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A Reader posted a review at 2010-03-30 09:27:49 for S is for Silence (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries).
(Language: English)
 
Easy and light read. Good book to put you to sleep.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-02-16 04:35:50 for The Bluest Eye.
(Language: English)
I love the language she uses through out the book. It makes the images that the story creates so vivid and sensory. This would make a great book to study if you want to learn to write meaningful fiction. I find that the characters linger in the mind after you complete the book.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-11-07 11:57:23 for The Lost Symbol.
(Language: English)
Almost done with the book. I did not like to find out I have been misled throughout the book, and on many occasions been given only half of a clue, or part of the truth. It reads like a roller-coaster with the main characters running from place to place on the verge of death, harm, or discovery. Ma'kahl's shock at Langdon's survival is ridiculous. I'm on the fence on this book. It's fun, but insulting to your intelligence (unless it's intended for a younger audience with less experience in reading novels).
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-10-25 09:42:54 for Gideon the Cutpurse: Being the First Part of the Gideon Trilogy.
(Language: English)
I enjoyed the book as a light read. You have to suspend reality quite a bit when it came to the time travel. The ending was too predictable and didn't instill in me the desire to find the second part of the trilogy in a strong way. I started the book to see if it would be appropriate for my students as a read aloud. I am enjoying the details of life in the 18th century, and the time travel concept is always entertaining. The fact that the mail characters are children was what first got me interested in the book for my classroom, but I'm not sure the sub-text of a troubled relationship with the father figure would be right for my second graders. I'm enjoying the book for myself.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-09-02 05:02:29 for The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Centennial Edition (1902-2002).
(Language: English)
This book really shows how we still have the same problems today with the banks, greed, and lack of concern for the poor, who continue to struggle to live and make ends meet. I was traveling through the areas that the Joad family went to in search of work, and it was erie how there are still large expanses of farm lands that seemed untouched by time. It made my reading more vivid, although the geography had changed somewhat. Steinbeck's description of the times is so complete that it is easy to envision an earlier time without modernization of the roads and highways. The ending was a shock to me, but it made perfect sense that there should be such a drastic final moment where all the people affected by the slow starvation of a human economy should realize that there is no help but the help they make for themselves. Great book. Reread this classic novel for an appreciation of our life.
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