Iced Books

Looking through some old books in my Attic, I happened upon this novel; first released back in 1995.It chronicles the down-ward spiral of a young Man with hopes an dreams, into a never ending slide towards his worse nightmare, a walking, Zombie. This is a harrowing depressing read, which I've often thought would make a great movie. It written in a very matter of fact way (Mr. Snell is an actor by profession, and it tells) but once you get used to his style, the novel opens up to you. Harrowing.

I read this book about four years ago and still think that it is the best book I have ever read, and I still cannot get the story out of my mind i think it is one of the most compelling and real novels I have ever come accross and feel that it should be re-released to show people exactly what it is like to be in a situation like the character in the book.

Well done to Ray Shell!

Het verteld een verhaal van een drugs verslaafde persoon.
Het verhaal is ten einde als je het boek begint te lezen, Cornelius (en niet de schrijver!) neemt je mee naar zijn wereld, zijn gedachte zijn parionide wereld. Heel erg vlak geschreven, heel erg simpel, maar o zo puur naar voren gebracht. Het item drugs speelt een rode draad in het boek.
Hij beschrijft zijn wereld in fases, periodes, van die heel goed gingen en die hel waren.
Het einde van het boek is een beetje zwak, maar dat moet je op de kop toenemen. Want het is de moeite waard om het te lezen en te BELEVEN!

This was a good book. Change your life good? Not mines. It's about a crackhead and you see things how he see and feel thing. You really have to get use to the writing style because some may call it artistic but for me it was mumble jumble. As you get into the book it become more coherent. It's always amazing the roads people choose to walk and what can be at the end of it. After wading through the mind of someone so grimy you actually look at your self and realize that could easily be you. As in life not all things are what they appear and this book is a prime example. This book also spoke a lot of truth concerning black people and why they not as together as they should.

I read the book a few times, because it really got to me. Out of own experiences with drugs I know that it is so authentic and it describes exactly how the selfdeceiving and -destruction works. And the pain you have inside and you can just not deal with. I never read somebody which came so close.

I saw friends going the way Cornelius did over the years and the book is very close to reality (besides the extreme ending) and that is why it touched me deep. It describes the life of a junkie how it is without that "social" touch.

Considering the biography of the author, it can hardly be his own experience and I keep wondering how he got this inside.

Wow I was really impressed with this book! The first 10 pages of this book are dedicated to ice-cream history making it a nice one to leave out on your coffee table. The author then moves on to making ice-cream, necessary equipment, ingredients and how to work with them, sorbets and granitas and even garnishes for you plated iced desserts.

The recipes are divided into categories:, sorbets and granitas, vanilla chocolate and coffee, fruit and nut, cream free and low fat frozen desserts, bombes and terrines, tortes and gateaux, hot ice gream desserts, elegant iced desserts, ice creams with fruit, herb, spice and flower frozen desserts and frozen drinks.

This is really a well thought out book, with consise directions and full of ideas for any occassion. Great Buy!

I found this book while browsing the ice cream cookbooks looking for a coconut ice cream recipe and was really impressed with their recipe (nice and tangy with lime juice). This book has lots of interesting recipes for ice creams and iced desserts which go beyond the average ice cream you find in the dairy section such as sorbets, pies, parfaits, tortes, brulees. I like the fact that they have instructions for making Kulfee (Indian Ice Cream) in an ice cream machine (the recipes are geared for the average ice cream machine). The instructions are accompanied with pictures of how to do it for those of us who are cooking "impaired." There are lots of other bits of ice cream history and other facts which will help you make some very wonderful ice desserts. This book is defintely worth the money!

Wow, this book is totally beautiful. There is a wide range of recipes from simple and basic to complex and decandent. There's basic ice creams, such as coffee and choclate ripple; sorbets and granitas; and various other cold desserts such as strawberry semi-freddo (partially frozen dessert). There is also a good section on garnishing and in one recipe you make a frozen ice bowl with roses in it (look at the cover). All of the instructions are very simple, they include pictures and they are done step-by-step. You can get this book just for the scrumptious looking pictures or if you are looking for a book that will help you impress guests on a warm day,this is it!

Honestly, this whole Crime Through Time series is exactly the kind of series I was looking for as a kid, but couldn't find. They've got smart, engaging characters, surprising mysteries, and exotic locales (this one zips all the way to Everest!). Also, it's really fun to read about 2007 after reading the previous books, which are set in the past. Can't wait to read the next one.

Not only is this book well-written and extremely informative, but the guy that wrote it is very VERY handsome. See page 12 for details.

Iced At The Ward Burned At The Stake And Other Poems is an anthology of free-verse poems by Utah journalist, film critic and writer Paul Swenson that exist in the moment, and draws irony between the timeless space between patterned verses. An ever-flowing treasury of lingering imagery. Exejesus: Jesus was a women's man/Crossed Hades Street to meet/The Samaritan at the well/Told her everything she'd done/Between Galilee, Gethsemane,/Had some fun with Magdalene/Wouldn't leave the wedding/'Till the wine was gone/Healed the infirm woman on the street/Laid down Martha's broom--/Save it for my tomb he said/Wished for Mary's perfumed hair--/Lord, he loved the way it felt/When she caressed his feet/Hated to board the boat/To the disciples, smell of fish.

Julie Robitaille wtites ANOTHER excellent book! This is another grate book by Julie. Julie Robitaille is the best writer for mysteries. This book shocks me on every page

Lenotre's two cookbooks -- this one and a companion dealing with pastries & cakes -- are classic reference works for anyone serious about making high-quality and technically perfect deserts. Both books teach the reader the techniques for preparing a variety of restaurant-quality sweets. This volume focues on ices, ice cream, and variants thereupon. You get: the basics of sugar syrups, recipies for about 20 different fruit & liquor sorbets, ditto for ice cream bases & ice creams, and so forth, expanding into complex deserts using ice creams and other frozen ingrediants. I have used this volume and its companion for years. Although I don't often make such dishes, when I want to, I can with success. This book is a bible if you're serious about such things. If you're just looking for ideas for the kids or basics for making ice cream at home, though, your money would be better spent on something less pricey.

I love Iced Tea. The recipe for Beach Bourbon Slush is worth the price of the book! We made it one year at the beach and now friends call us ahead of time and say, "You are bringing the Slush?". It is a favorite.

There are non-alcohol drinks that I love too. The spiced iced tea is now a Thanksgiving tradition.

This book makes a great gift too. Even people who never cook, enjoy recipes for drinks. It is pretty, with lots of great photos. The recipes are easy and anyone can make them.

_Iced Tea_ by Fred Thompson is a great little book, with dozens of recipes for iced tea. Recipes are divided into
- The Classics,
- Iced Tisanes and Infusions,
- Iced Tea Spritzers,
- Tea for Company,
- Strange Ways with Tea, and
- For Adults Only.

There are instruction along the way for serving iced tea, and details for making sugar syrup and other accompaniments for tea.

An excellent book from which I've already tried some recipes and I'm looking forward to trying more. If you like iced tea and want adventure beyond Lipton's, this is the book for you.

Although these recipes sounded great, they called for many things that are not available here. Plus, these recipes called for so much sugar and or powder mixes of other sugary things, it was not for me. I decided to send it back. Not for a low carb diet.

This book finally reveals the secret to a great glass of Iced Tea. It even has a frozen bourbon iced tea that is perfect when I entertain friends.

This book makes a great gift. I received it as a gift and now give it to friends for wedding gifts with a tea pitcher and glasses, and Fred Thompson's Lemonade book. Everyone loves it!

This book contains all sorts of interesting combos with iced tea from typical flavors to punches to adult drinks. I enjoyed reading all of the comments, too. If you like iced tea and want to experiment with taste, this is a book for you.

You will love this story of one women's journey to reach the peak in her sport and coming to a crossroads where she must make a decision which will change her life. I don't play hockey but I have played on my share of athletics and the author portrays with total realism the complete picture of the heroine. The writing style is refreshing and without pretense.

This is a story you will read again and again. I was only able to find three titles by this author and I wish there were 30.

Not at all interested in sports, I was surprised when I picked up this novel and found that I couldn't put it down. The dialogue was excellent and the characters were very real, believable and most of all likable. Alguire's novel is fast paced and the games scenes were understandable and enjoyable even for someone not into sports. (And it helps that she does add a glossary of definitions for the those uneducated in hockey lingo.) I recommend this book and would read it again.

Let's face it, what's the point of reading a book about lesbians unless it has a compelling romantic flavor to it. 'Iced' is a well-written book about womens' hockey in Canada. The author provides a great tutorial at the beginning of the book and a history of womens' hockey at the end. The main plot centers around the coach's struggles with the feminizing of the sport (i.e., one team wears tutus; her team has teddy bears on their uniforms). However, there is only a hint of romance in the story.

If you're into women's sports, you'll probably enjoy this book. If you'd rather read a juicy romance, go somewhere else.

Iced is a murder mystery that I highly recommend. This story is a fairly easy read and it is not too complicated. Even though the plot is very simple it also has a very interesting story line. I liked this book because it had a very good mystery plot with a modern day spin. I do not really like old books because they do not have a good sense of humor.

Meg Gardner was a girl with a life of crime. It probably all started out with the bad relationship she had with her parents. She was thrown into a New Mexico State penitentiary and had to stay there for 18 months. When she got out of jail she was offered a great job that was only offered to ex-cons. The job was to be a repo-woman. The job was to go out and to repossess cars from people that did not keep up with payments. Everything was going fine for her until she had to repossess Clay Bennett's Jeep Cherokee because the person who was paying for the car died. Inside of the vehicle was a locked briefcase. When she was about to take the suitcase out Ivan, a well known murderer but the police never had evidence to lock him up, and his thugs order that Meg has to give over the briefcase. So Meg ended up giving it up. A few minutes later a police chief came by and interrogated Meg. She found out that the payer of the Jeep died in a plain crash a few years back. After a few weeks passed, somebody threatened to kill Meg's boyfriend and also Clay Bennett's friend turned up dead. Meg figures if she wants to stay alive, then she will have to figure out what is going on.

The author uses a lot of sensory details to explain what is going on and you can almost imagine you in Meg's position.

BY MICHAEL M.

This is a great satirical mystery of the cynical hard-boiled chick-detective subgenre. The plot starts with a dead guy's briefcase in the back of a repoed Jeep Grand Cherokee and soon enough we find that the Belarussian branch of the Russian mafia, a corrupt Senate candidate and assorted other bad guys are interested in the contents of the briefcase. The hard-boiled action incongruously takes place in the rather peaceful college town of Missoula, Montana. Like all other towns, there is a lot of nasty business going on here, however, almost but not quite out of sight. As the heroine Meg Gardner says, "there's enough sleaze under Missoula's veneer to make the place tolerable." This is an even greater story of love and loss and forgiveness...

Jenny Siler is a lyrical writer and her first book Easy Money was an intriguing blend of tough/bad girl protagonist with beautiful writing coupled with an intriguing plot.

This second novel, Iced, is not nearly as strong. Another heroine who has taken a few too many walks on the wild side, but the plot elements don't tie together. The supporting characters aren't adequately developed and the "bad guys" don't give you the appropriate goose bumps.

It feels like this book was written in a hurry and not given enough time to rewrite and expand the story. This is a book that just doesn't have enough depth. If the writer had just digged a little deeper it could have been a much better book. As it is, wait until it comes out in paperback.

Meg Gardner, the product of dysfunctional family, got her start in life on the wrong side of the law and she's just out of eighteen months in prison. Now she has her first real job, reposing cars in Missoula, Montana.

When she tries to repossess Clay Bennett's Jeep, she finds the police at his house, pulling his body out of the ditch. Murder, it seems, and the suspect is Tina Red Deer and she remembers her father had once known someone in the Red Deer family who lived on the reservation.

Meg takes the Jeep, finds a locked briefcase in the car and takes it. Someone bursts into her house and seizes it. A second villain comes for it, but he's too let. Meg recognizes the thieves as members of a gangster family from Ukraine and all of a sudden she's too deep into whatever-it-is, so she goes investigating.

Jenny Siller writes great stories about women in trouble and how they get out of it and this five star novel is no exception. I couldn't put it down.

Reviewed by Vesta Irene

Meg Gardener, ex-con, tough and resilient repossesses cars for a living in Missoula Montana. If you have read either of Jenny Silers other two novels, EASY MONEY and SHOT, you know that Siler's novels feature women protagonists who know how to take care of themselves. They are not perfect specimens like the women you see on TV ads. These tough gritty women do not mind a little dirt under their fingernails. Featuring characters that most of us know a little (if not a lot) about, you can almost smell the mountains in Montana and feel the crunch of snow under your feet: that is how realistic a story Siler writes.

Meg has just repossessed a jeep defaulted on by local eccentric Clay Bennett. That same evening the jeep is broken into outside of her house by a trio of Russian thugs who then get up close and personal with Meg about the jeep's contents. Meg realizes that she just might have walked into the middle of some dangerous business. Bennett's body had been pulled from an unfrozen channel earlier by the local constabulary: an apparent victim of foul play. The timing of Bennett's death and Meg's search for the jeep had allowed Meg to repossess the jeep with relative ease ...and no complications or so she thought. Bennett had been considered a kind of hero-celebrity in the community. He had crashed a plane in Montana's tough mountains during a blizzard many years earlier; and had walked out of those same mountains two months later to tell about it. Apparently, Bennett had been trying to find the location of that plane from the day he walked out of the mountains until the day of his death. Thus the basic ingredients for a real potboiler. The basic plot revolves around the plane crash (the subplot involves some unanswered questions about Meg's family history). The characters range from, among others, Russian thugs, a smart cop, a bewildered suitor, a suspicious relationship between a woman and her stepson and another gun toting gal tougher than our Meg. The character development is superb: all of the actors are well fleshed out and are more than just interesting caricatures. The novel moves at a good pace and keeps you going. It is as good as Siler's first and last novels. Buy it; and you will not be disappointed.