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With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing …
In previous books, Holocaust historian Timothy Snyder dissected the events and values that enabled the …
This book is compelling, concise, and hauntingly beautiful and elegant in its prose. It is an utterly essential book for our time, and I think, for all time. It distills Snyder's vast expertise and knowledge of the downfalls of past democracies into a set of key lessons for us to take into the present and future, in America and elsewhere. It establishes these lessons and cuts straight to them with brutal efficiency, using historical examples and straightforward logical reasoning.
This book will be with me for a long time, whether I'm carrying it or not. Everyone can learn from it, and everyone should read it. Were I a teacher, I'd require my students to read it.
Explains how Vladimir Putin and Russia hacked an American election as part of a covert operation to subvert the United …
The fifth novel in Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series.
A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land …
Has its moments, but is not what I'd call good. Oscillates between interesting and hilariously confounding. It should have been longer, like the other books in the trilogy, just so the authors could explain more about the major plot devices and develop the characters more. A lack of explanation on both counts detracted from the experience and left me guessing. The Strain was by no means the most cleverly-written book, but The Fall reads even worse, like it's just a filler between two other books the authors actually wanted to write.
However, The Fall still provides interesting source material for the FX TV adaptation. I could easily see the events of this book filling two seasons instead of just one on account of the amount of stuff which happens in the book and is never given enough time for explanation there.
Nanpaisanshu: Search for the buried bomber (2011, AmazonCrossing)
The visionary creator of the Academy Award-winning Pan's Labyrinth and a Hammett Award-winning author bring …
A novel that, in spite of its many flaws, remained enjoyable throughout. The Strain is a perfect example of how the more famous a book's author, the less polish they need to put in for it to get published. There are many odd choices made in the pacing of the story, the prose leaves a great deal to be desired, and the female part is woefully underwritten, the sole female "main" character doing nothing but feeling either horrified or saddened and remaining almost helpless for the entire time she is present.
Still, the book strikes an intriguing mix of an "epidemiological procedural" driven by modern science technology and a novel based on old-school vampire lore, and the authors never lose sight of the idea that vampires were meant to be terrifying rather than sparkly. The novel follows in the thematic footsteps of 'I Am Legend,' and manages to stand out …
A novel that, in spite of its many flaws, remained enjoyable throughout. The Strain is a perfect example of how the more famous a book's author, the less polish they need to put in for it to get published. There are many odd choices made in the pacing of the story, the prose leaves a great deal to be desired, and the female part is woefully underwritten, the sole female "main" character doing nothing but feeling either horrified or saddened and remaining almost helpless for the entire time she is present.
Still, the book strikes an intriguing mix of an "epidemiological procedural" driven by modern science technology and a novel based on old-school vampire lore, and the authors never lose sight of the idea that vampires were meant to be terrifying rather than sparkly. The novel follows in the thematic footsteps of 'I Am Legend,' and manages to stand out both in a subgenre recovering from its sparkly phase and among a general market that has become saturated with zombie apocalypses.
While this novel is far from perfect, it's worth a read if you're into either old-school vampires or high-tech supernatural thrillers. An interesting story is slowed but not scuttled by the shortcomings of its execution, and I'm confident that the upcoming television adaptation of this book series will be even better than this source material, since film is Guillermo del Toro's native medium.
The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets is a 2013 book by Simon Singh, which is based on the premise that …
As tension between Mars and Earth mounts, and terrorism plagues the Martian city of Londres Nova, sixteen-year-old David Draper is …
