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Summary: One of the science fiction classics of the 80's
Review: This book is one of my all time favorite books. I have read it many times (in fact I feel like reading it now) I look out for second hand copies of it so I can loan it to other people without fear of losing my original copy or, as my original copy is starting to fall apart, to keep as a spare.It is a remarkable book. I have never come across another book that so succinctly explains the learning to read process. And of course, I look forward to a day when "Thought Buses" are cruising the streets. The ending is fantastic, one of the best! I urge anyone with a yen for unusual literature to read it if they can find one of those rare copies out there.
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Summary: A terrific read! a very real and emotional story!
Review: This book is outstanding. I want to save it and give it to my kids to read when they get older. I agree with all the other folks when they say this is a classic. It was given to me by a friend who insisted I read it. I owe her one!
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Summary: Great book!
Review: This is a great book. I'm currently a high school senior (as of Spring 2004). Most likely, I haven't completely read 7 novels since I was concieved; but this book has sparked a new interest in literature within me. It brings up a lot of issues that were and are relevant in society. Anyone who likes Sci-Fi must read this book! I highly recommend this read!
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Summary: Great book!
Review: This is a great book. I'm currently a high school senior (as of Spring 2004). Most likely, I haven't completely read 7 novels since I was concieved; but this book has sparked a new interest in literature within me. It brings up a lot of issues that were and are relevant in society. Anyone who likes Sci-Fi must read this book! I highly recommend this read!
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Summary: A great story and very well told - a classic.
Review: This is one of the first 'good' SciFi books I came across as a teenager. The quality of the story-telling and the 'mood' created by the characters and the setting were quite memorable. I love this type of story-line but have never been able to find another book that really comes close. I will be dusting off my old copy and reading it very soon.
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Summary: A great story and very well told - a classic.
Review: This is one of the first 'good' SciFi books I came across as a teenager. The quality of the story-telling and the 'mood' created by the characters and the setting were quite memorable. I love this type of story-line but have never been able to find another book that really comes close. I will be dusting off my old copy and reading it very soon.
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Summary: Never a shortage of negative utopias, is there?
Review: Upon the recommendation of one of my oldest friends, I borrowed "MB" from him and gave ti a whirl. I loved it; the diary-esque storytelling was an interesting change of pace, and mirrored some of my own attempts to write in journal narration. The characters were developed, they storyline twisted-- all in all a great book.
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Summary: A storey to be read over and over again!!!
Review: What a great story. Glimpses into the mind of an android, and his preoccupation with death, and the spirit of two humans who have to help him to be able to stop them. A book that makes you look deeply into the melding of human mind with machine. An incredible touching story. I've read this book 10 times and never get tired of it, it also travels around my circle of friends on a regular basis.
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Summary: Beyond Five Stars
Review: When I was younger, I read a lot of books, not the ones other kids would read, because I knew the super ones when I spotted them, and my friends were not reading super books. I eventually read less and less, and besides required reading for English classes, I didn't read much, because I couldn't seem to find a book that caught my interest. I'd read the first couple chapters of books that were just altogether uninteresting, and would shelve them. I bought Mockingbird on a whim, having liked Nicolas Roeg and David Bowie, two of my biggest idols, that were, incidentally, pitted together for "The Man Who Fell to Earth," a movie I like a lot, which was based off of Walter Tevis' book, The Man Who Fell to Earth. So I got Mockingbird in the mail, hoping it would be the book to set me back in reading gear, opening it from it's package with delight, and with a ready feeling to read. "In the far future, love is the only hope," read the inset, and this was a great love story. It was the book that I finally got stuck with and I couldn't stop reading it. I'd read it in the hallway during my Photo class when I didn't have any thing to do. I'd read it after a test. I'd read it on the couch while my family watched TV. It reminded me of Farenheit 451, but I found Mockingbird to be a far more picturesque dystopia, and it got me from the start because it didn't have to blossom the way F451 did. Comparing this to F451 also creates a chain, since Nicolas Roeg did photography for the movie version of F451, and as previously stated, directed the Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis, who wrote Mockingbird. The characters still get the Guy Montag effect, while the rest of the world is drugged and oblivious to every thing, keeping privacy. This book is full of adventure, and in an illiterate future where it's illegal to live among other people, the joy Paul feels from learning to read, and the knowledge he gets of a past of families and seeing silent films with people interacting has made me feel an importance to reading. The love story that unfolds through Paul's teaching Mary Lou to read, and their shared liking to books while sharing a living space makes for a great feeling to want to make my own real life love story. There couldn't have been a better scenario than this though; coming from characters that didn't even know what love was, finding out together, or separated.
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