Monster by Frank Peretti

Adda: A wonderful blend of science, religion, horror, and fantasy.

BW: It's thrilling to read at night, makes my imagination go crazy!!!

Two Pennies (indefinitely) UP!

The Map of Time by Felix J. Palma

Adda: I waited for this book to be "riveting" and it never happened.

BW: This book was as if the author made an HG Wells, Verne, and CS Lewis smoothie and puked it on paper.

Two Pennies Down

Timeline By Michael Crichton

Adda: We started reading the book, got separated, found each other for a brief moment, continued reading and lost each other again.

BW: I wish I could find some quantum time machine thingie to go back, not read this book, and replace that missing time by licking my ########.

Two Pennies Down

Earth Unaware (First Formic War) by Orson Scott Card

Adda: A brilliantly written compulation of many lives and story lines of people that react to the formic invasion.

BW: You'll be clinging to your pantaloons the whole ride!

Two Pennies UP!

Communion by Whitley Strieber

Adda: I was hypnotized to forget that I read this book.

BW: Did I ever mention my friend Jacob Moffit wrote a novel "Chuck vs the Lizard People?"

Two Pennies Down

Xenocide by Orson Scott Card

Adda: The greatest combination of religion, politics, military, and humanity.

BW: The ending illustrates how blind devotion to (any) religion can be self destructive.

Two Pennies Up

Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card

Adda: Petra found her vagina and grew up to be boring.

BW: It was great to view Peter as a person rather than a bully.

Two Pennies Up

Speaker for the Dead by (one of the greatest writers ever!) Orson Scott Card

Adda: A combination of classic science fiction that illustrates humanity as well as probable relations with other sentient beings.

BW: If you haven't read this book, there is something wrong with you.

Two Pennies Up

The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

Adda: A very scientifically advance novel for the time.

BW: Part science fiction, party horror, and yet another stab at the "ignorance of the general population."

Two Pennies Up

 

The War of the Worlds by Herbert George Wells

Adda: Underneath the science fiction and alien invasion is a stab at the ignorance of the general public.

BW: The novel also displays the ideas (in the time period) of "modern" technology.

Two Pennies Up

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

Adda: A wonderful illustration of when a publisher rushes an author to finish the book.
BW: Good story, bad writer.

Two Pennies Down

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Adda: Essentially the same story as the Hunger Games.

BW: Kind of like if you paint your walls without paint thinner and you can kind of see the old paint as the new paint peels off of it.

Two Pennies Way Down

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Adda: If I were put in a death match where my life and my family are at risk, the last thing I'd worry about is which boy to fall in love with.

BW: Kind of reminds me of another trilogy, oh yeah "twilight!"

These Pennies are so bad not even NASA wants them.

White Fang by Jack London

Adda: Raw, animalistic, violent, and innocent.
BW: The life of white fang keeps your interest throughout the entire novel.

Two Pennies Up

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

Adda: This was on the bestseller list?
BW: He said "teets"

Two Pennies²  Down

The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick

Adda: The concept of precognition and reinvented world without crime is creatively developed.

BW: A great futuristic novel written in the old days of the 1940's.

Two Pennies Up

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Adda: A touching novel about immigrants suffering and trying to survive in the cruel capitalism of America.
BW: There are no lions in this book.

Two Pennies Up

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

Adda: ...
BW: see previous post

Two Pennies Down

Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Adda: I appreciated the humorous description of how earthlings live in the introduction.
BW: Restaurant at the End of the Universe sucked.

Two Circular Copper forms of Currency that earthlings desperately need in the thousands.

Choke by Chuck Palasomethings

Adda: Chuck clings to perversion and shock value in the desperate attempt to create an original novel.

BW: You lost me at anal beads, Chuck.

No Pennies, Just my Glare.

Bhagavad Gita

Adda: It's a wonderful view of the world, people, the soul, and love.

BW: I am not trying to convert you to a cult.

Two Pennies Up