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Into Thin Air by Franklin W. Dixon
Into Thin Air by Franklin W. Dixon
This is easily the best book in the new Hardy Boys Adventures series thus far. In the previous novel, Frank and Joe sifted through the clues to discover who was behind the disappearance of two teenagers riding G-Force, the star attraction of the amusement park, Fun Land. They identified the villains and got the police to lock them up. So how is it that a third
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I read an English edition of this novel. This novel was not published during Frank Herbert's life probably because it was not a science fiction novel and because the central tension in the book was incorporated into his novel, The Green Brain. The pre ...more |
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| This is another excellent Great Courses book. As the title suggests, Symmonds explores the development of the U.S. navy, its ups and downs, and how it has continually risen to the needs of the nation. There is a lot of humanity in this book, but ther ...more | |
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| The latest book in the Poor Man's Fight series is a worthy sequel to its predecessors. As the galaxy becomes an increasingly dark place with another major interstellar conflict looming, Tanner, the world's deadliest graduate student, gets dragged int ...more | |
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Second String Savior: From the Tome of Bill Universe (False Icons #1)
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| This is a sister series to Bill the Vampire following a young woman who learns she has been chosen to be an icon--except that she doesn't feel that everything is alright and is disturbed that no one can tell her who did the choosing. With a war in th ...more | |
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| This is one of those books that looked great when I picked it up but somehow waited years to get to the top of my reading list and boy am I sorry I delayed. This is one of Jeff Strand's best novels, and he has a lot of books I love especially Ferocio ...more | |
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| This superhero novel caught my attention immediately and didn’t let it go until the end. The premise is frankly wonderful. The world’s greatest superhero is a centuries old alien named Focus and if she has one fault it is that she tends to be standof ...more | |
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| This is a sweet short story about Archie, a young woman who has been relentlessly nagged by her extended family to get married. And not just any husband will do, he has to speak the right languages and come from the right the people. Trying to find t ...more | |
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| Frank Herbert excels at the creation of truly alien, incomprehensible cultures, and it is this problem of communication that is the heart of the superb novel, Whipping Star. In the universe of the future multiple alien species live together in a gove ...more | |
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‘'Now I'll tell you what happened, as best I can. No spin. No agenda. If I get something wrong, it's not because I'm being evasive. It's simply because I'm still trying to understand what happened today ... It's to explain, as best I can, " Read more of this review » |
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“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...”
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“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
― Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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