I was very impressed by this book. All of my accounting friends and I agree this is probably the best "accounting book" we have ever read-especially for actual accountants.

Three government officials have been murdered and a Ute may have been killed on a remote part of Colorado. Jurisdiction seems to overlap between Federal, state, local, and tribal officials with everyone tripping over everyone else except the killer, who seems to have gotten away with murder. Denver homicide detective Gabe Wager has no jurisdiction so he is assigned to solve the case and end the bickering. ....... Gabe quickly realizes that he not only has to uncover a killer's identity, he has deal with all the various police authorities who have one thing in common: the desire to boss their compatriots. This leads to a lot of chiefs and one worker, Gabe. He soon realizes that there are plenty of motives and subsequently suspects. However, if Gabe does not identify the murderer soon, he will either go insane from the constant bureaucratic bickering or be killed by a murderer, who wants him out of the way. ...... Rex Burns is a great mystery writer, who always provides an intriguing and exciting novel. His latest book, THE LEANING LAND, is a fun read that refreshes Gabe Wager by placing him outside his element. The various law enforcement agencies add a Catch 22 comedic remedy to solving the mystery. Anyone who bets on reading this novel, will win their wager. ......Harriet Klausner

I found this to be a very helpful introduction to the Spanish language. The background music is upbeat, and easy to listen to. It is also easy to dance to, and I found myself dancing around the room as I listened to it! I put it in my walkman and went for a walk with it. Again, the music was upbeat and kept me moving. What's more, the woman on the tape is easy to listen to, and you can really understand what she is saying! Very easy to know what she is saying, and to repeat. Very repetitive with the phrases, so you really get to practice what she is saying. I listened to the tapes first(as recommended in the booklet that comes with it), and then looked at the booklet. By the time I read the booklet, I knew what the words and phrases meant, and seeing it in print only reinforced that. With this set, you will be speaking Spanish within days! Great for beginners!

Very Good Book, Got me an A on my History Paper on a person of color

Okay, so I know I said lots of good things about this amazing artist already, in my review of his collection "Transluminal", but it bears repeating, especially when I just found out that "Lightship" was back in print. This book shows off a lot of the great work from Jim Burns's early career, and is worth daydreaming over for hours on end. Many British covers are featured, stuff that never made it across the sea to American bookshelves. I am personally most fond of the interpretations of Jack Vance, which for me captured the essential spirit of this master of exotic adventure SF. But I also enjoy all the Silverberg covers, all of which which evoke a sense of futuristic decadence and wild tech run amok. Nobody is as good at turning Mr. Silverberg's wonderfully descriptive prose into jaw-droppingly gorgeous imagery, and when I think of Majipoor I think of Burns's baroque architecture and ornate flying cars, as well as his mysteriously beautiful ladies and aliens. If only more SF movies could look half as good as these paintings; if only more production designers would fess up and admit that they've been ripping off Burns for years.

This book is one of George's first and a great one at that! There are many great pictures and stories in this book. Living It Up has a little more about Gracie and a wonderful chapter about George coping with her death. It is very moving. All in all a very very excellent, funny book!

This is a great book for beginner quilters and experienced quilters. As usual, Eleanor burns gives excellent directions, and her method is above all. It is nice to make this in the traditional Christmas greens and also in florals for spring.

Long slow burn, man it's your turn
to experience love and joy
whit some gorgeous guy whit sweet voice
who'll make you sweet in return
till from love you will sweetly burn

I picked up this book because James A. Michener recommended
it in his memoirs ("The World is my Home"). In those
memoirs, Michener tells the sad tale of John Horne Burns,
perhaps the finest American writer of his era. Burns'
first novel, "The Gallery," should probably have won the
Pulitzer Prize in 1948, but that prize went to Michener
instead for his "Tales of the South Pacific." Michener
took the prize, but always felt it really belonged to
Burns.

Then, in 1949, "Lucifer with a Book" appeared. Michener
recounts, with evident distaste, the reaction of the
American literary establishment. A book which would not
have occasioned even slight comment in Europe was
reviled -- universally -- as pornographic trash. Fourteen
out of the fifteen major critics were scathingly
negative, and one went so far as to criticize Burns' publisher
for purveying such filth to the public. The reaction was
more than "negative" -- it was devastating. Burns was
finished in the United States. He fled to Europe and
apparently drank himself to death, dying in 1953 at the
age of 36.

Why? What was going on here? Well, reading "Lucifer with
a Book" today -- more than fifty years later -- is an
eye-opening experience. It's a bitter, mordant satire,
aimed at an "exclusive" school for boys, which Burns has
peopled with monsters, lunatics, and a few angels. But
that's not what drove the critics around the bend.

The book exudes sexuality and sensuality, and all of it
is gay, right up to the very end.

Every scene and every locale brim with erotic possibilities.
The showers, the dorms, the private rooms and the great
outdoors are all populated with enticing or alluring males,
who are always alive to possibilities that they may never
act on. The French teacher, as one example, regularly
holds "extra help" sessions for the tough, masculine
members of the football team, and gives them higher grades
in return for these evening sessions. It's not really
necessary to go into more detail -- this is obviously
what drove the American critics crazy. The year was
1949, after all. "Homosexuality" was still a crime
punishable with real life jail terms!

Burns tried to "redeem" this hilarious gay satire -- pretty
tame stuff by modern standards -- by ending it with a
completely unconvincing love affair between his hero,
Guy Hudson, and a teacher named Betty -- and she's
the only cardboard character in the book. (The female
villains are all very alive and hissing.)

There are many huge flaws in this book. From time to
time, Burns delivers long lectures to the reader. One
of them is about the evils of computer-graded tests,
and the others are just as eye-poppingly dull. But
Burns was clearly a writer of genius -- his metaphors
are often breath-taking.

Hounded to death by a homophobic society, just like Alan
Turing. Read it and weep!

Excellent literary and historical value!!

This is an excelent piece of litterature. It delves deep into the persecution of the african-american population during the Jim-Crow south. This is an excelent piece of litterature. Do not hestitate to purchase this fine book.