I found it odd that this book was written by someone who actually has children. I am childfree and am very content being this way. This book deals with all different reasons for being childless/free. I thought this book was horrible. It dealt too much with theories and not real life situations. Only one chapter was dedicated to those who choose not to have children. Big disappointment.

Hooray for Elaine Tyler May! This is a very well researched cultural study of infertility. It will be particularly helpful to those who desire to be parents or to those who are parents after a long struggle with infertility. As an infertile woman in the United States, I was empowered by seeing so clearly how I fit into the history of the country. Perhaps a detailed academic study is not everyone's idea of fun reading, but I was enthralled. I could not put this book down and read it cover to cover, questioning constantly how my education could have had so many obvious, women-centered omissions. I count few books as life-changing but, for me, this is one of them.

I would like to take exception with the posted review. I found the book to be fascinating. It is clearly written, and I have learned alot from it. I hope potential readers will give it a chance.

Tylers intentions obviously are good! Get to the juicy scenes after 6 lines of text. For girls on the go.....
Well, why not brows through some of the short stories on any of the sex-story sites on the net? Take a print if you need ?!?

The stories are typically 2-4 pages. Obviously we jump right into some scene, and then out. would've been OK, BUT without the build-up of erotic tensions, it taks really high quality to make this an erotic read in a complete paperback. And here is the problem. The standard on the juicy stuff is not high enough to lift it above some of the stories at the web sites. Some are better, some worse.
Not a total failure, surely there are a lot of people who will love it, but I found it a little too light.....

If you're used to thumbing through the romance book to find the juicy scenes, this is the book for you.

This collection of short-short girl-girl stories is the perfect book to keep by your bedside for late-night reading. Stories focus on "the good parts." They dive right into tantalizing, sexual scenarios. Good characterization even in the mini stories. Very sexy, delicious descriptions. A whole lot of frisky fun packed into a hot anthology! (Don't buy it if lesbian scenes aren't your thing. This is a girls only book!!)

This is the most dishonest books on herbs I have ever seen, and I don't believe I will ever see anything to top it - unless Tyler exerts himself again, that is. He writes things like 'Self-treatment with hawthorn is neither advocated nor condoned', when hawthorn is one of the most benign plants there is; another of the truly unlikely statements is 'Unfortunately, ginseng remains a medical enigma with no proven efficacy for humans.' - this from a professor of pharmacognosy, the study of plant constituents? Tyler must not have thought a lot when he wrote this book, and he must have used his head even less when he proofread it. No, truly, leave this book where it belongs - on the shelf of the publisher's warehouse. Go buy a good book about herbs instead - you'll find there's a lot of them, but Tyler's aren't it.

From the evidence presented in this book, Varro Tyler is the Eeyore (or Jiminy Cricket?) of modern herbalists. His reviews of herbs range from lukewarm to scathing. For example, echinacea squeaks by regarded only as "a plant drug that is deserving of continued attention by scientists and clinicians." Chickweed, on the other hand, receives such a bad review that you wonder if Tyler himself was ever personally injured by it. (In his review, he calls it a "weed," a four-letter word to most herbalists.) Generally, his writing is clinical and unsanguine. To his credit, he does present evidence that separates effective herbs from lesser ones, and most importantly, from dangerous ones. By his own admittance, he errs on the side of safety and conservatism -- too much. Equipped only with Tyler's book, a beginning herbalist would consider the healing power of plants with a skepticism and dependence on clinical data far too austere for the realm of herbalism. This is not the place to start such study, but it is a good adjunct and a devil's advocate for the naive and wide-eyed experienced herbalist.

The book is well written, easy to read, and it identifies what has been learned through repeatable scientific means about many herbal substances. In each case the active ingredients are identified, how they work within the body, and what they can be expected to do or not do. Suggestions about dosages are also given, as well as warnings when the substances have been shown to have negative side effects. He presents no axe to grind, does not attack anyone, but only presents the results of medical research into herbs in a clearly accessible format. The book has plenty of references for additional reading, and I found it to be excellent.

wall reading this book on thing jumped at me. This man makes his money on all the other things he sells. This book is one big add,For all he's other books. You can find other books with more info.

I got my copy of this book in about 1970. So it is the first edition (with a slightly different title ["..up to $100,000..."] before the inflation of the '70's).

This book helped give me my first dream of being self-employed. It gave me my first education in how to run the "nuts and bolts" operation of a small business (especially mail-order).

Sure, it's got it's share of hype and "positive" talk, but that is what I needed at that stage in my development into a self-employed business owner. It also lacks details that you will need with your own business. But so what? If you are serious about starting your own business, you'll be wanting to read several other books, anyway, to gain the help you need. Some of it will be general information, like this book, and others will contain more specific information about your particular industry/trade.

32 years later, I'm self-employed and have been that way for the last 15 years, at least. I am grateful to Tyler Hicks for givng me a start and pointing me in the right direction.

--George Stancliffe, author, SPEED READING 4 KIDS

I don't know why this book's reviews average 3 1/2 stars. Maybe the people who bought it thought they would open it up and find a million dollars stashed inside.

This book was full of incredible very easy to do ideas. I do beleive that by applying the techniques put forth in this book, anyone can make more money than they already have, and that's never a loss.

The only reason I withheld one star, was that the author used the book to advertise a bunch of other services.

I read this book when I was a teenager. I have reread it since along with almost everything that Tyler has ever written. It is a good book. It is not a happy book. It is about life, sometimes life is not happy.

I became a Tyler fan as an adult and something reminded me of a book I'd read long ago as a teenager. Could that have been the same book? It was 'A Slipping-Down Life.'

Rereading it as an adult I could feel the emotions of Evie. That is a good book. When you can feel like an obsessed teen making stupid decisions when you are in your thirties, that is writing!

I found this book fascinating. Direct and perceptive, it examines the consequences for a lonely, fat teenage girl who slashes the name of a would-be rock star onto her forehead with a pair of nail scissors. What is so interesting is that Evie, the mutilated teenager, never once regrets her action. She only wishes she had taken control of her fate earlier, while Drum, object of her unvoiced obsession and owner of the slipping-down life of the title, lets himself be drawn in by her startling course of action. Every other character in this book, from Evie's sad, widower father to her best (and indeed only) friend Violet, seems drifting and unaware next to efficent, decisive Evie. I can throughly recommend this book to anyone. Not a word is wasted or misplaced by the author and the result is a startlingly vivid novel

I just read this book over the weekend because I became attached to it. This book leaves you wanting for more and the ending is horrifically sad. Probably one of the best I've read.

As a seeker of all that is Aerosmith, I have a certain thirst for knowledge of Steven Tyler. Cyrinda Foxe-Tyler's book refreshed my thirst and brought up some new areas for deliberation. Foxe-Tyler fills in some blanks left by WALK THIS WAY. At times she sounds bitter and although she makes some unbelievable claims, many are consistent with Steven Tyler's accounts. She confirms some of our suspicions, breaks our hearts with others, and lets of those intimate tidbits flow that all of us Steven Tyler fans have been dying to know.

This book is about Steven Tyler, Cyrinda's life gives us insight as to the type of person Steven Tyler is, by his choices made in women, wine (or Tuinals) & song. Whether the book is a cock-and bull story or exactitude, it doesn't change the most important thing-the music. If you are a female fan of Steven Tyler's, buy this book, if nothing else, for the prologue.

My rating for Foxe-Tyler's book is - 7 !!! (But JFP gets a larger number.)

For those of you that are "Aerosmith" fans, just go ahead and buy this book. I could not put it down until I completely finished reading it---fun, bold and exciting. You will love it. Whether it is completely true or not, we don't know. But Cyrinda sure makes it sound like it is. She did not have an easy life with Steven and does tend to whine about it at times, but who really believes that living with a rock star is easy!

This is a good book full of juicy details, but Ms. Foxe-Tyler seems angry with Steven Tyler through the entire book. She makes him out to be the bad guy! Maybe being married to him wasn't a walk in the park, but she needs to let go of the past and stay out of his life. I recommend this book to any Aerosmith fan.

This book could have been such fun. It's upsetting then that it is actually very poorly written and unforgivably boring! The characters are less than one dimensional, if that's possible. And the plot twists make no sense at best, and at worst contradict previous events. For example, two men (Luke and Zeth) are shown on video naked together and exchanging I-Love-You's, and then later in the book, the same two characters have sex FOR THE FIRST TIME! Also, a character (Rocky) is referred to as being openly gay, and then later in the book denies sleeping with men, seemingly for no reason. The author also seems to be fascinated with the humor of urine, feces, and pain - but he can describe nothing with humor or grace. I identified with only one character, Cameron, in that I felt like a masochist because I forced myself to read the entire book. This book is a complete waste of time, money, paper, and a good idea for a plot.

Not Shakespear, but if your looking for a fun raunchy book to take your mind off the stresses of daily life, this is the one.

"Hey, I've got an idea! Why don't you write a book that capitalizes on the popularity of those reality TV programs like Big Brother, but only use all gay guys. It doesn't have to be good because it's only for light summer reading. What have you got to lose?" Well, time for one thing. It's not that the concept was a total mistake from the start. It might have worked if the author had watched some of the reality TV shows and discovered that they're popular because of the interaction of the people who are on them. Then he might have developed his characters to make them interesting. Instead he centered his plot around the producer (Hamilton Peabody) and his attempt to develop a hit cable TV show that will propel him from his lowly programmer job in Dulcit City, Iowa back to Hollywood where he belongs.

I only read this book because I had read Ben Tyler's first novel Tricks Of The Trade. While I had liked some things and disliked others in that book, I thought the author had some potential. Unfortunately, he didn't realize or even show it with this novel. None of the characters win you over. And the plot seems hacked together. Actually, I thought the book could have ended twice before it finally did.

But my biggest complaints with the book are the author's choice of villains and his lack of technical expertise. Holy misogyny, does he have something against women? In both of his books so far the villain has been a woman who is so viscous, conniving, bitchy, whiney and deceitful that she would make Cruella De Vil with PMS look good. As to technical expertise, he should researched a TV station or video production house before he started this book. I doubt that even the smallest TV station in Podunkville would edit a TV show on VHS equipment, much less store the master tape on a VHS cassette.

Hopefully, the author will put a little more effort into his next novel, which is currently being written.

I adore Diana Palmer for the most part. I can't relate to the "modern" heroines that have been coming out of books in recent years and hers are usually old fashioned and virginal and the men bring them out of their shells. I have a similar personality to those basic qualities. But there is a such thing as being too stuck on the same story.

First of all, does she watch soap operas and think that's how people really talk? I have never once said to a man, "It's so sweet!" when being kissed and yet every one of her romantic characters says it at least once in every book I've ever read by her. And every hero I've ever read by her calls the heroine "little one". These women are innocent to the point of being ridiculous! Particularly Shelby who was the eldest and the most immature. I couldn't figure out why a guy like Justin would even be interested in her! 27 years old is a bit old to be embarrassed and completely imbecilic about sex. Abby and Nell were reproductions of the same character and has anyone else noticed that in nearly every book DP writes her heroines end up staying home to have kids? And of course then they talk about it like it's the best thing that's ever happened to them. I love melodrama - it's why I continued to put up with her half-hearted efforts in every book over these past few years - but this is suspending disbelief a bit too much. And does she have an Oedipus complex? The heros treat the heroines almost like children, but then the heroines ACT like children. Still, at least the stories were interesting enough to get me engrossed even as I was wincing at the silliness of her heroines. That's why it got two stars rather than one.

Three great stories in one. This trilogy has a little bit of everything and will surely please every romance novel fan. In the first story, Abby, the not-quite step-sister of Calhoun and Justin spends her days dreaming of the playboy Calhoun. He finally sees her as a woman but still fights the idea of marrige. In the second story even though Justin believes six years ago Shelby broke their engagment to date a richer man, when bankruptcy hits her, Justin offers to marry Shelby to give her a roof over her head. He fears intimacy with her because he doesn't want to risk his heart again and she fears it with him because he loses control around her. But, in the end, they cannot resist each other. In the final story Nell believes herself unlovable and unattractive men but Tyler is bound to set her straight. Overall a great novel

Well this is six years and eight months later and these stories still have the same appeal.

Calhoun is 32, with a great build?, blond streak hair and extremely handsome with Abby, his ward just 3 months shy of 21.
Justin is 37, tall dark and rugged and Shelby Jacob is 27 with black hair and green eyes [just like her brother, Tyler].
You can see that all the men have issues and the women [Oh God forbid, according to you] are virgins.

Such a refreshing pattern after all the immoral and progressive? women being written about. You do not get the impression that these women devalued their virginity or were easy and available to any man. I will admit that I am ashamed of the general run of the mill, so-called women of today.

These stories were originally written in the Desire series, therefore the length of the story was limited and not enough space given for expanding the story line. All in all, not bad for '88.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for very refreshing stories with attempts but no bed hopping. [grin]Thank God. Has anyone got a cover they would part with? Mine from 94 is entirely different. Love them cowboys.

I didn't think this novel lived up to the strength of Tyler's other publications. It concerns the aftermath of a little girl's accidental death and the effect of the death on the people who live in the same house -- her family and neighbors. While the prose and characterization, as always, are strong, the story isn't that compelling. It just seems to amble along to no particular spot in particular.

I am a huge Anne Tyler fan, so I was disappointed that Tin Can Tree wasn't up the the caliber of Accidental Tourist (my favorite Tyler novel) or Breathing Lessons. But it one of her first, and the signs of her ability are there. The story of Janie Rose and how her parents cope with her death is compelling, but the problem is the treatment of it is somehow superficial. The author is so intent on showing me life in small town America that she leaves the novel's core family, the Pike's inaccessible. All the relationships were superficial. The characters of James, and Ansell in particular, took up far too much space, especially since their story never went anywhere. In short, this book had alot of great elements that did not up to a novel worthy of Tyler's talent

My expectations for this book were very low, which might be why I found it so good. I had heard that this was her worst novel. but having read 12 of the other 13, I had to read this one. It lacks the complexities of plot and character of her later novels, but the simplicity is not a weakness. It is a gentle story of unexceptional people in a sleepy little town where nothing ever happens - apart from the odd accidental death - but Tyler pulls the reader in through the front doors and makes us care. Joan and James are probably too similar to several other early Tyler characters, but the author keeps our interest up. These people might be dull to the outside world, but Tyler shows us the spark of rebellion flickering deep inside - hinting at the one big decisive act of their lives (this usually involves running away from a big famlily - it happens in almost all of Tyler's books!). If you are not a big Tyler fan you won't like this book, but if you are, ignore the critics and treat yourself!

This book was okay and it did have a few good ideas. But overall it was more of a marketing ad for the author's products then a book. I would choose another book on the subject of mail order business instead of this one.

This is a good book for anyone who wishes to start a mail order home-based business. It is even very useful to someone who is already experienced in the mail order trade like myself!

An informative book. I had to write a review because the other reviewer has a totally negative and unimportant opinion. Yes the author does advertise his products, but he gives you valuable information all the same. In fact his offers could be useful to someone getting into mail order. It is a completely legitimate book. I am in no way affiliated with the author. The book is packed with valuable info on all aspects of mail order. Packed with lots of detailed tips to help out the budding mail order business owner.