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Review Date: 7/22/2006
Not my cup of pepsi, but maybe someone else's.
Review Date: 5/17/2006
Amazon.com
"Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for granted today--let's hope the sterility and absence of individuality he predicted aren't yet to come. --
"Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for granted today--let's hope the sterility and absence of individuality he predicted aren't yet to come. --
Review Date: 10/11/2006
This book made me so angry and so happy - frustrating but great read!
Review Date: 3/30/2006
Honestly, I never read it. I got it on sale when it first came out and just am not interested in keeping it.
Review Date: 5/27/2008
Helpful Score: 1
I learned so much about the Mormon community - which I think is interesting in itself - but this was also a personal-conflict story with a surprising ending.
Carpe Demon: Adventures of Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom (Kate Connor, Bk 1)
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Book Type: Paperback
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Book Type: Paperback
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Review Date: 8/7/2006
Funny and Buffy-esque at the same time.
Review Date: 5/17/2006
Back cover:
"Carrie was not quite aware that she was possessed of a terrifying power. But it was enough to transform a small, quiet New England town into a holocaust of destruction beyond the imagination of man. Innocent schoolgirl or vengeful demon, Carrie will make you shudder.."
OK, I wouldn't be THAT dramatic, but this was a really great read.
"Carrie was not quite aware that she was possessed of a terrifying power. But it was enough to transform a small, quiet New England town into a holocaust of destruction beyond the imagination of man. Innocent schoolgirl or vengeful demon, Carrie will make you shudder.."
OK, I wouldn't be THAT dramatic, but this was a really great read.
Review Date: 4/8/2006
Helpful Score: 1
Much better zombie story than the movies!
Review Date: 5/17/2006
A possessed car, a teen geek, and vintage King writing.
Review Date: 10/11/2010
Helpful Score: 2
I, too, was drawn in by the many great reviews of this book and was baffled when I saw how bad it was. I want those two hours of my life back.
Review Date: 3/8/2008
Helpful Score: 1
I'm not much for this era's literature, but this was a good read. A lot of sarcasm and humor and a genuine surprise! Not bad.
Review Date: 11/7/2006
Helpful Score: 7
I'm torn - on one hand, this book made me cry and hug my husband a lot. He is still trying to figure that one out LOL. On the other, I did find the last few chapters kind of rushed and almost too 'easy' compared to the rest of the story. It seemed like one person wrote the first half (great) and the second half (ehh).
Review Date: 6/30/2009
Helpful Score: 3
I loved about 90% of this book...
Then the language got worse, the story lost its intelligence and integrity and the ending got phoned-in. As much as the first and middle kept me completely entranced, the ending made me completely angered and disappointed.
Then the language got worse, the story lost its intelligence and integrity and the ending got phoned-in. As much as the first and middle kept me completely entranced, the ending made me completely angered and disappointed.
Review Date: 4/6/2006
Another beautifully-written masterpiece by Ms. Picoult!
Review Date: 1/29/2007
As I'm not an Austen fan, I didn't enjoy this much. This was the first time I've read a book and really disliked the characters without exception.
Review Date: 6/1/2006
From Publishers Weekly
Helena Al-Khoury is prickly, reserved and even arrogant. Also resourceful and kind, she will win readers over in her struggles against the forces of history, nature and prejudice. Helena is uprooted over and over in her youth. First, in 1860, her Maronite Christian family flees Turkish persecution in Beirut. After they arrive in Chicago, her father dies of typhoid, leaving Helena and her mother Leila destitute. Leila remarries, and her new husband Tom Harding takes them to western Canada. After Tom and Leila succumb to smallpox, Helena inherits Tom's land and contentedly settles in with his half-black, half-Cree partner Joe Black. Life again turns upside down for Helena when an uncle in Liverpool dies, leaving her his soap factory. Traveling to England, she finds a family problem in her uncle's embittered, illegitimate son and a difficult choice to make: should she stay, run the factory and enjoy a comfortable urban life or return to grueling frontier life and to Black, whom she loves? Forrester ( The Moneylenders of Shahpur ) succeeds in rendering her tale with vivid settings, particularly of Liverpool's workaday world. This British import reached the #3 spot on the London Sunday Times bestseller list.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc
Helena Al-Khoury is prickly, reserved and even arrogant. Also resourceful and kind, she will win readers over in her struggles against the forces of history, nature and prejudice. Helena is uprooted over and over in her youth. First, in 1860, her Maronite Christian family flees Turkish persecution in Beirut. After they arrive in Chicago, her father dies of typhoid, leaving Helena and her mother Leila destitute. Leila remarries, and her new husband Tom Harding takes them to western Canada. After Tom and Leila succumb to smallpox, Helena inherits Tom's land and contentedly settles in with his half-black, half-Cree partner Joe Black. Life again turns upside down for Helena when an uncle in Liverpool dies, leaving her his soap factory. Traveling to England, she finds a family problem in her uncle's embittered, illegitimate son and a difficult choice to make: should she stay, run the factory and enjoy a comfortable urban life or return to grueling frontier life and to Black, whom she loves? Forrester ( The Moneylenders of Shahpur ) succeeds in rendering her tale with vivid settings, particularly of Liverpool's workaday world. This British import reached the #3 spot on the London Sunday Times bestseller list.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc
Review Date: 10/22/2006
Painfully detailed - emotionally hard to read for the subject matter but well written.
Review Date: 4/8/2006
Painful but beautiful - if you like Jodi Picoult, it's a gotta-have.
Review Date: 4/1/2006
My first encounter with Jodi Picoult. Though the story was somewhat dark, I was caught up by her amazing writing and now I'm addicted!
Review Date: 4/14/2010
Please don't waste your time reading this book. I wanted to shoot myself by the end. Over-hyped and underwritten.
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