Okay. So this is how it all started. One day I saw Marbury up for grabs in a Goodreads contest. I was enthralled with the cover! I knew I just HAD to read that book. I entered. I did not win. Still driven to read this novel, I pre-ordered THE MARBURY LENS from Amazon. I read TML the day it arrived a...
Well this book was just a complete train-wreck. Honestly: OUCHIE WOWCHI.I had loads of problems with the book but here are the top three:1) The plot was POINTLESS. It had no direction of any kind.. I never knew what we were trying to accomplish and it made me feel disconnected to the story and perpe...
I don't even know what to say about Andrew Smith's "The Marbury Lens". Because this is one of those novels where I'm sitting right on the fence and I'm not apt to fall on either side - like or dislike. I had my share of problems with this novel, but I was also impressed with it in others. I'm so c...
Why is it that other forms of entertainment have warnings on the labels but books don't? Movies and video games have ratings that state what the rating is there for, whether it be for explicit language, nudity, sexual content, violence, etc. Using that scale, this should be rated R. It should NOT...
This book is not for me. I read the whole thing, hoping it would get better, or that there would be a single part of the book I enjoyed, but neither of those things happened. I didn't like any of the characters. I could understand Jack being messed up after his encounter with Freddie, but honestly, ...
I was told before I read this book to get ready for a wild ride. Trust me, that wasn’t an exaggeration. I can safely say that The Marbury Lens is not like any book that I have ever read. I’m not even sure I can come close to explaining the experience in a review, but I’ll give it a try.I read The Ma...
Julie did not like this book. Julie thought this book was weird. Julie had high hopes that this book would be good but Julie thought that it fell short. REALLY SHORT. Annoying when people talk in 3rd person, right?!? THIS BOOK WAS FULL OF THAT!!!!First of all, I HATE having to say that a book is bad...
Review originally posted here.Why I Read It: This book was first put on my radar when this review popped up two years ago. Yes, there was some major Bad Author Behaviour going on in the comments, but it was mostly ANOTHER author, not Andrew Smith who was being Not Cool. Anyway, Erika, the reviewer, ...
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