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learning from the best...Review Date: 2002-11-07
Montana is the maestroReview Date: 1998-07-12
Joe knows of what he writes!Review Date: 1998-01-19
This is not an instructional textReview Date: 2006-10-19
Unfortunately, the book he authored really doesn't go in depth on how he achieved that success. Very little of the player's mechanics are covered. There is no discussion of proper arm motion when passing. There is no discussion of hip angling, receiver progression or other mechanics of function within a football play.
This book is largely a series of anecdotes about Joe's career, rather than a specific list of skills and drills for young quarterbacks. His stories are interesting, but meaningless to the coach looking to improve his players.
I strongly recommend another book by another Super Bowl winning quarterback. "Phil Simms on Passing: Fundamentals of Throwing the Football" is actually ABOUT the mechanics of throwing the ball. All the little tidbits that have been ignored by the miserable execution of the modern NFL are listed.
For example: Phil Simms discusses the importance of keeping the elbows pinned to the sides when dropping back. With both hands on the ball, this reduces the risk of a fumble if sacked by surprise from behind. The year he discovered this he dropped his fumbles from 11 the prior year to three. I was so impressed that I began using that technique with my high school program immediately; our quarterbacks have not fumbled in five years.
Phil Simms also covers the adaptation of the West Coast Offense as a precision passing attack-- so precise in fact, that he was taught, "to hit the receiver on the number away from the defender, so the receiver would know which way to turn to avoid the tackle and could gain extra yardage." These are the tips that should have been in Joe Montana's book, and were not.
Joe Montana's book barely covers the three and five step drops, ignores handoffs and faking, and brushes over roll out passing and throwing on the run. By contrast, Phil Simms's book covers one step, three step, five step, seven step, roll outs, throwing on the run, avoiding the sack, how to avoid the interception, how to throw the intentional incomplete to avoid the sack, reading the zones, reading man-to-man coverage, receiver progressions, securing the football, mechanics of a proper handoff, proper pitching/tossing, proper faking, and several other aspects of playing quarterback.
Joe Montana's book is a good read for the fan with an interest in his career, or the dad that wants to play catch with his son and maybe avoid creating bad habits by teaching incorrect mechanics, but it just doesn't have the depth that it should. For a coach with a serious agenda of improving his football team, I just can't recommend it. Look for Phil Simms's book instead. You'll get much more out of it.
~D.
A great purchase for football fans at any level.Review Date: 1997-11-06
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Peace, happiness and justice are inseparable...Review Date: 2005-04-10
Montana 1899-1937 . . .Review Date: 2007-08-27
Watson writes with a gentle hand, often with greater sympathy for the women he writes about, while admiring the take-charge qualities in the men who share their lives - qualities that can easily tilt into character flaws. That delicate balance is reflected in a scene at a Thanksgiving dinner in which Wesley's father and older brother behave too familiarly with a young female guest. It appears again as Wesley's wife sees her husband rough up an Indian who won't leave a bar, while being unwilling or unable to hold his newborn son. This ambiguity makes Watson's stories fascinating, touching on character traits central to the mythology of the American West, and the contradictions at the heart of "civilizing" the land and the people - indigenous or otherwise - who have made it their home. Well written and well observed, with thoughtful insight into memorable characters.
JusticeReview Date: 2000-12-24
Fill out your Watson library with this oneReview Date: 2002-10-09
Read this book!Review Date: 1998-03-01
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Montana comes aliveReview Date: 2001-05-24
The Mosher Genes Have FloweredReview Date: 2002-04-06
The son of the renowned raconteur of the Northeast Kingdom, Howard Mosher and his wife Phyllis, first time novelist Jake Mosher has planted his boot heels high in the wilds of Mantana and stomped himself a foothold. The Last Buffalo Hunter tells the sory of 14 year-old Kyle Richards and his wild and wooly coming of age during a summer spent with his proud and profane grandfather, Cole, in the Big Sky country of Montana. Cole is a rugged logger and former broncobuster, as quick to throw a punch, as he is to pull a gun. Womanizing, whiskey drinking, Kyle's grandpa is a profane throwback to an era that has all but faded away, but ruggedly holds on like the last traces of ice along a high mountain trail in summer.
A wonderful cast of characters ramble through the book, including a cute young Indian girl who has cast her eye on a bewildered Kyle. Hucksters, dudes, unreformed Indians, and a barroom of hard drinking, hard loving men and women, hoisting shots together in drunken, fight filled nights. In the background lurks the long running fued with millionaire developer Bruce Tipton and his herd of buffalo that surround Cole Richards home. Encroaching daily, smothering him, and his stubborn view of what's really right and wrong, building to a showdown that seems as inevitable as so-called progress and development.
A journal Kyle finds of his great-grandfather's arduous journey from Kansas City to Montana in 1862 flows like a winding mountain stream through this book occasionally. The dusty journal brings to life the terrible ordeal of moving west, and gives this marvelous book a mystical quality at times. A mystical quality as ominous as the howling of the ghostly black wolf that seems to know every step Kyle takes high in the mountains at night, and the yellow hate-filled stare of the fenced-in buffallo bull, Splinter Horn. Jake Mosher wites about the West, it's history, it's people, and it's scenery with a skill well beyond his young years. The Mosher genes are truly flowering.
As I reluctantly turned the last page of this book, I sighed contentedly, but sad that it was over. I had been in the hands of a master stryteller, a craftsman of words. I knew that Kyle's summer in Montan would remain fondly in my memory as much as it would by the young grandson of Cole Richards.
Wonderful first novel, wonderful novel period!Review Date: 2001-09-11
Jake Mosher is a 5 star writer!Review Date: 2001-09-02
This book left me wondering only how it got published.Review Date: 2001-07-24
Trust me. I'm being kind with the 3 Star review.
This is a book that began strong. The writing is vivid. The characters are familiar and, and the setting is seductive. For the first 50 to 100 pages, I thought I was going to thoroughly enjoy this story (hence the third star), but that was before I realized that the author had no idea where it was going.
To say that the main characters in this book are cliché gives new meaning and intensity to the word cliché. The characters quickly degenerated from being interesting to being ridiculous.
A 14 year old boy is sent by his otherwise responsible parents by bus from their home in upstate New York to visit his Grandfather in Montana for the summer. If you've ever had a 14 year old boy you know that this in itself is suspect. He reaches Montana and is finally met by his Grandfather WHO IS John Wayne in the role of Rooster Cockburn. Following in the footsteps of all good Grandpas, Cole (Rooster) teaches the boy to fly fish the local rivers, drink beer and whisky, have sex with the Indians, and shoot at the local police when they come to arrest him for the destruction of another man's property. No kidding.
To his credit as a Grandpa, Cole/Rooster also passes on a bit of family history to the boy (which he never saw fit to share with his own son for no good reason, in the form of a leather-bound diary, written by the boy's Great Great Grandfather. The diary was written as this pioneer made his way West, alone, during the 1860s to settle in Montana. This character is both cliché and not believable. He IS Robert Redford in the role of Jeremiah Johnson ("Liver Eatin' Johnston), complete with the character of Bear Claw Chris Lapp, who saves him before he dies from exposure. He later becomes Kevin Kostner in the role of "Dances With Wolves", complete with his tribal bride and the Medicine Man who predicts the extermination of the Indian people by the oncoming hordes of whites. I kid you not. But this character is also not believable because even as he is dying of exhaustion, sunburn, and starvation and is brought down to such a condition that travel means pulling himself across the prairie by his fingertips, he stops to write in his journal with the proficiency of a literary master. GIMME A BREAK! Even his horse had died of thirst at this point.
This book is chock full of good Indians who have been abused by the evil white man and of course most of these Indians have incredible mystical powers. What else? Heck, I was engaged to an Apache girl for years and if she had any mystical powers she surely never let me see them. I guess she was the exception to that rule.
The book was complete with the old western scene of the cowboy who dies, gets up and dies again, and then does it again and again ad nauseum too. At one point, Grandpa Cole, who fis always near death from having inhaled too much coal dust in his younger years, rips the oxygen tubes out of his nose while he is dying in the hospital, is carried out of the hospital so that he can man a canoe and shoot the most dangerous rapids in Montana and he dies in the canoe with his head under water, only to resurface at the end of the ride strong of body and of voice, and immediately go jogging through the woods!
But it was the last few pages of the book that really took the cake. At this point, Grandpa Rooster Cockburn Cole grabs an old Sharps rifle and heads on to a neighbor's property intent upon killing the neighbor's entire herd of bison, which he does. The last Bison left standing is ol' Splinter Horn, the biggest, meanest bull this side o' Hell. The bull charges, Cole squeezes the trigger on the Sharps, the old rifle, which had belonged to his "Dances with Wolves" Grandfather, explodes in his hands, sending the bullet into the bison. But before the Bison dies, Cole/Rooster is transformed into, of ALL literary characters, Captain Ahab, as he rides off into the woods on Splinter Horn / Moby Dick's horns, never to be seen again.
Again, three stars is generous. Bear in mind that I did not deduct points for one of the worst editing jobs I have ever encountered in a published book. The book is full of typos, like the one on page 202, 6th line down: "...and handed my his razor,..." and the one on page 235, 23rd line down: "...to shot dozens of imaginary arrows at me". At the end, the publisher tells us about the fancy type setting job he did for the book, which led me to wonder if he was too busy setting type to have someone check the book for annoying typographical errors.
If you want to read a much better book of this type, check out Vardis Fischer's "Mountain Man".
Sorry, but if this book will teach its reader anything it is that you too can get a novel published.
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WELL WORTH THE READ -----Review Date: 2007-09-03
Definitely a romance!
It was a twist to find the man [hero] in trouble and in need of a rescue.
Quist at 40 years old has had a number of women in his life time. No marriage can tempt him. Yet he falls under the spell of Lily and her five week old daughter, Nicole.
Of course a lot of it has to due with Lily nursing her baby and her tender loving care and truthfulness.
Lily Danzinger at 29 years old has decided to take her newborn baby and leave Hartford because her ex-husband's brother, Michael is determined to make her his mistress.
Jarrod has already kicked Lily out when he found out she was pregnant. But so was his girl-friend. What a jerk!
Well the snow storm [or was it a blizzard]and a stalled car and a four mile trek through the woods threw Lily and Quist [did you ever find out his last name?] together in a desparate effort at survival.
Then hormones and mating get the best of them and they just carry on.
Quist is in a frustrating search for his half-sister whom he has never met but thinks she must be just like their mother. His mother had left him when he was very young, she was 17 when she had him. So stems his issues with women, mostly distrust.
Excellent plot - two lonely characters until about the very end when Quist takes Lily and Nikki to Montana with him after meeting with nineteen year old Jennifer who also was on the run from trouble.
Definitely Recommend -- probably a keeper for most readers. Enjoy!
a passionate and compelling desireReview Date: 1997-12-22
Just the right guy to have in a blizzard.Review Date: 2002-12-05
Fine story, and like the other reviewers, I was sorry it ended. Lily has chosen her child over less important things, and Quist is looking for sister. He finds love. Nice, strong development of the characters and the author's description of the blizzard will make you feel the cold too. The scene at the end where she gets the cowboy D.J to stand near her when her ex-brother-in-law shows up was great. She has learned that she doesn't have to shoulder everything herself--she can get help.
Refreshing that you can pick up a hitchhiker and be safeReview Date: 2000-03-27
Very enjoyable romantic read.Review Date: 2001-11-16
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Indispensable Review Date: 2007-09-20
Greene, who wrote the book under the aegis of the National Park Service--it's available online at their website, but I wouldn't recommend reading it that way--is especially good at explaining where things happened in relation to other things that were going on at the same time and what all the parties concerned were doing simultaneously-- an invaluable asset in an account of a military campaign. And his final chapter, "Consquences," does a splendid job of drawing back and fairly and objectively evaluating the outcome and import of the campaign, not only for the Nez Perces but for the American army and also some of the individuals involved. (Which reminds me to say that the backnotes are often as interesting as the book itself.)
There are other good books about the Nez Perce campaign, notably Bruce Hampton's more passionate and journalistic CHILDREN OF GRACE (1994), as well as Mark H. Brown's pathbreaking THE FLIGHT OF THE NEZ PERCE (1967); all three are highly readable. But if you have time for only one, it should probably be Greene's, since Brown's account has been superceded and Hampton's book, though it has many virtues, ultimately leaves you without the grand picture.
In fact, my one major complaint about NEZ PERCE SUMMER, 1877 is that it doesn't provide a timeline (neither do the other two books). This would have helped enormously in getting a handle on the complicated, multi-layered events of the story, and while an author can be excused for failing to realize how important this is for his readers, his editor shouldn't be. Luckily, you can get a great timeline on the Internet, put together--very well, as far as I can see--by Montana schoolchildren! ([...])
Aside from this flaw, NEZ PERCE SUMMER, 1877 is indispensable reading for anyone seeking to understand what it all meant.
Nez Perce Summer, 1877... The U.S. Army and Ni.mípu CrisisReview Date: 2007-01-06
Mr. Greene is now to the Nez Perce War what Bruce Cotton was to the Civil War. It is the "master", to which all other work must be reviewed against. Incidentally, the famous author, Terry C. Johnston used a prerelease draft supplied by Jerome Greene as the basis for his novels on the first half of this conflict.
I am very pleased with this book and I wish all the historical events making up the history of the American West had such a through, scholarly work summarizing the events and identifying those involved. It is something other scholars should think about; it sure makes research easy for a novel writer like me.
Of course, no work can cover all the facts and neither does Mr. Greene's. Further research into the works of those actually involved would be the next level of detail, the serious students will go to.
Mr. Greene's approach to a very complicated series of events, making up this Indian outbreak, was to discuss one subject at a time, while ignoring the others until that subject was complete, then take-up another and do the same. The result became a saw tooth of events that jumps the reader back and forth through history, none seemly related to the others. That is why I rated the work as I did. That aside, it's nothing a good set of notes can't correct.
Nevertheless, this is an important work and a must copy for every library covering the history of the American West.
Thank you Mr. Greene.
Greene has done his homeworkReview Date: 2001-02-26
This is not a history of the Nez Perce, it is a military history of the campaign against them. While many these days prefer their Indian wars history from an Indian perspective, they should not be deterred from reading this work. This is a history of the military campaign, not a support of it. Indeed, one cannot come away from this without being amazed at how the Nez Perce continually stumped the most experienced Indian fighters of the time.
The narrative is well-written, and Greene holds our attention as well as any fiction writer could. I highly recommend !this book to anyone--scholar or casual reader--interested in the study of the Indian Wars.
Vividly drawn and engaging presented storytellingReview Date: 2001-01-11
A Masterpiece of HistoryReview Date: 2001-03-02
Footnotes are used extensively to bring to the fore conflicting testimony as well as useful background information. All of this is augmented by excellent maps that illustrate the action. Greene avoids wasting the reader's time with moralizing sermons. He correctly portrays the military as simply trying to do the job thrust upon them by their civilian masters.
Truly, the best parts of this work are the final chapters detailing the culminating conflict at Bear Paw Mountain. At last, I feel like I am on the way towards understanding this battle. I walked away from this book with new respect and understanding for Greene, the Nez Perce and the much-maligned frontier army.
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My impression Review Date: 2007-11-23
How come Du Pre has so much money? Did he win the lottery in an earlier book? Or was his late wife independently wealthy?
What's with the Pidgin English? Is that the author's attempt at Metis dialect?
Why are people allowed to trample all over the crime scenes? Why does Du Pre touch items that could be evidence with his bare hands? Isn't he a retired investigator or cop or something and should know better?
Du Pre seems to drink a lot. How can be drink so much and still think clearly? Is he an alcoholic?
Why do stories involving Native Americans always have some sort of ESP and/or mystical element (Benetsee talking through the Man-With-No-Name and materializing basically out of thin air at the end of the story)?
Does anybody else see something wrong with the fact that Du Pre - spurred into action by his lover Madelaine - basically takes the law into his own hands (well, he and the trucker)?
As to the storyline: I may be exceptionally dumb, but I couldn't follow how Du Pre figured out who the first killer was. (Or maybe the fact that English is my second language makes it more difficult for me to understand the author's English.)
Overall I am quite ambivalent about this book. It is written in an unsual way, which I found interesting, especially Du Pre's thoughts and feelings when he is making music. On the other hand, I felt irked by many lengthy descriptions that added neither to the atmosphere nor to the story: Du Pre went hither and did this. There he rolled a cigarette. He smoked. He dropped the cigarette butt, then he went thither. There he did that, then he rolled a cigarette. Then he retrieved his bottle of whiskey. He took a drink. He smoked. He looked at the eagle in the sky. - ???
Also, in my opinion, Du Pre, a character who, in his own words, runs on sex, smokes, and music, makes a strange cop (or whatever he is). From the way he thinks and talks, what he thinks/talks about, and the way he communicates with others, you think the guy can't add up one and one, yet he is the one who figures out who the killers are. It doesn't quite fit.
Do Yourself a Favor and Become Friends with Du Pre (and Bowen)Review Date: 2007-06-24
A textbook on how to write.
Read in chronological order, as characters develop as the books procede.
Pret' good stuff that Bowen write. Make me want more.Review Date: 1998-12-04
GABRIEL DU PRE, THE METIS AVENGING ANGELReview Date: 2001-03-29
Even if you don't agree with everything that Gabriel believes in or does, he will make you think. You will love this book.
On the track of two killersReview Date: 2003-12-01
There are reasons police might not want Du Pré at the scene of a crime. He spits a lot as he circles the corpse, rolls his own cigarettes and mashes them out beneath his boot heel. A forensic specialist would find traces of him all over the scene. In "Notches," he even hides evidence because he wants to track a killer without interference from the FBI.
On the plus side, nothing at the scene escapes him. If he is called in to examine one body, he may find two others near by that no one else has noticed--which is exactly what occurs in "Notches." Someone has been killing girls and dumping them "like old guts in the brush for the coyotes to eat," according to Du Pré's long-time mistress, Madelaine.
There are two serial killers on the loose in "Notches" which makes for a confusing plot. There are also two FBI agents who add to the scenery, but don't do much more than engage in slanging matches with Du Pré, who after all is said and done isn't even a policeman, merely a part-time brand inspector. Madelaine finally presses Du Pré into tracking the killers down when her own daughter runs away from home.
Du Pré is laconic to the point of partial sentences, but the interrupted staccato of his speech is a perfect counterpoint to the harsh Montana landscape and to the sometimes abbreviated lives of its inhabitants. Over 150 corpses form an even grimmer than usual backdrop to Du Pré's musings on the long history of his people and the land. This book is not so much a murder mystery as it is a complex landscape of hell from the pen of a Montanan Hieronymus Bosch.
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"Outstanding Story Telling!!!"Review Date: 2005-11-11
Promiseland: The Journal of Callie McGregorReview Date: 2004-04-28
Very ImpressedReview Date: 2003-09-03
I myself was very impressed with Ms. Miller's writing--as well as the predominant message of family, hope and God threaded throughout the story.
Realistic, touching and inspiring. I cannot wait to read more of her work!
Once againReview Date: 2003-02-19
Wish I Could've Been More ImpressedReview Date: 2003-06-26
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Second reading, twenty years laterReview Date: 2005-05-09
Superb. Rudin illustrates is one of the greatest portraits of man ever written.Review Date: 2006-07-06
More importantly, to my mind, however is the way in which the character of Rudin exposes the central contradiction between a desire for truth and a desire for love. By his nature, as we discover, Rudin is unable to conquer love but is however able to remain true to his ideals, despite being unable to act upon them. To this extent Rudin is impotent, he is clear about what he wishes to achieve - to become a man of action - yet he is fundamentally unable to achieve such a goal. As such he is destined to remain unhappy. However, unlike others, he perceives this and so is able to remain truthful to his self and thus in contrast to those other characters in the novel that are destined to remain unhappy, as he too is destined, he at least discovers and embraces his true self and as such realises the higher being in him. A higher being so often alluded to by others.
In such a fashion Turgenev exposes this central dialectic beautifully. By positing Rudin amidst a decaying social setting and allowing his seemingly constant passage of self-discovery inadvertently to fuel the self-discovery of those who come into contact with him, Turgenev demonstrates how a synthesis between self-knowledge and self-sacrifice is essential before true love can be sown within one's soul. Rudin, by being so lucid regarding what he loves (truth), whilst simultaneously illustrating to all the futility of his love, shines a light upon the ready attainability of the loves of other characters. Thus those characters who sought to see in Rudin something approaching an ideal are shocked and provoked into attaining their own, real, ideals. It is only those who refused to see in Rudin anything but impotence, coldness and bluster who emerge unchanged characters at the novel's conclusion.
As of Rudin himself, his love (truth) is attained only at the cost of discovering that he is less a mighty oak and more a shallow tumbleweed (Rudin himself goes from using the Oak as an analogy for his feelings to that of a tumbleweed by the end of the novel). Perhaps it is this inevitable conclusion to Rudin's long search, the same search that befalls all of us, that provokes Rudin (in the Epilogue) to finally attain his ideal as a man of action and thus ensure that, against the greatest odds, his seed was not, after all, sown upon barren ground.
Self-deception and a facade we place between us and realityReview Date: 1996-09-09
non-essential TurgenevReview Date: 2001-05-23
The character Rudin is a fortunate young man in 1860s Russia, a man around thirty years of age, in the prime of his life. He is very much a superfluous man, like the man Turgenev wrote of in his shorter story "A Superfluous Man." He is all talk and no action. He has high-minded ideals but can not transfer them into deeds.
I suppose Turgenev saw many young Russian men of his generation who served as the basis for Rudin, the character. Natalya, Rudin's love interest, at least has the fortitude to translate her ideals into actions, but she is offered fewer possibilities by Russian society. She comes off more sympathetically than the title character, but she is female, and therefore a minor character in a Turgenev work. I found her more interesting, and similar to the female main character in _Oblomov_ by Goncharov.
The political edge on this novel is not nearly so sharp as that on _Fathers and Sons_. Mostly this seems a personal and emotional novel, rather than a political novel. A student wanting a general grounding in the major novels of Russian Literature can probably skip _Rudin_. On the other hand, if you read _Fathers and Sons_ and found that book very rewarding, you may want to take a peek at _Rudin_, to see what another (earlier) novel by Turgenev is like.
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Sad tale of early existentialist-'hero' in 19th century RussReview Date: 1998-08-21
Whilst the characters and setting is characteristic of many European novels of the time, the story takes an unexpected turn. Rudin is a fateful character, and one whose shallowness and egotism is exposed by the young daughter who he seduces. Turgenev manages to present Rudin as a sympathetic character albeit imbued with the resignation that he is a 'superfluous man' (cf. 'A Hero of Our Times' by Lermontov)
The book is well written and deserves a place in the canon of nineteenth century Russian novels . Particularly recommended for anyone who has read Fathers and Sons.
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Mi libro SadakoReview Date: 2002-05-10
Para mi este mensaje es que ese libro esta muy bonito y ala vez muy triste. Encontre hasta atras que era una historia verdadera, y me sorprendio porque nunca pense que una bomba atomica hubiera explotado. No se como sacan esas historias verdaderas y me gustaria saberlo algún dia. Felicito al autor porque es un grandioso libro para mi.
Cuando lo lei me dio como emoción y cuando hiba lellendo como enmedio me dio tristeza porque lei que Sadako tenia leusemia y su abuelita se habia muerto. Yo lei que era una historia verdadera, y cuando lo lei me sorprendi, porque era una historia verdadera, entonces me dio tristeza, porque no creia que una niña a esa edad tubiera leusemia. Mi opinion del libro es que yo nunca crei que hiba a leer un cuento verdadero, pues de lo que yo se, es que hay muchos casos asi. Asi mismo que el autor que saco este libro, siga adelante como lo a hecho.
Un Libro buenoReview Date: 2002-05-10
El emergencia de sadako y su madre le pego la enfermedad y manana de agosto de 1954. sadako se desperto sebistio de prisa y salio coriendo a la calle a sol de la manana regleja vealizo de color costana ralizo su pelo negro. no habia nube en el cielo azul sala ora una buena senal sadako siempre buscaba senales de buena suerte.
La opinion de el libro que su mama de sadako estaba embarazada y estaba y en el hospital y sadako en no odia caminar y cuando camino sadako se fue vez su mama.
Sadako y las mil grullas de papelReview Date: 2002-05-10
El mensege que yo tuve fue que ana niña de tan solo doce años lucho por su vida. Yo pienso que ella si lucho por su vida. Porque si fuera otra persona hubiera dicho ya no tengo vida y no les importaria su vida y a Sadako si le importo la vida de ella. Tambien yo hubiera hecho lo mismo por mi vida ó la de otra persona de mi familia. Porque yo si amo a mi vida y hay otros que no. A mi me gustari conocer a Sadako.
Mi opinión es que pasaron cosas que no me gustaron. Pero el libro esta muy bueno u quiero felicitar a la autora. Porque se isnpiro en esta historia. Que yo creo que todos que leieron el libro deben estar contentos. Yo recomiendo este libro Sadako y Las Mil Grullas de Papel. Porque no tiene esenas fuertes.
Sadako y las mil grullas de papelReview Date: 2002-05-10
El mensaje del libro fue una esperiencia muy mal para las personas que estuvieron enfrentando a esa bomba destructiba.
Ella trato de sobre vivir de aquella bomba fatal. Su sueño fue ser corredora yno cumplio su sueñpor esa enfermedad que aca bo con su vida. No disfruto su vida normal por causa de esa enfermedad tan fea. Yo pienso que cuando lucho por vivir fue una cosa espectacular si fuera otra persona se iba a morir por no luchar por su vuda.
Me encanto que Sadako murio luchando por su propia vida maravillossa. Que mal si no pudiera terminar mi sueño y muriera yo. En este mundo hay muchas enfermedades que te pueden matar y que bueno que yo no tengo ni una enfermedad. Su intento de luchar fue enban. Y tuviera que cambiar el titulo yo le pusiera "Aferarce ala vida". Su muerte fue una mal desgracia. Recomiendo este a las personas.
HeartwarmingReview Date: 1999-04-20
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Terrible TimesReview Date: 2006-03-29
By: Philip Ardagh
Reviewed by: A. Quizon (Firecracker)
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A young boy named Eddie Dickens was forced to go to America because his mom wanted him to. Of course, he certainly did not want to go there. Then one unpleasant day, Eddie found himself sailing on a ship, on the way to America. He was so worried. He did not even know if he would make it through the ship ride. Eddie was so scared sailing on a ship alone, with strangers all around him. He was in one of those leaky ships, not the real fancy, cruise looking ships. Anyways, Eddie thought he would never make it. This ship ride took forever. Eddie was sailing with some of the most dangerous people in which of course made him extremely frightened. On this leaky ship, there was a mysterious stowaway and some faces he knew of from his own past which was not very good. With the familiar faces he knew of, they tied him up and set adrift a leaky rowboat. He hated this and surely wanted to go back home. There was absolutely no doubt about that! He was waiting to reach America, and it seems like it is taking years to get there. Every time Eddie thought of this, he was thinking "Unbelievable!" because he was on a ship with many bad guys who had the world-famous Dog's Bone Diamond along with a cargo hold full of left shoes. Then in conclusion, Eddie's most dangerous companions got caught, and Eddie happily got sent back home to England, and went to trial.
What I like about this book is that Eddie did not go to America, and the most dangerous companions of his got caught! This ending was one of the best endings I have ever read. This ending was so unexpected, which I loved about this. "Once the cargo of left shoes was unloaded and the Dog's Bone Diamond delivered, there were brought back to England and ended up on trial. I also love the fact that he got back home, and went to trial. This keeps him safer, and more away from these bad guys because they probably got sent to a jail for what they did. Now Eddie wouldn't have to worry about dying because of his horrible companions. It makes me happy in the end because no one really got hurt in this story.
What I dislike about this book is that Eddie was forced to go to America in the first place. Then, on the day he found himself on the ship, sailing to America, he started freaking out. I did not really like that part because if someone imagined if that was them, they would have a very unpleasant time on the ship. I also disliked the ship. I don't like those nasty, creepy-looking, leaking ships. Those ships looks like it sunk a long time ago and many people died on it. Then, people found the boat, took it out of the water, and cleaned it a little bit. It is scary, imagining people who died on it, and thinking that the ship would be haunted. Those kinds of ships give me the creeps. I feel very sorry for Eddie because it was bad enough that he had to stay on that nasty old ship, sailing to a place that he didn't want to go to. But there's more: "The poor Eddie Dickens finds himself sailing to America with some of the most dangerous traveling companions anyone might have the misfortune to share a ship with." Of course I certainly would not want to share a ship with those kinds of people.
My favorite part of this book is the ending (obviously). This is because the ending was so unexpected. What I thought was going to happen was that Eddie would not even make it on the ship ride. By the time that ship reaches America, he would probably already be dead by then because some of the familiar faces he knew and the other most dangerous companions would probably kill Eddie. That is certainly not a pleasant idea to think of. I was so wrong once I read the ending because the ending ended up as something good happening. I love it when Eddie goes back home because everything is back to normal and he feels safe again, and not like on the ship. He felt very unsafe, worried, and as if someone would kill him. I love the feeling whenever a person feels so safe. That was how Eddie felt when he went back home to England. My least favorite part of this book was in the beginning. This was when Eddie's mother wanted him to go to America. This is when the whole thing started. I thought that it was sad that he got sent on a ship with a bunch of strangers who were very dangerous. Other than that, this book was fantastic!
Zany misfortunes and disreputable traveling companionsReview Date: 2004-03-10
AN ATTENTION-GETTING READINGReview Date: 2003-10-04
Now comes "Terrible Times" read by the immensely talented Martin Rayner.
Expressing surprise at the success of these books Mr. Ardagh relates that their genesis is found in letters that he wrote to a nephew at boarding school. Whatever the case, they're gems and, in this reviewer's estimation will be enjoyed by generations of young people.
North America is the destination of Eddie, the young protagonist, in "Terrible Times." He finds himself aboard a sailing ship carrying an unlikely cargo - countless left shoes. The unforgettable Dog's Bone Diamond has also booked passage, along with a gaggle of shipmates who should be forced to walk planks.
As if that weren't enough, of course, there's a stowaway.
Before long the hapless Eddie is set adrift in a leaky rowboat. Chances are slim that he can backstroke all the way to America. What's to become of him now?
Lost at SeaReview Date: 2007-08-02
In "Terrible Times" Eddie finds out that he is supposed to go to America to see what is wrong with the family's newspaper known as the 'Terrible Times'. Eddie never makes it to America because his adventures at sea include a traveling companion whose previous employers have all died and left all their money to her. What could she possibly have planned for Eddie on their fateful voyage?
Philip Ardagh has a sharp and ready wit. The story is quickly paced in spit of all the wanderings off course. Yet some of the novelty has worn off by the third book, especially since some of his shtick is a take off of Lemony Snicket's style. Still it is a light-hearted and enjoyable read that will make the reader laugh.
AN ATTENTION-GETTING READINGReview Date: 2003-10-04
Now comes "Terrible Times" read by the immensely talented Martin Rayner.
Expressing surprise at the success of these books Mr. Ardagh relates that their genesis is found in letters that he wrote to a nephew at boarding school. Whatever the case, they're gems and, in this reviewer's estimation will be enjoyed by generations of young people.
North America is the destination of Eddie, the young protagonist, in "Terrible Times." He finds himself aboard a sailing ship carrying an unlikely cargo - countless left shoes. The unforgettable Dog's Bone Diamond has also booked passage, along with a gaggle of shipmates who should be forced to walk planks.
As if that weren't enough, of course, there's a stowaway.
Before long the hapless Eddie is set adrift in a leaky rowboat. Chances are slim that he can backstroke all the way to America. What's to become of him now?
- Gail Cooke
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Montana also preaches unity and team. he never places himself above his teamates and always credits the people around him for his success. his offensive line, his running backs, coaches, wide recievers, and his parents.
good book for any kid interested in becoming a QB or for anyone who just needs a little inspiration.