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Exciting and thrilling, the wilderness comes alive in this exciting tale of adventure. I highly recommend it.

Another wonderful adventure of Henry Ware and his friends. The book is full of excitement and adventure from cover to cover. It's a great book to read to your kids.

A great book for a child who likes horror or an adult who likes a good laugh. It's a morbid collection of morality stories for children. Every character dies as the result of bad behavior: playing with matches, poking a dog with a stick, picking on another child, playing with guns,fidgety behavior at the dinner table, not eating on'e dinner- it's quite a riot. Shockheaded Peter is deliciously scary and fun.

Slovenly Peter is a wonderful collection of childrens' parables that reflect the historic (and Germanic) notions of right and wrong. The stories are vivid to say the least and are not for the faint of heart. However, they have provided my family and me a great deal of entertainment and timeless insights into childrens' behavior.

this book is just amazing, it was one of those books that makes you look at life differently. The way hoffman describes the troubles and trials of life make it realistic and amazing trip. Stories including Janis Joplin, Grace Slick and Arlo Guthrie, brushes with death andvan rides with the black panthers, as well as the Chicago 7 trial. Abbie is a child of the woodstock generation... The book is a great read. I would recomend it to everybody, it tickles all the senses. Loved it!

Believe it or not, Abbie Hoffman has written an inspirational classic. In his chatty boasts and anecdotes, Abbie offers a paean to a life spent seizing the moment and experiencing everything life has to offer. If you're attempting to do anything that goes against the grain, read this for a wealth of inspiration. It's really a wonderful testament to living up to what you want to be, regardless of society's expectations.

Having spent a lot of time researching Velikovsky, I found this book to be the most enjoyable reading of any of his books. Here we see his charming wit, his good-natured approach to those who treated him in ways that were beneath the dignity of all involved. Velikovsky would prefer to say "I question his good faith" than "that was an outright lie!" and this belies the depression he suffered from his treatment, but illuminates his good nature. This book is autobiographical in many ways, though it primarily details the episodes from just prior to publication of Worlds in Collision until the early '70's. Velikovsky died in 1979, but his work has inspired thousands worldwide. More and more of the aspects of his theory are being demonstrated correct, and he has been rightly called "one of the most brilliant original thinkers of the century." This book will bring many smiles to the faces of any Velikovsky fans who can locate a copy.

Velikovsky's own account of the furore surrounding the publishing of his book Worlds in Collision in 1950. Despite reaching number one in the best-seller list, its publishers were force to drop the book and transfer publishing rights to another publisher! For more details on Velikovsky, check out: http://www.knowledge.co.uk/xxx/cat/velikovsky.htm

This excellent book among others by Eric Hoffer are timeless. I purchased these as replacements for ones I have read and reread over the last 30 years. I find that in today's 21st century world that Hoffer's insights remain as vibrant as they were during the period of the sixtys and beyond. Short read, excellent command of english, and as concrete a treatment of a difficult subject as can be found anywhere. The fact that this among others was written by a longshoreman makes it the more astounding and the grasp of concretes awesome.

Eric Hoffer is a true American original. The former longshoreman, and migrant work who became an astute commentator on mass movements, intellectual life, American social realities was a decent, down- to - earth first- rate thinker. In 'The Temper of Our Time' he writes about our present age, and about the human resistance to change, about the revolutionary character of adolescent culture, and about the defaming of America by frustrated European intellectuals . He criticizes the blind worship of Nature, giving a catalogue of its various horrors, mosquitoes to tornadoes, while underlining how Culture and Civilization involve Man's confrontring and transforming Nature. He tells us the story of how he marooned one winter bought for one - dollar at a used bookstore a thousand page small- print edition of the 'Complete Essays of Montaigne' and how he read it cover- to - cover three times and afterwards began his career as essayist- aphorist- thinker. He makes a strong critique of those who despise the mechanical , and celebrates handwork, the work of the ordinary person. He sings a song of praise to the vast talents inherent in the great range of ordinary American people, and casts a cold eye on those who detached and abstracted from ordinary life look down at the common man with scornful contempt.
This is not his most popular, original or best work. But it is fine, well- crafted work of thought one worthy of an American original who truly could be called a ' philosopher of the people'

No matter how many silly mistakes that noodlehead Epaminondas makes, his mother knows he means well, and instead of becoming angry, she seems to find her little boy all the more lovable. While this endearing story is sure to bring smiles and laughter, it may also bring a tear or two.

A VERY FUNNY AND CLEVER STORY OFA CONFUSED LITTLE BOY.WONDERFUL ILLUSTRATIONS ADD TO THE CHARM. MY COPY IS ABOUT USED UP,IT'S NEARLY 30 YEARS OLD. IT IS MY FOUR YEAR OLD SON'S FAVORITE AS WAS IT MY OWN FAVORITE GROWING UP.

Years before VH1, Diana bared her soul. Check out her brother who "never quite found himself" & jumped off the EMPIRE STATE BUILDING! Groovy Cat, or what?! This story reveals what is at the heart of Hollywood, but Diana was way at the cutting edge. She died (committed suicide) well before it was hip to dismiss Hollywood as a Death Factory. You may not glean anything from her story, but the details will attract you like a moth to the flames...

This book was so beautifully written that I felt I could see the posh pastel interiors of her childhood home and the famous paintings on the walls. This story has very rich character studies as well as describing in fascinating detail the gradual out of control spiral in which Ms. Barrymore found herself through alcohol, drugs and other experimentations. I found myself wanting to know what happened to Ms. Barrymore after the book. I was saddened when I researched it and found she suicided four years after this book ends. I highly recommend this book if you are a student of the human condition.

E. F. Benson has created one of the wonders of literature - two characters which you almost cannot like, up against one another - and the outcome makes absolutely wonderful and witty reading. This is the final instalment of the Risenholme/Tilling series. It was published first in 1939 and Benson died a year later.

Definitely trouble for Lucia, - trouble in the form of Miss Mapp-Flint predominantly - but also Lucia's overweening ego. Having moved from Riseholme to Miss Mapp's stomping ground of Tilling, Lucia has a rival she must really battle. Daisy Quantock of Risenholme is nothing to Miss Mapp (now of course Mrs Mapp-Flint). Of course Lucia moved to Tilling some time before, bringing Georgie with her - we saw her progress in the two previous novels - however the joke never seems to fade.

Lucia is still practising her false Italian, and her pseudo artistic pursuits - however this time she is mayor of Tilling. All venom is sugar coated and presented with perfectly in place smiles, and it all takes place in the tiny confines of Tilling. Although the deserving poor are mentioned it seems the whole village of Tilling revolves around a small cast of wonderfully drawn characters - Lucia and her now husband Georgie, Colonel and Mrs Mapp-Flint, Mr and Mrs Wyse, the Vicar and his mousie wife, Diva and 'quaint Irene'. No other characters really have anything to say - they might pass in and out of the action such as Foljambe (Georgies indispensible maid) and various town councillors - but they are never crowded into the scene.

The crises tend to be small - but the village is small so they become larger than life and the repercussions are hilarious - There is bridge to be played - and when Lucia decides that, as mayor she must set an example and not gamble for money she finds there are few supporters. Lucia must wangle her way out of a party which includes Italian speakers, and wangle her way _into_ an invitation to stay the night with a Duchess. There is the terrible irony of the unflattering portrait of Mrs Mapp-Flint which goes on to win picture of the year in London to be dealt with - and then there is the mystery (for the village anyway) of Colonel Mapp-Flint's missing crop - the one which he hit the tiger with across the nose before shooting it. Most marvellously there is the resolution of the unfortunate death of Blue Birdie, Susan Wyse's much beloved Budgerigaar. And while much of this might sound familiar from other Lucia novels, they are as freshly drawn as ever.

E F Benson doesn't bother with suspense for his readers - we always know where the riding crop is - or who Lucia will select as her mayoress - the joy of these novels is finding out _how_ this will happen. Things which begin in a chapter early on, might not reach their conclusion until near the end of the book.

It is such a pity the Lucia's ended here -there seems so much room to continue the shenanigans in Tilling, especially with all the promise of the war years. If you haven't read a Lucia before - start at the beginning with Queen Lucia and work your way through them. They only really make proper sense in order as there are characters and activities which cast right back to the first novel which won't really be amusing unless you have read them in order.

Having worn mayoral robes himself, it is not surprising that writer E F Benson should have allowed readers of his Lucia novels to see how that scheming, contriving, arch social climbing lady would do the same when elected as the first lady mayor of the quaint village of Tilling. As the book’s title suggests, donning the mayoral robes brings trouble for Lucia. She foresees that most of it is likely to derive from her arch rival for supremacy in local affairs, Miss Mapp. Accordingly she decides to make Elizabeth Mapp her mayoress. “It is far better to have her on a lead, bound to me by ties of gratitude that skulking about like a pariah dog, snapping at me,” she tells her husband, Georgie Pillson.

Of course the dog lead soon becomes more like the rope in a tug of war as the two rivals strive to topple each other. Reading an account of the tension, in this the last of the Mapp and Lucia books, provides you with some of the best humour in English literature of the 1930s.

A friend of mine gave me a copy of this book recently when I was in the hospital. She gives out copies of it for graduations, weddings, birthdays, and all similar life-marking occasions. I was so blessed to get a copy of it! I also now give it (or suggest it) for just about every important occasion. I plan to reread it every year on my birthday. This is a perfect book for those occasions when we need to take a long hard look at our lives. There's no adult of any age who wouldn't benefit from reading this book, at least once, and really thinking about it. I suggest that you imagine, as you read it, that you are very old and have lived a long life, and you are now looking back at yourself present-day. There are so many things that are unimportant, that get in our way, that take up our precious time, while life is so very very short. How does your perspective change? You'll be amazed at how differently you look at (your new chance at) life when you're finished reading.

This slim volume contains a series of clarifying moments one searches for; as contemporary as the evening news, yet it was penned in 1893. In the confusion of a world cluttered with the daily challanges of situational ethics, this book allows you to reset your compass in a direction that will provide meaning and power, not just to your day, but to your entire life. Anna Robertson Brown was the daughter of a Presbyterian minister and the first woman to graduate with a Ph.D in English from the University of Pennsylvania. Her certainty of God was at the center of her tenets on restructuring one's life to dismiss the unimportant, irrelevant, and nonessential aspects of life. We tend to assign such great importance to people and situations in life that only weigh us down, both emotionally and physically. One line in her book provided enough insight to provide a lifetime of reflection. She writes, " We may drop worry...Worry is spiritual near-sightedness; a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value." If one believes that all things are in the hands of God, how can one give themself to worry in any case? In the eternal scheme of things, we tend to view things in an immediate context. She reminds us that there is a much larger picture; a picture of which we most often lose sight because we've put ourselves in the center of the small one closest to us. If you are looking for a read that will take under an hour but will last a lifetime, then do not pass this up. You will want more than one copy so you will be able to pass it along to those you love.

This is an incredible story about a wife's commitment to her husband and her marraige. It is a beautifully told story of unconditional love,flexibility,and determination to have a positive attitude and a spirit of of hope in the midst of the impossible. This is an example of someone who will not let the actions of her husband steal her dreams. Her faithfulness to God is reflected her faithfulness to her husband. As the story unfolds the reader is taken on what appears to be a fruitless journey, and yet is compelled to read on, not believing this wife is doing these incredible things toward what appears to be an obvious failure. I highly recommend this book for the entire experience - for what it gives the reader, and remains in the memory-just in case it is ever needed.