Jim Rice Books

This is a neat collection of weird, off-beat, and straight out freaky creatures culled from Edgar Rice Burrough's 1911 through 1930s+ SF action stories of otherworldly adventures.

13 basic monster types, 26 variations--half of them with psionics (what better to surprise players with these days?). Some truly bizarre imaginings among these: mobile plants with blood sucking arms, beings whose bodies are made up of two different species (sometimes the heads wander off on their own business, yuck!). The art is a mix of vintage items and creepy new art. All this with helpful extras to either integrate Mars critters into your campaign, or launch your campaign to Mars. Highly recommended!

This book has taken Edgar Rice Burrough's old Mars stories and made a fresh presentation of them for gaming with loving care to detail. It's simply laid out but deep in usefulness, evoking the charm and versatility of the original Dungeons and Dragons games for those of us old enough to wince at the modern money-churner the game has become in official hands.

Along with its many creatures, the book weaves in the armorless combat of the stories, some of the ecosystem and reproduction of the beasties, area-specific encounter tables, and Burrough's original Mars mythos of the origin of species. This is meant as an opener for an entire line of new "Mars" products so I'm eager to see what comes next!

This book gives you everything you need to use the creatures from the Edgar Rice Borroughs Mars books in your game. It uses descriptive excerpts from the book and does a great job of embelishing on everything that ERB was a little vague. If you play d20 and want a beastiary of some fantastic creatures this book is a must have!

Whether your campaign is set in Mars or not, this book offers a lot of great monsters. Even for your straight d20 adventure, this book has loads of psionic creatures, which I haven't seen a lot of anywhere else. I know I don't own a wizards book with too many in them. All the monsters were thought up by literary great Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Skirmisher stayed really true to his work. So whether you're playing in ERB's world, or want to change it up in your bland DnD campaign, you can't get much better than this.

Monsters in a lot of fantasy role playing campaigns start to look and sound the same after awhile, and this book is a breath of fresh air for anyone who wants something new and different for their games! I have never read any of the books the creatures in this work are based on, so they have all been pretty much of a surprise to me (as they will for the players in my group).

When I first got a copy of this book in the early 80s it changed my life and the way I looked at things like only a few other books did. Jim Morton, the publisher, was a friend of Boyd Rice, who invented the term "Incredible strange films". The book looks at those products of from the world of pop, that nobody even considered pop, because they were somewhat strange and weird, but of course they were cool. This change of the paradigms of culture was unique and exciting at that time, today we are kind of used to it. But this book was the first I can remember to turn the values of pop culture upside down. Anyone interested in pop culture gotta have this book!

This is the book in which Tarzan gets Jane. (No, he didn't get her in the first book...only in the movie.)

Interesting love triangle, made all the more interesting by Tarzan's wild adventures, some of them believable, some of them totally unbelievable, all of them capivating, exciting,and filled with action.

You always know Tarzan, as other "good guys" of this age and genre, will win in the end, but sometimes you wonder how and if he will ever get there.

Every chapter is like reading/watching one of the old serials movie theaters used to run between shows in the double featue on Satudays.

Fun read. Good read. Go for it. You will feel like a kid again---and take it from this old man---that ain't all bad!!!!!

Conquer My Heart

Interesting tales within a story coming to an end. Tarzan gets bored in Paris and takes a job as an under cover agent to spy on a military person suspected of treason. The soldier is committing treason to cover a mistake. This spy game leads Tarzan back to the road of savage ape when a new enemy throws him overboard. Herculean strength once again saves Tarzan and he unites with Arabs who help rescue him and then a Waziri tribe that goes with him to find riches beyond a man's imagination. The city of Opar nearly costs the ape man his life, but he leaves with the knowledge of a secret exit/entrance and a high priestess that loves him. Due to a shipwreck, Tarzan discovers Jane has been taken to the deadly city of Opar. Of course he rescues her and finally they a married to live happily and with great wealth in England as Lord Greystroke. Some of the story bogs down in tedium writing. Once again I must say, this classic would not make it in the modern brick and mortar publishing world.

This book is total crap, and begs the question, how on earth did Edgar Rice Burroughs become so revered in american literature? Following The eloquently beautiful and mystifying "Tarzan of the Apes", this seems almost slapstick silly; a spoof of what should have well been left alone. The outlandish coincedences are obscene to put it mildly.

1. Tarzan meeting Jane Porter's best friend Hazel Strong upon the High Sea's
2. Tarzan being thrown overboard literally in the middle of nowhere, only to be find himself back on his native island, washed up upon the exact shore within mere feet of his beloved dwelling.
3. Tarzan arriving just in time to kill "Numa" before the lion makes dinner of a sickened, weary Clayton and frightened Jane Porter.
The list goes on, but enough.
The original "Tarzan of the Apes" will always remain one of my favorite literary pieces of all time. Burrough's "The Land That Time Forgot" was also wonderful. How he managed to stretch out the Tarzan saga through so many sequels is beyond me, but somehow I will probably find myself grueling through the next in the series while simultaneously shaking my head and wondering why.

Tarzan decides it is best if he leaves Jane, and returns to Africa. He falls in with a couple of dodgy noble types, and ends up having some Arab adventures, joins the Waziri tribe, and eventually ends up reunited with Jane in Opar.

The only problem he has is that one of the powerful women of Opar wants his body, and is not too happy Jane has prior claims.

Revelation of his position, marriage and return eventuate.

It was ordered for my daughter. When children show an interest in worthwhile reading, one doesn't hesitate to supply them with what they want.

This is a mixture of great articles and complete self indulgence. It's not as well written as "Redneck Manifesto" but it has plenty of good, sharp moments. Well worth a look.

Jim Goad is one of the only people left thats man enough to not worry if he hurts a few feelings. I fully admire a man who is not swayed by the pointless self hating guilt that is the monster called PC thought (or lack there of). This book is very well writen and has many good points for those not worried what other brainwashed sheep think of them.

So if your not chained by fear and touchy feely pc imprisonment this is a book for you

If you think Mondo films, serial killer trading cards, Hunter S. Thompson novels, and the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow are the spiffiest things since sliced bread, you'll probably like this book. But if you're looking for something with a little more depth, look elsewhere.

In a self-interview near the end of the book, Jim Goad asks: "What if the idea of equality is entirely fictional? What if the communists were just as bad as the Nazis...or worse? What if Christianity is really no worse than any other religion, and so we should all feel free to defame Judaism and Islam, too? Why weren't the so-called 'oppressed' peoples of the planet able to develop adequate organizational skills and self-defense technologies to fend off the evil imperialists? What if, despite the fact that we tell ourselves we're making progress, the world around us is actually getting worse...and for reasons which seem too unpleasant to consider?" Well, those are all good questions. So why doesn't he try to answer them, instead of wasting valuable page space with Charles Manson doodles and a history of Western masturbatory practices? That's what I mean by a lack of depth. There's too much time spent on fluff and not enough on serious issues.

I can understand using sex and violence as bait to get people interested in the magazine, but once they've been taken in, there isn't much substance here. All too often it's just shocking for the sake of being shocking, offensive for the sake of being offensive. After a while, having someone take a dump on your kitchen table ceases to be revolutionary and merely becomes unpleasant.

It's hard to figure out just who the target audience for this magazine was. The Goads claimed to hold hipster counterculture types in contempt, yet who but those types could this magazine have appealed to? I don't know how fresh this material was in the early 90's when it first came out, but looking back on it in 2008, these magazines read like a catalog of every countercultural cliche imaginable.

While the editors went after women and feminism with a vengeance, and touched on some racial issues, there were some politically-correct boundaries Jim Goad and his late Jewish wife Debbie did not cross. For example, the Goads were perfectly willing to repeat the popular mantras that Hitler was planning to take over the world and that the Axis powers were solely responsible for WWII, even though such claims were called into question decades ago by such reputable historians as A.J.P. Taylor (Pat Buchanan also has a new book on these topics coming out shortly; the publishers of Newsweek magazine apparently feel so threatened by Buchanan's forthcoming book that they ran a front-page story a week or two ago decrying such "revisionist history"). Surely a pair of editors as well-read as the Goads would have been aware of such alternative historical viewpoints regarding WWII.

It's also interesting to observe that while Jim didn't hesitate to use the "n-word" or to call the Chinese "ch*nks," nowhere did he refer to Jews as "k*kes." In one passage, he refers to "Jews and ch*nks," rather than to "k*kes and ch*nks." Why the inconsistency? I guess Jim must have had some awareness that it's not the n*ggers or the ch*nks that control the publishing industry, and that using the k-word could spell trouble for his career as an author. If you wanted to be charitable, you could say he was refraining from using this word out of deference to his wife, but his wife was also a female and that didn't prevent the magazine from being replete with nasty screeds about women (the worst of them being written by Debbie herself).

One gets the impression that this magazine was being pulled in two opposite directions. Jim Goad, the son of an Irish-Catholic plumber (he doesn't mention his mother's ethnicity), seems to feel genuine empathy for the heterosexual white male underdog, whereas Debbie Goad can scarcely hide her hatred of Middle America (check out, for example, the intro to the piece by Boyd Rice and the bio of porn star Colleen Applegate). You can't be for one of these things and against the other, it's an all-or-nothing deal. There's also far too much Freudian nonsense in here about guns being surrogate penises, etc.

Still, for $15 plus shipping, this is a thick, nicely bound and printed book that's hard to beat as toilet reading material. You might also want to get it just to have a copy of possibly the only book to have come out in the last 20 or 30 years that is completely free of typos and grammar/spelling mistakes.

One last thing: Answer Me! No. 3 contains a ridiculous article by Adam Parfrey, the homosexual-Jewish owner of the trendy countercultural Feral House publishing company, alleging that Steven Spielberg is a pedophile. He bases his assertions on loose word/image associations, far-fetched interpretations of movie scenes in which he finds (or rather, projects) sexual meanings, and dubious statements made by a NAMBLA representative (who went so far as to insinuate that Spielberg may be a member of NAMBLA). I'm not sure what the Feral House crowd has against Spielberg, but its disdain is conspicuous, what with Parfrey's Apocalypse Culture 2 anthology bearing an anti-Spielbergian rant by actor Crispin Glover.

I'm no fan of Spielberg, and for all I know he could be a pedophile, but if you're going to make such accusations in public, you had better provide stronger evidence than what was in this article. If anything, the article makes a stronger case for the author himself having pedophilic tendencies.

Book about things that you don't talk about at parties, unless all your friends are that twisted. This book is an in your face look at modern America and what it has produced in the ways of social diseases and debauchery. A must have for that warm fuzzy feeling that you are not a weird as others say you are.

Ohhh yeah!! I love the Goads, and I love this book! Evil, vile, full of ranting vitriole, what more could a gal want to warm the cockles of her cold, hard lil' heart? Wow, this book rocks. I'd laid hands on several copies over the years, but had never found one of my own until just recently, and even tho' I knew its innards by heart, I still hadda' get a copy of my own to love...

Really, this ranting, raving supertract is a work of art. Bile, blood, anger, and well aimed barbs about society, the system, and basically, everybody that isn't a Goad, are all strongly backed up by charmingly psychotic artwork. One can tell that each missive was lovingly honed into a rusty, bent and dulled edge before being gently dipped into battery acid and poison tree frog juice, and then blow-darted onto its gingerly selected, filth-covered page. And the best part of all? They did this ALL FOR YOU! The Goads gift to mankind is hypnotically ugly, and vastly, horribly entertaining. Getchyer' own copy today!!!

Coleen Salley does a wonderful reading of Cajun Night Before Christmas. I wish there were more recordings by her.

I bought this book after reading Cajun Night Before Christmas, and I'm glad I did. I really enjoyed it, especially after visiting New Orleans a couple years ago. I look forward to reading this to my future grandchildren.

I had the oppertunity to meet Jenny in person a few years back and she gave my son and autographed copy of the Cajun Night After Christmas with a "gator" and my son was thrilled. Every year at Christmas he takes his copy of the book to school to show his teachers and they read it to the class! Now I have another son and he loves the tale as much as my oldest son. The illustrations and text go together like bread and butter! I still laugh and get toungue tied when reading this book to my children. This book is not just a seasonal book for our family, it is a year round treat to enjoy together. We each have our Cajun Gator voices ready at bed time! Thank you Mrs. Moss for your wonderful gift to our family, you, your sister, and the illustrator are wonderful artists and have done a wonderful job with this book.

After reading the Cajun Night Before Christmas to children for many years and anticipating the release of this book, I was very impressed with the work of the authors. As usual, James Rice did an excellent job of illustrating. I am always impressed by his drawings,especially with the expressions of the characters. It was a great follow up to the Cajun Night Before christmas. I have added it to my vast collection of the original Night Before Christmas books and its variations. After I master the dialect and get the words to flow, I will probably be reading this book to kids for years to come. Thanks, Jenny, Amy and James

I use this cookbook all the time because the recipes are always tasty and the ingredients are usually on-hand! It is a very practical, cookbook that doesn't oversimplify at the expense of taste.

This pasta and grains recipe cookbook is your doorway to good eating, excellent health and longevity. All the way from Northern Italy and Sicily and throughout the world, it brings you an alternative diet that has proven to be creative, delicious, and exciting awakening for people around the world.

I am a retired Registered Dietitian and a person who likes "healthy eating" and interesting recipes. I just purchased this book. As my first foray into making a recipe, I prepared "Burgundy Beef in Pasta Shells with Tomato Sauce", p.194. I carefully followed the recipe and ended up with twice as much filling and 1/2 as much sauce as needed for 16 shells. Plus, I needed a much larger casserolle, 9x9", than recommended. Either the author has not prepared the recipe, or, more likely, the errors slipped by in the proof-reading stage of publication. My revised version (with canned spaghetti sauce) tasted great. I look forward to trying several other recipes, but I will be careful to ask myself if the ingredient proportions seem right.

The Animals was an exciting story.The setting of the story in Germany in 1944.The main characters in the book were Clay, Danison,and Dulon.My favorite character was Clay becouse he was very smart.My favorite part of the book was when Clay crashed into a German Army base.I would recommend this book to friends my age who like stories about war because it is very cool.

The Animals is a book that lacks length. I gave it a four because it's a really exciting book and a good historical fiction. It needs to be longer though.1. The setting is Germany 1944. The story is about the captain of a B-17 American bomber who gets shot down and crashes in Germany. He is brought to a German doctor and is treated and questioned by the Gestapo, Hitler's secret police, then he is informed of the German's secret plot. The assisantation of Winston Churchill. a German squadron is going to disguise itself as an American squadron of B-17's and crash into Churchill's house. I thought the story was very exciting and I was satisfied with it. An element that was represented in this book is suspense. You know it's the it's close to the end of World War Two and an American bomber pilot is being held in Germany. What's going to happen to him? I would recommend this book to those who like a good historical fiction.

This book was incredibly helpful for me when I first started in Children's Ministry--and beyond! Each chapter covers a different area of Children's Ministry and helps lay a solid foundation for your ministry. I've re-read most chapters to help me evaluate our ministry. All ages are covered and there are things for churches of any size. A must have for anyone in Childrens' Ministry!

Check out this resource as well--it's a keeper!
Children's Ministry in the 21st Century

I loved the original "Children's Ministry That Works" book. I assumed that the updates of this book would only improve the content. However, I was wrong. They took out valuable information proved to be an excellent teaching tool and replaced it with "just stuff." This book was a big disappointment to me.

This book gives a great overall view of Children's Ministry. It helps the reader realize that Children's Ministry isn't just sticking children in a classroom and teaching them stuff. There is more to it than that. Great book!

Is indeed a quick ref. It has all the major commands that are mostly found in other UNIX versions + a variety of HP-UX specific.

If one wants peace in the Levant, nonviolence does seem to be an idea. After all, if all sides were to engage in it, chances for peace would be greatly enhanced.

On the other hand, nonviolence is by no means a neutral solution. If it is true that the Arab side in this war wants to eliminate human rights for Jews in the region, while the Jews simply want to survive, nonviolence by all sides would be a total victory for the Jews. Will the Arabs accept that? It is possible that eventually, they will. After all, peace is beneficial to everyone, not just to Jews.

Jim Rice, the managing editor of Sojourners, quotes Naim Ateek as saying that "nonviolence is our only hope." It would be nice if Ateek and his friends really believed that. But I suspect that they don't. I think they know that it will not be easy to get rid of human rights nonviolently. Still, Rice does a good job of explaining some of the benefits to both sides that peace could bring. Plenty of lives could be saved!

The author raises the issue of whether divestment is a good way to attack the problem nonviolently. He explains that there is disagreement on this issue. Well, I have a clear opinion here. I think that divestment from Israel is simply a gratuitous act of war that will have no beneficial effect at all. It won't convince the Israelis to surrender or die. And it certainly won't convince the Arabs to stop using violence. Rice mentions that some people think that "other nonviolent actions would be more fruitful" than divestment. I think that is a very misleading statement, and I have to deduct three stars from my rating of this article for such a comment.

To some extent, Rice makes up for this comment with his clear statement that "pressure needs to be applied against those who contribute to terror, or fail to oppose it, in the region and elsewhere." But just what terror is he against? And what pressure would he be willing to apply? Does he consider Israeli defense against Arab attacks to be a form of terror? Given the context in which he mentions that the United States "provides billions of dollars each year to support the Israeli government," my feeling is that he would apply very little real pressure to stop Arab terror (but perhaps quite a bit of counterproductive pressure to stop any Israeli defense against it).

Rice says that only justice for all is justice at all. He is right. But justice for all means justice for everyone, including even the Jews, and I feel that many folks are overlooking that.

I do not recommend this article.