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Type: fiction

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Authors: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Garcia Marquez

Description: The story follows 100 years in the life of Macondo, a village founded by José Arcadio BuendíaThe story follows 100 years in the life of Macondo, a village founded by José Arcadio Buendía and occupied by descendants all sporting variations on their progenitor's name: his sons, José Arcadio and Aureliano, and grandsons, Aureliano José, Aureliano Segundo, and José Arcadio Segundo. Then there are the women--the two Úrsulas, a handful of Remedios, Fernanda, and Pilar--who struggle to remain grounded even as their menfolk build castles in the air. If it is possible for a novel to be highly comic and deeply tragic at the same time, then One Hundred Years of Solitude does the trick. Civil war rages throughout, hearts break, dreams shatter, and lives are lost, yet the effect is literary pentimento, with sorrow's outlines bleeding through the vibrant colors of García Márquez's magical realism. Consider, for example, the ghost of Prudencio Aguilar, whom José Arcadio Buendía has killed in a fight. So lonely is the man's shade that it haunts Buendía's house, searching anxiously for water with which to clean its wound. Buendía's wife, Úrsula, is so moved that "the next time she saw the dead man uncovering the pots on the stove she understood what he was looking for, and from then on she placed water jugs all about the house."

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2006-03-03

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Type: fiction

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Authors: Adam McCune Keith McCune

Description: Hannes was born a serf, but became an apprentice to the Pipelord of the Guild of Pipers. SentHannes was born a serf, but became an apprentice to the Pipelord of the Guild of Pipers. Sent to Hamelin to rid it of the plague of rats, Hannes finds that someone has deliberately brought the rats there. Someone does not want him to succeed, is willing to kill him and any who offer him help, including the mayor's daughter.
Started off great but soon got bogged down and became a struggle to finish
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2006-02-20

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Type: fiction

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Author: Khaled Hosseini

Description: The Kite Runner follows the story of Amir, the privileged son of a wealthy businessman in Kabul,The Kite Runner follows the story of Amir, the privileged son of a wealthy businessman in Kabul, and Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant. As children in the relatively stable Afghanistan of the early 1970s, the boys are inseparable. They spend idyllic days running kites and telling stories of mystical places and powerful warriors until an unspeakable event changes the nature of their relationship forever, and eventually cements their bond in ways neither boy could have ever predicted. Even after Amir and his father flee to America, Amir remains haunted by his cowardly actions and disloyalty. In part, it is these demons and the sometimes impossible quest for forgiveness that bring him back to his war-torn native land after it comes under Taliban rule....

2005-12-22

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Type: fiction

Status: disliked

Author: unknown

Description: The first Forgotten Realms title ever published, now brought back into print!
DarkwalkerThe first Forgotten Realms title ever published, now brought back into print!
Darkwalker on Moonshae was the very first novel ever published in the Forgotten Realms setting. Appearing in 1987, this title launched what has now become a robust and ever-expanding land of adventure for millions of readers. Unavailable for the past several years, this title is now back in print in a newly recovered mass market edition. The other two titles in this trilogy will also be re-released in the same season so that readers may easily collect the entire trilogy.
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2005-12-22

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Type: fiction

Status: disliked

Author: Spider Robinson

Description: Callahan's Place is the neighborhood tavern to all of time and space, where the regularsCallahan's Place is the neighborhood tavern to all of time and space, where the regulars are anything but. Pull up a chair, grab a glass of your favorite, and listen to the stories spun by time travelers, cybernetic aliens, telepaths...and a bunch of regular folks on a mission to save the world, one customer at a time...

2005-12-21

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Type: fiction

Status: disliked

Author: Zane

Description: I read this because I had no idea who Zane was and had many people asking for her books. TheI read this because I had no idea who Zane was and had many people asking for her books. The Plot is Mary Ann is the daughter of a chicken farmer from South Dakota. She has never been more than fifty miles from home and has led a sheltered life. By the time she goes off to college in Washington, D.C., she has been intimate with only one man -- her high school sweetheart. The resident manager of Mary Ann's dormitory, Patricia, befriends the country bumpkin. She finds Mary Ann amusing, but also senses something intriguing about her, hidden under the surface. After Mary Ann becomes smitten with Trevor, the campus playboy, Patricia is determined to show Mary Ann how not to be a victim, but rather how to outdo the players and heartbreakers. She indoctrinates Mary Ann into the ranks of the sexiest secret society ever: the sisters of APF.

No Real Plot. moves from one sex scene to the other. Not recommended for those who read romantica. Seems to be a porn script....

2005-12-13

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Type: fiction

Status: disliked

Author: Omar Tyree

Description: Leslie Beaudet is a New Orleans college student whose beauty and depth separate her from herLeslie Beaudet is a New Orleans college student whose beauty and depth separate her from her three girlfriends; the distance widens when she begins caring for her nieces, after her erratic sister, Laetitia, runs into boyfriend trouble. The romantic focus eventually shifts to Leslie's attempts to seduce one of her roommates' boyfriends in a bald-faced power play. The plot flirts with self-parody when the boyfriend spurns Leslie and she takes up voodoo to deal with her various enemies.
I disliked this book because Leslie's tran sformation isn't clearly developed. The book leaves the reader dissatified because it ends with Leslie in Jail awaiting trial. The reader wants to know what ultimatly happens to Leslie...

2005-12-12