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4 | Book One continued | The third continues from Book one<br /><br />Along the Cornish shore<br /><br />With Simon, Jane and Barney Drew<br /><br />And Merriman once more<br /><br />Someone's made off with the Grail<br /><br />It's got to be the Dark<br /><br />This time Will Stanton's in the mix<br /><br />And Barney makes his mark<br /><br ... | [] | 0689710887 | 0689710887 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,138,252,704,000 | 18 | false |
5 | A compelling start to the series | By one of those strange coincidences, I read this book shortly after the new "Ulysses Moore - The Door to Time", and a comparison of the two will reveal many similarities. This story was copyrighted by Susan Cooper in 1965, and tells the tale of three children who discover an old map in the house where they are vacati... | [] | 0020427859 | 0020427859 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,137,945,626,000 | 24 | false |
4 | To be continued.... | I haven't read a novel by V. C. Andrews since the series that began with "Flowers in the Attic", but that was a long time ago, and I should have expected something different. I was still somewhat disappointed that this one wasn't in the same genre, and more in Young Adult territory, but it was entertaining all the same... | [] | 0671039970 | 0671039970 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,137,854,273,000 | 4 | false |
4 | Dab nabbed it! | Jeremy draws a comic strip<br /><br />With Doog, a cartoon teen<br /><br />Just spell it backwards and you'll see<br /><br />That young Doog's slate is clean<br /><br />Seems in the world of Cartoon Land<br /><br />There's good but also naughty<br /><br />There's Dab the evil ape-bird thing<br /><br />He's cruel, cold ... | [] | 1932586296 | 1932586296 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,137,268,169,000 | 3 | false |
4 | You'll like this one - you will! | If you're by chance a Snicket fan<br /><br />And love that series' style<br /><br />I recommend you get this one<br /><br />Out of the new book pile<br /><br />If breaking codes, like Artemis<br /><br />Gives you a certain thrill<br /><br />And solving riddles is your thing<br /><br />You'll like this one - you will!<b... | [] | 0439774381 | 0439774381 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,137,263,818,000 | 34 | true |
4 | Henry's Busy Day | Believe it or not, this entire novel covers only one day in the life of Henry Perowne, a British neurosurgeon, husband, and father of two. The day is Saturday, February 15, 2003, the same day as a mass demonstration against the invasion of Iraq.<br /><br />It is not an ordinary day however, as it begins at 3:40 am whe... | [] | 0385511809 | 0385511809 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,136,741,176,000 | 4 | false |
3 | Missing something | Alex Brennan moves to the UK to read for a Masters degree in English, because firstly, she's bored in New York and secondly, she decides to defy an ex-boyfriend who said she couldn't do it. She can't get into Oxford, so she takes a loan from her father and sets off for another university, where she proceeds to drink a... | [] | 0446692867 | 0446692867 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,135,734,811,000 | 24 | false |
4 | A skillfully woven drama | For a novel without much action, intrigue or romance, "One True Thing" catches your attention and holds it until you turn the last page. This skillfully woven drama tells of the evolving relationship between a young woman, her ailing mother and emotionally detached father.<br /><br />Ellen Gulden unwillingly gives up ... | [] | 0385319207 | 0385319207 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,135,577,006,000 | 17 | false |
5 | History, romance, drama, and so much more | An extremely well written story, combining history, geography, haut cuisine, mystery, drama, religion and romance in the most picturesque of settings in Brittany, France.<br /><br />Frederique Farmer is a young widow who owns and operates an exclusive bed and breakfast establishment at her fifteenth century chateau. S... | [] | 1576839141 | 1576839141 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,135,403,409,000 | 23 | false |
4 | The ultimate girl-power story | A great first novel from Ginger Garrett, mixing the Book Of Esther you read in Sunday school with historical fact, and meshing them together through the fictional diary entries of the beautiful Queen.<br /><br />A Jewish woman originally named Hadassah, Esther lived with her cousin Mordecai, tending sheep and growing r... | [] | 1576836517 | 1576836517 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,134,364,620,000 | 22 | false |
4 | Deep in the middle of the dark, dark woods.... | ...there lived a buxom woman in her third bloom of life.<br /><br />Halldis Horn (for that was her name) was an independent woman, who lived alone after the death of her husband, quietly tending her garden and keeping to herself.<br /><br />Now in these woods also lurked Errki Johrma, a schizophrenic with a murderous r... | [] | 0151010919 | 0151010919 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,134,217,522,000 | 8 | false |
4 | Janet Evanovich meets Agatha Christie | Cross Janet Evanovich with Agatha Christie, and you’ll get the idea for Maddy Hunter’s “A Passport to Peril” mystery series. “Alpine for You” is one of those books strictly for light relaxing reading, won’t put a strain on any of your brain cells, and can be finished in one si... | [] | 0743458117 | 0743458117 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,133,753,935,000 | 2 | false |
4 | Evelyn Waugh, solar eclipses and forbidden love | Pauline Melville’s first novel is set in Guyana, the only English speaking country in South America, famous for its rum, gold, lush rainforest and rich folklore. From the garden city of Georgetown to the endless savannahs of the Rupununi, her colorful tale weaves its way from past to present, mixing illicit rela... | [] | 1582340099 | 1582340099 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,133,675,594,000 | 7 | false |
4 | The awakening of Dana E. | This is the story of Dana Elliot, a successful executive who didn’t feel the need to be nice to anybody who couldn’t advance her up the social or business ladder. Nose permanently in the air, she didn’t smell a rat until her trophy toy-boy husband ran off with his secretary to parts unknown, but not ... | [] | 1932211179 | 1932211179 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,133,284,508,000 | 3 | false |
4 | Amazin' Maisie | Maisie's not quite Marple or Ramotswe, but when people retain the services of this Psychologist/Investigator, they sure get their money's worth. Hard working Maisie Dobbs is a meticulous sleuth, a shrewd judge of character, and has the tenacity of a bloodhound.<br /><br />This is the third book of the series, and in t... | [] | 0805078975 | 0805078975 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,132,440,786,000 | 14 | false |
4 | Unsettlingly good | Although a relatively small book, and one that will compel you to finish it once you open the cover, this book is not an easy read. Oh you'll fly through the pages easily enough, but the story of young accident-prone Louis Drax is not a happy one.<br /><br />This dark psychological thriller may be unsettling to some, ... | [] | 1582345171 | 1582345171 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,131,856,323,000 | 9 | false |
4 | Hidden secrets of the rain forest | What secrets lay hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest? The Shamans of the indigenous tribes know quite a bit, and most of them aren't telling. This book serves as a play by play guide to one scientist's journeys into the tropical rain forest, the Indians he encounters, and the lessons he learns (some the hard way) a... | [] | 014012991X | 014012991X | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,131,164,924,000 | 12 | false |
4 | Growing out of the pants | The third installment of the Traveling Pants saga brings the girls ever closer to adulthood as they head off to college, and their lives take off in new directions.<br /><br />As entertaining as the previous books, this one pushes the believability buttons a little too hard, and some of the scenarios just don't quite s... | [] | 0385729359 | 0385729359 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,130,730,644,000 | 6 | false |
4 | Slightly scrambled | This is an early Jasper Fforde book that was rewritten following the success of "The Eyre Affair" and the rest of that series. Readers of "The Well of Lost Plots" will remember that Thursday Next vacationed in an unpublished book called "Caversham Heights", where she met DCI Briggs. This story also takes place in Cav... | [] | 0670034231 | 0670034231 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,130,383,685,000 | 70 | false |
4 | Growing up in Magical Pants | The second installment of the Traveling Pants saga has the girls dragging the pants out of storage in time to weave its magic for the second summer. This year finds the girls approaching maturity, and dealing with all the hardships that go with it. Each of the four girls has problems of her own, and this time it's Br... | [] | 0385731051 | 0385731051 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,129,483,211,000 | 3 | false |
5 | The woman who came home from the cold. | Another title for this review could have been "Risky business". It is the intriguing tale of a woman who has lived on the edge for most of her life, and who has experienced things you and I would never want to imagine.<br /><br />In a life story that the National Enquirer would have been proud to scoop, a headstrong a... | [] | 1418493023 | 1418493023 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,129,072,837,000 | 20 | false |
4 | Should've been named "Rook" | In the darkest and most complex Edge Chronicle ever, Vox Verlix plots away in his crumbling tower, seeing all, watching all, and waiting for his chance for revenge against those that betrayed him. Possessor of the title of Most High Academe by methods not quite orthodox, Vox is now a prisoner of his own machinations, ... | [] | 0385750803 | 0385750803 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,128,831,546,000 | 4 | false |
4 | Kill a tourist, save a swamp | Carl Hiaasen exposes the side of Miami that people don't usually hear about. His stories link the words "dark" and "funny" in the most peculiar ways, and this one adds "insanity" and "rebellion" to the mix.<br /><br />Someone is killing the valuable tourists and citizens of Miami, and a group calling itself "Nights of... | [] | 0446343455 | 0446343455 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,128,312,224,000 | 11 | false |
4 | Join the flock | Don't be fooled by the collage cover of Mandelbrot patterns, moth and human hair - this book is all about the sheep. A semi-scientific, extremely funny, geeky love story emerges from chaos, which is embodied by a fad-obsessed, incompetent mail clerk named Flip.<br /><br />If you've ever entered an IKEA through the fro... | [] | 0553562967 | 0553562967 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,127,539,197,000 | 59 | false |
4 | The seedier underside of London | Just like the young adult series "Gregor the Overlander", Neil Gaiman's clever adult fantasy "Neverwhere" takes you way down below the surface of a major city, and reveals a world far different to ours - a more dangerous world, where nothing is what it seems, nobody is who they appear to be, and the smells are even wor... | [] | 0380789019 | 0380789019 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,127,076,165,000 | 5 | false |
3 | So what's your ring tone? | Imagine, a whole album that sounds like your worst cell phone nightmare! Listening to this album in its entirety is like being trapped in a crowded room with everybody's cell phone going off, one at a time, for eternity, while having bamboo sticks pushed up under your fingernails.<br /><br />As a gimmick album it's gr... | [] | B000A39KNA | B000A39KNA | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,126,326,321,000 | 6 | false |
4 | Global warming, living longer and other disasters | Scientist Ben Anderson is on to something - something apparently worth killing for, and now he's on the run from some nasty characters backed by a corporate syndicate with seemingly endless resources.<br /><br />In a nutshell, there are some microbes living under intense pressure, deep underwater, where the water is bl... | [] | 078601637X | 078601637X | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,126,324,929,000 | 13 | false |
5 | Starts off as teen fiction, but ends from the heart | A tale of four friends spending summer apart<br />Starts off as teen fiction, but ends from the heart<br />Though each girl is different, together they swear<br />Ten rules for the pants they are planning to share<br /><br />The magical pants fit each one like a glove<br />"Love your pals. Love yourself." And "Pants =... | [] | 0385730586 | 0385730586 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,124,996,115,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Underland Prophecies | Hey all you young readers,<br /><br />you're in for a treat<br /><br />The adventures of Gregor<br /><br />are really quite neat<br /><br />Sucked into the sewers,<br /><br />and then far beneath<br /><br />Away from the sun<br /><br />where big rats have large teeth<br /><br />To fulfill the carvings<br /><br />The Pr... | [] | 043977134X | 043977134X | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,124,857,223,000 | 62 | false |
4 | Funny - but missing some of the zing | I'll readily admit that I didn't know that "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" was a book until Johnny Depp brought it to my attention, but that when I unearthed it, it was like finding buried treasure. Imagine my surprise while idling in the "Independent Reader" section of the bookstore, when I happened to come across... | [] | 0142404128 | 0142404128 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,124,771,145,000 | 5 | false |
5 | Give me two Danish and call me Thursday | The latest Thursday Next saga is certainly the best, providing that you've read the rest of the series. If you haven't, you'll find it difficult to follow the exciting adventures of Thursday in the Outerworld, as she fights to save her eradicated husband, raise their paradoxical son Friday, stop Yorrick Kaine and the ... | [] | 014303541X | 014303541X | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,124,549,756,000 | 25 | true |
4 | Good pre-Harry reading | I haven't read books 1 or 2 in this series, and felt a bit lost at certain points where characters from the earlier episodes were reintroduced. Still, I was able to follow along with the story of Charlie Bone, who has quite a few things in common with Harry Potter.<br /><br />He's got a bit of magic in him that he has... | [] | 0439545269 | 0439545269 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,124,152,867,000 | 2 | false |
4 | Hacking 101 | This is my first John Sandford book, and even though it is the fourth installment of the Kidd series, it can be read as a separate novel, and I was able to follow along without any trouble.<br /><br />These are the adventures of Kidd, a computer genius/super hacker/criminal mastermind who happens to paint as a sideline... | [] | 042519910X | 042519910X | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,123,475,597,000 | 2 | false |
5 | Revisiting the past | We've all had our forehead-slapping moments when we come up with the perfect comeback, the wittiest repartee or the sharpest retort way too long after the moment to matter anymore. Unfortunately, we don't usually have the opportunity to go back and right the wrongs, but if you were by chance a newspaper columnist, you... | [] | 1932172211 | 1932172211 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,121,271,266,000 | 11 | false |
5 | A "So You'd Like To" Guide to resort ownership | This book packs everything you always wanted to know about owning a resort (but were afraid to ask) into a compact easy-to-read package, sort of like a Cliffs Notes for Resort Management.<br /><br />Dealing with everything from Attorneys to Zip codes, the author, Michele (with one "l"), tells her own story, laying bare... | [] | 0971365903 | 0971365903 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,120,969,905,000 | 18 | false |
5 | A tantalizing glimpse into another culture | This book drips with the richness of Cuban culture, burns with the fiery passion of the characters, and dazzles with the vividly described beauty of the exotic locales.<br /><br />You'll find yourself hooked from the prologue, as the author introduces his main characters, Maximiliano the butcher's son, and Delores, dau... | [] | 0684818175 | 0684818175 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,120,279,626,000 | 2 | false |
4 | Dirty indeed | If this book is indeed inspired by actual events, one can only hope that the author is guilty of extreme exaggeration, or that the story has been embellished as it was passed along.<br /><br />Not for the squeamish, this book is about some of the most unpleasant people you can imagine, times two. When Maebelle Hawkins... | [] | 0974827401 | 0974827401 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,119,806,286,000 | 6 | false |
5 | Better than 97% | Business is booming for both the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and the Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, but the daily routine is about to be shattered by a series of strange and puzzling events, starting with an unpleasant encounter at Mma Ramotswe's favorite café, an unfortunate intruder at Zebra Drive, and a myst... | [] | 0375422714 | 0375422714 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,119,544,926,000 | 45 | false |
4 | A better bet than Book 1 | Bigger and better than book one, 30-Minute Meals 2 is superior in terms of paper quality, range of menu choices, and best of all - it has some glossy full color pictures in the middle of the book showing some of the dishes.<br /><br />I drooled at the sight of Pecan-Crusted Chicken Tenders and Salad with Tangy Maple Ba... | [] | 1891105108 | 1891105108 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,119,489,129,000 | 24 | true |
5 | Nine's the nicest number | I've just finished reading "To The Nines" in one day. This one takes off in new directions, and even new places, as Stephanie and her sidekicks wing out of New Jersey to tackle the casinos of Las Vegas, where even Ranger cannot tread.<br /><br />Stephanie and Ranger have been assigned to one of the most important case... | [] | 0312991460 | 0312991460 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,119,316,676,000 | 4 | true |
4 | Where did she go? | While I was able to read "Bridget Jones's Diary" in two days, the sequel took me almost an entire week to complete. It's not that it wasn't good, but it was significantly more put-downable than the first. "The Edge of Reason" was hilariously funny in places, but had lost most of the simplicity and klutzy charm.<br />... | [] | 0140298479 | 0140298479 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,119,131,687,000 | 4 | false |
4 | A Young Person's Guide to Poetry | This collection of poems is geared towards young people, and is really very informative, especially with regard to different types of poetry. Complete with a Glossary explaining the different formats, Ms. Monnar gives examples of Couplets, Acrostics, and Haikus, and defines Alliterations, Cinquains, Expository poems, ... | [] | 1410709000 | 1410709000 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,118,804,834,000 | 2 | false |
3 | Some good ideas, but... | I was a little disappointed in this book. It has a nice cover and all that, but the pages inside were a little low budget in appearance, and that psychologically made the recipes less exciting than they really are.<br /><br />Cooking definitely isn't a passion of mine, so the quickest and easiest recipes are the ones ... | [] | 1891105035 | 1891105035 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,118,589,525,000 | 12 | true |
5 | Laugh out loud funny | In one of those coincidence thingies, both this book and the movie landed on my desk at the same time. Recognizing a sign when I saw one, I started with the book, seeing that it was written before the movie, and things should, after all, go in their natural order.<br /><br />The first thing I had to do was go back in ... | [] | 014028009X | 014028009X | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,117,920,647,000 | 6 | false |
4 | Reflections on Life | The poems in this book are divided into four sections. "Something Old" is made up of poems from other books of poetry by Ana Monnar; "Something New" contains a large selection of new poems; "Something Borrowed" is a short chapter of quotations and proverbs; and as you might have guessed, "Something Blue" ends the quar... | [] | 1592991017 | 1592991017 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,116,811,830,000 | 5 | false |
5 | 5 Stars for Five | If I had to choose a favorite from Books one to seven in this series, it would be good old number five.<br /><br />Stephanie's got bills to pay, and since there are no FTA's to apprehend, she reluctantly accepts Ranger's offer of employment. Of course, Ranger's jobs are never straightforward or well-defined, or even c... | [] | 0312971346 | 0312971346 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,116,293,240,000 | 7 | true |
4 | Making a short story long | On the subject of spoilers, if you don't want to know how this story ends, please don't read the editorial review on this page, which summarizes the book in one paragraph.<br /><br />I could probably summarize it in four words - "Laugh lost, laugh found", but that wouldn't sell as many books as if I stretched it for 31... | [] | 0395533538 | 0395533538 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,116,132,890,000 | 2 | false |
4 | Second time lucky | It's book two, and the sheen has not yet worn off the adventures of the world's luckiest inept bounty hunter.<br /><br />Stephanie Plum has the uncanny ability to be in the right place at the right time and still have everything go wrong. The simplest assignments turn into life threatening situations when she's around... | [] | 0671001795 | 0671001795 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,116,131,510,000 | 2 | true |
4 | Golden nuggets of poetry | Gold and Glitter is a collection of forty-one poems about life, nature, relationships and even Albert Einstein.<br /><br />Geared towards young adults, some of the poems are rather simplistic, but also funny, as in the case of "Hungry Woman", "Jump and Thump" and "Run, Run, Run"<br /><br />However, it is in the poems a... | [] | 1418436550 | 1418436550 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,115,598,816,000 | 4 | false |
4 | Formulaic, but with a twist or two | While this series continues to be witty and amusing, some of the novelty has worn off the bumbling bounty hunter, and you wonder if she's ever going to learn how to deal with her daily life, her job, her romantic life and her family.<br /><br />As usual, her cousin Vinnie gives her an assignment that looks easy, but en... | [] | 0312980140 | 0312980140 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,115,348,718,000 | 4 | true |
4 | She's ba-aaaack | There's a sinister plot afoot to expose the fairy world, but who could be behind it? Surely not the most dangerous pixie criminal of all time? Opal Koboi has been in a coma for almost a year, and is in a secure mental institution under constant guard, yet as the title reveals, Opal has quite an arsenal up her virtual... | [] | 0786852895 | 0786852895 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,115,091,494,000 | 45 | true |
2 | An unnecessary retelling | Billed as a "First Favorite Tale", this version is not one I would read to very young children as an introduction to this timeless classic.<br /><br />While nicely illustrated, there are several strange deviations from the story I grew up with, and since I'm sure everyone already knows the plot, a few spoilers may be p... | [] | 0721497322 | 0721497322 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,113,973,564,000 | 6 | false |
3 | Brutal editing may have kept me awake. | This book took me much longer than 24 hours to read, and sent me into a dead sleep many times. The premise is an excellently creepy one, but the book suffers from the "when it's good, it's very, very, good" syndrome.<br /><br />This is an erotically charged story of possession, murder and deception, in which oil man J... | [] | 0451208765 | 0451208765 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,113,957,152,000 | 31 | false |
4 | Creativity on show | It's really amazing what you can do with some old newspaper and cardboard, and a few bits and pieces, but Gerry Copp takes the craft of papier mache to a whole new level in this book.<br /><br />If, like me, you had only considered papier mache as a medium for making a piñata from a balloon, you'll get an eye op... | [] | 0855328150 | 0855328150 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,113,801,924,000 | 8 | false |
4 | A Stand-alone Prequel | This fourth book in the Edge Chronicles series is actually chronologically the first, and although long and sometimes complicated, it is the most exciting to date.<br /><br />Having met Twig in the first book, we are now whisked back in time to when his parents first meet, and although the wrong sparks fly at first, th... | [] | 0385750765 | 0385750765 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,113,767,939,000 | 9 | true |
4 | A Dysfunctional Christmas Scary Tale | An anti-Christmas story if there ever was one, this is a dark, mostly funny peep show into the town of Pine Cove, where those residents who aren't dysfunctional are eccentric, except for those who are borderline insane, and those who are dead.<br /><br />From intimidation at the Salvation Army kettles to fooling around... | [] | 0060590254 | 0060590254 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,113,616,325,000 | 7 | false |
5 | As simple as the cartoon series | This book is so simple it can be described as twenty pages, ten words, and lots of white space.<br /><br />So why, you may ask, is it worth five big stars?<br /><br />For one, the illustrations are big, bright, fun, fully representative of the color being shown, and are all of Kipper the Dog.<br /><br />For two, it is ... | [] | 0152022856 | 0152022856 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,113,176,035,000 | 4 | false |
4 | Homing Home on the Ranger | Any normal person learns from their mistakes, but fortunately for us, Stephanie Plum is no normal person. Having miraculously survived to the sixth installment of this humorous series of misadventures in bounty hunting, the ditsy ex-salesgirl now faces her toughest challenge yet.<br /><br />This time the job seems doo... | [] | 0312976275 | 0312976275 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,112,886,923,000 | 5 | false |
4 | Explosively Funny | In this installment, Stephanie Plum is back with a bang. The accident prone ditzy bounty hunter manages to get blown out of her car and apartment, and into Joe Morelli's spare bedroom.<br /><br />In addition to her trusty sidekick Lula, she now has a nearly seven foot tall transvestite musician (who's not gay), and he... | [] | 0312966970 | 0312966970 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,112,500,944,000 | 8 | false |
4 | Three, the hard way | One of the good things about this series is that you don't have to read them in order. After book one, I jumped right to this one (because I didn't have a copy of book two).<br /><br />Stephanie Plum is, as usual, way over her head in her unchosen profession. Untrained, uncoordinated, dysfunctional and disorganized, ... | [] | 0312966091 | 0312966091 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,112,384,769,000 | 5 | false |
4 | Behind the scenes in a small town | This small town happens to be in England, but don't be fooled - behind many a stiff upper lip lies a wealth of secrets, reminiscent of an old soap opera. Beneath the horsey smiles, the self-conscious snorty laughter and the other public facades, lie the real people - the repressed and the depressed, the bored and the ... | [] | 0802139663 | 0802139663 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,111,046,917,000 | 16 | false |
4 | Sore thumbs | This is my third hitchhiking trip, and although my thumb is getting sore, I have no choice but to keep on truckin'.<br /><br />Coming from the larger part of the world, where "krikkit" is a national obsession, I found this one particularly clever, even though the aficionados will shudder at the abuse of the hallowed as... | [] | 0345391829 | 0345391829 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,110,607,056,000 | 18 | true |
5 | How do you follow up a work of genius.....? | .... With more of the same.<br /><br />While not so good as a stand alone (you'll be lost in time & space without the background of Book 1), this second in the umpteen-part, increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Trilogy tries even harder than the first to laser your funny bone.<br /><br />Seems that the thing we... | [] | 0345391810 | 0345391810 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,110,208,982,000 | 34 | true |
4 | The Wizard, The Tourist and The Luggage | After reading lots of young adult books, I decided to try out the big kid's version of "The Edge Chronicles". To tell the truth, this book has been sitting on the shelf for over six months, because of all the frightening reports - why go willingly into a situation that is widely known to be addictive?<br /><br />I was... | [] | 0061020710 | 0061020710 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,109,562,392,000 | 21 | true |
4 | Now That's What I Call Fairy Tales | Now, finally, at last - those old fairy tales have been exposed for the drivel they are! Did you ever stop to think that Sleeping Beauty might have been neutralised because she was a miserable young woman? Or that Goldilocks wore red because her mother got a great deal on a bolt of red cloth? Or even that those drag... | [] | 0671577042 | 0671577042 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,109,559,965,000 | 6 | false |
2 | Overstuffed and unbelievable | This book took a lot of patience to complete, and I still can't believe I read the whole thing.<br /><br />Stuck in midstream without a paddle, it floats between romance, mystery, mayhem and madness. Evanovich's usually quirky characters fly off the believability radar like stealth bombers, unfortunately undetected by ... | [] | 0312983271 | 0312983271 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,109,455,809,000 | 16 | false |
4 | Triskaidekaphobia anyone? | Any superstitious person knows that the number 13 does nobody any good. Buildings don't have thirteenth floors, and nobody seats thirteen for dinner. Bakers however, have been known to prefer bad luck over the consequences of being caught short with the dough, but that's another story.<br /><br />This book explores t... | [] | 0440412439 | 0440412439 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,109,275,787,000 | 6 | false |
4 | The Unlikely Heroine | If you looked up the word "desperate" in the dictionary, you'd probably see a picture of Stephanie Plum, the unlikely heroine of this novel.<br /><br />After being unceremoniously laid off her job, and suffering the indignity of having her car repossessed, she can't afford to be too choosy about her career options, but... | [] | 0312990456 | 0312990456 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,109,272,763,000 | 8 | false |
4 | Deeper than it looks | I picked up this one simply because it had a cute cartoon cover. A short while later, I was totally relating to the story, particularly the parts where the Hatcher kids react to major changes in their lives.<br /><br />The eldest child, Peter, is trying to lead a normal life, but this is being severely hampered by the... | [] | 014240098X | 014240098X | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,108,695,878,000 | 42 | false |
4 | Grossly funny | In one of those strange coincidences of life, I happened to be reading recently about the upcoming movie "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", and noticed that it was based on a story by Roald Dahl. This was of course after I read everything the article said about Johnny Depp, but I digress.<br /><br />Shortly after th... | [] | 0141301074 | 0141301074 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,108,693,462,000 | 15 | false |
4 | Paradox free time travel. | How can you resist a book that begins with "It was a dark and stormy night"? Those seven little words can set the imagination racing in anticipation of a frightfully exciting story.<br /><br />This one is a time travel story with a sci-fi angle, except there are no confusing paradoxes or problems with the butterfly ef... | [] | 0440498058 | 0440498058 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,108,436,704,000 | 3 | true |
3 | Could have saved a few trees | Maybe I should have read "Light in Shadow" first, or maybe I shouldn't have read the flyleaf, because this bestselling novel did not deliver the suspense, intriguing subplots and romantic twist that were luridly promised.<br /><br />Many of the supporting characters are two dimensional for most of the book, and then su... | [] | 0515138304 | 0515138304 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,107,657,782,000 | 6 | false |
5 | Simplicity, Warmth and Inspiration | Due to unforeseen circumstances whereby my lower living area was suddenly subjected unceremoniously to several feet of murky moisture, I found myself in need of a partial home makeover, but with a shoestring budget and a short time frame.<br /><br />Fortuitously, this book came through it unscathed, and I took it as an... | [] | 0789204304 | 0789204304 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,107,482,240,000 | 43 | true |
5 | To live the impossible dream | Take a man with drive, killer instincts, an undying passion for football and an unfulfilled dream. Take a younger man with an unfortunate family background, boundless untapped ability and absolutely no gumption. Set them on a figurative collision course, and you have the basis for this excellent sports based story.<br... | [] | 1413406114 | 1413406114 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,107,099,621,000 | 6 | true |
4 | Both a place and a gender | This is a BIG book, and a little difficult to get through unless you can negotiate with your family for some quiet time.<br /><br />Basically, it chronicles the formative years of Cal Stephanides, beginning with the grandparents, Lefty and Desdemona, who were really-too-close for siblings, and who fled Greece as their ... | [] | 0312422156 | 0312422156 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,106,930,045,000 | 10 | false |
4 | Up, up and away | Picking up from where "Beyond the Deepwoods" left off, Twig fortuitously rescues his friend Caterbird from Undertown, and manages to glean some very important information about the floating city of Sanctaphrax, his father, and the amazing power of stormphrax, which comes from a single lightning bolt during the Great St... | [] | 0385750706 | 0385750706 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,105,935,823,000 | 5 | true |
4 | Promising Fantasy Series | If this first book is any indication, The Edge Chronicles promises to be an enthralling series, possibly a young reader's warm up for Discworld.<br /><br />The binding is similar to other popular series such as Lemony Snickett or The Spiderwick Chronicles, but the maps and illustrations are superior in this one. The f... | [] | 0385750684 | 0385750684 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,105,811,722,000 | 43 | true |
4 | How to survive in NY on a limited budget & get smarter too | Claudia Kincaid is almost twelve, a straight "A" student, only girl and eldest child of four, who decides to run away to somewhere beautiful, comfortable, and preferably indoors.<br /><br />Claudia is in fact rebelling against the monotony of her life, unfair distribution of labor, limited television choices and low al... | [] | 0689711816 | 0689711816 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,105,593,585,000 | 218 | true |
4 | A dark, funny whydunit | Requiring slightly more effort than your average murder mystery, this book is so darkly funny and offbeat that you hardly notice it rambling on a little longer than necessary.<br /><br />Taking a different approach, we learn "whodunit" at the very beginning, and spend several chapters figuring out the "whydunit".<br />... | [] | 0375411089 | 0375411089 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,105,235,100,000 | 6 | true |
4 | The Return to Clanton | Grisham returns to Clanton, Mississippi, home of his previous novels "A Time to Kill" and "The Summons", with a story that starts out without the lawyers, but quickly falls back into the popular formula, even bringing back the character of Harry Rex Vonner, who stole the show in "The Summons".<br /><br />The central ch... | [] | 044024157X | 044024157X | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,104,446,503,000 | 8 | false |
4 | This woman tells BIG tales! | Another big sweeping story from Sharon Maas, also the author of "Of Marriageable Age" and "The Speech of Angels".<br /><br />The first part of this story is an open time capsule of life and growing up in Guyana; the second, much darker part tells of the horrors of child prostitution in India.<br /><br />One could perha... | [] | 000711737X | 000711737X | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,104,034,917,000 | 8 | false |
5 | The Logical Book | Christopher John Francis Boone is my kind of guy. He's really good at mathematics, he lives for logic, and he makes sure his life is in order using lists, maps, diagrams and graphs. Surprises are definitely not welcome, and he likes everything to be predictable and according to a prescribed schedule.<br /><br />On the... | [] | 1400032717 | 1400032717 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,103,504,058,000 | 21 | true |
5 | Breaking the curse - The Tale of Stanley and Zero. | The laziness of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather has placed a mighty unpleasant curse on the Yelnats family. Stanley Yelnats (a great name whichever way you read it) is always in the wrong place at the wrong time, and this particular time, it leads him to a stay at Camp Green Lake.<br /><br... | [] | 0440414806 | 0440414806 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,103,433,368,000 | 15 | true |
4 | An Adult-sized Fairy Tale | Until recently, I was blissfully ignorant that the popular movie I had seen several times (in my younger days) was actually based on a book.<br /><br />Judging from the cover illustration of Bastian Balthazar Bux doing his "King of the World" thing aboard the Luck Dragon, you get the feeling that this is no ordinary fa... | [] | 0140074317 | 0140074317 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,103,429,696,000 | 52 | true |
5 | A ready-made screenplay | A rich, colorful explosion of Indian culture spanning from Madras to Demerara, this novel is so vividly told and so skillfully woven that you'll find yourself visualizing the story as you go along, in full color with surround sound, smells and all.<br /><br />Three children, two countries, three stories, three differen... | [] | 0006514952 | 0006514952 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,102,900,896,000 | 46 | false |
5 | Cross-Cultural Treasures | A treasury of fifteen intriguing short stories from the accomplished author of the novel "Trutor & the Balloonist".<br /><br />Each story plumbs the depths of human nature and the underlying emotional currents, yet none of them end quite the way you would imagine.<br /><br />From Europe to Asia to the Caribbean, North ... | [] | 0870744208 | 0870744208 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,101,608,900,000 | 5 | true |
4 | Short on detecting, long on relationships. | This fourth book in the series brings not a heck of a lot of detective work, and none of the astute problem-solving that made book one a literary treasure.<br /><br />The main attractions this time are the opening of a rival detective agency powered by testosterone, the launching of a typing school for men powered by g... | [] | 140003180X | 140003180X | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,101,261,385,000 | 4 | true |
4 | Hail the Ugly Duckling | The beauty about this intelligent and funny series is that you can read them in any order, once you've finished Book One, "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency".<br /><br />Undoubtedly, a meticulous mind would prefer to read them in the order in which they were written, and I would have chosen this option if the second b... | [] | 1400031362 | 1400031362 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,100,484,517,000 | 14 | true |
4 | Sowing the seeds for a sequel | Aunt Puff and Missing Minerva is a wonderful first book by an author whose imagination still lingers in a happy, fanciful childhood.<br /><br />Geared towards the young or young-at-heart reader, David Whitewolf captures all the excitement of Harry Potter in a compact non-threatening package, which even the most relucta... | [] | 0595327249 | 0595327249 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,099,588,985,000 | 10 | false |
4 | For growing imaginations | This first book of The Spiderwick Chronicles introduces young readers to the world of fantasy in a fun and easy to read format. It is written in simple language, and is short enough and exciting enough to hold the attention of even the most restless reader.<br /><br />The three main characters are the children of the ... | [] | 0689859368 | 0689859368 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,098,924,207,000 | 6 | false |
3 | Overbrimming with adventure | This is a reasonable first effort, showing promise for subsequent adventures. It is however difficult to guess what other new adventures could sequentially follow, as this one seems to have thrown every possible fantasy genre plot into the pot, shaken as opposed to stirred.<br /><br />It contains almost every fictiona... | [] | 0974029092 | 0974029092 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,098,593,507,000 | 11 | false |
5 | Wickedly Clever - a Must Read | My first is Caroline, an enigma, a brain<br />A map maker, a forger, holds much in disdain<br /><br />My second is Trutor, young Michelle, the star<br />Who Caroline's riddles and legacy jar<br /><br />The Balloonist is third, one half of a twin<br />Caroline's will is a challenge, his game is to win<br /><br />The fou... | [] | 1878448749 | 1878448749 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,098,244,384,000 | 7 | true |
5 | "Squeeze my little toe" - The funniest of the bunch | Another thoroughly enjoyable adventure of our teenage millionaire criminal mastermind, but this time the stakes are much higher, so high that for once, one Butler just isn't enough.<br /><br />Artemis has used his ill-gotten fairy gadgets to create an electronic device the same size as, and a gazillion times more compl... | [] | 0786819146 | 0786819146 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,097,626,732,000 | 12 | true |
4 | No decoding required this time. | Having eaten my way through the first book like a dwarf burrowing through loosely-packed earth, I found this one slightly slower going. My new favorite genius-millionaire-criminal mastermind is now a teenager and he's not as tough and full of brass as he was in book one.<br /><br />Cut him some slack though, his mommy... | [] | 0786817089 | 0786817089 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,097,121,491,000 | 12 | true |
5 | Wish I could write this title in code. | After reading this book in one sitting, I think I've finally discovered my true reading level. I may not be that young, but as I've been told repeatedly that I've yet to grow up, I think I can easily qualify as a "young" adult reader.<br /><br />This is a book that I had a lot of fun reading. I even busted the code (... | [] | 0786817070 | 0786817070 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,096,834,091,000 | 172 | true |
4 | Welcome to Jurisfiction | In this follow up to "The Eyre Affair", Jasper Fforde proves that he's no flash in the pan, his witty prose continuing to add sparkle to a delightful storyline. The names of his characters are again imaginative and amusing, and his concept brilliant.<br /><br />We rejoin our reluctant heroine Thursday Next, as she opp... | [] | 0142004030 | 0142004030 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,095,917,776,000 | 4 | false |
4 | Wrapping things up | This last book in "The Chronicles of Narnia" is another fast read, requiring only a few dedicated hours of page turning. It is vastly different from any of the other books, and is the one most laden with theology and imagery.<br /><br />The ruler at the time is King Tirian, and he soon has his hands full. Lantern Wast... | [] | 006447108X | 006447108X | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,095,468,500,000 | 33 | false |
4 | To the rescue.. | Continuing through the Chronicles of Narnia, "Prince Caspian" is the fourth novel chronologically, and the second published. Because of the order in which the books were written, this book takes up where "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" left off, with the four Pevensies being called back to Narnia by magic, one ... | [] | 0064471055 | 0064471055 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,094,181,435,000 | 3 | false |
3 | Maybe it's just me... | Maybe it's just the order I'm reading the books, but after "Still Life With Woodpecker" and "Jitterbug Perfume", this one came up a bit short.<br /><br />Maybe he just got better with age, like fine wine and aged cheese.<br /><br />Maybe I just haven't read enough of Tom Robbins' books, and so haven't acquired a comple... | [] | 055334949X | 055334949X | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,093,468,513,000 | 37 | false |
4 | Bookworm Fodder | An intricately worded tale, with a multitude of characters that may require note taking to keep them all straight. Jasper Fforde has hatched an absolutely brilliant concept for a story, which after a somewhat slow start, picks up nicely, and holds you tightly between its pages until the ending.<br /><br />With its cle... | [] | 0142001805 | 0142001805 | AGTMZCWIWBH43TCW7UKG2YV2EKKA | 1,093,012,392,000 | 5 | false |
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