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219 reviews

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

4.0

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

4.0

Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmers' Markets, Local Food, and Saving the Family Farm by Forrest Pritchard

4.0

Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work that Matters by Jon Acuff

3.0

The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson

2.0

A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin

4.0

The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural by Wendell Berry

4.0

Leavings by Wendell Berry

4.0

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

4.0

Clever storyline. Fun, quirky ending. Neat twists and turns though a tad predictable. But the writing is a bit sophomoric, "young adult-ish", and blah. Fortunately, the plotline makes up for it. This is not high-lit by any stretch, but it doesn't need to be. It is what it is.

So, writing: 2.5 to 3 stars.
Storyline: 4 ... cuz, in the end, it keeps you reading and pushes you through the dull parts.

I will round up and call it a 4.

Moby Dick II by Herman Melville

3.0

The language is dated making it hard to read and hard to absorb its moments of brilliance. But there are moments of brilliance. A great and not so great book all at the same time. I will be thinking about this whale for some time... and that says something.