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Book Review: “The Alexandria Link” by Steve Berry
Genre: Thriller Rating: 2.5 Water Towers Steve Berry is a gifted author. His previous efforts were all four or five WaterTowers. Unfortunately, my expectations for The Alexandria Link were higher than what was delivered. This is the second installment with Cotton Malone as the hero (“The Templar Legacy” being the first). This book seems forced…
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Book Review: “The Innocent Man” by John Grisham
Genre: Non-Fiction Rating: 5 Water Towers I went way out of my normal genre to read John Grisham’s (who also for the first time wrote a non-fiction book)The Innocent Man. If you read only one book this year, read this one. It is a superb story detailing the life of Ron Williamson. If you think…
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Book Review: “I is for Innocent” by Sue Grafton
Genre: Mystery Rating: 4 Water Towers The next time you look into the door peephole to see who is there, make sure you are not staring down the barrel of a gun. Six years ago, Isabel Barney was home for the evening when someone appeared at her door. Isabel got up, and being a careful…
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Book Review: “Open Season” by C. J. Box
Genre: Mystery Rating: 5 Water Towers Every now and then I read a book that I simply cannot put down. Open Season is one of those books. This is the debut novel (published in 2001) by C. J. Box and the first time I have read a C. J. Box novel. I can guarantee you….I…
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Book Review: “Pendragon, The Merchant of Death” by D. J. MacHale
Genre: Kids Fantasy Rating: 3.5 Water Towers Buy it! “I hope you are reading this Mark. Heck, I hope anybody’ s reading this because the only thing that’s keeping me from going totally off my nut right now is getting all this down on paper…..” So starts the adventure of Bobby Pendragon. At age 14,…
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Book Review: “The Shadow of the Wind” by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Genre: General Fiction Rating: 4 Water Towers “The art of reading is slowly dying, that it’s an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce…
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Book Review: “Coma” by Robin Cook
Genre: Medical Thriller Buy it! Rating: 5 Water Towers If you are going in for a minor operation, stay away from Operating Room 8. Nearing the 30th anniversary of the publication of “Coma” this is still an amazing book. After years of book learning, third year medical student, Susan Wheeler, is just embarking on the…
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Book Review: “Temple” by Matthew Reilly
Genre: Thriller Matthew Reilly is anything but boring. The one or two sentences in the “Temple” that are calm are an oasis from the relentless, gory, death defying, and beyond belief, did I say R-E-L-E-N-T-L-E-S-S, action. “Temple” is an incredible thrill ride. Hmmmm, typical Reilly. “Temple” is two stories rolled into one. One, a…
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“The Bourne Legacy” Book Review
“The Bourne Legacy” by Eric Van Lustbader Genre: Thriller Rating: 1 Water Tower I really wanted “The Bourne Legacy” to be a good book. I miss Robert Ludlum, and was hoping beyond hope that Eric Van Lustbader could fill his shoes. He does not. “The Bourne Legacy” starts off great. Two old friends are murdered…
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