Roger really nails it with this book and I should know because I was there. Roger was my best buddy. He physically pulled my lazy carcass out of bed each summer morning in 1958 & 59 and dragged me to swim team practice. (I was a night person; Roger was a round-the-clock person.) I devoured the book in one sitting and have been reminiscing ever since. The characters we grew up with and the things we got into could easily provide material for two or three more books! Let's have'em Rog!

Very funny and entertaining book...Once I started reading it, I
could not lay it down..Several friends that I told stories to from this book,really had several laughs and each related similar
experiences...This is VERY enjoyable reading...Yes, I do think
all of us are in this book in a LITTLE way...The author did a very NICE job putting this one together.....This is my FIRST review but NOT my last....I RECOMMEND THIS BOOK...THANKS !!

Very Funny...Great MEMORY reading...I can relate to this book...
A lot of DOWN to EARTH humor...Reminds me of my CHILDHOOD...
I highly recommend to all 30 to 90 year olds...There are towns
in Texas that are very similar to Bainbridge...I am sure that
EVERYONE who reads this book will LOVE it...Seems so REAL...
Anyway, my family and friends LOVE it...
Edley Martin...Harlengin, Texas

This is the best poetry! Every poem is designed to make you reach outside yourself to lift self and others, it is not only spiritual, but it is very encouraging and beautifully written.

Lyrics of the Soul touches on everything and raises hope and strength...
Especially during a troubling time in our nation(WTC, etc) Reading this books allows me to re-think what is going on and stay reminded that God loves me and has everything in control!
Each page is a gift...

A wonderful collaboration of words! I enjoyed every page and would gladly give it to all whom I care about and love! Not only is this beautiful poetry, but it's an example of what positive words can do to encourage your spirit!

MR. SEARCY, TRULY MY HAT IS OFF TO YOU!! HURRUMPH!!!!
IT IS ONE OF THE MOST CHILLING BOOKS I'VE EVER READ. THESE TESTIMONIALS OF TRUE ACCOUNTS SHOULD BE READ BY ALL INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE; RENTING,LEASING, AND EVEN PURCHASING A HOME BE MADE AWARE OF THE EVICTIONS PROCESS. ANYONE WHO READS THIS BOOK, SHOULD BECOME WELL EDUCATED IN THE EVICTIONS PROCESS, AND
SHOULD USE IT WISELY TO THEIR ADVANTAGE. "A HINT TO THE WISE SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT". CHAPTER AFTER CHAPTER OF REVEALING CHILLING CIRCUMSTANCE, ACTUALLY SCARRED ME TO THINK THAT IT COULD HAPPEN TO ME! ALTHOUGH I AM PURCHASING A HOME FOR MY FAMILY, THE BOOK EXPLAINS IN FULL DETAIL, THE "EVITIONS PROCESS AND THE RIGHTS OF THE TENANTS AS WELL AS THE RIGHTS OF THE LANDLORD, MORTGAUGE COMPANY, AND THE DO'S AND DONT'S". THE BOOK CLEARLY EXPLAINS THE DUE PROCESS AND LEGALITIES, THE TENANTS RIGHT TO CHANGE OR AMEND A CONTRACT(LEASE,PURCHASE, RENT) BEFORE MOVING IN ASSURING THAT HIS/HER DAMAGE DEPOSIT IS FULLY COVERED TO THE EXTENT OF THE LAW. HOW CAN ONE BE ANGRY AT THE CONSTABLE FOR DOING HIS/HER JOB, EVICTING TENANTS. THESE OFFICERS ARE ONLY FOLLOWING THE JUDGMENTS HANDED DOWN BY THE COURTS INITIATED BY THE LAND LORDS. BY ALL MEANS MR. SEARCY, YOU HAVE MY VOTE FOR (C O N S T A B L E) IN THE UPCOMIG ELECTIONS SHOULD YOU CHOOSE TO RUN. YOUR EXPERIENCE AND APPITHY YOU SHOWED TOWARDS THE EVICTEE'S. I ACTUALLY FELT SORRY FOR YOU HAVING TO DO WHAT YOU HAD TO DO. HURRUMPH!!!!!! GOOD WORK!!
GOT INVOLVED,
GOT INTREGGED,
GOT THE MESSAGE......
LOUIS GUICHARD

Evictions from the inside is a very insightful and informative book. Terry tapped into the sides of people which are unseen in other situations. He showed just how vonerable people truely are, and just how horrible a human being can be. No other book i've read has touch me and discused me all at once. I say this because my heart went out to those who were being put out like trash, and I felt a sense of hatred to those who were possing as the gabage men. I can't understand how someone can treat another human being with such calasness and just walk away like nothing happend. All in all this book made me realize the eviction prosses and want to help as much as possible. Terry I give you two thumbs up:)

All who read this book will soon understand why I call it an "experience." Mr. Searcy has accomplished the task of writing a book that takes the reader along to experience several evictions. The book was surprisingly easy to read. You're able to visualize every moment as if you are there. Evictions are not a subject that most are interested in, but Mr.Searcy through his book makes the reader easily relate to the people, the individual subjects. Each chapter was a journey into a residence. Each chapter paints a vivid and gripping picture from the moment you open the book. It will certainly help all to understand the mechanics of the eviction process and meet some of the people that have had this gut wrenching experience.

To one of his more recent students in classes and lectures at Columbia Seminary, Prof Bruegge is already a Living Legend! In the beginning of every class there is his personal, inspired prayer to the "One Who Listens; Yahweh; Holy God; Giver of all our years; You, the God of Truth; You, You, You..."

Lately, in his OT Survey, I wrote a few snatches of his opening addresses to: "You, You, You giver of Life; You who are the One Sovereign Judge, King, Lawyer, Counselor...O God as we watch powers rise and fall, We watch ourselves, we watch and see the World. You who comes late and sometimes soon... Come quickly Lord Jesus!"

My thoughts often return to his opening prayers in every class. My wish for all of last year: "Why does not someone publish them?" So now we have many of them. From 1976: "You are the voice we can scarely hear..." From 1992, "Healing sovereign God, overmatch our resistant ears..." How many sparkling ways that he creatively addresses the Living Personal God! In these few weeks I have used this Jewel of Prayers, I have been particularly struck by the first group: "And then you; You...and therefore us; For how you hope; The other side of the street; Our true home." The second section that I have re-read is "A people with many secrets," and the 11th one, "The God we would rather have."

Dedicated to "a long stream of treasured colleagues of 25 years at Eden Theological Seminary and 17 years at Columbia...with thanks and appreciation." When I purchased this treasure in the School's Book Store, I first saw it in the hands of one of his friends from the Seminary Offices. Now the one who prays to the "Liberator, Redeemer, Emancipator..." will continue to be the one I know who includes his students in his caring compassion!
Retired Chaplain Fred W Hood

"Eyr the Hunter" is an outstanding story that lifts children's literature to a new height. The rhyming cadences charm, and encourage expressive reading. Any reader who experiments with the beat of a drum to accompany the tale of Eyr will be in for a treat. This tale works on several levels; here we have history, adventure, character building, anthropology, and respect for the environment. Margaret Searcy has created an engaging hero, one whom we can cheer through his ordeal and eventual triumph.

This book was given to me by a friend at a time that I needed it. The testimonies are inspiring!

This book is full of hands on ideas that will stimulate the young learners. This book is a must have to add to your collection of activity books. The Hug a Tree Book, Mudpies to Magnets and More Mudpies to Magnets are must have for teachers and parents of young children. Linking Language is just another bridge for young learners to develop communications skills, increase vocabulary awarness and make curriculum connections. I had the opportunity to attend a workshop with one of the authors Robert Rockwell....Simply Marvelous

An excellent book to curl up with on a cold winter's night. I especially appreciated Mr. Searcy's descriptive powers illuminating daily life at that time on a plantation. I felt that I was there when he was describing "hog butchering time." When is your next book?

I have begun reading your book again and I really enjoy it more this time than before. Your descriptions are so beautiful and the characters just come to life for me. I am so glad I was privileged to meet you and your family. I hope that you can come back to Brewton sometime soon

I read the outline. I read the original manuscript. I read the published book -- each was better than the one before. Excellent.

Ordinary Horror is a very cleverly written, cerebral suspense novel, in that it provides everyday occurrences and arranges them in a startling montage. The novel has a distinctly Dostoevskyan flavor: no details are excluded, leaving the reader to wonder which details are pertinent to the story, and which aren't.

However, while a the inclusion of details makes for verisimilitude absolutely required by a storyline that is *exclusively* propelled by its very real, bleak quality, it unfotunately makes the story rather devoid of plot. And while Searcy's prose is gorgeous, the "story" takes a turn for the worse; the clever reader, realizing the tale is on a fleet-footed journey to Nowhere, loses interest. The book becomes irrevocably boring midway through.

Certain characters compensate for dullness, but their welcome is also short-lived. We are briefly enchanted by a young girl named Janie, and intrigued by 70-year old Frank Delabano's sexually charged, albeit mundane, encounters with some women in the neighborhood, but alas, it is too little too late, and we are unconcerned with any of the characters' well-being or motives.

For a book categorized as a 'horror novel,' there's little action here. Mostly the book is a third-person narrator putting us inside the head of seventy-year-old widower Frank Delabano whose life consists of trying to isolate himself from his neighbors and who finds refuge in his roses, which are for him a sort of redolent drug, an intoxicant that he associates with serenity and safety. The roses have an underside or a demonic side as well, for they are not real. They represent the artificial kind of sanctuary we find when we're cut off from the human race. In many ways, then, Delabano is a picture of Dead Suburban Man who, unable and unwilling to connect with society, immerses himself in the false comforts of suburban life.

In many ways 'Ordinary Horror' is a long essay or critique of suburbia disguised as a horror novel. Apart from the novel's slow pace, which gets bogged down, especially when we must go over lengthy expositions on horticulture, this approach works, showing us, like David Lynch's film 'Blue Velvet,' the hideous malaise that afflicts those of us who isolate ourselves in suburbia and infatuate ourselves with our own mythology of innocence.

If you like the theme of Modern Man Dying in the Suburbs, you might want to take a look at Thomas Berger's classic and funny novel 'Neighbors,' which showcases Earl Keese, a spiritual cousin of Frank Delabano.

anyone who doesn't like this book is stupid, stupid, stupid.

I have read a lot of bad books, but this is the worst. More then half the book is about Luther doing day to day tasks. Luther feeds the chickens, Luther makes a sandwich, Luther plays with the dogs, and Luther goes to Wal-mart. One bit of advice I would like to give Mr. Searcy. If he is going to write a book at least have a story to tell, it makes it so much more interesting for the reader.

This is quite possibly the worst book I have ever read. This book is confusing, with sentences that run on forever and dialog that comes out of nowhere and makes no sense. I kept putting this book down and telling myself that it wasn't worth the effort, but then I would pick it up again and struggle with it some more. I thought maybe when I finished it, it would make some sense. I should have just put it down and left it down! At least it did help me fall asleep several nights.

Always looking for "new" horror, I read several professional reviews of this and "Ordinary Horror" that all seemed to indicate a possibility that Mr. Searcy might have what I was looking for. I cannot speak for his first book, but "Last Things" was unexpectedly pedantic, and, frankly, boring. I found myself consistently falling asleep every time I sat down to read it.
This is truly unfortunate, because there is some good language in here, and intimations of signs of what could be good psycho-surreal horror, but it never arrived.
The book begins well, though I got the feeling that Mr. Searcy's editor ultimately dropped the ball and let the author meander incessantly. Many of the sentences in this book could not be read without losing one's breath, and the voice of the narrator often clashes violently with the character being followed.
I believe that if you were in just the right mood and just the right kind of person this book might work for you, but it simply didn't for me. Perhaps his first book is better.