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Ender's Game
The Stand
Cold Mountain
Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai
Wordcrime: Solving Crime Through Forensic Linguistics
The Essential Tao : An Initiation into the Heart of Taoism Through the Authentic Tao Te Ching and the Inner Teachings of Chuang-Tzu
Saiyuki, Volume 9
The good:- I love that the protagonist is a man in his early 70s. There are far too few older protagonists out there- the first several chapters were creepy as hell... some of the creepiest I've ever readThe not-so-good:- for me, the story went downhill when Lois came into the picture as a fellow aura-seer- the creepiness was lost when more and more information was discovered, which of course made the "unknown" dwindle... and fear of the unknown is a big draw for me.- too much reliance on "he didn't know how he know. He just knew." and so forth- too much reliance on deus ex machinaAll in all, it was a decent book. If the atmosphere of the first few chapters had carried through the rest of the story, it would have been excellent, but alas it rather lost me. Not a waste of time, but not a re-read for me either.