Prometheus Rising
Junk: This is a book about "how the mind works", basically. The author does not know how it works. The first 3/4 of the book reel around the subject, interjecting political views (pro-drug, anti-"military-industrial complex"). The [... more]
$19.95
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The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The ...
Serious Problems but a Great Read: People tend to come down hard on this book....meandering plot (to be generous), shifting narrative, style, and its drunken trot through conspiracy theories. All of this is true but I fear the readers who argue this are [... more]
$20.00
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Star Trek: Science Logs
Enjoyable, lite science reading: It is an interesting book and is easy to read. It is broken up into chapters, and in each chapter is a one to two page sections on a particular subject like telepathy. It hits a wide area of subjects. Andre Bormanis, [... more]
$21.95
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Samurai Selling: The Ancient Art of Modern Service
Tips of power and passion: It would be very difficult to read more than a couple of pages without being challenged on your sales approach or to be reminded of a proven solution to a problem. Managers of sales and marketing operations will find creative [... more]
$12.95
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The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream
Amazon.com Review: Like the one-time bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sniff a bestselling formula, it is certainly not a [... more]
$13.00
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Dragon and the George
Fluffy fantasy: I guess a lot of folks think of this as a fantasy classic. I never read it as teen, and I think that's who its aimed toward. It seemed pretty standard to me. It's decent but nothing really unexpected happens. As a adult reader who expects [... more]
$6.99
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The Fall of Reach (Halo, Bk. 1)
I was pleasently surprised: In the terms of a direct videogame adaptation that is hands down the best I have ever read and that's saying something I didn't think anything could beat the Warcraft books. Its really great how the author fleshes out the [... more]
$7.99
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Amazon.com Review: Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow [... more]
$7.99
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Lady in Gil (Gil trilogy, Book 1)
a disappointment: with the addition of carol berg's books i was hoping that amazon was finally reccommending stuff for me that i would like, but lady of gil turned out to be a real disappointment. it is extremely plot driven, whereas i prefer character [... more]
$5.99
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Starfishers (Starfishers Trilogy #2)
notable departure from form of first book, a good read: this book is a notable departure from the byzantine political and familial entanglements of Shadowline, becoming a much more straight forward Cook military sci-fi story with some mystery elements [... more]
$2.95
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Stars End
Good, solid, self-contained, needs a follow-up novel.: In this book Cook sets up all the solutions, but doesn't execute them or take us to the post holocaust world. The setting cries out for another novel (not to mention, once something is done, even if [... more]
$2.95
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Cold Copper Tears (Garrett Files)
Gods, Priests and Women: Cold Copper Tears (1988) is the third fantasy novel in the Garrett Files series, following Bitter Gold Hearts. In the previous volume, Chodo Contague took Donni Pell as an ornament. Lord Gameleon, Baronet daPena and the [... more]
$6.99
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