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Sarah (7800 KP) rated The Shell Collector in Books

Aug 27, 2017

The Shell Collector

Hugh Howey | 2014 | Fiction & Poetry

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Promising but ultimately disappointing

I've loved some of Hugh Howey's other works and I had high hopes for his take on a romantic novel, but sadly this was pretty disappointing. It had promise, with an interesting plot based around a romance taking place in a near future where the sea levels have risen and shells are becoming extinct. Howey writes very well and I can't fault him for that, I just felt he concentrated too much on the predictable romance side than developing the scientific future aspect. The characters too were nothing special, and the whole book just felt very rushed.

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Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971)

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Late-period Hammer horror movie, based on Bram Stoker's 'The Jewel of the Seven Stars'. An...

Control of Single Wheel Robots

Yangsheng Xu and Yongsheng Ou

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This monograph presents a novel concept of a mobile robot, which is a single-wheel, gyroscopically...

Milleen (47 KP) rated Munich in Books

Nov 14, 2018 (Updated Nov 14, 2018)

This outstanding novel covers Adolf HitlerÕs meeting with Neville Chamberlain in 1938. The grave shadow of Chamberlain, deeply opposed to another conflict only twenty years after the Great War that had killed a generation of men. Against Hitler, 'the madman' ready to 'smash the Czechs' and blaze through new territories. This meeting in Munich is the focal point of the novel and Harris rewrites real events using two bystanders, one German, one English. Based on fact, Harris skilfully interweaves the lives of Hugh Legat and his English wife, rich, beautiful and unfaithful. Paul Von Hartmann and his lover, a secretary in the German foreign ministry, someone he may not entirely trust. It's Harris' attention to detail that makes this version of history so credible, right down to the description of the swastikas on the taps. A tightly woven thriller mixed with historical fact that will appeal to a lot of readers.

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Hans Abrahamsen Let Me Tell You Nelsons

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Premiered by soprano Barbara Hannigan [with the Berlin Philharmonic] and conductor Andris Nelsons in...

David McK (3770 KP) rated Isard's Revenge (Star Wars: X-Wing, #8) in Books

Jan 30, 2019

If, by and large, books can be compared to food - the classics being haute cuisine; the terrible books being dog-food - then the X-Wing series of Star Wars books (all written pre-Episode One, and based on the popular LucasArts games) could probably be best described as fast food: enjoyable enough in small doses but you wouldn't want to live on them and not always that memorable.

With regard to this book, which picks up from the end of Timothy Zahn's "The Last Command" (with the ending of that novel shown from a different perspective), it's also more than half way through before the jacket blurb begins to make sense.