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Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying,
The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?
This short novel was the artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of
Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction. A thoroughly absorbing and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation.
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Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?
This short novel was the artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction. A thoroughly absorbing and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation.
Translated by Lynn Solotaroff
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Amazing Meditation on Death.......2007-08-26
I really enjoyed The Death of Ivan Ilyich...well, I don't know if "enjoyed" is the write word, but it is a remarkable novella. There's a wonderful intro written by Ronald Blythe. In the intro Blythe writes about Tolstoy's great fear of death that eventually turned into an obsession with death that lead to the creation of The Death of Ivan Ilyich, his meditation on the subject.
The book opens immediately after the death of Ivan Ilyich. Ivan was a judge and when his co-workers find out about his death, the first thing they begin to talk about is who will take his place. This scenes is followed by his funeral where we meet his wife who is in mourning. The book then goes on to introduce us to Ivan and his wife in the early days of their marriage and paints a picture of a marriage that was all bright colors on the outside, but rather dark behind closed doors. Ivan soon finds out that he has a "floating kidney" and his health slowly deteriorates over the next few months eventually leading to his death.
The beauty of this book is that the plot is given away in the title. Ivan dies...you know the book ends with his death. Tolstoy's masterpiece lies not so much in the actual storyline, but in the thought process, the philosophy, and the atmosphere behind it. The only way I can describe the feel of this book is claustrophobic. From the minute that Ivan learns and recognizes that he is dying, the feel of the story is one of collapsing, closing in. It becomes a story of seeing the world fly by so fast that you can't grasp on to anything to stay in it. It's quite sad actually, but so wonderfully told by Tolstoy and becomes one of the most haunting stories I've ever read in it's final pages.
I'm glad that I've finally gotten around to this one and look forward to revisiting Tolstoy in the future, most probably with Anna Karenina.
"Gentlemen!" he exclaimed, "Ivan Ilyich is dead!".......2007-07-03
Navigating through all the cultural debris coming at us in the year 2007 is no easy task. New hot novelists, must-see flicks, terrific new musical groups, new new new. Yet, here is a story that's over 120 years old, but it speaks right now to the core of our humanity. What does it mean to be alive? What is death? What is pain? What does it mean to be good? What is love? And what is God? This short novel asks these questions again and again, but not as a didactic, philosophical exercise. Instead, Tolstoy weaves these eternal questions into the fabric of a human life, a life that is so plausible and simple that it could easily be yours or mine.
Ivan Ilych is a seemingly good man who makes reasonable choices. He follows the rules. He has faults. He has responsibilities. His marriage begins with promise and slowly slips into unromantic routine. He has a childhood which he remembers well. He is a father. He has friends. He finds meaning in his work. Then he gets sick, not all at once, but slowly. We watch him slowly dissolve as the pain bears down on him relentlessly. The doctors are useless. His wife is a nuisance. His children are irrelevant. No one understands. He becomes isolated and lonely except for one simple servant who selflessly cares for him. What is this death, Ivan asks again and again. Why me, he asks. Has my life been a lie? Have I led a bad life? How can I be free of all this misery? Perhaps none of this is really happening to me.
So Tolstoy, the great, mighty Tolstoy, examines every angle of the dying man's psyche, until finally Tolstoy reaches into the spiritual depths of the man. Is there redemption? Is there release?
One must read this masterpiece from this great artistic genius to fully appreciate Tolstoy's mortal and spiritual depths, and in doing so, perhaps we will better appreciate our own.
Sad.......2007-06-13
Having never faced death, I would not know for sure, but it strikes me that anyone in that situation would ask themselves some vital questions. If you knew it was coming you would want to know what it was all for, whether you did everything you wanted and most of all whether you could look back ad say to yourself: no regrets, I'm satisfied my life was what it should have been. Just after reading this book, I had an experience which sharply contrasted with Ivan Ilych's experience. The daughter of a lady I know well, died, aged 37. When speaking to her, one of the first feelings she expressed was how her daughter had lived a life without regret, how they could all look back on happy memories and good times in their family.
First and foremost I found this story incredibly sad, but it is probably also incredibly commonplace in terms of how many people live their lives. People need to read these types of stories to make them think and realise important issues about the way they live their lives, not merely for themselves but also for others.
Timeless.......2007-05-27
I had never read any of Tolstoy's works before this book. Admittedly, when I opened the pages of this book I expected the experience of reading this story to be mostly academic, never imaging the story of the death of a 19th century Russian lawyer written by an author from 19th century czarist Russia could have much relevance to life in a 21st century western civilization. I figured Tolstoy's perspectives would likely have reflected the beliefs, thoughts and cultural norms of his day and his country. I couldn't have been more wrong.
The story begins with the friends of Ivan Ilyich visiting his family and paying him his final respects after his painful and slow death. As they expressed their sorrow outwardly and demonstrated the appropriate display of grief, Tolstoy describes how inwardly they were thinking that such pain and death could never happen to them and how it is relatively inconvenient to have to deal with such an event, wondering if they'd be able to make the obligatory evening card game after the funeral. The story then steps back in time and relates how Ivan Ilyich's life was cruising along just as he had hoped it would, comfortably and without too much personal upheaval, other than learning to cope with the inconveniences of a less-than-comfortable marriage and trying to overcome debt acquired by living above his means. His idea of success in life came primarily through professional accomplishments and feeding his ego by garnering the approval of 'high society'.
Then the story turns to his illness and the process of dying a painful and slow death. Tolstoy writes of the thoughts of a man who begins to re-evaluate his life as he lies on his death bed, realizing his end is imminent and not too far off. Ivan Ilyich attempts to reconcile with his soul the decisions he's made in his life, where he's placed his priorities, how he's treated his family and whether he's accomplished anything of lasting significance. It is in these writings that Tolstoy bridges the gaps of time and culture. Whether from old Russia or modern day western civilization, each and every individual in this world might potentially find themselves querying their soul with the same questions and introspection as Tolstoy presents through the death bed of Ivan Ilyich. The theme of his writings as he presents them in this story are not bound by culture, beliefs, geography or time.
I also think this story is the type of story that is read and related to with very different perspectives by each reader according to the individual reader's experiences in life (as are so many other great stories). What this story says or means to one person will be much different from what another person will take from it. Speaking personally, I read this book after having just experienced the death of an infant relative, the 2 month old daughter of a brother. Such an experience in and of itself causes great personal reflection and definitely influenced how I related to the words of Tolstoy and the Death of Ivan Ilyich.
It's a short and relatively easy read. I recommend it.
Um...........2007-04-22
I chose to read this novella for a school project. I chose it because it seemed to have a good plot, etc. When I started reading it, I thought to myself that it was just "a slow beginning" which many wonderful books sometimes have. Unfortunately, most if not all of this books contents were dull and uninteresting. This is MY personal opinion of this book. Also, DON'T choose this book for a school project if you're trying to get a glimpse of the Russian culture, because there is really nothing here. Just a rich lawyer dying very slowly. That's basically it.
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This new edition combines Tolstoy’s most famous short tale, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, with a less well known but equally brilliant gem, Master and Man, both newly translated by Ann Pasternak Slater. Both stories confront death and the process of dying: In Ivan Ilyich, a bureaucrat looks back over his life, which suddenly seems meaningless and wasteful, while in Master and Man, a landowner and servant must each confront the value of the other as they brave a devastating snowstorm. The quintessential Tolstoyan themes of mortality, spiritual redemption, and life’s meaning are nowhere more movingly and deftly explored than in these two tales.
This unique edition also includes a critical Introduction and extensive notes by Ann Pasternak Slater, a Fellow at St. Anne’s College, Oxford.
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This new edition combines Tolstoy's most famous short tale, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, with a less well known but equally brilliant gem, Master and Man, both newly translated by Ann Pasternak Slater.
Both stories confront death and the process of dying: In Ivan Ilyich, a bureaucrat looks back over his life, which suddenly seems meaningless and wasteful, while in Master and Man, a landowner and servant must each confront the value of the other as they brave a devastating snowstorm. The quintessential Tolstoyan themes of mortality, spiritual redemption, and life's meaning are nowhere more movingly and deftly explored than in these two tales.
This unique edition also includes a critical introduction and extensive notes by Ann Pasternak Slater, a Fellow at St. Anne's College, Oxford.
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Great short fiction.......2007-05-04
These are two of Tolstoy's best short novels, wonderfully translated, with an insightful introduction and biographical note. Both stories are masterpieces of craft -- fun to read, but with a strong moral center -- the way all good fiction should be. I had stayed away from Tolstoy for a long time, unwilling to tackle War & Peace or Anna Karenina, but these two short novels show his mastery of story and psychological insight, so this is a great place to start. I know I'll be reading more Tolstoy after this.
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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr T.C.B.Cook
Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, commonly regarded as amongst the greatest novels ever written. He also, however, wrote many masterly short stories, and this volume contains four of the longest and best in distinguished translations that have stood the test of time. In the early story 'Family Happiness', Tolstoy explores courtship and marriage from the point of view of a young wife. In 'The Kreutzer Sonata' he gives us a terrifying study of marital breakdown, in 'The Devil' a powerful depiction of the power of sexual temptation, and, in perhaps the finest of all, 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich', he portrays the long agony of a man gradually coming to terms with his own mortality.
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Catastrophic.......2006-11-05
These stories give an excellent view of Tolstoy's vision on the real nature of man, his place in our world, on sex, marriage and women, on man's ultimate destiny and on morals.
For Tolstoy, man as a species is barely more than an animal incapable of controlling his `animal passion'. More, `it is perhaps better that people should be pure animals, then they would not suffer from death and disease.'
In `The Devil', the main character commits suicide because he cannot control his sexual drive ('his swinish life'). In `The Kreutzer Sonata', the main character knows his wife `only as an animal and nothing can restrain an animal.'
To have sex is `necessary for physical health', but the solution lays in no way in marriage.
In `Family Happiness', the novelty of the first years of marriage (`the wild delight') turns into routine. Pure love for her man becomes `love for her children and the father of her children.'
But in `The Death of Ivan Ilyich', `conjugal love was in reality a very intricate and different business.' And, in `The Devil', marriage is not less than sin, `a deviation from the doctrine of Christ'.
`The Kreutzer Sonata' is not less than the killing of marriage as an institute.
For sex one needs a partner. Here, L. Tolstoy shows his serious misogyny. In `The Devil' it is crystal clear who the devil is and who constantly reminds the main character of his sexual drive. In `The Kreutzer Sonata': `that the women of our society have other interest in life than prostitutes, but I say no.'
The only solution then is chastity and celibacy, in other words the extinction of mankind. Tolstoy has absolutely no problem with this outcome, for in any case science tells us that mankind is doomed with the death of the sun!
Chastity and celibacy makes of man still more an island. In `The Death of Ivan Ilyich', the main character `cried at his awful loneliness, the cruelty of people, the cruelty and the absence of God.'
If celibacy is Tolstoy's ideal of humanity what should man do? `Family Happiness' gives us the answer: `in life there is only one certain happiness - living for others.'
As science has proven, pure altruism is a synonym for evolutionary death.
This extremely emotionally driven short stories reveal clearly Tolstoy's demons and his catastrophic vision on mankind.
Not to be missed.
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In these two famous short novels, Leo Tolstoy takes readers to the brink of despair. At the end of life worldly ambition offers no consolation for the spiritually empty soul. But Tolstoy is the master of themes of redemption. He turns his morbid topic into hope, leading towards spiritual awakening. Tolstoy offers his readers a lifetime of perspective on a most human subject, death. These two stories will offer encouragement to the spiritually hungry.
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A masterpiece in which Tolstoy\'s writing prowess reaches its zenith. It focusses on a subject close to human life – death. The issue is introduced through the character of a high court judge who recognizes, after death stares him in the face, that his life has been pointless and devoid of meaning. Moving and insightful!
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La muerte de Ivan Ilich / The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Clasicos Universales/ Universal Classics)
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The popularity of Jasper Fforde's one-of-a-kind series builds with each new book. Now in the fourth installment, the resourceful literary detective Thursday Next returns to Swindon from the BookWorld accompanied by her son Friday and none other than the dithering Hamlet. But returning to SpecOps is no snap—as outlaw fictioner Yorrick Kaine plots for absolute power, the return of Swindon's patron saint foretells doom, and, if that isn't bad enough, The Merry Wives of Windsor is becoming entangled with Hamlet. Can Thursday find a Shakespeare clone to stop this hostile takeover? Can she vanquish Kaine and prevent the world from plunging into war? And will she ever find reliable child care? Find out in this totally original, action-packed romp, sure to be another escapist thrill for Jasper Fforde's legions of fans.
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My summer vacation in Thursday Next novels.......2007-10-01
While completing undergrad and law school, I had no time to read for fun. In the period between graduation and taking the Bar, I needed brain candy that was substantial enough to chew on, yet satisfingly low on nutritional value. The Next novels were the perfect solution for my summer vacation! Be sure to bring your towel when you read this, bookjumping is almost as challenging as hitching a flight to Zenobia.
Amusing Book -- Great Literary/British Humor.......2007-07-08
Unlike just about everyone else -- I actually read this book *without* reading the other ones in the series.
Even with that I give this book 5 stars.
Now it doesn't rise to the level of Douglas Adams knock down drag out farce, but it clearly has elements of the dryer wit of writers like Adams or Robert Aspirin (of the Myth-- series).
In short (though the other reviews do a better plot synopsis) Fforde's universe it set in a world, where not only time is fluid (as the Chronoguard can jump back and forth and "fix" history) but also the boundry between fact and fiction -- as characters can jump from the fictional world into the real world, as well as between books.
Fforde's world is one where items tend to be subltly different than reality -- likely because of all that mucking about in history that has gone on and the world is bureaucratic to the point of lunacy.
Also a 2 year old that only speaks "Loren Ipsum" is a wonderful touch.
Great for anyone who likes British humor or literary humor. The story is less important than the world that is spun along the way.
Whimsical but also most real.......2007-04-17
In `Something Rotten' Jasper Fforde's heroine Thursday Next juggles many responsibilities just like any modern day woman: Finding if not permanent then at least reliable childcare, dealing with a husband who's in and out of her life at the spur of the moment, working two jobs, battling a multinational corporation on their quest for world domination, and last but not least providing a life line for Hamlet (yes, THE Hamlet) not to mention competing in the World Croquet League Finals, crossing the border between life and death repeatedly and saving Danish books.
All's well that ends well and even though at times it seems too much even for Thursday all turns out well in the end. Well, well enough. ;)
New readers: Don't make `Something Rotten' your first book of the Thursday Next series. In my opinion, you may start with any of the previous books (The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots) but this one won't be half as much fun as it can be unless you have some knowledge of previous events.
Fellow fans of Thursday: I loved the Hamlet thread!! So much so that I want to read Hamlet, lol. I was deeply touched by what happened after the World Croquet League Finals and Thursday's last meeting with Granny Next. And most amazing to me I was deeply sympathetic to Landen for the first time since meeting him in The Eyre Affair. And I still want my own Dodo.
I can't imagine what's next but then if I could it would be me writing the next book, wouldn't it...
Best Next Yet.......2007-03-19
It's hard to describe Thursday Next for people not familiar with her series. She lives in a world where time is not nailed down and fictional characters aren't either. She is a high level LiteraTec, a government Special Operative who handles literary crimes...not just the mundane sort, like forgery, but the more esoteric ones: like plot kidnapping. These surreal mysteries are laugh-out-loud funny, but also warm and engaging. You'd better read them in order. If you haven't, go back and start with the _Eyre Affair_.
This one, I think, is the best yet. I haven't seen _Hamlet_ so successfully manhandled since Tom Stoppard's _Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead_. Not that Fforde is a Stoppard. There's no high moral message here. He's more Terry Pratchett, in my opinion--tongue firmly in cheek, but with a genuine love of his genre, he succeeds in creating a burlesque that you can't help taking seriously. This had me laughing one minute, tearing up the next. Delightful.
If there is one serious flaw in this novel, for me, it is that sometimes the many threads Fforde is handling seem overwhelming. He may succeed in weaving them all together by the end, but there are points in the novel where it all looks hopelessly tangled. This barely dims the pleasure, though, of watching the author at work, and in the end every strand falls into place.
Fabulous Fourth!.......2007-03-07
After 2 1/2 years, Thursday decides to go back to the real world. There is a fictional character running around in Swindon bound to become England's dictator. Thursday is back to work....after she apologizes for her long unexcused absence. After all is settled, everything falls into place in what I hope is not the final installment of the Thursday Next series. After all, her son Friday could be involved in something.
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Something Rotten.......2006-11-08
The beloved, bestselling fantasy series comes full circle in the fourth adventure of the fearless literary detective Thursday Next. "The well of Fforde's imagination is bottomless....What keeps this series humming is Fforde's lively engagement with books and the indefatigable woman he created to defend them" (John Freeman, People magazine).
--- excerpt from books back cover
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Something's Rotten in the State of Maryland (Point)
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Darling little book!.......2005-08-11
I found this book to be absolutely delightful. It had the perfectly blend of humor, romantic tension, and drama. It tells the story of Marie Valpacchio --- a typically lazy girl who happens to write a modern version of Shakespear's 'Hamlet' for an english assignment --- and ends up helping put it on stage for real! The romantic male lead is the student director, Simon --- tall, dark, handsome...and arrogant as anything. Sparks certainly fly between the two --- dangerous ones! They're ready to KILL each other. Until suddenly they realize that their relationship is not one of hatred, but of love.
This book was absolutely charming. I loved the characters. The plotline was tight (which is rare for a teen romance novel) and had a very nice flow to it. It's told in first-person, present-tense, which is extremely rare, but Laura Sonnenmark makes it work well. The story was well-thought-out and superbly written. I'm in my mid-twenties and I STILL enjoy reading it.
FANTASTIC BOOK!!!.......2003-07-13
This book really appealed to me because I'm into acting, but I would recommend it for anyone. It has a happy ending, but the whole book isn't all happy-go-lucky, as is the case in other young adult books. There is romance, but also some sadness, and I think there is a good balance of comedy and seriousness. I've read this book SO many times and I recommend it to anyone who loves, or even likes, to read!
The book changes the way you think. ( Just a little though).......1999-09-08
The book, "Something's Rotten in the State of Maryland", is okay. In the begining you think that the lead character hates the director of the play and is in love her her jock boyfriend. Then, at the end you begin to think that she likes the director and dislikes her old jock boyfriend. This is like a romance novel. There is a lot about love in this book. Overall, if you need a book to read this one would be good.
This book captures the passion & excitement of "Theatre"........1999-08-16
As a 13 year old girl I read this book, it made me want to join the theatre... I am now 21 years old with a BA in Theatre (much to my parent's dismay)! Whenever I wonder just why I am involved in this crazy business I open up this book and re-read it. No other book has ever expressed the essence of theatre clearer... its COMMUNITY... and so I applaud this book (it's what we live for anyway!)... : )
Very good........1998-05-30
This book is a hilarious story of high school life. It shows, although sometimes a little exaggeratedly, how cliques affect teenage America. You meet many fairly believable characters, from lazy Marie to Simon of many moods to intelligent Tina. It also shows how putting on a play gets you into more than you expect as Simon struggles to direct an adaptation of Hamlet that Marie writes. For anyone who remembers or thinks of school as a life of exclusion from others because of different "groups." And the title is true.
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A Lambert and Hook mystery - DS Bert Hook is cajoled into auditioning for a local Shakespearean play. Desperate to get out of it, he expects his boss, John Lambert, to forbid him from performing. No such luck. Hook meets a rather surprising and sinister cast of characters. And when the director is found murdered, Hook needs to find the truth and fast. Who is innocent, who is just playing a part and who is really rotten to the core?
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Something Rotten
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Eclipse (Twilight, Book 3)
ASIN: 0803732163
Release Date: 2007-10-18 |
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Something is rotten in Denmark, Tennessee, and it is not just the polluted Copenhagen River. Hamilton Prince's father has been murdered, according to a hidden video message. Horatio Wilkes, Hamilton's best friend, is visiting the Prince mansion when the video turns up. The guys need to find the killer before he strikes again.
But it won't be easy. Suspects are plentiful. Olivia Mendelssohn may be hot (and Hamilton's ex-girlfriend), but she's also an environmentalist determined to clean up the river that the Prince paper plant has been polluting for decades. Trudy,Hamilton's mom, has recently married her husband's brother, Claude, and signed over half of the plant and its profits to him. Not to mention Ford N. Branff, media mogul and Trudy's college flame, who wants to buy the plant for himself. The question is motive, and Horatio Wilkes is just the kind of guy who can find things like that out. Doesn't matter that he's only a junior in high school.
A smart, hip, and funny twist on the tale of Hamlet, where one-liners crackle and mystery abounds. Think you already know the story? Think again.
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ASIN: 0727816403 |
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Watch out . . .it's oozing closer.
Skinny Joe Alister loves collecting rocks. He's a total fanatic about precious gems and rare stones. From kicking around fields, to scowering construction sites, Joe is always on the lookout for something special to add to his collection.
Joe and his little brother Gary often prowl the underground walkways of Fairfield Caverns hunting for rocks, staying only in the areas open to the public. Today, Joe ignores his brother's warning and explores a dangerous, little-known section of Fairfield Caverns, a half-completed expansion site, far from the main path.
Joe's heart pounds and his eyes widen as he unearths the horrible fate of the missing owner, and makes the most shocking discovery of all.
Joe was looking for something special.
He finds something rotten.
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EXCELLENT!.......2001-04-25
This was a great Strange Matter book! In it, a kid takes home some rocks he shouldn't have, and these blobs come out. It's really good. Does anyone know how I could contact the authors of this book so it can be back in print? E-mail me at mstone32@yahoo.com if you think you know.
I really liked this book. The series is great........1999-08-02
It is a very good book. Only one other series out of all thee others is Mindwarp. I've read Goosebumps and other stuff like that, but these are the best! I have read 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, and 27. There are good because they stick to the same town, somtimes the same characters unlike Goosebumps. I think the series is very good. Scary and funny at the same time. Hopefully I'l read more. So long folks. By Jared
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