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Neil Hanson
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Ah, the end of another school year approaches. And as always happens, lists of “most excellent” answers to test questions begin to circulate. Here are a few I “borrowed” from another blogger. Yes, I admit it, these posts appear when my time or inclination for actual creatively inspired and original work is low… Q:What do...
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Peace at the Edge of Uncertainty
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The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
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Most books I read fairly quickly, but this one I took very slowly. I did this because I so much enjoyed the writing. It's one of those books that I wanted to put down often, just to savor the images that had been evoked by the words. I guess this is t...more |
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| My second Hiaasen - liked it a lot. This one seems to be one of the earlier ones, when Skink was just developing as a character. Fun characters, well written, the good guys win over the sleazy and powerful. A great formula. | |
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To be clear and fair, I love history books, so I'm likely to rate a history book high when it's well written, and this one is. I read the Iggulden novels about Genghis, and they were fun as novels, but this book gives the reader a really nice look int...more |
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| I continue to love this series. I listened to this one on audiobook, and want to stress that I think the narrator is perfect for these stories - he really brings the characters to life. I particularly like the many and varied "inside references" the...more | |
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| This is a hard one for me to "rank". The writing is many hundreds of years old, so it takes a while to get into the flow. The whole book was really just justification for a particular theological perspective, rather than any real "meat". If what a re...more | |
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