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I'm not really that much of a baseball fan, but I like John Grisham, so I listened to this book on Libby. I knew quite a bit about what they were talking about when he described details of games, strategies, etc. (thanks Dad!). But this story wasn't so much about baseball as it was about a family (kind of a dysfunctional family), and about the realities of the choices we make in life. It was a good story with some lessons.
I'm not really that much of a baseball fan, but I like John Grisham, so I listened to this book on Libby. I knew quite a bit about what they were talking about when he described details of games, strategies, etc. (thanks Dad!). But this story wasn't so much about baseball as it was about a family (kind of a dysfunctional family), and about the realities of the choices we make in life. It was a good story with some lessons.
Really interesting book. I liked learning about the backgrounds and personal lives of the heroes and traitors of the Revolutionary War.
Really interesting book. I liked learning about the backgrounds and personal lives of the heroes and traitors of the Revolutionary War.
Not a bad book. But it's really just another way to tell you to eat vegetables, exercise and avoid the SAD (Standard American Diet).
Not a bad book. But it's really just another way to tell you to eat vegetables, exercise and avoid the SAD (Standard American Diet).
Great book!! It's long, 960 pages, but worth every page. A very short and over-simplified review:
Post-apocalyptic horror and some fantasy. USA and Russia bomb each other with nuclear weapons, killing most of the population, throwing world into nuclear winter, destroying food sources and contaminating the water supply. Most survivors are left sick and/or deformed. The author, McCammon, is attentive to the characters, following the travels of each. We have "good guys" and "bad guys", so there is the battle between good and evil. All of the characters are well developed; you get to know them and they draw you into the story.
The main characters - "good guys" are:
Sue Wanda (Swan) - a girl who has the power to make plants grow.
Josh - a wrestler who happens to be in the same gas station as Swan when the nuclear weapons strike.
Sister Creep (Sister) - a bag lady living on the streets in New York. She obtains a glass ring that becomes important.
The main main characters - "bad guys: are:
Colonel Macklin - Former Air Force and POW.
Roland Croninger - a teenager who learns from Colonel Macklin.
The Man with the Scarlet Eye - evil character with demonic powers and capable of manipulation, shape shifting, mind control, etc. He is especially interested in tracking down Sister Creep for the glass ring, and Swan, because they represent hope and he doesn't want the world to have hope.
And there is so much more to the story! It's an excellent book!
Great book!! It's long, 960 pages, but worth every page. A very short and over-simplified review:
Post-apocalyptic horror and some fantasy. USA and Russia bomb each other with nuclear weapons, killing most of the population, throwing world into nuclear winter, destroying food sources and contaminating the water supply. Most survivors are left sick and/or deformed. The author, McCammon, is attentive to the characters, following the travels of each. We have "good guys" and "bad guys", so there is the battle between good and evil. All of the characters are well developed; you get to know them and they draw you into the story.
The main characters - "good guys" are:
Sue Wanda (Swan) - a girl who has the power to make plants grow.
Josh - a wrestler who happens to be in the same gas station as Swan when the nuclear weapons strike.
Sister Creep (Sister) - a bag lady living on the streets in New York. She obtains a glass ring that becomes important.
The main main characters - "bad guys: are:
Colonel Macklin - Former Air Force and POW.
Roland Croninger - a teenager who learns from Colonel Macklin.
The Man with the Scarlet Eye - evil character with demonic powers and capable of manipulation, shape shifting, mind control, etc. He is especially interested in tracking down Sister Creep for the glass ring, and Swan, because they represent hope and he doesn't want the world to have hope.
And there is so much more to the story! It's an excellent book!
Answered a promptWhat are your favorite books of all time?
I enjoy Agatha Christie's mysteries very much. This one was especially good. It kept me wondering who the killer was until the end. And, as always, Hercule Poirot was as entertaining and impeccable as always.
I enjoy Agatha Christie's mysteries very much. This one was especially good. It kept me wondering who the killer was until the end. And, as always, Hercule Poirot was as entertaining and impeccable as always.
I thought this book was very good. Then I read some things about the inaccuracies in the book. It is historical fiction, so I didn't expect it to be totally accurate. But, I do think that it should be more accurate than it is due to the fact that the history of Auschwitz is so so disturbing and brutal. The treatment of human beings, by other human beings, during this time in history marks a period of time so important, so huge, that it should always be presented as brutal as it was, even in fiction.
I thought this book was very good. Then I read some things about the inaccuracies in the book. It is historical fiction, so I didn't expect it to be totally accurate. But, I do think that it should be more accurate than it is due to the fact that the history of Auschwitz is so so disturbing and brutal. The treatment of human beings, by other human beings, during this time in history marks a period of time so important, so huge, that it should always be presented as brutal as it was, even in fiction.
