Tag: book review
member name: Gil T. Wilson
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November 06, 2009 11:41 PM EST --
Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle originally published in 1963 This 2000 edition published by Gramercy Books
Recently I set myself down in front of my television and watched a marathon of all . . .
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December 11, 2006 10:22 PM EST --
To any Stephen King fan this book is a must read. To the layman this book is a must read.
With that said I first must warn the reader: The book does seem to have a slow start and it does a lot of potentially . . .
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October 12, 2006 03:57 AM EDT --
Book review: "The Ruins" by Scott Smith
I have just read one of the creepiest, scariest books since Stephen King's "The Cell," "The Ruins" by Scott Smith. . . .
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March 12, 2008 09:35 PM EDT --
Well I finally read the latest from Stephen King, the master of horror. Actually I would say Mr. King is the Master at taking something pretty plain and making it downright horrifying. In "Duma Key" . . .
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October 17, 2006 10:01 PM EDT --
I'm continuing in my quest to read all 13 books in this delightful series. (Okay, I mean delightful in the sense that it makes for some entertaining reading, by no means do I mean that the . . .
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November 01, 2006 08:42 PM EST --
In rounding out my Dan Brown reading there was only 1 of the 4 novels I hadn't read. But now I have and I wish I would have read this one first. That way I wouldn't have been let down. . . .
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July 28, 2008 11:26 PM EDT --
Every so often you have to treat yourself to a David Sedaris book. If you haven't read David Sedaris, let me introduce him to you. First of all he's extremely funny, his wit is a bit . . .
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January 11, 2008 09:11 PM EST --
This is the 3rd and final book in the series written by Elie Wiesel. The first book being the Nobel Prize winning, "Night," which was the author's account of the holocaust. The second was . . .
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April 04, 2008 10:02 PM EDT --
If you haven't yet read any of the books in the "Series of Unfortunate Events" you really should. In fact you should before you pick up this book and try to make sense of it. (If any sense . . .
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September 07, 2006 07:41 PM EDT --
"The Frog King" by Adam Davies
Harry Driscoll is "The Frog King." This freshman book by Adam Davies is yet another one of those young guy having a rough times trying to succeed . . .
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September 22, 2006 02:34 PM EDT --
What do you get when you cross a couple of comic book guys with a great idea for juvenile fiction? You get the latest series based book craze that'll keep the kids reading, the Abadazad series. . . .
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October 21, 2006 03:38 PM EDT --
Once again we join Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, otherwise known as the Baudelaire orphans and heirs to the Baudelaire fortune. But this book is a little different from the other three, at . . .
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October 31, 2006 10:10 PM EST --
The Stolen Child is one of those books that's hard to categorize. While it's a coming of age story it has a bit of a twist. The twist being the mixing of the mythos of faeries,hobgoblins . . .
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November 18, 2006 01:36 PM EST --
Here we are again reliving the lives of the Baudelaires in yet another unfortunate circumstance, or rather a series of them. First of all the orphans have a new guardian. Actually, this time . . .
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December 02, 2006 01:55 PM EST --
I'm almost done with the entire series of Unfortunate Events. It's kind of sad really, I'm gonna read the remaining 4 books slowly just so I can enjoy the witticism of Lemony Snicket even more . . .
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July 17, 2008 10:10 PM EDT --
I don't know what it is about nonlinear storytelling, but I seem to have a weak spot for it. Give me a good book or movie that is nonlinear and well you've got me hooked. Non-linear, . . .
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November 22, 2006 02:08 PM EST --
How can a law abiding police officer become one of the most wanted Animal liberationists, sought by the FBI, Scotland Yard and many state police? This book tells the story of how the Animal Liberation . . .
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February 26, 2008 10:00 PM EST --
All married couples recite the words "til death do us part." (Okay except for those few that have "alternative" weddings) Those five words are pretty much taken for granted, . . .
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July 21, 2008 10:49 PM EDT --
Anytime a politician writes a book and they haven't run for president yet, you know they will be. Well that's just what happened with Senator Barack Obama. This book was published in . . .
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August 18, 2008 10:25 PM EDT --
Being a Stephen King fan, I'm always jumping to be among the first to read his latest works, and in some cases like this to listen. "The Gingerbread Girl" is a short story by Stephen . . .
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