1 to 8 of 8
The Earthsea Quartet: A Wizard of Earthsea / The Tombs of Atuan / The Farthest Shore / Tehanu
Author:
Book Type: Paperback
5
Author:
Book Type: Paperback
5
Review Date: 2/7/2010
Helpful Score: 2
This book is the Spanish Language Edition (ISBN 0140154272) of The Earthsea Quartet!
Are you looking for the English Language Edition? Use ISBN 0140348034.
Are you looking for the English Language Edition? Use ISBN 0140348034.
Review Date: 4/5/2009
Helpful Score: 1
Great English Short Stories
Selected and Introduced by Christopher Isherwood
416 pages
Copyright 1957
"Love, loneliness, adventure, crime, humor, and ghosts, all the ingredients of great short stories appear in this collection. Here are gems from the writing of Maugham, Conrad, Mnsfield, Kipling, Plomer, Wells, Pritchett, Chesterton, Forester, Lawrence, Graves, Mayne, and Moore - men and women who have brought the art of the English shrot story to a brilliant peak. With a general Foreword and individual introductions to each of the thirteen stories, by Christopher Isherwood, thsi volume is guaranteed to provide pleasure when it is read for instruction, instruction when it is read for pleasure." - from the first page of the book
Contents:
Foreward - Christopher Isherwood
The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad
The Invisible Man - G. K. Chesterton
Albert Nobbs - George Moore
The Magic Shop - H. G. Wells
The Story of the Siren - E. M. Forester
Mary Postgate - Rudyard Kipling
The Blind Man - D. H. Lawrence
Marriage a la Mode - Katherine Mansfield
The Man of the House - Ethel Colburn Mayne
The Shout - Robert Graves
The Book-Bag - W. Somerset Maugham
Sense of Humour - V. S. Pritchett
The Child of Queen Victoria - William Plomer
Selected and Introduced by Christopher Isherwood
416 pages
Copyright 1957
"Love, loneliness, adventure, crime, humor, and ghosts, all the ingredients of great short stories appear in this collection. Here are gems from the writing of Maugham, Conrad, Mnsfield, Kipling, Plomer, Wells, Pritchett, Chesterton, Forester, Lawrence, Graves, Mayne, and Moore - men and women who have brought the art of the English shrot story to a brilliant peak. With a general Foreword and individual introductions to each of the thirteen stories, by Christopher Isherwood, thsi volume is guaranteed to provide pleasure when it is read for instruction, instruction when it is read for pleasure." - from the first page of the book
Contents:
Foreward - Christopher Isherwood
The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad
The Invisible Man - G. K. Chesterton
Albert Nobbs - George Moore
The Magic Shop - H. G. Wells
The Story of the Siren - E. M. Forester
Mary Postgate - Rudyard Kipling
The Blind Man - D. H. Lawrence
Marriage a la Mode - Katherine Mansfield
The Man of the House - Ethel Colburn Mayne
The Shout - Robert Graves
The Book-Bag - W. Somerset Maugham
Sense of Humour - V. S. Pritchett
The Child of Queen Victoria - William Plomer
Review Date: 4/28/2011
Arian Pelter is a separatist madman who augments his mind with not one, but two network implants or augmentations. Throughout the rest of the novel, Pelters brain is awash in competing streams of data. It drives him further from sanity and the strain manifests itself in physical defects. Reading Neal Ashers GRIDLINKED, I felt like my mind was similarly overloaded and torn apart. Filled with swirling cameos from homicidal golem-androids, babbling intergalactic dragons, malfunctioning teleporters, an ineffective AI government, animal-like cosmetic alterations, an immortal guardian, a self-praised James Bond protagonist, and too many references to Edward Lear poetry, GRIDLINKED was a headache!
While I enjoyed the book in small doses, GRIDLINKED neither came together into a carefully-developed world nor a well-designed novel. The main character was advised early in the book to permanently disable his augmentation so that he could be free of the grid link and be human once again. I recommend the same. Disconnect from this book!
While I enjoyed the book in small doses, GRIDLINKED neither came together into a carefully-developed world nor a well-designed novel. The main character was advised early in the book to permanently disable his augmentation so that he could be free of the grid link and be human once again. I recommend the same. Disconnect from this book!
Review Date: 3/20/2010
Helpful Score: 1
Do you play a MMORPG?
Do you write computer code?
Do you work with the police?
Do you enjoy futuristic thrillers?
Would you like to read a book written in the 2nd person?
Are you Scottish?
If you answered 'yes' to two or more of the above, you're going to love this book!
It's a detective thrill ride through a future Edinburgh and the servers that host a number of online games.
Switching back and forth between the three main voices is much like jumping from tank to caster to healer. If you like role-playing games, you'll be able to envelop yourself in the perspective from the second person narrative.
Do you write computer code?
Do you work with the police?
Do you enjoy futuristic thrillers?
Would you like to read a book written in the 2nd person?
Are you Scottish?
If you answered 'yes' to two or more of the above, you're going to love this book!
It's a detective thrill ride through a future Edinburgh and the servers that host a number of online games.
Switching back and forth between the three main voices is much like jumping from tank to caster to healer. If you like role-playing games, you'll be able to envelop yourself in the perspective from the second person narrative.
Review Date: 11/1/2010
Helpful Score: 1
This was an amazing coming-of-age book, similar in many regards to Stephen King's novella, The Body. That was later turned into the movie, Stand By Me.
October Sky / Rocket Boys is based on a true story, and it's well worth the read. The science of rockets, the lives of Appalachian coal miners, and the dreams of teenagers in the late 1950's are real and captivating. I highly recommend this book!
October Sky / Rocket Boys is based on a true story, and it's well worth the read. The science of rockets, the lives of Appalachian coal miners, and the dreams of teenagers in the late 1950's are real and captivating. I highly recommend this book!
Review Date: 4/16/2011
The description of the book is incorrect! It should be this:
Pilgrims and visitors have entered Jerusalem in many ways. Some have swaggered in triumphantly in chariots, others humbly on foot or on an ass, and today many arrive lolling back in package-holiday coaches.
Bettina Selby did it the hard way, on a bicycle called Evans, having followed the Crusaders' routes across Europe and through Turkey and Syria to Israel. Riding to Jerusalem combines the author's perceptions and reflections with her sense of humour and relish of adventure.
Pilgrims and visitors have entered Jerusalem in many ways. Some have swaggered in triumphantly in chariots, others humbly on foot or on an ass, and today many arrive lolling back in package-holiday coaches.
Bettina Selby did it the hard way, on a bicycle called Evans, having followed the Crusaders' routes across Europe and through Turkey and Syria to Israel. Riding to Jerusalem combines the author's perceptions and reflections with her sense of humour and relish of adventure.
Review Date: 11/1/2010
This was an amazing coming-of-age book, similar in many regards to Stephen King's novella, The Body. That was later turned into the movie, Stand By Me.
Rocket Boys / October Sky is based on a true story, and it's well worth the read. The science of rockets, the lives of Appalachian coal miners, and the dreams of teenagers in the late 1950's are real and captivating. I highly recommend this book!
Rocket Boys / October Sky is based on a true story, and it's well worth the read. The science of rockets, the lives of Appalachian coal miners, and the dreams of teenagers in the late 1950's are real and captivating. I highly recommend this book!
Review Date: 3/26/2011
Helpful Score: 1
The author, Sara Gruen, paints a melancholy love affair on the colorful tapestry of the big top circus. There are the grim, gray clouds of prohibition and depression, the black and brown residue of life on a train, the dark, blood red of animals in captivity, and the vibrant hues of the circus workers and performers. Gruen reveals to the audience the real human characteristics behind their spectacular costumes and make-up. Readers will gawk at the talented, violent, and often cruel class system within the entertainment society.
Arcing over this scene is a timeless love story of a young man and a beautiful woman who is trapped in a abusive marriage. The man is an earnest, down-on-his-luck veterinarian and woman is a lithe, spirited equestrian. The author makes no attempt to cover up the dirt and the bruises, the lusty sex, the raging anger, the frailty of old age, and the foolish, drunken stupor. Gruen allows for these weaknesses within her characters, simultaneously entrancing us with the spectacle of the story and drawing the reader closer to the performers. For, after all, the show must go on.
Arcing over this scene is a timeless love story of a young man and a beautiful woman who is trapped in a abusive marriage. The man is an earnest, down-on-his-luck veterinarian and woman is a lithe, spirited equestrian. The author makes no attempt to cover up the dirt and the bruises, the lusty sex, the raging anger, the frailty of old age, and the foolish, drunken stupor. Gruen allows for these weaknesses within her characters, simultaneously entrancing us with the spectacle of the story and drawing the reader closer to the performers. For, after all, the show must go on.
1 to 8 of 8
