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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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| This story is both sweet and troubling comprising two romances and what might be correctly described as a fraud that gets forgiven. The basic plot is that Georgia receives a letter from her grandmother after the woman died. The letter reveals that th ...more | |
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| This is a fun short story about two potential romances which the reader quickly figures out are actually one and the same –a man and woman who keep meeting in the lobby of their apartment building, and a man and woman who are flirting with each other ...more | |
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| This is a novel about a woman being drawn out of a shell ten years in the making to take control of her life again after it was ruined by the discovery that her college boyfriend had a side-interest in murdering women. To make matters even more cruel ...more | |
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| This is an incredibly sweet and yet powerfully troubling story. Charlotte is the victim of a deranged stalker and Abby Jiminez does a brilliant job of making that villain a creepy and terrible presence in her life even though he isn’t appearing in th ...more | |
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| This novel falls into a category I have begun to think of as Sweet Fantasy. While there is tension and there are challenges to be overcome, they never felt particularly urgent to me. The setting is clearly medieval, but it feels very modern—dialogue, ...more | |
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| I have been interested in the UFO phenomenon since my early school days and it is a breath of fresh air to read a book that looks at the issue from the purely political perspective of the United States engaged in the Cold War. Spence examines many of ...more | |
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| AI is a frightening science fiction phenomenon that is becoming all too real in our world today. I found that this Great Courses book calmed my nerves a bit. It starts by pointing out that AI is everywhere around us already and has greatly enriched o ...more | |
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| This is a book for anyone who has enjoyed more than one Sherlock Holmes story. Holmes is one of the best-known literary figures of all time and James Krasner has an appreciation of him that spans every genre the character has ever appeared in. This G ...more | |
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| This is the best novel I have read in a long time. I am frankly in awe of the extraordinary way in which Goo develops a rather sweet time travel story. I would go so far as to suggest that there is not a single sentence in this story that was casuall ...more | |
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| Larry Correia may just be the greatest writer of action-oriented fantasy working today. This is another of his exceptional adventures. But it is so much more than a simple adventure story, because Correia’s characters have surprising depth and he is ...more | |
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| Written Gems: At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs | 35 | 7 | Aug 20, 2024 06:53AM |
“[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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“So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.”
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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
― Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
“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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