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Review Date: 1/14/2006
"North Carolina author of "Fat Lightning" and "Littlejohn". Ive also read "Fat Lightning" which I liked better. But Owen is a good read, and his characters are the 'spitting' image of (some of) the Carolinians I have known all my life. I'm from N. Carolina. This one is about a political canidate, so pick it up if our Senator enters the running again next time."
Review Date: 1/14/2006
"4 cassettes, 6 hours long. Great story takes place as the Clone Wars are starting."
Review Date: 1/14/2006
"It was required reading in a creative writing course I took last spring."
Review Date: 1/14/2006
"Quick read, fun story. It's about college life and two professors who switch places, one English and one American. They get caught up in each others lives in this 1960's set novel."
Review Date: 1/14/2006
"Novel based on Jim Henson movie. Contains several pages of stills from the original picture."
Review Date: 1/14/2006
"Classic platy(*play) by Ibsen, considered by some to be the modern Shakespere. Written 1889, concerns repressive marriage of that era. Compares well to 1950's Amaerica, in my opinion."
Review Date: 1/14/2006
"Author of a popular comic strip gives a book of one-shots about puns, many of them classic. ""
Review Date: 4/9/2006
"book that turned into a movie. interesting read, a sympathetic novel. it is inspired by a Virginia Woolf novel, Mrs. Dalloway. You do not need to know Woolf to read The Hours, you are just cheating yourself if you dont go read her next. (Mrs. Dalloway is one of the finest books ever. Go read that instead of eating now) However, if The Hours turns you into Virginia Woolf's biggest reader, as it did me, then it is not in vain."
Review Date: 1/14/2006
"Centers around theories about the building of Stonehenge, with other chapters about other ancient sites involving earlier astronomy and other knowledge. Plenty about Native American developments. Book is more anthropological/scientific based rather than mystic mumbo-jumbo. Many interesting diagrams and facts."
Review Date: 1/14/2006
"It's a book by the premier western novelist. What more can I say? I just read it for the exposure to the genre, but lots of folks collect thses things..."
Review Date: 1/14/2006
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"A little bit more of an experimental, adult offering by a great science-fiction athor sometimes known for her young adult fiction."
The Making of a Blockbuster : How Wayne Huizenga Built a Sports and Entertainment Empire from Trash, Grit, and Videotape
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Review Date: 1/14/2006
"Trash-to-riches sucess story about a business tycoon. Huizenga goes from garbageman to CEO of a big garbage company and then starts Blockbuster Video from scratch. Later he becomes owner of several major league sports franchises in Tampa Bay."
Review Date: 1/14/2006
"English edition of a great African author. Story has a very dream-like quality to it. An ex-rebel returns home from exile to find his country still ruled by elites--this time native elites--after winning independence. Everything has changed, and yet nothing has really changed at all. Exciting book to read if you have/have not ever been exposed to African fiction before."
Review Date: 1/14/2006
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"Cool book...New York City recently put this on a city wide reading campaign, I believe."
The Rise of the Chinese Republic: From the Last Emperor to Deng Xiaoping (De Capo Paperback)
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Review Date: 4/9/2006
"engaging, well-done, modern history of China, over last 100 years. (1989 publishing date). Everything you always wanted to know about modern Chinese history, but never asked. Author was foreign correspondent during 40's in China."
Review Date: 1/14/2006
"3 cassettes, 5 hours long. Great story is set after "The Phantom Menace" and features Obi-Wan and Anakin in the storyline."
Review Date: 1/14/2006
"Author is writing of her experiences visting El Salvador in early 1980's. The country is in bad shape, with death squads roaming around and people in terror. This is a top-notch writer, who gives a good account of the political landscape here in about 100pp."
Review Date: 1/14/2006
"Nice stuff about ethics in science. Creative at times, there is a play in last chapter. Good thoughts on why science is more than just numbers."
Review Date: 1/14/2006
"History of Serbo-Croatian and Yugoslavic relations and history. Covers the coubntry from the World War's to the recent conflict there. May find it useful to know something about this place, that so many have fought over in the past century."
The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford: And Other Classic Stories (Citadel Twilight)
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Review Date: 1/14/2006
"These are "standard" sci-fi short stories along the inventive, experimental threshold. They are each concerned mostly with exploring some kind of creative premise. Dick is more often known for his complete novels, which are often a bit more radical than these. Still, these stories are quite thought provoking without having to step inside Dick's literary world completely. Good to read if you enjoy the sci-fi gambit in a short piece, as good as Larry Niven's shorts(but not as good as Ray Bradbury's), rather than getting immersed in a total alien fantasy realm."
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