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A wonderful book. Randy Pausch's story touched and inspired so many people. I'm now one of them. Throughout this book, you really get to know Randy and his whole family. It's bursting with lessons about life. So many that I felt kind of overwhelmed and unimportant though. This man is so full of advice and lessons, and I could give you few to none if asked right now. But maybe that's what this is all about. To make you think and find the advice that matters most to you. I'm also still pretty young. I will make sure to re-read this, once I'm a few years wiser. Rest in peace Randy.

I wish I could give this more stars. What a powerful and terrifying book. Terrifying because it was real. Terrifying because stuff like this is still happening around the world to some point. It shows how evil and bad mankind was in the course of history and still is today. But it also never stops to show the different side. Love and care within people, even in the darkest of all hours. An important story.

Oh boy that was awesome. I have never read something like this. It probably helps that my interest in space is pretty high, but this book set the bar high for other more scientific sci fi books. The descriptions how everything in Rama looks and works are breathtaking. I really could see it before my eyes. The whole idea of the first contact going differently than expected was nice. 5 stars.

Holy Jebediah! I love King. Every time I go back to him I'm instantly trapped inside the story. Finished this in 2 days. An awesome story with a perfect mix of point of view and reports. I just wanted to know how this ends and kept going and going.

Carrie is such a strong character right from the opening scene. I felt pity and happiness for her.

Great book!

The strongest of all 3. The first half had a really good character progression and insight of Katniss's thoughts. The second half is more action oriented but with some good dialog here and there. All in all worth a read and a good finish.

All in all a bit weaker than the first. I liked the first half the most. All the consequences they have to face after what they did, and the first signs of the uprisings were good written. Although the games were much more interesting setting wise this time, I felt a bit bored during them. The characters evolved pretty good, and the ending was good enough for me to want to know how this all ends.

I totally skipped the hype around The Hunger Games at that time. I heard about it and signed it off as a bad copy of Battle Royale with a Twilight style love story. Oh how wrong I was.

I recently saw the trailer for the second movie in the theater, and I thought hey this doesn't look so bad. It looked pretty new and fresh, in the middle of all those standard action trailers. So I gave the first book a shot.

And here I am. Finished it in a couple of days, and what a thrilling ride that was. It's full of remarkable and interesting characters. It has a perfect pacing and tense. There's even no snobby love story. What love there is, is perfect blended into the world and totally understandable.

This would even work as a stand alone book. If there wasn't more books I would be totally happy with the ending. But there are two more and I already got them ready. Lets find out what happens next.

I got this book through a giveaway from the author.
Although not usually my genre, I thought I give it a whirl because 1) it sounded interesting enough and 2) I like to read as many different books from different genre that I can.

I really liked the easy and light writing style. Light enough so that the pages fly by, but also mixed with some more deep and beautiful passages so that you don't feel bored. I also liked the viewpoint from the different characters, at different ages, about their culture.

But in the end I just give it 3 stars, because I don't really felt moved or sucked into the story. Maybe because I cannot connect enough with the women as a man, or maybe because it isn't my genre after all.

A nice little story, but I couldn't get anything out of it. It's a bit too nihilistic for my taste.

I really liked this book at the beginning. It got a great setting and a scary future vision. It also got a great writing style that pulls you right in. But somwhere around the middle it got pretty dull for me.

This book. I didn't know what I should think about it at the beginning,and even halfway through. I even would've stopped reading if there weren't some pages so beautifully written. I continued and thought I would give this book 3 stars max after completing. Then came the ending. The last 10-15% of the book were a river of beautiful words, arranged to heartbreaking sentences. Each new page became more powerful, beautiful and sad. I closed the book and said: “Wow”.

And here is my 5 star rating. If books aren't here to provoke such feelings, than I don't know why I am still reading.

This was a really interesting book. The development of the characters (especially the main character) is awesome. How fast the mindset can change from happy and excited to pure horror is really relatable. That's what makes this book so scary. You can almost feel the physical pain that they are going through.

It's starts pretty slow and gets a bit dull in the middle though.

First of, I got this book through a Goodreads giveaway.
I've never heard about the “Alex Cross” series or even James Patterson before. (Then again I just started reading seriously this year, so pardon me.)

I just jumped right in with no expectations at all. And boy was it a fun ride.

This book has everything I could wished for in the crime/detective genre. A full packed story with more than one murder, gruesome deaths, pretty girls and and and.

I got attached to the characters pretty fast and the pages turned themselves.

The really short chapters were nice too. It felt like I would watch a tv show and every chapter is a scene.

This sure wasn't the last book I read about “Alex Cross” or from Patterson.

You got me there Mr. King. I haven't expected the last and shortest story of “Different Seasons”, to have such an ending. It's really different than the other 3.

I really enjoyed the feeling of this story. It gave me some kind of coziness. A library with a huge chimney, a cold and snowy city...awesome. It leaves me with the longing to visit the club again. To hear more stories.

An awesome book. I loved the adventure and how it formed the kids to something new. I really loved the short story “Stud City” within the book too.

What I thought would be a quick story, turned out to be a full grown complex novel with fully detailed characters.

In the beginning I felt torn between thinking: “Why is this boy harassing this old guy?” and “What's wrong with that old guy?”.

In the middle I could understand more of the relationship between those too, but I still don't get the changing of the characters. Not 100%.
Why did they go on and done what they've done? This plus some boring chapters and the fact that I thought this book would never end and dragged along endlessly, gives it 3/5 for me.

An incredible good written book. It makes you appreciate life and freedom.

It was okay. A few interesting ideas and thoughts, but nothing that's life changing for me. Most of it is pure logic.

What a good book. Like a modern fairy tale full of beauty and wonders.

This was my first kind of “meh” encounter with King. After my very first two King books (The Stand and 11/22/63) blew me away, I couldn't get warm with this one. I don't know, maybe everything is happening too fast but I couldn't get sucked into the story like the other two did. I liked the ending at the beach though.

A fast and touching read about friendship. Good characters and overall setting.

This blew me away. It's like 3 books in one. A documentary about life in the 50s/60s, a very touching love story and a history book. A must read for everyone.

What a ride! A roller coaster of feelings. Great character with awesome progression! I thought I liked a character..bam it was just what I should think of them. Clever and brilliant.

A nice little story about love and money. I liked how the character of Gatsby grew on me. From “damn this guy's arrogant” to “he's pretty okay” to feeling real sad for him.

I got mixed feelings after finishing this. Some parts were pretty good and some kind of boring. I really liked all the descriptions about the burns. I almost could feel the pain. I also really liked the protagonists journey through Hell near the end. But I guess those ideas were copied right out of “The Divine Comedy”, so I don't want to give Davidson the full credit here.