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I saw a portion of this video online some months ago. After reading the book, I will definitely watch the whole thing. I think this little book should land in everyone's Christmas stocking this year! It was a heartfelt, candid, endearing and inspiring "snapshot" of the things a dying father wants his children to know about their dad. I can't imagine how difficult it must have been to write this book knowing he only had 3-6 months left to live, but Randy Pausch gave an extraordinary gift to his family and to all the rest of us, as well. It's a book I will want to read again, especially the section, "It's About How to Live Your Life." So many great thoughts and suggestions for a good life! I will always remember, "Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted." I will recommend this book to everyone I know. It's wonderful, and made me want to be a better person.

Un Lun Dun by China Mieville is one of those books that makes me wonder how the author ever came up with the premise. This is not to say that the book is a bad one; on the contrary, it was a fantastic read. But the idea was really crazy, with several twists and turns, great (and wacky) characters, a brilliant and sometimes scary setting and a satisfying ending. Zanna and Deeba are two normal London girls, who notice that strange things have started to happen around them. Oddly shaped clouds, animals behaving in weird ways and a nearly fatal freak accident involving another of their friends convince the two that something is wrong. When they find themselves swept into the abcity*, Unlondon, they realize that it is up to them to put things right in both their world and the wonderland that they’ve been sucked in to. Mieville has really created a modern counterpart to Alice in Wonderland, a kind of Neverwhere for children, with just enough scary bits to keep it interesting and exciting (the giraffe illustration on page 163 creeped me out!), but without the penchant for horror that Gaiman had in his book. I really really enjoyed it, and if you liked either of the books mentioned above, you’ll probably like Un Lun Dun. Give it a try, but be sure to steer clear of the giraffes! *Each major city has a sort of alternate-reality counterpart, the abcity, which is where things go when they’ve been forgotten in the city in our reality. Unlondon is full of the old red double decker buses that have practically been retired in real London. Parisn’t and Not York are two other examples of abcities. Although it’s not talked about in the book, I suspect that Seattle’s abcity (”Landattle?” “Sea-un-el?”) still has a hill where the Denny regrade occured in my city.

This was disappointing. I had a children's version of this book when I was younger that I loved. I also really enjoyed Treasure Island. However, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was almost dull. I'm not sure exactly what was so blah about this book. The writing was dry and kind of reminded me of Sir Arther Conan Doyle (also very dry). I'm glad I read it so I know that I was not missing out. And I'm glad I read Treasure Island first, because if I had read this first I may have never made the time for Treasure Island and just written Stevenson off.

It was short page wise, but long to read. I don't know if it was because it was boring at parts, good at others, or if it was just a simple book.