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There are few authors who could stake claim to changing human civilization drastically. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien can claim it without doubt. I can wax lyrical for hours and hours about this man's genius. From constructing new worlds for his characters to live in, making up the most believable story of creation ever, giving us midget heroes in hobbits to love and adore, constructing artificial languages for his imaginary creatures to speak, giving them thousands of years of history, Tolkien will always be, in my opinion, one of history's greatest value educators. Full of values, enduring human values like love, compassion, mercy, fortitude, courage, forgiveness, bravery and an entire dictionary's worth of good adjectives. As a person who had seen, experienced and fought in a war, Tolkien took his own losses, horrors and fears and gave them to us in a way that we can...

Disclaimer: if you already know The Three Investigators and are just here for the ePub version, scroll down. The Three Investigators is a series of mystery fiction books, written by various authors, including Robert Arthur, William Arden, M.V Carey and Marc Brandel. Some years later, another spinoff named Three Investigators Crimebusters was published.  Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw and Bob Andrews are the Three Investigators. Set in California, near Hollywood, in a fictional town named Rocky Beach. Far from being rich and affluent like the Hardy Boys or like Nancy Drew, they are relatively grounded financially. Jupiter is an orphan living with his Uncle, who owns and runs a Salvage Yard. Pete and Bob may have relatively well to do parents, but neither are they pampered.  All three are often made to work at the salvage yard by Jupiter's aunt Mathilda for pocket money, who believes that a working boy is a good boy. Jupiter, who is rather stocky and not one to indulge in phys...

There are a multitude of reasons why Dame Agatha Christie is referred to as the Queen of Crime, and this short Belgian detective, with his grey cells and patent leather shoes, is one of the greatest. Another reason is that she's statistically the world's best selling fiction writer of all time. But all that would have never happened if not if she hadn't invented Hercule Poirot. First introduced to the world in 1920, in "The Mysterious Affair At Styles",(which makes it 100 years this year), Hercule Poirot soon swept through the ranks to be known as one the world's most well known fictitious detectives, only behind one Sherlock Holmes. But Hercule Poirot is quite different, and very unique .  First of all, u nlike his Greek eponym Hercules the demigod, Poirot is a LOT less given to physical endeavors. (by the way, eponym is the opposite of namesake) Poirot scoffs at activities for which Sherlock Holmes is famous, such as sniffing cigarette ash and rolling on t...