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Wendy's review of
Catch-22 byJoseph Heller
Wendy,
This may be one of the funniest books ever written. It could also be one of the most amoral, but that's another story.
signed Washington Irving (or was that Irving Washington?)
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<![CDATA[Alan added 'The Lost Symbol']]>
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to: The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)byDan Brown
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.
My wife says that she wants to buy and read this one. She likes the commercials for the movie.
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Wendy's review of
The Work and the Glory Collector's Set byGerald N. Lund
I personally hated the series. I managed to get through about the fourth book before I gave up. It was too much of a soap opera for me and he played around with too many historical events. If you can get ahold of them, and enjoy church history, watch the Truman Madsen video series called On Sacred Ground; Reflections on Joseph Smith. It is incredible. The historical novel, Saints, by Orson Scott Card is also really good and gave me a better understanding of Polygamy than I have ever had before.
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<![CDATA[Alan added 'The End of the Road']]>
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to: The End of the Road (Audio Cassette)byTom Bodett
I've read this many times over the years, but finally found it in hardback at a local used bookstore (I snatched it up). I've been able to do much more reading since a recent heart attack and have been catching up with some old favorites. Tom Bodett used to do the Motel 6 commercials, but may be more famous for his radio show. This is the first book based on that show. It is a fun and funny read and is about as G rated as you can get.
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<![CDATA[Alan added 'The Big Garage on Clear Shot: Growing Up, Growing Old, and Going Fishing at the End of the Road']]>
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to: The Big Garage on Clear Shot: Growing Up, Growing Old, and Going Fishing at the End of the Road (Hardcover)byTom Bodett
Very enjoyable. I actually like Bodett better than Garrison Keillor (and I know I spelled it wrong). His town of crazy eccentrics from his radio show is just more enjoyable to me. I've got to read the rest of the series.
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<![CDATA[Alan added 'Days of Infamy']]>
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to: Days of Infamy (Hardcover)byNewt Gingrich bookshelves: to-read
Excellent. A good book that continues a "what if" series. I can't wait for the next one to be written and published.
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<![CDATA[Alan added 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West']]>
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to: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Wicked Years, #1)byGregory Maguire
Awful....Just pure drivel. This book came highly recommended by a few co-workers, so I bought and read it and wasted both my time and my money. This re-imagining of the story of The Wizard of Oz (told from the point of the Wicked Witch of the West) makes the witch into the hero and a victim at the same time. It also attempts to define "evil," but does a really poor job of it.
They have now turned this into a Broadway play and have had great success, but considering the world that we live in (where evil is conditional and goodness and truth are not politically correct), this is understandable.
Later today, I am taking my copy of this to a used bookstore and getting rid of it.
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Wendy's review of
The Choice byNicholas Sparks
As far as your olives comment is concerned, you have obviously never wasted your time reading Proust. His "Remembrance of Things Past" is one of the most boring series ever written. In one book, three chapters are taken up telling us how he feels about the cookies he eats with his morning tea. Unfortunately, I had to read one of his 37 volumes of drivel while at UTEP.
As far as Sparks goes, I once read a chapter of one of my wife's books while bored one day. I remained bored and never picked up anything else by him again.
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<![CDATA[Alan added 'Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo']]>
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to: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (Hardcover)byTed W. Lawson
The true story of the Doolittle bombing run over Tokyo just a few months after Pearl Harbor, as told by one of the pilots.
Okay, so the writing is not that great, but you read the true story of his escape from near capture, his injuries in the crash of his bomber, and his having his leg removed in a small Chinese village while he is conscious.