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TokyoPop
Usually ships in 24 hours IPhone 3G used's review (Typical Tokyo Pop!) 『Honestly, my fiance loved this series. Typical Shojo drama. There is a Princess, this is a mysterious world and a lot of Manga drama!! It is a very good series if you are fans of The Twelve Kingdoms, Vampire Knight,or Wild Ones!』 『Phantasma's dire situation has brought out a change in Ehren Hwerusute. The once warm and loving person has been replaced by someone consumed by rationale and logic, whose sole goal is to save Phantasma from its long-time curse. But his drive prevents him from seeing that the one thing he needs to help the kingdom, the very principal upon which the kingdom is built, is love. Meanwhile, Libera has her own problems when she learns firsthand about the pain love can bring, especially if it's for someone unexpected! And Reino proves he isn't invincible to love either as he confesses his feelings to an unrequited love...』
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University of Texas Press
Usually ships in 24 hours 『
Transnational migration is a controversial and much-discussed issue in both the popular media and the social sciences, but at its heart migration is about individual people making the difficult choice to leave their families and communities in hopes of achieving greater economic prosperity. Vicente Quitasaca is one of these people. In 1995 he left his home in the Ecuadorian city of Cuenca to live and work in New York City. This anthropological story of Vicente's migration and its effects on his life and the lives of his parents and siblings adds a crucial human dimension to statistics about immigration and the macro impact of transnational migration on the global economy.
Anthropologist Ann Miles has known the Quitasacas since 1989. Her long acquaintance with the family allows her to delve deeply into the factors that eventually impelled the oldest son to make the difficult and dangerous journey to the United States as an undocumented migrant. Focusing on each family member in turn, Miles explores their varying perceptions of social inequality and racism in Ecuador and their reactions to Vicente's migration. As family members speak about Vicente's new, hard-to-imagine life in America, they reveal how transnational migration becomes a symbol of failure, hope, resignation, and promise for poor people in struggling economies. Miles frames this fascinating family biography with an analysis of the historical and structural conditions that encourage transnational migration, so that the Quitasacas' story becomes a vivid firsthand illustration of this growing global phenomenon.
IPhone 3G used's review (Boring...) 『Very disappointed with this book...
I kept reading until the 7th chapter, hoping to come across the "meat and potatoes" but found nothing except boring descriptions of an uneventful flight across America...
Not recommended.』 『The author ofFlight of the Intruderrecounts his three-month, forty-eight-state flight into the heart of America in a 1942 Stearman bi-plane, describing the panorama of forests, mountains, rivers, and valleys beneath him.』
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Miramax
Usually ships in 24 hours IPhone 3G used's review (Emotional turmoil) 『This book struck me with it's focus on a deep sadness. I couldn't help but feel the heartache and pain that Diana goes through. She has her faults but the journey she goes on is impacting.』
(Strong start, but weakened toward the middle...(2 1/2 stars)) 『This book was recommended to me by a close friend whose taste I normally share, so I picked it up. Diana Moore, has no bigger problems than the fact that she can't get over her ex-boyfriend, nicknamed "The Monster" from three years ago. Even though Aunt Margaret tells her that she's about to have the best three years of her life, something tragic happens. This woman, close to my age (and my name, strangely enough) loses her entire immediate family in a car accident.
Instead of staying where she is and accepting the support from her friends and other family members in New York, she escapes to New Jersey, where her family used to live. She doesn't know where she is going, but her spontaneous trip is stopped short by a car accident of her own. She collides with an older woman (Rosie)on a motorcycle, who is out for a ride with her granddaughter, Louisa.
It is then that Louisa takes in this stranger, and introduces her to her "family of choice," including an on again-off again boyfriend. Louisa and Diana get close very quickly, as well as Diana to Rosie, who is sick. Unfortunately, that's where the rest of the story is a bit muddled for me.
For me, a really good book is one where you empathize with, and care about the characters, but I found myself caring less as the story went on. The writing is generally good, I like the authors use of detail, and as I had said before, the beginning starts out strongly. But, after that, it is just a bit forgettable. Maybe it will do better as a movie. 』
(Original) 『This book is written with such an original cleanness that I loved it. The thoughts..the words...so neat and compact and heavy. The heroine, Diana, suffers a tragic loss when her entire family - mother, father, brother - is killed by a drunk driver. How Diana copes and continues filled me with such a deep respect for her and her creator. The setting is the farmlands of New Jersey where they grow cranberries is bogs. Diana arrives a day before the Cranberry Festival and meets an assortment of characters including Louisa, a woman her age but childish and selfish in comparison; Rosie who is Louisa's grandmother and who is dying from cancer and Jack, Louisa's former lover with whom Diana falls in love. The hope that it represents is everything. Terrific writing. Loved the pacing. This book deals with powerful issues but with a deftness of touch that is rare and wonderful.』
(Problem with the Oh Poor Me's) 『I recently read the Cranberry Queen by Kathleen DeMarco. I found the book really easy to read but the story line was a little over the top. Half way through it I was tired of hearing Diana wallow in her seemingly pit of despair. Now I am not discrediting her sorrow for the loss of her family but I thought that it was a bit much.』
(Thought provoking book) 『Once in a while you stumble upon a book that touches something inside you and causes you to dig deep inside yourself and reflect on life.
Cranberry Queen was one such book. I picked it up over a year ago but just got around to reading it. The story centers on a woman re-adjusting her life after a horrible car accident. (She wasn't in it, but her entire family was.) The back of the book just mentions an accident, not what it was, etc, but it's all about recovery, and it had been so long since I'd gotten it, that I completely forgotten the publisher's blurb. The entire family-- her parents and brother, are killed by a drunk driver while driving to a "meet the parents" dinner with his new fiancé's folks.
What it did, while I read along as she re-created her life and her world, was to examine mine...to open up those dark fears in the corner of my mind and let them air out, so that they could be safely tucked away again. Worries have to be examined periodically, or else they become the stuff of nightmares.
Anyhow, this book encouraged some soul seraching on my part, and to my mind, that's one of the marks of a good book.』 『Diana Moore, a thirty-something professional in New York City, is brooding over rumors about her ex-lovers beautiful new girlfriend, when the unimaginable happens: a terrible car accident in which her entire family is killed. Seeking refuge from her well-meaning friends, Diana heads out of the city and ends up in the Pine Barrens, an oasis of simple living in New Jersey where cranberry bogs abound. There, in a place where no one knows her history, Diana is free to take a hard look at her life and to begin to explore avenues of change and renewal.』
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Tor Books
Usually ships in 24 hours IPhone 3G used's review (Start of a Great Series) 『The Solar Queen is an omnibus edition in the Solar Queen series. It contains the first two novels: Sargasso of Space and Plague Ship.
Dane Thorson is an apprentice cargomaster on the independent trader Solar Queen. His fellow crewmembers include Captain Jellico, Cargomaster Van Rycke, Astrogator Steen Wilcox, Chief Engineer Johan Stotz, Medic Craig Tau, Comtech Tang Ya, Cook-Steward Frank Mura, Jetmen Karl Kosti and Jasper Weeks, and Apprentices Rip Shannon and Ali Kamal. The ancillary crew of the Solar Queen consist of Sinbad, the ship's cat, and Queex the Hoobat.
In Sargasso of Space (1955), the Solar Queen wins trade rights to the D-class planet Limbo, which happens to contain some powerful forerunner technology and a nest of pirates.
In Plague Ship (1956), the Solar Queen has negotiated a change of trade rights, swapping their claims on Limbo for access to the new spices and gems on Sargol, the homeworld of the feline Saliriki. All goes well on the planet, but the crew members start to fall into a deep sleep one by one as they travel back to Terra.
These stories were originally published under the pseudonym of Andrew North. They were the beginning of a series of adventures that have introduced many people to the SF genre in the five decades since their publication. These tales demonstrate the author's skills as a story teller and show why the author has attracted so many dedicated fans over the decades.
Highly recommended for Norton fans and for anyone else who enjoys tales of a future filled with strange adventures and exotic cultures.
-Arthur W. Jordin 』
(Consider the Times!) 『When reading vintage fiction, keep in mind the environment of the times in which it was written. If you don't know, look it up or ask an "old" person. This book was written when there was none of the electronic technology we have now. No, not even a hand-held calculator. I read it first as a child, and it transported me to new worlds. I think it is not the very best of Andre Norton, but it is very worth reading. Use it as a starting place for your own imagination. I did.』
(Exotic, carefully drawn alien worlds) 『"Sargasso of Space" (1955) and "Plague Ship" (1956) were the first two science fiction novels I ever checked out of our local library (I can still close my eyes and see that one dinky little shelf, crammed with some of SFs' greatest juvenile authors: Norton; Heinlein; Del Rey; Nourse).
This book contains the above two Solar Queen adventures and excludes her further travels in "Postmarked the Stars" and the novella, "Voodoo Planet." Norton's four-book series about the crew of the Solar Queen ended in 1969 with "Postmarked the Stars" but beware! Lesser authors have butted into the series, presumably with Norton's permission since this remarkable Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy and Nebula Grand Master is still writing (her first novel was published in 1934, her latest fantasy in 2002).
One Solar Queen rip-off to avoid at all costs is "Redline: the Stars."
Norton's Solar Queen stories are told from the viewpoint of Dane Thorson, an apprentice-Cargo Master who is introduced as a "lanky, very young man in an ill-fitting Trader's tunic." Most of this author's heroes and heroines are young, uncertain of themselves, shy, with a tendency to trip over their own enthusiasms and load themselves up with guilt at the slightest opportunity. They are very likeable and their adventures are narrated in remarkably lean prose with just the right touch of description.
After ten years of schooling, orphan Dane Thorson is assigned via a computer analysis of his psychological profile--not to a safe berth on a sleek Company-run starship that his classmates were vying for--but to a battered tramp of a Free Trader. To say that the 'Solar Queen' "lacked a great many refinements and luxurious fittings which the Company ships boasted" was an understatement. But she was a tightly-run ship and what she lacked in refinement, she made up for in adventure. Dane soon settles in under Cargo Master Van Rycke and learns "to his dismay what large gaps unfortunately existed in his training."
Sometimes I just want to give Dane a big hug.
The crew of the 'Solar Queen' risk their meager capital in a gamble at a Survey auction, and win trading rights to a barely explored planet with the unlucky name of Limbo. When they view a microfilm (okay, the technology is a bit dated in these books) of their new prize, it appears as though they have purchased ten years of trading rights to a planet that was burned to cinder during the heyday of the mysterious Forerunners, who predated humans in space.
Just when the Queen's fortune seems to be at its lowest ebb, a tough-looking archeologist shows up who is supposedly an expert on Forerunner artifacts, and charters her for a voyage to Limbo.
It might have been better for the free traders if her captain had kept his ship planeted and declared bankruptcy after the disastrous Survey auction.
"Plague Ship" takes the crew of the 'Solar Queen' to Sargol, where the enigmatic feline natives seem very reluctant to trade away their fabulous scented gemstones. When Dane Thorson discovers an herb that the Salariki are willing to swap for their gems, he fears that his eagerness to make a trade breakthrough might have poisoned a native child. That becomes the least of his worries when the 'Solar Queen' blasts off from Sargol with an invisible, undetectable stowaway that would brand the free traders anathema to all inhabited worlds.
Both of these Solar Queen novels are prime representatives of Norton's lean action-packed brand of story-telling. If you haven't read them since you were a teen-ager, I urge you to try them again. For a few pleasant hours, you will be immersed in the adventures of a likeable, feisty band of free traders on exotic, carefully-drawn alien worlds. 』
(Decent action - written in mid - 1950's) 『Contains two stories:
*** Sargasso of Space - Dane Thorson's first adventure, an encounter with space pirates manipulating advanced alien technology, led by a "Crax Addict", decent action - but technology very crude for hyperspace-capable culture... no infrared vision (detached party could "sneak around" pirates at night)... no encryption on voice links (used mirror flashes to communicate with ship? - how?)... giant computers, microfilm;
** Space Plague - Again, some decent action, but backwards technology... apparently, the central parts of "hot areas" created by Atomic War on Earth, where mutant vegetation grew, were "unknown" - they have spaceships, but don't have observation satellites? Odd. Also, the whole premise of "The Plagued Queen" being "warned off", and the remaining unstriken crew doing "a job" on the asteroid station, then coming in undetected in the "burned off" area is more than a little far-fetched.
These stories are very similar to the John Grimes tales that A. Bertram Chandler later wrote in the 60's, 70's, and 80's. In fact, one of the better Grimes stories "The Inheritors", is clearly based on the feline culture presented in the initial chapters of "The Plague Ship"... Also, a great many of the Grimes stories were based on the idea of "Lost Colonies", which is briefly but clearly outlined in "Sargasso of Space"... To me, the "Lost Colonies" idea is the most interesting and redeeming aspect of this book, and I'd like to know if this is the first place this concept is introduced in the SciFi world.
I'd like to see more "Solar Queen" collections (I understand Norton wrote at least six Solar Queen novels).』
(Some of Norton's best work: two great space adventures) 『Praise Tor Books for bringing out this handsome edition of two of Andre Norton's earliest science fiction novels! This single volume contains the first two books in the "Solar Queen" series about interplanetary Free Traders: "Sargasso of Space" and "Plague Ship." It's a handsome book, with a wonderful cover by Julie Bell and a jacket design that recalls the spirit of 1950s science fiction with all its wonder and fun. And that's exactly what Ms. Norton delivers in these two fine books.
Andre Norton today is best known for her fantasy novels, but she started out in space opera, and I personally prefer these to her work in fantasy; and the "Solar Queen" books contain some of her best work in the science-fiction field. Science fiction fans shouldn't miss this opportunity to read these great adventures. The storytelling here is pure, the adventures straightforward but fantastically constructed. Like Robert Heinlein's novels of the same period, Norton's books never talk down to her intended audience of teenagers, and adults enjoy her books as much as the younger readers. You're guaranteed to get lost in the wonder and excitement of the voyages of the intrepid Solar Queen and its crew of rugged individualist in their quest to get the best trade deals the galaxy can offer. Although the novels can be read independent of each other, the first book directly sets-up the next, so you can read both together as one novel.
The first novel, SARGASSO OF SPACE (1955) introduces our hero, Dane Thorsen, as he receives his first trading assignment as an apprentice cargo master on an independent trading ship, the Solar Queen. The ship obtains the exploration and trading rights to the barren planet of Limbo, which turns out to be a perilous place where a mysterious force has pulled other ships to its surface and destroyed them. The Solar Queen cannot lift off, and hidden enemy forces want to destroy her. The action and mystery never stop in this fast, headfirst thriller.
But the second novel, PLAGUE SHIP (1956) is even better, and one of Norton's finest works. After a slow start on the planet Sargol, where the Solar Queen competes with corporate traders for the rights to trade perfumed jewels with the feline natives, the book slams into warp speed when a bizarre illness infects the ship. The few unaffected crewmembers must resort to one desperate measure after another to not only trace down the source of the infection, but also find a way not to be declared a `plague ship' and get blasted out of the sky by the Patrol. The novel jumps from tense scene to tense scene, with constantly changing locales, new dangers in every chapter, and characters taking one huge gamble after another right up to the nail-biter of a conclusion. Space adventure doesn't get much better than this.
Andre Norton knows how to tell a tale, and she lets story speak for itself; they really don't write them like this anymore. All science fiction fans should get a hold of this great volume, and if you've got a young teen son, daughter, niece, or nephew who's showing an interest in science fiction, giving this to them as a gift will hook them for sure.
And there's more to come. The end of PLAGUE SHIP sets up the sequel, POSTMARKED THE STARS, and it will soon appear in another volume from Tor of the Solar Queen's further adventures, along with the fourth novel, VOODOO PLANET. Keep a look out!』
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The first two star-spanning tales of Dane Thorson and the Solar Queen
Almost half a century ago Andre Norton introduced apprentice Cargo Master Dane Thorson inSargasso of SpaceandPlague Ship.
Dane signed on with the independent cargo ship Solar Queen looking for a career in off-world trade. InSargasso of Space, the Solar Queen free-traders win exclusive rights to trade with the planet Limbo, but the crew arrives to find most of its surface charred, with little sign of life. They find a valley with life, but others may still lurk. Worse yet, a strange force threatens to cripple the Queen. They must solve the planet's mysteries if they hope to escape with not only tradeable goods, but their lives.
InPlague Ship, the Queen travels to Sargol, which promises a wealth of exquisite gems to trade-if the crew can overcome the native feline Salarikis' mistrust. But their troubles have just begun!. When a mysterious illness soon overtakes all the crew except the four youngest, the Galactic Patrol labels the Queen plagued and orders it destroyed on sight. With every ship in the galaxy searching for them, the crew have one chance to save the Solar Queen. But if their bold plan foils it would mean the end of the Solar Queen and its crew!
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Arcade Publishing
Usually ships in 24 hours IPhone 3G used's review (Tabloid Trash) 『 Seward should be ashamed of herself for this enormously biased gossip rag. It's quite easy to trash the Princess now... after all, the dead have a much more difficult time defending themselves.』
(Palace Propoganda) 『This book is definitely biased in favor of the House of Windsor. It appears that the author thought it prudent to align herself with the powers that be rather than report an accurate historical account. There are too many contradictary sources to believe that this is an accurate portrayal of the relationship between the Queen and Princess Diana.』
(Sad...) 『I find Ms. Seward's writing to be painful to read. For an editor of Majesty magazine, I expected her to have class in her manner of writing and respect in her depiction of the British royal family. She would have been well suited as a writer for the tabloids instead. Her manner of retelling is very gossipy, and biased. She can't seem to help but include her spiteful opinions of the late princess. I find her to be a very disrespectful person to be writing such a book. If you are looking for historical background or a respectful account of the Queen and the late princess, this is not the book to read.』
(The Knowledge of a Misunderstood Relationship) 『If you are like half of the population and interested in all the gossip about the House of Windsor and the late Princess of Wales, then this book should be one that you should read. This book is about the relationship between Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Diana. This book, to my belief, is a piece of evidence on why we as the public should respect Her Majesty, and why we should understand what their relationship is truly about. The book describes Diana's first State duty with the entire Royal Family in November 1984 at the State Opening of Parliament. Diana was having her hair being done for the event and insisted that she wore her hair up knowing that it was not long enough and looked different. The next day Diana's hair was on the headlines not the Queen, on which should have been a day of her publicity. This was the beginning of the popularity contest between these two women. The author Ingrid Seward, is editor of Majesty magazine. She has written many books about the Royal Family that has kept her in the bestsellers list for twelve years. This book all and all will give you a better knowledge about both women and will teach you the inside story of what happened behind the palace walls of two remarkable women and there relationship that is so widely known and questioned by the public.』
(God Save the Queen!) 『Thank you, Ms. Seward for writing a fair and reasonable book. It's gratifying to read a work that illuminates how hard our queen tried to accomodate the late Princess of Wales and what a truly lovely person she is. Elizabeth II is a great queen -- history will bear this out -- and I think we often take her far too much for granted. God bless and keep her!
As a British subject currently residing the states, I remain astonished at the rabid interest our royal family holds for Americans.』
『As the editor of Majesty magazine, author Ingrid Seward developed professional and personal relationships with the royal family. In The Queen&Di, we discover a surprising portrait of the British monarch and the princess, contradicting what the press has previously reported: a fragile Diana battling an unfeeling mother-in-law. And we glimpse much more of the inner workings of the extended royal family.
Entertaining and factual, THE QUEEN&DI stands apart and above the countless, often inaccurate, accounts published to date about Diana. Ingrid Seward reveals for the first time the true relationship between two important women of the 20th century.』
『Ingrid Seward, a prolific writer on the English royal family, was the last journalist to interview Princess Diana before her death in August 1997. In this intriguing book, Seward gives a worm's-eye view of Diana's trouble-plagued life, layered with episodes of betrayal and illness, and she accords full sympathy to the minor noblewoman who became "the people's princess." She is still more sympathetic to Diana's sometime nemesis Queen Elizabeth II, who, in Seward's account, labored endlessly to preserve the dignity of the monarchy in the face of a family that behaved in anything but a dignified manner.
Rising above the caricatures that color the popular press, Seward depicts a queen who tried her best to accommodate Diana--who was, it seems, never shy in voicing her displeasures and had an undeniable flair for recruiting the media in her cause, all the while protesting the press's intrusion into a fairy-tale life that "turned into a Gothic nightmare." Diana's insistence on airing her dirty laundry in public was bound to irritate the ever-sensitive queen, but more, Seward writes, "in her demands for love and sympathy, she gave self-fulfillment precedence over duty"--and for Elizabeth, dereliction of duty was the greatest possible sin one could commit. Their relationship could end only in tears; and so it did, taking much of the English public's good will toward the royal family with it.
Sometimes racy and breathless, but intelligent all the same, Seward's account enlarges our understanding of the internal dynamics of the modern court while delivering no end of scandalous news, just as a palace chronicle should.--Gregory McNamee』
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Schiffer Publishing
Usually ships in 24 hours IPhone 3G used's review (Excellent Aid for Production of Period Works) 『I was excited from the time I opened the package. The volume has high quality photographs printed on gloss pages. The photographs represent a broad spectrum of works by superior funrniture makers. The comprehensive text explained the obvious and not so obvious distingtions in form, format, style, constrution approach, and a host of like details.
I took the volume with me to Marc Adams School of Woodworking for a Philidephia Lowboy class with Allen Breed. The pictures aided in layout and construction of the item. Class members were impressed with the quality and quanity of the photographs. This book is well worth the price.』 『From among the world-renowned treasures at the Winterthur Museum, the author selected 400 outstanding examples of American furniture from the Queen Anne and Chippendale periods, representing the era when the cabinetmakers of New England, New York, Philadelphia, and the South were at the height of their achievement. Each illustration is accompanied by information about the pieces place of origin, date of construction, dimensions, special features and qualities, and the maker and original owner when known. A special section presents the furniture in its proper environment, including ten rooms in full color. There is technical information for the serious collector and a highly readable history for those interested in the early-American way of life.』
IPhone 3G used's review (Loved It!) 『This was my second Shannon Drake book and I really enjoyed it. The history of it was great as it revolved around the rise and fall of Mary, Queen of Scots and Queen Elizabeth. I would recommend!』
(Disappointing) 『I am surprised that more of the readers did not grow annoyed with the tedious and repetitive exposition within the book. It was a marvelous history lesson though a very dry one.』
(Beautiful Book) 『I loved this book, it was both historical fiction and told the story of the rise and fall of Mary, Queen of Scots and was a beautiful love story of one of her ladies in waiting. It is a book I will reread in the future.』
(strong historical fiction) 『As a child she left Scotland for France accompanied by the four Mary Ladies in Waiting. Finally in 1561 recently widowed nineteen years old Queen Mary, no long the Queen of France, has returned to Scotland to sit on the throne. Accompanying the young Queen is her close friend Lady Gwyneth MacLeod. Gwyneth listens closely to Mary's desires and offers sage advice to go carefully with her heart as there are many who resent losing power with the monarch's return. However, as she warns her regal friend, Gwyneth ironically struggles to heed her own advice. Instead she is attracted to Lord Rowan Graham, whom she is not sure she should trust.
Mary sends Gwyneth and Rowan on a mission together in which their allure for one another openly ignites as desire tugs at both of them. However, treachery places the pair in danger with Gwyneth forced to choose between the love of her heart and the love of her friend; either choice may lead to execution.
THE QUEEN'S LADY is a strong historical fiction enhanced by a wonderful romantic subplot. The story line hones in on the political instability and overall country-wide chaos caused by Mary's return to Scotland. The difficult relationship between the lead couple augments Shannon Drake's entreatingly profound look at the fifteenth century furor caused by Mary Queen of Scots homecoming.
Harriet Klausner
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(Pet Peeve: Starting a story with the almost ending) 『I love Shannon Drake's stories as well as those she writes another another name. So this review isabout the way she write the story not the story itself. It was probably a great story. That era seems to instill alot of intrigue.
What I absolutlely don't like is to to start reading a book that begins with the ending... Knowing that the main character went through a summarized list of horrors, was seemingly betrayed by a lover, yadda, yadda, I am sposed to turn the page and go back to the beginning and start all over again? I don't think so.... I skipped to the last chapter and of course all ends happily etc. Why should I suffer through the intrigue?
I don't like that kind of story writing and I don't care to read it. It is just part of my reading preference. So for those of you that were determined to read it through, good for you. I admire you...』 『She desired him above all others…
Would he now be her executioner?
Lady Gwenyth Macleod has staked her fortune and her reputation to help Mary, Queen of Scots take her rightful place on the throne. But her struggle to guide the reckless, defiant queen has put her at perilous odds with Rowan Graham, a laird dangerously accomplished in both passion and affairs of state. And the more Gwenyth challenges his intentions, the less he can resist the desire igniting between them. Now, with her country in turmoil and treachery shadowing her every step, will Gwenyth's last daring gamble
lead her to the ultimate betrayal—or a destiny greater than she could ever imagine?
IPhone 3G used's review (Greatest writer of all time) 『Forget Shakespeare, Emerson, Plato and all. Bob Greene is the greatest writer of all time. It wouldn't make a difference if he published a grocery list, it would be perfect prose. This review could be interchangeable with any book he writes. Greene has the talent to find a story and then write it so the rest of us know why it is important to him. I've been a journalist for 20 years and hope and pray I'll get to be a 10th of Green's level. Quit reading this and go buy all his books.』
(THE BEST OF THE BEST) 『Bob Greene gifts his reader with a compilation of articles that evoke a myriad of emotions. Each story has a point to be made, and that point could uplift you, enrage you, provoke you, encourage you, surprise you, or just make you exault life. Diverse in topic, they are poignant; they are inditing; they are sentimental; they are little gems of this most gifted writer's archives. I read one story nightly, before bed, and I looked forward to that ritual with great enthusiasm....our media is interested only in the sensationalist aspects of news, and at times it becomes exhausting. Bob Greene says there is another side and "the proof is in the pudding" of this fine book. It is good to know their is a reporter who cares about the "small story" that packs a big wallop.
Excellent style of clear, precise writing. Bob Greene bequeaths us back our pride in America, our belief in inherent good, and our desire to exhault everyday heros. If you are media weary, restore yourself with this infusion of hope, courtesy of one of the best newpaper columnist of our times.』
(Excellent) 『When the subject of conversation is a Bob Greene book you hear many cliche's. Finger on the pulse of America aside, he's just a damn fine writer. Bob Greene is quite simply, a man you trust to get it right and give it to you straight.』
(A book that describes what is great and sad about America.) 『This is the second book I have read by Bob Greene. By the title you would expect a story about kids (possibly ourselves in our youth) experiencing a carefree summer of crusing and ice cream. What a pleasant surprise, however, to discover the many essays about the good and not so good fabric that both was and has become our society. There were essays that made me proud to be a new American, describing good people that I can surely relate to. There were several essays that describe the ugliness that has become "life in the big city".I wish everyone had the opportunity to read this book and reflect on how good the Chevrolet Summers and Dairy Queen Nights were, because I believe we could experience them again in a kinder, gentler society that we once were』 『
No writer in America has a better feel for the country's rythms, richness, and rewards than bestselling author and syndicated columnist Bob Greene.With the color and depth of a novel, this treasury of best-loved columns captures America's small triumphs and all-too-human tragedies as Greene travels across the country to tell the stories that don't make the headlines. A small-town cop saves a child's life by double-checking, on a hunch, a closed case of suspected abuse. Frank Sinatra, on his last concert tour, shares off-the-cuff wisdom about fame, craft, and shifting fortunes. An impoverished father gives his son the best trip he can -- on the free trains out to the Atlanta airport's boarding gates. Funny, gripping, heartrending, and exhilarating, these unforgettable stories are guaranteed to lift the spirit and stir the soul.
』 『Bob Greene, syndicated columnist for theChicago Tribune, offers tales from the road, dozens of short pieces in which he discovers the America that doesn't make the nightly news. The stories he tells are mostly heartwarming, though they're not without sad aspects. An unwed mother forced to drop out of high school returns 20 years later to graduate, baseball great Stan Musial reflects on his beloved game, an elderly mother and daughter share a room in a nursing home. Greene has a notable gift for finding good stories and for telling them without much adornment in clear, crisp prose.』
