Customer Review: This book has many characters but only one personality, afflicted to varying degrees with the same case of the blahs. The jacket promises uplift, but the novel's ideal of virtue is world-weary and emotionally blank. I admit, I was drawn through to the end. The imagined universe, though... more info
Customer Review: Poisonwood Bible is one of my favorite books, why pick it apart? Every few years I get hungry to read it again. My criteria for a good book is simple: Does it make me laugh, cry, think, feel, does it take me into other worlds or other times? Poisonwood does all of those things.
Customer Review: This book is truly, truly, amazing. At first, it may seem a tad slow, but once you really get into it and start to learn more about the characters, it is obviously a very brilliantly written book. The plot surrounding Alaska's death is sad, as we get attached to her by the middle of the book, but... more info
Customer Review: Brooks has written a long engaging tale of elves, humans, demons, and magic. Monsters include lizards, croaks, and a giant centipede. Children street gangs seek survival as demons lead once-men to wipe out the human race. The two remaining Kights of the Word are the only defence and their hope rests... more info
Customer Review: I listened to this one as I drove back and forth to work, 40 minutes each way. The story is great, and the oral performance is absolutely superb! I rarely repeat a book, in any form, but I'm getting ready to listen to this one again. Highly entertaining.
Customer Review: The efforts of Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson together with Greg Call who provides the odd illustration every now and again has resulted in another extremely high quality read that can be enjoyed by both children and adults as well. Fifth book in the series and third dealing specifically with the... more info
Customer Review: Joseph Conrad is an amazing writer; he uses the English language of the late 19th and early 20th centuries beautifully, he describes the colonial world at its apogee, he tells engrossing stories but even his seemingly potboiler plots (such as The Secret Sharer) raise disturbingly serious moral... more info
Customer Review: Picking up a book by John Green is a guaranteed treat; you know you are going to become friends with a host of teens who will make you laugh, make you think, and make you recognize yourself in them. An Abundance of Katherines is no exception, and it's a fun ride from the first pages. Colin... more info
