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Replay 308 reviews
Ken Grimwood
Harper Paperbacks, 1998
'Replay' delivers big time
+ Extremely strong premise
+ You simply need to read this book.
I love 'Groundhog Day' and 'Back to the Future' trilogy, so this book was right up my alley. I'm not going to bother with the synopsis; there is already enough of them posted in these other reviews.
I bought this from Amazon and received it in the mail yesterday. I started reading it this morning ...
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Not Exactly Normal 13 reviews
Devin Brown
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2006
Great Book for Middle School and Teens
+ My 10-year-old son loved this book...
+ This is a "shimmery" book.
+ For Not Exactly Normal Readers
+ Delightful and refreshingly Not Extactly Normal
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The Wrinkle in Time Quintet Boxed Set (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many ...11 reviews
Madeleine L'Engle
Square Fish, 2007
Good for another generation!
+ Great series for kids
+ Excellent Collection!
+ Not just for youngsters...
+ Wonderful collection
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1 (Barnes & Noble Classics)6 reviews
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004
Why this series?
+ Great Value; Elementary!
+ Can't go wrong with Sherlock Holmes!
+ great book
+ 3 Stars for the Content, 1 Star for the Quality
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The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)6 reviews
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Penguin Classics, 1997
Verses from a friend.
+ Love his poems!
+ The Penguin Complete Poems of Coleridge
This Penguin collection compares very well with my own Oxford Edition of 1935, and I particularly like the fact that the price is reasonable, so more people may decide to buy the book instead of just getting the two or three poems available in a typical anthology. Samuel Taylor Coleridge suffered ...
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The Chronicles of Narnia1014 reviews
C. S. Lewis
HarperCollins, 2001
Further up and further in!
+ Fantastic
+ First time reading through
+ Just what I ordered
+ Cs Lewis Chronicles of narnia
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The Silent Tower (Windrose Chronicles, Book 1)9 reviews
Barbara Hambly
Del Rey, 1986
A classic --
+ personal favorite
+ good stuff
It always astounds me to find out that Hambly fans aren't aware of or haven't gotten to the Windrose Chronicles. This is her best work by far, and some of the best fantasy out there, period. Our heroine, Joanna, finds herself transported across a terrifying Void from enchantment-free Los Angeles ...
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The Dark Is Rising (Boxed Set): The Dark Is Rising, Greenwitch, Over Sea, Under Stone, Silver on the Tree, ...33 reviews
Susan Cooper
Aladdin, 2007
Beautifully written fantasy
+ wonder
+ Lyrical ....
+ Good series
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The Ogre Downstairs16 reviews
Diana Wynne Jones
HarperTrophy, 2002
One of our family favorites.
+ Better then expected.
I first came across this book on a low shelf of my junior high school library, and checked it out three or four times that year. Twenty years and three children of my own later, when I started building our home library, this was one of the first titles I sought out. The only copy I found was an ...
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All Hallows' Eve 22 reviews
Charles Williams
Regent College Publishing, 2002
Amazing
+ The subtle, christian forerunner to the Twilight Zone?
+ All about redemption.
This is one of the greatest novels I've ever been forced to read in school. I recommend to all of my friends after having read it in my upper-level undergraduate Literature class. Read this book!
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The Great Divorce220 reviews
C. S. Lewis
HarperOne, 2001
My Favorite Lewis Book!
+ redeeming qualities
+ One way ride to forever
+ Great insight into the Great Divorce
+ Outstanding book.
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The George McDonald Treasury: Princess and the Goblin, Princess and Curdie, Light Princess, Phantastes, ...3 reviews
George McDonald
Kahley House Publishing, 2007
treasure indeed
+ Wonderful anthology
+ Great stories, but...
McDonald has an amazing way of looking at the ordinary and making it anything but. Great books to stimulate the imagination with wonder and delight. Great stories for all ages, I grew up reading these and still love to read them. My only criticism of this edition is the overall poor quality of ...
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Time Patrol11 reviews
Poul Anderson
Baen, 2006
classic, timeless, and glorious...
+ EXcellent CLassic Sci-fi
+ Not Free SF Reader
+ The Guardians of Time
+ Better For History Buffs
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The Hobbit: 70th Anniversary Edition40 reviews
Houghton Mifflin, 2007
For Adults Too
+ Terrific Anniversary Edition of a great classic
+ This is an amazing book
+ Good for the Hobbit
+ Essential part of trilogy - the basis for the plot - excellent
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The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion24 reviews
Mircea Eliade
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987
Sacred and the Profane
+ Lost Worlds of the Sacred
+ Whew.
+ A marvelous work
+ A brilliant introduction to the study of religion
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King Solomon's Ring: New Light on Animal Ways (Routledge Classics)7 reviews
Konrad Lorenz
Routledge, 2002
Truly filled with wonder
+ 5 stars for significance, charm; 4 stars for accuracy
+ Reader's review
+ A charming book...humourous, yet to the point
+ A charming book...humourous, yet to the point
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Wind, Sand and Stars44 reviews
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Harvest Books, 2002
A wonderful read and a remarkable work of literature
+ Suffused with the romance of exotic locations and being where the wild things are
+ Timeless
+ Flying is just the cover theme
+ "The physical drama cannot touch us until someone points out its spiritual sense."
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Fahrenheit 4511271 reviews
Ray Bradbury
Del Rey, 1987
A thrilling combination of 50's pulp sci-fi and reflective commentary
+ Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
By my count, this'll be the 1,218th review for this book on amazon, so what could I possibly say that the other 1,217 haven't?
But for those few who dare dig this deep to read: I loved the book. I've read numerous novels and thrillers for fun, and also dabbled in more serious, non-fiction as ...
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Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold189 reviews
C.S. Lewis
Harcourt Brace & Company, 1980
Beyond Excellent
+ I love this book
+ I've Lived In It
+ The Best of Paganism
+ C.S. Lewis's Masterpiece
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Zondervan NIV Study Bible, Personal Size27 reviews
Zondervan, 2002
The NIV is not a Bible just for dummies
+ Zondervan NIV Study Bible, Personal size
+ Texas Grandma
+ NIV Study Bible is perfect for individual or group study
+ NIV Study Bible
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