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A. R. Davis Author Of Refuge for the Khymera

From A. R.'s 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Author Writer Wonderer Teacher Computer scientist Mathematician

A. R.'s 3 favorite reads in 2024

A. R. Davis Why A. R. loves this book

I enjoyed this book a lot, but don’t trust me. I’m over 25, way over. Still, I just wish I had read it when it first came out, when the geeky parts were fresh. That’s the trouble with near future sci-fi, pieces of it go stale rather quickly. The opinions of a teenage hero about things like Domino’s pizza could lose the sympathies of some readers despite grounding the story in the reality of everyday life. Info dumps were a necessary evil in order to explain the cleverness of M1k3y’s hacks, but the simplistic summary of the sixties decade made me laugh. I remember those days. Really. So why does Orwell’s 1984 remain relevant today despite the changes? It has none of the realistic details of Little Brother, and it has only two sides, Winston and Big Brother. Doctorow’s book has a third entity, the terrorists, and for them he…

By Cory Doctorow ,

Why should I read it?

3 authors picked Little Brother as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it. This book is for kids age 13, 14, 15, and 16.

What is this book about?

Marcus, a.k.a "w1n5t0n," is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school's intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.

But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they're…


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The High House by James Stoddard,

The Victorian mansion, Evenmere, is the mechanism that runs the universe.

The lamps must be lit, or the stars die. The clocks must be wound, or Time ceases. The Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved, or Existence crumbles.

Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…

Book cover of The Complete Works of Lord Dunsany

A. R. Davis Author Of Refuge for the Khymera

From A. R.'s 3 favorite reads in 2024.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author Writer Wonderer Teacher Computer scientist Mathematician

A. R.'s 3 favorite reads in 2024

A. R. Davis Why A. R. loves this book

I spent weeks wandering through Lord Dunsany’s writings. This quote, from Idle Days on the Yann illustrates what you have to look forward to: “... find my way by strange means back to those hazy fields that all poets know, wherein stand small mysterious cottages through whose windows, looking westwards, you may see the fields of men, and looking eastwards see glittering elfin mountains, tipped with snow, going range on range into the region of Myth, and beyond it into the kingdom of Fantasy, which pertain to the Lands of Dream.” However, this collection is repetitive so perhaps just sample “Tales of War” for very moving and disturbing descriptions of the horrors of World War I, and “Time and the Gods” for perspective on what is important in life. If you enjoy “dancing on the reflections of the stars on the water”, then you will want to read them all.

By Lord Dunsany ,

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1 author picked The Complete Works of Lord Dunsany as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

The Complete Works of Lord Dunsany


This Complete Collection includes the following titles:

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1 - The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories

2 - Plays of Gods and Men

3 - Plays of Gods and Men

4 - Tales of Three Hemispheres

5 - Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany

6 - Unhappy Far-Off Things

7 - Plays of Near & Far

8 - Tales of War

9 - A Dreamer's Tales

10 - The King of Elfland's Daughter

11 - Fifty-One Tales

12 - A Dreamer's Tales

13 - Time and the Gods

14 - The Gods…


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