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Mohamed Erikat mresmoothwc04c — This is my favourite book by the team of Niven/Pournelle (yes, I'm aware that Steven Barnes also co-wrote this). It is set 200 years in the future at the site of mankind's first interstellar colony. Roughly 200 of mankind's best and brightest volunteered be cryogenically frozen to undertake this 100 year journey - and in doing so colonized an uninhabited planet far from Earth. However the cryogenics were far from perfect and dozens of colonists suffer from side effects such as lowered intelligence. Settling a nearly lifeless island, the colonists become complacent about security until livestock starts disappearing and the colony suffers damage from an unknown entity. This forces the lone security officer to take charge and do his best to prevent mankind's first interstellar colony from being wiped out.

Oksana Mykytiuk barmaslonik — dang, lauren oliver, why you gotta rip my heart out and somehow make me want to thank you at the same time?

Guiseppe Guillet thomasguillet — By far my favorite book - raw, gripping and so beautifully written.

Maxime Boumard maximeboum2240 — I was immediately pulled into this engrossing tale of a journalist following the story of a group of incredibly intelligent bonobos at a university research lab who have learned to communicate through sign language. While some of the plot feels contrived - the ending ties up a little too neatly and there's also an improbable subplot about a character who may or may not have met his illegitimate long-lost son - Gruen's research into human-ape discourse pays off as she expertly details the communication mechanisms used by the apes and the bond they've formed with their caretakers. I found myself caring more about what would happen to the apes in the story than what would happen to the human characters!

Kevin George k3vin911 — Very thought-provoking story. The ending not tied up in a nice little package...making the reader continue to brew about the characters' whereabouts. Started slow...picked up and kept running half-way.

Dehao Wang asfarashumor — This book should be required reading for every high school student in America.

Anna Giordano anniia — I really enjoyed this book. There is much information on culture and traditions. I am looking forward to reading more of Lisa See's books. Also, I had started the book earlier that Mar 3. That was when I joined goodreads.

Xavier Bravo mangazon — This coffee table book on Senate History comes from none other than the U.S. Senate Historian, Richard Baker. The House of Representatives recently acquired noted historian of the Jacksonian era, Robert Remini as the official House Historian. He recently wrote a pretty impressive tomb on the House of Representatives. The Senate already has a 4 volume history written by US Senator, Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, so the Senate could not reply in that manner. So, I think the coffee table book was the best that we could muster. I think this is the first time I have actually read a coffee table book from cover to cover. It is a chatty little story book filled with useful cocktail-party-history of the US Senate. That's useful knowledge to me, as I never know what to say at Washington cocktail parties. Perhaps anecdotes about Thomas Hart Benton will help break the ice. The most striking thing to me about the book was the number of attacks on the Capitol. I had heard about all the incidents individually, but it is more jolting to see them sequentially. 3 bombings, 2 gun attacks and then the attempt on September 11th. In a way, its remarkable that the Capitol complex remained so open for so long. Note, I use the past tense here. As any of you who have visited the capitol recently will have noted, it is increasingly difficult to get in. And once the Capitol Visitor Center is completed, I expect it will be very much a controlled experience like the White House. In any case, Baker's prose is breezy and he is dutifully reverent to the institution without missing the absurdities of Senate life. You also get a sense of the breakdown in lawfulness that preceded the Civil War. Its not just the canning of Charles Sumner, its also the Mississippi Senator pulling a gun on Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton in the Senate chamber. Then there is the case of California Senator David Broderick (an anti-slavery Democrat) being killed in a duel by the pro-slavery Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court. Apearantly, back in those days, California was a lot more like modern Texas. In any case, the slide toward anarchy can definitely be found long before Fort Sumter. Another interesting aside that I really never knew concerns the order of succession. All of us learn in school that it is the President, then the Vice President, then the Speaker of the House and then President Pro Tempore of the Senate. After that, you get the members of the Cabinet, and I was aware that as new departments were created, they have been shuffled up a bit. What I did not know, is that Congress was not always in the order of succession at all. For a long time, it devolved from the President to the VP and then directly to the Secretary of State. Furthermore, when they first inserted Congress, it was the President Pro Tempore of the Senate who was third in line over the Speaker of the House. The structure we all know and love was only finalized in 1947 after some hard thinking in light of FDR's demise and the Constitutional Amendments on succession that followed. Anyway, this is a book for government geeks. If you are one, its a nice read and about as pleasant a way to introduce yourself to Senate history as I have found. If not, there are prettier coffee table books to be had.