This book is about three Indian children who live with their grandmother on an Indian reservation in Oregon. The children's names are Marta, who is nineteen, Cultus, who is fifteen, and Angie, who is twelve. The problem is that Cultus is a big troublemaker and hates school. One day he causes a lot of trouble and gets suspended from the bus for a week. Katla, his grandmother, got so mad at the bus driver and not Cultus! Katla is a very firm person and never gives up on anything. On the weekened she went to the principal's home and complained until he shut the door right in her face. She left and Cultus didn't go to school for a week! About two weeks later Cultus escaped and went to a store that was close by. He saw a car that was running , hopped in and rode off. He was caught by the police and sent to a home for boys who did things like this. He had to stay there until the people there decided that he could go back home again.

I think that this book is good if you like to read about people who are bullies and get in a lot of trouble. I thought that this book was a little hard to follow because it had a lot of different things happening at one time. Although it was confusing, it turned out to be a great story!

I bought this recording about a year ago and have been very happy with the results. The simple acts of chanting for a short time in the morning and the evening allow one to focus on creating one's circumstances (morning) as well as acknowledging thankfulness (evening).

While I agree with a previous reviewer's remarks that Mr. Dyer does sometimes waver a bit on the duration and pitch of the notes, I do not find it as distracting as the reviewer. I certainly don't think its enough of a deterrent to abandon the recording.

I think if someone is open-minded enough and ready to give something like this a try, then they will definitely benefit from it.

I was refered to this meditation by Dr. Dyer through his other audio program "There's A Spiritual Solution To Every Problem." "Meditations for Manifesting" has changed my life. I have truly been able to manifest everything that I have concentrated on thus far (including creating myself to be a person that isn't interested in drinking or smoking) and more importantly I have become a much more peaceful, happy person than I have ever known myself to be.

I suggest this to anyone who has an open mind and is very serious about manifesting their desires.

I ahve to admit that I was a little skeptical of Dr. Dyer. I am aware of his prior work and books like Erroneous Zones and wasn't really a big fan.Then a friend loaned me the cassette tape and told me how much it helped. I tried it. I couldn't believe how much at peace and serene I became. This tape is great.I had a four year old injury that wouldn't heal. I felt immediate relief and the injury was totally healed in four weeks.As I said, I wasn't a fan of Dr. Dyer's before, but after seeing these results in myself, went out and bought Your Sacred Self and There is A Spiritual Solution to Every Problem.The individual that said that he tried the ahhh at A.C. needs to read the above books and see what Dr. Dyer says about using these techniques for the purposes he espoused. I highly recommend this tape and the above mentioned books, especially A Spiritual Solution for Every Problem.

Professor Dyer's guide covers "the Land of Israel", meaning the State of Israel and the occupied territories, the "Land of Jordan", meaning Jordan, and "the Lands of the Aegean", meaning a few places in what are currently Greek speaking areas. Egypt and Ur are not included, for some reason. Certainly the Tanakh ("Old Testament") attributes some pretty holy happenings to them. Within these chapters each place includes a brief description and a chronology of its significance in the Christian Bible, with reference limited to those aspects likely to be of interest to American fundamentalist Protestants, rather than Orthodox or Catholic brethren and sisters. The good doctor does not seek controversy in this work, however, and includes two maps with the current political boundaries clearly shown. A separate section of poor quality color photographs even has a couple of figures described as Arabs, though perhaps they are Christians, and in any case are engaged in activities such as winnowing grain and herding sheep, rather than raising Cain.
Prefatory materials are clearly aimed at readers who have never been outside the USA, much less to the Near East, and are not bad so far as they go. Passports, jet lag and weather are covered, though the conversational Hebrew and Arabic are pretty minimal and those few travelers who aspire to talk to the locals in their own languages would be advised to supplement Dr. Dyer's jargon with tapes and phrasebooks. Most, however, will undoubtedly stay close to the bus and have no need for palaver with the natives or recent immigrants of whatever language.
Further aids are included. There is an entire schedule of suggested objects of prayer: good attitudes, the spiritual health and destiny of the bus driver, good weather and much more are among them. Following these hints are special focal points in Bible Study, several pages in fact before the actual Guide commences. And at the end of the book are appended quite a lot of verses (not Biblical ones, but rhymed & metrical stuff), maybe for singing, though there is no musical notation.
There are no materials on accommodations or nightlife, so the traveler will have to see to suchlike some other way. Visitors who are interested in what might have happened since "Biblical" times and are merely perplexed by the evidence they will presumably see around them may want to consider Baedekers or Blue Guides. But Dyer & Hattieburg's Guide will probably be satisfactory to the type of tourist who will buy it.

This book contains information to help one understand just what it is he is seeing, has just seen, or is about to see. Lots of specific type information rather than just general. A real treasure.

I just got back from a 2 week vacation to Israel/Egypt. During the vacation I used this book to mentally prepare the night before for the sites we were going to be seeing the next day. This book was also extremely helpful to have along with you while touring because it offered quick pictures / descriptions / references. There were many times during the tour that our lead pastor borrowed the book to use as a reference before speaking about a site we were visiting. Excellent book.

Finished this easily in an afternoon by the pool. Enjoyable, but not believable. I didn't find Kate (the main character) as self-centered and unsympathetic as other reviewers. In fact, her antics made me laugh. Overall, though, the book is forgettable - everything comes togeter just a little bit too neatly in the end.

This book is fun. You're not going too think much about it. You're not going to have much compassion for any of the characters. And you're probably not going to remember it afterwards. But, so what? The email exchanges that make up the book are very witty and occasionally a little sexy. It's a great book to bring along to the pool this summer, and you'll finish it in no time at all. And, hey, if nothing else, it may inspire you to be a little more creative in your own email correspondence.

"Wanderlust" by Chris Dyer is billed as "A Novel of Sex and Sensibility". I'm not sure it lives up to that great height --- but it's on the right track.

The story of young NYC travel column writer Kate Bogart is a fun and fast journey around the world via email. This new "email" format seems to be taking over and I still haven't completely made up my mind about it --- but, in this book it seems to work. I wonder if it lets an author off the hook and the books aren't expected to as good as traditional books, but I think it might even be harder to keep a readers attention when they have to work at reading a book in email format. When it's done right (as in Wanderlust) it's fun and fresh. When it's done poorly, it's a total failure. That's why I think the risk is greater.

Kate's correspondence with the "outside" world moves this book along and her travels provide for endless adventures. It's a wonderfully witty and fresh book from promising new writer. I would love to see a "real" book about Kate and her travels ---- my jealousy over her ability to travel alone (scares me to death) is really palpable. A fast and fun read - perfect for summer months.

Cheers!

First of all, Dolores Johnson has a good Mystery series going here with a very fun cast of characters, and if you're looking for a new series to read through, I don't think you can go wrong with these books. They are fun, well written with creative plots and very little profanity. I do recommend, though, that you start with "Taken to the Cleaners". I just didn't quite enjoy this one as much as the others and wished that some avenues (with likable chacters such as Honest Abe or the murder victim's sister) in the story were explored more.

While I very much enjoyed the first Mandy Dyer books, I don't seem to like the most recent books as well. I think there's a lot of potential for this series, if the author can just get the books back on the right track. For a "cozy" mystery, there's not much coziness/intimate knowledge of the protagonist/warmth.

Mandy wasn't much fun in WASH, FOLD AND DIE, and I was disappointed that she allowed herself to be discarded and then picked up at will by homicide detective Stan, her so-called boyfriend. Doesn't the woman have any pride at all? The man dumped her 9 months previously, and then pops up one day on official business and Mandy is all ready to start dating him again.

As far as the mystery goes, I liked it somewhat. I didn't get so involved in the story line that I was waiting breathlessly for all to be revealed. There were a couple times I felt Mandy behaved recklessly and illogically (after all, a killer is loose!). Doesn't the woman have any sense of self-preservation?

On the positive side, I felt as though I were back in Colorado; the descriptions of winter scenes and clothing requirements reminded me vividly why I no longer live there! And Mandy always provides us with helpful stain removal tips, such as how to remove grape juice stains from carpets and clothing.

I had this book sitting on the shelf for a while before I picked it up yesterday to read. Her last book was one where I couldn't wait to finish it because I just wanted to be done with it, but this one was right back on track with the humor that attracted me to her books from the beginning. While I agree with one of the other reviewers that the relationship between Mandy and Stan seems to be going nowhere, it was explained in this book why he is so leery to become committed to her. I think with time, they will start getting more involved. Even without the romance, her books are enjoyable - how can they not be with the cast of characters - Betty, Mack, Honest Abe, Arthur, Nat, Spot...... I am very much looking forward to going home and picking up her next book.

I love Geoff Dyer, but this is not his best book. Consisting of stories that take place around the globe and which may or may not have happened or may not have happened quite as presented(the "genre-bending" the publishers are pushing, but anyone whose read autobiographical material... Spalding Gray, Bertrand Russell is aware of the may (not) have happened factor), the stories are Dyer's trademark style and sense of humor unevenly applied. Some of the stories ("Miss Cambodia") are simply excellent. Others are good stories peppered with far too much name checking of other authors ("Leptis Magna") and still others ("The Infinite Edge") are just simply mired in pretentious navel-gazing.

To take the latter, the author is in South-east Asia, but aside from the fact that it's ever-so-green (the first thing anyone notices about the region), there is nothing remotely remarkable about the setting. It is as though Dyer hopped half way around the world to hang around with Western backpackers (which is, I suppose, what all backpackers do, but I digress). Then, to top it off, he (rather, a character) quotes Rilke! So narrator-Geoff has traveled to the ends of the earth to quote Western authors with European backpackers? Ech. It's why people shudder at tourists. Even in "Miss Cambodia," narrator-Geoff admits that he can't distinguish between one temple and the next, but from all the Western quotes sprinkled throughout it becomes apparent that narrator-Geoff has no way to relate to his exotic settings because he knows nothing about them. He only knows a corpus of Occidental thought, DWEM's if you will.

One of the things that made "Out of Sheer Rage" so good was that every location imparted some meaning to narrator-Geoff, every event had an impact central to an intellectual development. Too often in "Yoga" the settings have no meaning whatsoever because they have no purpose for the narrator.

Having gotten my complaints out, I must say that many of the stories had me laughing out loud. The humor is quite self-deprecating in a very un-Bill Bryson way (thank goodness). "Leptis Magna" may lose its momentum navel gazing, but anyone who has ever travelled to a North African country can relate to the author's predicaments and culture barriers.

In short, it's worth reading after you've completed Dyer's better work. Just don't expect to have your Tevas knocked off.

I never write reviews of books, but I came to forward this book as a "recommend" to a number of friends after having picked it up in London on a recent business trip. I was intrigued by the book recommendation "quotes" which included one from Steve Martin---one of my favorite all time "people" encompassing a variety of categories--as well as the title as some one who occasionally gets around to doing yoga. I quickly became "hooked". This book has a great many levels. It would be easy to write Dyer off as a "stoner" who needs to get a life in order to stop whining about traveling around the world to exotic places. But a good meaningful reading of this book provokes wonder at the talent of the writer, the ideas and emotions put forth, and the breadth of knowledge involved. His descriptions of the music festival in Detroit is "on target" and one of the best descriptions/discussions of my hometown that I have ever read. I am now going to find and buy more of this truly talented and thought provoking writers' books. For those looking to think as well as be entertained, I can think of no better book.

Geoff Dyer is brilliant and hilarious. I couldn't put it down. One of the best things I've read in awhile. This is a collection of travel essays, and yet it's not. His approach to travel seems to be one of getting stoned so that one may enter the mundane. And he writes about the mundane as if it were the most fascinating place in the world. Forget travel guide books. Just go someplace and do nothing. And after awhile the nothing becomes something. I think you have to be a bit bent to enjoy this book. And if you are, you'll love Dyer's offbeat view of the world. I did.

Glorifying and corny. Unconditional praise of Edison achievements. Though the authors are clearly well-read, too many facts are ignored in the account of the circumnstances that lead Edison to the accumulation of patents. Lacks any critic view and end up creating an image of an "american hero" that is as ridiculous as untruth. I quote, just as an example, "In fact, if it were not for Edison's peculiar mentality, that refuses to recognize anything as impossible until indubitably demonstrated to be so, the production of motion pictures would certainly have been delayed for years, if not for all time."
Anyone seriously interested on the subject of the birht of cinema would recognize this as total nonsense or shameless manipulation of facts.
A book to avoid by anyone interested in having a truthfull and independent view on history.

The invention of the first light bulb inaugurated a new age for man: Electricity. Just as Edison had to create the tools to make the first bulb, he had to create the industry to use it. He did, and in doing so he assembled the first research laboratory and gathered around him a collection of great minds -- a rich assortment of men with varying talents.

I didn't feel the thoughts in this book were well organized.

I read it within a few hours, and just felt like I wasted my time. I remember right after reading, I felt like I only got one thing from the book. The worst part is I don't even remember what that thing was now. Obviously, it was anything life changing.

I really just thought it was a pointlessly long review on Jung, and his opinions. I didn't feel I understood Jung any better, nor did I feel like I got anything from the book at all.

Although I know the writer must have worked hard on it, to me, the book just came across as random words put together.

Maybe I was just expecting too much from such a small book. Who knows?

I would not necessarily recommend it, nor would I discourage the read. It doesn't take much time at all to finish, so you might just get something out of it.

Donald Dyer's Jung's Thoughts On God provides a blend of religion and psychology, providing a focus on Jung's writings on God and creating an interesting Christian-based probe of Jung's ideas. A fascinating survey into Jung's thoughts on spirituality and psychology.

I love his stuff, new and old. But this work went off on tangents. Stories shared I didn't find spiritually relevent or enlightening. This author is great but get his other titles.

"Four Pathways to Success" has been a God send for me during this time of my life. It is metaphoric, but between the metaphors, there is strong and deep instructions on acquiring 'Internal Peace'. This is not a book (or tapes) that can be read or listened to just once. Each time I listen to the cassettes, I hear another message that will only benefit my desire to grow further. With the many 12-step programs now in existence, offering steps to healing of many addictions, this is a MUST!

Wayne's strengths are his compassion, his skills as a consumate public speaker and presenter, and his insight. All are present in generous measure in this double cassette or CD.

The content is from the recent Dyer era which delves unashamedly into matters very metaphysical - but also works its way up to this through many insights and suggestions that will appeal to people who seek more "ordinary" advice.

Four Pathways to Success is certainly entertaining into the bargain, which helps if you like to listen to the tapes/CD a few times (as I do).