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Kirkus Reviews gave it a starred review, summarizing that there's "no high drama here, but Marie and Gabe are compelling in their basic goodness." [1]Writing in The New York Times, Janet Maslin praised the novel, stating Someone is a "wonderfully modest title for such a fine-tuned, beautiful book filled with so much universal experience, such haunting imagery, such urgent matters of life and ...
Personal is the nineteenth book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child, published in 2014. The plot of the book revolves around Reacher's pursuit of a sniper who has attempted to assassinate the President of France. [1] This book is written in the first person.
Groff Conklin called Someone Like You "certainly the most distinguished book of short stories of 1953 ... all superb". [9] Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas praised the collection's "subtly devastating murder stories [as well as] two biting science-fantasties, plus a few unclassifiable gems" and concluded the volume "belong[ed] on your shelves somewhere in the Beerbohm/Collier/Saki section".
Use of Weapons is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1990.It is the third novel in the Culture series. [1]The narrative takes the form of a biography of a man called Cheradenine Zakalwe, who was born outside of the Culture but was recruited into it by Special Circumstances agent Diziet Sma to work as an operative intervening in less advanced civilizations.
If the unmarked enemy aircraft, mirrored visors and carefully evasive language of Joseph Kosinksi’s “Top Gun: Maverick” tell us anything, it’s that Hollywood has learned to avoid political ...
Weapon is a 1989 science fiction novel by Robert Mason. The book was Mason's first novel; he had previously written a memoir about his experiences in Vietnam titled Chickenhawk . The book is about an android , designed to kill, which experiences a crisis of conscience and runs away from its government masters to live in a Nicaraguan village.
2014, US, The New York Review Children's Collection (ISBN 978-1-59017-819-5), hardback (50th Anniversary Edition). Story set in 2026. Story set in 2026. The 50th Anniversary edition published in 2014 was prompted by a request for republication, as the book had gone out of print by 2012.
She concludes by comparing the novel to the television series stating "What this book offers is bleaker, more confronting and, well, terrifying. Be prepared". [ 5 ] John O'Connell from The Guardian summarised the novel by stating "the key murders in The Calling are so repulsive and their perpetrator so plausible that at times I had to force ...