I picked it up and started reading it in a cab. 5 minutes later the driver asked me to get out. I was in fits of uncontrolled laughter!

What a tragedy this book is out of print. The publisher should be ashamed of itself. This collection of bizarre and comical letters to actual businesses and organizations and the replies Wade received are priceless. The letters about the mountaineering team endeavouring to climb Singapore's highest peak (150 metres tall) and the delegation of pygmies wishing to save money on a hotel room by fitting four to a bed (width-wise) are hysterical. Please offer us a reprint!

You would not believe how funny this book is. No one would ever buy it based on its title, or due to its unknown author. But goodness gracious, it was absolutely hysterical. The Bob Yeti series alone should win an award! And the one about the Lufthansa flight - I was laughing so hard I coughed up a little bile. The Grampers letter was cute but not original (like the Heimlich squad material). Nevertheless, A+ to Wade!!

This book is a tremendous tool in detecting and identifying the use of controlled substances. I raised 6 children and I wish a book as detailed as this had been available. I have given the title of this book to everyone I know. I just want everyone to be informed of how easy it is to identify the many symtoms that drugs and alchol cause, the book provides not only the pictures but a step by step of the warning signs. As a parent I think that there should be more books that are geared to what's happening with our children.

Mr. Nolen's book is an outstanding manual that is highly essential for all parents of teens. This book is highly organized, straightforward, and comprehensive in the area of drug education. His statistics are extremely reliable, coming from The National Institute of Health as well as The National Institute on Drug Abuse. Professionally,this book has been extremely helpful to me in my work with adolescents in a Northwest Suburban High School District in the Chicagoland area. It has also been helpful to me in parenting my own son. Mr. Nolen's book is informative, honest, and essential for the healthcare professional, educator, and parent for today's youth. Thank you, Mr. Nolen, for a much needed, easy to read, complete book for all of us!!

Parents, Teens and Drugs, is one of the best parent training tools on the market today. I have found this book to be very informative and descriptive. This book gets down to the basics of what every parent needs to know about peer pressure and how it is used to manipulate a teenager into using alcohol or drugs. James Nolen has done an excellent job in informing parents of today's dangers surrounding our children with concerns to destructive types of behavior. I finally can now talk with my two teen boys about the negative affects that drugs have on one's life, and with this information they will be able to make the right choice to abstain from such destructive behaviors. I can't thank the author enough for getting envolved with parents, and helping us fight against alcohol and drug use. Thank You. ....

I have been in commercial, major-market radio since 1980. This book should be required reading in all broadcast schools, and for anyone who wants to get into "the business." Every single thing in this book is true, I have no doubt. (Cause I have seen it all first-hand!) A really, really accurate snapshot of what radio is REALLY like.

Brinke Guthrie...

The only surprise about the things revealed in this book is that someone finally has the guts to publish them. I spent a career in radio and "insiders" and fans alike will find both hilarity and sadness at this look "behind the scenes" of big time radio broadcasting in YOUR home town. The DJ's, the Talk Show Hosts, the Sales [people] and the PD Gurus are all there. Plus Mr. Manager, the evil demon who walks in the door in the morning, walks to the back of the station and fires everyone he sees, then returns to his desk. If you are interested in radio, if you want a career in radio, if you LISTEN to radio, this is a "must read." "Jack James" will be fired soon...somebody is bound to find out who he really is. Stay tuned...don't touch that dial.

Wow...What a book..could not put it down. I always wondered what happens in radion stations across the country. Incredible stuff for Mr. James. Movie material for sure. Thank you for the interesting reading.

This book presents Pierre Koenigs work very well. James Steele has written many great architecture books and this one is as good as his others. In the book is the most complete and extensive representation of Pierre Koenings work I have ever seen printed. The pictures are large, and very nice. It is a very good book with his work well documented and insightful articles written by James Steele and others.

Excellent book, I wanted to see more.

This book shares with the reader the highlights of Koenig's career with breathtaking shots of the case study houses, blue prints, and narration accompanying each. Truly, one of the most spectacular collections dedicated to this incredibly gifted, ground breaking architect.

another well-written bio on the one and only ernest hemingway. key west was/is a colorful place and so was ernie. i enjoyed this one. damn near felt like almost being there and enjoying a beer with ernie.

Of the many books about Hemingway, this is one of the most enjoyable I have yet found.

I discovered it when I was living in Eanes Lane, about 2 houses away from the Hemingway House, in Key West.

This book is one of the few that is really able to convey the atmoshphere of the place--imagine how quiet it must have been down there in the 30's, before A1A connected the Keys and EVERYBODY could get down there; Think of the parties Papa threw for his pals who came to visit; the sometimes beautiful, sometimes brutal weather; the sunsets, the fishing, the original Sloppy's.

I lived in Key Wierd for a couple years, and love it, but Papa's days MUST have been THE days! --Imagine bar hopping with Dos Passos or being able to sail over to Havana--the music! The nightclubs! The beaches! The Girls!--I digress, but you get the point. The recent release called "Hemingway's France" does very well describing the atmoshere of his Paris days. "Papa, Hemingway in Key West" does the same justice to the very productive and legend-shaping time he spent in Key West.

As well, there are several pages featuring a very good selection of photos from those days; including a couple black and white reproductions of great Waldo Peirce paintings in his typically loose, energetic style.

This is one of my favorite Hemingway references, and I turn to it repeatedly.

This is the first book review I've ever written, and it is because I know Hemingway fans will really enjoy Mr. McLendon's book.

The best book I have ever read on the life and times of Hemingway. Extremely insightfull into the man and his life after key west.

This is the 2nd best Blaylock I've read (best: The Last Coin) and has all the classic Blaylock plot elements: an assortment of quirky characters in a northern California backwater, and a mystic treasure with its aging guardians pitted against the bizarre machinations of a grotesque, eccentric villian. Nothing like fast-paced action but a marvellous unfolding of plots and characters.

The quiet curator of a small museum in California has no idea what he's getting into when he begins a trip to claim a rare Japanese sketch for his museum. He finds himself in the middle of a life-and-death struggle for the Paper Grail, an origami cup with mystical powers over land and water. Blaylock slips adeptly from the everyday to the sublime, pitting unlikely heroes -- failed small businessmen and eccentrics -- against some pretty likely villains of our time: greedy real estate tycoons and cynics who would use the Grail's powers for their own aggrandizement rather than the good of the land. You're more likely to enjoy this beautifully written, highly literate book if you have read a good deal of Arthurian literature and if you're familiar with the Pre-Raphaelite artists of the late Victorian period. Fans of Tim Powers' _Last Call_ should definitely read _Paper Grail_: to judge by the dedications, the two authors were probably trading ideas the whole time they were writing.

I've known people who have lived in California and they never said it was anything like this. Perhaps if it was more like Blaylock's books and less like reality (that being earthquakes and mudslides and the constant feeling that the entire state is going to fall into the ocean . . . but darn isn't the weather nice?) I'd want to actually move there. In any event, in the hands of Blaylock the state and the entire coast becomes a magical place full of mystery and mundanity at the same time. Oddball characters strive for a powerful piece of paper while at the same time trying to pay their rent and get a date. All the people in this book are wonderfully strange (if they're the good guys) or bizarrely strange (if they're evil) but it gives the book a certain angle that very few of today have, the constant contrast between what's normal and what's magical and the thin line that separates them is great. It's fantasy that can exist without elves and trolls and stuff and still be epic and be finished in a concise three hundred pages without an entire two thousand year history. It's about real people and real magic and the things that it can make you do. Both good and bad. Simply put, it's for people who want to be entertained while at the same time immerse themselves in a place that's not all that different from where they might live. No matter how normal they're life might seem.

I particularly enjoyed using the story of the Good Samaritan. The authors do an excellent job of telling a modern story followed by the Biblical story then tie the two together. The Good Samaritan brings home the meaning so very well for kids. I would recommend this book or cassette for Children's Church or for home Bible study. It would also be good for young homeschoolers.

This attractive, hardback book "Parables for Kids" is excellently written and illustrated. Not only the Biblical story, but a contemporary one is presented to allow the child to put today's events and places and things together with the concept the Bible teaches. I used this book to teach a couple of parables to a large group and it was well received. I am eager to buy additional books by these same 2 authors, Danae and James Dobson, daughter and dad.

I am in charge of our church's children's church ages 4- 7. When I ordered this book the description said ages 4-8. When I got the book, it had long pages of text. I did not think that 4 0r even 5 year olds would sit still long enough to hear the story. I love the concept of the book, but I prefer shorter pages of text with illustrations that I can show the kids; or I think I will lose their attention. I do recommend it for ages 6 and up.

Aspects of Phantom of the Pines are slightly cheesy, but ultimately, the Jersey Devil has to be my favorite mythical beast. The accounts of parents not allowing children to school for fear they'd be prey of the monster are as chilling as they are silly.
The JD has a long, rich history. You can say that sasquatch encounters go back to Native Americans, but the "wild man" hairy hominoid stuff is very Jungian. The Devil is its own beast.
This is a fun, worthwhile introduction to the terrifying creature. You don't need to be from Jersey to appreciate the Devil.

fascinating book - definately recommend it - especially to native New Jerseyians...

Where do i start! This book was head to toe in detail! I am a Very big researcher on the jersey devil and i would not read or buy any other book for info. I have read "The Jersey Devil" By James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. That was also a really good Book! So anyways This was a great book and if you are really interested in the jersey devil i really suggest u read this one!

I originally read this play some time ago while studying German in college and it is one of the few works from those years that has "stuck with me". In fact I still have the German language edition that I used at that time.
As other reviewers have said, one of the central themes of this work is the degree of responsibility that scientists have to humanity or something called "the public". Having worked for over twenty years now as a nuclear scientist, I can definitely say that at times the desire for knowledge can override the consideration of all the possible uses of a given technology. The question them becomes, can an idea be "unthought"? This secondary theme of the book is intertwined with the theory of the inevitability of ideas at a given time and place.
The translation by Kirkup is quite good as compared to the original German version that I have. Though the expository style (some very long dialogs) may be a bit daunting at times, stick with it. This play is a philosophical discussion, not a Hollywood action film.

I want all of you to read this play. It is weird butfascinating, surprising and just brilliant. Get to know Germanliterature at one of its best!

Durrenmatt's play provides an excellent and thought-provoking critique on the role of modern science and technology in human affairs. Is science responsible to humanity? If we deem specific knowledge "harmful", how can we hope to prevent its discovery? If the knowledge does exist, how do we prevent its misuse? This is a play that is incredibly relevant in an age plagued with similar issues in genetic engineering and cloning. I'd highly recommend the German translation.

it's a pretty good book. it definitely keeps your attention. i'm not going to spoil it like the other two reviewers who are obviously family members or best friends, but as an unbiased reader i give it a thumbs up.

Hey Im Not really writing a review.
Im here to tell everyone about James Brush.
Now nothing personal but anyways he was my English Teacher and if anything he taught me most of the stuff i know today. He needs to write a teaching guide that teacher can follow and hopefully they will all one day turn out like him. He has made an impact on my writing and me as a person
thanks
Mary

Paul Reynolds wakes up blinded, listening to a stranger sitting nearby sipping beer and slowly flipping through a book. He doesn't know where he is, how he got here, and worse, who he is.

We follow Paul's spotty memory as he begins to piece together what happened. Well-executed flashbacks tie the present effectively to the past as we discover what happened to put him in this benevolent (or not so benevolent?) man's care.

But what is most impressive is how James Brush illustrates, powerfully and perfectly, what it is like to suddenly go blind. Brush's use of imagery creatively puts the reader in the story, making it easy to imagine what it would be like to lose one's sight.

As Paul begins to wonder about his caretaker's intentions, he is also forced to examine his beliefs about extraterrestrial life and the supernatural. Born a cynic, he must decide if he believes his memories or his logical mind.

The book moves swiftly, but leaves mysteries that may -- or may not -- be tied up in the ending. Several twists in the plot keep this book interesting, and the character development is done well. While most of the mysteries in the story are tied up neatly at the end, Brush leaves a few dangling, providing an opportunity for the reader to make up his own mind.

Do you believe in UFOs and supernatural happenings? This book will cause you, too, to reevaluate what you think.

Overall, this book is definitely a page-turner. I look forward uo more of Brush's work.