5 Novels: Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars / Slaves of Spiegel / The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death / The Last Guru / Young Adult Novel
10 best books like 5 Novels: Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars / Slaves of Spiegel / The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death / The Last Guru / Young Adult Novel (Daniel Pinkwater): Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age, 1971-1984, The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues, Complete Novels: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter / Reflections in a Golden Eye / The Ballad of the Sad Cafe / The Member of the Wedding / Clock Without Hands, Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy, Soup & Me, Tristram Shandy; and A Sentimental Journey, Absolute Zero: Being the Second Part of the Bagthorpe Saga, The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club, Get Your War On, Prose and Poetry: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets / The Red Badge of Courage / Stories, Sketches, Journalism, The Black Riders / War Is Kind
| Author | Van Burnham |
| ISBN | 0262024926 |
Washington City Paper
Arts & Entertainment : Book Review
No Quarter
By Glenn Dixon • December 7, 2001
If you think videogame history is in its infancy, just get a load of videogame historiography. Stick to the stuff in English and it makes for a mighty short bookshelf:...
| Author | Ellen Raskin |
| ISBN | 0140329803 |
This is a sophisticated mystery that takes little readers seriously. I read about a trillion Agatha Christies when I was a child, and those are written for grownups but I remember this kids' book being way more emotionally compelling and intellectually layered... though you know, Agatha Christie...
| Author | Carson McCullers |
| ISBN | 1931082030 |
When The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter was published in 1940, Carson McCullers was instantly recognized as one of the most promising writers of her generation. The novels that followed established her as a master of Southern Gothic.
"McCullers' gift," writes Joyce Carol Oates, "was to evoke, through...
| Author | Matt Ruff |
| ISBN | 0802141552 |
High above Manhattan android and human steelworkers are constructing a new Tower of Babel for billionaire Harry Gant, as a monument to humanity’s power to dream. In the festering sewers below a darker game is afoot: a Wall Street takeover artist has been murdered, and Gant’s crusading ex-wife,...
| Author | Robert Newton Peck |
| ISBN | 0440481872 |
Soup is back again, getting himself and his best pal Rob into more and better mischief.
From the crisp Vermont spring to the chill of winter, Soup and Rob learn, among other things: not to leave their clothes on the bank of the creek when Janice Riker is around, that Soup's tonsorial talents leave...
| Author | Laurence Sterne |
| ISBN | 0679600914 |
Tristram Shandy provoked a literary sensation when it first appeared in a series of installments between 1759 and 1767. The ribald, high-spirited book prompted Diderot to hail Sterne as 'the English Rabelais.' An ingeniously structured novel (about writing a novel) that fascinates like a verbal...
| Author | Helen Cresswell |
| ISBN | 0027255506 |
Bad, mad and brilliant to know - the Bagthorpes are back! Something even stranger than normal is happening in the Bagsthorpe house. Ever since Uncle Parker won a luxury cruise, they've alll gone competition crazy. There isn't an unfilled entry form to be found and they're scrawling "winning" slogans...
| Author | Bertrand R. Brinley |
| ISBN | 1930900112 |
I actually didn't read this book until I was in my 50s although I read the first one when I was about 14. I didn't know about this book until far into adulthood. This continues the escapades of the Mammoth Falls gang of budding young scientists using creativity and science to perplex the citizens of Mammoth...
A series of strips in which office workers rant to each other about bin Laden, anthrax, suicide bombers, Enron, the war on terror, and the suspect motivation and methods of the post-9/11 American government.
The strips begin in October 2001 and run for about a year. At first they're all AMERICA...
| Author | Stephen Crane |
| ISBN | 0940450178 |
This Library of America volume shows why Stephen Crane has come to be recognized as one of the most innovative and diversely talented writers of his generation, even though he died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight. This comprehensive collection includes all his most accomplished and best-known...
| Author | Gordon Korman |
| ISBN | 0590431293 |
Investment in the plot: 4/5
Investment in the characters: 3.5/5
Character Development: 5/5
Longing to read when I wasn’t reading it: 2/5
Beginning: 3/5
Middle: 2/5
Ending: 4/5
Bonus
Twist(s): 0/1
Final review: 3.4
This book was just a regular...
| Author | Marge Piercy |
| ISBN | 0394707796 |
Large parts of this collection constitute a trip into the stridently feminist world of the 60's and 70's through poems selected from 7 of Piercy's previously published books. I was cruising along through the first 4 sections, finding the work mildly interesting, the language pithy and her focus one-dimensional....
| Author | Quentin Blake |
| ISBN | 0224070185 |
I'm very familiar with Quentin Blake's illustrations of Roald Dahl, but I'm embarrased to say I wasn't aware of his other works.
A quick check of his website reveals that he has been involved in more than 300 books - only 27 of which were written by Roald Dahl and a full 35 which were written and illustrated...
| Author | Richard Powers |
| ISBN | 0060975091 |
In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments of innocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Powers’s brilliant and compelling novel. As the fate...
| Author | Darlene Clark Hine |
| ISBN | 0767901118 |
At the greatest moments and in the cruelest times, black women have been a crucial part of America's history. Now, the inspiring history of black women in America is explored in vivid detail by two leaders in the fields of African American and women's history.
A Shining Thread of Hope chronicles...
| Author | James Marshall |
| ISBN | 0395479460 |
Oh my god, I just love George and Martha so much. Unfortunately, my library only had five of the seven books in this series, so this one is going to have to hold me over until I can find the other two elsewhere. Again, like I've been saying for my past reviews about the George and Martha books, James Marshall...
| Author | Keith Laumer |
| ISBN | 0671440292 |
Retief is possibly Science Fiction's most humorous, and also invariably triumphant, recurring character; embodying the intelligence and machismo of James Bond (Retief's portrayal on the cover art of some of the books is rather remininiscent of James Coburn as Derek Flint from the Our Man Flint movies)...
| Author | Roderick Townley |
| ISBN | 0375856013 |
At the mid point of three towns, in the center of three streams, in the heart of a forest, lies a mysterious island. Encircled by quicksand and sewn shut by vines, it is impenetrable to all but the poisonous snakes patrolling its waters. But Daniel is determined to get there, along with his friend Emily.
Emily...
| Author | Joseph Frank |
| ISBN | 0691115699 |
This fifth and final volume of Joseph Frank's justly celebrated literary and cultural biography of Dostoevsky renders with a rare intelligence and grace the last decade of the writer's life, the years in which he wrote A Raw Youth, Diary of a Writer, and his crowning triumph: The Brothers Karamazov.
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| Author | Karl May |
| ISBN | 3780200392 |
The book I read was mistitled! It appears that this book really was Das Vermächtnis des Inka! There is another book that sometimes has the name Der Schatz der Inkas that is part 2 of a book called El Sendador. There is a movie in German called Das Vermächtnis des Inka that - at least based on its list of characters...
| Author | Matthew Fox |
| ISBN | 0060629150 |
The idea that an omnipotent, conscious entity would will the universe into existence and populate it with free-willed beings only to fixate on their hygienic and sexual proclivities and punish offenses with death and damnation is ridiculous on its face, and yet in the United States (the "most Christian"...
| Author | John Claude Bemis |
| ISBN | 0375855661 |
So asks the sickly stranger who staggers into Peg Leg Nel’s birthday party. Before the man dies, he tells Ray and his friends of a Darkness spreading like wildfire across Kansas, turning good people bad and poisoning anyone who tries to escape. It’s clear that though the evil Gog is dead, his devilish...
