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Cynthia Burmester has commented on (11) products
A Dance with Dragons: Song of Ice and Fire 5
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George R R Martin
Cynthia Burmester
, January 01, 2012
Amazing & shocking till the very end. Every thing I'd want in a George R.R. Martin book. Can't wait until the next one!
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Ready Player One
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Cline, Ernest
Cynthia Burmester
, September 30, 2011
I'm over half way through this now - and it's one of the most fun reads I can recall in a long long time. Though I get occasional lapses of sadness that the near future portrayed here in which most of the world is poor but lives, works, & plays within a virtual world that takes Second Life, Netflix streaming, MMO gaming to the ultimate level.
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Ready Player One
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Cline, Ernest
Cynthia Burmester
, September 28, 2011
I'm about an 8th of the way into this and as an old-timer gaming & pop-culture geek I am LOVING it. Written by the writer/director of the movie "Fanboys" I can already picture the movie he'll make out of this dystopian tale of a teenager trying to escape his meager existence by completely the ultimate adventure quest to achieve a prize worth several fortunes.
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Dragonsong Harper Hall 01
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Anne McCaffrey
Cynthia Burmester
, September 26, 2011
This was one of the first books I ever checked out from my magical high school library in 1977. A classic YA tale of a young girl, outcast mostly by a foster family and living on a world where a fiery menace falls from the sky on a regular basis, who finds a next of amazing little 'fire dragons' and becomes special, as we all long today, and is plucked from her hard scrabble existence to pursue her talent for music at Pern's famous Harper Hall. And thus the adventure begins...
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Heir To The Empire: Star Wars: Thrawn Trilogy 1
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Timothy Zahn
Cynthia Burmester
, September 18, 2011
Here, in the first Lucas-sanctioned (if after the recent changes in the new Blu-Ray edition make that mean anything to any of us any more) fiction set after the events of 'Return of the Jedi', Timothy Zahn takes the reader on a fantastic Star Wars adventure full of drama, politics, and action. Jedi Witches, Noghri, Han & Leia married, Leia carrying twin children, and a mysterious red-head pursuing Luke Skywalker - who could ask for a better beginning to every other post-Original Trilogy book series that followed in the last 20 years.
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Salems Lot
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Stephen King
Cynthia Burmester
, September 16, 2011
This book kept me up reading and terrified all night.
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A Feast For Crows: Song of Ice and Fire 4
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George R R Martin
Cynthia Burmester
, September 13, 2011
As the author himself states in the introduction, the prior book was only half the story he meant to tell and this book begins by telling more sides of the same story, which is a good thing. Then it goes on to bring many events to a climax but it leaves out half of the still living major characters from previous books...but that's okay too! Because the stories for this books characters are so wonderfully, fully developed and, best of all, the ones you were wondering about will be featured in his next book! Hopefully those whose ends seemed not quite certain in the last chapters of 'Feast' will have their fates answered quickly in the4 next book. I am trying to wait for it to be in paperback so my collection will match - and hardcopies are heavy for lugging to kid's activities where I do most of my reading. I'm 77th in line for my library's copy. I want a Nook for Christmas. I am in The Race for the Reading of A Dance with Dragons! /angst
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A Storm of Swords: Song of Ice and Fire 3
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George R R Martin
Cynthia Burmester
, September 10, 2011
GRRM still fails to disappoint. The saga continues, players change, die, move from the background of the story to the front and amazing new things begin across the narrow sea.
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A Clash of Kings: Song of Ice and Fire 2
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George R R Martin
Cynthia Burmester
, September 09, 2011
Continuing the drama of A Game of Thrones this 2nd book in GRRM's A Song of Fire & Ice series, this book, more than once, made my jaw literally drop as the twists & turns didn't just unfold but hits you over the head!
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Hunger Games 01
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Suzanne Collins
Cynthia Burmester
, September 08, 2011
Not just for young people. This is a fast-paced, amazing piece of modern dystopian fiction that will keep the page turning all night long. Finish this & its sequels in a week and you won't be disappointed.
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A Game of Thrones: Song of Ice and Fire 1
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George R R Martin
Cynthia Burmester
, September 06, 2011
Read this. Read it now. Then read the next three books. I really don't need to tell you that you need to read the rest ASAP because as the guy that played Khal Drogo in the HBO series said at San Diego Comic Con, "It's crack on paper."
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