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Osho

I read widely and in most genres but romance and westerns. Here you'll find my reviews since 2007, with a few reviews of previously read books as well.

 

In 2012, I completed an "authors of the world" challenge, reading a book for every country (and a few other entities) by someone who'd lived there for at least two years. I expect to tag these books by challenge and country in the near future. I'm still refining my list by adding books that better meet my challenge criteria.

I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies, #1) - Pittacus Lore,  Neil Kaplan A poorly constructed and internally inconsistent bit of schlock brought to you by James Frey and his indentured writing lackey, in Frey's writing factory. I read the book before knowing this, and thought that it had a good idea with almost cynical execution--the undertone is that you're a fool for paying for it, ca-CHING. Now I understand that I read it correctly. See "James Frey’s Fiction Factory" and the New York Times review "Teenage Wasteland."The audiobook narrator is overly and soppily dramatic and the voice characterizations are annoying--the nasal nerd, e.g.