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This is a very interesting book. I've read it through cover to cover once, and plan on reading it again, maybe even a third time.

This is a good starter book for those of us from "Generation X" who are questioning their faith. It is by no means a complete reference book... but it is a great way to get started in your faith 'rejourney'.

I really enjoyed the analogies he uses to help understand... like faith journey being likened to that annoying shopping cart with a broken wheel making you veer off in all directions.

This book is a must read for any Gen Xer who is trying to get back their relationship with God.

This book takes you to a place of great compassion for not only America's but the world's humanity. Unraveling much that has taken place in our government in verse and hard hitting truth.

Janet has cleverly caught this desultory "generation" with their pretentious pants down. With truly funny insights she has captured some of the basic tenets of behavior of this group. One can only wonder what will become of theis "generation" of Americans when, and perhaps if, they ever reach active adulthood. Apparently in a world that has moved so fast it has pulled the floor from under them, they bounce in and out of odd ideas and behavior. One wonders if she has not been carefully observing her own children or their friends to gain such perspicacity. But read on for yourself. If nothing else it is a lot of fun to see the antics of this "generation" so humorously displayed.

Actually, I wrote this article back in 1999. At the time I was an associate professor in the College of Education at Florida Atlantic University, located in Boca Raton. The lessons of the article are as pertinent today as when I wrote it. The central question was, is, and continues to be that the dearth of content knowledge among prospective teachers bodes ill for the future. Of course, you can read an excerpt from the article for free at my website adprima.com. I have also updated the article and called it Generation Y Wants to Like, Teach, which you can also access for free at adprima.com. If you buy this one on Amazon, I hope you enjoy it.

Bob Kizlik

This book was an amazing read...full of facts woven around myths and prophecy that leads us to see our inter-generational connection and evolution. The music lyrics in the book punctuated the authors message in a way that I could relate to the real meaning of our journey through time. The author did a great job in speaking up for us (Generation X) giving voice to our collective in such a positive and powerful way - from "Slacker to Steward" - This book is a must read for all generations.

this book rocks.

i've read alot of books about gen x and religion. this is among the best. i'd place it beside strauss and howe's "13th generation" as a seminal gen x work.

unlike many books by postmodern guru types, that offer anecdotal (and often inaccurate) quips about gen x, this book was written by serious scholars of religion and sociology. they actually went to real, authenitc gen x started and gen x led religious communities and studied them, in a more than superficial way... and documented how they actually lived out their faith and service to god, as postmodern believers.

the conclusions drawn at the end of the book are dead on and very helpful. if you really want to learn about authentic gen x religion, as it is actually being practiced by xers, read this book.

I have read many self help books for my Life Coaching practice and I must say that this book is at the top of the list. I keep it close and refer to it often. It is set up in two parts, the first being the "book" and the second is the "workbook" with great tools to integrate into your daily life. This book also grows with you, each time I go to it I find new gems revealing themselves.

Ghetto Verse 1:19 goes beyond the boundaries of traditional poetry books. The author has one of the most complex minds i have ever witnessed. His manipulation of language and use of the elements of poetry are genius.He writes each poem, each stanza, each line as if it were the last one he will ever write. There is power in his words. There is pain in his words. And from all else, love manifests itself in his words.

The CEO of a giant computer company died. A previous agent of Fox Mulder died. Connection? Both men died in Eurisko, a giant computer company that is programmed by a giant computer. Two people dead, one suspect: Brad Wilczek. Why is there a code five investigation (code five clearance) at Wilczek's house? No evidence that it was Wilczek, but he confesed. Is his confesion a lie? That's what Mulder suspects. What a book!

As an interesting departure from the kind of thing I usually write about--UFOs, for instance, or arcane religious literature--my editor and publisher Tim Beckley suggested a topic I had not spent much time thinking about before: the mysterious disappearances of people, singly and en masse, with no explanation or even a hint as to where they've gone. After I read Michael X. Barton's part of the book and I began to research the subject on the Internet and through various books and with interviews I conducted personally with a few experts, I appreciated the logic of what Tim had asked me to do. There is truly a wealth of material out there on these cases of people disappearing under circumstances that to this day have not been understood.

The book touches only briefly on some of the better known cases, like Flight 19, which disappeared on a training mission that began in Chicken Shoals, Florida, and ended somewhere out in the Bermuda Triangle, that mysterious swallower of ships and planes. We chose to focus instead on lesser-known incidents, like the succession of people who vanished without a trace in the Green Mountains of Vermont, or the numerous children who disappeared while visiting the Devil's Gate Park in California. While foul play cannot be ruled out completely in those cases, you will see when you read about them that other explanations, even seemingly paranormal ones, appear to jibe more easily with the facts.

"Gone Forever In The Blink Of An Eye" also revisits some of the disappearances of the rich and famous. While most people generally agree that Jimmy Hoffa, for instance, was rubbed out by his own cohorts in organized crime, there is still an interesting follow-up story in his case. Over the years since Hoffa went missing in 1975, a succession of Mafia hit men have claimed it was they who did the job. Certainly they can't all be telling the truth, but the reader will still enjoy the various scenarios by which the deed may have been done.

And remember Philip Taylor Kramer, the bassist for the late 60s metal band, Iron Butterfly? His story is recounted in detail, as well as the numerous tantalizing clues he left behind before disappearing from the Los Angeles airport with some kind of alleged amazing mathematical breakthrough tucked inside his briefcase. Had he really discovered a way to communicate at a rate faster-than-light? Would that lead to kidnapping, or to Kramer's faking his own death to escape potential assassination by greedy business rivals?

At the core of "Gone Forever In The Blink Of An Eye" are three interviews conducted exclusively for this book. I spoke to Troy Taylor (a well-known researcher of ghosts and other paranormal topics based in Illinois), Brian Haughton (a British archeologist and collector of strange stories), and Brad Steiger (the world-renowned researcher and author who has written about the paranormal for nearly half a century), all of whom were gracious enough to give me many interesting stories for the book and who offered perspectives on the subject that are uniquely their own.

And one mustn't forget the cases of disappearance en masse, in which entire towns and villages were found abandoned, with the evidence of the missing local occupants left smoldering behind them. The famous incidents of the first colonists of Roanoke, Virginia, and the Anasazi, a tribe of Native Americans of the Southwest desert region, are also covered, including some of the more recent educated speculation about what may have happened to them.

The real point of "Gone Forever In The Blink Of An Eye" is not to provide easy answers about the case histories of mysterious disappearance, when the obvious truth is such answers probably don't exist. But the reader will be entertained nonetheless by the various stories themselves, made all the more beguiling because there is so much about them that simply can't be known. As interviewee Troy Taylor said, "Everyone loves a mystery."