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Lädt ... The Princeton Impostor (2007)von Ann Waldron
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Wow, that's - bad. The writing - dialog and description - is occasionally decent but mostly awkward. The detective detected very little - mostly she went around stirring up trouble, for herself and others, and inventing scenarios, while her cop sometime-boyfriend plugged away and got answers. The piece that tied her in to the whole thing was a side-issue at best, resolved early on by a near-literal deus ex machina. There are at least two pathological liars and an emotionally abused woman (and nobody seems to notice - well, the abuser is dead. But another one shows up pretty quick…). Ghahhh. The major characters ranged from dull (down) to the liars; some of the minor ones were not bad but presented mostly as collections of quirks. Oh yeah, and an obsession with food - you know the thing where people in novels never go to the bathroom? That's not detailed here but it's the only thing that isn't. Practically every meal, when she went to bed each night, every time she changed her clothes… I don't know, I think I'm spoiled by Jill Paton Walsh's Imogene Quy stories. I was hoping for something like that, and just did not get it. Not going to look for any others in the series. ( ) Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Twenty years ago, Dan Flores’s Caprock Canyonlands became one of the first books ever to treat the flat, arid landscape of the southern High Plains as a place of uncommon beauty and enduring spirit. Now a classic, Caprock Canyonlands has been favorably compared by readers to the work of such icons of nature and environmental writing as William Bartram, Aldo Leopold, John Muir, and Henry David Thoreau. Containing the author's stunning photography, a foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Proulx, author of "Brokeback Mountain," an afterword by environmental historian Thomas R. Dunlap, and a new preface by the author, this twentieth anniversary edition makes available to a new generation of readers Flores's knowledgeable and heartfelt narrative of the canyons and badlands of eastern New Mexico and western Oklahoma and Texas. He evokes the history and natural history that shaped the region, drawing upon geology, mythology, botany, art, history and natural history that shaped the region, drawing upon geology, mythology, botany, art, history, and literature. "Caprock Canoynlands keeps its place on our bookshelves . . . for its exploration of a deeply human activity: the search for the beauty of the earth, the depth and strength of our ties to it, and the ways those appear in a particular landscape . . . here illuminated by love."--from the afterword by Thomas R. Dunlap Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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