the vast history in the book was very interesting. The vast history in the book was very interesting.The vast history in the book was very interesting.The vast history in the book was very interesting.The vast history in the book was very interesting.The vast history in the book was very interesting.
Beth wasn't my favorite character, but I have faith that her book will be just as compelling as Pushing the Limits
Cain seeks to prove that, despite America's preference to extroversion, introverts can be extremely successful and influential in our culture
The Help is truly an astounding debut both because it is a great book of the modern times and it is focused on a very sensitive topic
This is a very slow book in places. We have slavers, "bagmen", cannibals, militia, and others, but they make only a few brief appearances - the book is two-thirds gone before we finally have a first hand encounter with a
GRRM world is so immense, so detailed, so believable. His dialogue rings true, so detailed, so believable
I've been hemming and hawing about reading his books, stop, and read them. You will not be let down.
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This book ran true to my memories of the south. It really made me think and I enjoy books that do that
the first half of the book I was like OMFG please just do it already. I was totally hot and ered anyway.
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This book really got to me. What a great story line, I was totally surprised where it headed.
the book could have been a very small book
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this book was just the first day of a three day story to set the stage for the meat of the story
This is a book that is a pleasure, an enlightening experience, to read. If you like reading, if you enjoy books that keep you turning pages, that won't let you sleep, then buy this book.
the history of the Roman empire were interesting and in line with what I have read about it
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Very interesting book!Possible spoilers!!!Amy is not who she leads you to believe initially. A fascinating dive into a very strange and twisted mind.
King's early novels are much better than the last published books like From A Buick 8 and The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Solomon Northrup was tricked into accompanying two men out of the North on the pretense of playing his fiddle for a job
Thomas is a gifted teacher and he has a very interesting approach requiring no notes or rote memorization. You build vocabulary as you go along also, with Thomas emphasizing cognates or words that are almost identical in the two languages initially.
"Freakonomic" was interesting, but somehow I was expecting more than it delivered.
The idea for the plot is an interesting one, but the characters were poorly developed, too cookie-cutter, eventually just annoying
Evie has a special ability to see through any paranormal's "glamour"
This book was so beautifully written, so uplifting, I am so happy that I gave this book a chance
the chapters are incredibly long and anybody can figure out exactly how the book was going to end about halfway through the book
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I am an introvert and was interested to see what Mrs. Cain had to say about it.
Sky Davis, our heroine, is a wonderful, smart, saucy, technologically challenged, snarky, broken but strong, brave, and kind of weird in a cool way
not so confusing tho. Lots of red herrings not confusing tho.
This may not be the Grisham most people are used to, but give it a chance and it will win you over.
This journey that this little boy took is absolutely amazing and worth the little bit
That was a good story. Actually both together made for a great two part story of a lawyer and his life
Darkhouse wasn’t at all what I expected. From the moment I ’met’ Perry I was hooked.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is a great book, and I think all of the controversy and hype just make it better and more appealing
peace prevails, and they live happily ever after
This is literature at its finest.The culture comes alive with all the differences, fears and brainwashing
erotica alone, then I don't understand the hype. If people are reading this for the erotica alone, then I pity them
Laura Hillenbrand's writing in this outing is less like poetry and more like reporting
Calla is a werewolf or well she prefers Guardian. She saves someone by feeding him some of her blood (surprise! werewolf blood has healing properties).
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Patch is a fallen angel. After lusting after a mortal girl, he was banished to Earth, wings ripped off, to live with no feeling
I've been reading this series from the first month the first book hit the shelf. I always believed that the books were not as huge and wonderful as everyone made them out to be.
Tris, in the 'calm' after the storm of the Erudite simulation resulting in the murders of half of the Abnegation, is reeling from the deaths of her parents
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the character development and the character development it had was quite believable
This book is able to unearth all the humane feelings you might ever have lost and will enable you, by all means, to learn the meaning of being a genuine human being again
This is one of the best books I've read in a very long time.
I am sorry it's over, but I had to rush through it for two reasons:1. I couldn't put it down and 2. It had to be my last book of 2012I am one of those readers who skim quite a bit, esp. mainstream fiction, but this book I read cover
Brown's book includes a good deal of information about a world that has been hidden in plain sight for a very long time
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On Dublin Street is a very very good read. Although it does share some characteristics with Fifty Shades of Grey, it differentiates enough from it to make it unique and a very very good read.
The Testing is a post-apocalyptic dystopia - the world is rehabilitating, several generations after the bombs were dropped.
this book as a great set-up for the trilogy and involving some really interesting themes both ancient and modern
This book's pace feels a little like the first hill of a roller coaster ride
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This book had me hooked and on the edge of my seat.
This story was full of action and twists, it was virtually non-stop thrills or drama once Allie is in the outlands
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Gillian Flynn has a great writing style and her characters are perfectly and realistically twisted
the book belies the lack of fact checking. For example, scenes in the book break many rules of police procedure with regard to crime scene investigation, chain of evidence, and apprehension and questioning of suspects
this book is amazing, and I would definately have given it 5 stars but for certain aspects of the book
historical fiction, especially with a medieval setting, then you will like this, despite it being of a fantasy genre
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Gideon does a few things that are over the top (like the recreation of Eva's bedroom), but he is a very intense guy. Eva is a sassy, no-nonsense type of person that puts Gideon in his place a few times
4.5 starsMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is one of those books that is completely unexpected and almost swathed in mystery
The Storyteller is a fictional account of a young woman-Sage- who befriends an older gentleman-Josef- she meets at a grief group
Maggie Stiefvater is an artist with words, creating stunning pictures with just a few sentences.Shiver is everything Twilight isn't, a truly believable romance with believable, equal characters, and above all it is beautifully written
Theo's journey so naturally and seemlessly, that every action he takes makes complete sense for his character
The resolution to the story is a little too quickly wrapped up and yet it is positively a thrilling conclusion and I think the author made some very brave choices in where to take the story and the characters.
This book has a lot of the factors included in your typical NA book
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each time I eat my words! I keep thinking the stories for this group of friends couldn't possibly get any better. Any more involved it beautiful.
Divergent is fast-paced and entirely gripping. The action sequences are written wonderfully and you'll constantly feel a thrill shooting up your spine as you anxiously await more of.
The Da Vinci Code is a thrilling roller-coaster ride of events that surprise the reader at every corner
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the story line was easy to follow and while it was difficult at times to like Joss, I fell in love with Braden and Ellie!
I don't understand the negative reviews. I really loved this book, and thought it brought together the characters endings in a lovely way
based on only 3 books of the series, this is great overall and I'm looking forward to more
Abby is super sweet and sexy... for most of the book. Somewhere around the middle he gets almost violently obsessed with his relationship with Abby
I am definitely looking forward to what else Mr. Zusak has in store for my imagination.
This book will touch your heart and leave you in a different frame of mind.
Aibileen has experienced many injustices and indignities in her life. She has also known tragedy. Her son, Treelore, was 24 when he died in a work related accident.
Jacqueline was attacked by someone she thought she could trust, saved by a stranger she just wants to forget everything about everything that happened but when her attacker starts making threats she realises that she has to stand up for herself
this famous author capable of telling a story without such ugly, disgusting language used over and over and to no disernable purpose
this book isn't a quick read
The characters are rich and wonderful and the imagery is immersive
This is a very sweet story about overcoming your past and allowing yourself to fall in love. It’s the kind of book that has the perfect amount of angst, great dialogue and amazing chemistry
This character has a very disturbing life.
Cuba Hudson grew up in a privileged way, had a family with wealth and all the pretty girls in his feet. He actually had a hard way coping with loosing important people in his life. He is a totally lovable man, he just don't accept
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I didn't want to read more after that particular motel scene
This story is captivating, has enough angst which make a good story, it has romance, the dialogue between Colton and Riley is witty and playful and filled with sexual tension
this was awful from start to finish. Katniss is simply an "unlikeable" character from the get go, sure she has some redeeming qualities in the first book, but she slowly starts to lose them and everything and anything to do with her made me cringe, which was pretty much
great sense of plot development and continuously takes you to places in the story line you didn't think about ahead of time, but makes great sense when they happen
Christopher was the only character with real depth and texture
the book was more about the daughter and her affairs than the presenting what was really going on in Berlin
The characters were wonderful, I just didn't want it to end
This is one of the books on amazon that has earned its score. If you liked books like starship troopers, or any military science fiction this is a good choice.
Linden is not a bad guy. I was so ready for him to be like his father and for me to hate him, but he wasn't and I didn't.
Ana is new. For thousands of years in Range, a million souls have been reincarnated over and over, keeping their memories and experiences.
I was on a long waiting list for this book and I am very disappointed, I was on some kind of sadist ego trip and Anna comes across as a very immature and awkward girl
Caroline Reynolds is an interior designer who after an unfortunate experience with an ex has lost her O and she doesn’t seem to be making an appearance any time soon.
Suzanne Collins's "The Hunger Games"
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In the Garden of Beasts is about William E. Dodd, an American ambassador in Germany circa 1933
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Brutal in so many ways, yet without causing damage to the reader, and certainly no dwelling on pain, suffering, or violence just for the sake of it
This book is one of those rare novels that creates a level of intimacy with its characters that remains in tact long after the story is finished
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realistic romance, not star-crossed lovers
I was excited to read these books due to all the hype. But to be honest after reading the whole trilogy I have got to ask where the hype came from.
the main characters, Marco and Celia, are some of the flattest, blandest, most cardboard characters I have ever encountered in a work of fiction, second only to Bella from the "Twilight" series
up until the very last page the reader is wondering what's going to happen next
this book is very much the case of girl and boy meet, as they look at one another/ touch one another they fall madly and deeply in love (all within an hour of knowing one another).
the story was really good and the characters were excellent. This author will go far. I can hardly wait for her next novel
I loved every second of this entire novel! Enough said!
’The Cuckoo’s Calling’
a teen audience I found these books to be not just palatable but riveting to an older audience- we are engaged because we have ( many of us) observed,first hand, the complexities and ambiguities of our lives and decisions
The Maze Runner was a quick read--took me less than a week, which is saying a lot in my busy schedule.
start a little slow but builds into a good story
The action parts leading toward the end was boring...like the author got lost in thought and direction...alot of running in circles...perhaps even felt like the third installment of this trilogy was only a draft version rushed to print without properly editted
'Easy' was a good length, there wasn't too much angst and it was engaging until the end
Ethan Blackstone is a very successful businessmen and falls hard for the women in the portraits. The chemistry between them is undeniable but when the secret is revealed, Ethan stands to lose the one thing he loves the most.
generaţi consideră că această novelă a fost o altă versiune a novelului, şi că a fost una cu adevărat diferită, şi că a fost o altă versiune a căruia să-mi urmeze.
I can totally see how Lou and Will could have fallen in love with each other but some of the characters feel very contrived. Lou's family members are presented as happy, loving and accepting people even tho they struggle financially and are living in very tight quarters
Suzanne Collins has already proven her talent for storytelling with her recently completed Gregor the Underlander series
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This one had three potential lovers, two with very good prospects. Then they were both eliminated as prospects and the winner was slowly revealed
Real set the bar of what I was expecting for the whole series - not exactly but I got over it because for some reason, on some level I connected with her and felt for her
Bang is dark, twisted, and a complete mind duck
Reboot is an amazing book. It is exciting and surprising and full of amazing romance
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" has been creating the same sort of public reaction
the author had about 10-20 pages worth of stuff to say, but spread it over a whole book instead.
Jennifer Probst did a wonderful job of fleshing out her characters, making the reader love them as they fall in love with each other
Mikael has been professionally shattered as a journalist after writing an unsubstantiated story about a crooked financier (resulting in jail time). He is then hired by a wealthy industrialist to solve a decades old mystery the industrialist believes to be a murder
I will never understand how, and why it would take a whole book for Ana Steele to figure out that Christian Grey is after all a control freak and a psycho
Cinder is a cyborg, the best mechanic in New Beijing, and unafraid to get her hands dirty.
over 3,000 4 or 5-star reviews (over 90% of the total reviews) - then this book has to be good - and it is!
the Book Thief, is beautifully written. This writer is gifted with a powerful command of words
Gone Girl smacks of tension right from the beginning, and as the story progresses I found myself more and more drawn into the world of Nick and Amy and wanting to know more about them - their families, their relationship, their whole history together and how it related to what was happening in
This book was interesting să read but I was disappointing in the subject matter.
This is a book that makes you think about life and how it used to be
this book is a story of a stolen piece of art and the mystery surrounding the people involved
Antifragile is about things which gain in strength from volatility (or more broadly do well from uncertainty)
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The Silent Wife: A Novel was amateurish, seemingly written by a high school student, and devoid of the depth necessary to make the characters interesting
this novel is very light-hearted and thankfully clean and upscale
The HUNGER GAMES is not a stand-alone novel. There's just too much setting up for it to get far enough into the story that it'll be done at the end of 374 pages
Eckart Tolle provides thoughtful perspective on the ultimate questions about life
genere question. The entire plot was lame only to be surpassed by a terrible ending
The mechanics of the story telling are appalling, with the interview, question-and-answer format extremely trying on the patience
this book wasn't popular when it was by an unknown author and then became bestselling after people found out it was written by J.K. Rowling
the characters are funny, and monologue between them is hilarious! Once you finished the first, you won't want to wait for the next and the next and the......
The book is extremely well-written, I couldn't put it down.
Paranormalcy is totally original-- have you ever read about a paranormal containment agency? Didn't think so.
The plot, characters, and setting is much more interesting and well developed than the other series
I enjoyed it enormously! In fact, I bought and sent a Kindle copy to a friend when I found the book wasn't Lending Enabled
The Help is a particularly poignant book for the generations born in the 70s, 80s, and 90s who can't believe the degree to which bigotry and racial cruelty was accepted in the early 60s
the book is filled with facts about ancient artifacts and their coded meanings that really keeps the reader interested.Whether his facts are correct or not it really dosen't matter.
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older novels seek to develop depth and substance in the characters in the books
promiseschneiden. It was witty and made me laugh out loud several times in the first chapters in the first chapters. The writing is quite good
The characters were original, but deep down just like every other teenager
This was an exceptional book. The book dealt with the attitudes behind what makes someone successful in life.
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not challenging enough to make me feel as if I might have grown from enduring the events, as some less comfortable stories might.
The Kite Runner is very easy to read, because it keeps your interest throughout the entire book!
Breaking Dawn was AMAZING. I could not put it down; it had so many surprises and twists that I was just on edge the whole time.
I had never heard of The Hunger Games until it came out as a movie until it came out as a book. I'm in my 40's I'm not exactly in the demographics for this book
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"The Secret History" and "The little Friend"
Robert Jordan has a great ability to create wonderful, believable fantasy characters, and then to let them each develop personally as a human being and develop unique fantasy characteristics
this book gives short shrift to certain aspects of Jobs' personal life, and so is really a partial biography in that sense
I am a knitter and was drawn by the titles, but knitting really has nothing to do with the story
Delores Price is a sad person whose life story begins in 1956 when her family gets a TV set as a gift from her philandering father's mistress. Lamb puts in some great laugh-out-loud dialog along with some truly disturbing and tear-jerking
I tried to read this book because it was free, well that was a mistake. The writing was choppy and poor
a compelling read, one you hate to put down, but in the end, that just wasn't enough for me. The characters are all one-dimensional and flat
This is the first book in the Trylle trilogy by Hocking București. It was a fun and engaging read about something you don't usually get to read about, Trolls.
Eric Ries provides a highly effective way for any company--large or small--to identify new opportunities through applying the basic components of the scientific method
                               
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This book was great. The plot keeps you interested and guessing the whole time.
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