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| Sun, 11-13-2005 - 11:35am |
Author's name, plot profiles, genre are appreciated .........
| Sun, 11-13-2005 - 11:35am |
Author's name, plot profiles, genre are appreciated .........
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Crichton dramatizes his message by way of a frantic chase to prevent environmental terrorists from wreaking widespread destruction aimed at galvanizing the world against global warming. A team lead by MIT scientist/federal agent John Kenner crosses the globe to prevent the terrorists from calving a giant Antarctic iceberg; inducing terrible storms and flash floods in the US; and, using giant cavitators, causing a Pacific tidal wave. Behind the terrorists lurks the fantatical, fund-seeking chief of a mainstream environmental group; on Kenner’s team, most notably, is young attorney Peter Evans, aka everyman, whose typically liberal views on global warming chill as Kenner instructs him in the truth about the so-called crisis.
"The Ghost of Thomas Kempe" was a quick and fun read.
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Gloria Naylor is one of my favorite authors. I love her work. I was first introduced to her work through the movie the Women of Brewster Place, and although it wasn't particularly well done, it was still a very moving story. So I got the book and then went on to read her other books.
Mama Day is an excellent book. I loved that one too.
The other book you are thinking of is probably Bailey's Cafe - also really good. I love the characters - Naylor has a gift for creating interesting characters, and I think in Bailey's Cafe, her gift really shows. The characters in that book are are a hodgepodge of the forgotten and overlooked people in our society. She brings such complexity and humanity to people that don't even register in the conciousness of most Americans - really brings them to the forefront.
I have the Men of Brewster Place, which I read awhile back. It didn't grab me as much as the others though. I might have to give it another try - sometimes I find I have to be in the right frame of mind for some books.
In fact, I think I might have to go back and re-read the other books as well.
You know, another really good author that doesn't get much recognition is Julia Alvarez - I picked up one of her books - How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - in a book store one day. There was a short critique and recommendation by Gloria Naylor printed on the back. I figured if she liked it, then it must be a good book, so I bought it. Another excellent book by Alvarez is In the Time of the Butterflies.
Okay, so I thought I was going to read a Koontz next, but when I realized that my library doesn't have any Mallory books (Carol O'Connell) in its collection, I decided to go with one of them, instead, so I that can donate it (and the other one, once I've read it, too)
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~Jackie
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~Jackie, BookCrossing Member & Warming Families Volunteer
<I found Naylor about the same time I was taking a Women in America class in college. I was an engineering major, so I didn't have a chance to take too many of those types of courses - just the general ed stuff. For my US history requirement, I chose Women in America, which was terrific. The instructor took a really multi-cultural approach to the course. That was really great because I love history, but all the way through school I was frustrated that the history of so many people was overlooked in the curriculum.
A book I picked up awhile back called Freedom's Daughters by Lynne Olsen is a great read - chronicals the efforts of women in the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1870. Very readable and very interesting. Tells the story of lots of women we hardly hear about.
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