Brandon Books

I bought this book because I enjoy seeing pretty, erotic drawings of nude women, particularly nude women together with other women. The cover of this book shows an attractive naked girl lying down in front of an older man and a dominant-looking older woman. So far, so good. But the inside of this book is overly raunchy and far less erotic. There's precious little lesbianism, and instead there's lots of XXX-rated male-to-female stuff that I found far too hard-core and generally uninteresting.

Oops! I thought it would be informative - no. Maybe share it with the kindergarden class.

Cute book, but not what I was looking for ... this is a young child's book. We've given it to a local church for their nursery. Nice black and white drawings, the kids like it.

I should have read the description more closely - "warm, fuzzy" should have given it away. I was expecting some information about alpacas and instead got a children's story.

This small picture book begins with the delights of alpaca and children together, then moves onto the pride of showing and general fun that they are to be around. This is not a book that will help you with husbandry. It is a book that would make a nice addition to a children's library or as a simple introduction to show visitors at field days or events. Nice black and white line illustrations of both Huacaya and Suri. Would make a perfect colouring-in book.

This is a very short and romantic description of life with alpacas but do not buy it with the hopes of getting any real information. It contains nothing. It was very cute but has mostly hand drawn sketches that fill the few pages it has with VERY few words on each page. I should have read the description before I bought it. I am not sorry to own it - it is a wonderful description of the relationship one can have with the animals just no information on their care, habits, or anything having to do with raising them.

Pedestrian-even boring--thriller(allegedly)from Texan attorney Brandon who went on to write some capable and lively books.Its protagonist is Texas lawyer "Grey Stanton"who lives with wife "Judith"and baby daughter "Katy".He is taking a sabbatical to write a history of the Jury System and is distracted by a visit from an attractive young woman named "Marcie"calaiming to be a law student researching an old case of his-an unsuccessful defence of a low life named "Simon Hocksley"on an armed robbery charge.The visits grow in frequency and include a romp in the swimming pool
Marcie is not what she claims being an intimate of the now freed Hocksley and his crippled brother Waylon 'The money has disappeared and Hocksley is convinced Stanton knows where it is .Cue harrassment and intimidation leading to a frankly ludicrous and misjudged climax at the Stanton household

The villain is a genuinely chilling creation and there is a good piece of characterization with the well meaning but weak sheriff who was bullied by Hocksley in their younger days.The amounts of money involved are low and I wonder if the author is not making an oblique point about poverty and low expectations among certain of the criminal class in Southern society

It starts out as a plod and ends as ludicrous.Go to Brandon's better later work instead

Improbable. Here's a story about a lawyer, Grey, who's family is being threatened and stalked
by a former client, Simon, just released from prison who thinks Grey stole his stash of stolen money. Simon trespasses
on Grey's property (& INTO Grey's house), carries a gun, verbally threatens him, his wife and barely 2 year old daughter,
beats Grey half to death in a local restaurant and what does Grey do? Nothing. Grey tells everyone including the local
Sheriff, he doesn't want to violate the poor guys parole and get him sent back to prison! Can you believe that!!! Give me
a break. What man is going to let another do such a thing to his family? I stopped reading after the beating in a local
restaurant where no one lifted a finger (including Grey himself) to stop the beating. Not even Grey's wife. Unreal.

An attorney (Grey Stanton)and his wife are stalked by a previous client (Simon Hocksley) who believes Grey stole the money he hid after robbing a local store and being sent to prision. At times, the book is rather suspenseful. At other times, you know exactly what Brandon is going to do with a certain character or situation, which does take the suspense out of a "suspense" novel. Still, it's an interesting read with a twist at the end that I suspected was coming, but in a different way.

Although most entries in this series are usually rather dependable, this volume fails to offer truly workable solutions to encounters with difficult people. Anyone who has had to deal with difficult people will undoubtedly know that it is not an easy challenge, and that for the most part, a little common sense and a lot of patience are the best way to cope. Unfortunately, the solutions suggested in this book provide little more than that. Granted, it may be impossible in one volume to deal with the large variety of difficult personality types that we encounter every day.

This book offers precious little in the way of practical advice when it comes to dealing with any kind of real situation whatsoever.

I wouldn't purchase this book at a bargain basement sale for 50 cents. Want to gain friends and influence people? Put some of Brandon Yusuf Toropov's non-existent helpful suggestions to the test and see how far you go.

Let's face it, this world has its fair share of difficult people. The fact that Brandon Yusuf Toropov thinks we should be paying for such trash suggests to me that he might be one of them.

There's a very interesting story here in spite of the obvious character imitations. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, it's a very thin book with little time to develop characters and settings, and while the general plot regarding super heroes coming to a more realistic world and having conflicting opinions on what to do about it is intriguing and could have made a very good mini-series. There area a few good lines, too, such as the inevitable tagline, "Nobody learns anything. Everybody dies." With limited build-up, though, even that line falls flat, as does the rest of the book.

The story begins (as too many comics do these days) with thinly veiled versions of iconic heroes running around a world like our own. They're moderately interesting however just as we get to know them an accident transports them to another Earth without superheroes.

The thinly-veiled Superman character goes nuts, kills the others and dies at the hands of the Batman clone.

The end.

The back cover promises "Nobody learns anything. Everybody dies." Well at least they're honest.

Skip it.

... with all the seedy bits of a romance novel save the romance.

Graphic depictions of child sexual abuse rendered this book revolting.

Just to be clear, the "real" Mata Hari did not author this diary.

This "Diary" was not written by Margaretha Zelle aka Mata Hari it's not even a diary it's just the pornographic fantasy of an unnamed writer.This was a huge dissapointment I would give it no stars if the option existed

Read the prologue before you borrow or buy this book. If you aren't turned off by gratuitous violence, you'll love the rest of the story.

Well I finally bought this book, I payed almost 55.00 dollars for it. It was probably the worst thing I've bought.. It was a HUGH WASTE OF MONEY!
The book had nothin that I didn't already know, not ever any pictures that I've haven't seen. SAVE your money!

This book is a waste of time. The whole Jesus Seminar crowd is a movement with an agenda. If you used the ideas about history this guy goes by, half of history wouldn't exist. It is like trying to write a history of early America, but saying we can't use any American sources because they might be biased.

Brandon is the reason I don't buy G.I. Joe comic anymore. This guy turned out some of the worst G.I. Joe stories that could be put together. Why they would let this guy write comics about characters he hates or does not understand is beyond me. Please skip this book and look for ones by Larry Hama.