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Summary: What a page turner!
Review: I was given a copy of this book as a gift, and I started it one evening, only to find myself still immersed in it at 3:00 am! The story is compelling, the characters are real -- the book leaves you with an awful lot to think about, and hope for. I can't wait to see more from this author!
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Summary: Wow
Review: I've never even read one of his books before and I dont know why I even picked this one up but I guess I judged it by the cover and it just looked mysterious. This book was a total page turner for me. When I wanted to go to sleep I couldnt seem to put the book down. I kept wanting to know how it went on so I would pick it back up. It is totaly worth reading .
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Summary: Thought provoking mystery
Review: Really enjoyed this mystery which was also quite thought provoking. Appreciated the environmental message. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Split personality
Review: The first half of the book regarding a mother's anguish over her son's disappearance was poignant and beautifully written. By the time I finished the book, I thought another writer had taken over mid-point and changed the focus of the novel. The ending was much more mystical/science fictiony/religious than I had expected when I picked up the book. All in all, the book was well-written but too farfetched at the end for my liking.
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Summary: This book stinks
Review: This "novel" made me laugh out loud several times. And not in any way that Lieberman intended. His descriptions of characters are contrived and smack of the literary stylings of an ambitious-but-untalented college freshman in a creative writing seminar. He peppers the text with banalities and his characters act in ways that no normal person would. This novel truly showcases an immature writer who bt off more than he can chew.Also, the book's "message" is nothing more than radical left-wing propaganda that idealizes vegetarians and other hippie-related ideas. What a waste of money.
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Summary: God Awful
Review: This "novel" made me laugh out loud several times. And not in any way that Lieberman intended. His descriptions of characters are contrived and smack of the literary stylings of an ambitious-but-untalented college freshman in a creative writing seminar. He peppers the text with banalities and his characters act in ways that no normal person would. This novel truly showcases an immature writer who bt off more than he can chew. Also, the book's "message" is nothing more than radical left-wing propaganda that idealizes vegetarians and other hippie-related ideas. What a waste of money.
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Summary: The Last Boy
Review: This book just grabbed me almost from the first page. Many years ago I had read Lieberman's "Baby" (and I still have a copy!) and was thoroughly captivated. I don't know exactly what it is, but both books just pulled me along non-stop. This one even more than the last. This book begins with every parent's worst nightmare and from the moment that Molly's child disappears I was just riveted. The twists and turns in this novel are wholly unexpected and the hopeful ending really surprised me. It's so hard finding good books these day. So I can't recommend Last Boy enough! A really great read. And it's intelligent, too.
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Summary: Disappointment.
Review: To its credit, the message of the book is an important and timely one: to stop and pay attention to what we are doing to our Earth. However, the real problem with the story as I see it is that it seems to be in such a rush to get to the end - so much so that the characters end up being poorly/inconsistently developed (particularly the character of Trip, whom I got the FEELING was supposed to be an incredibly complex character but got very little of that inference from the actual text) . As I got towards the end of the novel, I got the distinct feeling that the book was screeching to an abrupt halt, almost as if the author was getting tired of writing and tried to squeeze a lot of story into just a few pages in order to wrap up quickly. That is a shame, really, because the author's style itself was very natural and easy to read. Perhaps the book was truncated due to a fear that readers would lose interest; Personally, I would have preferred the book to be longer and more developed. This book starts out with great promise, but it reads like a screenplay - a flimsy one. Perhaps one day it will be a Lifetime Original Movie (not that I have anything against Lifetime <smile>). P.S. This book also could have used a better copy editor - am I the only one who noticed missing punctuation??
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Summary: Ambitious ideas, but...
Review: While "The Lost Boy" brings up many ambitious ideas about the poor state of the earth's ecology, and sounds the doomsday horn about it, the story itself seems a bit too glossed over. Robert Lieberman takes on the task of telling Molly and Danny Driscoll's tale, a woman and her five-year-old son. When Danny mysteriously goes missing from his daycare centre one day, this sets the plot into motion. But it's no ordinary "missing child" case. As the author hints at things to come by building up the tension admirably, there are too many unbelievable reactions by the various characters to make this a better novel. The eco-disaster motif is refreshing, especially the underlying message included in the story...but it doesn't really seem to play out in a way that holds ones interest until the end. I kept thinking of "The Celestine Prophecy", only with an end-of-the-world message while reading this. While it was engaging enough, it wasn't a page-turner by any means.
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