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Lindsay posted a review at 2012-04-13 02:49:24 for V for Vendetta.
(Language: English)
   
I'm sure you've seen this movie before you'd consider reading this book, so let me make this review short. I read a good portion of this book to where I understood the movie more so than from watching it ten dozen times. There are different sections of the government that the evil dictator controls - the ears, the nose, the eyes, and the fingermen. The Ears are the ones in the movies going around, listening to what people have to say in their homes. They take polls based on their studies from eavesdropping. The Nose are the detectives in the movie who are used to sniff out people hiding from or trying to over throw this government. The Eyes are the men in charge of television, who report not news, but biased lies to control the people. The Fingermen are the henchmen of evil Mr. Creedy, the dictator's right hand man. They do the willpower of the leader by force and have more priviledges than anyone else. Also during the book, you learn how V (or roman numeral five) uses fertilizer, given to him for good conduct and reasoning skills, to bust out of the concentration camp and gets burned badly, making him disguise himself as the known Guy Fawkes. Evey is the same in the book as in the movie, except the book and comic book Evey is blonde and more of a sexually appealing character. Great movie, great book. The book is pretty much the whole movie, word for word, but with descriptions as to how the evil government really worked.
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Lindsay posted a review at 2012-04-13 02:49:12 for Water for Elephants.
(Language: English)
One would wonder where the title of this book came from, but you'll definately notice after reading this book that there is no such thing as water for elephants - atleast not this elephant. This wonderful novel starts off with a boy named Jacob who is about to take his finals to graduate from an ivy league university when everything he's ever known or expected from life disappears in one night. He joins the circus and starts off roughly, working his way up from odd jobs to taking care of this elephant he grows fond of, but not as fondly as the animal tamer who is, of course, married to a guy who is a schizophrenic man that will set out to kill Jacob and everything he cares about. Very interesting read - and illustrated at each chapter!
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Lindsay posted a review at 2012-04-13 02:47:47 for Saving Fish from Drowning.
(Language: English)
This book was very.. interesting. I've seen where Amy Tan got very bad reviews by some people simply because they couldn't finish the book. This book could have been divided into two separate books since the middle of it brings in a new plot all together, and it all ends very abruptly. Bibi Chen is a chinese-american who planned a trip to Myanmar with her friends in San Francisco, but is found dead in her shop days before the excursion. Her friends decide to go on without her, in her memory. But little do they know she is following them in spirit, and her spirit narrates the novel, through trips, little misunderstandings, the overnight stays, and the food they eat. When a kid on the trip shows natives magic tricks, they believe he is their reincarnated god because in the past a man had them believe he was the son of man and he said he would return to the secret land - but disappears in the jungles before he comes back. The group was split, and the world interveines, wanting to find the missing americans who were abducted by these natives who believe their leader has returned to them. It's an interesting story, written very well. Amy Tan jumps at chances where an American is shown to be naiive and stupid to other cultures outside of our own. If you plan to read this book, you should have access to a dictionary or thesaurus, because Amy Tan's vocabulary is extremely extensive.
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Lindsay posted a review at 2012-01-10 02:12:29 for Moloka'i.
(Language: English)
This was a very educational piece for me. I didn't know that lepers were actually victims of Hansen's Disease. And I didn't know who Father Damien was or that Carville, LA and Moloka'i were the two leper colonies in the U.S.. Of course the drunken sailor character would be from my home town of Baton Rouge, but it seems about right. The only thing about Alan Brennert's writing that bothered me was that he would use Hawaiian words for things throughout the book after only translating it once or twice. I couldn't remember some of the words right off hand and still have no idea what Poi looks like. Another thing that bothered me was the use of large words, used out of context, a few times on a few pages then never used again in the book. Rachel's character was greatly developed and the supporting characters were written in depth, each with distinctive lessons for Rachel to learn. This book captivated me, even through the end note - which is also an important piece of the story's conclusion
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Lindsay posted a review at 2008-09-10 07:30:37 for PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.
(Language: English)
Okay, so I lied. I didn't actually READ the entire book, b/c it's very confusing and boring without a cheat sheet of who is who and how they're related to each other. Watch the 8 hour series with Collin Firth. He's hot and the story is more beautiful than the way words on paper portray it. What I got from these characters and the entire story will stay with me forever.
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Lindsay posted a review at 2008-09-10 07:10:07 for The Last Lecture.
(Language: English)
I would rate this book a 4.5. Randy knew alot about loving and living life the best he could. Instead of taking his money and going crazy with it, blowing all his family's future plans out the window, he meticulously planned for his wife and kids to do well after he left them. It's short of a 5.0 star rating because, even though he got his childhood dreams to come true, most of it was unrealistic to me and my childhood expectations. Maybe I missed the phase as a kid when I was supposed to want to be an astronaut, and my parents didn't believe in bringing me to anything having to do with Disney other than Beauty and the Beast in theatres... This book has a lot of anachronisms so it's easy to finish one of the many short chapters and pick it up later, not having to remember what the last lesson had been. I smiled at the part where his mother said he was a doctor, but not one that helped people when no doctor I've known has touched so many hearts as Randy Pausch. <3 the story of his life.
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Lindsay posted a review at 2008-08-05 04:06:37 for American Shaolin Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch An Odyssey in the New China.
(Language: English)
American Shaolin is hilarious and insightful. Culture-shock meets drama and love at the crossroads with an action packed kungfu movie. It's kungfu because he doesn't want a lot of fu's populating the book without the ck's to go with it. There are a lot of historic and religious references throughout the book. In the end, I'm sad to of reached the last page to find out the story is finished.
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Lindsay posted a review at 2008-07-27 04:58:07 for Three Cups Of Tea.
(Language: English)
Three Cups of Tea was a delight to read, although it took me forever to finish reading it. Very well written with a wide vocabulary and reiterations to help you follow on with the story and it's many foreign words the author uses. The only thing I seemed to dislike was how the book, somewhere in the middle, slows down in time but it's even better when it picks up. Another thing is the large amount of people Mortenson meets up with time and time again - it's easy to forget which character he spends his time with in each region. Thank goodness it comes illustrated somewhat :) b/c the pictures are awesome.
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Lindsay posted a review at 2007-12-10 11:53:14 for Inheritance: A Novel.
(Language: English)
A very nice novel that has a great message about life, love, and family matters. Written well, it deals with problems no other book has done before. Takes place in China.
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Lindsay posted a review at 2007-11-06 04:47:53 for The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Verison with an Introduction (Penguin Classics).
(Language: English)
Gilgamesh wasn't the smartest character in classical mythology. You have to give it to the old religions, they tend to include such obstacles in their epic stories that are original and it's a real treat to run into original problems and see how the hero will overcome them. Hard to read for me, couldn't keep all the names straight or even the main storyline during the voyage. Wouldn't read this for leisure.
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Lindsay posted a review at 2007-11-06 04:44:00 for Theogony, Works and Days (Oxford World's Classics).
(Language: English)
Extremely hard to remember what the last passage meant as you're trying to get through the next. I love mythology, but this was absent in that it lacked actual flow of the storyline. It should have just had bullets with a timeline of what happened and who said what that was important enough to remember. It's a classic though, so I accept the fact that it may be in part due to introducing an old form of beliefs in today's society.
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Lindsay posted a review at 2007-11-06 04:41:24 for V for Vendetta.
(Language: English)
I have this book and read a few passages, also with the film book and it made me understand the movie more. Anything to do with that movie is awesome. People really shouldn't be afraid of their governments. Fuck the governments. Especially overly ruling governments... like ours :)
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Lindsay posted a review at 2007-11-06 04:36:00 for As I Lay Dying (Vintage International).
(Language: English)
This... was an awfully dull, depressing book that screamed 'hick' from the first passage. I didn't intercept the meaning of the pregnant girl and the wind, so I missed that on my class' quiz the next day. I mean, seriously, who is dumb enough to let their kid play with a drill or put cement on a broken leg? This book was hazy in that it spent too much time discussing matters and place settings than actual character personalities towards each other. I don't know. I just didn't like it, although it was a quick read, there was no point to this book in my opinion.
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Lindsay posted a review at 2007-11-06 04:31:34 for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
(Language: English)
Got a little bored half way through, when the book in no where followed the story line of the movies. Not that I'm comparing books based on movies, but this book wasn't as interesting as the first one. Lacked a well storyline, and needed more of character and problematic emphasis. Good book for children. Not great, but good enough for the imagination I suppose.
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Lindsay posted a review at 2007-11-06 04:27:57 for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter).
(Language: English)
It was a nice children's book. Not a big fan of the whole book reading series b/c it's still different from the movies. All these books and movies, up till the last three, are pretty much like a simple timeline of introduction, intro to problem, overcoming... yada yada yada. Like I said, great book for childrens' stories. Too simplistic and not a big enough use of vocabulary for me to rate it a full 5, so 4 stars will have to do.
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Lindsay posted a review at 2007-11-05 02:45:05 for Middlesex.
(Language: English)
I don\'t know why this book has 4.5 stars overall. It was fun to read at times, but it took me almost 4 months to finish because of the slow parts. The ending was a bit rushed in comparison to the other parts. I can overlook the immoral issues, and how the writer often got ahead of him/herself. Often times there were run on sentences and paragraphs of things that don\'t matter. I liked the ending of the present state with him and that girl, but it had been so long since I had read the last time they met, it didn\'t have as much of an impact. I felt the reader should have shortened a bit of the in between short stories, and focused more on the point of the book being how the sexual gender identity was determined. Kudos on the scientific standpoints and the use of a wide vocabulary. Good book. It could have been shorter and more to the point. There was too much time in between the important stories. Wouldn\'t find myself reading this book, or any other one from Oprah\'s Book Club because of the time I\'ve wasted on this one.
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Lindsay posted a review at 2007-08-02 02:24:36 for Lamb, The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal.
(Language: English)
This book was alright. I mean, at times it was funny. I didn't get some of the jokes but the others I couldn't laugh at because no one else around me has any idea what I'm reading or why I picked this book. A B&N worker threatened me to buy this book so I did and I read it alone in the hospital at work. It was funny, but still very wrong. I had a nightmare about Kali. Of course the best chapter in this book would be of the goddess of destruction... I didn't like the end and I didn't really like the story of Raziel and the hotel rooms, but the book in the end was a good book. Do not read it if you can't laugh at sacreligious jokes!
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Lindsay posted a review at 2007-06-27 11:43:22 for The Odyssey (Penguin Classics).
(Language: English)
Yeah, I agree with the only reading it for school. This book is heavy poetic... and somewhere in one of my closets... Written like all mythological stories of the ancient greeks, it's in a poetry/play type format. Not my favorite greek story, but I love their creativity in their gods, nonetheless.
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Lindsay posted a review at 2007-06-27 11:33:20 for How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale.
(Language: English)
At first I thought I was the first person to put a review of this book up. Hell yeah, I read this book. I'm not much of a Jenna Jameson fan, but she's alright. In this book it takes you back into Jenna's life by her pages she kept of her diary. She has it illustrated, also. I felt sorry for her dependence upon her loser boyfriend and what she had to do to get him to pay attention to her. Some girls, and I know a lot of them, are like that so I can't say it stood out. This book was descriptive enough, and not dirty at all if such thoughts of porn scenes don't bother you. I liked her lists to live by to the guys, and I loved the part where she danced on stage in Canada, not knowing loonies and toonies were coins being thrown at her. Super glueing a person's windshield wipers to their windshield? This book I learned a lot from, but in the same time I didn't despise her for her glamour and money, nor did I feel sorry for her when she was attacked because she was alone in skimpy clothes around an old, dirty man. This book does make you stop and think about other people, friends, strangers, people who want to love or own you. It was a different read, and respectable to say in the least. Very good book, and enjoyable for having all emotions come out through Jenna's mistakes and rewards during her lifetime.
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Lindsay posted a review at 2007-06-27 10:57:39 for Catcher in the Rye.
(Language: English)
Disliked this book with the fire of a thousand suns. Thank goodness it got banned from high schools in this area.
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Lindsay posted a review at 2007-06-27 10:52:33 for The Good Earth (Oprah's Book Club).
(Language: English)
Most of the people who have seen me reading this book have mentioned how they were forced to read it themselves at some point in their lives, but unlike books you never got into, they all gave me their synopsis and thoughts of this book's meanings. Some didn't like it for it was a sad ending. Some thought it made you think about how life is forever ongoing, in an unending pattern. I read the end of this book during a thunderstorm and laughed as I turned the last page. All the characters I came to hate in the book would eventually die soon, so everyone gets their ends. This book starts off with a well mannered, young loving soul who is greatful of what small fortunes he has acquired but soon turns into the man he looked up to and loathed throughout his earlier years in life. There are parts in this book where I had no idea where things were going to pull through or who would die, but then parts that made me so depressed as others made me gleeful. This was a definately good read and it was written differently than what I'm used to. Beautiful, yet more poetic. Apparently the one reoccuring word in this story is "meet", which is a word the author uses for something that is considered, "customary." Great book, beautifully written, well defined characters, and understandable struggles undertaken by life loving characters.
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Lindsay posted a review at 2007-06-18 10:51:48 for The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction.
(Language: English)
This will be my shortest review, ever. I loved this book, it was written well and travels back in time a couple of times, but it definately makes you think and it stays with you forever! Anytime someone speaks of the Vietnam War, this book will come to mind, fiction or not. The shitfield was disgusting, the suicides of old war veterans were sad, but the most disturbing thing about this book was the necklace of tongues around a soldier's exgirlfriend. It gave me nightmares. Loved the book, favorite action book ever!!!
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Lindsay posted a review at 2007-06-13 05:39:44 for Angelina Jolie's: Notes from My Travels.
(Language: English)
Angelina Jolie is my favorite actress, and I adore her for the time and money she puts in to helping people around the world. In this novel, the journals of her time spent abroad, she describes the uses of NGOs (non-government organizations) and what people around the world, especially refugees, are facing in their daily lives. Short book, but informing and well written. Ends with her on the plane, thinking of her first adopted son, Maddox.
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Lindsay posted a review at 2007-06-13 05:28:22 for Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition Of The Mayan Book Of The Dawn Of Life And The Glories Of.
(Language: English)
Did you know the word Hurrican came from the Quiche god of lightening and thunder? Popol Vuh is an ancient book of the Mayan civilization, written in Quiche. It's unlike any other mythological text I've encountered. Within this book, there are many ways a person can be tricked into their death. Also, the self-centered gods are killed, for acting like they are above the other gods. The first four human people are created, named Jaguar Quitze, Jaguar Night, Not Right Now, and Dark Jaguar. The rest of the book (that doesn't focus on the downfall of evil gods, or the creation of man and monkeys) focuses on the lives of two sons, Hunahpu and Xbalanque, who trick the rulers of Xibalaba (underground hell) in response to Xibalba killing their father and uncle. Interesting. Illustrated, too.
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Lindsay posted a review at 2007-06-13 05:12:36 for The Prose Edda: Tales from Norse Mythology.
(Language: English)
Always interesting to read about beliefs of ancient religions. Keep an open mind. Great if you're into exploring different ideals of how man was created.
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