Early Thunder is about a boy, Daniel West, who is caught in the middle of the battle between Tories and Whigs during the American Revolution. It wasn't the best book I ever read, and as another reviewer mentioned, it has a slow start. The book is mostly centered on Daniel's personal conflict, so if you are looking for action, you won't find it here.

Besides that, the book was okay. I guess I am a little miffed because I have to do a project on the book (LOL), but I wouldn't recommend it. People interested in the ordinary people of the Revolutionary War might enjoy this book, so don't let my opinion stop you! A friend of mine read the book and throughly enjoyed it.

Early Thunder was a book about a boy growing up in the brink of the Revolutionary War. It is a very good book and one that you never want to put down. Daniel in the start of the story is a Tory, and in the end he has to make the most important decision of his life, well you will see if you decide to read it... Dr. West, Dan's father marrys a lady and Daniel dose not like her that much, but Sarah loves her!!!!
I would give this book 3 stars because it was kind of boring in the begginning(?) and some parts were plain wierd.

Early Thunder is a book about a boy grwoing up right before the Revoloutionary War. He is a Tory, which means that he supports the King and British rule.
Daniel West, a 13-year-old boy, is a loyal Tory with a father who happens to be a doctor. He has a little sister and brother, and a best friend named Beckett Foote.
Daniel watches as the events that lead to the American Revololution take place. He questions his loyalty to the King, and in the end, shows whom he supports loud and clear.
I would recommend this book to people who are interested in The American Revolution. If you aren't, you probabaly will be after reading this book. It has a lot of historical facts and places, plus some not so important events. If you combine these, you have a very cool historical fiction book.

When I began reading Salem Witch Trials by Lori Lee Wilson I noticed that it was very factual. I kept reading and hoped it would come up with something interesting, but still nothing that interested me. All I got out of this book was a bland display of boring facts no different form a textbook. I would recommend this to anyone doing a report about the subject and needs nothing but info.

It is very useful if you are looking for a research book, but sometimes can stray of the topic.

I had previously read this book in my senior high school year and it greatly increased my intrest in physics and helped my bring my grade up to a C+ by the end of the year. I'm not a physist but the corilations made in this book will make you think about the way the univers is actually put together and how it is perceived. Kenneth likes to fill the pages with numbers, but if you like to crunch them it can be fun. This is a book for the more serious reader and be perpared you will not find more books by this aurthor and its real hard to find books that don't use the word quantum.

It's unfortunate that many of Kirban's books are either out-of-print or hard to get. Many Christians familiar with Grant Jeffrey's or Hal Lindsey's works would find much familiar ground in Kirban's books. A born-again Arab, Kirban uses many examples from the Bible and then explains what they mean to us today.

The good news is that if you want a book that really explains the possibility of how the Rapture could really occur and the events that may lead up to it, then this is it. Although not as good as Kirban's other books - I'd recommend "Guide to Survival" or "Revelation Visualized" for a starter book, "Countdown to Rapture" explains what events will happen before the rapture of the saints, and a few that will occur after..

There's a great section of charts near the center of the book - when they say "a picture is worth a thousand words" they obviously had this book in mind.

Kirban tells why certain things are the prelude to the Second Coming of Christ, including air pollution, world disasters, destruction of ecology, world famines, the population explosion, increase in amusement activities (and why this is a sign of the end times!), decline in education, rise of computers, increases in crime despite increases in law enforcement, and a very good section of details of world areas and what should happen in these areas before the close of the Christian age.

This is a good effort by Kirban, but it's not one of his best. Only recommended for Kirban completists.

Salem is a wonderful place and it so enlightning to learn the history. The details about how George and Wendy Whitehouse slowly helped build the town was written in a way that was fun and easy to follow. A great way to learn about where you live.

I thought that the book " Reluctant Hero" was an excellent book for a sneak peak at the United States around 1802. Although some of the wording was rather unusual, it also help to add to the reader's view of the time in which this book was set. The author could have gone a little bit more into some of the unfamiliar objects and places in the book, but what he did was ok.

It's unfortunate that many of Kirban's books are either out-of-print or hard to get. Many Christians familiar with Grant Jeffrey's or Hal Lindsey's works would find much familiar ground in Kirban's books. A born-again Arab, Kirban uses many examples from the Bible and then explains what they mean to us today.

The good news is that if you want a book that really explains the possibility of how a single person could essentially become King of Earth then this is it. Although not as good as Kirban's other books - I'd recommend "Guide to Survival" or "Revelation Visualized" for a starter book, "Rise of Antichrist" just how easy it will be to create a one world government.

The bad news is that there are several inaccuracies in this book - including Kirban's "predictions" that we would have custom genetically designed children within five years, (the book was published in June of 1978), mind control by outside sources in 10 years, memory transfer to live embryos in 10 years, how elderly people will "disappear" in so-called "retirement farms" in 15 years, how your ability to produce children will be licensed by the government, and how head transplants will become a reality. Many if not all of these advances are still years away, assuming they ever arrive at all.

Still a very good book, though, if you're interested in this sort of thing.

This book wasn't bad, a little on the boring side but that's okay. It's good for book reports on the salem witch trials.

Laurie Carlson had a theory about Salem and supported it using an ambivalence for fact that you might experience gossiping with friends over a beer at Chili's. What a disappointment because it could have been interesting. Where do I start?

[1] All her research was done using books written in the 20th century. She is (sadly) unknowingly swayed by the biases of those 20th century authors. She wrongly accepts their judgements as fact, which annoyed me immensely. [2] She accepts outlandish courtroom pranks as genuine physical ailments. Why? Even by her own description, the 'fever' that was present in the colony subscribed to far more uncontrollable symptoms than repeating the words of the accused 'in chorus'. [3] She would have benefitted from reading documents from the period. Her understanding of the period is academic and lacks any genuine understanding of the events that unfolded. [4] The sentence that finally made me stop reading? "The first arrivals at Plymouth had been delighted to discover that the Indian population had already been wiped out by an epidemic... [any 3rd grader can tell you there were Indians in Plymouth]" an epidemic which she credits to the French in Nova Scotia, despite the fact that Europeans had been fishing the waters up and down the coastline for years and had even established outposts along the coast long before the puritans arrived in Plymouth. Sigh. [5] Please don't read this book.

While she has a compelling argument, one based on sensationalism, her thesis fails to illustrate why the hysteria found in Salem did not occur in other communities that were afflicted with same microbiological phenomena. This monograph makes many assumptions and more often than not her arguments seem predetermined. The amatuer reader will enjoy her writing, but academic historians will be disappointed.

This book shows that witchcraft was more complicated than social-economic-gender issues. Religion was part of it, but mostly medicine. There WAS no medical care then, how did they know what to do? Prayer was it. This author tackled a difficult topic, and opened my eyes to what witchcraft is all about.

All I have to say is that this book is VERY hard to stay interested in. I have always found any/all information on the Salem Witch Trails too fascinating...until now! This book is very factual, but seems that it is very repetitious. I think a book CAN be factual and keep ones attention (which is why I purchased the book) but unfortunately, I found this book completely boring. It seems that I am not the only one that thinks this way from other reviews.

I love to read alot about Witchcraft and about Salem trials as well, however, this book isnt what i expected it to be..
its VERY hard to read, boring, and disorganized.
there are alot of great books about the Salem trials, i recommend you to skip this one..
but thats just my opinion

I can't believe I more-or-less read this whole book in a single day. It's not, in the ordinary sense, a page-turner. You would expect an English prof to makes things more interesting than this, but in fact the book is often stilted, repetitive, and a bit pompous, not to mention dry. The author gives you little feel for place or time, or even demographic detail. (How many people lived in these towns he's talking about?) And all his references to the Bible seemed very ignorant. One of the odd things about the Salem trial to me, as a Christian, is that there are no strong parallels to these events in the Bible itself. Another interesting paradox, that the author does bring up, is that the pastors in Salem were mostly against the trials. I was hoping to learn fomr about where the Puritans got their ideas about the devil in the first place, and how they reconciled those ideas with the Bible, but no such information was forthcoming here.

Still, if you want to sort out facts in regard to what happened in Salem, and why, this is a very useful resource. The book is thoughtful, somewhat perceptive, and thoroughly researched. (In terms of American history.) In a book I wrote last year, Jesus and the Religions of Man, I included an appendix, "Crusades, Inquisitions, Pograms, and Witch Hunts," relying on another source for the pages on the Salem witch trials. I now discover, thanks to Professor Rosenthal, that I made a mistake or two (nothing vital) by not having read this book first. This is not such a bad book as some of the reviewers below make out; if you skip a bit, it can be valuable and somewhat interesting. But don't mistake it for a Stephen King novel.