Added by: JustGoodNews | Karma: 4306.26 | Fiction literature | 10 November 2011
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The Astronaut's Wife
This book was fabulous ... until the end. I still gave it four stars because so much of it was so good. A lot time was spent weaving together a sweet, funny, touching life story, then the end was so disappointing. It was like the author just got burnt out and decided to end it without any thought about whether or not the ending made sense. It is still worth reading (if you have the time), but don't buy the book. Borrow it, and enjoy the good parts while they last because the end will baffle you.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 31 August 2011
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The Sense of an Ending
The story of a man coming to terms with the mutable past, Julian Barnes's new novel is laced with his trademark precision, dexterity and insight. It is the work of one of the world's most distinguished writers.
Fourteen-year-old Matt Freeman is an orphan in a lot of trouble. After he's caught stealing he is funneled into the LEAF system, a new program that England has put in place to deal with youthful offenders. Through LEAF, Matt is "fostered" with the evil Mrs. Deverill, a satanic witch bent on torturing Matt. Everyone Matt gets close to has a bad habit of ending up dead and no one can seem to tell him about something called Raven's Gate - a mysterious place that is somehow tied to Matt's own psychic abilities.
Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime
MUST WE AGE? A long life in a healthy, vigorous, youthful body has always been one of humanity’s greatest dreams. Recent progress in genetic manipulations and calorie-restricted diets in laboratory animals hold forth the promise that someday science will enable us to exert total control over our own biological aging.
The Ending of Roman Britain explains what Britain was like in the fourth century AD and how this can be understood only in the wider context of the western Roman Empire. The emphasis is on the information to be won from archaeology rather than history, leading to a compelling explanation of the fall of Roman Britain and some novel suggestions about the place of post-Roman population in the formation of England.
