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Larry Kramer recommended The Adolescent in Books (curated)

 
The Adolescent
The Adolescent
Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 2004 | Fiction & Poetry, Romance
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Book Favorite

"The greatest Dostoyevsky novel for me. I first read it in the Andrew MacAndrew translation (now published by W.W. Norton) which bowled me over."

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Magpie Murders
Magpie Murders
Anthony Horowitz | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry
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7.4 (5 Ratings)
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The format of having a book inside another book was great. (0 more)
A book destroyed a woman's life
A publisher tells how her writer's final novel destroys her life as she knows it. Magpie Murders is in two parts, the novel and the publisher's story. I read a lot of mystery novels and I can say I did not see this one coming.
  
The Escape Artist
The Escape Artist
Brad Meltzer | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry, Mystery, Thriller
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10.0 (1 Ratings)
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The storyline (0 more)
It's long, but worth it! (0 more)
A Great 'Escape'
Meltzer opens the novel with an interesting twist, and the turns and twists keep coming. He is able to write an intriguing thriller and keep us interested in the characters as well. This novel sold so many copies that in its third week after the release, Amazon ran out of copies.
  
This was exactly like the novel. I am so happy with this graphic novel! The artwork is amazing. The scenes that made me cry in the book were so excellent. I loved the relationships between the characters. Seeing them all together again made my heart hurt, but it was a good kind of hurt. So much love for these books!
  
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Dirty Trick (Perfectly Matched, #1)
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8.0 (2 Ratings)
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Okay, so I did like this novel but I wanted more depth to the characters. I guess "On Dublin Street" has spoiled me. I also didn't like the manipulation in this novel but I guess that was something to be expected.

All in all, this was an okay quick read that was worth the $.99 that I paid for it.
  
Anatomy of a Scandal
Anatomy of a Scandal
Sarah Vaughan | 2018 | Thriller
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7.8 (8 Ratings)
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This debut is slow and somewhat predictable. The only “twist” takes place halfway through the novel and doesn’t really make up for the sluggish pace of the story. It delves somewhat superficially into the lives and thoughts of the characters but not enough to really make us invested in them. It is not a bad novel but I had hoped for better.
  
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The Eagle's Prophecy (Eagle, #6)
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6.0 (1 Ratings)
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6th book in Simon Scarrow's Cato series (originally known as the 'Eagle' series before "Centurion" came out), which deals primarily with an oft-overlooked subject of the Roman Navy, and which follows on from the events of "The Eagle's Prey", with Macro and Cato starting the novel in Rome awaiting an investigation into their involvement in the actions of the previous novel.
  
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Kimmic (814 KP) rated More Than This (More than #1) in Books

Feb 17, 2020 (Updated Mar 4, 2020)  
More Than This (More than #1)
More Than This (More than #1)
Jay McLean | 2014 | Young Adult (YA)
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9.0 (2 Ratings)
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A great teen novel!
Really good start to the "More Than" series, a great easy to read YA novel


I have recently re-read this book in an attempt to get my reading mojo back! I finished the book in a day and enjoyed it almost as much as I did the first time round.


A great easy to read book :)
  
Great Expectations (2013)
Great Expectations (2013)
2013 | Classics, Drama
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"David Lean again, in perhaps the best translation of a Dickens novel to the screen, and surely the greatest of Dickens’s novels too. Crisp, brilliantly cast, a flawless rendition of the period, and amazingly faithful to the novel, Great Expectations is the model that every Masterpiece Theater rendition of an English classic strives to emulate, only better, far better than that."

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