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Surprisingly good bookI like the guy. When I see him on interviews he comes across as a logical, balanced person. The Screaming Zombies hate him with a passion, which is another positive, in my mind. I mean, someone that despised by insane people probably is doing something right, right? Still, I didn't expect much when I was given a copy of the book as a gift.
But the book is terrific, with a tremendous level of detail and fact-checking that backs up his point of view. Not that it will cut any slack with with Screaming Zombies. They are immune to logic and fact.
But on a certain level they ARE entertaining to watch, I guess.
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Fantastic information, well deliveredIf you can, watch Dr. Amen on one of the PBS specials, then read this book. His warmth, humor and intelligence all come through in a highly readable book. The book brought together for me concepts that I was familiar with, but his explanation of the science made it more fascinating and compelling. I have adopted his recommendations and have recommended his book to several people who can literally change their lives by listening to his message.
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Vengeance is hersThe first book in Stieg Larsson's Millenium Trilogy is many things: a murder case, a financial intrigue, a family saga, and an (ersatz) feminist revenge fantasy. Its extraordinary popularity is almost certainly due to its partaking of the last category. Larsson's tale dwells uncomfortably on the horrible things that can be accomplished by "Men Who Hate Women" (the transliteration of the work's original Swedish title), and then tries to balance the score by offering elaborate retaliations visited upon the misogynists by the novel's avenging angel, an antisocial young woman named Lisbeth Salander who works as a researcher for a security firm. The novel tries to have it both ways: it offers Old Testament-style atrocities committed against women for us (and the novel's soft hero, Mikhael Blomkvist) to cluck over, and also to titillate us; then it offers Salander's vengeance schemes ostensibly to balance the injustices committed against women but really to titillate us even further. It's like "Inglourious Basterds," but imagined in terms of gender politics. Unfortunately, Salander is not as imaginative a creation as many fans of the book have proposed, and seems all too reminiscent of the many fabulous femmes fatales with attitude and technological know-how who have become archetypes of postmodern espionage stories, from Modesty Blaise to Sydney Bristow to La Femme Nikita; moreover, her willingness to sexually please her partner and only friend Blomkvist without him ever asking complicates any claims some have made that this novel truly champions feminism.
The novel works best in its central section, a complex mystery involving the disappearance of an industrial heiress on her family's private island more than thirty years previous to the main events of the novel: the sinister secrets of the Vanger family make the novel work here as a very gripping and dark family saga. Unfortunately, this plot is book-ended by a subplot involving financial intrigue that almost bored me into giving up the novel initially, and that I couldn't wait to get through in its final one hundred or so pages. The international success of the novel is undeniable, and at the very least the work is worth picking up just to see how Larsson can strike so many chords that resonate with a contemporary readership.
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| Hornet's Nest and TrilogyHave been reading since age 4 (am now 68) and mostly fiction for the past 50 years. A novel a week. This trilogy is, in my opinion, the finest series I have ever read and Hornet's Nest may be the very best piece of fiction I have ever read. I found myself purposely slowing down in my reading because I simply did not want it to end. These are not stand alone books. Read them as 1-2-3 and you will never forget the experience. The biggest problem is what to read when you are finished. Everything else pales by comparison by virtually every measure. I envy those of you who have not started the journey or who are looking forward to the second and third novels. I almost look forward to the possibility of Alzheimers so I can read these over and over for the rest of my life. I may do so anyway.
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Classic Picoult, but with flawsFor fans, the release of a new Jodi Picoult novel is like having Christmas in the middle of of spring. You count down anxiously, you mark the days of the calendar, until final release day rolls around and you can sink your teeth into another one of her stories. Like a good Christmas memory, the stories stick with you and are revisited time and again.
House Rules, this year's Picoult novel, introduces readers to Jacob, a young man with Asperger's, an autism spectrum disorder. Jacob sees the world in black and white (or more correctly, in a perfectly ordred rainbow sequences, sans orange), is extremely literal, and obsessed with forensics. Most of the time, his loving mother and difficult brother can deal with Jacob's differences. However, when Jess, Jacob's social skills tutor, is found dead in the woods, and the evidence points to Jacob, the family unit begins to crumble.
As with other Picoult titles, House Rules focuses both on the criminal trial and its the way the family unit deals with it. In this case, however, the family story is much more compelling than the court room drama. At times, the court room scenes take away from the much more intresting story of Jacob and his family. In a way, Picoult could have written an entire novel just about how the Jacob and his family cope with his Asperger's. The "romantic" story line is distracting and unnecessary, and could have been left out entirely.
My biggest criticism about this book was that, for the first time in a Jodi Picoult novel, I felt completely and uitterly let down by the ending. After spending hundreds of pages with these characters, I had hoped for a tidier, more complete ending. Something that says what happened afterwards, not a vague "journal entry" that could be left up to (multiple) interpretations. It felt rushed and sloppy.
Despite the ending and some choppy plotting, I did enjoy the majority of House Rules. The descriptions of Asperger's and the parts of the novel told from Jacob's point of veiw were poignant, funny, and heartbreaking, and truly made the reader feel what it was like to see the world from his point of view. It is fast-paced and did keep me reading until the end. Would I reccomend it? Yes, but not as highly as My Sister's Keeper or Second Glance.
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