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Duma Key - Stephen King

Advantages: Great read
Disadvantages: slow starting

Duma Key = We follow Edgar Freemantle who initially comes across as an unlikable character. This it turns out is due in part to a car accident he earlier had and also a shift in his personality. He loses an arm in the accident and this causes further angry outbursts. His wife leaves him before he hurts her and this only adds to his ugly characterisation. He ups sticks and moves to Florida, A place called Duma Key. Once here he begins to ...
...fear that his sketches begin to generate builds slowly and is well laid out. His drawings uncover some startling truths and horrible revelations from the past. The old lady is not as kindly as she first appears, what has happened to the twin sisters? And who will finally snap and take action against his 'Art'. This is a decent book but not in the league of 'cell' or James Herberts 'Secret of Crickley Hall' but it is a god read. The writing is excellent ...

MaldivesHoliday 16.02.2009 · Read full review
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Just after sunset

Advantages: Brillant plots
Disadvantages: none

Just after sunset is a group of 13 short storys wrote by stephen king i'll now tell you a bit about it and why you should buy it. "Willa" This short story is about a train that has crashed. Everyone is waiting for another train to come pick them up but wila dicides to leave and go get help herself. Her to be husband david goes out to look for her and goes on a dark and lonely road.......... This short story is many about life over death and ...
...girl" It is about a mother who loses her child and replaces her with an addiction to running she running even until she gets sick. She leaves her husband and moves away to get her head back together is she runnig from her life? One day when she is running by a neighbours house she finds out a dark secret somthig she wishs she never saw.... "Harvey's Dream" I this short story harveys not himself his wife janet knows somthings wrong but what ...... ...

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Red Pony- John Steinbeck

Advantages: Great Description and plot.
Disadvantages: Front cover could be more entreging apart from that its a great book.

...describes everything so fully and life like so you can really relate to whats happening. I would recommend this book to anyone from the age of ten - us long as you can read. It is truelly a great storey, you should really consider reading it if you haven't allready. ...

Jenny.Xx 08.12.2009 · Read full review
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Operation Boring

Advantages: Some slight humour
Disadvantages: Characters and Plot is unrealistic and there isnt too much depth to it

...to expect when I read Operation Sunshine as I couldn’t compare it to any of her other books. Jenny Colgan has written quite a few books and from what I gather mostly all of her books are Chic Lit. Even although i had never read any of her books before I had heard of a few of her more popular ones such as Amanda’s Wedding, West End Girl’s and the most recent Diamond’s are a Girl’s best friend. Operation Sunshine was released in June 2008 prior to ...
...Operation Sunshine is a book about 20 something Evie, who is a pretty average girl from the way she is described in the book. She works as a receptionist for 2 plastic surgeons in a Harley Street Clinic, where there are lots of people of all ages coming and going for major/minor tweaks here and there. Evie feels as if she is pretty bland and fades into the background compared to the goings on of some of the people whom come into the clinic to see ...

just.bcoz 08.12.2009 · Read full review
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Second book in the Twilight saga - loads of teen angst

Advantages: good follow up - easy to read
Disadvantages: none

New Moon is the second book in the highly successful Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer and soon to be a feature film released in cinemas. This book starts off where Twilight finished with human school girl Bella and the love of her life vampire Edward entwined in a romance. But as with most complicated relationships the path to true love is seldom easy, and this is particulalry true of vampire love and all the complications and life threatening dangers ...
...lifetime or more! I enjoyed New Moon more than Twilight and now look forward to reading the next two books in the saga - Eclipse and Breaking Down. For every teenage girl this is a must and for all of us who wish to remain youthful at least in spirit give it a go. Enjoy. ...

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