As a West Virginia resident and one that lives near the Ohio river, I find myself thinking about Mary and her journey home. I find myself wondering what the river looked like to her. This is a fantastic book. I have passed this book on to several people and they all tell me that they can not put it down.
If you read this book you will find yourself asking, "what is going to happen next".
What is so remarkable is that this is a true story. I found myself crying when Mary left her newborn baby behind. The perils she and Gretel endure are unbelievable. I would hope that I would be able to persevere as she did in such trying times. I don't think a man could have done any better.
West Virginia history classes need to teach about this wonderful women and not focus so much on learning the counties. I could not believe that this story takes place in our beautiful state and had never even heard of this woman.
The Hallmark channel showed a TV movie based on the book but played lightly on the hardships and was not a true adaptation of the book.

The first time I read this wonderfully gripping novel was about 15 years ago, and when I started reading it, I could not put it down. Now, 15 years later, I have had the same experience. It kept me up at night and I found myself in the same state of awe as the first reading.

Mary Draper Ingles was a 23 year old pregnant mother and wife, when the settlement she lived in was invaded by Shawnee Indians. They killed her mother and took Mary, her 2 sons, and her sister-in-law captive, leading them deep into unsettled territory. While on the trek to the Shawnee camp, she gave birth to a daughter.

After being in captivity for months, Mary escaped in the company of an old Dutch woman. Together the two survived a walk of one thousand miles through untamed territory in the beginning of winter w/no food, no warm clothing, no weapons, nothing - except the Ohio River as her guide to "home". Eventually, literally starving to death, the old Dutch companion started seeing Mary as a "meal", and it was Mary's determination and wits that kept her from being Gretel's next meal.

The Shawnee Chieftain, Wildcat, kept Mary's 2 young sons - the youngest died shortly after being seperated from his mother, and the oldest stayed w/the Shawnees for around 13 years, before Mary's husband, Will, finally managed to locate him and get him back. She made the very hard and unimaginable decision to leave her baby daughter w/Otter Girl, for she knew there was no way her baby would survive the trek home. When she finally did get back to civilization, she was unrecognizable, starved, and frozen. This is a remarkable story of determination, focus, drive and strength of character of one 23 year old woman! It is well written and as I read it, I find it very easy to "experience" all she experiences. I am in total awe of this great woman and story of her survival. I HIGHLY recommend it for anyone - for I cannot imagine it not touching the heart of any who read it!

I've read this book three times and teach it to my twelfth grade English classes. Mary Ingles is an inspiration of the possibilities of endurance of the human spirit. Victim of a brutal Shawnee attack in the summer of 1755 she is force marched from Virginia to Shawnee, Ohio while nine months pregnant giving birth on the trail. She is sold into slavery and taked to the area near Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky. Together with an old Dutch woman she escapes and begins a 1,000 mile trek home through unknown and hostile wilderness. In 43 harrowing days she goes from 125 pounds to under 80 pounds as she faces the elements, starvation, wild animals, hostile Indians, implacable nature, and a companion that turns cannibal. The reader shares the agony of the journey with Mary as she must go the final miles on her hands and knees. The most amazing thing about the story is it is true. Like his other historical novels Thom has done his research and he makes the history come alive for his reader.

Having grown up in the South, I know all about high school football. After all, no one wants to be a social outcast. I have talked to players, I have felt the excitement, I have let the feelings of comraderie engulf me. H.G. Bissinger's book "Friday Night Lights" is the most accurate description of high school football I have ever read. As he follows the life of a teamful of high school students, Bissinger doesn't only tell us about the game, he puts us in the shoes of the players. Bissinger has a talent for relating his characters to someone in our lives. Everyone knows an Ivory Christian, the kid who thinks maybe there is more to life than football. As I read this book, I started to compare its characters to people that I know, people that go to my school. I started to compare the school, Permian High School of Odessa,Texas, to my school, St. Thomas More of Lafayette, Louisiana. Sadly, I was also able to compare the racial tension of Odessa to that of Lafayette as well.

This is another aspect that Bissinger dwells on. Race relations have always been very important in the South, and often come up in the world of football. Odessa appears, at least to me, to be a town of great wealth fiscally, but not quite so socially. Many of the townfolk, particularly the elderly, are opposed to the African American students of Permian six days a week, but on Friday night, none of that matters. This is a great hypocrisy that is prevailent in the Southern United States, and one I have witnessed too many times.

Over all, Bissinger's account of a year of football is very well written. It is extremely engrossing, and I highly reccomend it to anyone who has ever even been to a high school football game and witnessed the magic that happens under the Friday Night Lights.

I finally got around to reading this book just recently; I wish I had read it when it came out in 1990. "Buzz" Bissinger pulls no punches in telling it like it is, how a high school football team can be the main rallying point of an otherwise isolated community, several hundred miles from the nearest large metropolitan area; a community whose residents are deeply religious, God-fearing, and shamelessly prejudiced and intolerant of non-whites.

I remember the controversy this book caused shortly after its release. Having read it, I now understand why: In a community where there's otherwise "nothing to do," a local high school football team can unite people of all races, incomes, cultures, etc. I should know: I used to live in Lubbock, not too far from Odessa; the townfolks share the same conservative beliefs and euphoric passion for football. Bissinger's metaphor-rich style of writing really made me feel as if I was back in West Texas. The similarity of the two cities was uncanny. I began to read in search of something startling and controversial; instead it brought back a lot of memories. As I learned, the people of Odessa and Lubbock are strikingly similar (except Lubbock also has collegiate football, from Texas Tech University, to root for, as well as a few local high schools). I found Bissinger's descriptions totally accurate, if not downright eerie.

In the end, I couldn't help but feel for the 17- and 18-year-olds who had to endure the pressure to produce one victory after another, and the supporters' shameless win-or-else attitude. Bissinger's ability to empathize with America's appetite and obsession for winning really drove home the point. When I finished reading it, I cried. This book was THAT soul-stirring.

To Stephanie, a Permian High School grad who wrote a review of this book in May 1998: I'd advise you to read "Turning The Page - '88 Permian team still can't escape glare of 'Friday Night Lights,'" by Dave Caldwell (The Dallas Morning News, November 24, 1999). You called Bissinger "a liar," but Jerrod McDougal, whose loud Bon Jovi music was mentioned in the introduction, said "The Book [as it's known in Odessa] painted a pretty ugly portrait of the town, but there's not a lie in it." And Randy Ham, a Permian grad who works at a bookstore in Odessa, mentioned, "It is a bitingly accurate portrayal of the town. It really is."

Mike Wallace, the "60 Minutes" correspondent, said that "'Friday Night Lights' reads like fiction; unhappily, it is fact." I feel that's all one needs to know to prepare for this truly incredible read.

Odessa is a West Texas town that had a huge oil boom in its past. Now the oil is gone, and the only thing that the people living there really have left to get excited about is their high school football team. School sports play a pretty big part in the everyday lives of some people in my hometown, but I had no idea that there are people out there who take it as seriously as the citizens of Odessa. There are people that camp outside for many hours just to get a ticket to Friday's game. This book not only provides information about football, but also information about many other aspects of West Texan life. There are plenty of other important subjects to talk about when the story takes place in a town like Odessa. Here segregation between blacks and whites still remains very strong, and a school can provide the money for their football team to charter a flight to another town, but cannot afford new text books.
I gave this book five stars. It would have gotten old very quickly if the focus was only on football, but it branched off into very detailed descriptions of other subjects. This is what kept me from putting the book down. Not only did I red about football, but also about many other subjects ranging from former presidential candidate George Bush to racism in the South. That is part of the reason why I rated this book the way that I did. Another, which was my personal favorite thing about the book, was how well it described the players and the games. It went into much detail about the players on and off the field. It was like getting to know the players. I felt sympathy for Boobie Miles, who was a hometown hero one day, and instantly forgotten the next. Inside, I cheered for the team as the games grew close. The game descriptions were just like the high school football games that I have been to, but taken to another level. There are very few books that I would give the five star rating to. I would normally have at least one complaint, but honestly, I cannot think of a single one for this book. It is easily the best sports book that I have ever read. If this is a book that you have not read yet, I would highly recommend reading it.

An intense journey into the dark world of child abuse and Multiple Personality Disorder, this book will grip your attention and not let go until the last page is finished. The story centers around a young woman who was kidnapped at the age of four and subjected to two years of sexual and mental abuse. When the child is returned to her family, her parents are unable to accept the possibility that their daughter was molested and fail to get the child counselling. A tragic incident after she's grown up catapults her fragile mind into shattered fragments. Her descent into madness leaves her vulnerable to the unholy schemes of stalkers. Only because of the heroic efforts of her attorney sister does she triumph over her personal demons, both imaginary and real. A must read!

Mary Higgins Clark has done it once again! Her outstanding skills of writing suspense novels prevail in her novel, All Around the Town. All Around the Town is the story of a girl who is snatched from her home at the age of four and dropped off at a local school two years later. To deal with the trauma of this event, Laurie, the girl, makes up alter personalities. The personalities become nearly dormant until she blames herself for her parents death is a car accident. The personalities come out again to help her deal with the trauma of losing her parents. One of the personalities is then accused of killing one of Laurie's college professors, and none of the personalities remember killing him. The twists and turns in this story keep you reading it all night long. You just can't put it down. All Around the Town is a book to be read over and over again.

ALL AROUND THE TOWN is Mary Higgins Clark 9th bestselling novel, and her best work yet! The story revolves around Laurie Kenyon and her sister Sarah Kenyon. When Laurie is kidnapped at the age of four, she is put a victim to a lot of abuse and harassment. Two years later, she is sent back to her home, but once brouht back safely, she doesn't remember any of the unfortunate incidents that has happened to her during the two years.

After many years later, Laurie, now a twenty one year old student, is suddenly accused of murdering her English Professor, Allan Grant. She has no memory of the crime but her fingerprints are found everywhere, therefore she arraigned on a murder charge.

Laurie's older sister, defense attorney, Sarah Kenyon, takes up Laurie's case, and sends her to psychiatrist Justin Donnelly to unlock her dark, horrifying years when she was kidnapped. But, Laurie's abductor's, who have still not forgotten her, are still obsessed about her and after her to make sure that her past remains sealed and doesnt leak out.

With all the elements needed for a good suspense book, Clark does a splendid job is making the readers guess the entire time as to what is going to happen next, especially when there is a terrifying twist in the climax! This book will keep up on the edge of your seat the whole time, and is a excellent novel to read!! I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book!

This book was one of Mary Higgins Clark's best! My cousin lent it to me about a month ago, and I finished it in a week. It's about a young divorcee named Jenny. She has two little girls, named Tina and Beth. One day, she meets an artist named Erich Krueger, and her life totally changes. Married within the month, whisked off to Minnestota,and adored by all, Jenny is living the life others dream of. When herex-husband is murdered and she is accused, Jenny is caught in a frighten- ing whirlpool of events that threaten to shatter her sanity...
I recommend this book for ages 12 and up. It's one of my favorites. Anyone who likes Mary Higgins Clark should read this book. It was AWESOME! ...

I absolutely love Mary Higgins Clark and I believe that I have read all of her books, but A Cry in the Night really is the shining star of her collection. She takes a very naive woman who is trying hard, as a single mother and working full-time to support her family, and puts her in this very convienent position that she can't say no to. I was amazed that after the first and second times I read it that I wanted to reread it over so many times. Clark is interesting and beautifully creates suspense and a very real apathy toward the character. Just writing this review makes me want to pick up my very worn copy and start this book all over again. I am impressed by all of her books, but the only problem I have is the lack of originality when it comes to the character's plots. They all seem the same to me. You have this attractive, successful woman who has a great job, is single predominately, and comes across a mystery that she somehow has managed to get herself involved in. Every one of her books, with the exception of this one and maybe one or two others, is like this. Nevertheless, I am still a huge fan of her books and would recommend anyone who loves a great mystery to definitely try this book. It is well worth your time.

After finishing the incredibly stale LET ME CALL YOU SWEETHEART, I was about ready to give up on Mary Higgins Clark. If you're someone who, like me, was beginning to wonder what all the Clark hoopla was about, run out quick and get a copy of A CRY IN THE NIGHT, which can be described as a sort of modern cross between PSYCHO and REBECCA. This is a very well-done book, and it succeeds on many levels.

Jenny MacPartland is a divorced mother of two who is swept off her feet by Erich Krueger, a kind, handsome artist who marries her and takes her back to his sprawling farm in Minnesota. Not long after she arrives, she begins to sense tension in the air. Erich begins to behave strangely. Her ex-husband, Kevin, comes down to visit her, stirring up trouble. The whole place is overshadowed by the strange presence of Caroline, Erich's long-dead mother, to whom Jenny bears a striking resemblance. Soon Jenny begins to have dizzy spells and wonders if she is sleepwalking during the night. What began as a dream for both the protagonist and the reader has transformed into a horrific nightmare.

Clark handles this transformation with considerable deftness, demonstrating her masterful control of pace and characterization. The plot is especially convoluted and intricate; in fact, there are as many surprising twists as there are pages. Unlike LET ME CALL YOU SWEETHEART and WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN?, in which the terror kicks in only in the last few chapters or so, A CRY IN THE NIGHT turns on the suspense less than halfway through the novel and never lets up the pressure. This is an unusually chilling book, but aside from all the suspenseful pleasures of the story, it is also a very sad and emotionally involving drama. There is no pat resolution or happy ending here, but the denouement, if bittersweet, is wholly satisfying. This reader is, I'm happy to report, an officially converted Clark fan.

Since reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest recently, it has rapidly become my favourite book. Kesey has managed to tell a story whilst making a complex political allegory, and that is incredibly refreshing. The characters are so vivid, both loveable and sometimes vile, and Kesey finds the balance between making their exploits humorous, and not patronising the patients of the asylum. McMurphy is a classic hero, but far more complex than most so-called Christ-like figures in literature. The Chief however steals the show for me. The writing during the time he tells how alcoholism is destroying his Father is incredibly moving. Using the Chief as the omnipresent narrator is a superb device employed by Kesey, as it allows a unique, personal and sometimes confusing insight into all the proceedings. Like all great literature, it makes you think, but does it with a unique sense of humour and character, and handles its heavy subject matter with ease: this is a simple read but devastatingly effective. The end of the book is both sad and yet also happy. That adjective sums up the book perfectly- happysad.

What is the world you see when you read this book? It may not be real, but that doesn't make it any less true. Here is a place where feelings become sensations and overpower the "real world". On the face of it, the action takes place in a lunatic asylum. It could just as well be our world. It's populated by a lot of characters that feel more sane than the keepers of the place. The maker of all the rules - the Big Nurse - is the scariest of all, in her confidence that this is entirely her world, run as she likes. Enter Randall Patrick Macmurphy. Rules? What rules? They don't exist as far as he's concerned. This world is just another to be moulded to his liking. Within a minute of his entry, he's run up against the Nurse. Every inmate sees something new about life- it's possible not to follow someone else's rules and live to tell the tale. The Nurse's world cracks up, bit by bit. R.P.Mcmurphy too realizes the extent to which it's possible to fall into the games life creates. This is one character you'll remember forever - and the lesson he preaches. All the inmates - you included - learn that the game is a game only as long as you know you're playing it. Get caught up and you're just a token on the board. Ken Kesey talks through Chief Bromden - an indian who plays at being deaf and dumb in an effort to run from the game. Grammar is an easy prey to the Chief's onrushing thoughts as he struggles to keep up with the speed of events around him. The prose sparkles with electricity as he "sees" his feelings and expresses them as events. Hostility in the air becomes a chill, and the sensation of death is falling into a furnace. This is a book that reads like walking through a "hall of crazy mirrors". You look back on yourself and don't know whether to laugh or cry.

This is an amazing book; I honestly wish that I would have read it long before I saw the movie. Try as I might, I still cannot help but picture Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher whenever McMurphy or Nurse Ratched were "on stage."

Much more complex than the movie, the novel works on many levels. The characters are gripping, and the psychological undertones amazing. I read this first in high school, again in college, and twice during adult life, and each time I see something new in it that I hadn't seen before. In short, it is a modern masterpiece.

The book is told from the Chief's viewpoint. Chief deeply troubled psychotic, and pulling this off is Kesey's tour-de-force. Every utterance of this schizophrenic character rings true as he moves from the "fog" of fear into the real world. Not only does this progression make the novel more interesting than the movie, it makes you question certain elements of the movie.

For instance, was Mac a savior, or simply a dangerous whacko? The movie points towards savior, but the savior interpretation is merely the interpretation of a troubled mind yearning to be free in the novel. The nurse, too, seems less intimidating when you move back from the Chief's interpretation of her. I imagine that she was more humane than his inner fears and the fog that stands between him and the world would allow him to see. Once this is understood, the characters of Mac and Big Nurse become less "cut and dried," and more real, more vital and much more ambiguous. And Kesey's true purpose seems to surface. The actual characters of Mac/ Big Nurse are not important; how they react on the Chief's psyche is.

Seen in this way, the novel traces one of Joseph Campbell's grand mythic themes: The liberation of the masculine psyche from the chaotic rubble of the mother dominated chaos (can you tell this interpretation is based on my college paper?). This journey, which Campbell describes in his "Hero With a Thousand Faces," is a man's major mission early in life. To be free, a male must liberate himself from the feminine and establish himself in the real world. Mythic literature the world over teems with this theme. A man's inability to liberate himself from this dark, restraining yet safe world is a major cause of many psychoses. Kesey has managed to bring that myth into the modern world, and the effects are just as amazing and relevant as the original myths were.

By the way, I received an "A+" on my college paper, which took the novel apart along these lines. I hope that a student here or there stumbles on this. There is ample room for exploration in this book that seems so simple on the outside, but so deep and complex the deeper you dig. This is, after all, the mark of a truly great work of art.

At the same time, don't let all this "noodling" ruin such a perfectly enjoyable book. [Noodling (v)- The cursed blessing of a liberal arts and science education. :-}]

If you've never read any other Clancy novel, read "Without Remorse."

In typical Clancy fashion, Without Remorse is a lengthy novel filled with great characters, lots of suspense, and more! But it breaks from the Clancy norm in that it's not as intricately detailed, technically-speaking, which makes it a great book to recommend to 1st-time Clancy readers.

For those who have read other Clancy novels, and therefore may be familiar with the main character, John Clark... or if you've seen the movie "Clear & Present Danger" or the more recent "Sum of All Fears" and recall Clark (played by Willem Dafoe and Liev Schreiber, respectively)... Without Remorse gives you the story behind the deadly CIA operative.

Not that I don't thoroughly enjoy the Jack Ryan series, but the Clark character is mysteriously intriguing and telling his history is Clancy at his best. It's my favorite Clancy novel.

"Without Remorse" is the page turner to beat all page turners. I brought this book to Korea with me the first time I went there, knowing that I'd have some spare time at the end of a six week tour there. I was expecting to maybe read half of the book in that time and finish it when I came home. No way! Once I started this book, it was done in less that 48 hours. You simply cannot put this one down for something as trivial as sleeping or eating. Tom Clancy goes into great detail giving the whole backstory on John Kelly/Clark. Once you've read this book, you'll be thinking back on all that came before and after it saying to yourself, "this is how and why John Clark does what he does." It is extremely heart wrenching to read what happens to Pam and how John Clark deals with it. You feel as if you want to be there with him, ready to take out some vigilante justice. I had originally skipped this one and read his next novel, what a mistake that was. Even though I knew that John Clark was in the next novel, I kept saying a prayer hoping he doesn't get killed in this one. That is how good a writer Tom Clancy is. I don't know if there's such a thing as a writer's hall of fame, if not, there should be one with Tom Clancy right there at the top. Thank you very much to Tom Clancy for an absolutely great read!

This is one of Clancy's finest works, and although somewhat less of a "techno" book than his early efforts, a superb read, that introduces John Kellys (now John Clark) background.The book explains how he became a CIA opperative after his time in the navy. As John Clark is probably Clancys most interesting character most people who have read Clancy before will enjoy discovering his rather dark past.

It was daring of Clancy to turn away from his most well known character Jack Ryan, and have Kelly as his leading man, but the gamble seems to have paid off, resulting in a compelling read which is hard to put down.

So as not to dissapoint his most eager eyed fans Ryan can actually be found in the book, having a discussion with his parents upon his choice to join the Marines, and it is Ryans father, a cop, who is investigating the drug ring and then Kelly which is vital to the plot.

The plot is quite good, and probably somewhat more realistic than the world wars that act as the backdrop to most of Clancys novels. As expected the action sequences are brilliant written in true Clancy style, and as the tension builds toward the end of the book you really will not want to put it down.

All in All this is Clancy at his best, and is well worth a read, even if nomally you wouldnt touch a Clancy book. Its good to see Clancy writing as he is best able to do, hyper fast pace, superb action in gory detail, and good character development, rather than endless ramble about Clancys rather conservative political views that spoil some of his -otherwise excellent- novels.

A serial killer is on the loose, preying on young, pretty women he meets through personal ads, but New Yorkers are still more concerned with what they're going to wear to lunch on Tuesday! Go figure. "Loves Music, Loves to Dance" provides a great examination of WASPy New Yorkers. Every "good guy" character in the book is described as stunningly attractive and successful. These people spend their time eating in posh restaurants and discussing interior design, jewelry, and designer clothes (because this is a world in which even heterosexual men are mad for designer bags - although I have a hard time imagining it). Although Mary Higgins Clark tends to gush about her characters, causing the reader to roll his/her eyes, all this talk about shoes and decorating schemes helps to pull you into the materialistic world of successful young New Yorkers.

This novel is supposed to be a suspense novel, but compared to other MHC novels I thought suspense was lacking. Halfway through the book the identity of the killer is obvious. I won't spoil the ending, but let me say that if you do the math you'll know who's guilty. However, I still enjoyed cheering on our heroine, Darcy Scott, as she hunts for the psycho who murdered her best friend. "Loves Music" is a quick read and an enjoyable page-turner.

Most of us have not only have favorite authors whose books are "auto" buys for us, but most of us also could name our most favorite book by said author....(i.e. Harvest if my most favorite Tess Gerritsen book)..............Well, Love's Music, Love's to Dance has always (and will forever remain) my most favorite MHC book!!! This book kept me on the edge of my seat..........a madman who likened himself to the great Fred Astaire, and his victims to his dancing partner, Ginger Rogers......this is one of those books that actually made goosebumps appear on my arms! Erin and Darcy, best friends,move to NYC together. While each one of them has their own career, they decided to help a tv producer who was doing a documentary on newspaper personal columns....a study as to what type of people place and answer these ads; their experiences, good or bad.... In six weeks of meeting people, they each had some funny stories to tell.....it all seemed so innocent.,...until the night Erin disappeared after meeting someone who placed an ad....Her body was found on a pier in Manhattan, and she was wearing one of her shoes, and one very fancy high heel shoe..... Darcy delves into finding out who killed her best friend...not knowing that she is the murderer's next victim! This book is typical MHC style..........plethora of characters to keep us guessing .......... a building up of tension as the pages fly by.......... a twisted ending......... This book has been recommended soooooooo many times by me to soooo many people.........I've lent out my two copies and I bought quite a few for presents.....no matter how great her other books are, this is THE one that's at the top of my list!! Oh, by the way, don't count on going to bed at night, until you finish the book..........it's one you can't put down!!

This is a fascinating book! Definately MHC at her best! Erin Kelley and Darcy Scott, best friends since college,have found theirselves at a high point in their life. Both have promising careers,and love to dance. To help a friend with a documentary, Darcy persuades Erin to answer personal ads. All goes well until one night when Erin disappears. Later, her body was found partially thawed on a pier in Manhattan. On one foot was her own boot, but on the other was a spiked heel dancing slipper. At first, it seems as if Erin was the victim of a copy-cat murderer- because of a program shown on telivision the night before about a girl who died the same way- but Darcy and an FBI agent know that the deaths are linked; not only to each other, but to the other missing women who answered personal ads. Darcy blames herself for Erin's murder, and seeks to find the man who killed her, by dating men from personal ads herself. What Darcy does not know is that she has been chosen by the murderer, to die. And this time, he won't give her back. I enjoyed this thriller with its high level of suspense. MHC is a great author and wrote this book with great detail. I recommend this to anyone, especially those who love music, and love to dance.

I am a finance professional from New York City and had suffered from symptoms similar to the ones present in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, although I never had CFS officially diagnosed. As soon as I started looking for a solution I came to the conclusion that I was not going to find it in traditional medicine, but in alternative medicines.

I ran into a photocopied sheet with the recipe for the parasite program, which I did. I then started looking for the book where the photocopy came from.

The most striking thing is that Dr. Clarke doesn't seem to be in this for the money. She explicitly allows reproductions or copies of this book (for free!) without requiring additional permission from the author. How many authors or books allow this? She also describes how to pick up the parts to build a zapper from cheap hardware store parts. Of course if you don't have the patience to build one yourself, you can buy one from one of the available services for about $70.

I have been following most of her advices with excellent results. I have taken all the metal from my mouth, performed over 10 liver cleanses, and done the parasite program on a regular basis. Every time I have a health problem I go to back to the book for reference and invariably find the way to approach the problem.

I cannot say enough good things about this book, although it is not for everyone. If you need absolute scientific proof for everything she says, then... it's not for you.

I came across this book in the mid-'90s and pursued it to treat a condition one of my children was having. There was dramatic improvement and, although we have recently found the condition to be genetic, the guidelines in the book have helped to increase my daughter's abilities beyond where medical doctors (who expected her to die) said they could go. (We also used her methods to prevent and cure a variety of smaller problems in our family, such as allergies, colds, headaches, and so on.)

We went to her clinic in Tijuana, since it's not terribly far, and she never charged us more than $50. I can't say with certainty that she charges everyone the same, but we got a lot for our money. Dr. Clark sat down with us on each occasion and managed to actually spot some toxins in our environment we hadn't even considered. (We also got X-rays at one point, but not from her, and it's Tijuana, so they don't cost much.)

While in her clinic, however, I met a lot of people who had before-and-after test results for cancer and AIDS, and many, many people who had only come to her after their MD had written them off.

Obviously one should be sensible about one's health, but that goes both ways. It's just as foolish to believe blindly that the medical establishment is always right about everything as it is to believe every quack that comes down the road peddling snake-oil.

You can do this treatment entirely yourself for a couple hundred bucks so that Dr. Clark doesn't get a dime -- down to borrowing the book from the library and photocopying it. You can take the easy way out and buy supplies from reputable dealers, and it might cost you a hundred bucks more (but require less time investment). Nothing in her program conflicts with standard medical treatment, so it's not like you have to give up going to your M.D.

For some people, there's no worse shame than being "suckered" or spending a dime more than they have to. (Though I have to admit, we've spent nothing on doctors for the past several years, saving way more than we spent on the program.) Ultimately, it's you who has to live (or die) with your choice.

After the conventional medicine failed to find the cause of my severe hearth arrhythmia (bothering me for many years), I went to a naturopathic doctor. The result - raised mercury levels in organs attract parasites, some of which live in the hearth, causing problems. I was instructed to get the amalgam fillings removed from my teeth and do the parasite and kidney cleanse. During the visit I noticed a "Cure for all diseases" book on the desk and fortunately for me the doctor was kind enough to borrow it to me. Being an electronic engineer (with some background in bioelectronics), I was surprised that someone actually figured out the resonant frequencies of the most common parasites. Having a look at the zapper schematics, I decided to give it a try, even if the 3.5mA AC current seemed to be a little high (you would need about 300V to push the same current through your body at 60Hz). I was also wondering if it is the DC offset or the fact that a square wave contains many harmonic frequencies, what kills the parasites (and 3.5mA certainly can!). I red the heart related chapters in the book and after all seemed to make sense, I "zapped" myself with a frequency generator and went to bed. When I woke up the next morning, the hearth arrhythmia was gone. It never came back since. Now I am in the process of removing amalgam fillings and making sure the parasites, which used to cause me troubles, do not find my body attractive any more. Personally, I believe that a LOT more should be spent in bioelectronic research, but the pharmaceutical industry wants to sell drugs, so the progress is slow. "Cure for all diseases" is a big step forward to open people's eyes. Thank you Hulda!

One of the reasons why Sister Carrie is worth reading has to do with the ending. If you've read any of these famous home-wrecking novels, where a young beautiful girl gets involved with an older man, and wondered if suicide always had to be the answer, here's your book. But surprisingly, the ending makes you sort of long for the good old suicide ending. Sister Carrie isn't bad, but a lot of the insights into human nature and society are expressed in the language of a talk-show self-help psychiatrist rather than a great author. There are better versions of this formula (Updike, Tolstoy, Wharton, Austen) but there is still something in Sister Carrie that makes it worth reading. Despite its title, the better character depiction in the book belongs to the lover rather than the heroine of the title. Like Updike, Dreiser makes you feel for the plight of the upper-middle class white man. And I mean that seriously, with no sarcasm.

Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" is a complex novel of linear events. It is a study in cause and effect -- how a character's environment, or change of environment, affects his or her values, especially with regard to money and the iniquity it brings.

18-year-old Caroline "Carrie" Meeber, bored with her life in a small Wisconsin town, comes to Chicago in 1889 to live with her sister Minnie. The only employment she can get is a laborious, low-paying job in a shoe factory, and when she loses it and wears out her welcome with her sister's family, a well-to-do young man named Charles Drouet, whom she met on the train to Chicago, sets her up in an apartment where they pretend to be married.

Drouet has a friend named George Hurstwood, a man in his late thirties and the manager at a local upscale bar. Hurstwood's home life is stagnant and empty; he has a self-centered wife whom he ceased loving long ago and two materialistic children around Carrie's age. He is going through what many decades later would be called a midlife crisis.

Through Drouet, Hurstwood meets Carrie and they form a mutual attraction. Unlike Drouet, to whom life is all about social status, Hurstwood does not patronize Carrie; he makes her feel intelligent and important, and Carrie exhibits Hurstwood's ideals of youth and beauty. When Hurstwood's wife gets wise to her husband's affair and sues him for divorce, Hurstwood succumbs to the temptation to steal money from his employer and tricks Carrie into leaving Chicago with him. They go to New York and experience curious reversals of fortune -- Carrie becomes a rich and famous showgirl while Hurstwood drifts into inescapable poverty and a bitter end.

This is no Cinderella story for Carrie. It may seem like she is being rewarded for her innocence and integrity, but since she realizes that her success is more the result of luck than talent, her new life is not as fulfilling as she thought it might be. I found myself surprisingly engaged by the story because Dreiser presents his characters as real people with unsolvable problems and doesn't try to teach a morality lesson. I finished the novel feeling miserable about the world, which is not something that many novels can do to me. My only complaint is that Dreiser's prose is a little awkward and excessively wordy without the benefit of clarity; it longs for the smoother touch of D.H. Lawrence or Somerset Maugham.

Living an average middle-class life, I have always wondered how the very rich and the very poor get where they are. Sister Carrie is a beautifully written and fascinating tale of how one climbs and descends the social ladder of life. I am aware that some readers have criticized this book stating that Dreiser did not develop the characters very well and that Carrie was not very likeable. Well, it is my thought that Dreiser never intended for us to become solely wrapped within the characters. He meant for us to become enveloped in the circumstance. The two main characters, Carrie and Hurstwood, are truly victims of circumstance - Carrie's never-ending unhappiness and Hurstwood's downward spiral. As we go through life, there are so many events and choices that will guide our lives to what they are. When one stops and thinks about this, it is really quite fascinating. I believe Dreiser r was aware of this aspect of life and he wanted to write a novel that would effect the lives of everyone who reads it. I read the entire book in 3 days. I simply could not put it down. I recommend Sister Carrie to everyone. It will leave you thinking and thinking and thinking.

This is the best book that I have read by Mary Higgens Clark. It is full of suspense and keeps you on the edge of your seat until the end! You will sympathize with Nancy Eldredge as she stands accused of the unthinkable - the cause of the disappearance of her children.

Nancy and her husband ray have two children, Mike & Missy. She seemed to have the picture perfect life. When the children are missing, Nancy is devastated. Or is she? Seven years earlier, Nancy Harmon was found guilty of the murder of her children, Peter and Lisa. She was so hated by the public that she changed her appearance and changed her name. Is history repeating itself? You will not be able to put this one down until you find out!

Mary Higgins Clark's book Where are the Children is an excellent book. It will keep you on the edge of your seat. I however, go annoyed how you would find something out, and then the chapter would change to a different person. This is what kept you hanging, and hungry for more. When I first started reading it, it was confusing. It all comes together though. The three main characters, Nancy, Courtney (guy), and Rob were described well, and fit right into the story. Mary also does a great job of telling the history of Nancy at the very beginning. Nancy is put on trial for the murder of her two children. She gets off because the main witness (Rob) in the case leaves the country. Nancy is now living in Cape Cod with two new children, a new husband, and a new life. When the newspaper comes, the front page is a huge article all about her past. She looks outside. Her children are missing. All that remains is a red mitten worn by her little girl. She becomes the main suspect again. Is Nancy crazy? Or was someone setting her up? Read the book to find that out. I recommend it.

I think Mary Higgins Clark was at her best with this book; Where Are the Children. It was well written, and it kept me thinking constantly throughout the book. She made the story seem so realistic by letting the characters feelings and emotions relate to what other people in the same circumstances would have felt like. I really enjoyed reading this book. It was very descriptive about what was happening to the characters. Mary Higgins Clark makes reading enjoyable and relaxing. I did find the book a little hard to follow in the beginning, but the rest of the book made up for it. So, I decided to give Where Are the Children 5 stars. It was about a lady named Nancy Eldredge and her family. She was married to Carl Harmon and had two children, Peter and Lisa. She was very happy, and then one day her children disappeared. Her children were found dead and Nancy was framed for the murders. During the trial her husband and closest friend went against her. She decides to start a new life, and so she changed her appearance. She moved to Cape Cod and married Ray Eldredge, so that she could try to get rid of her horrible memories from the past. Nancy and Ray had two children named Mike and Missy, who were helping her move on with her life. Just when her life is going the way she wanted it to, Mike and Missy disappeared, leaving nothing but a little red mitten as a clue for the police to follow. Nancy couldn't remember much from the day her kids disappeared, so the police thought that it was her again. Will Nancy be committed for the crime again, or will it be someone else this time? The book has a very surprising ending. Read the book to answer all of the puzzling questions, and to find out what happens to Nancy and her family. In my opinion it's a book well worth reading.