http://www.valdostadailytimes.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:00:00 +0000 http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_088020230.html http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_088020230.html It is tempting to simply write: Stephen King goes to the beach. In some ways that tells you almost everything you need to know about this book. Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:55:00 +0000 http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_348015633.html http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_348015633.html Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:03:00 +0000 http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_264010807.html http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_264010807.html Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:32:00 +0000 http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_201233149.html http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_201233149.html Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:19:00 +0000 http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_046122028.html http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_046122028.html Several years ago, Dr. Louis Schmier felt compelled to write an essay. Writing was nothing new for the Valdosta State history professor. He’d written books, such as “Valdosta and Lowndes County: A Ray in the Sunbelt.” Mon, 06 Feb 2006 12:25:00 +0000 http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_037122601.html http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_037122601.html This thin, first-person account of one man’s chilling experiences during the Holocaust has been around for nearly 50 years. Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:12:00 +0000 http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_027111251.html http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_027111251.html Anyone who has ever read a few Anne Rice novels will be familiar with the set-up of this book: A first-person narrative, violent events shaping the pace of events while serving as a catalyst for the development of the main character, the protagonist’s wonder at things both material and spiritual, hard realities and often harder supernatural occurrences. Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:48:00 +0000 http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_020124930.html http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_020124930.html Author Tom Reiss embarks on a search for the true identity of the early 20th century author Kurban Said, who wrote the miniature masterpiece novel “Ali and Nino. Wed, 04 Jan 2006 10:03:00 +0000 http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_004100319.html http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_004100319.html This book edition of the comedians successful, one-man Broadway stage show is a fine, compact memoir. Mon, 19 Dec 2005 10:54:00 +0000 http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_353105525.html http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_353105525.html This book is the third and final volume collecting all of the stories penned by Conan's creator, Robert E. Howard. Mon, 19 Dec 2005 10:47:00 +0000 http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_353104808.html http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_353104808.html Several books have linked the promise of Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence to the resolve of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Fri, 09 Dec 2005 17:48:00 +0000 http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_343174827.html http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_343174827.html "Terms of Endearment" demonstrates two recurring traits in Larry McMurtry's novels: a willingness to shape strong female characters and a willingness to brutally kill a character. Fri, 09 Dec 2005 17:44:00 +0000 http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_343174453.html http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_343174453.html Author Mitchell Angell's book, "The Victorian Ghost," materialized as he spent lunch hours writing the manuscript in the cab of his truck. Fri, 09 Dec 2005 17:43:00 +0000 http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_343174343.html http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_343174343.html With this volume, Douglas makes his "Broken Wings" book and characters into a series. This time, Hollywood Jake Donovan of the Broken Wings team becomes involved in the violent murder of a government scientist whose colleague is also missing. Fri, 09 Dec 2005 17:40:00 +0000 http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_343174110.html http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/bookreviews/local_story_343174110.html Adolf Hitler is to modern-day minds the personification of evil. A disciple of Nietzche, Hitler fulfilled the philosopher's prophecy that the 20th century would be the bloodiest known to man.