Book Review - The New York Times.
The book’s premise, of something bizarre happening to a man’s weight, most obviously recalls King’s Thinner, published under his Richard Bachman pseudonym. That one was about a man who can’t stop losing weight after he’s been cursed, his body irreparably wasting away. Elevation has a man getting lighter, but invisibly so. His obese.
A review is a more demanding task that asks you to read a book, think about it and put together a written piece that will tell others whether they should read it, too. Yeah, the temptation is great: if you got bored to death but spent money on it and so decided to read it to the end anyway, you may well want others to do the same. Get redeemed, so to say. Or at least have a dark pleasure of.
The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), The Name of the Wind and Wise Man's Fear (Rothfuss), The Dark Tower series (King), The Farseer, Liveship and Tawny Man trilogies (Hobb) and A Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen (Erikson). Honourable mentions should go to The Belgariad (Eddings), The Magicians Trilogy (Grossman), Narnia Chronicles (Lewis).
Mr. Mercedes is a novel by American writer Stephen King.He calls it his first hard-boiled detective book. It was published on June 3, 2014. On June 10, 2014 the author described Mr. Mercedes on Twitter as the first volume of a projected trilogy, to be followed in the first half of 2015 by Finders Keepers, the first draft of which was finished around the time Mr. Mercedes was published, and End.
The complete review's Review:. King Leopold's Ghost tells the story of King Leopold II of Belgium and his (mis)rule of a colony that he essentially owned, known variously as the Congo, the Belgian Congo, and Zaire. It is a wild and unpleasant story of man's capacity for evil and the peculiar manifestations of it. King Leopold II, who never set foot in his fiefdom, managed (with the help of.
Below is another book review installment from Rachel Stephens. Rachel is a 20-something financial analyst who also guest blogs over at Mind Averse. In the book billed as “the Bible of financial freedom,” George Clason shares a timeless set of principles in The Richest Man In Babylon.His goal, to provide insight to “those who are ambitious for financial success,” is achieved through.
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