If you are a fan of the show this book is totally worth the time it might take to find it. It explains EVERYTHING that happened in the years before the ship landed and lets you see more about why the characters are the way they are. I definately recommened this book, I couldn't put it down.

Patricia Garfield's sixth book ,"The Dream Messenger (How Dreams of the Departed Bring Healing Gifts)" continues her tradition of exploring how dreams can function as tools for healing in our waking lives. The Dream Messenger focuses upon dreams of the dead -- identifying several components of such dream encounters, and providing techniques for integrating these dreams with bereavement and re-awakening to life after the loss of a loved one. Based on a study of hundreds of dreams of bereaved persons, as well as her own journals and the writings of other contemporary authors, Garfield brings a rich sense of shared emotion and human experience to the grieving process, and to the need toaffirm our continuing relationships with those who have died.

Soon after receiving this volume as a college graduation gift (Cornell University, Class of 1989), the Gulf War errupted in the Middle-East and I was drafted for military service aboard the U.S.S. Jacob Javitz stationed off the coast of Italy. Like most young men my age I was fiercely patriotic and knew, by god, that lest the heavens fall I would defend my country.

I remember The Javitz well because she was the last ship still in active service that had a fully carpeted galley. The carpet, badly stained and worn by nearly two decades of use, had been deemed a health risk and was scheduled to be removed in the fall of '87, but because of the ulterior motives of a smallish military appropriations auditor who's brother was the ship's captain, it remained there (and perhaps still remains there) well into it's third decade. Captain Bloom was often heard to remark, in his inimitable way, "that galley carpet needs to be either replaced or removed altogether." He did not to my knowledge ever say this to any one person directly, but would instead sheepishly hint at it during meals when his mumblings, by their very nature blaring on the side of incoherent grunting, would be quickly swollowed up by the deafening chatter of the feasting crew. His face would flush for a moment with the realization that he was in fact talking to himself and he would then return to his meal, or perhaps continue working on a model ship if he happened to be not in the mess hall but alone in his quarters on the lower deck at the time.

Of course given the situation, such grievances were not uncommon but this particular complaint was met inauspiciously by his superiors and he was dishonorably discharged in 1967 on account of an unrelated incident involving a Turkish whore he met on shore leave in Tahiti. I often thought about Captain Bloom, and what it might have been like to serve under him. Frustrating perhaps, but also exciting. The ratio of the amount of excitement generated by taking orders from a man of such extraordinary resolve and the frustration of not beining able to consistently understand those orders was difficult to assertain, but my best postulations would usually hover around a figure of of 7 to 4 (I might be willing to soften this a bit to 2 to 1 if I were explaining the situation to a very small child and needed to ralate such details in a more straightfoward manner, but only if the child was especially under developed mentaly, as the discrepency in no small way undermines the gravity of my approximation of my imagined experience).

Fighting alongside "Porcelain Bloom" in the flowering countryside of 1940's France was a recurring theme in a series of poems I wrote for The New Yorker in the years following the Gulf War. The poems, while never actually published, were exceptional and quite poetic, save for those written when I was feeling particularly obsequious towards the notion of urban development set against a suburban skyline; those poems dealt with socio-economics and the digging of vast underwater tunnel sytems and they did not rhyme.

Why The New Yorker they ever let Pauline Kael go is something I will never understand.

This is a great activity book for young and old. It has great pictures to color and fun activities to do, like connect the dots. My nephew loved this book. This is a great coloring book to go on vacation since it has 432 pages there is a lot of pictures to color. I like how its not double sided. You can use markers and it not ruin the picture on the other side.

Having been a serious Garfield fan from the day I could read, this is by far the best Garfield book. Watching him "grow" from the dawn of time (when chickens had teeth) to a "futuristic" Garfield, is fantastic. He even tries his paws at sleuthing. A definite must read for the Garfield fan.

While Jim Davis is rarely associated with the modern day literary greats, this book reverses the assumption that the cartoon, "Garfield," is little more than an analogy for suicide. Alas, more than one of us has feared for Jon's life, as a combination of his general bad luck and Garfield's general maliciousness threaten to push poor Mr. Arbuckle over the edge. This book is a playful retreat from Davis's darker themes, in which Garfield becomes the mischevious provider of feline names, as opposed to his usual activities that send Jon to bed crying. This work propells Davis to the head of the proverbial class. Watch out "Family Circus!" Garfield is back in town!

In this book Garfield, Jon, and Odie go to the farm for Christmas. While on the farm Jon's family sets up the tree, eat a Christmas dinner and then listen to an old Christmas story. Odie looks for a good gift to give to Garfield ,also Garfield learns the true meaning of Christmas and also finds a good present for Granny.

The most complete and entertaining collector's book existing!!! Definitely should be on every collector's wish list this year!!!

This book had lots of jokes that were funny. HAHAHAHAHA-HEHEHEHE. I love reading this at night because when I get a good laugh it helps me sleep.

Join Garfield and friends in 6 different wacky games. The instructions are simple to follow for each game so everyone con have fun. It comes with a super elctronic dice to use.