Amber M

• Rated 3 stars

“Mixture of history,etymology, biology, and neuroscience.”

Amber M wrote this review Saturday, July 3, 2010. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 4 stars

“Somewhat sad, the message that some people just cannot be changed- the surrounding environment is just too powerful”

Amber M wrote this review Wednesday, January 20, 2010. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 3 stars

“You're presented with the character/narrator, Holden, who, in the beginning, is somewhat hard to sympathize with and that may be due to the difficulty in understanding what makes him tick. Essentially, he is sickened by all the "phonies" and it just "kills" him that there is a lack of genuineness in society. I wonder about the one thing that Holden would like to do : be a catcher in the rye. Obviously he feels children are the only people who are genuine and it is interesting he wants to save them from falling off the cliff that only he can see. Saving them from falling into societal phoniness? ”

Amber M wrote this review Monday, December 21, 2009. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 4 stars

“Great thriller. Didn't see half of the murders coming.”

Amber M wrote this review Sunday, November 15, 2009. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 3 stars

“I feel odd saying I liked it because that's a very simplistic statement for a novel that looks at the deviant side of humanity. This edition included the last chapter that was originally left out when it was published in the US. I don't think it gives any redeeming value to the main character who gives up his violent ways simply because he grows tired of them. ”

Amber M wrote this review Sunday, November 15, 2009. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 4 stars

“Love this series! No clear indication of who's good and who's bad. In the very first book, you think the angel, Dill, is the hero of the novel, but it ends up being the Spine assassin, Rachel, by this book. Hopefully, this isn't the last in the series!”

Amber M wrote this review Wednesday, August 5, 2009. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 3 stars

“A very eccentric character, though must interesting people are. I'm left perplexed about his feelings of slavery. Yes, he freed his slaves, eventually, but he did so more from economic reasons really. ”

Amber M wrote this review Wednesday, August 5, 2009. ( reply | permalink )

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• Rated 3 stars

“Scholarly read. Gives an interesting perspective on how racial ideology of the day influenced Darwin in his evolutionary theories. It was interesting that Darwin believed all men descended from a common ancestor yet I get the sense he was a racist. Further proof that science and morality are in different circles of thought.”

Amber M wrote this review Wednesday, August 5, 2009. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 3 stars

“Offers up intriguing possibilities/realities. Sometimes I wished for a little more of a science lesson behind the concept.”

Amber M wrote this review Wednesday, August 5, 2009. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 2 stars

“Redeeming value is the characters and their dialect. Starts of promising, but ends rather flatly.”

Amber M wrote this review Wednesday, August 5, 2009. ( reply | permalink )