Pre-Owned Great Forgetting (Paperback) by James Renner

from Iambookish

3.5 I'm having such a hard time figuring out my thoughts on this book. I think James Renner is a very intelligent writer with a creative imagination. I loved his previous work and I enjoyed the majority of this one as well, but somewhere during the last half of the book I almost stopped reading d...

from chrisblocker

Now and then, I come across an interview with an author where the question is asked "What is the book you wish you'd written?" I hadn't ever given the question much thought, but as I anticipated the release of James Renner's latest novel, it came to me: The Man from Primrose Lane. Now, I don't wi...

from mhanlon

This book is everything I thought Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, by David Shafer, was going to be. It's well-written, well-paced, entertaining, and fun. It requires a fair heaping of willing suspension of disbelief, but it's a great way to spend a couple hours.

from AnnieMod

I am still not sure what I am thinking of this novel. Renner gets every fringe theory he could think of, mixes them with a conspiracy that had changed the world so we can be saved from what really happened at a bad time in history (a decision taken by the world no less) and adds some of the unexp...

from nbmars

This is a novel about conspiracy theories; the way in which many of them may have a ring of truth; and what might be the implications if even some of them were true. The author ties a number of these theories together to construct a story which centers around Jack Felter, a history teacher in Ohi...