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Mohamed Mady _ohamed_ady — Several times I found myself liking then hating the author, so he must have struck a chord with me. First I have become interested in ID over the last 10 years so I am always interested in a fresh perspective. I bought this book knowing I might not agree with the author but that was intentional. To start with I was very pleased when Mr. Slack admitted his prejudice in this affair, that he is an atheist and even if evolution was proved incorrect he would still have "faith" that there is a naturalistic explanation for everything, we just haven't found it yet. The setting of the book is the Dover School Board trial in 2005, where members of the board were sued after introducing a one page statement to be read at the beginning of freshman biology to the effect that evolution does not answer all the questions about the origin of life and that students may find more information in the reference section of the library, specifically in "Of Pandas and People". We learn how badly the case was botched by the Board's defense team (with a lot of help from board members who lied under oath) and how the Judge then ruled beyond the fact that the Board was doing this to impose their religious view, which they were, but that Intelligent Design was not science. I agree with the author and the judge on the first point but have trouble with the second, and there is where the authors pointed prejudice most bothered me. there is a real interesting part where we meet a fellow journalist from Italy covering the case. His perspective was most illuminating in that while he did believe in natural selection but also thought that the evangelical movement in the US was doing so much good in protecting the country and even the world from the slide into humanism that he sees in his own country that you feel is routing for the IDers Slack, by the way believes Christians of all types are destroying the world and evangelicals are just the worst of the group. Oh well, it is a good book for conversation starters, but best be with friends who can debate without rancor.

Manon Gauthier manongauthier — Own (thanks Anne)

Tolga Kütükçü kutukcu — I liked this book every bit as well as I remembered. It's as layered as an onion, complex, full of satisfying and memorable characters deployed in a world that's rich and believable. The magic is well-thought out. There are plot twists in plenty- as there should be when there's a dispossessed Prince in a band of itinerant musicians. There are brave and noble women with complicated lives. Beyond the well-told story, though, what this book seems to me to be is an exploration of loyalty and honor and what one can do when rebellion seems impossible. The plot device- a sorcerer takes away the ability for people not born in a town to hear or speak the former name of the town- calls to mind the schools for Native Americans wherein the kids were prevented from speaking their own language, from learning their own culture, and as such it's a pretty profound meditation on the human spirit.

Maria Gracheva mariagracheva — I started reading this book as I normally do at 9 p.m. I always read prior to going to bed. Unfortunately, I couldn't go to sleep after reading a few chapters. You would think that if a book made you a little jumpy, that you wouldn't keep reading it, but I couldn't stop thinking about this book and so the next night I finished it. It was good. Ghost stories are kind of spooky to me, but this one was full of twists and turns. The story is about a boy who sees things in trees. His mother hated him and blamed him for her unhappiness and ultimate death from cancer. (Kind of a sad thing to think about that this kid grew up with a mother telling him, everything was his fault.) She dies and they move to a town for a new start with a step mother. The little boy is lucky in that his step mother believes him when he tells her about the ghosts he can see because she has seen them too. Together they help to eliminate a bad ghost and all of the ghosts hanging around are able to be at peace and leave on a bus. Kind of spooky, but very fun to read. Children with a good imagination will enjoy this book. I would recommend it to good readers at the age of 10 and up.

Jim Well _bal_ero — Had to read this book for American Lit 2; I found it to be a really good read, but sooo very depressing. It seemed like a study of insanity for 30 years. Also, kind of irrelevant to my review of the book, but Joyce Carol Oates also just visited my school & it made for a very nice evening. She seemed overall a bit reticent, honestly, about doing the reading, but was very amusing and verbose.