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Stacie H's 2011 Reads
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May 23, 2011 09:40PM
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The Modern Scholar: The Medieval World I: Kingdoms, Empires, and War
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Across the Universe Thanks to all the ladies who were talking about this one on the May Read-A-Thon thread! This turned out to be pretty good ;) I'm glad you piqued my interest, I don't think I'd have picked this up on my own (I know you aren't supposed to judge a book by it's cover... but that cover just makes me roll my eyes!)
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Full Share These are becoming a guilty pleasure of mine. This is the third in the series and not quite as polished as the other two- there were some continuity errors and several typos (little things, but they pulled me out of the story)- and there sheer perfection of the main character is a bit ridiculous... and yet I can't seem to stop reading! In fact, the only reason I haven't started on the fourth one is that it isn't available yet ;)
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Predators and Prey59.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Time Of Your Life60.
The Stand
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Retreat62.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Twilight63.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Last Gleaming
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Modern Scholar the Giants of Irish Literature: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett Bit of a disappointment. The Professor/Narrator of this lecture series manages to take vibrant, colorful people and make they dry and flat... and then do the same for their writing :(
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone67.
[book:Harry Potter and the Chambe..."Are you re-reading them all in anticipation of the final movie? I am!
Gail wrote: "Are you re-reading them all in anticipation of the final movie? I am! "Yep :) Well, I re-read them periodically whether or not there is a movie coming out... but this particular time I'm specifically inspired by the upcoming movie, LOL!
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Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp The translation is very unwieldy, but I enjoyed the information in the footnotes.
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Origins of Marvel Comics This is one of those 'preaching to the choir' kind of books. If you aren't already a fan of comics in general and Marvel comics in particular this book will likely irritate you. A lot. If, however, you are a fan you will probably have fun reading it, and possibly giggle madly here and there.
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire I think this is my favorite one of the series, though that's a tough choice... I love them all!74.
Go the F**k to Sleep Meh... I think my expectations were too high. It was humorous, but not side-splitting, falling-out-of-the-chair hilarious.
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I Am the Messenger I was pretty disappointed in this one- probably because I loved the last thing I read from him so much! I didn't really like or identify with any of the characters, and by the time I got to the end I couldn't help but feel that my time would have been better spent doing something else.
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Lockdown A good, fast read. It's violent and distopian, so if that turns you off this isn't the book- or series, since this is book 1- for you.
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The Golden Compass My favorite book of the series, though I like all of them. As a whole, the series is richly layered with believable characters, complicated interactions and complex themes. This is the first book in the series and more 'light-hearted' (for want of a better term) than the rest, though it's full of violence and pain and betrayal.
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The Tiber and the Potomac: Rome, America, and Empires of Trust Interesting comparisons and conclusions. I'm not sure I agree with everything, but it made me think :)
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The Day of the Triffids Pretty good, but definitely some dated ideas. There were several times that I had to beat down my 'modern sensibilities' to get through sections but overall I enjoyed it :)
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Mile 81 Sadly, this was merely 'OK'. The writing wasn't bad, but it didn't grab me, and the plot was almost farcical, which I don't think was intended. Also, it's really short- the description says 80 pages, but it's only 52 when downloaded to my Nook and 13 of those pages are taken up by the cover, the title page, the copyright page, the table of contents (Seriously? We need a table of contents for a short story?) and the teaser for his next book (which didn't come across as any more gripping than the short story it was tacked on after). It may improve on re-reading but my overall impression was 'meh'.
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A Light In The Dark I like the author and the Universe he's made. This novella is a good glimpse into the Solar Clipper 'verse but not the best starting point if you aren't familiar with his Solar Clipper stories.
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Crank I am soooo not the target audience for this book :/ On the good side, it was written very well and makes me want to go find more poetry by Ms. Hopkins. On the bad side, the story itself is heavy-handed and uses nearly every cliche there is. If you have ever watched an 'after-school special' or Lifetime Television movie about drug use you've already experienced this book. In a quicker format.
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Stupid History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions Throughout the Ages100.
William Morris101.
Unknown Worlds Unknown Horrors: 3 Vintage Sci-Fi Thrillers
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Grimm's Fairy Tales104.
The Invasion of the Body Snatchers105.
10 Extreme Vintage Sci/Fy Tales to Die For
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The First Dragoneer Cliched plot, rushed pacing, awkward descriptions and expositions, clumsy dialog... This thing has an almost 4 star GR rating?! I suspect most, if not all, of the reviewers may have a personal affiliation with the author.
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Kell's Legend Parts of this were well done (the action sequences, the atmosphere description, the 'monsters') but almost everything else was disappointing. The dialog was flat and forced in most places. The characters were all one dimensional and the pacing was jerky and in places incomprehensible.
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The Modern Scholar: Detective Fiction: From Victorian Sleuths to the Present112.
The Modern Scholar: Epochs of European Civilization: Antiquity to Renaissance
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Writings I didn't quite finish this in time for Halloween. 114.
Watership Down This is one of my favorites. I listened to the audio version of this, which was very good. Still, I think I prefer the print version. :) 115.
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