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Hearts of Men was entertaining, however the characters were superficial. The book did a good job explaining how some men put women into category such as marriage material or an easy conquest. It would have been great if the characters were less shallow.

Prodigy, Bernard, Poppa Doc and Prodigy's shiftless cousin are all someone we know. Papa Doc I can't even put into words of what a great impact he is in this story and is the strength behind each character in this book.

Through life's experiences these three men tackle what life hands them and learns that certain things are instinct in their hearts. In this book Travis Hunter has introduced us to Prodigy Banks whom is a young man who has finally gotten all aspects of his life on the right track. He has gone from being a money-making thug to a full-time employee with GMAC. Prodigy learned the hard way that work and pleasure shouldn't miss. He decides to end his no-future relationship with Simone and focus on becoming a responsible/respectable employee. With his spare time, Prodigy finds great pleasure in volunteering at the local community center (where he encounters several children whose lives mirror his upbringing).

Bernard Charles is an extremely hard-working man who spends countless hours at the Ford Motor Company so that he can provide for any and every need of his family (his wife-Diane and his daughter). Bernard was abandoned as a child and vowed years ago that he'd never do that to his family. What Bernard learns the hard way is that his hard work takes him away from his family and doesn't provide for their emotional needs. Poppa Doc is a retired city worker who has won many friends and influenced many people. Poppa Doc has been a father figure to both Bernard (his son-in-law) and Prodigy. This is ironic because the one relationship that causes him more stress is his relationship with his own son, Michael.

Travis Hunter writes as though he was a seasoned author - hard to believe this was his first book. The characters were well developed and strong. Hunter is a 'portrait author', which allowed me to 'see' each of the characters and to feel as though I were at a movie rather than reading a book. It's great to know that Travis understands the true language of love. This book shows how we break the chains of mental, emotional and spiritual bondage. I commend Travis for a work well done simply because this work is from the heart of a man who has counted every beat and moves to it's rhythms through the symphony of life. Highly recommended.

I simply loved this book and i always recommend it to people. One minute I was laughing and the next crying. This book should be read by all!!!!!!

This was a very refreshing read. It's always good to see the positive side of black men, and the lives of other black men. I really enjoyed this book. I take my hat off to Travis Hunter on his outstanding work. I would definitely recommemd this book to others.

The Hearts of Men captured your attention from page one! The characters are so realistic that you felt like they were speaking to you!

Prodigy's journey from playa to his realization of what being a responsible man is was just AWESOME and INSPIRATIONAL! I loved Poppa Doc, all of our young brothers could use a Poppa Doc in their lives!! I found myself crying when Poppa Doc passed away!

I stayed up until the early hours of the morning to finish the book because I just could not put it down! Relationships between Black men and women and trying to keep our families together are rough and it was refreshing and encouraging to read a story that offered a message of hope!

I really appreciated the fact that throughout the book you made sure to convey the message that God has to be a very integral part of our lives and we have to help each other!

Now I have to go out and get Married but still Looking so I can revisit some old friends and experience some new ones.

I am sorry that it took me so long to finally read Hearts! Thank you Mr. Hunter for not only a throughly entertaining read but a thought provoking message!

May the Lord continue to speak to you so that you can minister to the African American community!

Kudos,
Darlene Bullock-Gamble

I bought this book after hearing the author speak at a scholarship banquet. He was humorous and enlightening, yet I did not believe that a novel written by a man would hold my interest. I was pleasantly surprised. I could not put this book down; I had to finish reading this weekend. I never knew that men would be able to weave tales like this. I see men are capable of feelings and emotions and are aware of their mistakes. Thanks for a story that was heart-wenching without going over board; this was a story that I would pay to see on the stage. Please post the cities as early as you can. . .do not forget Louisiana!

This is Chicago Author, Darrin Lowery. I have read every novel that Travis has done. I reccommend his every work including Something to Die For. My favorite book however is The Hearts of Men. This is a book that men can pass onto their sons. Travis has an amazing writing style and incorporates various perspectives well. Whether you are corporate, blue collar or from the hood, you will find points of interest in his every novel. Check ALL of his books out.

Married but Still Looking was an action-packed DRAMA filled pageturner from start to finish!

What can I say...all the characters Genesis, Terri, Grace, Prodigy, Nina, Grover Jr. and Mama Styles all had issues that needed to be addressed!

This novel is a great reminder that we have to resolve our past issues before we become happy healthy human beings! There are so many positive messages in this book.

All the characters were well developed and Mr. Hunter did an exemplary job of making the reader understand the mindset of the characters and why they were the way they were.

There is never a dull moment in this book. The novel will have you laughing one minute and crying the next!

Mr. Hunter, simply put your books are the BOMB! Thanks for always acknowledging the Lord in your works!

GOD BLess You!

Darlene Bullock-Gamble

Travis Hunter is an excellent writer, I love his work. I love that Mr. Hunter writes about families, and not just one character. In Married but Still Looking we were able to look into the lives of Genesis, a man not ready to give up his cheating ways to marry the best woman he has every met. Grover the crack addicted father, of a child that was born addicted to crack. Phyllis, a District Attorney, who does not like black people. And Grace, the sister trying to make everyone put there demons to rest. The book has plenty of twists and drama, very wonderful and easy read.

THIS BOOK WAS GREAT ,A REALISTIC PLOT LOADED WITH DRAMA.I WOULD RECCOMEND it TO ANYONE...TRAVIS HUNTER IS AN EXCELLENT WRITER ,ALL HIS BOOKS HAVE AN INSIGHTFUL MESSAGE IN THEM AND THATS WHAT A GOOD BOOK IS ABOUT.

this is a very good, well thought out and full of blink history book. i blew through it in about 5 hours, as soon as i started reading it i didnt want to stop! very recommended for any blink fan, only goes up to right after the release of enema (wish it went all the way to now!) but either way it is a great book, full of pictures and little tid bits i never knew

A must-have for any true blink182 fan. If i could only have 1 item from blink182 itd probably be this book.

Im 15 but my 23 yr old bro owns this book, tht he got awhile ago. and its great. I read it an i love the pictures, stories, and biographies about these boys. They are wonderful guys and this book is great! buy it!!

This is the coolest book ever! I love Blink and this book is perfect- it tells about all kinds of stupid things they did and said; it basically tells their whole history. It's definatly a book that all big Blink fans should have!

Tales From Beneath Your Mom is an AWESOME book! It takes you through the history of Blink 182 step by step. By the end you feel like you grew up with Mark, Tom, and Travis. It's also hilarious! Full of Tom's famous jokes and pranks. Fun facts and stories! The pictures are another treat. Lots of old pictures of Blink 182 that not many have seen and pictures of Blink 182 backstage passes (all very fun and juvenile!). I absolutely love this biography! I love Blink 192 to death and any Blink 182 fan should own this book. It's very, very cool. It's the BOMB! It makes you wonder "what went wrong?" and how could their band and friendship fall apart. Anyways, get this book! It'll complete your life!

Very thorough and well-organized. The story lays to rest the myths good and bad of these three heroes of the Alamo, but this only serves to make them more human and far more interesting. As a Texan who was raised on many of the legends, I was a little upset that some of the stories may not be true (the line in the sand), but was actually more impressed with the three as individuals by the end of the book, and appreciated more the often contentious road to Texan independence. Furthermore, while the book focuses mainly on Bowie, Crockett, and Travis, there are tremendous insights into many individuals and processes involved in the revolution, including reflections on the reluctant leadership of Stephen F. Austin (whom I greatly respect) and the unsteady and unpredictable leadership of Sam Houston (whom I do not). Very informative and well worth the time.

Davis is meticulous in his research, teasing from the legends what we know, what can be deduced, what is probable, improbable, and impossible. So, if you want scholarship, an in-depth understanding of the truth, as near as it can be determined, this book is great.

Davis' sketches of the personalities and characters of Crockett, Bowie and Travis were also impressive.

But, IMO, if you want a wallopping page-turner, look elsewhere.

Quick! Name the three most famous battles fought on what is now US soil! Well, there may be some room for discussion but I would go with (in no particular order) The Battle of the Little Big Horn, Gettysburg, and The Battle of the Alamo. Two of these have their stature largely established on legend more than fact since there were few, if any, surviving witnesses from the side that most of us focus on. Indeed, little use has been made of the observations of the winning sides. Most references I've read discount most of the eyewitness accounts. This leaves two of the three battles with a limited availability of historical sources (while books on Gettysburg continue to emerge with new sources, interpretations and perspectives). In view of the apparent limitations he had to work with, what William C. Davis has done for the Battle of the Alamo is a truly impressive work of research, organization and perspective.

Be forewarned; this book of 587 pages of text and roughly 160 pages of footnotes uses merely 4 or 5 pages to tell of the Battle itself. Davis relies almost exclusively on Sutherland's "Fall of the Alamo" which is rather less extravagant than popular legend. While this book limited its' account of the actual battle, it gives, perhaps, the best written account of the events leading up to the Battle. It does so, as its' title implies, by focussing on the lives of Davy Crockett, James Bowies and William Barret Travis.

The threee men's lives display three seperate directions and give us three seperate understandings of the motivations of men in that time and place. Crockett was the explorer who became restless each time civilization moved into the neighborhood. He was the most famous of the three both in his time and in History and his was the life we enjoyed reading the most. His political career was "interesting" but not worthy of any more impressive adjective. His demise was the event that elevated his life but he would have been remembered even without the Alamo (albeit by far fewer people).

James Bowie was the wheeler dealer whose land-grabbing schemes were so boldly and so crudely illegal that most readers will find themselves having to make excuses to keep plodding through the morass of thievery. In time his exploits become more engrossing to the reader but there was always a new angle to twist in order to create a new fortune on paper. Bowie's bravery in Texas might have elevated his name higher than it was had he not already been half-dead with Typhoid Fever before the Battle even began. As it was, his name would have been obscure in modern times had it not been for the Alamo. His knife and his legal trail of fraudulent claims would have been all that was left to his fame (and it was his brother who invented that famous knife).

William Barret Travis was the least know of the three and the least acclaimed. As a kid I often wondered who this Travis character was and why was his name mentioned with Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie. Travis was a lawyer of limited ability until he fled to Texas to escape his debts back home. There he eventiually found his abilities in the legal profession and he represents that stabelizing effect that professionals bring when they arrive at the frontier settlements. Travis might possibly have exceeded the fame of his two counterparts had it not been for his death at the Alamo. That is because Davis portrays his legal mind as one of a man with great political promise. (Or he could have drifted deeply into obscurity).

The details that the author gives us is an excellent study of the emerging American Nation. The explorer, the fortune hunter, and the civilizer were a sort of system that led to the development of the great American continent. Reading the stories of these men gets confusing at times. (I often had trouble figuring out if I was reading about Bowie or Travis since their financial lives were so similar). However, the details leading up to the Alamo gave me a much better appreciation of the actual events. I may not have been as excited about reading of the Battle (as I was in reading Jeff Long's "Duel of Eagles") but I realized at the end of the book that I had gotten more out of it than any other account of the Alamo. These men (and others such as Sam Houston) were fatally flawed but they were also very interesting. Kudos to Willam C. Davis for putting together such a well-conceived and well-written account.

This book is a very well conceived idea that tries to understand what happened at the Alamo through the eyes of three people. Each provides a different perspective to life in Texas and life in the United States in the time period leading up to the Alamo. A crook like Bowie has fled from land speculations schemes and is trying to make a name for himself in Texas. Travis has abandoned his family and gone to make an honest life and escape the debt he built up. Finally we have David Corckett the hero of Tennessee who has lost elections and patience with Andrew Jackson heading to Texas. All of these three have led colorful lives with Crockett being the most interesting. This book serves as a biography to all three while describing the importance of the Alamo to Texas. It is very well done and you find yourself going through the book very quickly. I highly recommend this to anyone who is interested in understanding what life looked like in the United States in the years leading up to the Alamo.

William Davis, best known for his excellent works on the American War Between the States (oh, alright, "Civil War" if you insist) delves into the Texas Revolution with this work, and presents historians with an excellent glimpse at the three principal figures of the Alamo Siege. This triple biography gives an excellent in-depth look at the careers, motivations, and personal lives of three men on their march to an appointment with destiny.

I highly recommend all of Mr. Davis' works, especially "Deep Waters of the Proud" and "Look Away!"

I would love to review this product, however, it is now well over a month and I have yet to recieve it. I would love to know where it is and why it is taking so long. I ordered it on June 12 and my credit card was billed that day but I have not yet recieved the product. I am very disappointed.

Travis Roy is an inspirational man, he tells everyone about the emotional state that he was through during the whole entire situation. He created a foundation that didn't just help him but helped others with the same situation. Before reading this I didn't know the process of paralysis victims, but after I was fully aware of what paralysis victims went through emotionally and physically.

It is a great story for people that don't even really like hockey because any person could get paralyzed any given day. So after reading this story it made me aware of how a single mans pain can express the words of thousands.

The reason why I recommend this book is because it is the story of a man that enjoyed everyday life before being paralyzed, then after 11 seconds of hockey his life completely changed, but he fought through the pain and lived everyday to the fullest and always kept his mind looking positively. He wants to walk again and keeps thinking that he can, one thing that could possibly just keep him going everyday.

So this is a must read for everyone, I strongly recommend it because it makes people explicitly aware of what paralyzed people go through. After reading the book it will make you look at people in wheelchairs differently. If you do choose to read this book, enjoy it and keep in mind that Travis Roy is much luckier than many.

I read this book in two days! Travis Roy is an incredible person who has lived through a tragic experience. I applaud him for setting up a foundation to help other people with spinal cord injuries. As a teacher, I would love to have him speak at my school!

Initially I was drawn to this book because it involved my passion, hockey. But Travis' story moved me deeply. Once I started reading this book I could not put it down. I was really interested in the affect his accident would have on his relationship with his girlfriend and I was rooting for them to stay together. I'll be honest I'm pretty bummed things didn't work out between them. But this was a great story of a very inspirational person. It truly made me want to make a contribution to his foundation which I plan on doing. I would recommend this book to anyone not just fans of hockey. Good Luck in the future Trav!

In Eleven Seconds, a story about a young man at the age of twenty-one living life and one event happens to change it all. Playing in his first collegiate game of hockey, Travis Roy crashed the corner after a dump in, tripped, fell, and broke his fourth vertebrae and becomes paralyzed from his neck down. This single event changes the way he and his family act towards each other. The story goes through his amazing recovery and the heart and determination he had. The author portrays Travis Roy as a hero to those that are in deep pain or trouble. He accomplishes this by showing the good and bad times in his recovery stages. After a few months at the hospital, Travis Roy wants to get back into the world and show that this freak accident will not keep him down. He returns to college and tries to become a normal student, but this is impossible because he has become a well-known person due to the accident. The grit and determination of Mr. Roy and his family members through the hard times to get to a level of peace and acceptance of what has happend is amazing. This story makes you, the reader, feel that you just need to make the best of the hand that is dealt and that if anything goes wrong you just have to deal with it and make the best of the situation. Eleven Seconds is a great book and should be read by all.

I've enjoyed this text, but the cd does not have stops for each step, so you must keep your control handy..

This book has easy-to-follow instructions and enjoyable songs to play. I am only 1/3 of the way through this book, and thoroughly enjoying it. It has some familiar and not-so-familiar folk standards, leading the player through basic patterns first, then adding variations, melodies, ornaments and finally culminating in a full fingerstyle selection that will challenge almost any player at any level. However Mark Hanson gives you all the tools you need to get there, in step-by-step detail. The book would be great without the CD, but the added audio instruction is also extremely helpful. I recommend this to anyone interested in fingerpicking and fingerstyle guitar.

This is an excellent book to start finger picking. The techniques you learn will go a long way in a short time. My only complaint is that the songs that are used are very cheesy. Maybe some Johnny Cash or Beatles would have been much better. However, the techniques learned are very good and makes the purchase of this book well worth it.

With most guitar books I have the problem that they start real easy and then start spinning out of control. Not so with this book. I never had the feeling that I was lost or that there was to big of a level increase from one exercise to the other. What a great book! Other authors should use this book as an example. This book will teach you the basics of Travis Picking step by step. It is suitable for beginners and advanced players that like to learn the basics of Travis Picking.

-D

Many have already described how good the instruction in this book is. And rightfully so. So I will bring up the one negative which made me regret getting this book.

Apart from 2 or 3 songs such as John Barley, Sloop John B, etc., the songs used for demo are mostly lame ballads and fail to generate much excitement about playing them in me. The best tune is probably the opener, written by Mark Hanson himself. Also, most of these are sing-along types in which the vocal does most of the work instead of letting the guitar stay front and center. It would have been much better to feature mostly instrumentals where the lessons learned can be displayed in full glory.

The Deep Blue Good-By is the very first of the highly successful and long running Travis McGee series by the late John D. MacDonald. This is a well written mystery and by that I mean the pacing is fast and it has a very smooth narrative flow. Furthermore, the ending is not what most readers will expect.
I do have to object to a couple of things, however. At one point, MacDonald has McGee torture a man, not because he is a miscreant deserving of torture, but simply because he may have information McGee thinks he might be able to use. The shocking ease with which McGee carries out this barbaric act greatly diminishes any admiration readers could be expected to have for him.
Secondly, it is fairly well known that the Travis McGee series has a streak of misogyny running through it. While that in itself does not make for bad writing, I believe the author took things a little too far in The Deep Blue Good-By. Two of the characters, who are otherwise smart resourceful women, are depicted as having a childlike malleability that make them easy prey for the novel's sociopathic villain. Not only is this aspect of the book a major insult to women, it detracts from the story's believability.
Bottom line: John D. MacDonald was a talented writer and that talent is very apparent within the pages of The Deep Blue Good-By. But, there are flaws, disturbing ones.

I read this book for the first time back in December. Now, while waiting for "A Tan and Sandy Silence" to arrive, I went back and read it again. It was even better the second time around. The first read, I ripped right through just to see what happened. With MacDonald's writing this was easy to do. The second time, I slowed it down and really soaked it all up

What makes this book so good, I my eyes, is that there is so much packed into to the comparatively short work. First, and foremost, there's Travis McGee himself. He describes himself as a beach bum, but in truth he's more the "knight" that he so disparagingly calls himself. He doesn't like to get emotionally involved in his work, but he always does, and it take it's toll. Trav's reaction to the events at the end of the book really stuck with me. (Side note, (to all the claims of sexism): McGee may always be out "saving the weak-willed women of the world", but, at least in this book, Travis is saved/redeemed in the end by one of those women he set out to save.)

The other characters are spot on. I felt they all rang true, like somebody I could have known. I'll admit, that I have never known anyone like "Junior"(the villain). But because all the other characters seemed real, his nastiness was easily acceptable.

Second, I loved the philosophical ramblings. They seem almost thrown in at random, but they are never really distracting from the story. I enjoy these because, whether or not I agree with them, they do make me stop and think. That in itself, forty plus years later, lifts this book above the average "pulp" novel.

The last thing I really liked about this book was the simple descriptions of interesting things I'll never really know about. From the "Busted Flush"(McGee's houseboat) to the streets of Fort Lauderdale to fencing gemstones in NYC. All the little details drew me into the story and have kept me coming back for more.

All in all, I would say that this book, and some of the others in the series that follow, are some of the best books I have ever read. They made me feel, and hit on many levels. I just can't praise them highly enough.

After consistently seeing John D. MacDonald plugged as an influence and inspiration by so many present-day authors (particularly one of my favorites, Randy Wayne White), I finally decided to see what all the fuss was about. (Sidenote: I even caught an interview with Karl Rove of all people in which he said that both he and George W. Bush were big fans of the Travis McGee books.)

THE DEEP BLUE GOOD-BY is the first in MacDonald's extensive Travis McGee series. McGee is a war veteran and beach bum who lives in Ft. Lauderdale aboard a houseboat ('The Busted Flush') that he won in a poker game. When he needs money he takes on jobs helping people retrieve things that have been lost or stolen, and in return he takes a cut, sort of like a PI but a little less legal. (Kind of reminds me of F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack.) DEEP BLUE is a first-person narrative, tough-guy-with-a-good-heart-helping-damsels-in-distress story.

I particularly liked MacDonald's use of setting. I grew up in South Florida a little bit later than the time in which this book is set, so it was neat to read a story set there in the early Sixties and see how it has and hasn't changed. Also, I enjoyed McGee's internal monologues, particularly the ones about Florida and how it can be such a strange place.

On the down side, I found the story a bit on the formulaic and predictable side -- if you've read a lot of Spillane, Hammet, Chandler, Ross MacDonald, etc, you'll probably think so, too. Also, I thought the dialogue sounded dated (even taking into account this story was written forty years ago), like dialogue in 1930s and '40s movies. It just didn't sound natural, didn't sound like how real people talk, to my ears, and I read lots of old books and watch lots of old movies. The dialogue sometimes made the characters into caricatures.

Still and all, worth reading if you like crime thrillers, or if you like Florida fiction -- definitely any fan of Carl Hiaasen or Randy Wayne White needs to read some John D. MacDonald if they haven't already, if nothing else to see where these authors got some of their inspiration.

I recently overheard someone saying how much they enjoyed the Travis McGee books so I searched out the first-in-the-series at my local library. The copy I ended up reading was about the most worn out, dog-eared, common pocket book you can imagine. Some how it was quit fitting. The Travis McGee character is unique and appealing to probably both men and women readers. Kind of a Han Solo guy but wiser and more mellow. The author's writing style is more inventive and engaging than typical; the pace varies from silky-smooth to rapid Rainman word association. Creative with word combinations. Maybe not always grammatically correct (?) but the intended feeling and description shines through every paragraph. Interesting plot. A unique villain easy to despise... you can't wait for him to get his comeuppance. You'll have to read it to see how it unfolds.

Fifty percent is better than nothing.


At least that is what you are desperate enough to take if you hire Travis McGee as a 'Salvage Consultant', to recover something lost that may just be of dubious legality. (Not sure what he will do if it is a racehorse, woman, or parrot, however).

Here, a friend asks him to help out another friend, both of whom are female dancers, and he reluctantly agrees, ending up in a sordid plot involving some treasure recovered in a now-jailed husband's army days, and a violent man (think rape and murder) trying to get his hands on it. Along the way, there is plenty of seedy Florida, broken women, and biffo.

If you like this sort of adventurer with booze and broads style of thing, not much doubt you will find this enjoyable. Good stuff.

This is an excellent product, with excellent service. Sabatini excels again with this swashbuckling tale of wrongs righted and evil overcome. A good read!!

Probably one of my favorite stories of all time, the book is far better than the hollywood version! First published in 1922, it was a national sensation and remains so popular it is republished about every 10 years or so.

The action commences in England, with the first failed attempt to wrench tyrannical King James II from the throne. Dr. Peter Blood is caught in the middle because he treats a soldier from the losing side. His death sentence is changed to transportation to the West Indies to be sold as a slave (this type of thing really happened as the Americas were often used as a dump of this sort as was later Australia).

There he meets the beautiful, kind and intelligent Arabella Bishop, the ward of Colonel Bishop, the island governer and as a disgusting a man as Peter Blood is good. Misunderstandings ensue and cannot be corrected when Blood and his compatriots escape and steal away in a ship to become pirates. But Peter and Arabella soon meet again under very different circumstances.

I've lost count of how many times I've read this book and I envy you if this will be your first time.

Captain Blood is a classic pirate romp, entertaining and with plenty of action.

Blood, the main character, helps the wrong guy, and earns the enmity of the authority types. He becomes a slave in the Carribean.

He finds a hot chick, and escape to become the pirate Captain Blood.

This book is great. Rafael Sabatini did really weaved a grand plot. The first chapter is a bit difficult to get through, but after that you are swept along in the ever moving story. You feel the tenseness of the some of the ship battles. You laugh at the wit, charm, and geniusness of Captain Blood in the most impossible odds. Rafael Sabatini knew how to use the english language in a way that keeps you interested. There is also a depthness in the way human emotions are described that sheds light on the human mind.
This is a book I will read again in the future.

I was really struck by how bad this book is, not for the writing style, wich is Romantic and enjoyable, but for Captain Blood himself. He is no hero. Weak, self-obsessed and totally inept at leadership. Blood leads his crew into danger based on nothing more than an absurd lust to a boy-faced woman will all the appeal of a stack of bricks. Blood came off as a teenager who had never been kissed. This book was weird...

It's a little book with a lot of inspiration. First published in 1921, Kyne's fable about Mr. Peck illustrates the value of never quitting and completing your goals. While the tale is told simply and without a lot of flowery language, the message itself is entirely worth the hour or so it took me to read. It's only a little over 80 pages long, and the print is large!

The Go Getter by Peter B. Kyne was first introduced to me as an audio tape from Robert Allen's "Challenge" seminar in 1987. It was fantastic motivation that I still treasure.
The story of the blue vase has motivated me and encouraged me in business and life to never give up. It has inspired me to accomplish what some consider impossible tasks with the words "it shall be done" ingrained in my mind.
About two years ago, my wife found it on Amazon.com and gave it to me for Christmas. Now I share the book and the tape with my children who I hope find it as valuable as I have.

Short, to the point, and teaches a lesson. This is the book that termed the phrase go-getter and really shows what it is to be one. The themes and story translate very well to todays era, every high school student should read this book or have it read during graduation.

If your intent of reading self help books is to discover a resounding message that will resonate in your life, I can certainly recommend The Go Getter. Its directness of message is only matched by its brevity. There is merely a lone principal to be uncovered within this book, but the message is timeless and profound.

This book garnered 4 stars from me because although the message is found among many other self help books, I can only think of a handful that display its portrayal and influence as well as The Go Getter.

The message of the book is lived out in the execution of the purchase. Simple fast and efficient, being a Go-Getter is performing above expectations - - that is what occurred. Well done.

I graduated from an SEC school, the University of Arkansas. That is why I read the book. While Travis gave an idea of an in-person game day experience at each SEC school, most of anecdotes about his friends should have been edited from the book because they got in the way of the book's main objective.

Referring to the University of Arkansas, he was on target with most of his statements. When he mentioned that the women there, as a whole, should try to be themselves and quit trying to be like Carrie Bradshaw, he nailed the Greek versus non-Greek social clash at the U of A. I remembered dealing with snobs who had nothing to be snobs about while there. I agreed with the problem of Jefferson Pilot telecasts.

I never heard of LSU fans smelling like corn dogs. It seemed that there were items included in the book to try to get a cheap laugh that distracted a reader of the book. The could have benn more serious because there is enough humor to be found in mentioning Toomer's Corner, calling the hogs or visiting The Grove, along with other SEC traditions.

I'm always searching through Amazon looking for the latest sports book. I bought this one based on some solid reviews I had read for it. I wasn't prepared for how much this book made me laugh. One time, I had to put the book down and walk away from because I couldn't control how hard I was laughing (one of those where you have trouble catching your breath). You can't have thin skin and read this, much like a South Park episode everything is fair game to be goofed on. But this author does everything in a smart and creative way, so I had no problem laughing along even when he made of the Big 10 (I'm a PSU grad).
It's one of the best sports I've ever read, and no book, sports related or otherwise, has ever made me laugh more.

his book is a wonderful adventure through the various stadiums of the SEC Conference. One man, who is a passionate University of Tennessee fan travels across the South to visit every stadium. He takes part in all the festivities like the tailgate party, the after party, and any particular tradition that the home team has. He is a superb writer as the narrative flows with ever easiness and comical breath. This man who is a Vanderbilt law school graduate invites friends, family, and his wife along for the adventure. He logs hundreds of miles throughout the South in his search for college football. If you love college football, and especially the SEC this book is a joy to read. As I love going to Knoxville to watch the Vols, as I survey the field before the stadium fills, and as I hit the hands of the players on the Vol walk, I love as Clay Travis loves, the college football experience.

I loved this book alot. It really made me miss home and my alma mater, the Vols. Hits all the right notes in looking at fandom in the SEC from both the critical light, while still being written by a dyed-in-the-wool fan of the greatest conference in the NCAA.

Loved the tour of the SEC-something I would love to do -think it's funny he dissed the Gators so bad the year they won the National Championship-the guy can't judge talent but he knows how to party! Go GATORS!!!!