Okay, this series deserves a review. Hmmm. Where to start?Writing Style and Story: two stars. It is painful in parts. Especially in the first book, "Prologue: The Brothers." The series is many parts boring, and several parts cheesy. I skimmed a lot of this series. It seemed that over half of ...
This was a great read for me. It can be easy to be critical sometimes of our government and complain about the things I don't like, but this was a good reminder for me of the unique history of our country. It may not be easy now, but it was anything but easy then too! People disagreeing is nothin...
What would you do if all the lights went out? How would society react? Would we all become savage, desperately doing anything just to secure the survival of our families and more importantly ourselves? Would we be ready to kill at a whim because now that society as we know it is gone right and wr...
We are loving this series of books on CD. The series is called "The Great and the Terrible," and is a series of 6 novels by Chris Stewart. I read the first novel in hardback book form, and was intrigued. So when my friend Monja Burgess offered to loan us the whole series on CD, I jumped on tha...
I didn't write reviews on every book in this series because I wanted to wait until I'd read them all. The writing is not amazing but I loved the story. I feel like the author got really wordy and repetitive during the military/weapon parts but other than that I really enjoyed these books. I loved...
The premise behind the book is very interesting. The heavy bias, which is readily evident, takes some of the objectivity away from this historical look at how these several events shaped humanity's quest for freedom.The fictionalized accounts are fairly simple, but do bring some light some of th...
This book was similar to the last one or two in the series. A little more interesting. But I still didn't love it. Particularly the writing style.Also, my overall rating for the entire series is a 2, maybe a 2.5. I don't think I'd recommend it to anyone and I definitely won't be rereading any of ...
I really enjoyed this series of books for many reasons. The author's description of the nuclear attacks was compelling and the aftermath of the EMP was very thought provoking. Makes me want to get a VERY generous supply of iodine tablets to purify water if needed. The interaction between the f...
Along the Afghanistan border, a CIA agent meets secretly with a distraught Arab girl. She passes him a coded message before killing herself. But before the message can be deciphered, the world spins toward war: Within hours, the president of Pakistan is assassinated, and the country's nuclear war...
Winter would come, humid and cutting with northern wind, but now it was early fall and there was still enough warmth to let the sun heat up the earth once it was higher in the sky. Bono and Ellie walked again together, giving them time to talk. Ellie kept up a constant chatter about the secret ca...
The faint smell of sewage and stewed cabbage drifted through the shutters of the darkened window, and the room was still chilly from the cold cement walls. The men wore dark, unsmiling faces. Former lower-ranking members of Saddam’s ruling Baathist party, for years these men had ruled through int...
Strategic Command) The swearing in ceremony was broadcast over television and radio stations across the entire United States. Not many people would have seen or heard it, but the word would quickly spread. Brucius Marino, for twelve minutes now the legally sworn in president of the United States...
The sun was just coming up, chasing the airliner as it flew to the west and casting long shadows across the dark, open ocean as it climbed its way upward on the horizon. The North Atlantic air was cold and crystal clear, and Ammon estimated the visibility to be at least seventy miles. He could ma...
We found the hällehäll and I showed my pickers the highly technical contrivance I had developed for the work. You take a walnut-sized stone, cover it with a part of the sack, tie a string round the resulting knob, and take a turn round the waist – this leaves both hands free to pick the seedpods....
ON A BRIGHT SPRING morning I pushed open the stable door and discovered a steaming bundle of wet wool lying in the straw. A ewe was licking it happily and making the snickering noises that show maternal devotion in the ovine world. It was a small moment of triumph. Over the next two weeks El Vale...
This time it was my publisher, Nat, calling to say I’d been invited to talk at the Hay Literary Festival. She went on to enumerate the advantages for a writer of appearing at this gathering of book folk on the Welsh borders, but my mind had begun to drift. I was recalling the time when I’d stayed...
Tim had a good idea to start off with, suggesting that we take the ferry, rather than the hydrofoil, back to Athens, in order to stand on deck and get a good look at the route that we would be taking with the Crabber, when and if it were ever ready. We duly took note of every islet and peninsula ...