For anyone who likes to spoil their cat rotten, this book is an absolute must-have! Much more than a catalog, it contains everything from simple catnip toys to an Italian sportscar with built-in kitty seatbelt and litterbox. And there's gifts of all shapes and sizes for cat lovers, from jewelry to books to home furnishings. There's even an elf's hat to dress your cat for the holidays! I enjoyed every page of this book, learning interesting and obscure facts, picking out items for my Christmas list, and dreaming of what I'd buy my pampered cats if I ever win the lottery. The Whole Kitty Catalog certainly isn't heavy reading, but it sure brightens my days.

Frankie's book is fantastic! She has a rare skill to be able to communicate clearly and keep it entertaining.

This book is not just about the wonderful healing art, Reflexology, but discusses how the 5 body systems interact and react. Frankie talks about how you can relieve many symptoms from allergies to PMS with hand and foot reflexology as well as with other methods. I can't wait for her next book, The Complete Idiots Guide to Herbal Remedies - I know that between the two of them that I'll be able to maintain my health and heal myself naturally when I'm not quite right.

I promise you will learn much more than you expect and have fun too!

PS. Reflexology is GREAT DURING DATES to break the ice!!!! (just be sure to read page 6 before you ask your date for a treatment ;-)

I enjoyed this book very much. I found it to be very informative and fun to read. It is a great guide for anyone who wants a complete explanation about reflexology. I highly recommend the Complete Idiot's Guide to Reflexology and look forward to reading other works by Frankie Avalon.

The wholesome and down to earth approach of the author has captured the real magic of reflexology in this delightful and informative guide! I am extremely impressed with the thoroughness and the integrity the book maintains while supplying the reader with a heartfelt philosophy and humor that is both fun to read and easy to comprehend!!Worth every penny!!!

IF YOU PLAN TO WORK IN THE INDUSTRY YOU SHOULD READ THIS BOOK. It describes royaties to artist and how you may not see them. Scams pulled on bands.Items that should be in your contracts. How record companies rip you off. Examples on how songs are stolen. How producers hide money for themselves. Independent labels, Majors and Distribution both Major and Indie. Moses Avalon takes you from the first steps through the entire music industry process and tells you how much money you will have at the end(theorectically). This book is the one you should buy before all others.

When I picked up this book I expected another boring book from some out of touch "has been" trying to make a buck. Instead I found a book full of insight. Half way through the book I was blown away with the amount of knowledge (and I still had half a book to go).

Fact: the music business is full of weasels. They feed on the excitement of new (naive) artists, get them to sign a poor contract, and milk them dry. Well this book shows you the business from many including the artist, producer, label, and lawyers side (and more).

From assembling your team of managers, lawyers, producers, to payola and kickbacks, to copyrights, publishing royalties, sneaking lawyers tricks Moses covers everything in great detail. Typically when a book is this thorough there are parts that you end up skipping as it doesn't apply, but Moses insights of the "squeezing", back stabbing, and shenanigans kept me glued to every page.
If you are thinking that life would be great if you could just get signed to a major label, you REALLY need to read this. Moses shows you how you can sell 1,000,000 records and still owe money (if you're not careful). He shows you every detail, and then brings it home by breaking down in a table format (making it easy to see exactly where the money goes). The section titled "A Major Label Deal is like having a Credit Card at 66% was extremely eye opening.

OK, anybody can throw number on a page. So who is Moses Avalon? It turns out he has worked with Warner Brothers, Atlantic, and BMG. He has worked Grammy wining artists (he has worked on 5 platinum recordings). He is also a composer who has had his compositions used in commercials, and award winning independent films.

If you are someone looking for management, or getting airplay now and on the verge of breaking, READ THIS BOOK. When snakes surround you, it pays to know which ones are poisonous.

Dave Jackson
Musician's Cyber Cooler

So you want to be a rock star. Find out where the art ends and the money begins with this book. A fascinating and insightful read about the inner workings of the music business. Having some experience, I know it's sadly true. Great advice also. Go with an indie label first, etc.

Womens' wisdom & ways of knowing are almost always discounted by the male-dominated world. The Kirkus Review says, "... quickly degenerates into pop psychology and pseudo-profundities." Why do supposedly intelligent people bother to negate what's profound for someone else? A simple statement that the profundity was lost on you would suffice.

That said, I found this to be a glorious book about a woman's pilgrimage in midlife that changed her deeply and will affect the rest of her life. Women need to hear womens' stories. It's what we've always done & hopefully will continue to do and benefit from.

I found her descriptions of the places she visited absolutely lovely and enriching. Without her extremely intimate perspective, this book would only be an interesting travelogue - not something that inspired me to listen to myself and my body!

To know that my perspective may help someone else clarify theirs is reason enough for me to say all women everywhere should read this one, and share it with the people in their lives.

If you choose not to believe that women all over the world are reawakening to Goddess, that's fine. No one who reveres Goddess will try to change your mind. We simply understand there also was a time when most people thought Earth was flat.

I was laying in a hospital bed sicker than I had ever been in my life....not sure how it was going to turn out and terrified. A friend of mine brought me her copy of this book. I told her that it was one of this authors that I had not read, in part because it was so focused on women's issues. She wisely told me to read it.....and I did.

It made a difference. The idea that women experience pain in childbirth but understand that through that pain something good comes helped me survive a hell of a lot of pain.

I returned the copy my friend lent me and bought my own. Whenever I see it....I remember what I learned....how do you review such a thing? Hmmmm maybe this is the way.

Jean Shinoda Bolen writes beautifully and creates vivid imagery. She describes the earth as a mother, a temple as a woman's body, and the sacred places of the earth as "acupuncture points". She draws the reader into her journey by weaving archetypes into her descriptions throughout the book. And she articulates this herself beautifully; "Artists and writers whose work touches us deeply instinctively access collective symbols. They "Dream" for us; they bring images and stories from their own depths that could be our own. If we are conscious we recognize ourselves in them. Otherwise we only know that we are moved. Seen from this perspective, artists or authors are our contemporary versions of shamen who have visions for their tribes. They tap into a deeper stratum and express it. And that stratum-the collective unconscious-draws upon more than the culture of the time or the experience of that particular individual..."(p.36). She says that everyone who works towards raising awareness or acting with compassion is linked to everyone else who does also.

Crossing to Avalon is a very healing book for women of all ages (and also men). I especially enjoyed reading about her experiences of pregnancy, birth, and motherhood. I also loved hearing her thoughts on women falling in love with women, or falling in love with the goddess within a woman. She talks about how a woman can have a male archetype within her and that the goddess energy can be inside of a man as well.

A beautiful and healing journey, a celebration of life and womanhood.

All that glitters is a great book for all ages. There are some large words that younger kids (9 and below) might not understand. But, if the story is read aloud to them, you can tell them what the words mean. The characters from the first book are in this book. But unlike the first book, which was about all three of the girls,(Emily, Adriane, Kara)this one was more focused on Kara. In the beginning of the book, Kara is missing her pink sweater and school starts the next day. Kara soon finds out that she is being stalked by banshees and thinks that she's being stalked by the leopard spotted cat (from the first book). Kara is very jealous of Emily and Adriane. They have magical stones and she doesn't. Later she finds her own stone and all heck breaks loose. Kara can hardley control the power of her own stone. Water fariementals contact her and try to tell her of danger. I've read the book, but for those who haven't, I won't spoil the ending for you.

This book was GREAT! Emily is still my favorite, than Kara, than Adrianne. Having another book in the series that focouses on another girl changes what I see in them (My fovorites used to be Emily, Adrienne, Kara). It shows Kara and Adrienne fighting a lot, and Emily is still the peacemaker. Kara FINALLY finds a jem (a unicorn jewel), but that's when the trouble starts. Minature Dragons start popping up and adoring Kara, Banshee's try to take the jewel, and fry Kara's hair, but her magic turns it RAINBOW instead. And water faeriementals warn of danger. Plus, you see Kara torn between her friends Tiffany, Heather, and Molly and Ravenswod. But that's not all! Kara bonds with a magical cat named Lyra, and has a dangerous encounter with the Dark Sorceress herself....

I don't get into reading too much, but I read the first book and now this one and I am officially hooked. I have started the third book now and can't wait for the fourth to be released. What a wonderful series for kids my age. The characters are great in this book. So real to me. I love how each story has a different girl for the main character.

This series is great. This book is not. If you read this book, when compared to the other Amber novels, you will understand why this book is a disappointment.

First, this book has two stories within it. I could be wrong, but it seems like the stories found here were parts of a magazine series put together to form one book. The first story, outside of some of the same characters, has little to do with the second story found here. As such, I will treat each story seperately and judge them accordingly.

If you can, skip the first story. It was horrible. It lacked every good quality which made the first book such a classic. In the first book Corwin, with no memory and recovering from an assassination attempt, still manages to gather forces together which eventually allow him to challenge his brother Eric for the thrown of Amber. When he loses, his eyes are cut out and his is imprisoned for life. While he does suffer, he still dreams of revenge and eventually escapes from prison with the hopes of attacking and beating Eric in the future. In every sense of the word, Corwin is a hero.

In this book, Corwin is a coward. He runs away from Amber to Avalon. While there, he seems to be afraid of one of his old henchmen, Ganelon, who is the leader of a group of men he finds there. Eventually revealing himself to Ganelon, they join force to fight a strange foe found in the forest. This story is a "2" in my eyes. It was predictable. It was boring. It added nothing to this series.

The second story, however, is much better. Corwin, trying to return to Amber, mets one of his brothers. He also plans again for the thrown and mets someone who may be his brother's granddaughter. He fights and runs, but seems to regain some of the character found in the first book.

I have read book 3, and the second part of this book leads nicely into it. It is only for this reason that I would recommend reading this book. Since the whole series, overall, is quite good, I just thought those of you who might get discouraged by the beginning of this book should take note: it does get better. Zelazany is a good writer, he just was a little off beat in the first story.

Guns of Avalon is a truly worthy sequel to the Nine Princes of Amber. What makes this book so fun is Zelazny tells his tale in a completely different tenor and tone then the first book. In the first book we had no idea what was going on. We were as lost as the main character is through out the book. In this novel the main Character, Corwin, is more aware of events and so we are allowed, as the reader, to be more aware of events.

I think it is a remarkable coincidence that I had just picked up "The Fabric of Reality" by David Deutsch just prior to reading this novel and it is remarkable how well Deutshe's theory of Multiverses fits into the Amber Chronicles. Don't get me wrong. I am not one of those people who wish to make their favorite fantasy into reality, but thinking scientifically while reading a classic fantasy yarn was very enjoyable.

A worthy sequel to Nine Princes of Amber. This, and most of Zelazny's novels, are usually out of print. It would be worthwhile to attempt to get a copy of this book either through Amazon's out print book search or your local used books store. Good luck.

As if it wasn't enough that many of the incidents in this volume set the stage for all the Amber books to follow; as if it wasn't enough that his use of language conjures images of majesty, grandeur and, yes, low animal cunning, I found Zelazny's use of the writerly technique foreshadowing (no pun intended) awe-inspiring. Everything builds from here - Corwin's memories of Moire and his brief affair with Lorraine lead up to his encounter with Dara and suggest the direction that will eventually lead. Corwin's adventures with the Black Circle forge his decisions about duty, kingship, and that which lies beyond the Black Road. While Nine Princes in Amber could be a stand-alone novel, this book is the linchpin which holds together all the Amber books to come.

I have read Rick Steves' books for years, and like the others, this one contains helpful information. His conversational style and middle income budget make this book perfect for average American, especially the first time traveler. The down side to this book and other Rick Steves books is as follows: 1) the maps are very poor- hand drawn and definitely low tech. Frommer does a better job in this area 2) costs are listed only in the foreign currency instead of following with the approximate cost in dollars in parenthesis. You must constantly dig out the calculator. 3) a lot of the material (whole pages at a time) is a direct copy from the previous edition, making for a repetitive read. That said, I would not take a trip to Europe without this book. I have never met anyone who went to Europe and used his tips and was sorry. However, I have met a lot of people who have used Lonely Planet and Let's Go who were disillusioned. I'm taking this book and Frommer's when I go this summer.

Europe Through The Back Door is the best travel guide out there. When planning to travel solo around Europe for a month, Rick Steves was my guide, and I had a great time. Every little secret "Back Door" I went to were amoung my favorite places, with only carriers of this book and no other Americans to be found! This book is also the most enjoyable travel guide to just sit down and read! It is really entertaining. Only complaint is that his focus is more centered to older people and not the young student traveller like me, but its still great. But don't buy it, so all of us "In the know" travellers don't need to share the Cinque Terre!

Europe Through the Back Door is an invaluable book for travelers who want to experience the real Europe with real Europeans, instead of the sanitized versions offered by tour companies and big hotels.

Rick shows you how to enjoy your trip more by spending less money, by getting closer to the locals. You won't be disappointed. In my trips to Europe, Rick's advice led to life-changing experiences that I will remember for the rest of my life.

This book is also economically packed full of the kind of useful, practical advice honed through 19 editions. (Trust me, the guy knows his stuff).

Thanks, Rick, and keep up the good work!

There is very little more that can be added to the already numerous insights into this book. This was the second book I have read about the Arthurian legend, the first being White's "The Sword in the Stone", and Bradley's I found to be better by far. Bradley was able to weave the old tale, much of which has been a jumbled of different versions of the myth, and tell it for a different point of view. Bradley has for the most part used females as her protagonist in her other works and continues the trend by telling the legend from the woman's point of view. Bradley mainly focuses on Morgaine and her story, but also tells us of Igraine, mother of Arthur; Viviane, Lady of the Lake before Morgaine and mother of Lancelot; Morgause, aunt to Arthur, mother of a number of his Companions, and all-around power hungry woman; and Gwynhefar, the only character other then Morgaine to provoke such strong emotions that you will either love her or hate her. The only deterrent to the book is that due to the chronological length of the story the book is very long and at some points, especially when the theological debate is voiced (though this is even done so smoothly that one can hardly notice it), very slow. However, these spots are few and do not detract from the overall story. The one character that I wish Bradley went more in-depth on was Raven, though it would have been difficult to write on a character that says nothing unless prompted by a prophetic vision. Like the majority of fans I would suggest this book to everyone, and encourage the skeptics to read it, arguing that it is worth their time.

Without any doubt, "The Mists of Avalon" is one of the few colossal achievements in the fantasy genre from the last thirty years. It boldly replays all the significant parts of the Arthurian saga from the perspective of the female characters, focusing mainly on Guinevere and Morgaine. In Bradley's hands, they become fully rounded characters, as we see how their upbringings and differing worldviews lead up to the roles they play in the story that we all know and love. None of the minor characters, male or female, are neglected. They are all developed carefully, with realistic motivations. In "The Mists of Avalon", less time is spent on warfare and battles than in most earlier versions, and more is devoted to looking at aspects of medieval society that we rarely hear about, ranging from medicine to religion to childrearing.

The first hundred pages of "The Mists of Avalon" are, in my opinion, the best part of the book. They cover the life of Igraine and of Uther Pendragon, and give a glimpse of what British society was like prior to Arthur's birth. After that, we get a lengthy section dedicated to Morgaine's training as a priestess on the island of Avalon, and the introduction of Guinevere and Lancelot. The middle section of the book proceeds at a much slower pace, with lots of attention being paid to the development of all of the main characters. The story then picks up at the end for a very impressive finish. I particularly like the beautiful descriptions throughout the book, and the way that different literary elements are blended to create wonderful images.

Some readers have commented that the book is anti-Christian. I have to disagree with this. It does have some Christian characters who are portrayed negatively, but plenty that are portrayed positively as well. And although she goes a little bit over the top on a few occasions, Bradley is generally accurate in her depiction of theology in the Middle Ages. I don't think that she is opposed to Christianity as much as opposed to anyone who has become completely inflexible in their worldview. This may not be clear at the start of the book, but it is definitely obvious by the end.

Bradley began her career writing short stories and then moved on to science fiction novels. She first became famous with the Darkover series, which is, in all honestly, pretty lousy. When writing "The Mists of Avalon", however, she took the time to carefully construct her plot and think through her dialogue and descriptive writing. The result is one of the masterpieces of modern popular literature, and a work that will certainly be remembered as a fantasy classic for many generations to come.

I first heard about The Mists of Avalon from my mom, because she and all of her women friends were reading it at the same time. I was curious to know what the book was about, but I was far too young at the time to have understood it. But just recently, I was searching the library for books on Arthur and Camelot and all of that sort of thing. Then I remembered The Mists of Avalon, and decided to give it a try.

I must admit I am not completely finished reading it yet, but I have to say that I have never read a book like it. It tells the story of King Arthur, but from the women's point of view. I had always thought of Morgan as the evil sorceress, but now I see her only as a woman fighting to protect her religion, and way of life.

However, even though this is a wonderful book, I find it hard to sympathize with any of the characters except for Arthur. Morgaine is certainly my favorite character, but even she seems somewhat cold and harsh. Gwenhwyfar (Guinevere) is a pathetic, whiny girl; Viviane is a heartless woman thinking only of herself and of Avalon; Lancelet is just plain icky; and none of the other characters were that great. But even so, the story is enthralling, and each day I look forward to reading it in the evening.

So if you like Arthurian legend, I would recommend you read this straight away. It is definitely worth reading, and I can't see why anybody would want to give it less than 5 stars.

Great dialogue! Shows the skill of this Pacific Northwest Writers Confrence 1998 winner in the Genera novel category. A bright and happy read.

"Richer by Far" is a unique story played out in a small town. It held my interest from beginning to end. I especially enjoyed the vivid descriptions of both the setting and the characters. I was quickly drawn in to the story line and didn't want to have to put it down! Great job!

I just finished this book last night. The author keeps your attention throughout. The struggle between success in life's fast lane and the "simple life" makes the book difficult to put down. Very heartwarming! I would love to visit Oregon to see such beautiful scenery. I hope Mrs. Main continues to use her gift to write many more novels.

Wow!! This has to be one of the best 8th Doctor books i've read yet. This is one of the 'must read' books if you're enjoying the whole 'End Of Gallifrey' arc. One good thing about the book, is that Paul Cornell has decided to retain continuity that was set in the Virgin 'Happy Endings' book where the Brigadier has de-aged to mid-30's. Every character in the book is well presented - the best, of course, being the Brigadier. The ending is a corker as well - one of the best. WELL RECOMMENDED!!!!

Good show; wonderful story.
I must say this book was very hard to put down even when sleep called desperately.
While the eighth Dr. is not my favorite, I purchased this book as the story line mentions Avalon of which I am most interested in.
To my delight Paul Cornell has written this book so that it reads like a fourth Doctor adventure and that was a welcomed surprise.
The intertwining of the Brigadier, dimension shifting, fairies, mages, et. al. is a rare mixture that is a treat for the mind and has you constantly wondering what will happen next. The problems and possibilities all mix well and make you wonder, "what if".
All 'round a must read. Bravo!

Don't let the worst Doctor Who book cover on the shelf fool you! There are no flying alligators in this book! I've just reciently devoured ten of the Doctor Who books - reciently being within the last few months, and the books being eight 8th Doctor books, and 2 past Doctor books. This book was my favorite of all of these! I thought Father Time was the best (I'm not reading them entirely in order), but I was glad to have been showndifferently! The book grabbed me on the first page and didn't let go until I was through, and I am sorry that I finished it. You can see the "Top 500" review for a story synopsis - I'm just popping in to say READ IT. I guess I should say, if you like fantasy vs. reality - myth vs. military - and classic Doctor Who in a faster more modern more sophisticated light... then READ IT! Brilliant treatment of Compassion also, not to mention the Brigadier whose character is explored and made more real within these pages than I've ever experienced it before. Thank you Paul Cornell!