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The Darkest Pleasure (Lords of the Underworld, Book 3)
Gena Showalter
HQN Books, 2008
Reyes is a man possessed. Bound by the demon of pain, he is forbidden to know pleasure. Yet he craves a mortal woman, Danika Ford, more than breath and will do anything to claim her—even defy the gods. Danika is on the run. For months she's eluded the Lords of the Underworld, immortal warriors who won't rest until she and her family have been destroyed. But her dreams are haunted by Reyes, the warrior whose searing touch she can't forget. ...
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Rules (Newbery Honor Book) 61 reviews
Cynthia Lord
Scholastic Press, 2006
Rules
Rules is an excellent book. Rule is about a twelve year old girl named Cathrine who has a brother named David who has autism. Cathrine tries to teach him rules like " No toys in the fish tank and "Keep your pants on in public." I think Rules is a wounderful book to read beacuse it's about Cathrine trying to make friends and a girl moves in next door and tries to make friends. If you want to know ...
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Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana (Christ the Lord)46 reviews
Anne Rice
Knopf, 2008
Why do we need THIS Jesus?
It's almost a high-school literature teacher's joke: Divine 1st person point of view. Any literary person worth their salt knows the only kind of omniscient point of view is 3rd person (or 2nd, in the extremely rare case of Augustine's Confessions). But Anne Rice blithely jumps those literary tracks (as she jumped another, from vampire lit to theography) in order to give us the 1st person ...
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Lord of the Flies (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) 1267 reviews
William Golding
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999
Who needs Rowling when you've got Golding?
LORD OF THE FLIES, by William Golding, is one of the best books to come along in literature since Chaucer and his CANTERBURY TALES. Mr. Golding writes beautifully and poetically of this tragic commentary on humans and our society, making the story of these young boys all the more poignant and thought-provoking.
This book is not for the weak of mind, nor the faint of heart. Several high ...
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The Darkest Kiss (Lords of the Underworld, Book 2)19 reviews
Gena Showalter
HQN Books, 2008
WOW!!!
This is one DAMN good series! You can read the synopsis and get the gist. It's worth the money. Make sure you read the Maddox and Ashlyn's story in book 1.
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Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt: A Novel295 reviews
Anne Rice
Ballantine Books, 2008
Powerful
She built her reputation writing books about vampires and witches, exploring her own faith as her characters wrestled with timeless themes of good and evil. Now Anne Rice has taken on the story of Christ himself. Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt is a novel written as a first-person account by Jesus of his very early years. In an afterword Rice details her research -- the years she spent studying ...
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The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld, Book 1)47 reviews
Gena Showalter
HQN Books, 2008
Wonderful New Paranormal
The Darkest Night kicks off the Lords of the Underworld series about six immortal warriors bound for centuries by an unbreakable curse. Maddox, the hero of this story who has been infected with the demon called Violence is cursed to die a slow painful death every night, only to awaken in the morning always knowing that he will die again that night...
Maddox lives a lonely existance until the ...
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Genghis: Lords of the Bow9 reviews
Conn Iggulden
Delacorte Press, 2008
"To drive Your Enemy Before You..."
"And hear the lamentation of the women."
Poor China - seems they can't get a break these days. Like it's not bad enough with the "Free Tibet" crowd and the Olympic Torch fiasco, here we've got Conn Iggulden piling on, sending Genghis Khan and his fearsome horde crashing through the "Chins" walled cities and wrecking the kind of havoc made popular in John Kerry's now infamous "Jenghis" Khan ...
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The Children of Húrin256 reviews
J.R.R. Tolkien
Houghton Mifflin, 2007
Read "The Silmarillion" first...
This book is very good, and is a lot easier to read than picking the story out of "Unfinished Tales" or "The Silmarillion". But I would not have understood much of the background details and geography if I had not read "The Silmarillion" first. Very fascinating and gives a good perspective of First Age Middle Earth. Highly recommended for true Middle Earth fans.
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The Hobbit1614 reviews
J.R.R. Tolkien
Houghton Mifflin, 2002
A wonderful introduction to the world of Tolkien
I am the type of reader who will pick up a book and spend months reading it. I go through books in different cycles. Sometimes I can't put them down. Sometimes it takes me forever to finish them. In regards to The Hobbit, I can say that I have read and reread this wonderful book many times. While I have read The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and most would curse me in some form of literary ...
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The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life75 reviews
Emmet Fox
HarperOne, 1989
Best book for authentic living ever
I have read dozens, if not hundreds of spiritual living books / books about the Bible, and this is the best I have ever encountered. Fox just lays it out in simple and direct terms about God, our thoughts/actions, and living in harmony with life. My book is so underlined and dog-eared that I may have to order another!
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J.R.R. Tolkien Boxed Set (The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings)1234 reviews
J.R.R. Tolkien
Del Rey, 2001
Lord of the Rings Trilogy & The Hobbit
Saw the movies, loved them. Read the first book, hard to follow but good. Glad I saw the movies first.
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The Hobbit: 70th Anniversary Edition17 reviews
Houghton Mifflin, 2007
For Adults Too
"A classic. Some consider it a children's book, but it's certainly no more so than the Harry Potter series."
-- Glenn G. Thater, Author of 'Harbinger of Doom'
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The Lord of the Rings123 reviews
J.R.R. Tolkien
Houghton Mifflin, 2002
Absolutely Amazing
Being a Lord of the Rings fan for 7 years, I decided that it was time to buy an illustrated set of it. I'm so happy that I bought this one!!
The dust covers are very beautiful with illustrations by Alan Lee. The box is also illustrated and the books fit in very good. Every book has ,under the dust cover, the actual cover: nice red fabric with in gold the title etc. It looks very 'Tolkien-ish'
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The L.L. Bean Ultimate Book of Fly Fishing (L. L. Bean) 7 reviews
Macauley Lord, Dick Talleur, ...
The Lyons Press, 2006
One of the best "how-to" books on fly fishing
This is a composite of three previously published L. L Bean guides: fly-fishing, casting, and fly tying. The first part is Whitlock's book on fly-fishing and is one of the best (the other being Rosenbauer's Orvis book) introductions to the sport of fly fishing. The Whitlock illustrations are always great, and the information is top-notch. You will find out everything you need from fly lines to ...
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Camp Camp: Where Fantasy Island Meets Lord of the Flies1 review
Roger Bennett, Jules Shell
Crown, 2008
Wedgies, color war, parents' day and almost too much more
The kid freaked out, ran off the bus. Much screaming from other kids --- it was time to leave. The kid's parents told their daughter they'd follow the bus --- a four-hour drive --- and if, at the destination, she still wanted to come home, they'd be right there for her. She agreed. Returned to the bus. It pulled out. The parents drove straight home.
The destination: sleepaway camp.
Which ...
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Death of a Rug Lord (Avon Mystery)1 review
Tamar Myers
Avon, 2008
Wonderful cozy mystery
Here is another delightful cozy mystery from Tamar Myers "Den of Antiquity" series. It features antique shop owner and sleuth Abby Timberlake and her family in Charleston, South Carolina.
This is a series where every book can stand alone. It can be read out of order. There is usually a paragraph or two near the beginning to remind the reader or bring the new reader up to date about the ...
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The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition)157 reviews
J.R.R. Tolkien
Houghton Mifflin, 2004
It IS leather-bound
I am not going to review the story (which obviously gets 5 stars) as it is undeniably the best work of fantasy literature of the 20th century. Instead, I'm reviewing this particular edition (50th anniversary).
First off, I feel obligated to correct a mistake of certain other reviewers. This edition IS bound in leather as advertised. The reviewer(s) were probably confused because the ...
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The Thief Lord386 reviews
Cornelia Funke
The Chicken House, 2003
The Thief Lord really is that great
This book starts out with two runaway brothers, Prosper and Bo, who ran away from their aunt and uncle who were trying to separate them. Prosper and Bo run away to Venice, a place where their mother had always told them to be the most beautiful place in the world. There they meet up with a group of other runaways, who hide in an abandoned movie theater. The head of this group, Scipio, AKA the ...
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Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade (Lord John Grey)54 reviews
Diana Gabaldon
Delacorte Press, 2007
A part of the great Lord John Grey series
This was a fabulous book about one of my favorite literary characters - Lord John Grey. If you are a fan of the Outlander novels, (and even if you are not) you will thoroughly enjoy this read. Enlightening, surprising and always enjoyable.
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