Highest Rated Review by the Community
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Dec 19 '00
Pros: Excellent, well-written novel
Cons: none
Summary: Jodi Picoult's novel The Pact is subtitled "a love story," and in a way it is a love story. But The Pact is also a gripping courtroom drama and many other things.
The Harte family and the Gold family live next door to each other in a small ... read more
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Jan 09 '01
Pros: well written, believable account of two women in love
Cons: as a first novel, there are some weaknesses in the narrative
Summary: Nevada Barr, who is better known for her Anna Pigeon mysteries, presents in "Bittersweet," a novel depicting the life of women in the late 1800s. The story centers on a school teacher, Imogene Grelznik, run out of town following the discovery ... read more
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Jan 08 '01
Pros: everything under the sun, and above it, and the sun itself
Cons: you'lll have to buy her books, not just check them out from the library
Summary: atoms into molecules
molecules into bases
into amino acids
into proteins
into cells
into tissues
into simple animals
into complex animals
into you and me. ... read more
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Jan 08 '01
Pros: Very Imaginative and Gifted Writer
Cons: None to my mind
Summary: C. S. Friedman's books were my most delightful discovery of the past year. I first read her Coldfire Triology and was fascinated. A world (Erna, colonized by earth settlers who mistakenly thought it was like Earth) in which the Fae knows what you are ... read more
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Jan 07 '01
Pros: Excellent style, clever re-setting of an old myth
Cons: None
Summary: Tanith Lee takes the reader to a futuristic world where beauty is the norm, and genetic screening is done to insure the beauty and vigor of most offspring. We are introduced to one Magdala Cled, a girl with an ugly name, ugly face, and a deformed body. ... read more
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Jan 07 '01
Pros: Easy Reading
Cons: Plot , Preaching and Ending
Summary: Robin Cook has been one of my favorite authors. I have read the majority of his books. I read Abduction with high aspirations. I was a little disappointed. The book was not all that bad. I actually had a hard time putting it down. It is very easy ... read more
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Jan 06 '01
Pros: good story telling
Cons: none
Summary: I found this book to be very enjoyable reading. The author is very
organized. She is able to present a complex story incorporating a myriad
of historical facts; dates,events,characters,and the like. However, rather
than just a ... read more
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Jan 05 '01
Pros: I enjoyed the education on the Maori wars, it prompted me to research this topic farther, which I have enjoyed doing.
Cons: Have I said these books are to short before.
Summary: A great follow up to the Potato Factory.
The boy's are now men in their own right and have a itch to see some of the world and have their own adventures and that they do, from the Maori land wars to Sydney town through to the gold fields the ... read more
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Jan 05 '01
Pros: does poke some fun at big-time broadcast journalists
Cons: this is a half-effort, slapped together for some quick bucks
Summary: Drudge Manifesto: Not a manifesto, not interesting, not recommended.
I have been a devoted reader of the DrudgeReport for almost three years now. I followed Matt Drudge’s career on television (he hosted a Sunday night show on the ... read more
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Jan 05 '01
Pros: Teaches word, letter, and color recognition
Cons: You will have to read over and over and over!
Summary: A Calendar
The time had come to pick my 2001 calendar. The decision was quick and painless--stick with what you know and what has been good to you. Since my mother purchased for me the Mom's Family Calendar by Sandra Boynton in the year ... read more
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Jan 05 '01
Pros: Children's Books Are Fun, Educational and Life Long Friends
Cons: Some People Feel the Need to Throw Books Away, Quality Books are Allowed to go Out of Print
Summary: Children’s literature is quite possibly the most important thing that your child will ever encounter. While this statement may seem a bit strange on the surface, a deeper examination will validate my claim. Your child’s beloved books are teaching them ... read more
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Jan 04 '01
Pros: You come to admire this salty old dog Travis
Cons: Sometimes the writing is too technical for weaker minds
Summary: There were 20 of them. 20 lovely little books with titles like THE LONELY SILVER RAIN, DRESS HER IN INDIGO, FREE FALL IN CRIMSON, and THE EMPTY COPPER SEA. Evocative names, names that made you think of fried shrimp and beer, names that always had a color ... read more
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Jan 04 '01
Pros: easy to use, feedback from other cooks
Cons: none
Summary: While this is not a traditional cookbook, epicurious.com is a fabulous source for recipes. It is easy to use, and has a great deal of fabulous features.
A friend told me about epicurious.com a few months ago, and I have used it with great success ... read more
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Jan 03 '01
Pros: suspenseful, thought provoking
Cons: somewhat different from his normal style
Summary: Robin Cook's new book, "Abduction" was a bit of a change for one who has come to enjoy the more technical medical angles taken in his other stories. Yet, this interesting take-off on the ever popular idea of life under the sea was still ... read more
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Jan 03 '01
Pros: Carcaterra's style is raw, but brutally honest. You won't be able to read his writings without having some sort of emotions evoked.
Cons: The stories can be very brutal. Some might see Carcaterra as nothing more than a knock off of Puzo.
Summary: Lorenzo Carcaterra first crept his way into the limelight with his gritty, and depending upon whom you ask,
semi-autobiographical novel "Sleepers." It was the story of four boys who faced unspeakable horrors at the hands of the
guards ... read more
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Jan 02 '01
Pros: Lumley's hard to find poetry collection available again for an affordable price!
Cons: It's not his amazing fiction so some may not enjoy his poetry.
Summary: I finally got to meet the master Brian Lumley himself at the first EerieCon convention in Niagara Falls N.Y.! What a great guy. Not only was I happy to meet him, but I was able to pick up some great rare books that I had previously given up hope of ... read more
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