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Love and Respect for the Profession

Revisado: 06-01-13

Dr. Manson started his career as an assistant in a poor Walsh mining town. By his own industry, professional friends' intervention, and his beloved wife's faithful support, he rose to the challenges of different medical practices in 1920's England, yet almost lost his soul in the lucrative but disingenuous London private practice. The beguiling plot centered on a man's love and respect for the his profession against the current of ignorance, greed, and convenience.
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Saterical treatment of human decadence

Revisado: 06-01-13

Tony and Brenda Last, well endowed with legacy, are the best of cultivated English aristocracy. That is until Brenda's inexplicable affair with the annoying and feckless John Beaver, fostered by the same suave aristocratic society, immolates the marriage. Tony, abashed by the hypocritical divorce proceeding, decided to take a life changing Amazon exploration where he received more than he bargained for. Handful of Dust is layered with comical cynicism, while its core lay bare the face of human decadence.

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Affecting and encompassing masterpiece

Revisado: 05-11-13

Clyde Griffiths, an ambitious social climber with grave personal flaw, fell in and out of love with an adoring factory girl, but has to abandon his moral anchor when the opportunity of fortune and status avail itself in the affection of an upper-class dame. Affectingly developed characters, biographical realism and a simple, linear yet encompassing plot line lend this fiction its masterpiece mantle.

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Fascinating ideas, hokey James Bond like plot

Revisado: 03-07-13

In the futuristic America, where corporation balkanized and ruled the land, a software programmer with samurai sword fighting inclination discovered a industrialist's evil plot to overtake the world. Fascinating idea of virus, memory and religion, though plot developed like a hokey James Bond movie. Masterfully read.

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Masterfully developed characters

Revisado: 05-13-12

A guileless teenage girl with an unorthodox upbringing became a ward of her aloof half brother and his supercilious wife of the London elite where her authentic observation and affection clashes against the counterfeit façade of the high society. Slow moving and uneventful plot, with masterfully developed yet conflicted characters, culminated to an intriguing climax and ending.

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Epic adventure story with a dark undercurrent

Revisado: 03-17-12

Colonial Jamaican high sea adventures in late 19th century seen through the eyes of displaced children whose not yet matured mind and rich imagination altered their and others' lives. This well penned classic is hard to categorized and grasp; it has the very construct of an epic adventure, yet deeper, the theme of perverted innocence percolates.

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Intricacies and idiosyncracies of Academic pursuit

Revisado: 02-03-12

Autobiographical account of how the structure of DNA was discovered in 1950's. Watson's frank and honest revelation coupled with effortless prose and plot gives us a rare glimpse into the intricacies and idiosyncrasies of academic basic science research.

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Amalgation of science, history and philosophy

Revisado: 02-03-12

Author traced the origins of the four topical meals he ate: at MacDonald's, groceries from a Whole Foods store, products from an poly-phase organic farm and foods he hunt and gathered personally. The author seamlessly amalgamates science, history and philosophy into a classic that just may change how I eat.

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transcendent prose, maturing plot and characters

Revisado: 02-03-12

A new layer of history, interpersonal intricacies, told through another point of view, was added to the characters of Justine, while the persona of the city Alexandria and theme of love and desires permeates and ferments like aged wines. Durrell's masterly prose is further enriched by germinating characters and maturing plots.

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Well Researched, succinctly presented

Revisado: 11-19-11

Comprehensive history of Al Qaeda tracing to its Islamic, Egyptian root, how it was propelled by corrupt and brutal Middle Eastern regimes, fueled by Arab-Israeli conflict, and steered toward its anti-America focus by the charismatic yet quixotic Bin Laden. Shockingly, US had amble clues and leads that would have prevented the 911 attacks only to have faltered because of the intense antagonizing cultures between CIA and FBI. Well researched, and succinctly presented.

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