Carter Books

This is a very light, straight-from-the-pages book. Meaning, it's not like his mother's biography. it doesn't give any insight or past memories or anything of the such. 98% of the stuff in this book is just recycled information from M, Popstar, Bop, etc.

Unfortunately, that's how most Aaron Carter books are. There may not be as much to write about on a sixteen-year-old as a thirty-something-year-old, but you can make it interesting.

All rants aside, again, this IS a fun book. It has the astrological stuff that teen mags repeat every month. However, this isn't the book for you if you've been a fan of Aaron's for a long time. It's very basic, and you probably already know who Nick is, what his birthday is, where he grew up, etc. Not to mention the fact that this book was released when he was just eleven. Most of the book is filler. His life story is finished before hte first half of the book; the last 2-3 chapters are donated to Nick and the BSB.

A recent fan? Check it out. A long-time fan? Skip it.

ohh, if u could read this book ,you will totally screamed.....I have read it and i couldnt stop my self to blushed coz i was amazed by aaron carter.He is so nice than I've known before...You so why wait buy this copy and this will impressed you so much...

I think his book was very well written book.Once i started reading i was devoured into the book. It felt a lot like i knew aaron from reading this short biogrophy. It let me kinda take an inside look at aaron...i learned a lot more about him. I also loved the color photo section in the book. And since i didn't know much about him at the time and i wanted to know more...I read this. I felt like i got to know him. I rate this a 10 star book! Ok I rate it a 5 outa 5..there that better??? So if u are an aaron fan...i suggest you read this! I luv u aaron! Luv, ~*~*KRystal~*~*

THIS BOOK IS BRILL IT TELLS YOU TONS ABOUT AARON AND HOW TO CONTACT HIM IT ALSO TELLS YOU HIS OLD ADDRESS IN TAMPA BAY.I KNOW EVERY ONE SAY THIS BUT I REALLY AM HIS NUMBER ONE FAN, OH BOY WHAT ID DO TO MEET HIM ID DO NEARLY ANY THING. I THINK HES GREAT AND THIS BOOK IS BETTER THEN WORDS CAN SAY...I LOVE AARON VOICE AND PORSONALITY AND THIS BOOK TELLS YOU EVERY THING,I JUST WISH AARON COULD WRITE HIS OWN BOOK THAT WOULD BE SO COOL WELL AS I SAY I LOVE THIS BOOK AND I JUST READ IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN ITS SO GOOD SO BUY IT!!!!!

well..I think if you read this book you would be soooo suprised about Aaron Carter..that he's so awsome..and cute too!!!

Joyce Meyer did an amazing job writing this book about dealing with the lies that the enemy makes us believe as truths. This book helped me to see things that the enemy didn't want me to see and it brought me closer to God. Now, I can say I'm free from all of the enemy's lies. It also taught me how to pray in a way that pleases God. This is a must have book for Christians who truly want to develop a closer relationship with God.

This book came into my life at a time when I had struggles that were suffocating me. My head was in a fog. I felt like a snail without it's shell - exposed on a hot day. Though I had a close relationship with God my focus wasn't on Him as it should've been but on the issues I was having to deal with. The wisest thing I did was pick up this book and, along with my Bible, studied God's message. The Battle Belongs to the Lord is straightforward and helps you to enter God's presence in a strong and powerful way by teaching you to praise and worship Him at ALL times; especially during the tough times.

This has to be one of my favorite books by Joyce Meyer. It gives you practical strategies to overcome life's every day struggles by handing them over to the Lord. This book has so many realistic tools that can be used to live a life of victory through the Lord. I have to admit that when I read the Bible I sometimes have difficulty getting the true message or meaning that is being conveyed. Joyce has a remarkable ability to translate verses for people just like me, as well as give practical methods of putting these passages to use in every day life.
READ THIS BOOK AND START YOUR LIFE OF VICTORY.

This book is a great resource in your walk with the Lord. Too many times we try to take care of the battles ourselves and when we do we will always lose. The only way to win the battle is to let the Lord fight it for you and have complete trust in him. This book helps you give your battles to the Lord by reminding you that the battle is not yours to fight anyway and that God will ultimately win the battle. This is a great book to read if you are having problems giving your battles to the Lord.

My attention was gripped from the very first sentence and held "captive" throughout the entire book. It was well written and spoke to issues we all deal with in our desire to grow and mature in our relationship with God. This is the first book of Joyce Meyer's that I've read and I have been greatly blessed by it. I highly recommend this book for anyone who struggles with fear and defeat in their lives.

I've read this book several times, and it never fails to move me. I don't think I've read a more powerful book. Oprah needs to get on this one.

Brother to a Dragonfly is the story of 2 brothers who, in their own way, idolize each other. Will looks up to his older brother Joe. Joe is the protector. He always wants to make things right. And Joe knows that Will is destined to have a mark on the world. But Will D. Campbell has written more than a memoir in writing about growing up with his brother Joe in rural Mississippi. He has captured a piece of America's past. This book reads like a novel - poverty, war, race relations, the civil rights movement, drug addiction, domestic violence - it's all there. Occasionally Campbell makes an awkward jump in the story, but this some how enhances the voice and reminds the reader that this is life. Life doesn't always flow like we would like it to. While telling the story of his brother, Campbell paints a portrait of southerners (himself) during the civil rights movement that don't always get the recognition they deserve. I was surprised by the insights he had 40 years ago about both sides of the civil rights movement. I was even more surprised to find that I had bought into many of the southern stereotypes, and I'm southern!
If you are interested in southern literature, coming of age stories, family relationships, American history from 1930's to 1960's, or the Civil Rights Movement, you need to add Brother to a Dragonfly to your list of reads. Will D. Campbell gives a first rate account of his experience. While it is only one man's view, it is a rich one!

This book sets the standard for brotherly love: through the joyous days of youth, through sickness, through the reversal of who worships who, each standing up for the other no matter what.

This book also wrestles with faith, guilt before the law versus guilt before God, examines stereotypes and throws them away.

"Suddenly I knew a lot of things I had not known before. I knew that I had been caught in my own trap. (In a discussion with a Klansman) Suddenly I knew that we are a nation of Klansmen. I knew that as a nation we stood for peace, harmony and freedom in that war (Vietnam), that we defined the words, and that the means we were employing to accomplish those ends were identical with the ones he had listed."

Follow Will Campbell in his journey with his brother and your horizons will be broadened.

If you were raised in the south as I was, have an interest in the civil rights movement, or want to enjoy one of the most irreverent Christian curmudgeons ever to irritate the church, then read Will Campbell (b. 1924). Campbell was born and raised in the rural and very poor deep south of Amite, Mississippi, "ordained" by family members at a local Baptist church when he was seventeen, and, in a delightfully improbable life, played a central role as an activist and agitator on behalf of African Americans. But to leave it at that would badly misrepresent him.

After World War II Campbell studied at Tulane, Wake Forest, and Yale. He served as Director of Religious life at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), but left after two years because his controversial views attracted death threats. He then did a stint for the National Council of Churches where he worked with most of the civil rights luminaries. In 1957, Campbell was one of four people who escorted the nine black students who integrated Little Rock's Central High School; and he was the only white person to attend the founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. So, how did he come to sip whiskey with the KKK and get hate mail from the left?

Campbell came to distrust all movements and institutions, especially the church (he once referred to television preachers as liars, frauds, and "electronic soul molesters"). He dismissed all politics as impotent. It was less than Christian, he realized, to agitate for the oppressed but to hate the oppressor. No, one could not preach what Luther called a "fictitious grace." God loves the redneck Klansmen as well as the disinherited blacks. For the most part, Brother to a Dragonfly tells the story of Campbell's deep love for his brother Joe, and how the latter's tragic demise to alcohol, drugs, and domestic violence led to his premature death. But it was through Joe and an overtly pagan family friend that Campbell had a conversion later in life. Without realizing it, he recalls, his twenty years of ministry had become one of "liberal sophistication. An attempted negation of Jesus, of human engineering, of riding the coattails of Caesar, of playing on his ballpark, by his rules and with his ball, of looking to government to make and verify and authenticate our morality, of worshipping at the shrine of enlightenment and academia, of making an idol of the Supreme Court, a theology of law and order and of not only denying the Faith I professed to hold but my history and my people--the Thomas Colemans [who murdered two civil rights workers]. Loved. And if loved, forgiven. And if forgiven, reconciled." There was all the difference in the world, he realized, between being a "doctrinaire social activist," however laudable, and a follower of Jesus. The key? "I came to understand the nature of tragedy. And one who understands the nature of tragedy can never take sides."

Christian renegade, preacher, author of twenty books and plays, farmer, country musician, friend of Thomas Merton, and agent provocateur, Will Campbell loves a good chew of tobacco and will strike many as enigmatic. Not everyone will appreciate his rapier wit. But PBS profiled him in their documentary "God's Will," in 2000 President Clinton honored him with a National Endowment for the Humanities medal, and Brother to a Dragonfly won numerous literary awards.

Brother to a dragonfly, Will D Campbell's brilliant,evocative, nostalgic luminous memoir teels the story of his family in the pre-tva rural south. Though much much more then a simple coming of age story,it is the story of 2 brothers,their lives amid the greatest change in this ountry since the civil war. Will D Campbell and his brother Joe stories are told so movingly,and with such deep power that ,by the end it will move you to tears. It is the sory of a man,family,RELIGION,the south,race,addiction,love and death. It will shatter any preconcieved notions and stereotypes,for Will D Campell is a true iconoclast. I run out of superlatives to describe this book. Read it.

This book is great. It gives a lot of practical hints on how to accesorize your home. I can't wait to try out some of the suggestions.

This is a really lovely book. The examples are very nice and I think most of them come from the authors own home. The three step guide to accesorizing is wonderful. I just wish she had taken a little more time writing. The pictures are vibrant and modern. It's a nice book, but could have used more written content.

It's simply a wonderful book in every way - wonderful to look at, wonderful to read and wonderful to learn from! It contains lots of simple brilliant ideas to be aesily applied at our home w/ our own collection that bring smart and beautiful result!

Highly recommended both for the homeowners and design proffesionals - one of the best book in its kind - we got all the lessons and samples we need in accesorizing and decorating our rooms easily and stylishly!

This is one of my favorite decorating books in my library.

I wish Christi would write another book on this subject (or any decorating subject!) Her photos are simply exquisite. Also, this book is easy to follow.

This book shows how to accessorize in a "semi-formal" way. Christi takes the reader through every room in (any) house and shows ,for instance, how to hang pictures, or place objects in an appealing manner, or use colors, etc....

This book is sooooooooo good. It is like being enrolled in a decorating class --- except you learn and study at your own pace. This is helpful to me since I do not have time to take a class. I have never seen another decorating book that even compares to this. She breaks everything down into steps and categories. Everything is illustrated using actual rooms and real situations. The information is very usable and I will be applying the principals learned in this book from now on. I think it will save me $$$$ by keeping me from purchasing the wrong accessories that do not work in my home. The book is also attractive and fun to look at so you could approach it by just looking at it and getting ideas the way most decorating books help us This book will help you learn what works and what does not and why. Again it is the best decorating book ever because you can casual use it to flip through and get ideas. You can also use if to really study and learn how to decorate. Either way you will not waste your money on this one.

a wonderful little book. inspiring. it is clear in these verses that perception... which exists even without the i is the root of all mental/physical processes. loving kindness is advocated though attachment discouraged. an interesting and no doubt attainable goal. i myself value attachment, but without clinging. another paradox/conflict. to me caring reqires a degree of attachment.

the wisdom in this book 'is' profound. awareness, the ability to see and to hear, is something we all have. this seeing is normal and yet when practiced in the humdrum of modern life it is unusual, this is since most of us are thinking so much that we never have time to see, hear, smell or taste anything deeply. and yet all of this is about engaging the heart through the mind. since it is the heart that is touched by perception and not the mind (recepticle of thought). the grass is green in shepherds bush, the busses are bussy driving the roads, the pigeons are happy. they are well fed. when it snows it snows, even in the spring, when the sunshines it is warm. all of this is real, it is thouroughly real, and yet it defies existence. full and yet empty. what is is what is, even what isnt... this is perception.

ive been giving perception a look at this past couple of weeks, and break it down like this:

perception/awareness = understanding, without understanding there can be no perception, since perception is understanding.

understanding = thought + process + speed.

thought = mental cognition + time + effort.
process = time + function + action.
speed = certainty + time + function.

function = understanding + speech + listening.
time = clarity + vision + express.
express = form + function + action.

the above is a way of breaking down perception. but after all this it teaches us only that through the effort of looking into things we see them more clearly... my favourite tools here are action and function, both very important in developing understanding/perception. it is through action and the elements in function that we give and it is through giving that we receive. there is wisdom in both speaking and listening, and these two are intimately linked to understanding. with action it is our physical prescense and active participation in the world that engenders understanding.

"preceded by perception are mental states" and yet mental states engender perception, it works both ways, a circle, one side giving to the other.

what isnt is what isnt, except what is and this too is what isnt. whatever you seek for you find.

take time to disengage the thought process, stop thinking for a while and start feeling (this too requires understanding). start sensing, seeing, feeling... how do all things affect your emotions. a painting. the radiant green of the grass. but you will see if you practice that throughout this emotional engagement thoughts play an integral part within the feeling process.

are you awake? yes... and no. when you know that you are awake... really awake this truth will come to you. for many years i was not awake... but when you know that the only thing you do know about yourself is that you are awake and that this is. then you are awake... there is a process that leads to this point. it cannot be without a process of searching... seek and ye shall find.

oh well, enough of my patronising nonsense, see things as they are, as they are not.

love, snow-flake. xxx

This is one of the finest versions of the classic Theravada text out there. Carter and Palihawadana managed to strike the perfect balance of getting the timeless message of the Buddha's teaching across while at the same time presenting it in a straight foward, easy to understand manner. Those who are unfamiliar with The Dhammapada will find this translation very accessible while those who are will greatly appreciate beautiful wisdom-filled verses that Carter and Palihawadana have so eloquently preserved. The Introduction and explanatory notes throughout the text also provide a great deal of rich knowledge which adds even more depth to this most cherished of work of Buddhist literature.

The Dhammapada is a deeply-inspiring religious text and the best-known work of the Theravada Buddhist canon. It consists of 423 short verses arranged in 26 chapters which cover, in brief form, the major aspects of the Buddha's teachings from the most mundane to the deepest. About 25 percent of the verses appear elsewhere in the Theravada Buddhist canon. In many Buddhist countries, children memorize this text which has much to teach both the learned and the simple. In its combination of simplicity and depth, the closest analogue to the Dhammapada in the Jewish-Christian Scriptures is the book of Psalms.

The Dhammapada has been well-served by many excellent translations. The translation under review here, by John Ross Carter, Professor of Philosophy at Colgate University, and Mahinda Palhawandana, Professer of Sanskrit Emeritus in Sri Lanka, is unique in its care and in the scope of its learning. In addition to the text, this translation includes line-by-line translations of the earliest Sri Lankan commentaries on the Dhammapada. These commentaries were written over the course of many centuries and systematized in about 1000 A.D. There is a separate and later series of commentaries on the text in which stories were written to illustrate the events that gave rise to the Buddha's utterance of each verse. These stories are not included here, but they are summarized in another well-known translation of the Dhammapada by the monk Narada, which I shall mention below.

This edition begins with a scholarly introduction to the text and the commentaries followed by an English rendition of the text of the Dhammapada without commentary. The next section of the book repeats the English translation together with the Pali text with the addition of the extensive commentary. Each chapter is arranged in accordance with the commentarial arrangement in which some verses are considered singly and others are combined in groups. Following the translation of text and commentary, there is a series of notes. Some of these notes deal with points of grammar while others describe in detail points of Buddhist teaching to illuminate the text and commentary.

The goal of this detailed presentation is to make the Dhammapada and its ancient interpretations available so that the interested reader may study the text with his or her own eyes. As Carter and Palihawanana state in their introduction (p. 9):

"It was our endeavor to make this work as much as possible a 'stitching of the centuries'. What this reveals is on the one hand the prodoundly evocative power of the religious sentiments expressed in the text, and on the other the conservatism of the tradition that interprets the text as we see in these documents. ... But from the way we set about it, what is of singular importance is the arrangement of this book: presenting the text itself as a text and presenting the history of its study in the setting of a growing tradition of interpretation....We wanted to make the text, as something in human hands, to point forward from the past through present into the future."

I want to give two brief examples from the translation. First, verse 183 of the Dhammapada is universally regarded as offering the shortest, most basic statement of the Buddha's teaching. Here it is in Carter and Palihawadana:

"Refraining from all that is detrimental,
The attainment of what is wholesome,
The purification of one's mind:
This is the instruction of Awakened Ones."

Note how the translation avoids the use of the word "bad" in line one and "good" in line two. Many might question this. But the point of this translation is to avoid the theistic connotations many Western readers will bring to the words "good" and "bad". Also note the term "Awakened Ones" in the final line rather than the more literal and traditional translation, "all the Buddhas". The difference points in the direction of universalizing the teaching rather than, perhaps, limiting it by sectarianism.

I want to look briefly at verse 1 of the Dhammapada which is basic to much of what follows in the text. It is also perhaps the most difficult verse in the work. Here it is in Carter and Palihawadana:

"Preceded by perception are mental states,
For them is perception supreme,
From perception have they sprung.
If, with perception polluted, one speaks or acts,
Thence suffering follows
As a wheel the draught ox's foot."

Most translation of verse 1 speak in terms of "the mind." Thus, Narada translates the beginning of the verse: "Mind is the forerunner of (all evil) states. Mind is chief: mind-made are they." ... Carter and Palihawadana try to present the text in a way that will not encourage the Western reader to equate it with the idealism of Plato or Berkeley. The verse remains a difficult and deep teaching on any reading.

I have the good fortune to participate in a Sutta Study Group where we read the Dhammapada chapter-by-chapter over the course of about one year. We used Carter and Palihawadana together with several other translations, as we discussed and debated and tried to understand the Dhammapada together.

The reader may not by lucky enough to have access to such a group, but the Dhammapada is a work that will reward individual study at any level. Some readers may find Carter and Palihawandana more than they need to begin. But for those wanting to make a detailed study of this great text, this work is invaluable.

Carter and Palihawadana have done an excellet job keeping close to the Pali with their 1987 work.

If the chapters sound stilted and harsh to the Western ears, then that may have more to do with the awkwardness of the English language which often fails to simply render the spiritual depths of the heart of the Buddha adequately.

The layout of the book is of three parts:
Introduction, The Text and the Text With Transliteration and Commentary.

The introduction by Jaroslav Pelikan, a noted Yale historian with an academic knowledge of organized religion, notes that this is a long-distance collaboration where the originaly manuscript may have been a lot of ocean voyages on its own.

The Text covers the English translation from Chapters 1 to 26.

If the text is dry in parts, it might be because both authors may not have had the luxury of a long ocean voyage during which such allusions to the spiritual ocean of mercy and love (compassion) may have had time to be realized as the complement of the spiritual wisdom hinted at through the academic knowledge contained in Pelikan's introduction, Carter's invisible hand at the Text, and Palihawadana's translation and philological commentary.

However, the lack of numbered reference notes to match the citations throughout Palihawadana left me eager for the pages that match the numbered references with the proper citations.

Indeed, there are 63 such references awaiting final resolution. Yet the commentaries are very edifying and always delight me with a somewhat greater familitarity with Pali than before I opened the book.

I have previously read classic Max Muller's version and some translations foud at numerous web-pages. I think this is clearly
the best of them. Carter and Palihawadana have retained texts lyric style but still their ambition is to bring autentic text as such to us. Hence reader have to use glossary where most importánt words and referensees are. I may be a bit annoying but
If you really want know exactly what what is in original dhammapada you has to use such method. Some at web "intreprete"
too much, then the text may look easier but It may go also wrong.
Only negative comment is that people to which english is not native language, text may have too mamy many fine but unfamiliar words. I recommend this book. It is one of the classics of Worlds religious teachings.

I got this for my wife for Christmas but read it before she did as I knew I would. There are actual laugh out loud moments in the book which is rare today. The stories are brief but will strike a responsive cord in dog owners and lovers everywhere. I think that is why we like books like this, they confirm that other people do the same things we do. Like have both halves of a conversation with our dogs and firmly believe we get the dog's comments exactly right. The book is enhanced by having one of the author's weiner dogs be a rescue from a puppy mill. I see from the author's web page he is gone now but he had a lot of good years with her. Just a pleasant read that leaves you feeling better about everything.

The Dog Dialogues is a fantastic collection of stories and experiences straight from the author and her very own dogs. We all want to know what our dogs are thinking and what we think they are saying. The author has done this with a straight forward humor we can all enjoy. She writes of her own experiences with her own dogs. My favorite chapter is Herman and the gophers but who can resist Fence Insults or The Alligator. I may just read it all again just for the joy of laughing. I enjoyed the illustrations as well.

Great short stories capturing the humorous experiences of humans with their animals!!! Everyone with a pet can appreciate this book!

As a national radio and television journalist for 25 years, I've heard a lot of interesting stories. Few, however, have been as hilarious as those conversations between Laura Hinson Miller and her family pets memoralized in "The Dog Dialogues." I laughed out loud! I'm now buying copies of the book as gifts for my animal-loving friends.
- Stephanie O'Neill

I must have read this chapter 5 times and I still laugh so hard I cry! What a gem this book is for those of us who appreciate the nuances of animal communication. Each chapter is a delightful morsel of insight and humor. The author captures both the superficial and the deep messages surrounding human-pet and pet-pet relations. I plan to keep this book on my desk when I need to lighten up and have a good laugh during my day.

I loved this book! Basically, it's a collection of short (some very short) stories about the author's life on and off the oil rigs of the world, the people he meets along the way and his reflections on all of it.

The writer is clever and extremely funny, he has the knack for telling a story that makes you feel as though you're at a party with him and he's a good mate just back from the rigs. He's also extremely honest about his past, his mistakes (sometimes with dire consequences for him and his friends) and his love life.

I have talked about some of his stories at parties and had people in tears with laughter.

I particularly liked that the author knew where a story should end. He didn't pad them out with uninteresting facts, he just told his stories and let them end where they should.

This book is heaps of fun and has the added advantage of being great for busy people; just read a story and pick it up again when you have a free 5 minutes.

I end up buying a lot of books that document people's interesting adventures in far away places. Some of them turn out to be poorly written or boring, but NOT THIS BOOK. I read it in a day, and loved it. While I'm in the oil industry, and that might help viusalize some of the places he ended up in, it's not at all necessary to have a background to enjoy this book- the majority of it is actually his travels to and from the rig. Love the crazy cast of characters, variety of pets, and especially the Brunei native whose dog had a dog...

Paul Carter's "Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs (she thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse" is the first book I've read in a single sitting in over a decade.

This is a hilarious lad book that follows the outrageous life of Paul Carter, who is among those nomadic and enigmatic outlaws who work on oil rigs around the world.

Oddly, there is little about rigs in detail chronicled. Rather, Carter builds his tale around the odd characters and the remote and improbable settings of oil rigs, dealing in turn with boredom, drinking, outrageous anti-social acts, elaborate practical jokes and the bizarre pets he and his comrades of the derricks collect along the way.

Carter's narrative is clean and direct, something that apparently comes naturally to him (while other authors struggle for years to lean-up their prose reading endless swatches of Raymond Carver to do so).

But it is Carter's human and animal characters that haunt: for indeed any lad who has gone off on adventures (working in Alaska salmon fishing and canning for me) recognizes the human flotsam and jetsam depicted here. Those with a past, those who'd like to forget a past, those who'd like others to forget their past, and those who have no future other than their immediate animal needs in the present are all here, faithfully and fatefully sketched like so many guys you've known. Carter makes rig workers into that odd fraternity of a modern French Foreign Legion.

This book surprised me - don't be fooled by the title. It is hilarious. Paul seems to be one of those people whose life is a series of laughable events. Highly recommended reading.

I laughed out loud at this book. I found I could not put it down until it was finished. Even if you are not familiar with the oil industry (I'm not) the book is a must read.

Jimmy Carter was arguably the worst President in American history and not only that, he was also responsible for giving Islamism a place to call home in Iran. But Carter didn't stop there, he also has supported anti-semitism and neo-nazism in many places and today allies himself with the likes of Iran's president Ahmadinjed in his book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. Jimmy Carter helped cause the Iranian revolution and also worked to help the Ayatollahs take power and then sacrificed American lives after the fact, for absolutely no reason. Unfortunatly this book exposes the truth about Carter and Islamism and his responsibility for 9/11.

Seth J. Frantzman

Great Read !! Was Carter a noble humanitarian? The author has presented with precision, a different perspective; In dealing with Iran, Carter's views were at best naive, or perhaps worse, a deliberate detachment for self aggrandizement. A must read for any one doubting the threat of militant Islam or Carter's ill conceived appeasement to its incubation.

Author lays out in detail the story behind the Islamic-Marxist revolution of Iran in 1979. Carter allowed that disaster to take place before his very eyes and now we're paying the costs all over the world. This book is full of details and information. I Loved it. Used it as a good source for my Diplomacy Class 2nd and 3rd major essays. This book is a must read!

I thought the book covered in excellent detail the events that led to the Islamic takeover in Iran, without making a personal attack on Carter or his administration. He lays out the historical facts and political background of the time period very well. I like a book that does not try to take you to a place, but allows you to get there by yourself.

The book lays out the dedication to a policy and theory within the Carter administration that ignored the reality of the political and theological culture in Iran. Carter, like many liberals, set a policy that made him feel good about himself and his administration. It has cost many US lives over the decades since. Pilevsky says what few others are saying, but many have thought it. This "Terrorist Thing" starts with Carter.

Simply put: the best book I've ever read! Pilevsky brings back the Carter years in full technicolor - the blinders and gloves are off. His writing is smooth, strong and punchy. If this book came out before 2002, Carter might not have won the Nobel Peace price. It's actually that powerful and relevant.

I can't wait for Philip Pilevsky's next book!!

It's been over 10 years now but I still remember passages of this book and how it helped me get a grip on my pride and need for control. It confronts so much more than the obvious - even meddling in why I feel uncomfortable in social situations. This book should be reprinted and revisted every 10 years or so because it should be right next to the bible for anyone who even THINKS that they just "like things a certain way." :)

I believe those "imperative people" described in this book simply have Asperges Syndrome. I met this book several years ago and found that the description of people here applied to some people I knew. However, as I came to know Aspergers Syndrome, my view has changed. The book is still informative in many aspects. But I advise readers also read books on Aspergers Syndrome.

A friend gave me the book to read a few years ago. It was great! It helped me to see the controlling part of my personality. I didn't know how damaging it was to me and others. Now, I need to share it with others who are struggling with the same issues, but I can't find a copy. Please let me know where I can find this book.

I have used this book with many clients and their families. It is a great resource tool in understanding controlling personalities. However, I loaned by book to a client and never got it back. Does any one know where i can obtain another? chastainjb@aol.com.

I learned from this book how one of my greatest strengths in controlling circumstances at work created problems with relationships with those i loved the most when i used those same techniques at home. i also learned ways to change my behavior for the better which has made life at home much more harmonious for all. i have loaned this book to so many others that have found it extremely helpful that my copy is now dog-eared. Please let me know if anyone has info on how to purchase additional copies, since i would like to have them available to give to others. badges@gate.net.

Yet more great stories from literary master David Lubar. Plenty of short
sharp shocks to give kids the shivers as Halloween approaches!

My kids and I loved this book. It is full of great short stories. It would be a great book for a reluctant reader because the stories are so short. The reader can have many short, entertaining reading sessions without the chance of getting bored. While camping this past weekend my son retold many of stories from this book while we were sitting around the campfire. They really are great spooky campfire stories!

This book is creepy but not to creepy,that's what I love about this book. Some of these storys are funny and creepy. My favorite story is "Nigh Fishing" its really creepy. I recomend this book to everone, Lubar strikes again!

In the book Invasion of the Road Weenies David Lumber tells scary stories to scare the readers and get them excited about what's going to happen. This book is fiction book so the kids who like fiction books should read this amazing book. I like this book because its fiction and it get me to visualizes what's happening in the story. There are all sorts of stories in this book like the " TANK" or "COPIES". In the "Tank" this kid saw ripples in the water and was wondering why there was ripples in the water. And in "Copies" these boys go to work with there father and finds a copier and puts there face on it and copies one thousand copies and they come out with out a face. There are 35 wonderful stories in this book Bt Tyler

If you want to read a book but you don't know what you want to read, you should read INVASION OF THE ROAD WEENIES written by David Lubar. Invasion of the Road Weenies are all little stories you can laugh so hard you'll almost cry of laughter. You might think it is dumb at first but it
will get really funny. I think this book should be 4 stars. I like one called COPIES. Copies is about a little boy and his brother that go to their dad's work for bring your child to work day. The two boys see a copy machine and decide to use it. The older brother puts his younger brother's face on the copy machine and accidentally presses 1,000 copies. Then the older brother sits down on another to copy his behind. Then finally when the copies were over they see that their face and behind was gone! If you like the beginning you'll really like it in the end. I hope read this book and I hope you have a good time reading this!!