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Type: fiction

Status: to read

Author: Robert Graves

Description: I can't imagine any of the new tv shows setI can't imagine any of the new tv shows set in ancient Rome will be half as entertaining....

2006-07-02

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Type: fiction

Status: liked

Author: Michael Crichton

Description: Crazy virus from space infects small Arizona town. Baby and old man are the only survivors,Crazy virus from space infects small Arizona town. Baby and old man are the only survivors, and a special team of scientists is hired to find out why. Why, God, why....

2006-06-29

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Type: fiction

Status: liked

Author: Michael Crichton

2006-06-29

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Type: fiction

Status: liked

Author: Michael Crichton

2006-06-29

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Type: fiction

Status: liked

Author: Douglas Adams

Tags: science fiction comedy,

2006-06-29

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Neal Stephenson

Description: Great. I found some errors ( mainly in the math, but also about the jewish character )

2006-06-29

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Type: fiction

Status: neutral

Author: unknown

Description: hmm.
I would never of read it if I knew it then what a hype there is about this book.hmm.
I would never of read it if I knew it then what a hype there is about this book. Pretty good storytelling, although DB uses every single cliche in writing. Also the writing isn't as high-leveled.

One thing that bothers me is that the book is written like a movie script....

2006-06-29

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Type: fiction

Status: disliked

Author: unknown

Description: Very slow story. It only gets good in the last hundred pages. By then it's too late becauseVery slow story. It only gets good in the last hundred pages. By then it's too late because you see the book is ending....

2006-06-29

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Type: fiction

Status: liked

Author: unknown

Description: In a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the ThoughtIn a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the Thought Police can practically read your mind, Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. He knows the Party's official image of the world is a fluid fiction. He knows the Party controls the people by feeding them lies and narrowing their imaginations through a process of bewilderment and brutalization that alienates each individual from his fellows and deprives him of every liberating human pursuit from reasoned inquiry to sexual passion. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be....

2006-06-29

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Type: fiction

Status: liked

Author: Ayn Rand

2006-06-29