Thursday, February 21, 2008

Playing Raquetball In Nj

Mail Incentive Review

distant Earth: this book really captivated me, I who do not read a lot and gives up easily a book after 30 pages if I can not get into the story! There is outstanding from beginning to end: we quickly want to know what will happen to this endearing character and what has happened to his home planet.

The story is very dense, short of embellish reminders that we refer to the various scientific and philosophical theories related to the history of the earth and humanity. These chapters introduce reminders and direct us on what will happen probably in the character in the following pages: it's very clever to keep us in suspense and tell us something fundamental!

It's like in the book "Sophie's World", this novel about the history of philosophy, Jostein Gaarder, a novel which has become a kind of high schools and libraries in a dozen countries, Foreign Land could have the same impact as a novel ecological ...

Oh, I forgot: it's full of poetry! One passage I liked:
"... all around it (the Earth), living species born, surviving and vanished incessantly. At this speed, the trees had the life of a flower . The seas seemed like puddles after the rain to evaporate the return of sun, the mountain like sand dunes, windswept. Some species appeared and disappeared almost immediately.
Like a moth to us ...
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Emphasis is thought the main character. We really like when we did share his feelings by telling us where he is ...

the end, it does not reveal but it's pretty nicely done, no disappointment!

Michele F., Haute Savoie

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

The Cheaters Korean Online

found on the Internet

The basic principle of this first novel is not new: a man wakes up alone in the middle of forest and must both survive and understand what is happening. The narrative is sober, well done, and interesting situations. An adventure novel very honest. The style, though not very strong, has done enough that we follow the story seamlessly.
But interest is not from here, because this basic postulate is actually an excuse to talk about ecology. The author is constantly traveling between the past and the future to consider more innovative views on ecology. Mankind Has its place on the planet? The planet is really in danger? If humans disappeared, what species would dominate the world ? What is the next step in the evolution of our species? Humanity Will it cause of the sixth extinction?
Hard, dark, uncompromising ... Foreign Land goes beyond anything I had read about, and I regularly read ... Each chapter is introduced by epigraphs teaching almost gives us the keys to understanding the theories espoused by the author. This narrative technique allows to follow the wanderings of the intellectual hero closer.
As far as I know, this popular science always seems to me very rigorous, which is not always the case in the novels of anticipation. We feel that the author was keen to meet some scientific truth, and we share it.
A trip exciting and rewarding ...

Victor V.