Kindle Book Review: Maximum Ride Series by James Patterson
Posted by Mike in Kindle Book Reviews on Nov 8th, 2009 | No Comments
Let me start by getting this out of the way: I had no idea that these were kids books when I downloaded the first one to my Kindle. Had I known, being a man in my 30s, I likely wouldn’t have even begun reading the first one. But I did, and here we are five books later. (The sixth book, Fang,...
Kindle Book Review: Vanished by Joe Finder
The first Finder book I read was Paranoia because it was available free for the Kindle, and my husband couldn’t stop raving about it after reading it on his Kindle DX. Immediately after reading Paranoia, we sought out all the Finder books we could get, and saw that Vanished was being published...
Book Review: Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell
I initially picked up Julie & Julia because I was interested in seeing the movie. I’ve been conducting my own cooking project at home this year, and I instantly related to Julie’s plight – How do I stick to my project’s goals without going insane? My project is a lot less...
Book Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith
The moment I saw the name of this book in Entertainment Weekly, I knew I would like it. Oddly enough, zombies and classic literature are two of my favorite things. I had never seen them merged together before, however. Grahame-Smith does a fantastic job of using Jane Austen’s classic novel as a...
Book Review: Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
After the Twilight hype, the books were recommended to me by a good friend. I read the first one and for the most part I enjoyed it (you can read my review here). I was bored by book 2, titled New Moon (review). I liked book 3, Eclipse (review) a lot more than New Moon – it had more action and...
Book Review: Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die by Michael Largo
I picked up Final Exits at Barnes & Noble after being drawn to the cover art. I thought it was a murder mystery at first. After reading the back and learning it was a carefully researched encyclopedia of the ways people die, I bought it. But it sat on my shelf at home unread for almost a year. Every...
Book Review: Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
I started reading this series primarily because the premise of the television show intrigued me – a serial killer that kills bad guys. Even better, he’s a blood technician for the police department by day. I wanted to watch the show, but I try to always read the book first before seeing a...
Kindle Book Review: Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist
Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist is a novel by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan that was recently turned into a movie starring Michael Cera and Kat Dennings. I wanted to see the movie, and jumped at the chance to download the book at a reduced price when Amazon was promoting it.
The book was...
Kindle Book Review: UR by Stephen King
Stephen King’s new novella UR isn’t featured in a literary anthology or in one of his compilations. It is a Kindle exclusive work released to coincide with the new Kindle 2. King has written a novella for the Kindle about the Kindle.
Though it sounds odd – and at first it is a little...
Book Review: Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
Posted by CJ in Kindle Book Reviews on Jan 29th, 2009 | No Comments
I started reading the Twilight series on the recommendation of a friend. I wasn’t thrilled with Twilight, mainly because of the semi-creepy level of intensity of the young relationship in the novel. Teen love-bordering-on-obsession aside, Twilight was entertaining and an incredibly fast read. I...
