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novels
Podkayne of Mars
author: Robert A. Heinlein
name: Steev
average rating: 3.59
book published: 1963
rating: 3
read at: 1974/01/01
date added: 2010/06/19
shelves: novels
review:
I don't remember much about this book, just that it was the second "adult" book I ever read, after "The Hobbit", when I was I think like 5 or 6 years old. It's about a young girl that travels to Mars if I recall.
Freedom
I look forward greatly to reading Jonathan Franzen's new huge novel, "Freedom," his work of the last 9 years, just out this month. But until that time, here's something about freedom that I love, from David Foster Wallace's own magnum opus, "Infinite Jest", which I'm nearing the end of (well, I still have about 200 pages to go, but on a 1000-page book that's something!). Here, a Quebecois separatist double-agent is speaking to an intelligence agent from the U.S.:
Always with you this freedom! For your walled-up country, always to shout 'Freedom! Read more>>>
Podkayne of Mars
author: Robert A. Heinlein
name: Steev
average rating: 3.57
book published: 1962
rating: 3
read at: 1974/01/01
date added: 2010/06/19
shelves: novels
review:
I don't remember much about this book, just that it was the second "adult" book I ever read, after "The Hobbit", when I was I think like 5 or 6 years old. It's about a young girl that travels to Mars if I recall.
