the world where Fengolio’s pen rules mightier than any sword.
Are there people like Meggie, Mo, Darius and Orpheus in my story? People who could take me anywhere I wanted, into any literary world I choose?

[Donna_Kebab]

The Chemistry Of Death By Simon Beckett
For a debut novel i must say this book was brilliant and would highly recommend it to any crime/thriller fans.

In a nutshell the story is about an ex forensic anthropologist who leaves London to work as a GP in a small village in Norfolk. Then when women start to disappear and get brutally murdered in his village he finds himself helping the police out with their enquiries.

As a massive fan of programmes like CSI and Bones, I loved the forensic aspect to it (rather morbidly, I find this stuff fascinating!) and the attention to detail is amazing

[Andiee]

Poems from Paul Elvard.
Many his poems are realy realy nice.

And the second thing i recomend you is the Diary of ceasar Markus Aurelius. Is not a novel but his thouhts about the world and stuff like that. It's ful of so called "universal truths" and very, how should i say...well it gives you something.

[nicnac]

just read all af raymond.e. feist books again, never get boring if you like the fantasy genre. He has a new one coming out at the beginning of next year, the next of the darkwar sega,looks good.

[vmkids]

Tuesdays with morrie now that is food for thought!

[twinreader]

For the pretentious table - how about War Peace. It is about 1 1/2 feet thick - I only skimmed through it even though it was on one of my final exams.

For the rejects table - how about a novel whose title asks more questions than it answers, like DH Lawrence "Sons & Lovers" or Nabokov's "Lolita" (There is also Melville's "Moby Dick", but maybe we won't go there......)

[twinreader]

Ilike Raymond Feist too. When does his new series come out?

(My favorite series is The Discworld books by Terry Pratchett. )

[nicnac]

feist did the riftwar series the next book is due out very soon

[twinreader]

Just finished Three Cups of Tea. Great book! It is a true story about a mountain climber who almost died on a climb.He was rescued by villagers in a remote village. They nursed him bac to health and sent someone to get rescuers. He promised to come back and build a school, which he did. Great story - I am wondering if someone is writing the screenplay.

[nicnac]

wrath of a mad god is the next book in the dark war saga, pre-orders are available from Amazon at the min

[twinreader]

I want to pre-order and get it sent to myself at work. If my husband gets the mail at home, he will get to read it first!

[Mother Earth]

I have just finished reading Labyrinth by Kate Mosse, and I quite enjoyed it.

To go into the plot is too difficult, so it is best if you simply read a few reviews on the novel itself. I have chosen two which I think explain how good this story is.

First, a review by Kathryn Hughes of The Guardian: http://books.guardian.co.uk/departme...547905,00.html
Second, a review by Ross King of the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...032301450.html


It is rather difficult to explain what the story is about myself, which is why I have provided the links to the reviews.
If this book sounds like the sort of novel you would read, go for it! You won't be disppointed, that I can promise.

[Taminar]

I just finished reading "Hidden" by Eve Kenin. It's a sequel, but I never read the first book, and I didn't have any trouble following the action. The main character is Tatiana, a genetically altered super-warrior. Her one shortcoming is that she doesn't have much experience in social interaction, because she was raised by a computer and kept for years in prison cells by a psychotic scientist. Now she's after the scientist to kill him and keep him from harming anyone else. Along the way, she meets Tristan and immediately gets the hots for him, but she doesn't want to get involved with anyone and she certainly doesn't trust him (or anyone else). He may, however, hold the key to finding the evil scientist. The whole thing is set in the not-too-distant future, in a frozen area of the north known simply as "the Waste." Everything is described very clearly, so it's easy to picture the settings and all the action, but the plot doesn't get bogged down with exposition. I highly recommend it, and I'm heading out tomorrow to snag a copy of the first book, "Driven."