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The Board’s List

1. ULYSSES by James Joyce
2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
4. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
5. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
6. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
7. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
8. DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
9. SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
10. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
11. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
12. THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
13. 1984 by George Orwell
14. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
15. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
16. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser
17. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
18. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
19. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
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The Reader’s List:
1. ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
2. THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
3. BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
4. THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
6. 1984 by George Orwell
7. ANTHEM by Ayn Rand
8. WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand
9. MISSION EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard
10. FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard
11. ULYSSES by James Joyce
12. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
13. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. DUNE by Frank Herbert
15. THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein
16. STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein
17. A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute
18. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
19. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
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The Last Full Measure. Ann Rinaldi. 2010. [November 2010]. Harcourt. 218 pages.

“Where are you going, Tacy?”

Set in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 1863, The Last Full Measure is Ann Rinaldi’s latest historical novel. It stars the Stryker family. Our heroine, Tacy, is fourteen. She has two older brothers and a father in the war. But during these troubling summer months, she’s going to mature quickly. She’ll have to having witnessed some of the atrocities of war.

When the novel opens, Tacy’s biggest problem is her brother, David, the brother who was unable to join the army because of his bad leg. He has been put in charge of the family; it is his duty to “protect” his mother and his sister, and to look after their home. The responsibility weighs heavily on him, transforming him into a man Tacy can barely recognize.

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This is one of the most delightful novels I’ve read lately. The erotic intrigue and force you to keep reading until they were finished. With a location unknown to people today, I discovered the hand of its author’s hypocrisy and savagery that underlay under the elegant costumes of some values.

The novel is the subject of prostitution and the abuse of minors by the aristocracy, so raw and truthful, without scratching in bad taste. Sharon Page is a writer elegant, very smooth and exquisite prose.

The love that you start to feel for the young widow Jane, abused and humiliated by a nasty husband, made me eager to protect her throughout the novel. Although it becomes a beast to save his friend from harm. But this girl already has a paladin incredibly seductive, with a noble soul.

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I approached this novel with high expectations, had heard of Marcos Aguinis as an excellent writer and in line with my quest to refine my style, I thought I read it would be both helpful and pleasant at the time.

Neither one thing nor the other. Now I believe without the slightest embarrassment that Marcos Aguinis is a mediocre writer. You can tell the office, and art is to make the trade is not the note according to my mother. The theme is a love thwarted by the Cuban revolution between a local and an Argentine. The author changes the Rapporteur for the novel, a device that saves her, but makes it more confusing.

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I have to congratulate the editorial by the beautiful presentation of this magical book. With illustrations throughout its pages that evoke the characters and scenes of history, is a small treasure that children will appreciate. Accompanied by a cartoon in color, with more details of the adventures of Shadow, reminiscent of the great sagas such as THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and a thorough map to follow the path of the protagonists.

Geronimo Stilton has given life and cool features to their characters: the young Shadow discover along the story that deserves the name Bold who gave birth.

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Some people think that those places are suffering has been imbued with the souls of those who lost their lives back in dramatic circumstances. Are not necessarily good, and that often results in their presence (in-between the world of the dead and the living) degenerate into situations surprising in the eyes of those who live (or think they live) strange phenomena of nature.

Many are the testimonies of those who dare to make inroads in such places, at times intespectias, and surrounded by the aura of mystery that turns any favors expedition to meet face to face with our deepest fears, our deepest fears .

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Xeon Spartan was not born, but wants to be. Apollo himself saves his life to fulfill his destiny, that Xerxes, the great Persian conqueror, know who the Spartans and what is your philosophy of life.

The book takes us through all the vicissitudes of Xeon and his cousin, since his city was burned by invaders and they both miraculously survived with the help of a blind slave. He listens to your city if the defendant had only five Spartans, it would have survived.

Eager for revenge lacedominio and decide to get a fight in their ranks, made them invincible.

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It was difficult to revisit a book I read long ago.

I still remember the impact it had on me that book, although she had gone through my teens. I read it on a shortlist along with “Steppenwolf” and “Siddhartha. ”

Demian was devastating to me. Went along with “In Search of the Miraculous” by Piotr Ouspensky marking the end to a naive belief that had shaped from 14 years.

Suddenly everything I rejected me was part of Abraxas, a god who hung out the bad and the good. Suddenly I saw that things could have many interpretations and not a single line and finished.

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He looked death in the eye,
standing, proud and serene,
one hand on the throat
and the other a cold steel.

(Fragment of The Death of the Warrior)

Heroes is probably one of the most original in the landscape of Heroic Fantasy. In this book we find elements of this branch of the Fantasy Genre: barbarians, warriors, pirates and other characters are annexed to the Sword and Sorcery, embedded in scenes and adventures where the prevailing laws of honor and steel. Originality is not so much on the subject and the clichés that all well know, but that is a set of poems: a collection of poems.

Waiter Oscar offers in his book twelve poems of different lengths that will delight lovers of epic fantasy elements include it or not. In summary, Heroes is presented, as its title indicates, the snapshot of a crucial moment or a lifetime summarized in verse, of different individuals ‘heroic’. We can assist the struggles and adventures of pirates, gladiators of the Roman circus, renegade Scottish barbarians, knights, and in addition, different aspects of the same archetype: the warrior who fights to death with courage.

Death is, precisely, and if you say so, the main character of each poem and hence the book as a whole. Is the true antagonist of those heroes who fight, bleed and suffer through the verses. There are as important physical foes as Death itself, nemesis of the hero, as the hero, when fighting in its purest form, is life at its purest. In contrast, death is the defeat and utter stillness. On each of the Heroes plans this lady, this vulture lurking, and in many of the poems is Death who wins the final battle.

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