Delightful! Although I find rather disturbing the amount of parallels I continue to spy between the Inheritance cycle and the original Star Wars trilogy (at least plot wise)…especially during the recap of the first two books at the beginning.
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Part the First
Farm boy’s boring life explosively interrupted by exciting worldly politics
Story about an ancient race [...]
Slow start, then it starts building to a fever pitch…
The deluxe edition of the version that I read included the author’s original epilogue, an article she wrote several years later about the house that inspired this novel, and a note from the author that planted a theory in my head. See, the author started [...]
My God! Joel Rosenberg is absolutely incredible. His books and characters suck you in and thrash you until you don’t have any life left in you to read and then you keep reading. Because you have to know what happens. What I really enjoy is that his series of books is basically Tom Clancy crossed [...]
Having seen the paths of all the other original characters through the “Wicked” lens, Maguire now focuses his lens on The Cowardly Lion formally known as Brrr in order to re-examine the life and time of Elphaba and her descendants. Having already revolutionized him as a fop having his curls twirled by Nick Chopper [...]
Just as brilliant as last time, Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen continue to draw us in to their active history to analyze great military commanders and the men they commanded.
Picking up where Pearl Harbor left off (with General Yamamoto ordering a catastrophic third strike on Pearl Harbor that decimates the dry dock), we see a [...]
I appreciated this book, not just as an exciting historical thriller (akin to Da Vinci Code and it’s many spawn), but for taking the issues of faith and religion a step further in this book. Unlike Da Vinci Code, here we have a character who is a member of the faith the supposed Templar secret [...]
Joel Rosenberg so perfectly combines the style of Tom Clancy, Dan Brown and La Haye/Jenkins that it is absolutely irresistible. The characters are so familiar and comfortable, the plot is terse and believable, and the book is great fun. He is one of the few authors (K. A. Applegate and Eoin Colfer being [...]
Finished on September 4th, 2008
Who is the more admirable character, the actress Laura Keene or the assassin’s sister, Asia Booth Clarke?
Before reading this book, I would have had no idea how to answer this question, but now I know all this and more and am very glad to have read this book.
I first heard about [...]
I just can’t stop reading! I was absolutely riveted and completely drawn in by Eoin Colfer’s fascinating and technological revamp of the Fair Folk and teenage genius Artemis Fowl.
I haven’t devoured pint-sized novels like this since my love of K. A. Applegate’s Animorphs.
My Fair Lady
It had the understudy London Mary Poppins as Eliza Doolittle, Marni Nixon as Henry Higgins’ mother and an enthusiastic, Step-In-Time-esque version of With A Little Bit of Luck.
Watching this version, it was a stark realization of how much you don’t want to like Alfred Doolittle, but you still end up laughing at his [...]