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The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
I’m going to break my normal policy of not issuing spoilers when writing a book review. I found The Fountainhead an engrossing read. But as the novel progressed, I found myself questioning Rand’s beliefs
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The Inner Circle by Brad Melzer
This story just didn’t work for me. I’ve been sitting here for several minutes trying to put my finger on exactly what is wrong with this novel. Sigh…well, everything. I spent a good chunk
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The Help by Kathryn Stockett
I wasn’t sure I was going to enjoy Kathryn Stockett’s debut novel when I first started reading it, but quickly became involved with the characters as they unfolded. The story is told in first
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A Dangerous Fortune by Ken Follett
This historical novel is about the fall of a bank owned by the Pilaster family in the late 1800′s intertwined with murder and mystery. I didn’t find the novel as rich as World Without
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The Fire by Katherine Neville
I was so looking forward to this sequel to The Eight. Unlike its predecessor, The Fire is confusing and gets muddied down with a lot of confusing story lines that don’t seem to mesh.
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The Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer
To be honest, I have mixed emotions about this novel. It intertwines to historical mysteries: the Bible’s murder of Abel by his brother Cain, and the murder of Jerry Siegel’s (creator of Superman comic
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The Last Secret of the Temple by Paul Sussman
Excellent plot involving an Israeli, Egyptian, and Palestinian hunting for a lost Jewish relic. Sussman goes to great lengths to flesh out these three characters with their ethnic biases/prejudices. The novel starts out so
Read More »The Eight by Katherine Neville
The plot of this novel centers around a legendary chess set once owned by King Charlemagne and flips between the 1790s and the 1970s. Although I am not a chess player, I found this
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The Sanctuary by Raymond Khoury
This novel was a much better read than Khoury’s first. But I still think it would probably make a better movie than novel. The ending with lots of loose ends leads me to believe
Read More »The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury
This book started out great and its action-packed opening caught me right away. But as the story progressed, the plot deteriorated to the point I became disenchanted. The kindest thing I can say about
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