The Cloud of Death is the second long epic offering from Pendleton and Gold Eagle books in the Four Horseman Trilogy. This book has all the workings and trappings of the previous epic spread out over 348 long, dry and generally boring pages. Bolan treipses all over the west pursuing this cult of UFO believers. He guns down modest target quantities, and then tries a Mideast terrorist faction, but only gets some. The theme here is a sadly continuing one from the first book of the trilogy. I was glad when I finished it, because I instantly fell asleep from all the excitement that the book generated. Pendleton is losing his edge and should give up the ghost as far as trying to write any epic sagas. This one is another dismal failure. He and Gold Eagle have conspired to remove more money from the consumer by putting together a 1000+ page saga about a cult of UFO believers. This is just plain junk. I can hardly wait to read the third 340+ page book. I was bored to tears with this second offering and I breathed a great sigh of relief when I finally finished the book. Gold Eagle has the audacity to include a little statement about The heart stopping action concludes in #3. The only thing heart stopping is possible death from boredom.

Mack Bolan is back,tough and cool,in the second book of the Four Horsemen Trilogy. Bolan takes on a cult,bikers and terrorists. The Millennium angle, adds a fresh and current depth to the book.The ending is exciting and intense. Mike Newton writes another atmospheric Bolan novel, that works. Check it out.

While the poetry in this anthology deserves note, the ILP (International Library of Poetry) is exploitative and preys on the novice/unpublished poet. They achieve this rather neatly by promising to publish almost anyone (those deserving and those not) just to secure 'pre-booked' orders for their works. Even at that, if one wants to be 'published', ILP will do it for you; however, be careful of what you do or purchase from them. They are certainly 'for-profit' and think little of the authors that place faith in them. I can't deny that some of the work is very good...but I can say I wouldn't fund them with a dime. If you have it, enjoy it...if not, do not justify them with your $'s. I am published in a few of their anthologies but, I would never suggest someone purchase one! My apologies to the substantial artists in their texts.

This book offers a varitey of different emotions thought by people all over the world in ways that everyone can relate to one another. It may help you overcome a feeling that you are suffering from or to ease your pain by knowing that there really is someone else out there that feels the same way. It is poetry by everyday people that have taken the jump off of lifes cliff, and the ones that treasure the beauty of the day. I recommend this book to everyone, because no matter who you are, you can relate to this book in some way.

Does this book come with a dinner or what? I think i'll check out the public library or just sit back and wait for the movie...

I have read and grown quite fond of this book, it is the moist in depth, wonderful collection of Hudson River photography I have ever seen ! I highly recommend this book to anyone who would be intrested in a photographic tour of one of the most beautiful and history filled rivers in existance.

I felt this book was laboriously slow to read to my daughter, and she lost interest fast. My 3rd and 4th grade kids called it "too baby-ish." I personally felt it was written poorly. It was too long of a book for too simple of a subject matter. In my opinion, it is not worth the money.

Dazzling wonderful illustrations- rich & full of kindling to spark a child's imagination. While the illustrations are overflowing with magic, the story line exceeds the promise of the artwork. This book will become a cherished heirloom to to families that read it, passing it down to future generations. A GREAT find.

Leslie Blanchard

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Cam Cloud's "The Little Book of Acid" doesn't really add much to our understanding of LSD, its effects, or is subculture. More of a resource for acquiring seeds and directions for synthesizing psychedelic substances, this contribution to the growing literature on LSD pretty much just summarizes and charges for information commonly and easily available for free on the Internet.

This book and other Ronin publcations do attempt to respond to an important readership, and they do represent a kind of avant garde in that respect, but they really need to improve the quality of their work. Misspelling "Aldous Huxley" as "Aldus" in a book on LSD indicates weak editorial work and a lack of commitment to the quality of their products. Other sentences in the book simply don't make sense as a result of editorial carelessness. Ronin has an interesting catalogue. I like it, and I like them, but they need to sharpen up their publishing skills!

this book guides you through the history of acid (LSD-25) and gives examples of forms of it (blotter, windowpane). It also has legal ways to extract LSD like substances from Hawian Wood Rose and others. An informative peice of information!

David W. Cloud is a man with a mission. He thinks that he has been called by God to save Fundamentalists from such heresies as these:

- that we should communicate the gospel to people using language they understand

- that we shouldn't put barriers in the way of people accepting Christ just to suit our own tastes

- that we should care for the poor, help the sick, defend the unborn, and reach out to "the least of these"

Unlike other crackpots like Peter Ruckman, David Cloud isn't funny or entertaining in his own paranoid way. He's just bitter; all of his writings convey a mood of intense personal desperation over the fact that no one else agrees with him and that his sect of "independent fundamentalists" are declining while other branches of the evangelical Church, which Cloud deems "heretical" because they use a modern Bible or because they actually evangelize, go from strength to strength.

In this volume, Cloud recycles the anti-Bible rhetoric of more prominent KJV-Fundamentalists to accuse modern Bible translators of being "liberals" in league with the Vatican to wipe out the Fundamentalists.

Cloud's accusations against modern Bibles are wrong. First of all, modern Bibles do not delete the deity of Christ or the Trinity. All in all, they teach these doctrines more often than the KJV does. The KJV, for example, deletes Christ's deity from John 1:18, Colossians 1:19, Titus 2:13, Acts 3:15, and many other verses. It deletes the Trinity from Acts 16:7. These doctrines are present in the NIV, ESV, and other modern translations, but because of bumbling on the part of the KJV translators, they're not in the KJV. So Cloud's charge that the NIV tries to delete the deity of Christ simply doesn't stand up. Most of the modern versions, except for the seldom-used Good News and NRSV Bibles, were produced by men who explicitly affirmed the inerrancy of Scripture - Cloud lies when he says that modern Bible translators are liberals. (BTW, lying is a sin.)

Second, Cloud's own stance is inconsistent. Cloud advocates a type of separation in which "independent fundamental" baptists should have NO contact or dealing whatsoever with any other religious group. He singles out "new evangelicals" for particular scorn. But the KJV was translated by Anglicans who were largely Popish in their theology, and it was based on the Textus Receptus, which was edited by a Catholic priest. Cloud reveals himself to be a Fool when he tells Fundamentalists that they can't associate with Evangelicals, whom they disagree with mostly on matters of musical style and their approach to presenting the Gospel in culturally-relevant terms, but then tells them to trust a Bible that was produced largely by individuals who didn't even agree with Baptists about what the Gospel IS.

In the end, there is nothing of value to be found within Cloud's rhetoric. It's entirely empty of truth and substance.

I have always been partial to the King James Translation of the Bible. However, after reading Cloud's book, I am ready to state emphatically that I believe that many other "versions" of the Bible (including NIV, RSV, "Living Bible", etc) are in fact NOT the inerrant, infallible, inspired Word of God, but rather dangerous substitutes.

I know that's a strong statement, but I urge every Christian to read this book. Cloud documents the origins of the KJV and many of the other versions, and also documents the differences between them, both in origin and content. (For example, many if not most of the "modern versions" were actually translated by NON-BELIEVERS AND/OR HERETICS!) As in the other books I've read by the same author, he makes extensive use of direct quotes from other sources to bolster his arguments.

This book opened my eyes to a lot of information that I was not aware of. The information contained therein is vital to any true student of God's Word.

Here is another instance of worn-out mythologies being used to justify the ways of Man to men. Doctor (not in the medical sense) Dyer and some of his cronies from the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago comfort us with the notion that the present slaughter of the Palestinians fits right into God's Plan for mankind. He makes a joyous hullabaloo, full of Biblical gibberish, to prove that you don't need to know anything more than George W. Bush to understand what's going on in the Middle East. Israel is God's Instrument for bringing about Kingdom Come, in its Protestant fundamentalist version, of course. Rest easy, don't worry about Bin Laden or what kind of mess the Knesset and the United States Congress will make, God will defeat the United Nations and Armageddon us through to a permanent apotheosis of the American suburbs.
What sport Mencken would have had with these people!

In five riviting chapters, Charles Dyer and four other faculty members of The Moody Bible Institute explain the history and the significance of events ocurring in the middle-east today. This short book will give you a clear insight into the underlying reasons for the failure of years of diplomacy to bring an end to the bitter conflict in Israel. The authors help you to understand how today's headlines are setting the stage for the fulfillment of Biblical prohecies regarding Israel and the Church.

If you are confused and troubled by the seemingly impossible task of achieving peace in the middle-east, then, this book is a 'must read' for you. You will be comforted as these gifted scholars help you to see that God is still in control of this chaotic world and that His plan for it is right on track.

what are we supposed to take away with us after reading this book? this glorification of suicide (it's romantic) in a field of animal blood. So much tar gums up the pages and reflects the light back only as too-intense heat. well-written, yes. Profound, no. it's the equivalent of the spit in the face we got from the sex pistols, only it pretends to be polite by somehow cloaking itself in obsessive erudition, as if it's okay to be cynical if you've read enough books. And where's the movement. There is none. The poems just sit there, angrily squatting inside their dark closets.

If you like brainy books and rock-and-roll, if you like The New Republic and Salon.com, if you like both Wallace Stevens and Allen Ginsberg, then William Olsen's poetry may be for you. As I've said in print (see SOLO 3, "Velocity and the Visceral in the Poems of William Olsen"), his work is remarkable for its intuition, speed, and breadth of learning.

VISIONS OF A STORM CLOUD is a groundbreaking book of poetry for a variety of reasons. Virtually all of the poems move fast while smartly referring to a panoply of American landmarks, archetypes, and threats. Olsens' subject is the inquiring, educated self in a cultural chaos that keeps portending death. His voice is that of man caught in a jet stream of potential violence he can't control. Wired by a world amped on mortal fear, he chooses to join the quick current and to take succor from it. The electricity is nearly medicinal. The speed of Olsen's voice briefly inoculates him against the twin fears of meaninglessness and mortality.

In a way, Olsen's fascinating poems are a modernist answer to the post-modern developments of John Ashbery or the more radically post-modern Language Poets. Neither of these modes will do for Olsen because they lack the visceral kick that comes with an engaged life. He recognizes all the recent existential concerns about meaning and the inadequacy of language, but he can't stomach the disassociated sensibility. So he practices a poetry of celerity.

I think Olsen is at the forefront of a new kind of poetry that privileges speed, intellect, and emotion. This isn't a book for those looking for either sweetness or elegy. By referencing near the speed of thought, his poems can carry the reader on an astonishing, phantasmagorical ride. While a few other poets have started down a similar trail recently, they aren't likewise driven by the sound of their own informed doubt. Olsen has transformed his interior debate between skepticism and hope into a series of adrenalinic adventures in which the immediate prevails.

A superb book. I return to it often, and I learn from it.

-Kevin Clark

If you are planning to play Space: 1889, this is THE supplemental book to get. It gives much greater detail to Mercury & Venus than the rulebook, and adds to the information on Mars. The information on Victorian Earth is lacking, though the travel times and world maps of 1889 Earth are helpful.
Cloud Captains provides interesting detail on Karkarham, "the Casablanca of Mars" - where just about anything goes. It is a great place to set a campaign for ribald adventurers.

Severance pay allows some insight on the evils of the coporate world. Sexism, racism, protection of self and the overall struggle for power are all addressed in this novel. Severance pay is easy to read and interesting even though some of the technical jargon of the computer world may loose some. Get the book and enjoy!!!