Running Books

This book is fabulous! All of the sexy, wise and funny things that have been said about sex throughout history-- collected in one delightful little book. I couldn't stop reading it. An erotic treasure.

Let me tell you, this is some kind of great book. You think you've heard it all about sex. But I've never read a collection of quotes on the subject that was so funny and thoughtful. The way the quotes are ordered and the layout are also excellent.

I read (and reread) this book before my first Boston Marathon. The action was so real I couldn't tell if this was fact...or fiction! Did Brad Townes win??? or did Bill Rogers win?? As I ran the route from Hopkinton to Boston, the scenes were vividly replayed in my mind. It was like I had been here before! This book is MUST reading for anyone attempting to qualify for Boston..."Long Road to Boston" convinced me that if Brad Townes could overcome his demons and handicaps, then surely I could train hard enough to join the runners at Boston...and I DID!! This book accompanied me to Boston!

Upon first reading this work of art by Bruce Tuckman, i was vacationing at a friend's lake house. The book was recomended to me to read so i began reading. The book did not leave my hands after that until I was done with it. It contains the same descriptiveness as the book, Once A Runner, by John L. Parker. This book ranks up at the top with the rest of them.

This is the fourth of in the series about Matthew Mckendrick. It is a wonderful story that is very well written. I have read it several times and never get tired of reading it. It is a nice ending for this series to see the changes in the main character and some resolution to the cries in his life.

Anyone who's ever suffered at the hands of their classmates in high school can relate to the story of Matt McKendrick, whose experience is ten times worse. Forced to brave people who believe that he murdered his little sister Katie, Matt struggles to regain some kind of life, and to regain his position as a winning runner. His friends, Meg and Will Schuyler, and their younger siblings Lew and Carey, provide a wonderfully comedic and supportive outlet to Matt's insecurities and pain. Matt's foster family is also very realistic, providing more humor and dimension to Matt's life. You'll definitely want to read the other three books in this series!

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If you're in love with someone you'll most definitely appreciate all the quotes in this little book. Its a gem. The quotes are so true, maintaining such a good sense of reality while at the same time the thoughts are so lofty and yet true of any people who are in love.

This is a perfect gift for your girlfriend, wife or anyone you're in deep love with.

I purchased this item as a gift for a young song writer. I was pleased with the professional-looking parchment pages for lyric idea notes, including the format for noting ideas for accompanying chords. Very pleasing are the page bottom notes from composers of all types of music sharing their personal feelings about writing songs.

I bought this item for my best friend. She loves to write music and poems. So I figured that this would be perfect for her. She loves it and she plans on writing more music. It was the perfect item for her. The item came in just a few days. I recommend this product to anyone that loves to write music and songs or if you know someone that does.

I have always followed this series by Devlin and he is an excellent writer. I love his characters and the way the spankings of the brats are written. It makes the reader feel like they are in the room with the characters and they can feel what they do. You can feel the warmth and the love of the characters as they blend in and interact with each other. I hope Professor Devlin will continue to write this series and more to come since I so enjoy them.

I have all of the Maid's volumes and have enjoyed each and every one of them. I love the way Devlin writes about the brats and quick response and his descriptive writing allows me to feel like I'm there. Of course I may be prejudiced since I thoroughly enjoy his writing but if you want a great series to read and are into erotica, buy this series.

Devlin keep up the great work!!!!

Richard Benyo is an experienced marathon runner and ultra marathon runner. His writing style is easy to follow and very helpful. He talks of the pitfalls of bad exercise habits and talks about nearly every imaginable aspect related to running a marathon. I say "nearly" only because I have yet to have a question that his book hasn't answered.

I've twice went against his advice only to have his excerpts staring back at me as if to say, "See? I told you so. Next time follow what is here or you'll see, as I've written, what will happen."

The book is broken down, for easy reference, into various sections from "Twenty Questions 2 Months Prior to your Marathon" to "Lessons from Great Marathon Runners" excerpts on the day before, day of, and day after, and many other chapters that deal with subject matter ranging from injuries, diet, training plan and running beyond the marathon distances.

I refer to his book daily and in my training for my upcoming marathon, I feel much more confident with the ideas he has presented here which have become a sort of mantras in my focus to accomplishing my goal of completing a marathon successfully without injury.

I was never a runner but I wanted to run a marathon so a friend recommended this book. It is an excellent "how-to" manual and I followed it word-for-word. Benyo gives advice from day one through the actual races (mile by mile) and post race recovery. I hope this book makes it back into print because it is an excellent guide to running a first marathon.

Since reading Mike Benton's fascinating Illustrated History of Crime Comics, I've been interested in the genre. It predates horror comics by more than a decade, and crime comics were a huge hit with adults in the 40s. In terms of era, form and content, they fit neatly between the hardboiled pulp magazines and novels, and film noir.

This Mammoth Book collection has plenty of pre-50s stuff, including the amazingly hard hitting Secret Agent X-9 newspaper strip from the 30s. There's also a cool Johnny Craig story from Crime Suspenstories-- my favorite EC title! Frank Miller talks about Craig's work a good deal in the Sin City commentary.

It's also wonderful to finally have high quality reproductions of the original inks of Jack Cole's "Murder, Morphine and Me," and Alex Toth's "The Crushed Gardenia," and Bernie Krigstein's "Lilly-White Joe"-- all real classics. I also loved Krigstein's solid adaptation of the bizarro 87th Precinct story "Blind Man's Bluff".

Even the newer stuff I've never heard of is worth reading. And it's all great reference material. I wish this was a huge coffee table hardback, but then it would've probably cost seventy-five bucks! I hope there's a part two, because I know the source material's hardly been exhausted. One example that comes to mind is the terrific Joe Lansdale/Bruce Timm team-up "Red Romance".

This is the third Mammoth comics volumes--the first two focusing on war & horror. Both of those earlier volumes were hampered, although not crippled, by the refusals of EC, DC, Marvel/Atlas & Warren to allow reprints of their stories (although Warren tales did appear in the War volume). However this volume focuses on crime, a genre neither DC or Marvel/Atlas did much with, Warren only produced a few stories in (although they tended to be of quite high quality) and, in fact, an EC story does appear here.

With almost the entire field to choose from the quality of this volume is very high with an excellent 1934 Dashiell Hammett/Alex Raymond tale from Secret Agent X-9; two stories from Bernie Krigstein (including the very strange 'Blind Man's Bluff' which was his swansong to comics); obscure Alan Moore & Neil Gaiman tales (including Moore's epilogue to his graphic novel 'From Hell'); a great Max Collins/Terry Beatty Ms. Tree tale, a fine Johnny Craig story from EC, Jack Cole's classic 'Murder, Morphine And Me!', a fine Joe Simon/Jack Kirby bunko tale, some decent Euro crime tales making their North American debuts, Will Eisner's Spirit (although one might quibble why 'The Portier Fortune'--a good but not great Spirit tale appears, when such genuine noir greats like 'Black Alley', 'Ten Minutes' & 'Fox At Bay' were passed by), Jordi Bernet with a Torpedo tale, an Alex Toth classic, Charles Burns and much, much more. In fact, the quality of this book is so high while the price is so low that it may well be the best comic anthology of the year for your dollar.

This was a gift for someone who is enthralled with Everest, although he isn't finished with the book, he hasn't be able to put it down since it arrived! Very interesting stories, we both liked how there was a wide variety of successful climbed and failed attempts, including a sherpa's perspective!

To mark the 50th anniversary of the first successful climb to the summit of Mount Everest, editor Lewis assembled thirty chapters written by literal Everest eyewitnesses. Not every writer whose account he includes climbed the mountain at all, let alone made it to the summit. The earliest chapter is set in 1913; the last, in 1999. The writers take us from early survey missions, during which Westerners ventured close enough to the then forbidden mountain to begin planning eventual assents, all the way to the intriguing moment when climbers on the verge of the 21st Century discovered and positively identified the remains of Everest pioneer George Leigh Mallory. In doing so, they solved one mystery - "What happened to Mallory?" - but didn't find answers to the greatest Everest riddle. Which continues to be: Did Mallory and his climbing partner, Sandy Irvine, actually reach the summit almost 20 years ahead of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay?

The sheer variety of stories told in this book guarantees it a place in my library, instead of a trip to the local Good Will where books I read just once wind up. Some tales are tragic, some humorous, some enlightening (most notable in the latter category: Tenzing Norgay's account of his Everest summit in 1953, "The Dream Comes True"). I especially enjoyed the appendices at the book's end, which are anything else but dry.

A well-chosen, well-edited collection that's sure to have "something new" to offer even a dedicated reader of Everest tales.

I love this book. It is exactly what I have been wanting, and is what the "Uppity Women" series should have been. Each chapter has a one paragraph summary of the woman, followed by a four or six page essay about her life. All well-written and very entertaining, and I love that they give you more information than just one paragraph.

This is the best book from the Mammoth Book series. I really enjoyed reading this book and the I am now full of admiration for the women featured. As a man, I would love to read more books like this.