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I haven't been able to buy this book, but I have read it. It is very good, and doesn't just talk about the play, about half the essays are significantly focused on the movie version of Glengarry Glen Ross, and there are a few that are completely focused on it. I believe one even makes a case that the movie is better than the play (which I agree with). A great book if you are interested in Mamet's work of genius!

Scary stuff. This is not a job I think I could do. I was amazed by the immense variety of family distress situations faced by the court. Judge Ross seems to maintain great powers of objectivity and analysis in the face of a near-constant stream of the most painful decisions one could have to make. I was stunned by some of the descriptions of what many kids before his court endured before they got there. Fascinating book. I hope more are forthcoming from Judge Ross.

These are tough poems by a writer whose sense of beauty and grief is as sharp as grassblades and as rich as colostrum.

Dead But Dreaming was originally released in 2002 from Dark Tales Publication. There was an initial print run of 75 copies and then either sales were slow or the publisher tanked. I may have gotten the very last copy sold at the list price back in 2004. Until now, collectors have been paying exorbitant prices for used copies, up to $300. Now Miskatonic River Press has released a new edition of this marvelous anthology. I'll leave it to someone else to figure out what this might do to the value of the first edition copies and whether this edition will ever be a collector's item. I am ecstatic that interested mythos fans can finally see an affordable copy of what may be the finest anthology of Cthulhu mythos fiction in the modern era. I do not yet have my copy of the new book. It lists for $17.99. The new issue has a new afterward and authors' biographies. The original had 194 pages of text; cover art was a mysteriously evocative cephalopod eye; I can't figure out who created it. Editorial chores were performed by Kevin Ross and Keith Herber; they hit a homerun with this one. The book starts with an incisive essay by Kevin Ross that skewers everything wrong with run of the mill mythos pastiches and gives the underlying philosophy of the book. I found myself nodding in agreement with everything he wrote.

Epiphany: A Flying Tiger's Story by Stephen Mark Rainey - In this story a world war II pilot in the Pacific encounters an immense and unfathomable entity deep in the jungle. I believe this is the story Mr. Rainey later expanded into his novel Blue Devil Island (which is clamoring for attention in my to-be-read stack). This was a very well written story; I was pleasantly engaged.

Bangkok Rules by Patrick Lestewka - And now with Bangkok Rules I began to get a glimmer that this was no ordinary anthology. This is a brilliant piece, compulsively readable, creepy and oozing Lovecraftian sensibilities. A hit man perhaps works for a different boss than he thinks. How I wish Mr. Lestewka would write a mythos novel.

Why We Do It by Darrell Schweitzer - I loved this one too! A sort of dorky college student brings a girl back home to observe his family's religious rites.

The Disciple by David Barr Kirtley - Three brilliant stories in a row! Please write some more mythos fiction Mr. Kirtley! At good old Miskatonic University some students come to learn arts other than the humanities.

Salt Air by Mike Minnis - I have always loved the fiction of Mike Minnis. I think there was a planned single author collection from Lindisfarne Press before that worthy company tanked. Salt Air is a wonderfully somber and evocative Yellow Sign story.

Through the Cracks by Walt Jarvis - The anthology moves from strength to strength with this cautionary tale of catching the attention of indescribable things that live in or world beyond our senses.

The Unseen Battle by Brian Scott Hiebert - In Tahiti, an escapee from the carnage of WWI is pursued to the ends of the earth b something noxious from the battlefield. Another good read.

Bayer's Tale by Adam Niswander - Adam Niswander wrote only a few mythos stories, which are in his collection of short fiction, Blurring the Edges of Dream. Bayer's Tale is the best of his work, although it does not stand out in such formidable competition. A detective investigating a strange mass murder is lead to a terrifying reality.

The Call of Cthulhu: The Motion Picture by Lisa Morton - What would happen if someone did make a motion picture The Call of Cthulhu, with an unexpected guest appearance by the title character, and it caused many more people to believe in it? This one also was pretty darned good.

Under an Invisible Shadow by David Bain - This was OK for me, at least in comparison to the stories that have come before. In this zombie apocalypse, the zombie bodies are collected by something indescribable.

The Thing Beyond the Stars by Robin Morris - For me this story worked pretty well. IN the vastness of space there lurk entities that have less regard for us than we do an ant at a picnic.

Fire Breathing by Mehitobel Wilson - Another thought provoking story, where a dj finds out he is the instrument rather than the musician.

The Other Names by Ramsey Campbell (originally in Interzone Nov 98) - Wow. A simpleton finds a few copied pages of the Necronomicon when he goes into an old house on a dare. He learns how names can affect reality when spoken in the name of Daoloth. Beautifully written and it will make your flesh crawl.

Final Draft by David Annandale - How fitting that this astonishing work closes an astonishing anthology. I do not have the superlatives to do this story justice. It competes with A Colder War by Charlie Stross for the title of the finest Cthulhu mythos story of the modern era.

So, what to say? Most of these stories are brilliant, among the best of contemporary Cthulhu mythos works. All are good and worth your while. I urgently recommend this book to anyone who cares about Lovecraftian fiction and especially to those of you who are skeptical of HPL's mimics. No pastiches here; these writers have embraced Lovecraft's themes and put their own original stamp on them. You are in for a real treat with Dead But Dreaming.

Dead but Dreaming is the finest Lovecraftian/Cthulhu Mythos anthology to see print in a very, very long time (in a strange aeon, if I may...!). Writing in this often-muddled genre gets no better than this. You won't find a lot of "names" herein, but don't let that stop you from buying and reading this amazing tome. Editor Ross set out to collect stories that paid homage to Lovecraft without being trite slaves to his style. This IS, indeed, a collection of Lovecraftian horror, NOT a jumble of pastiches and old-formula Cthulhu Mythos tales. No, this is fresh and enjoyable, with more than a few surprises in store for the reader. Of the fifteen tales presented, there were but a few that didn't "grab" me, and only one that I can actually say I disliked. The majority here are keepers, for sure. As an author, editor, and small press publisher, myself, I have to admit to jealousy on my part: I wish I had been responsible for this book! If you are a fan of H.P. Lovecraft and his Cthulhu Mythos treat yoruself to something very special and buy this book!

For the marketing people of cruise lines this book must be a nightmare - but it schouldn't.
Ross Klein covers in much detail how the modern cruise industry works - from building up (too) high expectations among passengers through its brochures, to the ways to safe money (by violating saftey or environmental regulations) to how cruise lines tend to "Squeeze Blood From a Turnip" (Chapter 7).
Though the books puts much emphasis on pointing out the problems of the cruise industry, it is meant to give potential passengers a realistic idea of what to expect on a cruise. Only when they have a realistic conception - despite announcements of "exceeding everyone's expectations" in the brochures - they will be able to fully enjoy their cruise, avoiding dissatisfaction by anything unexpected.
Therefore Ross Klein's book is a must for all marketing people or travel agents dealing with cruises.

I bought this book as a gift for a serious Red Wing collector and am glad I did. It's not the usual type of Red Wing memorabilia they'd run across and it gives an interesting viewpoint of the political arena the pottery business went through, which isn't very well known.

Jonathan Ross in his Detective Superintendent George Roger series almost always tells an engrossing story, and this one is no exception. His narrative whips along and keeps you hopping until the final clever twist. It's a very cunning story indeed in which the British detective takes a few liberties with the laws he's enforcing.
A bum, albeit a cultured tramp, finds a body in a churchyard. Upon investigation the corpse disappears. Is the gentleman hallucinating? This leads pipe-smoking Rogers into a witness labyrinth in which, as usual, he sweats a lot, gets his clothes rumpled and goes until he nearly drops; his cases are carried out in a pressure cooker atmosphere. Of one witness he thinks, "She had a mouth like a paper shredder, and he kept putting his hand into it." He keeps a sexy female suspect at bay while having an affair with his lusty female pathologist.
Rogers's sleepless, non-stop investigations often involve a too graphic and decidedly distasteful autopsy, perhaps because ex-cop Ross has a somewhat jaundiced, cynical view of the world. Enter this fictional world and be drawn into a fascinating place where law and libido clash.
The Daemon in Our Dreams
Nine Lives Too Many
The Rice Queen Spy
Clawed Back from the Dead

I wanted to find an explanation of the emphasis on independent reading in the schools--and through an online database, I came upon the chapter by Paula M. Salvio. The analysis was so probing and soulful that I wanted to read the whole book, all four volumes! She showed why we feel that something is amiss in the system, and pointed to a painful paradox where (if I understand correctly) students are given a certain "independence" (e.g., independent reading) but robbed of a greater sort of independence, the kind that comes from interacting with a passionate and knowledgeable teacher. For me she recalls Dostoevsky when she says that "our 'reasonable' times call for a chorus of lyric laments." I can't wait to read more of the book.

It is a good Book who search Demand management and try understand about the possible risk in the supply chain strategy.