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Summary: a great noval
Review: This is one of the best books I have ever read. It kept me suspensfull until the end. When Vicky is on the iceberg you get chills. Piece by piece you find out the mysteries unravelling in the ice, the secrets you wish you never knew, and the people who have been living a lie...
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Summary: It was the BEST BOOK I'VE EVER READ!
Review: It was awesome. The drama-it was FANTASTIC! I'm a big bookworm & have read a ton of books but this one was my fav!
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Summary: The L'Engle introspection is alive and well!
Review: In this typically L'Engle book fraught with the struggle between good and evil, Vicky Austin (Meet the Austins, The Moon by Night, A Ring of Endless Light) participates in a coming-of-age trip to Antarctica, where she gets emeshed in a dangerous and political struggle for power. As a previous reviewer said, the enigma of the plot seems to drag on and on, and is then wrapped up in the last 10 pages (how Hamlet-esque), but that quality is the book's only fault. The description of Antarctica is vivid and powerful (it's obvious that Miss L'Engle visited it firsthand), and the Vespugia controversy, while somehow not believable, performs its function to the plot entirely satisfactorily. While this book somehow lacks the utter poetry of A Ring of Endless Light (which has its own unrealities, at the same time), it is still an entirely satisfying L'Engle book.
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Summary: A deep-plotted book that was very informative on Antarctica
Review: I thought that Vicky's narrative point of view was a very good cover-up of the actual plot; the information on Antarctica was so detailed that I wanted to go there myself.
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Summary: One of her best!
Review: I loved this book!!! It was wonderful. It had just the right amount of every thing: romance, mystery, action. I have read all the Austin family books and this is one of the best! Vicky is so much like myself, I feel like the story is about me.
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Summary: You just can't put it down!
Review: Finally a book filled with a variety of tastes. This is one thrilling story you won't want to miss. It is a mystery, romance, and action book all put into one. It is a real clincher from beginning to end. The descriptions and details throughout the story set the changing moods of the plot. This book has an interesting way of putting puzzles and codes into the story for the reader to have fun with and become more involved with the story. As a reader, I enjoyed it.
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Summary: I liked it....
Review: I read this book after reading A Ring Of Endless Light, which is one of my favorite books. One of the main reasons I was so eager to read it was because I was curious about the outcome of Vicky Austin and Adam Eddington's relationship (Adam is, incidentally, my ideal guy). I was a little disappointed that they are together in only a whole 10 pages. However, it was a very enjoyable book and I didn't mind that I didn't see as much of Adam as I would have liked. One drawback however, was that the enigma seemed to drag on and on until everything was revealed in basically the last 10 pages. I also don't think some of the conflicts were very believable, but maybe that's just because A Ring of Endless Light was so good, I'm biased. Vicky never fails to disappoint me however, for, as in A Ring of Endless Light, she is a philosophical poetry-writing teenage girl struggling with the basic problems of romance and coming-of-age obstacles. These I can really relate to.Not as good as some of her other books, but definately worth reading.
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Summary: I love this book
Review: This is a wonderful book!!! It has a great story, to warm your heart, even though there are some hard times in the book. It includes lessons to learn, and it is just a great book!!!!
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Summary: L'Engle falls short
Review: I was an enthusiastic reader of the Wrinkle in Time series, so I looked forward to reading the Austin series. I've read most of them and continue to be amazed at how bad the series is. Unbelievability withstanding, I don't mind that the Austin family and a few favored characters are 10 steps above the rest of the common crush. It's that Madeleine's dictatorial opinions tend to overshadow the story. I get annoyed with her heavy handed moralizing on multifaceted issues. She tends to pick one side and feeds the reader various factoids and other propaganda. Literature is often used to garner sympathy for one issue or another, but it's usually softened with humor, pathos or a little view of the other side. Here she just stops the pace and throws in a commercial. I've taken to finishing the series just to see what other annoying issue she will bring up. Troubling a Star was the most annoying yet. Her staging the story in a fictional South American country that was a nightmare of corruption and violence, then pitting American agents against the big bad South American and East Europeans who want to destroy the world, was a laugh. Vespugia (spelling) read more like a central american country, but yet was a stone throw from the Anartica. Bringing in American Agents just begs the question of how Vesputia came to have a coup in the first place. None of the funding, training, or guns could have had a CIA connection could they? She presented the USA as one of the few countries having only a scientific use for Anartica. No mention of any US armed force presence in Anartica. If only! In L'Engle's universe all american foreign policy is for the good of the planet and corporate and special interests never have an impact. If only! Just where these honest and above board public policymakers come from is a mystery since in her universe only the Austin family members and a few select characters have any moral backbone or intelligence. IMHO I think her unrealistic settings, characters and plots do not blend well with her one sided stands. That aside her novels aren't boring. I just wish she would pick fantasy or sermonizing agendas, one or the other. At the least skillfully blend them so the one doesn't bring the other to a crashing stop.
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Summary: You'll never put it down!
Review: Troubling a star provides endless adventure and description that keeps you reading. The characters are described clearly which makes you become deeply involved in their situations. I am a pretty slow reader, but I read 100 pages in one day! Which led to a fast finish of one week! The lines in which Madeline described the beautiful Anarctica made you feel as though you were there. The conversations with the characters were also intriguing and exciting. To me this was one of her best books. If you have read any of her other books and liked them I'm sure you would be highly impressed with this one. Or, if you haven't and would like to, this is a great one to start with.
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