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The Village + any generic zombie film - shotguns + obnoxious nuns = Forest of Hands and Teeth.

Very quick read that I'm sure teens will latch onto though. Carrie Ryan does excel at making the reader sympathize with the narrator. I was so glued to my dislike of one character I couldn't even change my mind when I was supposed to consider him an okay guy again.

There's apparently two sequels to this I don't see the significance of. Not every YA book needs a sequel. That's certainly not a gripe specific to this book though.

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I did like how the second village was a glorified Ewok town in the trees. If you're going to be surviving the zombie apocalypse, making for the trees is brilliant.

Great book for those with an interest in the Roman Empire, particularly Roman Britain. Very interesting to read a children's book with an adult protagonist!

Couldn't put it down. Real life Indiana Jones adventure with the investigative spirit of The Orchid Thief.

A title centered around a cibopathic FDA agent solving crimes in Philadelphia where chicken has been outlawed due to bird flu insanity?

Yes please. This book is hilarious and the art is great. Highly recommended.

Oh man. So good.

Things just got intense.

I love The Walking Dead, but this should have won the Eisner for best continuing series, hands down.

This is pretty good so far.

They seem to have switched pencillers half way through, which is very annoying. But other than that I like the story a lot and it feels very authentic to the Dragon Age universe.

Usually video-game tie in stuff is horrible but the game had such a deep, compelling story that this comic series actually works in conjunction.

Just gets better and better.

Artwork was stunning, storyline was just...bad.

so far it has Vikings, which makes it awesome.

Good book, it really made history come alive. It is indeed chock full of Vikings and Alfred the Great pops up as a reoccurring character. He also had Crohn's disease, which is no joke. Poor guy. This is one of those periods in England's history which I love reading about, so I really enjoyed it. But oh, those names! Aefelwulf! Uhtrecht! Ubba!

A very nice, very familiar book about a boy wizard's coming of age.

This is categorized as YA, but I think most teens would be bored by the slow pace and lack of action. It's a shame because it is a cool book with more philosophical depth than the average sword/sorcery fantasy novel is going to touch.

It was written in 1968 and as such, I can give it a lot of leeway. That's 15 years before David Eddings started his Belgariad, 20 years before Jordan started The Wheel of Time, and over 30 years before J. K. Rowling started the magical adventures of Harry Potter. I'm sure the book and its sequels would feel much more unique if not more successful followers.

It was also made into a moderately awful SyFy TV adaptation.

I guess ABC didn't need Sawyer to sign off on the television show this book was based on. They're about as similar as a turtle and a banana.

The book was good, if uneven. Incredible premise though.

Absolutely beautiful.

I'd read some years ago that Earth Abides was Stephen King's inspiration for The Stand. Considering the novel follows the collapse of civilization after a virus kills 99% of the American population, inspiration might be an understatement.

I found it to be profoundly moving. I may be in the minority, I've read some very harsh reviews of it. The book was written in 1947 and it shows, both in misogynistic tendencies and one racist episode. Let's call that the Dumbo Outlier and be done with it. The scope of Earth Abides is broad, and there's little in the way of cohesive plot. Less a novel than a memoir of man observing the death and rebirth of society.

This was more than a little preachy. I don't need to be reminded that clear cutting and oil dependence are despicable while reading YA lit.

That being said, it was a neat premise for a book and I liked what a little turd the protagonist was. She was truly unlikeable for half the book, and that must have taken some nerve to write!

Warning: These vampires do not sparkle in sunlight.

Very bummed upon finishing. Volume 6 renegs on everything I loved about the first volume. It seemed contrived and almost humorless. I think I would have torn the book in half if Wallace said ‘Guy' one more time. (That might be a personal pet peeve though.) I appreciated the sight gag of the Memory Cam and any storyline involving Kim. She rocks.

Rated three stars for nostalgia sake.

Very very very good. Pretty much anything Jeff Lemire writes is engaging and different, so I picked Sweet Tooth from issue one. The story has only gotten better from there, and I've felt like every comic I put on my pull list in 09 has let me down aside from this and a few scant others.

More good than bad. Retelling of Greek myths set in the East End.
That being said, holy strippers Batman. Maybe I lead a sheltered life, but I've never seen so many naked ladies in a comic book.

Absolutely marvelous. Read in one sitting on an airplane, and I thought I was nuts to bring this book along.

I could read a whole book of letters from Evidence Goring to his sister.

Pretty much a must read if you've spent any time on Gothic or Brit Lit.

The Unwritten has wickedly good premise, some biting satire of the publishing industry, and really great cover art. The interior art is solid as well.

One of only three new comics from the past year to stay on my pull list past five issues.

An absolute classic.

Intensely good.

Loved this!

This started out slow. Slow enough for me to consider stopping. Glad I didn't, it turned out to be a really decent mystery. Felt like it floundered a bit after the big reveal, but that's a small quibble.

Also: someone needs to go through and systematically count how many sandwiches are consumed in the course of this novel.

Post Script Also: What the hell is wrong with Swedish sandwich ingredients? Pickled herring, mustard, and chive sandwich? Stieg Larsson wants you to be acutely aware of how stinky his protagonist's breath must be.

The best superhero title out there.