Time Bomb explodes off the page
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A thrilling, fast paced read. I'm looking forward to reading the next book in the series to see where this story goes.
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What is going ON around here? Is it true that Publishers have CHANGED our beloved, AND deceased, Author's written word? Agatha Christie was, and remains, a TREASURE in the literary world! Unfortunately, SHE cannot comment today on the impertinence and gall of anyone altering her words, so I will.

I am utterly baffled, as well as quite distraught, that I am apparently unable to obtain a Kindle version of an ORIGINAL and CLASSIC book that has NOT been altered and changed  as has reportedly been done to this one! What an utter disgrace! IF E-BOOKS are the wave of the future, Publishers need to provide pure product with EXACTLY what the Author wrote and the way it was originally written and presented. If not, current AND FUTURE readers will be deceived.

Rest in peace, Agatha, and know that I, for one, will try to obtain a TRUE copy of your original work, even if it be an old PAPER copy.
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Oof, it was pretty torn up when I recieved it. Thankfully, all pages are still there. My professor makes fun of me for how beat up it is.
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(BOOM) A BOMB! LOVE IT IM ALL MESSED UP IN THE HEAD. WHERES PT4
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The date is September 11, 2031 thirty years after that fateful day in American history as obstetrician Jake Love sits and watches the images on his Compscreen. Picking up one of the stones he had found on the beach the night before, it begins to glimmer. While holding the pebble in his hands, he cant help but wish he had been there that tragic day to somehow help. The room spins and twirls and once Jake can focus again, he finds himself in, of all places a mens restroom. However, that is not the most startling realization as he finds out he is in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 8:14 a.m. just moments before the first plane crashes

Wow, what a roller coaster ride  just when you think you have this story figured out it takes another turn going in another surprising direction. Amazing, absolutely amazing!! Time travel, mystical crystals, where past and future collide, flawless characters and outstanding writing combine with history, science and suspense. Ware gives his reader more than the usual sci-fi adventure this one spurs the imagination as spiritual inspiration meets sci-fi and the outcome is outstanding. If you are seeking a novel that is truly unique a science fiction that is thought-provoking this is it!
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It isn't easy to be a teenager from ancient Pompeii, trying to adjust to the 21st Century. Sabina, who came back with Julia and Nate at the end of the Far-Time Incident, decided to just take the time machine back to the first century and save everyone a lot of bother, but the settings weren't for the year 76, but for '76, as in 1976. Instead of volcanoes and ancient Romans, we have bellbottoms and painted vans. At least the sandals are similar.

As Julia and her friends search for Sabina, they are plunged into the time of their parents, with all the stickiness that can result - or can it? Can history handle this? Can the people of the 20th and 21st centuries handle it? Can they change history?

I'm always a bit sad to reach the end of a beloved series, but I'm not dissatisfied, just a bit wistful. Neve Maslokovic doesn't leave us hanging in the end. I can't wait to find out what she'll write next!
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By looking at King Davids implosion from the Scriptures, Eric identifies three explosives on the foundation of his life that led to his implosion: isolation, boredom, and pride. This is such a timely book in light of everything that's gone on in the news and with our culture. Don't miss it.
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I like the book.
I wish the author would give milestones in pages not  film  running times. Screenwriters think in terms of pages.  For instance, on page 70 we are told the crisis/triumph should occur around 1:30:00.  In a 120 page script, what  page  is  that? Are you taking time to calculate the answer? If the page numbers were  provided you wouldnt need to and you could continue concentrating on the content  without the distraction of  trying to figure out the page  number  in the script.

 And why come up with new terms for old concepts. For instance,  why not call the point of no return the plot point 1? The point of no return, which is the term I use  for what  Syd Field called plot point 1,. Page 18.  If you were going to use other people's concepts, why not use the same names?
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Highly recommended as a first or intermediary book about the makings of the first A-bombs. It gives a birds-eye view of the early theoretical discoveries, the experimental beginning, the project itself, the deployment and the aftermath. In the last chapters the horrors really comes alive. The impact on the victims, the scientists and the geopolitical reasons for "dropping the bombs" (an atrociously understated phrase).

The author never gets in the way of the story. I wished for more character detail and less bomb production details and extensive name dropping. More of a human story with a bomb in it, than a bomb with 130,000 anonymous project participants. But the book is clearly described as a project presentation so I'm not complaining. I really like the smaller format, it's not bloated. Some new and valuable insights and realizations, and an appreciated update as the book was recently published. Way under-prized, maybe because of poor editing and typos. An important book, or at least some chapters, for 10th-12th graders and young adults (me being a retired senior enjoyed it immensely).

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Hilarious events and statements by the scientists made me laugh out load. One scientist did last minute tinkering with the bomb using a dentist's drill! Some last pieces of the test bomb was put in place using scotch tape. A soldier was posted unarmed, to "guard the test bomb", sitting 30 feet up in the air on a chair. Army sleeping mattresses to protect the bomb from damage if it fell down. Many more...
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Leave it to Bart King to write a really cool and funny book.  The Big Book of Spy Stuff is excellent.  I'm not sure if I can choose which I like better, the history, the wit or the set-ups that keep coming.

The entertainment is non-stop in this 304 page tome which is pretty amazing considering the age group it targets--Bart King knows how to hold the attention of a 9-12 year old.  Kiddos that are just getting into chapter books may be overwhelmed by the size of this book, but King breaks up the wordage into bite-sized pieces with humor that will encourage this age to grasp reading something that requires a little endurance.  Precocious readers will gobble it up, twelve year olds will get hooked, and older kids will be amused as well.

The Big Book of Spy Stuff is fun and gives wise ideas like how to turn a pet hamster into a spy, how to make a secret code, how to sneak up on someone and how to detect a liar...or not get caught lying.  Hmmm.  This book strangely reminds me of Mad Magazine and Shel Silverstein. - Biblio Reads Children's Book Review
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Pick up a copy of this book, flip through its pages, and it won't take long for you to decide that you need a copy. I think it took me about 10 seconds. The artwork is visually arresting, timeless and modern, absolutely stunning. I could look at it for hours.

Explanation of the story should be equally important, but unfortunately, the editors allowed it to take a back seat. On many pages, the story is printed in reverse text, in small type, with a similar enough color to the background to make it very difficult to read. This major flaw is the only reason I can't give the book 5 stars.
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Stuff and nonsense, I saw this coming twenty years ago. (retorted John Osborne).

A recent missile alert for Hawaii pushed this book to the top of my re-read pile. I had first read it back at the beginning of time  at least my time  before I had even started keeping track of the books I had read. This book introduced me to the geography of Australia; grimly so: Darwin out, Cairns out, Townsville out, and there are now cases in Brisbane.

When in doubt, blame the Balkans! After all, isn't that were World War I started with the help of a few interlocking alliances and mobilization schedules? Nevil Shute posits Albania as the initial catalyst, soon Israeli and the Arab world joined the fray, and with a misunderstanding, England, the USA, Russia exchange nuclear bombs and don't forget China, which had a few grievances too. A plausible enough scenario back then or now. Within a month, the entire northern hemisphere is wiped out; literally, everyone is dead. And south of the equator? No bombs had been dropped, but diffusion, and more relevant still, the annual shift in the winds around the Equator pull the atmospheric radiation from the north to the south.

Shute peoples his novel with a suitable range of characters. There is the key American commander of a nuclear submarine, Dwight Towers, one of the few Americans still alive. Very straight-laced, married, two kids, loves the Navy (and there really were such people back before the Fat Leonard scandal, and Navy ships crashing into others). There is the young Australian woman who drinks too much, and coquettishly loses her bra when they are sailing. And there is the Australian naval officer, Peter Holmes, also a good family man, who will serve as a liaison officer on the sub with Towers. They undertake a long assignment, taking the sub back north, see if anyone is still alive; determine what is the source of the mysterious radio signals from Seattle, and test a theory that the radiation might be decreasing the further north one goes. Due to the radiation, they are underwater for almost a month.

The characters each act out their personal dramas, well, much as we might imagine ourselves doing.  Hope against hope that for some reason the relentless southern push of the radiation might stop. Even when that seems remote or impossible, people are still making plans, planting trees and gardens, like they will be around for more than six months. Others, like the race car driving scientist, live out their racing fantasies, as though there is no tomorrow. Most continue to do the jobs theyve always done, like driving a tram. And most did not migrate from northern Australia to the south, so they could live an extra couple of months. And might alcoholics live a bit longer, in that it provides some protection from radiation?  Apparently so, based on current research, so it was impressive that Shute posited the same thing in his novel.

However, he incorrectly placed Ft. Bragg on the west coast of the United States, and he has an airplane fly into the northern hemisphere and back, but the crew would not have been protected from the radiation like a lot of water around a sub would. And I found some of the interactions of the characters a bit wooden, and even a bit too good to be true.

Nonetheless, this novel did shape my thinking for a number of years, figuring that the Moody Blues had it right with the lyrics: There is a leafless tree in Asia, under the stars there is a homeless man, what will be our last thoughts, and are they coming soon, will they be of comfort or the pain of a burning wound.  A small toast, at least to fend off the radiation, that I made it a half century beyond my first reading. For Shultes seminal and realistic account, that based on the reviews posted, is still widely read, 4-stars.
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SPOILER ALERT:

All of our talks over the last fifty years concerning weapons of mass destruction have focused on nuclear devices, and, to a minor degree, biological weapons.

The book gives the perfect definition of an EMP weapon - a Time Machine that will set teh country back two hundred years.

There's a bit too much "rah-rah happy ending," but that is only a brief moment in a wonderfully written novel that tells us how easily all we take for granted can be taken away from us.

We get to see the slow motion collapse of two centuries of economic and social development over the course of less than a year, and an incredibly challenging year it is.

SPOILER BEGINS:
The death of his daughter due to Type 1 diabetes will move you to tears.

The sacrifice of her favorite dog, so her sister might be able to carry her child to term, will move you to tears. Protein.

We must do all we can to insure this does not happen.

By the way, a horrific year after The Pulse, the American population is down to about thirty million.

You can guess what happened to them, or you can read this required reading, for a quick outline.

You should prepare for several restless nights after you have finished this book, and some long, hard discussions with your family.
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Honestly I have not had time to read this yet, but I will...it is history to  learn. I am preparing several years of many magazines to donate to my local high school. I found the cover article had been removed from this issue.  Because of its significance (the decision of the Supreme Court), I ordered this new complete copy and copied the article for my donation.and for myself. I cannot say enough about Newsweek magazine as a fascinating record of the events of the last decade, and before. Sorry to see the print issues end.
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I have the Audible version.
In chapter 16, on the attempted assassination of Reagan, the author states, "Reagan was the first president shot in nearly a century."
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I'm done. How did this trash get published?
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11/22/63 is basically a time-travel, science fiction novel that does remind me of Replay (Grimwood). There are some "hints of horror" and one can imagine various darker threads at times, though that's all they are: hints.

But the novel works as a thriller as well, an exciting race against time. It brought back many memories of that date to me (I was 21) and I still remember the pompous smirks on the police as they led Oswald to slaughter at the hands of Jack Ruby. Was it one man or a conspiracy? Was Oswald the fall guy? The book doesn't answer those questions; after all it IS fiction, but a recent mob expose said La Cosa Nostra was involved. Who knows?

Several typos: Killeen, Texas, is repeatedly misspelled Kileen.

An excellent, quick read and a wonderful love story as well. I hope you're back, Mr. King, but without the "pharmaceutical aids" you used to use!
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I just finished the book and enjoyed every page. The story starts right away with little unneeded backstory. Hints of mystery and suspense about the future and the character actions kept me turning every page (hitting the page change button). The future that sounded exciting one day turned depressing and frightening the next.
Emma and Josh get a link for Facebook back in the mid-nineties, years before Facebook was invented. It's funny to remember a time when there was no Facebook, ipads, and Netflix. The reactions to postings about these strange sites was priceless.
Emma downloads a computer program that takes half a day. Remember those days?
The book shows how a peek into the future can change the present and those around us. What would I do in this case? They had me hooked.
This was a fantastic book that was easy to read and enjoyable throughout.

I recommend it.