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Animal Farm and 1984 |
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Submitted by Reviewer (not verified) on Thursday, November 3, 2005 - 17:00 |
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Animal Farm and 1984, is written by George Orwell, was released on 2003-06-01, is made by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Usually ships in 24 hours. The list price is around US$24.00. (*The prices are subject to change) Street price is around $15.60.
This is a handsome republication of Orwell's two most renowned works, Animal Farm and 1984. Even if you're just looking for 1984, this edition is to be commended; it comes with a fine introduction by today's leading Orwell enthusiast, Christopher Hitchens, and the reward of including Animal Farm requires very little in the way of additional effort or expense on your part. At 80-odd pages, you may as well pick it up in the same volume, and you're virtually certain to be glad that you did.
I'm not alone in being of a generation that was first required to read Orwell in my student days (Middle School, in my case.) It seems that there was a lot of literature churned out then, accessible to if not directly aimed at children, with the horrors of totalitarianism as its theme. In addition to reading Orwell, we were also reading Huxley, Bradbury, and Verne -- the youth-oriented John Christopher books being yet another example. The generation that lived through Nazism and Stalinism clearly wanted the...
And it's available in Amazon UK, but I'm not sure about the price. |
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The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
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Submitted by Reviewer (not verified) on Tuesday, November 1, 2005 - 17:00 |
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The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is written by Douglas Adams, was released on 2002-04-30, is made by Del Rey, Usually ships in 24 hours. The list price is around US$20.00. (*The prices are subject to change) Street price is around $13.60.
I realize I'm probably one of the last people on the planet to discover this wonderful book, but I got to sing its praises, too. One of the best books I've read in a long time, and fitting as I am also suddenly into Doctor Who, which is quite similar. The Earth is destroyed one horrible Thursday in order to build a hyperspatial express route, and Arthur Dent and his friend Ford (who was stranded on Earth for fifteen years) start hitchhiking around the galaxy. Never have I read a book so clever and imaginative (dealing with the meaning of life pondered by mice, nuclear bombs turning into sperm whales, depressed robots and hyper-friendly computers) with such a clever and hilarious style (pokes great fun at our little species). Grade: A+
And it's available in Amazon UK, but I'm not sure about the price. |
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His Dark Materials Trilogy 'Northern Lights', 'the Subtle Knife', 'the Amber Spyglass |
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Submitted by Reviewer (not verified) on Saturday, October 8, 2005 - 16:02 |
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Northern Lights: WITH Subtle Knife AND Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials), is written by Philip Pullman, was released on 2001-11-16, is made by Scholastic Press. The list price is around US$51.65.
I found this triolgy to be very good, well written, and good characters. But at times, the story was long drawn out, pullman tried to gain suspense through complex details, but by the time he finishes a scene, its been stretched to the point that all the action leaks out. Overall, a very good book, but not excellent.
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