Tag: book review
member name: Nick Howes
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January 01, 2009 11:10 AM EST --
IRON EYES: MY LIFE AS A HOLLYWOOD INDIAN, Iron Eyes Cody, 1982, 290 pp hardcover, Random House
One of the more enjoyable Hollywood biographies I've read in many a day as told by Iron Eyes Cody. . . .
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June 03, 2008 09:15 AM EDT --
Fresh on the bookshelves are a series of ten Indiana Jones books, first issued in the mid 1990's, cashing in on the release of the new Indiana Jones movie. Here's a quick look of five of . . .
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January 12, 2009 10:17 AM EST --
SILVER SCREAM, David J. Schow, ed., 1988, Tor Books, 500 pp.
The common theme in this anthology is the movies. The settings range from Hollywood backlot to broken down movie theaters and drive-ins . . .
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April 19, 2008 11:45 AM EDT --
More in the medical vein from the creator of ER than in the science-fiction of his Jurassic Park and Timeline, this is a longish but fast-reading book of short chapters speculating on many of the . . .
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August 03, 2008 08:42 AM EDT --
THE WHEEL OF DARKNESS, Douglas Preston, Lincoln Childs
Monks at a Tibetan monastery so remote it has been overlooked by the Chinese ask visiting students, FBI trouble-shooter Aloysius . . .
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August 17, 2008 10:41 AM EDT --
The Jupiter Myth, Lindsey Davis.
Private informer Marcus Didius Falco and his family wind up in Roman Britain, visiting Falco's in-laws, a high-ranking Roman aristocrat and . . .
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December 24, 2008 08:49 AM EST --
Deep Storm is a code-name for a secret undersea project beneath what seems to be a normal oil platform. Kevin Lindengood, a doctor and a former submariner, is sent to join the project and ferret . . .
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March 20, 2009 09:50 AM EDT --
The Legendary tales and Historical Truth of the Most Notorious Warriors, Daniel Mersey, 2002, 384pp, hardcover, index.
Excellent introduction to an assortment of legendary heroes, many drawn from . . .
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July 29, 2008 08:46 AM EDT --
First published in 1977, Lucifer's Hammer offers a terrific story built around a comet that strikes the earth. The nucleus of the Hamner-Brown Comet breaks up as the ice binding the rocky material . . .
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August 12, 2008 07:49 AM EDT --
TYRANNOSAUR CANYON, Douglas Preston. 363pp.
This new thriller is from Douglas Preston, half of my favorite writing team of Preston and Childs, authors of Relic, Reliquary, and the Pendergast/Diogenes . . .
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December 18, 2008 10:39 AM EST --
It's interesting to reread Jules Verne's"Mysterious island" in light of the movies based on the story, including Ray Harryhausen with his giant, stop action animated creatures and Hallmark . . .
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June 01, 2009 11:27 AM EDT --
The Martian Child, David Gerrold, paperback, TOR, 190 pp, $6.99
David Gerrold retells in fictionalized form the story of his adoption of a troubled 8-year-old boy with a history of abuse . . .
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October 29, 2009 07:08 PM EDT --
A REBEL IN TIME, Harry Harrison, Tor, 1983, paperback, 315pp.
This is a time travel book and you can guess the gimmick just from the title and cover art. So you are several steps ahead of . . .
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July 11, 2008 07:12 PM EDT --
A woman who anticipated someday becoming a bride but died young, a peanut vendor still plying his trade in Jackie Robinson Stadium, the friendly phantom dog named Brownie, the ghost on Memorial Bridge, . . .
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August 17, 2008 10:14 AM EDT --
The Doctors Book of Food Remedies, Selene Yeager and the Editors of Prevention Magazine, 707pp, $21.95 list, Amazon new: $14.93
This reference book offers hundreds of tips which reflect the latest . . .
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December 28, 2008 08:32 AM EST --
An alien merchant empire acquires a legion of Roman soldiers, the best soldiers who ever lived, to fight its battles on low-technology worlds, as dictated by their civil leadership. The Romans survived the . . .
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January 13, 2009 01:02 PM EST --
An exciting Lost World adventure in which a small expedition discovers the fabled graveyard of the whales and a surviving colony of Vikings on a nearly inaccessible island in northern Canada.
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April 03, 2009 11:20 AM EDT --
GHOST OF THE GRAND BANKS, Arthur C. Clarke, 1990, not in print, check Amazon or Half.com
Clarke revisits the HMS Titanic with a novel based on the difficulties encountered by two rival groups who . . .
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April 28, 2009 12:49 PM EDT --
CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR, Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts
THE TRUE STORY OF CHARLIES WILSON'S WAR, History Channel
CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR, George Crile, Grove Press, trade paperback, 550 pp, . . .
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May 21, 2009 11:57 AM EDT --
The Draco Tavern, Larry Niven, 2006, TOR Books, $6.99 316 pp., paperback
The Draco Tavern is an old science fiction convention with Larry Niven's signature. It is located in Siberia, . . .
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