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Summary: An Electrifying Novel
Review: This is a totally captivating story that will keep you turning the pages. The characters are all fully rounded and believable--no shallow stereotypes, no good guys vs. bad guys, but real people who believe in different things and find themselves at cross-purposes. The authors--whose alternating chapters complement each other--work together incredibly well to create a story that looks unflinchingly into human hearts and presents a thought-provoking novel that builds tension inexorably and offers no easy solutions.
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Summary: Exceptional Novel
Review: This novel is a sum greater than its parts; it is wise, exciting, compassionate, complex, vivid, insightful. In an adult book, the prospect of a fundamentalist preacher brings the groan, because you know he'll be a one-dimensional slime; it takes a children's book to make such a character three-dimensional. Look for Coville's humor, and Yolen's sense of poetry--and both are at their best at examining the female/male approaches to young love, and family dynamics, and questions about the universe and its meaning. This book is not "too young" for any reader.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: It took me three years to read it, because the beginning was pretty boring but then it turned out to be on e of my favorite books.
I'll recommend this book to anyone, but don't stop reading because of the first few chapters.
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Summary: Armageddon Summer
Review: The book I read was called Armageddon Summer. IT is a bout a group of religious people believing that their world is going to end on July 27. They are called the believers. Marina and Jed who come from two different worlds, are brought to a mountain top where the believers think they will be saved. They meet and they fall in love, all the while, the world a round them is falling apart. Not physically, but verbally.
I didn't like this book because the story was really bad. I do not mean the words and the text but the true meaning of each words. It was really religious and everything but they made fun of God like in this quote, "True, they would be spending their summer vacation in top of this mountain, waiting for God to bring destruction to our world." I mean go on with your story without that sarcasm. It really makes the character seem almost satanic talking about God that way.
The two main characters look at God like a joke. Another quote that supports my thoughts is: "God, I prayed silently, save my mother. Not on this walled in stranger mountain. But if he heard me, he sure took along time answering it." I mean the first part is good and sweet, but it again seems like a joke. The all time character to support my though is one if the two main characters. Jed. He is a horrible little devil. Well, maybe not little, they're in their teenage years but he just acts so much like a little whinny boy.
My favorite part was the part where all the believers find out that the idea was all some joke and went there for no reason. I also liked the little action that was in the book but unfortunately some one dies. I liked these two parts because it was the only real important thing. All the rest of the book was how the two main characters feel about each other and how they feel about themselves. I mean, please, I don't care what they think I care how they feel, I care about what happens. For these reasons I liked these parts in the book.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: I read this book a Summer ago or so, and I remember loving it. I would recommend it to anyone! It was a very nice read, it wasn't too long of a story, and it keeps the reader suspensed. Very good read.
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Summary: An Easy and Fun Read
Review: On July 27, 2000, the world as we know it will end, or at least that's what two young teenagers have been told. Brought along with their parents on the road to the end of the world, Jed and Marina are sharing the same unique experience: preparing for Armageddon. According to Reverend Beelson, the person that started the Armageddon scare, the 144 "Believers", or the people that will live through the end of the world, must live on a mountaintop where they will be saved from God's wrath. This means that they will live in tents and eat canned food until the world beneath them is destroyed. Jed and Marina must both decide weather or not they believe this. While they are making up their mind, they have to share the workload of creating a camp for these people and try to put up with their parents' hopefully temporary insanity. This was a fun and easy book to read. The authors to a great job of giving the reader two different perspectives of the same strange ordeal. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good story, no matter what age. It's quick and easy to get through and won't take up too much of your time, and it's very entertaining.
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