This was a very quick read for me; I finished it in a day and a half. Even so, this was a good book in my opinion. It was fun to try to guess along at the suspects, and at times had me in suspense. This book was given 4 stars because I've read better, and it had a fairly disapointing last 2 pages. I don't really think that the very end of the book was very well written; it did not leave a dramatic mark for me... Anyways, overally I'd still reccomend this book to anyone who likes mysteries and is looking for a quick read.

In this book, Nancy has to investigate a series of pranks that has been happening in the Emerson basketball team, where her boyfriend, Ned Nickerson, is playing for. This time the case isn't like her usual case. Most of her suspects are Ned's teammates and one of them is his closest friend. Nancy even suspects Ned for a while that they end up having an ugly fight. As usual, Nancy solves the case, but something happens in her relationship with Ned. I won't spoil the details. What happens next in their relationship continues in the next Nancy Drew Files, #9: False Moves, and #10: Buried Secrets. All I can say, this is a very emotional book for me.

This book was entertaining. I suggest it for young readers. It's a good childrens book.

This is a story about when Nancy enters her dog Chocolate Chip into a contest so she can get on a TV show. Chip can do a soccer trick, but someone got Chip sick and Nancy has to find out who! A very good book.

Nancy Drew investigates a crime at Emerson Colleague. It is top secret so she can't even tell Ned! While investigating in her own mystery Ned finds another one for her sluething techniques. It involves POE a group of students that intend to have good causes but Ned thinks there up to no good. As the mystery is coming to a close Nancy gets a threating call that says for Nancy to drop the case and if she doesn't she'll never see Ned again. Find out what happens when you read it. In my opinion I think it was a good book, not enough romance though. R.B age 12

This is a very intriguing book. It's full of mystery and suspense

English 101 taught me to open with a "headline grabber," so I figure saying "saved my career" is a pretty good start. But it's not too far from the truth. I am a Senior Airman with the United States Air Force and have struggled with emotional overeating and weight gain since the birth of my first child and separation from my husband.

The military is one of the few places where you can be fired if you are overweight. I had already failed two weigh-ins when I read an article in the Air Force Times about Dr. Keene's belief that compulsive overeating is a chemically-based disease and not just a matter of will-power. I bought the book based on the article and have made great strides. I'm off the weight management program and have returned to my pre-pregnancy "fighting" weight. But more importantly, I've learned how to "feel" my feelings and not "feed" them. This is a wonderful book!

My parents were alcoholics. Fortunately, they found and sustained recovery. Friends recognized that alcoholism was a genuine disease, and supported both them and their recovery.

I never even tried alcohol (my parents taught me well in that regard). But I drowned my sorrows with food, day after day. There was no support and no understanding. My parents had a disease...but I was weak-willed.

Chocolate is My Kryptonite helped me realize that Food Addiction is a disease. In fact, it is quite similar to alcoholism. For as Dr. Keene points out, "what's alcohol, but the ultimate processed carbohydrate."

I'm using this book, and the Menu For Life to find recovery for the first time in my life. It's only been 4 months so far, but it is the best I have felt in ages.

I know that a prior poster had concerns with the concept of "abstinance," but having lived the life of a food addict, and the daughter of alcoholic parents...I find abstinence not to be a problem...but rather, to be the solution!

Chocolate is My Kryptonite is Freedom From Food Addiction.

I came across this book when I was truly "sick and tired" of being sick and tired regarding my inability to control my overeating. I think this book's focus is THE key. Treat it as you would any other addiction. I have been on the Menu for Life from the book for three weeks and I have lost 8 pounds. I am amazed at the sheer AMOUNT of food I can eat, am never hungry, AND, more importantly, just as the author said, the cravings and desires for my binge foods are GONE! This process is truly "one day at a time" but the advice and plan in this book sure have made this a pleasure. I am so much happier now that I control the food and the food does not control me!

Amy Sutton wants to be in the Booster cheering squad but the other girls are determined that she will fail

Out of all the sweet valley Book this is the best on!!! Elizabeth's best friend Amy Sutton try's out for the booster's cheerleading squad. Jessica, Elizabeth's twin and her friend's called the unicorn's are to determined Amy is no good and try to get her to drop out. But Amy is determined to make the team! Even though they are mean to amy, amy belives in herself and it pays off in the end!! read this book and but it!

In this book, the twins' friend, Amy Sutton, wants to become a cheerleader. However, Amy isn't popular as the other cheerleading girls, and she faces a lot of harrassment from the cool crowd. However, Amy proves herself and never gives up, and gives it her best at try-outs. This book is a great book in the series and I recommend it! The reader learns a lot about Amy and her friendship with Elizabeth. It's fun and the reader really wants to know the outcome.

I liked this book. I finished it in one day but it was a little weird since I played the game first. Nancy has to go back to high school, posing as a new student, to investigate vandalism, robberies, ect. But then her case moves on to murder. And things get even more tricky when Brenda Carlton wants the scoop on the case and threatens to blow Nancy's cover. She finds out everyone has a secret, even the ones she should be able to trust the most.

The new case Nancy is working on will test her love for Ned and vis versa. You see Nancy goes back to school to solve a robbery slash vandalism case. None the less she finds more than she bargained for. A quick flick with a gorgeous senior named Daryl Gray and a near death car crash. She is spied on, threatened, chased and almost loses the one thing she cares about the most, Ned. Nancy finds high school a little different from when she first attended. The plot was excellent. I liked the whole going back to school idea and thought it had some reality to it. The descriptions Carolyn Keene gave of students harrassing other students with incriminating evidence was real close to our everyday school life. I liked some parts of this book. Ididn't like the new fasination that was brought into the story line, Daryl. He and Nancy got a little too close, causing the all too close near break up of Ned and Nancy. They made up of course after Nancy discovered a secret (to find out what secret you'll have to read the book). They will probably have some trust problems for a while but they will manage somehow. You have to read this book for the full effect.

When Nancy's asked to look into some theft in Bedford High School, she thinks it'll a piece of cake. She should have known better. She's working undercover as a student, and supposedly only the principal and her contact, the incredibly gorgeous class president, Daryl Gray know who she really is. Someone sends her a video tape of herself, ending it with a warning to stay away from Bedford. Of course this makes Nancy more determined, but how could anyone know she's a detective? She has to start finding answers fast because suddenly her prime suspect is dead, pushed down a flight of stairs in the school. And then there's Daryl, who makes Nancy forget about Ned, her longtime boyfriend. And on top of that she finds another video tape which changes everything and her perspective on the students in Bedford.... Keep writing these books, Carolyn Keene, there's loads of us out there who love these mysteries!

Hi, I am Sharon from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. I own every single Nancy Drew on Campus (1-25) that has come out so far. I love these books so much. Even though I am 15 I still read them. I have read them since I was in grade 1. I enjoyed Snowbound the most so far! I think Nancy has finally found her match and I can't wait for the next book to come out so I can see what happenens Keep up the good work. I can't wait until number 26 comes out!!!!

I really loved the book and I am glad Nancy and Micheal eventually get together. By the way when is the next book(26) coming out? I'm really looking forward to it. I hope they're not
cancelling the series, because I heard the lady who wrote the first few Nancy Drew books recently died. Well any way this book was exellent and the series is quite popular.

This is the best book I have ever read! Somehow, I knew Nancy and Michael were going to fall in love. It was so romantic how they fell in love in the barn and when Michael tried to kiss her. But when Nancy kissed him in the end, I was soooo happy! I hope it's not the end of the series. I would love to find out what happens next. Michael and Nancy are a dynamite couple! It was really funny in the books before how they always fought and argue, and in the end they fall in love. I hope there is another book coming soon in the series. This is the best book so far and I'v read every single one of the books in this series. But I love this the best!

J. K. Huysmans, La-Bas (Dover, 1891)

Ah, Huysmans, the author who pioneered the novel of "two people spending a whole chapter talking about things that have absolutely nothing to do with the plot, theme, or story." La-Bas (translated, "Down There") is billed by the blurb-writer who did the back cover as "the classic of Satanism" thanks to a description (I warn you, it comes very, very late in the book; those seeking a quick fix of prurience should certainly look elsewhere) of a Black Mass. One thinks that perhaps the blurb writer has been living in a cave for fifty years; Huysmans' black mass is about as scandalous today as a Jennifer Lopez dress. Even Ernest Borgnine got more sacreligious in The Devil's Rain. Sheesh.

The story (what there is of it) revolves around a young French writer named Durtal and his best friend, Des Hermies. Durtal is working on a sensationalized biography of Gilles de Rais, Joan of Arc's main lieutenant who later inspired the Bluebeard legend (or so common wisdom has it; Durtal counters that argument at one point in the book). Des Hermies suggests that Durtal's research might go better if he uncovered various occult sciences still extant in fin-de-siecle Paris, and the two of them, aided unwittingly by a monastic bell-ringer named Carhaix and an ancient astrologer named Gevingey, set out to do so. They are also helped along by Durtal's rather odd relationship with a fan (anonymous in her first letters to him in the book, and so not revealed here) who has indirect connections with some practicing Satanists in the Catholic church (hmm, a bit of anti-Catholic bias in Paris in the 1890s? Who'd'athunk?).

All of it could have made for a fine adventure story, the kind of thing A. Merritt and G. A. Henty were writing a few years after this; unfortunately, Huysmans turns it into endless conversations. A few fast-moving scenes where Durtal is imagining pieces of Rais' life as he's writing save the book from utter despair, but ultimately, the fact that La-Bas is Huysmans' best-known novel these days is a disservice to the man; other books would be a better starting point for him (especially Against the Grain). **

This book can be, at times, so wordy your head will nod. Huysmans' typical writing style is florid, enwrapped in detail. Yet the moments of gorgeous writing are deeply worthwhile, and if you're looking for a plunge into the bizarre, this is it. It is the tale of a man who sets out to write about the life of his historical subject, Gils De Rais, the legendary Bluebeard, who was renowned as a Satanist and sadist. To become closer to his subject, the protagonist wrangles his way into the seemier side of Paris life, witnessing Satanic rites. Life imitates art as he finds himself pulled into a world that at once reviles and fascinates him. Yet, delighfully, the reader is left to his or her OWN moral judgements. Ahead of his time, Huysman left morality ambiguous and is never heavy-handed, merely inviting the reader on an erudite and strange jouney that is worth every effort.

Amidst the Occult revival & the glory days of Decadence, of all places Paris, 1891, high aloft the bell-tower of Saint-Sulpice, the reader's granted access to the extraordinary conversations of a small group of friends: a famous & capable physician with sincere intellectual occult inclinations; a most reknown ex-court Astrologer; a kindly, aged sage with a rare, profound learning of the lost Art of Bellringing, accompanied by his wife who both occupy the tower making of it intimate & cozy surroundings for their company; and lastly, Durtal--Huysmans himself--who is deep in study & pursuit of placing contemporary Satanism in its proper historical context, revolving all the while round his writing a biography of Gilles de Rais, the infamous Black Magician & child murderer reputed to have tortured, killed & raped some 500 children for expressed Satanic purposes, who was also a friend of none other than "Joan of Arc" and who fought at her side as one of France's greatest knights. For this murderer, this monster, is in the process of becoming a saint! Durtal narrates the episodic history of Gilles de Rais throughout the entire book, forming a naturalistic vision as well of Huysmans' the writer going about his daily life in a way Occultist & Artists today might find familiar or enviable for its intrigues & dark fascinations lived & not just dreamt of.

Also permeating the whole of the text is a genuine succubus of sorts, an 'idol of perversity', "one of the butcher-girls of Love" who like virtually ALL the charcters is modelled on real-life personages whose actual titles I will not assault any interested persons with, allowing them their own rewarding historical investigations. However, anyone with art-historic or occultic knowledge regarding the turn of the 19th century in France will probably recognize some of the cast from these "Lower Depths"--which is what "La-Bas" means. Such as "Dr. Johannes", a Healer from the mystical center of France, Lyons; in actuality this is the abbe Boullan, successor of the Prophet Eugene Vintras(1807-1875), founder of an apocalyptic cultus prophesizing a great explosion signalling all Hell on Earth. The abbe Boullan was famous/infamous for his sexual magic and Healing techniques such as his curing of diabolical illnesses by spitting in the afflicted's mouths, or rubbing poultices of excreta on their psychic wounds, and compelling the nuns whom he serviced, invested with the titles of the Catholic church, to drink their urine. In 1860 he sacrificially murdered his own child born of his primary voyant, sister Adele Chevalier. Abbe Boullan's own death, so Huysman's believed, was resultant of the curses of another famous Mage. What is important to grasp is that during the fin-de-siecle Art History reached its zenith, its pinnacle, its furthest point culminating after millennia in the Symbolists/Decadents/Aesthetes; and it was in Occultism that the Artist found a definition of their own position & state of being; thus was this the day when born was our modern conception of Art as a religion, and the Artist its high priest or magician. Art will never be the same again, for after this Art seems to come in rising waves of "advanced guards"...

Joris-Karl Huysmans bridges the chasm between the Occult underground & establishment like no other; ultimately, I feel, championing the underground. This is the first book of a trilogy charting Huysman's journey from the brothels of Satanism & decadent Paris to the cloisters of Catholicism & reclusive refuge, where his interests in spirituality & occult/esoteric lore lessen none at all---The second book is titled "En Route" of 1895 & the last "The Cathedral" from 1898---all are available from Dedalus Press and apparently a new translation, the first in over 75 years, of "La-Bas" has been undertaken by one Brendan King.(?) Such could be far superior to Keene Wallace's respective 1928 translation, whose greatest errors lie in its restrictions downplaying Huysman's lyrical tone especially in relating stylized Satanic events, and though it would be difficult to seriously louse up Huysmans'prose, he has suffered omissions and the flattening or simplifying of his poetic gifts due to moral issue in the past.

Huysman's is a journey rewarding for its realism laying bare the psyche of a sensitive, intelligent man, & seductive in its romantic portrayal of the Artist/Occultist risk-taker, willing to go as far as 'the powers that be' will allow him, ever-searching for the highest truths and brutally honest in admitting what's often painful to accept for the religious seeker. I feel Huysman's trilogy is a neglected masterpiece of the Symbolist-Decadent generation, poignant in exemplifying a familiar journey so many braved.

As Huysmans says, "Such Literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life...and charitably, it lessens the distress of us few who still love Art."

I have re-read this book a number of times because I found it really enjoyable.

The book introduces a number of new characters that become Nancy's, George's and Bess's friends - so there are a lot of plots going on at once.

I think it is better than the original series because in the originals Nancy was never at school or Uni so I was wondering when she would ever get an education!! In the Uni books although there are some mysteries they are much smaller which I think is better because Nancy always managed to solve about a billion mysteries. These books concentrate more on the characters lives - and are therefore much more realistic.

Would reccomend it to all Nancy Drew fans or other readers who generally like that genre.

This book was a good book but as I said not what I expected. This book is good because of its events and the dicripion of the dorm campus etc. etc. But this book had its down falls for one this did not seem like Nancy, because she did not start investigating any thing in till late in the book that's NOT Nancy. She normally starts by atleast the 3rd chapter. I think this was a good book if you want to read this book go ahead just be prepared to be disapointed in a way. The reason I say what I say is because I read the Mystery Stories , and the Nancy Drew Files, and it did not seem to have that same exitement the old ones have. I feel sorry for Bess because of what happend to Bess with Dave if you ask me he's a Jerk. Then I could not beleve what happend to Ned and Nancy I mean i think Ned needed to understand that Nancy put up with hime durning his frist year at Emerson and now he has to put up with Nancy and ajust to her new life at Wilder. I am going to continue to read Nancy Drew on Campus because although not my favorite I enjoyed this book.

This was truly a great series and I was sorry to learn that it would no longer be coming out monthly. Nancy had always been so fake, so good, and perfect in the originals. I liked them for the mystery, but realism seriously lacked. This college series is so realstic and I love it. I don't mind that Nancy is ignoring Ned. He has to realize that things change, as does Bess.

Plus, this is one of the best college series' I ever read. Unlike the Sweet Valley University's, these are realistic. There characters are flawed, too emotional, can be pesty. They are just like every other person I know in real life. The writer doesn't try to justify their actions: they're human.

Nancy is asked to solve a mystery pertaining to rare books that were stolen. As she progresses on the case she ends up in another mystery about a whispering statue, that won't whistle anymore. She starts to work for a person she has under suspcion and tries to uncover clues without getting caught. Can she solve the mystery?

This one was actually pretty interesting. I liked how Nancy actually worked for who she thought was a suspect. That's some guts she's got there. The whispering stature idea was pretty original, I would have never thought up of one like that. This one was one of her more creative ones. Also I liked that Bess and George were in this one because they always seem to make it more exciting.

I reccomned this book to someone who wants to enjoy a good mystery of Nancy Drew.

This book is good if you are looking for a good mystery to read! It has Nancy, Ned, George, and Bess, they all help solve a very baffling mystery! I own this book and like it very much!

I thought this book was one of the best Nancy Drew books I've ever read! It was so good with a whispering statue and all. I loved this book because you never know who did it until the end. Nancy Drew books like this one always have me tangled up in suspects until they reveal who it is!