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Postal Inspectors are the law enforcement branch of the US Post office and have full police powers for cases within their jurisdiction. Max Dombrowski is a Postal Inspector who is forced to work in Internal Affairs by Constance Barton, finding the dirt on people she wants out of the service. He is forced to obey her orders because she has something on him that if revealed could send him to jail.

Connie is sending Max to Norris, Montana for two reasons. A postal worker and a customer were murdered in the rural post office. Max is to serve as the lead investigator on the case but he is also ordered to find some dirt on the resident agent Gillian Loomis so Constance can legally fire her. When Max arrives in Norris, the duo conduct their investigation and find that there is information about the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 that someone doesn't want to surface. Max and Gillian race against the killers to see who can get their hands on the documents and in the process two more innocents are murdered.

Conspiracy buffs are going to love THE NATURE OF MIDNIGHT a thriller that portrays a realistic scenario on how the Germans knew where the Lusitania was located. Robert Rice has plenty of action and chase scenes but what makes this novel stand out in the crowd are the two protagonists who make a great team despite the demons that are haunting them. It is to be hoped that Mr. Rice will have more novels starring this dynamic duo.

Harriet Klausner

I started reading The Nature of Midnight at 5:00 this past Saturday afternoon. At 1:30 Sunday morning, I had to FORCE myself to turn off the light to get some sleep. I have never read for that long a period straight, but I was absolutely enthralled!

The characters are marvelously believable -- each has his own quirks, and that's what makes them so human and real. The plot moves in ways I certainly wouldn't have thought of, but Rice manages to make flow easily and smoothly.

The only thing I might possibly say against it is that it kept me so gripped that I finished it in two days, so NOW what do I read??

I recommend this book highly to anyone who enjoys any kind of mystery or thriller. And if I had to pick one word to describe it, I would say, "MARVELOUS."

Postal Inspectors are the law enforcement branch of the US Post office and have full police powers for cases within their jurisdiction. Max Dombrowski is a Postal Inspector who is forced to work in Internal Affairs by Constance Barton, finding the dirt on people she wants out of the service. He is forced to obey her orders because she has something on him that if revealed could send him to jail.

Connie is sending Max to Norris, Montana for two reasons. A postal worker and a customer were murdered in the rural post office. Max is to serve as the lead investigator on the case but he is also ordered to find some dirt on the resident agent Gillian Loomis so Constance can legally fire her. When Max arrives in Norris, the duo conduct their investigation and find that there is information about the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 that someone doesn't want to surface. Max and Gillian race against the killers to see who can get their hands on the documents and in the process two more innocents are murdered.

Conspiracy buffs are going to love THE NATURE OF MIDNIGHT a thriller that portrays a realistic scenario on how the Germans knew where the Lusitania was located. Robert Rice has plenty of action and chase scenes but what makes this novel stand out in the crowd are the two protagonists who make a great team despite the demons that are haunting them. It is to be hoped that Mr. Rice will have more novels starring this dynamic duo.

Harriet Klausner

Postal inspectors, one of America's most succesful law enforcement officers, rarely get their due in American mysteries but here Robert Rice has created a great team that doggedly searches for the killers of a postal employee and customer in Montana. Inspectors Loomis and Dombrowski uncover an 85 year old mystery and a clever fictional twist on a major historical event - the sinking of the Lusitania, which helped propel the U.S. into WWI. Rice has created great characters and a great puzzle. The only negative I can mention is that some of the action at the end seemed pretty silly and there were a few loose ends about how the whole plot was put together at the end. The answers to these open questions can be assumed by the reader but it would have been nice if the author put them on the page.

Robert Rice's _The Nature of Midnight_, features Postal Inspectors Gillian Loomis and Max Dombrowski and could be the start to a very successful series. When a postal worker and a customer are found dead in a rural Montana post office, the case is given to Loomis, an inspector who travels around the state. Dombrowski, a former pro football player, is flown in from Seattle and is the primary on the case, but he lets Gillian take charge of the investigation. Gillian is a former Seattle policewoman who quit after accidentally killing a young boy while on duty, and, since then, she has refused to carry a weapon, which is a breach of duty for a postal inspector.

The deaths appear to have some connection to a cache of old letters, found when an old safe and other equipment was moved from the old post office to a new one. The letters were written by a man named Sharpless Walker, who was lynched way back in 1918, and appear to have something to do with the sinking of the Lusitania. As Max and Gillian investigate, they begin to uncover a conspiracy that at first appears to reach to the highest levels of both the American and British governments.

This was a great, old-fashioned page turner. Rice does a great job of creating his conspiracy and then doling out the clues bit by bit, ratcheting up the tension and suspense. Max and Gillian are interesting characters and we come to care about them as they are besieged on all sides, by assassins and by higher-ups in both the Postal Inspection Service and the FBI, who may or may not be trustworthy. Rice also does a good job of drawing the scenery of rural Montana, as the two drive from place to place, pursuing the investigation. This was a riveting book and I for one would like to see another book involving these characters. Highly recommended.

With great writing skill and a deep understanding of his subject, Dr. Rapport has managed to capture the essence of the life of one of the most influential doctors of the age. At the same time, the book describes many of the major clinical developments in medicine over the past one hundred years. A fine book that will interest not only doctors, but their patients as well.

Dr. Rapport has written an excellent and readable story about one of the most influential figure in modern medicine. At the same time that he has told us a facinating story about Dr. Beeson's life, he has explained some of the history of medicine during the 20th century. A wonderful book of interest to doctors and patients; here is hope for the medical profession.

I was a resident training under Dr.Beeson during his tenure as Chairman of Medicine at Yale. Many of those quoted in the text are old friends and colleagues. The qualities they describe, I can assure any reader, are not exaggerated. This is a compelling and readable account of a great man. Rapport has come close to identifying his essence. This is must reading for anyone trying to understand what makes a supremely good physician in a society undergoing profound social and complex technologic changes.

Read this book if you want to know what a real doctor does, if you want to know why health care is going down, if your other bedside books are putting you to sleep, no kidding!

dr rapport has done a great job. It's easy to read, and thoughtful. It's a grand history of medicine in the 20th century

Do not start your readings about qualitative or quantitative resreach somewhere else. This book will tell you what your supervisor did notl. Its a must a must for your research. It gives you a step by step approach on how to conduct and write up your research.

If you are writing a research paper of any kind, this book gives you a step by step approach. Highly recommended

A must have for educational researchers - both graduate student, classroom instructors, and professional investigator.

While written for those preparing a dissertation or thesis, the book proves extremely useful for the undergraduate discovering the world of research. Unfamiliar terms are thoroughly explained along with a clear illustration of many potentially obscure methodologies. This book is a "must have" for anyone preparing for a research project.

Excellent introduction to both qualitative and quantitative research methods. Useful for beginning students and for those with more experience in research methods. Especially useful for reporting research. If I were teaching a methods class, I would use this book without hesitation.

I discovered Scott Waldie from a fly shop owner in Nashville one Saturday when I stepped in to buy some flies. He told me that Travers Corners was one of the best book that he'd ever read. Then he told me that Return to Travers Corners was even better. I was skeptical because Travers Corners was amazing. The second book in this series lives up to the first and surpasses it in some ways.

It is not a series of fishing essays that only an angler would pick up but a series of deeply moving stories about small town life in rural Montana. The stories are loosely based on a real town and people. However, fly fishing and the laid-back philosophy that often accompanies it find their way into every story in an unobtrusive way. One of them will move any reader, regardless of his or her feelings on fishing.

This book reads quick and if you want to read it, you should get all three of Scott Waldie's books because you want to read them one after the other.

This book makes you want to pack up and move to Travers Corners. The small town, closeness with the characters is what makes this book. Like a Norman Rockwell painting this book brings to the reader what most want, a slowed down, easy going pace in a hectic world.

What a fantastic book. Didn't know wether to laugh or to cry most of the time. Being from Montana it makes me long to be back it the little town i came from. Waldie is able to truly capture the small town feel and make you feel like you are right there in the middle. Congrats again to Mr. Waldie

the book being short stories I can pick it up and read a great tale before going to bed. The charactors in this book are so real you can't help but love them!

Poor Scott Waldie. He is one of the gifted writers of our time but he has been relegated to the backwater of fly fishing stories. Not a huge potential audience there. Especially, not a large feminine audience (i.e., the ones who actually buy books). Furthermore, he doesn't compete well with Gerach and Holt in terms of, "and then I caught a 26 inch brown but Jack caught a 27 inch rainbow," which appeal to the guys who buy these books.
BUT
Waldie is alone in being able to weave together stories about a semi-fictional town with its visitors, part-timers, and residents that truly capture the good and bad about the popularization of the Northwest.
His stories would lose no relevance if he would write them using tennis, polo, or canasta as the common thread because they are really about people and how they interact. They expose the good and the bad and how they intersect in a delightful and thoughtful manner and in the process his writing flows with more memorable lines than you can count.
Hopefully, he will soon find an agent or publisher who will market him for the gifted writer that he is, rather than pushing him into an eddy that he cannot row out of (pardon the dangling participle).

Nothing wrong with this edition. Just thought that people might want to know that there is another translation out there that is easier to read AND more fun. It's the translation in blank verse published in unabridged and unexpurgated form by Meridian (0452010837), and edited by Charles W. Dunn, one of the finest modernizations of a medieval classic ever published. The translation was the life's work of Professor Harry W. Robbins.

The Romance of the Rose is the famous and much discussed 13th century allegorical romance. It consists of two parts of unequal length-- the first shorter part by Guillaume de Lorris and the second longer part continued 40 years after de Lorris' death by Jean de Meun. Throughout the medieval period, this was one of the most widely read book in the French language.

Scholars have rather endlessly debated how unified the allegory really is, and the trend recently seems to have shifted to seeing the two authors as less in opposition, and more composing a complete treatment of courtly Love.

For the casual (non-academic) reader like myself, the experience is rather less unified. The de Lorris section is quite lyrical and fits more with what I imagine an allegorical dream poem to be. When Idleness leads the dreamer into the garden of Diversion and when Love shoots him with the five deadly arrows that bind him to the Rose, the imagery is compelling and lovely.

On the other hand, the second part, while often *very* funny is much more obviously satirical with long digressions that focus more on social mores than on the world of the Dreamer as established in the first half. The effect is sort of like a serious and literary Spike Jones song-- which is not at all a bad thing.

This review relates to the work, -The Romance of the
Rose- by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun,
Translated by Charles Dahlberg, Princeton Univ.
Press, Third Edition, 1995. 484 pp.
This edition of -The Romance of the Rose- is interesting
for it contains all 3 Prefaces which Charles Dahlberg
wrote. In the Preface to the 1st edition, published
in 1971, Dahlberg says: "This translation of the -Romance
of the Rose-, the first in modern English prose, is one of
nearly a dozen volumes during the past decade to present
an edition, a translation, or a major commentary on the
Old French poem. The aim of this book is to provide a
clear, readable text that is as faithful as possible to
the original, particularly in terms of imagery. Because
translations have their pitfalls and because thirteenth-
century assumptions about the use of imagery, indeed of
poetry, are very different from ours, I have provided a
variety of materials that may help the reader to approach
the poem with an approximation of the perspective of that
time. The Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations are
designed primarily to elaborate and clarify such a view
of the poem."
In the 2nd Preface, to the 1983 edition, Dahlberg says:
[after saying that minor errors have been corrected
and additions have been made to the Bibliography]
"During recent years, a number of writers have reemphasized
the contrast between the two authors in their treatment
of the poem's allegory. Such is the case even in the
relatively small space devoted to the poem in Jung's
important book on Latin and French allegory, a work that
parallels the series of essays by Hans Robert Jauss
on the origins and development of allegorical poetry up
to the -Romance-."
In the Preface to the 1995 edition, Dahlberg again
deals with the scholarly publications concerning the
poem which have occurred since the last edition. He
cites works in the Preface which deal with Sources and
Influences ["Among source studies, the greatest attention
has been givven To Ovid: in the Narcissus episode, the
Pygmalion episode, or both. Huot studies the relation of
the Medusa interpolation to these spisodes and to the
Deucalion-Pyrrha passage, Browlee studies the relation
of the Pygmalion and Adonis passages, and Steinle adds
the Narcissus passages to these two."]; The Two Authors;
The Nature of the Allegorical Narrative; The Use of the
First Person; and Early Reception.
This work is in two parts. Part I [The Dream of Love]
is authored by Guillaume de Lorris and comprises some 4,000
plus lines. Part II [The Overthrow of Reason] is authored by Jean de Meun.
The sections of Part I are titled by Dahlberg as: (1) The Garden, The Fountain,
and the Rose; (2) The God of Love and the Affair of the
Heart; (3) The Involvement of Reason and the Castle of
Jealousy.
Part II [The Overthrow of Reason] by Jean de Meun, is
titled in sections by Dahlberg as: (4) Discourse of

Reason; (5) The Advice of Friend; (6) The Assault on
the Castle. False Seeming's Contribution; (7) The Old
Woman's Intercession; (8) Attack and Repulse;
(9)Nature's Confession; (10) Genius's Solution;
(11) Venus's Conflagration and the Winning of the Rose.
There are excellent Notes from p. 357 to p. 425 and
an excellent Bibliography. There are also 64 "miniature
illustrations from thirteenth- and fourteenth-century
manuscripts."
This is an excellent edition, especially for the

wealth of suggested additional schoarly works
available and their approaches to the poem.
-- Robert Kilgore.

This is a very relaxing yet thought-provoking allegory of life and love, but primarily love. I first heard of it in the film "Shadowlands", about the great C.S. Lewis. After having bought it and read it after hearing Anthony Hopkins describe it to his character's Oxford students in the film, I see it's significance in both that particular film and as a remarkable work of literature which, in it's day, seemed to have been far more popular than even the "Canterbury Tales"; more than twice as many original manuscripts of RotR exist today than of "Canterbury". The Romance of the Rose is fluid, metaphorical, philosophical, lyric and, of course, very romantic. An exquisite illustration of courtly love.

I really like this book because it is a romance book and i love all romance books. I really like books that are writen in the old ages. I think if a person likes to just read books they should read Romance of the Rose.

"Sibling fiction" is now a genre unto itself, and this is certainly a fine new addition. This book is for anyone who has ever resented a sibling, or been frustrated by a mother. In short, it's a book for anyone.

Heather Barbieri gives great insight into drug addiction and the effects this has on family life ranging from sibling conflicts to the effects on those born to the addict. The story covers aspects of life from aspirations to that of love both young and old and heart rending decisions any family living with addiction would face. A story that not only will awaken the senses to the individuals early life experiences but to that of a present day affliction felt by many. This story is fictional but well worth the read and should not be missed. I laughed and cryed at many points throughout and a story that should be in any bookworm's permanent collection.

I just finished reading Heather Barbieri's book, Snow in July. I found it to be a very engaging and accessible look at a family just trying to do the best that they can in difficult circumstances. Although the story has been told many times before, Ms. Barbieri takes us into the family pain through the eyes of the younger sister. This author has a keen eye for looking at sister issues. She has also written a very accessible book. I would be happy giving it as a gift to my eighty some year old mother-in-law but also my adolescent nieces. I think they all would enjoy the compelling story. Some authors beat you over the head with the addiction issues. They are only part of this story about growing up and leaving home. Can we ever really???

I found "Snow in July" to be an absolutely fabulous novel. I have long been an avid reader, having just finished "The Kite Runner" as well as "The Time Traveler's Wife". I found "Snow in July" to be equally entralling. It is a story of love, acceptance, and betrayal as well as a coming of age story for the younger sister finding her place in the world, as well as within her family. Eighteen year old Erin is the narrator of the story. She is an intelligent girl who has been forced to assume the mantle of maturity due to the circumstances of her older sister's drug addiction.

I highly recommend reading "Snow in July". The author, Heather Barbieri, has done a fine job in profiling the different characters. You could really feel the anquish and dispair in their dialogue when they realized what decisions had to be made. While it is a serious subject matter, there are many moments of humor (i.e. the shop owners), and times of joy. I also found the parallels drawn between the town of Butte, Montana and the pitfalls of the older sister very astute. The mined pits marring the hillsides could be equated to Meghan's 'falling off the wagon', so to say.

Thank you.

I really enjoyed this heart-wrenching tale of a love / hate relationship between two sisters. Erin Mulcahy is the younger sister who is faced with the overwhelming responisbility of rescuing her older, drug-addicted sister and her sister's two young daughters. Although there are some dark moments in this story, Montana really comes alive with Ms. Barbieri's colorful description of a small mining town way past it's heyday. Snow in July is a quick, easy read that'll draw you in from the first page to the last!

The Three Dogs were big and muscular, there was Bruno, Kalia but that they look and sound cool. The book gets more better towards the end when the three dogs won the sledding contest at Colorada. Kalia is a husky, which is a type of a wolf. Bruno looks like a black lab mixed with husky. I wish I could have these dogs from The Three Dog Winter. This is a good book. I will rate it a five.

I think that this is a great book. I couldn't put it down. It's about a boy named Scott McClure who races sled dogs with his dad. Then his father dies and his mother remarries . He moves from California to Montana. He had troble with his stepfather and his stepbrother Brad. Scott won't lett anyone or anything interfere with his dream. If you want to find out whats next read this book.

This is a thrilling winter story that took my breath away as I read page after page of this exciting novel. As Scott and his family are trying to recover from the death of his father, Scott's mom seems to immediately re-marry again. Scott and his dad had both loved sled dog racing. In the new home with more siblings, Scott wonders if he'll ever be able to race a great team like his dad, since he only has one dog. Especially with this new family and new home.

This book is a great book. If you can get it I suggest read it.I really enjoyed it. I is about a young boy who sets out to fullfill his fathers dream. sled racing. His father dies and Scott Mclure only has one dog left. His mom sold all the other dogs. Scott's mom remarries and they move to Montana. Scott has trouble with brad his step-brother. when Scotts dads friend comes to visit he gives Scott chinook his best dog. scott then races in the practice for billings race where brads dog gets injured.to find out what happens next read the book.

This book was good I couldn't put it down. Scott has to have three dogs to run in the race, unless he wants to go with the little kids. Kayla and Chinook (Malamutes) are already trained sled dogs but the third dog comes and goes. They finaly end up with three beautiful dogs

After my daughter gave me this book, I plowed through the first few pages and decided this was going to be a hard book to plow through. However, it quickly evolved into a facinating picture of the country, the people. Especially interesting was the Indian story, both past and present she was so skillful in portraying. Her presentation of environmental concerns and solutions should be read by everyone. Long and short of my experience with this book, was I loved it.

Carlene Cross is an extremely gracefull writer. The way she juxtaposed her "coming of age" with a short course in Reservation history was most interesting. As a long time resident of the Flathead Indian Reservation and a local history buff, The Unique West brought many new facts to my attention and the excellent bibliography made it quite convenient to investigate them further.

The Historical Society of the Flathead Indian Reservation and the Montana Heritage Project are seriously considering using Carlene's book as the primary resource for for developing a local history course for use in Reservation high schools.

We want to encourage our kids', both Indian and white, interest in their heritage and this is the most engaging expostion of local history we have found.

If you want an interesting introduction to the history of the Flathead Reservation, including what it was like to grow up here in the last 30 years, there is no better book than this.

This unpretentious work comes loaded with surprises as the author evokes the fascinating Camas Prairie of her childhood. This poetic book is as Montana as bear grass and marmots. What is it about the Big Sky country that produces so many fine authors -- Richard Ford, Ivan Doig, Jim Harrison, Thomas McGuane, and now, Carlene Cross? I also appreciated the pictures and line sketches. For anyone with a feel for the great open spaces of the west, this book has it all.

The wonder of this book is its scope no less than its urgency and great heart. Carlene Cross, an impeccable scholar, has preserved small gems of regional detail from Montana's Camas Prairie-- its botany, geology and yarns-- and woven them seamlessly into the larger story of the West.

Cross manages to give the reader a sensual yet realistic view of Montana and it's history. Part childhood memories and mature examination of the history of this complex area she expertly pulls together the different cultures and finds common ground that each distinct group needs to embrace to protect the beauty and uniqueness of Montana.

Greg Keeler today is an accomplished musician, poet, writer, and teacher of English at Montana State University. But he was a still-wet-behind-the-ears transplant from Oklahoma when he first met Richard Brautigan in 1978. Brautigan was a best selling author, world traveler, and counter culture legend-who counted among his friends John Lennon, Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Jimmy Buffet, Rip Torn, and Francis Ford Coppola. For reasons Keeler can't explain, Brautigan took a liking to him and thereby hangs the tale.

Despite rubbing elbows with icons of the film and popular music culture, Brautigan was a common man, salt of the earth. He circulated with the rich and famous, or fished and bent an elbow with locals in and around Bozeman with equal enthusiasm. Keeler's recollection of their friendship is at times hilarious or poignant, but just as often disturbing and sad. That they were friends in the truest sense is evident in every line.

Brautigan was larger than life, like his hero Hemingway before him. He was a man of "wonderful, scary, craziness", a big, funny, quicksilver man given to zany pranks and heavy drinking. He loved a hearty joke or play on words, but was prone to paranoia once he'd reached a certain stage of inebriation. It wasn't always easy maintaining a friendship with Brautigan. He was often deliberately cruel, especially to his friends. But those who might think Keeler stuck with Brautigan for money or favors would be far off the mark.

With priceless chapter titles, such as my favorite, "Night of the Living Borscht", Keeler shares his memories of Brautigan. The result is a complete picture of this flawed and complicated man who salved insecurity, loneliness and sorrow with rage, humor, and massive doses of alcohol. Keeler painted his friend as a man who lived with "a huge hole in his chest" after his wife divorced him. That huge hole was replaced with a smaller hole in his head in 1984 when Brautigan committed suicide.

To Keeler, his friend Brautigan represented an unpredictable, idiosyncratic and charming addition to his otherwise normal life. Brautigan considered the art of writing as mining gold from the air or loading mercury with a pitchfork. He would be proud of what his friend Greg Keeler has written because he has, indeed, mined gold and loaded mercury to perfection.

There may be other books out there about Brautigan and his life, but I suggest you start with this one. There can be no truer portrait of the man than one written by a friend who loved him, warts and all.

I knew the ending, but I didn't know what came before in Richard's life. Thanks to Greg Keeler for sharing a snapshot in time of the larger-than-life poet who wrote poems that could drop you to your knees.

The book gives no clues, but it is all we have left of Richard to try to understand and celebrate his life. After finishing the book, I went back and re-read some of my Brautigan books. I love them as much now as before.

Thank you Greg for writing this book.

[...]

Keeler's Richard Brautigan is very different from the man I met and wrote about in:
BRAUTIGAN, RICHARD, A PILGRIMAGE, AUGUST 1982. ISBN 1881417107. Most people are different with strangers they've just met, but my quiet Richard seemed to be self-destructing at the time I met him.

Keeler's Richard, on the other hand lived ironically, wildly and self-indulgently. (Reading Keeler I can't believe my luck that Richard did not throw me out.) And because Keeler doesn't hold back in his accounts, "The first time I really saw Richard teach a class first hand was when he took over my evening class. . . . The class hung on every word. I never came close to holding their attention like that." we get insight into Richard's many talents outside of his manuscripts.

More closely personal than Keith Abbotts terrific DOWNSTREAM FROM TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA, ISBN 0884963047 "Waltzing" shares with the reader an almost intimate relationship with Richard. "Richard seemed to know when he was pressing his luck and getting on his friend's nerves, so when he knew I couldn't take much more. . . ." And thus begins the true story of life imitating fiction, where Richard and some friends get together in a trailer and live his short story "1/3, 1/3, 1/3" from REVENGE OF THE LAWN.

All Brautigan fans have much to thank Greg Keeler for.

Any one who loves Richard Brautigan's novels and far out poetry will appreciate the personal perspective share by the author. The book is easy to read and is a wonderful tribute to an unusual man who, for reasons unknown, took his own life 20 years ago. If only others of us who write would be so remembered.

What's "waltzing" got to do with it? The memoir's title will remind some readers of Theodore Roethke's poem about the son "waltzing" with his father, but Keeler, a long time friend of Richard Brautigan, means it metaphorically, although the two men were so close that sometimes Keeler wondered whether Brautigan was perhaps coming on to him sexually, for some of his pranks were sexually ambiguous, to the point of joining Keeler on a bed and asking him, what should we do next? There were some stolen kisses, that could be seen as outrageous public goofs. And there's a photo of Brautigan pulling his slacks down and baring his ass to the camera, which Brautigan handed to Keeler, again to Keeler's puzzlement.

But in general Brautigan was a horndog or so it sounds like from this loving, rollicking memoir, some of which I had read already and relished in Kevin Ring's remarkable UK fanzine BEAT SCENE, and so I was looking forward to reading the whole of Keeler's memoir, and now it is here, replete with the lyrics to many amusing Keeler pop songs, and some enchanting line drawings in every chapter, executed by Keeler himself.

Brautigan fans have hitherto been able to discover a bit of him in his daughter Ianthe's memoir of a really bad Dad, and in Keith Abbott's memoir of a somewhat earlier portion of Brautigan's life. The novelist William Hjortsberg has been writing a full-scale Brautigan biography for many years, and I look forward to that book when it is completed. Until then, Greg Keeler has given us a warts and all picture of Richard Brautigan in decline. The full facts of his herpes condition are here exposed in way too much detail. And within the pages of this book he scams a university into giving him many thousands of dollars in exchange for a few appearances. He spends 100s of dollars at a time in a Montana bar where shots of Scotch are 50 cents apiece. He makes fun of his famous friends like Jimmy Buffett, walking around the dining room table shaking everyone's hand and greeting them warmly by saying, "Hi--I'm Jimmy." In some ways Brautigan seems terribly insecure, in other ways, he was a balls out maniac! Well, good for him, it seems he had a good life all things considered.

A tremendous asset to the history of Ronan and the Flathead Indian Reservation. Every high school in America should be helping to gather and publish local history! Nicely done!

An interesting look at World War Two from men who experienced it--well worth checking out.

An interesting look at World War Two from men who experienced it--well worth checking out.

Easy to read and well worth your time. You get experiences and opinons about the war from fifteen different soldiers who were involved. The authors did a nice job assembling this collection and capturing the soldiers' voices.

This Book is unbelieveable. I enjoyed it from cover to cover. It was well presented and told the stories of these heroic vets beautifully.