The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream1289 reviews Paulo Coelho HarperSanFrancisco, 1995 Inspiring + Actually life-changing + Overall, a good read Anyone unsure of what they want to do after high school should read this book.             Blaze: A Novel149 reviews Richard Bachman Scribner, 2007 It's not wrong to want the bad guy to win! + Stephen Kings does of Mice and Men + BLAZE IS GOOD! You know how, when you meet an exceptional person, you feel honored to have been able to know them? You feel that you were lucky to have known them, to have been able to glimpse their life, to have been a part of it. Well, that is how I feel about Blaze. I feel honored to have known him for such a ...             For One More Day369 reviews Mitch Albom Hyperion, 2006 Absolutely a great read! + one more day speaks to us all + a deeper look + I'd give it 6 stars if I could + Just One More Day             The Ghost Brigades102 reviews John Scalzi Tor Science Fiction, 2007 Finally a new SF writer I can embrace + Great continuation of Old Man's War + Life with purpose As someone who grew up on Heinlein, Clarke and Asimov, I have had a really hard time embracing some of the currently popular writers. Actually there seems to be a trend back to a more "scientific" science fiction, but for a long time the line between sci-fi and fantasy became way too blurred for my ...             Infinity Beach38 reviews Jack Mcdevitt Eos, 2001 Be Careful What You Wish For + Not Free SF Reader INFINITY BEACH finds humanity spread out across nine inhabited worlds, but otherwise apparently alone in the universe. Efforts to find other sentient beings have come up empty, but a few people are still looking. Some odd things happened after the last SETI expedition, including the disappearance ...             L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Vol. 211 review Algis Budrys (Editor) Galaxy Press, 2005 Mixed Bag of Science Fiction and Fantasy The only modern science fiction and fantasy short stories that I read are in the magazine "Realms of Fantasy." Thus, when my brother gave me this book I was a little reluctant to read it. However, the title sounded encouraging and I wondered why my brother picked this up, so in I jumped, and I ...             Odyssey35 reviews Jack McDevitt Ace Hardcover, 2006 Decent story all the way around Not one of McDevit's best, but a good story with loads of action none the less.             The Glass Castle: A Memoir1136 reviews Jeannette Walls Scribner, 2006 Best Book all year + an amazing story of courage and perserverance. + Cant put it down!!!! + Read it against my better judgement ... and LOVED it! + One heckuva great book             Tough Choices: A Memoir88 reviews Carly Fiorina Portfolio Hardcover, 2006 An intriguing and well written memoir of Hewlett-Packard's first woman CEO. + Good read + Great inspiration if you have to make tough choices + Horray for Carly Fiorina!             Hannibal Rising364 reviews Thomas Harris Delacorte Press, 2006 Hannibal Rising - What War Has Wrought This book is everything I hoped it would be: a penetrating look into the making of the character Hannibal Lecter. As other reviewers have stated, one is not born evil; experiences conspire to make one evil. Imagine yourself in Hannibal's shoes as that 10-year-old boy, and tell me you would not be ...             Deepsix41 reviews Jack Mcdevitt Eos, 2002 Riveting hard sci-fi/outdoor survival/archaeology tale + Not Free SF Reader + Continuing the story of Hutch and the search for an understanding of the Omega Clouds In the second novel in Jack McDevitt's Academy series, Prisilla Hutchins (Hutch) is back. Twenty years after the discovery of the home world of the Monument Builders in `The Engines of God', Hutch is sent to Maleiva III to perform a quick archaeological survey of the planet before it is destroyed ...             The Teahouse Fire24 reviews Ellis Avery Riverhead Hardcover, 2006 literary gold + Great Book for those interested in Japanese Culture and History found this title through 'the writer's block' podcast and it's just gorgeous prose. rest and fuel for a weary editor. -lauren elise daniels, prose editor             The Hundred Secret Senses207 reviews Amy Tan Ivy Books, 1996 the hundred secret senses + So nice I read it twice. + Good... + I love this book ! + Another great read             Book of the Dead (Kay Scarpetta, No. 15)648 reviews Patricia Cornwell Putnam Adult, 2007 the more i read the more i wanted to know what next....... Very interesting book. I never read any of her books before but this was definitely a book to read. The more i read the more i wanted to know what was going to happen next. Just great. You will not be dissapointed with this book.             Farnham's Freehold54 reviews Robert A. Heinlein Baen, 1994 My first exposure to Libertarianism It's been close to 30 years since I first read Farnham's Freehold, and I've read it once or twice since then. Don't get too wound up in "liking" Farnham; he's a bastard, you're not gonna like him. Heinlein just went through a libertarian period, and this is the result of that. The message isn't ...             The Good Guy184 reviews Dean Koontz Bantam, 2007 THIS IS A GREAT BOOK + The Good Guy might just be a little too "goodie goodie" I have not read any Koontz for a while. This one caught my eye so I decided to order it. I have the hard copy. I couldn't put this book down. I loved the characters, the plot, the story and most of all the hero. From cover to cover i could not put this book down. By far one one of the best ...             The Husband299 reviews Dean Koontz Bantam, 2007 The Husband + I'm in love! + My Hero + My Favorite Koontz So Far... A Perfect Novel + New Style from Koontz             L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Vol. 224 reviews Galaxy Press, 2006 Good Stories + The Title is Fitting + L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Vol. XXII + Writers of the Future             A Thousand Splendid Suns1307 reviews Khaled Hosseini Riverhead, 2007 Enthralling... + Very touching + Very good BOOK + Excellent Story             Cauldron33 reviews Jack McDevitt Ace Hardcover, 2007 For McDevitt fans and those who can't get enough space exploration adventure Jack McDevitt finally reveals the origins of the mysterious Omega Clouds, first introduced in "The Engines of God and explored further in "Omega." "Omega" promised answers, but all it really told the reader was what the Omega Clouds did, a little about their technology, and some further ...