false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167544946m/24985.jpg 24985 7 A sociologist who studies fads and a chaos theorist are brought together by a strange misdelivered package. This book has all the wit and clever writing that characterized Willis' earlier Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Doomsday Book. 1194887 1996 Bellwether total:1243|5:381|4:525|3:264|2:64|1:9| 1243 4934 1582 169 3 1 false false Fri May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 14 16:16:55 -0700 2008 Fri May 30 14:44:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Mar 16 02:53:23 -0700 2007 Fri Mar 16 03:05:55 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 13 19:57:44 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 19:59:43 -0700 2009 3 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Mon Jun 04 12:49:54 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 04 12:52:30 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 3 false false Sun Mar 23 21:25:02 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 23 21:37:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 14:56:52 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 15:02:20 -0700 2009 Bellwether is a cute little book. It's not one of her darker works like Doomsday Book. It falls ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Jan 28 07:42:48 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 07:44:43 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Nov 04 07:39:53 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 11 21:06:03 -0800 2008
Note: Gotta love a protagonist who checks classic books out from the library regularly, even when she doesn't...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 12:31:49 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 07:44:46 -0700 2009 1 In the first place, Connie Willis lists fads before each chapter and tells how long they lasted, why they died and what came after. Fads include interesting historical tidbits such as Alice Blue or dance marathons d...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 14:41:06 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 19:32:54 -0700 2009 1
Sandra studies fads. What triggers them? Why do people follow them? What's the new "it" thing? She hopes to find the initiation point of such phenomena, and in examinin...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 19 18:12:03 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 19 18:15:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 06:45:12 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 06:49:03 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Sep 09 13:52:14 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 28 20:03:49 -0700 2007 5 1 false false Mon Jul 21 01:44:35 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 00:32:52 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Fri Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 00:36:27 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 10:14:53 -0700 2009 Doomsday Book or To Say Nothing of the Dog (which were each fantastic in their own way), it was thoroughly entertaining and successful with its narrower scope. It's NOT science fiction, unless you define science fiction as being fiction about scient...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 08:17:37 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 07:48:08 -0700 2009 1
I loved the audio edition of this novel just as much as I enjoyed reading it the first time (actually, looking back at my rather short review of the novel, I enjoyed it more!) Kate Reading has a very light voice throughout, which reflects the story well. This time ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 17:53:22 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 18:00:11 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 12:03:08 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 12:03:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Dec 24 20:16:23 -0800 2008 Tue Aug 18 18:33:00 -0700 2009
You can skip the middle 50% of the book--all of the plot is telegraphed early on and then doesn't actually develop until the very end. This is science fiction only in...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Fri Dec 21 09:56:53 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 21 09:58:38 -0800 2007
Sandra Foster is a researcher at the HiTek corporation - studying fads in the hope that by quantifying and analyzing them, she'll discover a formula that the company can use. She occasionally gets caught up in the lives of her co-workers, and has inte...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=24985