Kent archie
Blehh. I should have stopped reading this after the first few chapters. But it was kind of short and I was hoping some of the story would get explained.
This was shelved in the SF section and I guess it is SF as several of the characters are scientists, there is a spaceship and it is fiction.
If your idea of fun is to read a novel and then write a 5 page essay on how the character arcs in this book compare to those of Pip in Great Expectations, then this book is for you.
To help you, the book has a list of discussion questions in the back of the book.
Not recommended for anybody else.
Once they spent time explaining how obviously women couldn't have a Lens
and started using descriptions like “The men of the Galactic Patrol were widely known to be men”, I started having trouble continuing to read it.
So while I want to read the series because it is famous in the history of SF, I can only read one a year.
The best part was when our hero was on Pluto trying to talk to a truly alien being.
The author portrayed the alien as 4 dimensional and how it kept changing shape and color.
This was very interesting specially given that most aliens look a lot like humans or very nearly human.
I think I will go off to read a Danny Dunn book to clear my head.
Fun adventure. Typical in that it's a bunch of super capable teens who have to save the world.
But the kids skills are pretty well described. However, they are exaggerated a little, getting closer to magic than engineering.
The POV changes are good and make the story more interesting.
There are more in this series and I may go on to them.
It's a short picture book aimed at young children. It tries to get across some programming concepts like loops, variables and if-then-else. It does this by mapping real life activities like repeating an action, remembering things and making choices.
I don't think this will turn your 7 year old into a coder but it will make some of these concepts sound familiar when they get a bit older.
This is a souvenir book, not an independent look at the parks.
I got it used from somewhere and as an extra treat, I found a ticket to the Magic Kingdom for a day in 1997 when a child ticket cost $33.00.
It's a nice book as a souvenir, lots of pictures and explanations of the 1.5 parks that were open then.
The parks at the time were The Magic Kingdom and Discovery Island.
EPCOT was still to come.
My favorite part of this was the discussion of the technology involved and the underground facilities.
Look for it on abebooks.com, at this time it can be had for under $10.
Terrific book. Funny, exciting and interesting.
I liked the discussions of the biology of kaiju and the adventures of our heroes exploring the environment.
The vaccine scene had me laughing hard enough that I was nearly limited to making squeaky noises.
It is important when reading this to know that is is set in 2020/2021 or some of the references will be confusing.
This is highly recommended.
Hard to call it a book as it is very short. But it is listed on Goodreads and Gutenberg publishes it as a book.
Once the Mariner probes traveled to Venus, stories about the inhabited jungle all went away.
And the inhabited Martian desert stories also became obsolete.
This is one of those Martian stories.
It is from 1949 and kind of fun given that is is very short.
So get it and spend a little while exploring the Mars that never was with Jarvis and Tweel.
Overall, it's a pretty standard YA dystopia. The old folks have ruined everything and the young people have to fix it.
The narrator/hero is the chosen one.
I liked the incorporation of the Atlantis myth and the characters were mostly likeable.
So, to quote Don Thompson, “If you like this sort of thing, than this is the sort of think you will like.”
I thought this was interesting. Over 1/3 of the book is the backstory and training montage ofthe main character. The actual mystery is only a small part of the book.
I'm usually more interested in the plot then in the characters but Ms. Dobbs caught and held my attention. The time period is well described and the horrors of WW1 are a background for the book.
I'll try the next book to see if this kind of mystery interests me as it should spend less time introducing the characters.
Much creepier than I expected. Lots of somewhat accurate Dracula (the real one) lore.
Also, Napoleon meets with a real life person who is perfect for this book.
It's in the library scene, if you don't recognize the person, look him up.
His appearance in the book was delightful.
The characters sound like themselves and the plot is very much something that would have been on the show.
Long out of print, you might be able to find some of these books on abebooks.com (I am just a happy customer)
I read this because I watched a couple of episodes of the BBC version of the book.
It didn't sound very Verne like. It is another case where they took the title and character names and threw out the rest of the original material. The book was tedious as Verne like to list the names of towns they pass through, weather conditions etc. But I enjoyed it overall and don't see that the BBC improved anything with its changes.
I read this at least once long ago and decided to read it again after seeing the recent movie.
I think it holds up pretty well and I enjoyed the movie and the book.
In the book. much of the dialog is very stilted and the political discussions were tedious.
The movie, while only covering less then 1/2 the book, flows a lot better.
