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Herbert Figueira herbert_figueira — To say I was disappointed in this book is an understatement. Let me start by saying I absolutely loved Shiver, it was so beautifully written that I couldn't wait for more. Then came Linger. It was a big let down, but I loved Shiver so much I was able to look past it's flaws. And now we have Forever. What can I really say about this book other than I absolutely hated it! We really didn't learn anything new about how the werewolves change, didn't find a cure that they are positive about either. There was a whole lot of useless detail and I didn't feel like we really got anywhere. Every character in this book annoyed the hell out of me, but none as bad as Grace. And the ending. I hate when Authors leave the ending open for you to insert your own idea of how it ends, but in ending this series that way it makes books 2 and 3 completely pointless! I wish Shiver would have been a stand alone book and that I never wasted my time with Linger or Forever!

Viz Coop vizcoop — Alright, so it's not feel-good novel. You have to wonder how the author survived three campaigns and two winters on the Russian front in WWII. And how Sajer managed to capture it with eloquent simplicity, for the most part. He does philosophize at times, when he's stuck trying to explain the unexplainable, but for the most part he just lets his experiences speak. The original was written in French, but the English translation does the topic justice.

Valter Manga vjalbuquerque — If you are looking for epic, this is it. From the dysfunctional family intrigues of the paranoid Herod's palace to the mass suicide of the Jews at Masada, Josephus--who apparently was at the siege of Jerusalem--relates the story of the Jewish Revolt against the Roman Empire. I started reading this book because it was referenced in two others I have been reading; one on the copper scroll of Qumran--a list of treasures that may have been saved from the temple-- and another on the treasure that Titus took back to Rome that has since disappeared into the coffers of history. But I also found that the book puts a good deal of the events of the New Testament in context. With the background of the factional conflicts in the temple, particularly between the priests installed by Herod and those by the Jews themselves, it is easy to see how some of the actions of Christ could be seen as controversial or even threatening--like the raid on the moneychangers and the halting of lawfully carried out lapidation--given the Herodian expectations of conspiracy and the pressures on the temple caused by this. It also puts some of Christ's prophecies into perpective. Josephus himself has an almost modern sensibility, and his decriptions of the siege, the atrocities, the violence, the betrayals, the power stuggles and the intrigues is tinged with both horror and sympathy, outrage and sadness. It is often a moving chronicle of a people and thier struggles against a dominating power and the price they pay for thier survival.