false <![CDATA[The Echo Maker: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167285044m/19794.jpg 19794 17 On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter has a near-fatal car accident. His older sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when Mark emerges from a coma, he believes that this woman--who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister--is really an imposter. When Karin contacts the famous cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber for help, he diagnoses Mark as having Capgras syndrome. The mysterious nature of the disease, combined with the strange circumstances surrounding Mark's accident, threatens to change all of their lives beyond recognition. In The Echo Maker, Richard Powers proves himself to be one of our boldest and most entertaining novelists. 1256282 17 10 2006 The Echo Maker: A Novel total:2025|5:275|4:668|3:604|2:331|1:147| 2025 6668 3137 549 3 14 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 04 20:02:06 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 04 20:02:06 -0700 2007 Flowers for Algernon for the new millennium!!!!!

Okay, not really, no. Well, maybe a little...?

The best parts of this book were those written from the perspective of a character with severe traumatic brain injury. The rest of it was good too, but the characters were never quit...more...]]> 1 10 true false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 27 12:59:47 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 27 13:06:36 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 5 false false Fri Apr 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 21 07:59:01 -0800 2008 Fri Apr 11 20:09:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 3 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 17 09:23:38 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 14 21:49:01 -0700 2007
This won the National Book Award last year, and is by an author who has received one of the MacArthur "genius awards." Did it deserve it?

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It begins with the ar...more...]]> 2 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 10 14:19:17 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 13:11:19 -0800 2008 The Echo Maker is akin to an Oscar-winning film. Dramatic, touching, well-executed, and conventionally conservative.

The story is backdropped against a small town that hosts a spectacular bird migration once a year. The hero is involved in a near-fatal car crash, from which he emerges fr...more...]]> 2 2 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 17 19:59:31 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 17 19:59:41 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Mar 01 09:02:40 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 09:03:18 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 2 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 03 16:12:14 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 29 10:40:44 -0700 2009 5 1 false false Tue Nov 11 09:16:55 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 11 09:17:13 -0800 2008
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As a nascent cognitive neuroscientist, I'll have to admit that the name dropping of a slew of well-known neurological conditions gave me plenty of recognizable material -- much more than is normally included in a fictitious account. You can see that Powers has done h...more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed May 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 23 10:21:53 -0700 2008 Wed May 21 06:51:30 -0700 2008
Mark Schluter crashes his truck off of a highway in rural Nebraska and ends up in a coma for 14 days. His sister, Karin, leaves everything behind to rush to his side and care for him. When he emerges from...more...]]> 4 1 false true Fri Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 18 05:46:30 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 20 17:16:44 -0800 2008
I do think I like this book but I don't think I can articulate why yet because it requires at least another rea...more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 16 06:56:35 -0800 2007 Wed Jan 16 11:55:15 -0800 2008 interesting that a person could...more...]]> 2 2 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Jul 06 14:36:18 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 06 14:37:04 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 2 false false Wed May 28 15:04:29 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 21 16:13:30 -0800 2008 Wed May 28 15:04:29 -0700 2008
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A woman behind me said, "Excuse me, I think you left your book."

And I said, "Yeah, I kind of wanted to leave my book, in hopes that someone else would come along and not hate it ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=19794