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Review Date: 5/31/2006
I liked the Da Vinci Code better, but this one was definitely a page turner, too. Suspenseful and fun. Made me interested in reading all the rest of Brown's books.
Review Date: 8/14/2006
Travel through a "dark, chaotic, unfathomable pool of time" with Joyce Carol Oates as she explores the Bellefleur curse.
Review Date: 10/14/2012
Helpful Score: 3
A good fun book, with a clever story-telling mechanism.
Six stories arranged like a sandwich inside a sandwich inside a sandwich ..., where each one finds the "story" of the character before them which ends unexpectedly, then completes in reverse order.
Of the stories themselves - they really had different "feels" to them. Some were more to my liking, and some not so much, but even so it was worth the read to get the whole tapestry.
The plot, well there are 6 plots ranging from "long ago" to "in the far distant future". I'll leave it at that. Any more details would be too much, or too little (or both).
Six stories arranged like a sandwich inside a sandwich inside a sandwich ..., where each one finds the "story" of the character before them which ends unexpectedly, then completes in reverse order.
Of the stories themselves - they really had different "feels" to them. Some were more to my liking, and some not so much, but even so it was worth the read to get the whole tapestry.
The plot, well there are 6 plots ranging from "long ago" to "in the far distant future". I'll leave it at that. Any more details would be too much, or too little (or both).
Review Date: 11/30/2007
Couldn't get into it. The author just rambles on.
Review Date: 8/14/2006
(As if) written by autistic 15 year old as a journal, as he tries to solve who killed his neighbor's dog. An interesting read, my 15 year old daughter loved it and read it 3 times.
Review Date: 1/31/2006
(part of a series) On his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, dedicated throughout the ages to keping the world from domination by the Dark. "in the tradition of C.S. Lewis and Tolkein"
Review Date: 1/31/2006
[In this] profound and powerful book, [Dr Peck] challenges us to take a journey in self-awareness: to achieve, through the creative experience of community, a new "connectedness" and wholeness.
Review Date: 6/3/2006
another winner by Brown, if you liked any of his books, you should like this one too.
Review Date: 9/9/2006
A varied collection of stories and essays, each with an explanatory introduction. I liked them very much, but I like Zelazny's work anyway.
Review Date: 1/31/2006
The Andersons own a farm. But below its calm green surface The Plants are growing, the horrible and deadly Plants. They are part of the invasion which is reducing earth to ashes.
Review Date: 10/14/2012
Helpful Score: 2
I had mixed feelings about this book.
It starts off with some seemingly unrelated stories that soon come together. The main plot is about a pair of twins (one dies in the very beginning), and the (US) twin daughters/nieces that inherit her London flat.
I like the author's writing style (and loved her previous book). What I didn't like about this story is that A) a number of times it suddenly jumps ahead a few weeks/months without any "warning or explanation, and you have to that figure out because the weather is different, or people "know" things they didn't before.
and B) there are some KEY decisions people make that just didn't make sense to me.
Not "the big secret", but ... why didn't she just leave? Why did ANYone agree with the plan? Especially the ones that did!? It just didn't make sense.
It starts off with some seemingly unrelated stories that soon come together. The main plot is about a pair of twins (one dies in the very beginning), and the (US) twin daughters/nieces that inherit her London flat.
I like the author's writing style (and loved her previous book). What I didn't like about this story is that A) a number of times it suddenly jumps ahead a few weeks/months without any "warning or explanation, and you have to that figure out because the weather is different, or people "know" things they didn't before.
and B) there are some KEY decisions people make that just didn't make sense to me.
Not "the big secret", but ... why didn't she just leave? Why did ANYone agree with the plan? Especially the ones that did!? It just didn't make sense.
Review Date: 9/20/2006
Good book, if a bit dated.
Think "Freaky Friday" with aliens and espionage (and some sexual themes).
What if there was an alien race with the ability to switch bodies (with yours!) at the mere touch of a hand. Now a secret government organization knows, and is trying to duplicate tha ability for its own purposes. But there is a second alien race that can also do it, and we humans are caught in the middle of a potential war.
Think "Freaky Friday" with aliens and espionage (and some sexual themes).
What if there was an alien race with the ability to switch bodies (with yours!) at the mere touch of a hand. Now a secret government organization knows, and is trying to duplicate tha ability for its own purposes. But there is a second alien race that can also do it, and we humans are caught in the middle of a potential war.
Review Date: 7/25/2015
Collection of mostly reprinted short stories, covering a span of years, about a group of friends and their interactions with the aliens whose buildings suddenly appeared one day all over earth. Very readable. A little naive and predictable, but still good. Makes me want to read other books by the same author.
Review Date: 1/31/2006
[This book] has helped more than 300,000 readers:
- Improve their regard for themselves and others
- Take charge of situations and overcome problems
- Understand how to create joy and happiness
- Improve their capacity to find life's riches
- Grow intellectually and spiritually
- Experience the feeling of inner peace
- Improve their regard for themselves and others
- Take charge of situations and overcome problems
- Understand how to create joy and happiness
- Improve their capacity to find life's riches
- Grow intellectually and spiritually
- Experience the feeling of inner peace
The Next EXIT 2006 (Next Exit: The Most Complete Interstate Highway Guide Ever Printed)
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Book Type: Paperback
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Review Date: 12/28/2008
Helpful Score: 2
I actually got this by chance, I really wanted a different book specifically about Rest Areas, but this was available too. (I think it was listed as "similar to..." or "other people who got that book also ...")
Leafing through I thought: hmmm, ok, whatever.
But we took it (the 2007 edition, actually) on a trip from Ohio to Florida, and I was REALLY impressed.
a) easy to use
b) easy to read
c) you can know ahead of time which gas stations, eateries, hotels (and more) are coming up at "the next exit".
d) also which side of the highway they will be on
But more than that, you can look ahead further.
How far to the next Chinese restaurant? (or any specific brand gas/hotel/etc)
Does that exit only have a few choices, or is it a busy area (that may have some unlisted/newer choices as well)?
Shows "RV accessible" businesses.
By the time you read this I will probably have bought the new edition from their website and "swapped" this copy here.
(note: does not include Alaska or Hawaii)
Leafing through I thought: hmmm, ok, whatever.
But we took it (the 2007 edition, actually) on a trip from Ohio to Florida, and I was REALLY impressed.
a) easy to use
b) easy to read
c) you can know ahead of time which gas stations, eateries, hotels (and more) are coming up at "the next exit".
d) also which side of the highway they will be on
But more than that, you can look ahead further.
How far to the next Chinese restaurant? (or any specific brand gas/hotel/etc)
Does that exit only have a few choices, or is it a busy area (that may have some unlisted/newer choices as well)?
Shows "RV accessible" businesses.
By the time you read this I will probably have bought the new edition from their website and "swapped" this copy here.
(note: does not include Alaska or Hawaii)
Review Date: 12/28/2008
I actually got this by chance, I really wanted a different book specifically about Rest Areas, but this was available too. (I think it was listed as "similar to..." or "other people who got that book also ...")
Leafing through I thought: hmmm, ok, whatever.
But we took it on a trip from Ohio to Florida, and I was REALLY impressed.
a) easy to use
b) easy to read
c) you can know ahead of time which gas stations, eateries, hotels (and more) are coming up at "the next exit".
d) also which side of the highway they will be on
But more than that, you can look ahead further.
How far to the next Chinese restaurant? (or any specific brand gas/hotel/etc)
Does that exit only have a few choices, or is it a busy area (that may have some unlisted/newer choices as well)?
Shows "RV accessible" businesses.
By the time you read this I will probably have bought the new edition from their website and "swapped" this copy here.
(note: does not include Alaska or Hawaii)
Leafing through I thought: hmmm, ok, whatever.
But we took it on a trip from Ohio to Florida, and I was REALLY impressed.
a) easy to use
b) easy to read
c) you can know ahead of time which gas stations, eateries, hotels (and more) are coming up at "the next exit".
d) also which side of the highway they will be on
But more than that, you can look ahead further.
How far to the next Chinese restaurant? (or any specific brand gas/hotel/etc)
Does that exit only have a few choices, or is it a busy area (that may have some unlisted/newer choices as well)?
Shows "RV accessible" businesses.
By the time you read this I will probably have bought the new edition from their website and "swapped" this copy here.
(note: does not include Alaska or Hawaii)
Review Date: 2/16/2007
Stories by Robert Bloch, Richard Hardwick, Laurence Janifer, Gilbert Ralston, Fletcher Flora, Dan Marlowe, August Derleth, Richard Deming, C. Gilford, Henry Slesar, Borden Deal, Ed Lacy,Jack Ritchie and Jonathan Graig.
Review Date: 10/25/2007
Good book, good author. The start of a series.
Well-told from a non-human perspective.
First contact between a number of species ("The Compact") and a human.
Well-told from a non-human perspective.
First contact between a number of species ("The Compact") and a human.
Review Date: 5/30/2006
Quirky, different, fun. Dentist gets kidnapped by aliens. Can he learn enough about alien dentistry in time? Can he gat back to earth? Does he want to?
Review Date: 1/15/2009
Easy read, nice book.
I quickly realized the "secret", but the ending was a bit of a surprise.
What I didn't like is that there are too many passages like:
I don't know why [... someone did something] ... was it because ... or maybe they ... but perhaps ... I'll never know
SO SHUT UP ALREADY !!!! Just say this is what happened, I don't know why, and let us speculate by ourselves. Ok, not quite. Some speculation is ok, but it got tiring.
Raises some "moral questions" (the affair, should you tell someone else's secret, are "The Bad Guys" always bad guys) but mostly left too much for book discussion groups.
Oh, and it had a lot of sex in the first third.
R
I quickly realized the "secret", but the ending was a bit of a surprise.
What I didn't like is that there are too many passages like:
I don't know why [... someone did something] ... was it because ... or maybe they ... but perhaps ... I'll never know
SO SHUT UP ALREADY !!!! Just say this is what happened, I don't know why, and let us speculate by ourselves. Ok, not quite. Some speculation is ok, but it got tiring.
Raises some "moral questions" (the affair, should you tell someone else's secret, are "The Bad Guys" always bad guys) but mostly left too much for book discussion groups.
Oh, and it had a lot of sex in the first third.
R
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