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Into Thin Air by Franklin W. Dixon
Into Thin Air by Franklin W. Dixon
This is easily the best book in the new Hardy Boys Adventures series thus far. In the previous novel, Frank and Joe sifted through the clues to discover who was behind the disappearance of two teenagers riding G-Force, the star attraction of the amusement park, Fun Land. They identified the villains and got the police to lock them up. So how is it that a third
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| A lot happens in this action packed novel. The starship, Asia, finally reaches the colony, the Rift starts its new offensive against the eastern settlements, and Rick, Molly and their band of high school castaways are put to the test when the aliens ...more | |
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| Finally our heroes go on the attack in their fight to save the colony. It’s not a full on assault, but a clever mission to penetrate behind enemy lines and recover vital supplies lost in the initial days of the alien invasion. The mission is well tho ...more | |
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| There are a lot of moving parts in this novel and the tension gets sharper and sharper in all of them. The colony has to stand off another alien attack and figure out where they will find the resources to withstand the next one; the castaways on the ...more | |
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| Mike Adams throws a curve ball at the reader in the seventh volume of his excellent Fierce Girls at War series. The alien invasion of the colony of New Hope is well underway, but the crisis moment of this novel is not the expected invasion of Winter ...more | |
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| This is a good collection of short stories that seem to mostly have the hard-boiled PI (or something close to it) as their theme. Some of them are set in fantasy worlds and some in science fiction. It's highly entertaining and exposed me to a lot of ...more | |
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| The moment I’ve been worrying about since at least the second book strikes with a vengeance. It was obvious that it had to happen. An author of a military series is not going to spend lots of time encouraging you to love his large cast of characters ...more | |
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| This has to be one of the best titles in literature. You immediately know a big chunk of what's coming before you even get to the blurb of the story. Not only are troubled times ahead, but there is one particular person who is going to stick by Koont ...more | |
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| Lloyd is one of the nicest persons you could meet, but he is not the smartest or the most competent. So, when he moves out of his parents' house to live on his own, odds are high that he is going to run into some serious problems. And he does! The on ...more | |
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| Things that man was not meant to know... The home of all such lore is in the New England town of Arkham and in these four novellas, the reader gets to experience what it might be like to visit one of H.P. Lovecraft's most famous creations. Each story ...more | |
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“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...”
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“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
― Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
― Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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