Hunter Books

I enjoyed reading Escape To Hawaii very much. It was a fast paced thriller that kept me in suspense up until the very end. I recommend this book as well as this author's first book "Before I Sleep". Both very good!

I enjoyed reading Escape To Hawaii very much. It was a fast paced thriller that kept me in suspense up until the very end. I recommend this book as well as this author's first book "Before I Sleep". Both very good!

I bought this book when it first came out in 1993, and everything journalist Carol Ann Rinzler said then has now become accepted by the top medical researchers. Estrogen (especially when combined with progestin) DOES cause breast cancer, and the supposed benefits of estrogens for preventing heart disease are now being hotly debated. The HERS study (the first big randomized controlled trial on women with heart disease)actually found women had more heart attacks during the first year than women not on HRT. If you still have any doubt that estrogen causes breast cancer, READ THIS BOOK. Only when we're fully informed can women make clear-headed decisions about whether or not to take estrogen drugs for the rest of our lives.

An good example of, I have no conflict of interest, journalism. Ms. Rinzler has done her homework. She makes a sound case for the idea that the exponential increase in Breast Cancer is mostly the result of the massive introduction of estrogen into women's lives. Birth Control Pills, Hormone Replacement Therapy, DES and more, are all clearly implicated. Why then do they continue to be sold, with ever increasing favor? Why is this being denied/ignored? Why is this just shuffled off as a factor to consider? Why has this book received so little attention? Women should read, study and meditate on this book. Take it to heart. Ask yourself these questions. A fine example of excellent journalism, well written, staight foward and easy to read

All three of my children have enjoyed this book. Hunter's words are a comforting blend of hope and resolve. Children of all ages who have losted a love one will see God and nature's promise within the trials of loss.

Hunter Darden has done an outstanding job of dealing with the subject of death- a topic many parents try to avoid. The book is neither maudlin nor frighening and is beautifully illustrated. She explains the cycle of life in a way young children can understand.

Carmine Ganucci was a retired soft drinks magnate with a nice estate in Larchmont and influence in, well, certain circles. Which was precisely why Nanny Poole, the English governess he had hired to look after his 10 year old son, had no desire to let him know that little Lewis had been kidnapped. Since he was vacationing in Capri at the time, it wouldn't be too hard to keep him in the dark. Provided, of course, the kid returned, safe and sound, before his parents did. So she asked Benny Napkins, who used to be very big in linens and garbage, to help raise the $50,000 ransom...a search that sets off the funniest and most unlikely chain of events since the mob went "respectable". Evan Hunter conducts a merry romp through the labyrinth of disorganized crime with some of the funniest characters you can ever imagine. The black and white pictures in book are as funny looking as the story!

I read this book many years ago and just recently ran across it on a bookshelf covered up by years and years of other books. I wondered if it would be as funny to me this time as I remembered it being before. The short answer is, yes!

Evan Hunter (who has such blockbuster hits to his credit as The Blackboard Jungle and Strangers When We Meet)has written a funny, funny book about crime and a whacky world of minor thugs who get into trouble just by being alive. Nanny Poole has been left in charge of 10 year old Lewis Ganucci while his mother and father (Carmine and Stella) go on a vacation to Italy. And where else would someone in Carmine's line of business want to go for relaxation? He made his millions as a soft drinks manufacturer (wink, wink) and he controls lots of "business" in New York City. When Nanny discoveres that Lewis is missing she calls Benny Napkins to help her locate the child, fearing he may have been kidnapped. Why did she call on Benny? Because she didn't want Mr. Ganucci to find out his son had disappeared so she couldn't call on anyone important. Benny was the smallest potatoes she could think of to help her out. What follows is a series of mistakes, close calls and misadventures by some of the worst crooks you have ever come across. And by worst I mean bad at their chosen professions. Some of my favorite characters are Vinny and Alfred, the Corsican Brothers, who are not identical twins since they were born fourteen hours apart (right, from the same mother but fourteen hours apart so they are the Corsican Brothers, not the Corsican Twins - surely you get the distinction here!). Another favorite is Snitch Delatore who became a snitch when he snitched but he got the information wrong so now nobody will tell him anything to snitch about because they know he is a snitch. And then there is Bloomingdales (no first name given and not to be confused with the department store because he has no apostrophe), a fence whose apartment was the busiest little bargain walk-up in Harlem.

Each chapter introduces another crook and Mr Hunter uses a black and white picture to give you a visual of what this crook might look like. This was wonderful! Especially when I discovered in the back of the book he listed all the people pictured and their true occupations. Also included are reproductions of picture postcards from Italy (still in black and white), telegrams and letters, and a picture of Lewis' wrist watch along with the inscription on the back. All of this adds interest to the story, at least it did for me. The kidnapper is the only non professional criminal in the story and his conversations with the two men he admires most in the whole world are strange to say the least. Especially since the two men are never present and he doesn't even know them personally. A really weird character.

This book is my idea of a spoof. It does have one surprise element revealed at the ending but otherwise it is just purely fun watching the small time crooks try to get little Lewis back home before his parents get back. At one point someone points out that it is nice weather for swimming but not if you are wearing cement boots. Nobody dies, there is no blood and guts, there is no mystery to try to figure out. Read it for the humor and the pure enjoyment of knowing that Evan Hunter had FUN writing this book. Oh, and don't go getting all teary-eyed for poor little Lewis, he suffered not one whit. I do wish Mr. Hunter had told us what happened to the wrist watch though, it is a novelty item and that thing is worth a lot of money now!

I live in south dakota and reading this book makes me understand the area more. I have visited the areas he taks about. The co writers husband made the cofin for Siting Bull. and the co writer was the secertary for Siting bull. I have visited a stone church that is only a short distance from where Sitting bull was slain. a good book for anyone who likes history.

For an adventurous man who heard often "the call of the frontier" and responded accordingly, Ben Arnold's life is not that far out of the ordinary, though still remarkable. Apparently as an old man living in Pierre, SD, his daughter became interested in his stories and exploits as he related them to her, and she decided to write them down in notebooks. After his death in 1922, she worked on her notebooks and then took them to Lewis Crawford, head of the State Historical Society of North Dakota. He got them ready for publication. He decided to relate Arnold's story using the first person narrator - a good decision as it makes Arnold's accounts more immediate and personal.

Arnold relates nothing about his childhood, but begins with his soldiering in the Civil War. Three times he enlisted in Ohio regiments, deserting each time, the third time for good after getting into a feud with a fellow soldier near present-day Casper, WY. He headed west to Fort Hall in Idaho, where he operated a ferry (ferryman was a recurring occupation during Arnold's life). It was around this time that he changed his name to Ben Arnold (he was born Benjamin M. Connor).

The wanderlust bug struck and he drifted to Virginia City, where he did some mining, then bull-whacked around Fort Benton before going to Fort Union in North Dakota. Over the course of the next decade he was at Ft. Laramie, all over Nebraska, and was with Crook in his campaign against the Sioux as a dispatch rider, most notably at the Rosebud fight. Later he was a buffalo hunter in South Dakota and also homesteaded there. He died in Pierre in 1922.

The tone of the book is very matter-of-fact and to the point. Arnold was not a reflective man, apparently, for little of that is part of the book. Thus he is able to say, "A railroad was under construction [and] one of the engineers told me of a place where there would be a town; if I desired I could file on land within the proposed townsite. But I did not file. The town is now Douglas, Wyoming." That's that, no sorrow, no regrets.

The narrative stops about 20 years before his death because after that time he says "my experiences have not been unusual and are too common to be interesting." Perhaps. But what he's told us before, though not of the "I-fought-with-Custer" heroics, is definitely of interest. He was an adventurer in a land that was just beginning to be settled, a land that through his own exploits he would help create and define. The only wish I had while reading the book was for a modern editor, one who could annotate and explain further some things that Arnold tells about (Crawford attempts this in places, but not often, and gets some things wrong: Bovine, SD, a town Arnold founded, did not become present-day Capa but Van Metre.) But that's a minor quibble; I really enjoyed the book a lot. Highly recommended.

Its one of the few books on turkey hunting that zeros in on fall and winter hunting as opposed to spring hunting. Steve Hickoff has an easy to follow layout which makes it like the FAQs of fall and winter turkey hunting. Many of his examples come from New York and the northeast, where I hunt, so that is another plus for me. Additionally it also has great photographs which are sometimes instuctive and other times simply inspire one to grab the shotgun go turkey hunting.

The author went to great effort to produce a high quality book on fall hunting. It is written for one who has not hunted turkeys before. It has lots of color photos. It is absolutly not a book (as many are) quickly thrown together to make a quick dollar or two.
I pre ordered this book as there are no modern books devoted exclusively to fall hunting. I was not disappointed. I've hunted spring birds for many, many years but only started fall hunting three years ago as seasons opened. It was tough going. I had a lot to learn and I learned a lot from this book. The author covers all aspects ,in great detail, of fall hunting and leaves nothing out. Hickoff is a professional writer and it is obvious he has much experience with fall birds. This combination resulted in a great book. I highly recommend it.
One negative comment however: Turkey hunting is my passion.I also like to spend a lot of time in the woods. The book caused me to have a very short season (unlike past unsuccessful seasons).But, when you punch your tag you are done.
Buy and read this book and you will also have a shorter season.

The "basic restlessness", germ of anxiety, is according to Paul Diel, the common characteristic feature to all living beings, for it is determined by their dependence on an external world which may oppose obstacles against the satisfaction of vital needs. This book shows us with a catching precision in which way does, at the human stage, take place the reversal of anguish, nonetheless the driving force for evolution, into pathological anguish with all its individual and social consequences. But moreover, it shows the way in which pathological anguish can be overcome, and dynamically reverted into joy.

The "basic restlessness", germ of anxiety, is according to Paul Diel, the common characteristic feature to all living beings, for it is determined by their dependence on an external world which may oppose obstacles against the satisfaction of vital needs. This book shows us with a catching precision in which way does, at the human stage, take place the reversal of anguish, nonetheless the driving force for evolution, into pathological anguish with all its individual and social consequences. But moreover, it shows the way in which pathological anguish can be overcome, and dynamically reverted into joy.

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream" by Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter Thompson practiced total immersion journalism. This form of reporting is called gonzo journalism.

Hunter Thompson drove to Las Vegas to report on a motorcycle race and ended up writing a story about himself writing a story about a motorcycle race. If he would have written a conventional report on motorcycle racing it would have been interesting to motorcycle enthusiasts for a few days. Since he wrote a gonzo story he had a very wide canvas and he used it well to create a classic.

The reader might be turned off by the obstreperous behavior, extreme self indulgence and offensive inconsiderate language. If you can look past this offensive conduct and you will see that Hunter Thompson gave us an insight into the American character of the 1970's.

See also: Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (Modern Library)

I completely enjoyed this book and recommend it to others.

That so many people have tried to justify, make sense of and interpret Thompson's pseudo-fiction in literal terms only indicates how many asinine, clueless people have read this magnificently absurd book. All that's required when reading HST's drug-addled interpretation of his misadventures with Acosta is to simply ingest, and to set your inhibitive sense of reality aside while doing so.

In his correspondence, literature and journalism, HST ably explains how he rode the crest, slope and break of the most exciting, disheveled period in the history of American culture. His written discourse is invaluable for obtaining a clear understanding of a muddled and dynamic era, where dysfunction of many varieties constituted the norm and both the freedom afforded by a permissive society and its' technological advances were exploited for enormous personal gain. In a time when America is descending into a sanitized quagmire of mediocrity and sedation, we could only hope for so much.

I bought this for my husband and he loved it. He loves to relate to others some of Bone's antics making for interesting and lively conversation.

Very informative. I've been researching the Florida Cattle History and found information to support my theroy. This is my second copy.

John Gribbin is best known for his science books, but this is something completely different. Hardly any science but lots of adventures and biography of mostly 19th century explorers who risked life and limb (and sometimes lost one or the other) searching for new kinds of plants to take back to the civilized world. People crazy enough to climb high mountains with no equipment for the sheer fun of it, explorers who ventured into the Amazonian rainforest and suffered disease, poisonous stinging insects and murderous natives to bring back quinine to cure malaria, a European who travelled in China in disguise, fighting off pirates twice, to learn the secrets of tea production, and a middle-aged Victorian British gentlewoman who travelled round the world twice just to paint flowers. The plants they sent back to England alone would have paid off the National Debt, but they mostly made fortunes for other people and were left with nothing for themselves. Minor characters in the story include Captain Bligh, of the Bounty, and Charles Darwin. This is a terrific read, in the same vein as (but better than) the same authors' biography of Robert FitzRoy.

Charlie T.

I have been an avid reader of John and Mary Gribbin for a number of years. The Flower Hunters is another fine example of their work. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would recommend it to all of my friends. Being someone who generally reads hard-core science, I found it an interesting distraction to get away from the technical side of writing.
I applaud their efforts and hope that they keep up the great work.
Mr. Bill