Samuel's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 23 Dec 2013 18:06:03 -0800 60 Samuel's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Digital Fortress 11125 This an alternate cover for 9780552151696

When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage...not by guns or bombs, but by a code so ingeniously complex that if released it would cripple U.S. intelligence.

Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Susan Fletcher battles to save the agency she believes in. Betrayed on all sides, she finds herself fighting not only for her country but for her life, and in the end, for the life of the man she loves.

From the underground hallways of power to the skyscrapers of Tokyo to the towering cathedrals of Spain, a desperate race unfolds. It is a battle for survival--a crucial bid to destroy a creation of inconceivable genius...an impregnable code-writing formula that threatens to obliterate the post-cold war balance of power. Forever.]]> 510 Dan Brown Samuel 5
Dan Brown wrote many other action novels. I have read all of them and this novel is just as good of a read as the rest. This novel is written in the same style as all the others. Leaving in the suspense in all his books, Dan Brown makes all his novels an exiting read.

The United States government has just bought a huge computer that can unscramble any code called TRANSLTR. A top secret government agency called National Security Agency, NSA, has purchased this computer to prevent terrorist from sending coded messages to other terrorist inside or out of the United States. Thinking the people of the US may considerTRANSLTR a breech of privacy, the government never told any one about the device.

Susan Fletcher is the head Cryptographer at the NSA Crypto facility. David Becker is a foreign-language specialist Georgetown University. Commander Greg Strathmore is in charge of the facility. There also are three other Cryptographers and many engineers who work on TRANSLTR in the facility.

Susan Fletcher head Cryptographer notices a code that TRANSLTR has been working on for Eighteen hours, and most files take less than one hour. A few days latter a strange address sends them an email. Sending the email, let the NSA figure up a way to shut down Digital Fortress. The virus that will shut downTRANSLTER and expose the main government data bank to any one with Internet access. Exposing the data bank, will put the nation at risk of attack and total chaos of the citizens.

The NSA sends in David Becker to receive the ring that has the code to shut down Digital Fortress. In the mean time, Susan Fletcher is trying to convince the head boss of the whole operation that there is a problem. David is nearly shot to death, and Susan is nearly blown to bits. Will the two succeed?

I would recommend this book to anyone. This book has got a lot of action, and is a story that leaves you wandering, what if. However, if you have a little bit of a soft stomach this novel will leave you wanting to turn away at times. This book is for any one who likes to left on the edge of there seat for the whole story, till the end.]]> 3.70 1998 Digital Fortress
author: Dan Brown
name: Samuel
average rating: 3.70
book published: 1998
rating: 5
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What would happen if every nation and person in the would, with a computer, could access every top secret file of the government? This is what Susan Fletcher and David Becker have to prevent in Digital Fortress by Dan Brown. With a lot of action and suspense Digital Fortress is a book for anyone who likes action.

Dan Brown wrote many other action novels. I have read all of them and this novel is just as good of a read as the rest. This novel is written in the same style as all the others. Leaving in the suspense in all his books, Dan Brown makes all his novels an exiting read.

The United States government has just bought a huge computer that can unscramble any code called TRANSLTR. A top secret government agency called National Security Agency, NSA, has purchased this computer to prevent terrorist from sending coded messages to other terrorist inside or out of the United States. Thinking the people of the US may considerTRANSLTR a breech of privacy, the government never told any one about the device.

Susan Fletcher is the head Cryptographer at the NSA Crypto facility. David Becker is a foreign-language specialist Georgetown University. Commander Greg Strathmore is in charge of the facility. There also are three other Cryptographers and many engineers who work on TRANSLTR in the facility.

Susan Fletcher head Cryptographer notices a code that TRANSLTR has been working on for Eighteen hours, and most files take less than one hour. A few days latter a strange address sends them an email. Sending the email, let the NSA figure up a way to shut down Digital Fortress. The virus that will shut downTRANSLTER and expose the main government data bank to any one with Internet access. Exposing the data bank, will put the nation at risk of attack and total chaos of the citizens.

The NSA sends in David Becker to receive the ring that has the code to shut down Digital Fortress. In the mean time, Susan Fletcher is trying to convince the head boss of the whole operation that there is a problem. David is nearly shot to death, and Susan is nearly blown to bits. Will the two succeed?

I would recommend this book to anyone. This book has got a lot of action, and is a story that leaves you wandering, what if. However, if you have a little bit of a soft stomach this novel will leave you wanting to turn away at times. This book is for any one who likes to left on the edge of there seat for the whole story, till the end.
]]> <![CDATA[The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories: 100th Anniversary Ed.]]> 37678 192 Jack London 0451527038 Samuel 4
Experiencing the life of a Yukon miner, influenced Jack London to write Call of the Wild. Jack London wrote this book telling reader about how hard life is in the Yukon. London wrote Call of the Wild in a very serious voice. Trying to keep people interested, London wrote the book with a lot of action and examples of taking a stand.

The story was written threw the eyes of Buck. The book explains how Buck goes from a gentle farm dog to a rough and tough sled dog. The story setting changes threw out the story. The setting starts at Bucks home in the south. By the middle of the story Buck is in the Yukon and will stay there. Through the style of writing I was able to feel as though I was right there in the middle of what was happening.

Killing a team member, Buck is able to achieve a goal he has always wanted. Remember kill of be killed? If Buck had not killed that other dog he would have been killed. Buck has many other stands he took latter on, or he would have been killed.

I would recommend this book to anybody. This book is written in a great style. I know we all have read classics that are boring, but Call of the Wild is not one of those books.]]> 3.87 1905 The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories: 100th Anniversary Ed.
author: Jack London
name: Samuel
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1905
rating: 4
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To kill or be killed! is what Buck has to think about in Call of the Wild by Jack London, through his adventures through the Yukon. That philosophy is what kept Call of the Wild interesting for me. Story's based on real life experiences, for me, are the most interesting.

Experiencing the life of a Yukon miner, influenced Jack London to write Call of the Wild. Jack London wrote this book telling reader about how hard life is in the Yukon. London wrote Call of the Wild in a very serious voice. Trying to keep people interested, London wrote the book with a lot of action and examples of taking a stand.

The story was written threw the eyes of Buck. The book explains how Buck goes from a gentle farm dog to a rough and tough sled dog. The story setting changes threw out the story. The setting starts at Bucks home in the south. By the middle of the story Buck is in the Yukon and will stay there. Through the style of writing I was able to feel as though I was right there in the middle of what was happening.

Killing a team member, Buck is able to achieve a goal he has always wanted. Remember kill of be killed? If Buck had not killed that other dog he would have been killed. Buck has many other stands he took latter on, or he would have been killed.

I would recommend this book to anybody. This book is written in a great style. I know we all have read classics that are boring, but Call of the Wild is not one of those books.
]]> A Farewell to Arms 46167 The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse.

The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway’s frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an intensity unrivaled in modern literature, while his description of the German attack on Caporetto—of lines of fired men marching in the rain, hungry, weary, and demoralized—is one of the greatest moments in literary history. A story of love and pain, of loyalty and desertion, A Farewell to Arms, written when he was thirty years old, represents a new romanticism for Hemingway.]]> 332 Ernest Hemingway Samuel 3 3.67 1929 A Farewell to Arms
author: Ernest Hemingway
name: Samuel
average rating: 3.67
book published: 1929
rating: 3
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]]> Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 953319 Robert Louis Stevenson 8429447520 Samuel 2 3.48 1886 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
author: Robert Louis Stevenson
name: Samuel
average rating: 3.48
book published: 1886
rating: 2
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]]> East of Eden 4406
Adam Trask came to California from the East to farm and raise his family on the new rich land. But the birth of his twins, Cal and Aaron, brings his wife to the brink of madness, and Adam is left alone to raise his boys to manhood. One boy thrives nurtured by the love of all those around him; the other grows up in loneliness enveloped by a mysterious darkness.

First published in 1952, East of Eden is the work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. A masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years, East of Eden is a powerful and vastly ambitious novel that is at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis.]]> 601 John Steinbeck 0142000655 Samuel 1 4.41 1952 East of Eden
author: John Steinbeck
name: Samuel
average rating: 4.41
book published: 1952
rating: 1
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]]> The Kite Runner 77203 371 Khaled Hosseini 159463193X Samuel 3 4.34 2003 The Kite Runner
author: Khaled Hosseini
name: Samuel
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2003
rating: 3
read at: 2009/12/16
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]]> <![CDATA[The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)]]> 6411961
Washington DC: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned at the last minute to deliver an evening lecture in the Capitol Building. Within moments of his arrival, however, a disturbing object - gruesomely encoded with five symbols - is discovered at the epicentre of the Rotunda. It is, he recognises, an ancient invitation, meant to beckon its recipient towards a long-lost world of hidden esoteric wisdom.

When Langdon's revered mentor, Peter Solomon - philanthropist and prominent mason - is brutally kidnapped, Langdon realizes that his only hope of saving his friend's life is to accept this mysterious summons and follow wherever it leads him.

Langdon finds himself quickly swept behind the facade of America's most historic city into the unseen chambers, temples and tunnels which exist there. All that was familiar is transformed into a shadowy, clandestine world of an artfully concealed past in which Masonic secrets and never-before-seen revelations seem to be leading him to a single impossible and inconceivable truth.

A brilliantly composed tapestry of veiled histories, arcane icons and enigmatic codes, The Lost Symbol is an intelligent, lightning-paced thriller that offers surprises at every turn. For, as Robert Langdon will discover, there is nothing more extraordinary or shocking than the secret which hides in plain sight...]]> 509 Dan Brown 0385504225 Samuel 0 currently-reading 3.75 2009 The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
author: Dan Brown
name: Samuel
average rating: 3.75
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]]> <![CDATA[The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide]]> 783127 Being a teenager is both wonderful and challenging. In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, author Sean Covey applies the timeless principles of the 7 Habits to teens and the tough issues and life-changing decisions they face. In an entertaining style, Covey provides a step-by-step guide to help teens improve self-image, build friendships, resist peer pressure, achieve their goals, get along with their parents, and much more. In addition, this book is stuffed with cartoons, clever ideas, great quotes, and incredible stories about real teens from all over the world. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens will engage teenagers unlike any other book.

An indispensable book for teens, as well as parents, grandparents, and any adult who influences young people, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens is destined to become the last word on surviving and thriving as a teen and beyond.

]]> 268 Sean Covey 0684856093 Samuel 2 4.04 1997 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
author: Sean Covey
name: Samuel
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1997
rating: 2
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It was ok. It however, was real informative.
]]> Julius Caesar 13006 Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the greatest playwright in the English language. This exclusive collection of the Bard's best works has been designed specifically for readers new to Shakespeare's rich literary legacy. Each play is
presented complete and unabridged, in large print. Every book is well illustrated, and starts with a commentary and character summary. Scene synopses and character summaries clarify confusing plots, while incisive essays explore the historical context and Shakespeare's sources. Each book ends with a complete list of Shakespeare's plays and a brief chronology of the Bard's life. The detailed explanatory notes are written clearly and positioned right next to the text--no more squinting at microscopic footnotes or flipping pages back and forth in search of endnotes!

The new edition of the series features new covers and new illustrations, including both new drawings and photos from recent productions of Shakespeare's plays around the globe. In addition, the notes and the introductory material have been completely revised in line with new research and in order to
make them clearer and more accessible. Finally, the entire text has been redesigned and reset to enhance readability. The new edition achieves the feat of unprecedented clarity of presentation without any cuts to the original text or the detailed explanations.]]> 175 William Shakespeare 0198320272 Samuel 2 3.69 1599 Julius Caesar
author: William Shakespeare
name: Samuel
average rating: 3.69
book published: 1599
rating: 2
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]]> The Awakening 58345 The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were taken aback by Chopin's daring portrayal of a woman trapped in a stifling marriage, who seeks and finds passionate physical love outside the confines of her domestic situation.

Aside from its unusually frank treatment of a then-controversial subject, the novel is widely admired today for its literary qualities. Edmund Wilson characterized it as a work "quite uninhibited and beautifully written, which anticipates D. H. Lawrence in its treatment of infidelity." Although the theme of marital infidelity no longer shocks, few novels have plumbed the psychology of a woman involved in an illicit relationship with the perception, artistry, and honesty that Kate Chopin brought to The Awakening.]]> 195 Kate Chopin 0543898083 Samuel 2 3.69 1899 The Awakening
author: Kate Chopin
name: Samuel
average rating: 3.69
book published: 1899
rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[Unity (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)]]> 653500 347 S.D. Perry 074349654X Samuel 2 4.14 2003 Unity (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
author: S.D. Perry
name: Samuel
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2003
rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future]]> 99315
Drawing on research from around the world, Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others) outlines the six fundamentally human abilities that are absolute essentials for professional success and personal fulfillment--and reveals how to master them. A Whole New Mind takes readers to a daring new place, and a provocative and necessary new way of thinking about a future that's already here.]]> 275 Daniel H. Pink 1594481717 Samuel 1 3.92 2004 A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
author: Daniel H. Pink
name: Samuel
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2004
rating: 1
read at: 2009/06/20
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]]> Of Mice and Men 40698
Laborers in California’s dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations of a flirtatious woman, nor predict the consequences of Lennie’s unswerving obedience to the things George taught him.

--back cover]]> 107 John Steinbeck Samuel 3
Later on, after a friend they made gave Lennie a puppy he accidentally petted it to rough. That play an important role later on. Lennie is a rough but really nice guy. This book has a surprising ending. You leave yourself thinking, I now understand.

This is a pretty good book. Very boring in the start. However once you get to the middle the story starts coming together. I recommend this book to anyone. You will understand the bad language once you get to chapter two. Enjoy your reading. ]]> 3.84 1937 Of Mice and Men
author: John Steinbeck
name: Samuel
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1937
rating: 3
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Keep yourself out of trouble! That was the main saying George to Lennie threw out John Steinbeck's OF Mice and Men. This story takes place in the state of California during the dust bowl age. George and Lennie are cousins. They travel together from work camp to work camp. They are broke. Lennie has some minor mental problems. The two have been talking about getting a farm with animals on it. Lennie likes animals. He carried mice in his pockets but they kept dieing. Having killed many small animals, George would not let Lennie have a pet.

Later on, after a friend they made gave Lennie a puppy he accidentally petted it to rough. That play an important role later on. Lennie is a rough but really nice guy. This book has a surprising ending. You leave yourself thinking, I now understand.

This is a pretty good book. Very boring in the start. However once you get to the middle the story starts coming together. I recommend this book to anyone. You will understand the bad language once you get to chapter two. Enjoy your reading.
]]> The House on Mango Street 139253 The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero.

Told in a series of vignettes � sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous–it is the story of a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself who and what she will become. Few other books in our time have touched so many readers.]]> 110 Sandra Cisneros 0679734775 Samuel 2
This is a pretty good book. This novel is written very differently than what I am used to. Also, the novel was kinda hard to follow. I had trouble finding a specific plot. However, I recommend this book. Sandra Cisceros teacher many lessons in this story. We all need to see how our live could be worse.]]> 3.69 1984 The House on Mango Street
author: Sandra Cisneros
name: Samuel
average rating: 3.69
book published: 1984
rating: 2
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We should all be thankful for all the stuff we have. In Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street Esperanza is a Hispanic girl that live in a poor district of Chicago. She lives with her mom, dad, and sister. She lives in a fairly bad end neighborhood. They live in a house that is to small and is not very nice. She is in school. She also has never been out of her neighborhood, her school is just down the street from her. Her mother never when to college and dropped out of high school. Having not been to college, her mother wants Esperanza to go to college, so she can move to a better place.

This is a pretty good book. This novel is written very differently than what I am used to. Also, the novel was kinda hard to follow. I had trouble finding a specific plot. However, I recommend this book. Sandra Cisceros teacher many lessons in this story. We all need to see how our live could be worse.
]]> A Tale of Two Cities 1953 A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the author’s novels, A Tale of Two Cities still underscores many of his enduring themes—imprisonment, injustice, social anarchy, resurrection, and the renunciation that fosters renewal.]]> 489 Charles Dickens 0141439602 Samuel 0 to-read 3.86 1859 A Tale of Two Cities
author: Charles Dickens
name: Samuel
average rating: 3.86
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]]> The Giver (The Giver, #1) 3636 208 Lois Lowry 0385732554 Samuel 2

Jonas, after becoming a twelve, is assigned the job of receiver. He receives all the memories of the community. He starts to see color and feel new sensations, such as love. His father is a nurture and brings home a baby named Gabriel. Jonas ends up building a strong relationship with Gabriel. This will lead Jonas to make a life risking choice.

Jonas has to decide whether he will stay home and let Gabriel die, or to run away and save Gabriel and let him reach him life time goal. I did not really like this book. However, I recommend this book to anyone. Enjoy your reading.


]]> 4.12 1993 The Giver (The Giver, #1)
author: Lois Lowry
name: Samuel
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1993
rating: 2
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What would you do if you were the only person in a whole community that knew the past and how you really lived? This is how Jonas of Lois Lowery's The Giver lived. Jonas was a member of a normal family in his community, consisting of two parents, one boy child, and one girl child. The story took place in a community that all believed was perfect. There was no violence, all people were the same, and there was great health care. If you go behind the scenes there is more than there appears to be.


Jonas, after becoming a twelve, is assigned the job of receiver. He receives all the memories of the community. He starts to see color and feel new sensations, such as love. His father is a nurture and brings home a baby named Gabriel. Jonas ends up building a strong relationship with Gabriel. This will lead Jonas to make a life risking choice.

Jonas has to decide whether he will stay home and let Gabriel die, or to run away and save Gabriel and let him reach him life time goal. I did not really like this book. However, I recommend this book to anyone. Enjoy your reading.



]]> The War of the Worlds 80935
Thirty-five million miles into space, a species of Martians sets eyes on planet Earth. With their own planet doomed for destruction, the Martians prepare to invade. Their weapons are ready and their aim is ruthless.
The war of the worlds is about to begin.]]> 285 H.G. Wells 0439518490 Samuel 4 3.70 1898 The War of the Worlds
author: H.G. Wells
name: Samuel
average rating: 3.70
book published: 1898
rating: 4
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]]> Animal Farm 170448 Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.

A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned –a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.
When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.]]> 141 George Orwell 0451526341 Samuel 4

The story took place on a farm in the English country side. There were not very many close neighbors. In the book the author states how pretty the view is.

Now, lets go back to history class. Remember learning about the Russian Revolution? That is basically the same thing in this story. They over threw there ruler, started peacefully and ended up starting a dictatorship. Only the smartest received the good treatment, best food, and best sleeping places. The strict rules were so strictly punished that there were even executions.

The animals started trading with nearby farms when the money runs low. Except for one farm were a traitor of animal farms is believed to be hiding. This book left me wandering what will happen next all the way threw. I also realized how animals might actually feel. This is a great book and recommends Animal Farm to everyone. ]]> 4.07 1945 Animal Farm
author: George Orwell
name: Samuel
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1945
rating: 4
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What if, that is all I can say about Animal Farm by George Orwell. Lets say you were a farmer and all your animals got together and ran you off your own farm. How would you react? I know how I would react, and I would fight back. This is what happened to Mr. Jones in this book. Except, he tried to fight back and failed.


The story took place on a farm in the English country side. There were not very many close neighbors. In the book the author states how pretty the view is.

Now, lets go back to history class. Remember learning about the Russian Revolution? That is basically the same thing in this story. They over threw there ruler, started peacefully and ended up starting a dictatorship. Only the smartest received the good treatment, best food, and best sleeping places. The strict rules were so strictly punished that there were even executions.

The animals started trading with nearby farms when the money runs low. Except for one farm were a traitor of animal farms is believed to be hiding. This book left me wandering what will happen next all the way threw. I also realized how animals might actually feel. This is a great book and recommends Animal Farm to everyone.
]]> The Fountainhead 2267772 720 Ayn Rand 0451118103 Samuel 0 to-read 3.87 1943 The Fountainhead
author: Ayn Rand
name: Samuel
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1943
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]]> 1984 5470 328 George Orwell Samuel 0 to-read 4.15 1949 1984
author: George Orwell
name: Samuel
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1949
rating: 0
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]]> Vulcan's Forge (Star Trek) 217799 Enterprise 1701-B, the crew of the original Enterprise must find a way to go on. For his part, Captain Spock must make the toughest decision of his Starfleet career.]]> 344 Susan Shwartz 0671009273 Samuel 3
Spock has to leave his first officer in command of his ship the Intrepid II. She has to prevent war between the Federation and the Romulans. She is one of few officers that Spock served with under the command of James Kirk on the enterprise.

When Spock and McCoy, Bones, crash on Obsidian McCoy is kidnapped. Spock and David set out to find help form the base on the planet. The two do not realize what they are walking into. Spock and David are on a planet that neither of them are familiar, but the trek just brings back old memories and lead to a surprise they could not imagine.

I recommend this book to Star Trek fans and anyone else who like Science Fiction. This book will leave you wandering and on the edge of you seat all the way threw. You also will find out information about Spock no one ever new.]]> 3.89 1997 Vulcan's Forge (Star Trek)
author: Susan Shwartz
name: Samuel
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1997
rating: 3
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Would you enjoy having to walk for the day in the desert when you are only thirteen years old? In Star Trek Vulcan's Forge by Josepha Sherman and Susan Shwartz, we travel back in time to see how Spock grew up. We learn about how he and his friend David were lost in the desert for three day on Spock's home planet, Vulcan. We also learn how Spock and David are lost on another planet, Obsidian, which neither one of the men know, fifty years later. Spock has to use his keen Vulcan senses to help the two survive. However, David, with his human look and things and illogical thoughts, helps the to figure up how to solve the problem, and he keeps the two hopes up and strengthens there friendship.

Spock has to leave his first officer in command of his ship the Intrepid II. She has to prevent war between the Federation and the Romulans. She is one of few officers that Spock served with under the command of James Kirk on the enterprise.

When Spock and McCoy, Bones, crash on Obsidian McCoy is kidnapped. Spock and David set out to find help form the base on the planet. The two do not realize what they are walking into. Spock and David are on a planet that neither of them are familiar, but the trek just brings back old memories and lead to a surprise they could not imagine.

I recommend this book to Star Trek fans and anyone else who like Science Fiction. This book will leave you wandering and on the edge of you seat all the way threw. You also will find out information about Spock no one ever new.
]]> Crossover 217883
Fearful that Spock's knowledge of Federation security will fall into enemy hands, Starfleet dispatches its best ship, the USS Enterprise 1701-D, and most respected captain, Jean-Luc Picard, to secure the hostages' release. Spock's former shipmate from the original Starship Enterprise, Ambassador McCoy � over one hundred forty years old, but still as feisty as ever � is brought in to consult on the negotiations.

Their situation is further complicated when Captain Montgomery Scott confiscates an out-of-service starship and effects his own daring rescue of Spock. Picard must now find a way to preserve the Federation's security and prevent a war while treading a minefield of danger and deadly Romulan politics that threaten his ship, his crew, and the Federation he serves.]]> 305 Michael Jan Friedman 0671896768 Samuel 4
Once Scott hears about Spock being held captive. Taking action, he steals the USS Yorktown which is a ship that is almost one hundred years old. He himself is close to one hundred. After leaving dock, he realizes that the bridge of the ship is actually the bridge of the USS Enterprise A. The ship he served on with Caption James Kirk.

Admiral Leonard McCoy who is one hundred and forty five years old. He is told he will be put on the Enterprise D to negotiate a release of Spock, his long time friend. Of course, he is a stubborn as he always was.

This book has not one particular setting. They are constantly move there the galaxy. The book is written in an easy style. From the beginning of the book I was left on the edge of my seat. I was always wandering what was going to happen next. If you are a fan of Star Trek this book is for you. Reading this book, I felt like I was watching the show. This book I definitely recommend.]]> 3.75 1995 Crossover
author: Michael Jan Friedman
name: Samuel
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1995
rating: 4
read at: 2009/02/26
date added: 2009/03/13
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Will you be willing to die to save a friend? Which is what Captain Montgomery Scott has to ponder on. In Star Trek Crossover by Michael Jan Friedman, Ambassador Spock is being help prisoner on a planet called Constanthus which is in Romulan Territory. Captain Scott, Admiral McCoy, and Captain Jean-Luc Picard all risk there lives to save Spock.

Once Scott hears about Spock being held captive. Taking action, he steals the USS Yorktown which is a ship that is almost one hundred years old. He himself is close to one hundred. After leaving dock, he realizes that the bridge of the ship is actually the bridge of the USS Enterprise A. The ship he served on with Caption James Kirk.

Admiral Leonard McCoy who is one hundred and forty five years old. He is told he will be put on the Enterprise D to negotiate a release of Spock, his long time friend. Of course, he is a stubborn as he always was.

This book has not one particular setting. They are constantly move there the galaxy. The book is written in an easy style. From the beginning of the book I was left on the edge of my seat. I was always wandering what was going to happen next. If you are a fan of Star Trek this book is for you. Reading this book, I felt like I was watching the show. This book I definitely recommend.
]]> Anthem 325488 The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
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This seventy-fifth anniversary edition of Anthem, celebrating the controversial and enduring legacy of its author, features an introduction by Rand’s literary executor, Leonard Piekoff, which includes excerpts from documents by Ayn Rand—letters, interviews, and journal notes in which she discusses Anthem. This volume also includes a complete reproduction of the original British edition with Ayn Rand’s handwritten editorial changes and a Reader’s Guide to her writings and philosophy.

In Ayn Rand’s novels you have found more than great works of art—you have found a philosophy of reason.
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“I had to originate a philosophical framework of my own, because my basic view of man and of existence was in conflict with most of the existing philosophical theories. In order to define, explain, and present my concept of man, I had to become a philosopher in the specific meaning of the term.”—Ayn Rand
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Now available for further reading on Rand’s philosophy: Objective Communication by Leonard Piekoff.
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Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism is increasingly influencing the shape of the world from business to politics to achieving personal goals. In Objective Communication, Peikoff explains how you can communicate philosophical ideas with conviction, logic, and, most of all, reason.
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Also available from Penguin: an enhanced edition/app of Atlas Shrugged.]]> 110 Ayn Rand 0451191137 Samuel 4
The main character in the story is Equality 7-2521. He is a young man living in city where all citizens are designated a career. They only go to school for eight years. Unless they are chosen to be a scholar. All the people belonging to on group live in the same house. Being a street sweeper is the lowest job on the scale. One day while cleaning behind the theater. Equality and a few of his co-workers discovered a secret place.

The life in the city is harsh. Being caught in the secret place, would lead to severe punishment. Stealing a candle, they could get up to ten years in detention where they would be beaten and starved. Dozens of people live in one house. They are on strict time. Work, sleep, and relax only at certain time. People of one house can not talk to people in another house.

After being chased out of town, Equality goes into the Uncharted forest, so the people in the city would not catch him and put him in detention. Also so he can archive what he always wanted.

This was a great book. I would recommend this book to any one. If you like to read and think, what if, this book is for you. I would like to read other Ayn Rand books, because they are just good books. Trust me you will never be left wandering what is about to happen.]]> 3.48 1938 Anthem
author: Ayn Rand
name: Samuel
average rating: 3.48
book published: 1938
rating: 4
read at: 2009/03/13
date added: 2009/03/13
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What would life be like living in a perfect world? Lets take a trip to the life of Equality 7-2521, to see what a perfect world is like. In Ayn Rand's Anthem what a perfect world is like will be reviled. I was stuck on the book from the very beginning.

The main character in the story is Equality 7-2521. He is a young man living in city where all citizens are designated a career. They only go to school for eight years. Unless they are chosen to be a scholar. All the people belonging to on group live in the same house. Being a street sweeper is the lowest job on the scale. One day while cleaning behind the theater. Equality and a few of his co-workers discovered a secret place.

The life in the city is harsh. Being caught in the secret place, would lead to severe punishment. Stealing a candle, they could get up to ten years in detention where they would be beaten and starved. Dozens of people live in one house. They are on strict time. Work, sleep, and relax only at certain time. People of one house can not talk to people in another house.

After being chased out of town, Equality goes into the Uncharted forest, so the people in the city would not catch him and put him in detention. Also so he can archive what he always wanted.

This was a great book. I would recommend this book to any one. If you like to read and think, what if, this book is for you. I would like to read other Ayn Rand books, because they are just good books. Trust me you will never be left wandering what is about to happen.
]]> <![CDATA[Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)]]> 7728
Antigone raises issues of law and morality that are just as relevant today as they were more than two thousand years ago. Whether this is your first reading or your twentieth, Antigone will move you as few pieces of literature can.

To make this quintessential Greek drama more accessible to the modern reader, this Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary of difficult terms, a list of vocabulary words, and convenient sidebar notes. By providing these, it is our intention that readers will more fully enjoy the beauty, wisdom, and intent of the play.]]> 80 Sophocles 1580493882 Samuel 1
For me this play was not real interesting. However, I like the example of taking a stand the play shows. There are also many life lessons to be learned form this play. Have you ever been greedy? Well, this play will show what kinds consequences come from being greedy.

This play was real hard for me to understand. I did not know the characters well. I had trouble understanding the plot. Even though I did not like Antigone that does not mean you will not. It is a classic and everyone need to read some classics in there life, so why not read something famous and easy to read. Just read slow and careful.]]> 3.69 -441 Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
author: Sophocles
name: Samuel
average rating: 3.69
book published: -441
rating: 1
read at: 2009/01/29
date added: 2009/02/11
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Could you imagine what life could be like knowing you could not bury you dead relative? Would you be willing to die your self? That is the main plot to Antigone a play by Sophocles. That is the question Antigone is based on, and Antigone had not a choice on what to do.

For me this play was not real interesting. However, I like the example of taking a stand the play shows. There are also many life lessons to be learned form this play. Have you ever been greedy? Well, this play will show what kinds consequences come from being greedy.

This play was real hard for me to understand. I did not know the characters well. I had trouble understanding the plot. Even though I did not like Antigone that does not mean you will not. It is a classic and everyone need to read some classics in there life, so why not read something famous and easy to read. Just read slow and careful.
]]> <![CDATA[Q-Squared (Star Trek: The Next Generation)]]> 217902 Starship Enterprise�. In the years since, Q has returned again and again to harass Picard and his crew. Sometimes dangerous, sometimes merely obnoxious, Q has always been mysterious and seemingly all-powerful.

But this time, when Q appears, he comes to Picard for help. Apparently another member of the Q continuum has tapped into an awesome power source that makes this being more powerful than the combined might of the entire Q continuum. This renegade Q is named Trelane -- also known as the Squire of Gothos, who Captain Kirk and his crew first encountered over one hundred years ago. Q explains that, armed with this incredible power, Trelane has become unspeakably dangerous.

Now Picard must get involved in an awesome struggle between super beings. And this time the stakes are not just Picard's ship, or the galaxy, or even the universe -- this time the stakes are all of creation...]]> 434 Peter David 0671891510 Samuel 4 4.01 1995 Q-Squared (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
author: Peter David
name: Samuel
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1995
rating: 4
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]]> To Kill a Mockingbird 2657 "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

"To Kill A Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film.]]> 323 Harper Lee 0060935464 Samuel 4 4.25 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird
author: Harper Lee
name: Samuel
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1960
rating: 4
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It was good tought me what is was like back then.
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