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Jamie Celia _amie_elia — This is a sparse yet beautifully written novel set during the 19th century Potato Famine. A sometimes grim but intensely emotional tale that starkly conveys what it must have been like to live, love, and survive through this tumultuous period.

Marai Rondon _ai_ondon — I knew that this was going to be a book that I loved the moment I learned that Satan was the main character. This is not due to any particular affinity for devil worship on my part, but because I love Tricksters in literature and in Western civilization you don't get a better trickster than the devil. Watching him turn Stalinist Moscow on its head proved to be one of the most amusing and engrossing things I've read all year. From the moment he first materializes as the black magician Woland at a pond and predicts the impending death of the renowned writer he meets there (after listening to the writer's various proofs as to why there can not be an actual god), the devil inspires a plague of madness as increasingly odd and impossible events occur to shock the strictly rational, science-based, citizens. Whether hosting a seance that leaves the ladies of Moscow in the street wearing nothing but their undergarments, teleporting hapless theatre owners to Yalta or haunting telephone lines, Woland and his retinue of demonic cohorts know exactly how to play upon the foibles of human nature and prove rather easily that, regardless of what the Soviets may claim about their forced evolution of humanity, humans are just as greedy, gullible, and ridiculous as they ever were. The heart of the book, however, belongs to the titular Master. An author hounded to the madhouse by the rabid criticisms leveled on his masterpiece by the Moscow literati, his book within the book about the Crucifixion from the point of view of Pontius Pilate is what I've found sticking with me in the days since finishing. It's no easy feat to make a sympathetic character of a bureaucrat who has been so forcefully demonized over the past two millennia but Bulgakov (and through him, the Master) performs an excellent bit of magic and you find yourself really feeling for Pilate as he is manipulated by forces outside of his control into killing Christ, who is sad that his apostle, Matthew, is twisting his words while recording them. While there are definitely a handful of moments where I wish I would have known more about Stalinist Russia, the state-approved entertainer's guilds and the ever-present fear of the police in order to better understand Bulgakov's satire, I still had a rollicking good time while reading this and it stands up next to Crime & Punishment as one of my favorite works of Russian literature.

Nathalie Ashraf _athalieashraf — I recommend The Age of the Earth to anyone with a strong general science background who is interested in radiometric dating methods and/or in debunking creationist arguments for a young earth. This book will be more valuable to me as a reference than it was as pleasure reading. The author presents an airtight case for the age of the Earth, ca. 4.55 billion years, citing several major lines of evidence, including Moon rocks and meteorites. His discussion is perhaps too technical for the average reader, but excellent for anyone who wishes to understand the radiometric assays in depth. I was fascinated by Dalrymple's historical accounts of previous attempts to measure the Earth's age, both scientific and religious. The central chapters—the "meat" of the evidence—drag on seriously, but I don't fault the author for this, as he clearly aims to present an ironclad argument. Some of the information is rather dated; for example, at the time of writing, geologists were still searching for the Chicxulub impact crater (the remnant of the meteor strike that may have caused the mass extinctions at the end of the Cretaceous). I do wish he had explicitly addressed some of the creationist claims that radiometric dating isn't reliable, although from the care with which he describes how the assays are controlled for contamination and original isotopic composition, I expect that the relevant counterarguments are presented.

Heather Terhaar _erhaar_ashion — Cheesy.

Fabrizio Gallo info2161 — well written. not something i would read again, but well written.

Matthew Matt bridaldreamsmall — I'm adding this to the "comics" shelf, even though it's more of an illustrated novel. It's completely goofy. The illustrations really do add to the story--mostly they're just drawings of what was already stated in the text, but some tell portions of the story as well. Either way, the drawings really do add to the humor of this otherwise-deadpan diary (excuse me--journal) of a year in the life of a middle-schooler.

Manzárdcafé Manzárdcafé _anzard_afe — This is a lovely novel, as acerbic as it is true, perhaps unfortunately for all of us. The first sentence: "I have noticed that when someone asks for you on the telephone and, finding you out, leaves a message begging you to call him up the moment you come in, and it's important, the matter is more often important to him than to you." I'd never read anything by Maugham, and I'd definitely go back for more.

Shavii Md mohamad_shavii — One of my all time favorites.