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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher The Epic Life & Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
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Timothy Egan
lwad61
, January 02, 2013
A beautiful, sorrowful book about the passing of Native American tribal life and of the man who lost his family and his fortune documenting what remained of Indian ways.
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The Tigers Wife
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Téa Obreht
lwad61
, January 03, 2012
Tea Obreht's lyrical and touching first novel is magical realism at its best--and in the Balkans! The love and regard between the grandfather and his granddaughter is a felt presence. Beautiful book.
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Ready Player One
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Cline, Ernest
lwad61
, September 21, 2011
What a gas! Ready Player One is so much fun to read you'll wish you hadn't finished it so you could read it for the first time. The world in 2044 is basically circling the drain. Fossil fuels are almost completely exhausted and the poor live in trailer parks where the units are stacked on top of each other to maximize land use. Most of the populace maintains sanity by avoiding "real life" and living virtually in the Oasis online world. Wade Watts, through his avatar Parzival, spends most every hour he is not in his online school trying to solve the riddle left by OASIS' creator when he died. Somewhere in his multiverse James Halliday has hidden three keys that open three gates. Whoever makes his or her way through the third gate first inherits Halliday's billions. Many "gunters" have given up on the quest after five fruitless years of searching, but Parzival's careful study of 80s pop culture finally pays off and he finds the Copper Key to the first gate. A friend and an admired blogger follow him, but as the leaders' names are posted on the scoreboard, the Dark Empire of Innovative Online Industries grinds into action and soon real people in the real world are dying not so mysteriously and Wade and his friends are on the run in and out of OASIS. Some gaming chops and a working knowledge of 80s music, movies, and arcade games is helpful but not necessary in enjoying this crackerjack of a futuristic adventure with enough thought-provoking themes to make it even more than the very fine escape fiction it already is.
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