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Reader Review: "Three Cups of Tea"

Posted on March 7th, 2008 by Conrad

I found the book to be inspiring. It isn’t a book about Mortenson’s courage or ingenuity, though both of these things come through. It is more a book about how to go about peace through acts of grace. His ideas about promoting peace through education and other aide strike a deep cord in our modern self centered world. The book is also about a life and what turns it has taken. It is in every sense a “hero’s” journey, though I strongly believe Mortenson would disagree with the title. In as much as all of us have choices to make and may either leave a positive mark or vanish without legacy, this book inspires us to take up the journey and face the challenges along the way with persistence and single minded determination., Reader Review: "Three Cups of Tea", http://bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm?book_number=1758, http://www.bookbrowse.com/rss/newest_reader_reviews.rss, Bookbrowse Top 10 Newest Recommended Reader Reviews, ,
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Reader Review: "Three Cups of Tea"

Posted on March 7th, 2008 by Conrad

I found the book to be inspiring. It isn’t a book about Mortenson’s courage or ingenuity, though both of these things come through. It is more a book about how to go about peace through acts of grace. His ideas about promoting peace through education and other aide strike a deep cord in our modern self centered world. The book is also about a life and what turns it has taken. It is in every sense a “hero’s” journey, though I strongly believe Mortenson would disagree with the title. In as much as all of us have choices to make and may either leave a positive mark or vanish without legacy, this book inspires us to take up the journey and face the challenges along the way with persistence and single minded determination., Reader Review: "Three Cups of Tea", http://bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm?book_number=1758, http://www.bookbrowse.com/rss/newest_reader_reviews.rss, Bookbrowse Top 10 Newest Recommended Reader Reviews, ,
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Reader Review: "The Glass Castle"

Posted on March 7th, 2008 by Conrad

As a mother, I want to hug that child who, copes with every miserable situation that she and her siblings have to endure. At the same time I want to strangle the parents for shirking their responsibilities. How can, for instance, the father set up his teenage daughter at a bar with some sleazy character and then tell her he knew she’d be able to take care of herself? But, by the same token, the parents, in some way, miraculously were able to feed their children’s minds with science and math and awareness of beauty in simple things.

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Reader Review: "Kafka on The Shore"

Posted on March 7th, 2008 by Conrad

Kafka on the Shore is Murakami–s best novel yet, outshining The Wind Up Bird Chronicle and Hard Boiled Wonderland[...] by combining an intriguing, page-turning storyline with absurdly profound metaphysical and postmodern philosophy. The parallel-story structure (also used in Hard-Boiled) adds depth to the novel, without slowing the pace of the narrative. Murakami–s characters are fleshed out and become truly human. A must-read, one of those books you literally cannot put down until you finish. I can definitely see how this became a critical and commercial success – it is a masterpiece., Reader Review: "Kafka on The Shore", http://bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm?book_number=1540, http://www.bookbrowse.com/rss/newest_reader_reviews.rss, Bookbrowse Top 10 Newest Recommended Reader Reviews, ,
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Reader Review: "The Thirteenth Tale"

Posted on March 7th, 2008 by Conrad

I found this book to be so full of cliches that I actually laughed out loud. Talk about unoriginal: everything from the characterization of the heroine, the setting, to the way in which it referenced works like Jane Eyre, etc. I found the main character to be uninteresting and the plot was predictable. And all the nonsense about twins being like one soul really got on my nerves after a while., Reader Review: "The Thirteenth Tale", http://bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm?book_number=1877, http://www.bookbrowse.com/rss/newest_reader_reviews.rss, Bookbrowse Top 10 Newest Recommended Reader Reviews, ,
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