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scribeswindow
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Enders game, Orson Scott Card. 
Tai_Mai_Shu
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Cold Moon by Jeffery Deaver - The first half of the book was great with the build up villian and dark tone but the last half was flat. Deaver is a great writer and he knows how to end the chapter with a cliffhanger. The problem with this book is that there were so many twists and turn and it's too much for my liking. 3/5
UnicornSally
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Paris '97 by Eric Hamilton. It's a Princess Diana conspiracy/thriller/mystery novel--a really good read. Anyone else read it? I'd love to discuss a few things!
scribeswindow
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The court of the air, Stephen Hunt. Didn't enjoy his style of writing. 
Landslide
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Measuring the World, by Daniel Kehlmann. 
It's a historical novel about the lives and friendship of Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss. For those of you who don't know, Alexander von Humboldt is considered the father of modern geography and, being a geographer myself, I couldn't resist reading it. I loved it even though I would have liked it more developed.
It's a historical novel about the lives and friendship of Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss. For those of you who don't know, Alexander von Humboldt is considered the father of modern geography and, being a geographer myself, I couldn't resist reading it. I loved it even though I would have liked it more developed.
chiangmaifalcon
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The Plague by Albert camus. It was not as weird and french as I thought it would be but was actually a very interesting and suspenseful story. it wa supposed to be really about nazi occupation of France but I think really was just story of plague in Algeria.
Peder
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The Original of Laura - Vladimir Nabokov.
An unfinished, unpolished mixture of fragmentary chapter synopses and notes for a novel that might have been, written in pedestrian style that bears no echoes of the published Valdimir Nabokov whom readers have known.
Massively disappointing from this reader's point of view. Indicative perhaps of the great gulf between early conceptions and final product, its value lies perhaps in providing a glimpse of how Nabokov began work toward a polished novel.
An unfinished, unpolished mixture of fragmentary chapter synopses and notes for a novel that might have been, written in pedestrian style that bears no echoes of the published Valdimir Nabokov whom readers have known.
Massively disappointing from this reader's point of view. Indicative perhaps of the great gulf between early conceptions and final product, its value lies perhaps in providing a glimpse of how Nabokov began work toward a polished novel.
Peder
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If you are looking for anything resembling an interesting plot or a story, even in fragmentary form, forget about it. It just isn't there.
If you would like to see Nabokov's handwriting and editing, then the facsimile's of his notecards which are included are worth looking at. But I would say that is for dedicated specialists or writers. For a general reader, a few cards might go a long way toward satisfying curiosity.
Published? Maybe not. But, preserved? Definitely.
Peder
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Interested to hear your reaction.