This book like the rest in the TB seris was wonderful. Every time I read one of these books I feel like I am in the story with the charaters and this is happening to me!! This book was not an exception. I wish all horses have as much heart as Battlecry did!! I was very in to the book, so much that I cried. These books are fantastic. I am a horse lover and I love them and recammend them to others who love horses!!!

I was about two chapters from the end when I remembered Charlie's words, "Her sire was a big, mean-running animal. he came out of nowhere and died in the track after winning the Breeders Cup..." i started crying so hard! I hadn't made the connection of Battlecry as Fleet Goddess' sire until then. it was almost unbearable to finish the book.

Battlecry Forever. A simple, yet true title. Leslie's familyowns a rescue horse farm. While at an auction, Leslie sees Battlecry.She asks her father to bid on him and he does but later wonders if he made a big mistake. Join Leslie as she helps Battlecry. I love the part win he wins the first race. The very end of the book touched me. Beautiful, beautiful book.

This book was an awsome book. when all the books were about christina sterling and more christina sterling it was BORING! Nobody wanted to read a book about a bratty girl and her snotty i'm to good for everybody horse. Plus most of us Started reading these books Because they were about racing. so as you can guess i was very glad when the authors listened to us and started writing racing again. Christina has the same bond with Star as Ashligh did with Wonder and thats cool but what about Melanie? well in this book Melanie finds the horse of her dreams. Perfect Image is the horse Melanie has always dreamed of. She's smart but stubborn. Melanie see's her potential and wants to turn it into somthing. She convinces Image's owner Fredricka to let her work with the filly. things dont go as planned right away, but throughout the book the bond grows. Melanie has a horse that matches her personality. The ONLY thing I didnt like about this book was the ending.... it was ok but it was almost exactly like the ending of Without Wonder. talk about a repeat. but aside from that i compleatly loved/love this book. if you havent read it buy it or borrow it from someone who has it. if you love throughbred you gotta read this book!

ok i thought this book was great because, image was spoiled and bratty, and not "perfect" like star. and i realy like how there is a little bit of romance in it with melanie and kevin . i still think they like each other. the only thing i don't like is the way it leaves you hanging for the next one to see what will happen with the unrulely filly . i also think that fredricka should sell melanie her image because image is sooooo like melanie headstrong and full of heart. anyway if you haven't read this book you have to read it now it is amazing and everything is different there is finally a race horse who is causing people trouble! this book is one of the most realistic since the first ones!

This book was really great I recomend anyone who has read and liked thoroughbred books to buy this. It is mostly about Melanie and a filly called Perfect Image. Melanie tries to train her but the filly won't cooperate and seems to bring bad luck. I don't like the way it ended leaving you hanging but it was all worth it. Well If you love Thoroughbred books buy this!

Ive just finished reading Ashleigh's Dream for like the 3rd time and liked it more than ever! I though Cambell did an excellent job bringing in Samantha and the book was a very good transition in the series between Ashleigh and Samantha. Also, in the third time I've read this book I realized the connection between Ashleigh's Dream and Battlecry Forever. Good Job, Joanna! It puts an interesting twist to the story. Even though the current TB books are getting kinda bad, I'd reccomend this book to any fan of the series who misses the originality of the first books. I also reccomend this book to any horse lover or horse series lover. Ashleigh's Dream happened to be the first book I read in the Thoroghbred series and was the book that urged me to continue reading the series. Also, TB fans, don't lose hope. The new writers I'm sure are trying hard to satisfy everyone's wants for the series and thats why the new books are so sparratic and confusing.

This book was sort of slow, like a foal taking its first steps. Although this book was well written, when Samantha came in I found it a bit dull. Even if I really did want to ride Fleet Goddess I wouldn't disobey my father. In the book, Mr. McLean was trying to watch out for Sammy's best interest. I found that how Ashleigh was so warm to Samantha was very heartwarming. This book wasn't one of Joanna Campbell's better books, but after this book, the things with Sammy warm up a little. But there's one thing - Pride is just born in #5 and then he's a yearling in #6, and then a two year old halfway through #6??? Although #6 (Wonder's Yearling) was my favorite TB book, I found that how time was skipped a bit of a loss...... Lara P.S. : Ms. Campbell, please come back to writing the series! I hear you're the writer of #36 (Without Wonder) so keep on writing the books from then on! Thank you so much!

ok,so i like wonder,no, i LOVE wonder,but she was getting a little old.ive written reveiws for the other 4 books and they were all great but they all just focused on wonder(and holly in issue number 1).i do think that they should have written about wonders injury though.joanna just kind of cut us off there.but it was a good book.they introduce so many new charecters and they still have all the action the first 4 had.i just love fleet goddess.she seems like the perfect horse.i think that samantha did do the right thing by disobeying her father because her father never would have let her ride anyway.it ends up with a good ending so i was pretty happy with it. P.S.-i know its just the begining, but i dont think i like wonders pride very well.

Mr. Dunne is an oddly likeable writer. His authorial voice is friendly, reassuring, confident and confidential. I picked up this book out of curiosity, after reading JUSTICE in which Dominick Dunne goes over the Martha Moxley murder.

The story is, for the most part, narrated in the first person by Harrison Burns, in 1972 and 1993, although there is a middle section called "1989 New York," which is pointedly written in the third person. Harrison is a poor school chum of Constant Bradley the rich, spoiled son of Gerald Bradley a ruthless moneymaker and partriach of a large ostentatiously Catholic family, mothered by Grace, an ostenstatiously devout religious maniac obsessed with appearances and determined to become a papal countess (in fact, she is Dunne's most engaging character, along with Bridey the cook). It's all obviously based on Kennedy mythology and takes a tabloid-level view of their legendary behaviour. The murder of the high school girl is dutifully enunciated to resemble the Martha Moxley case with a smidgeon of red herring thrown in to make it fiction.

There is nothing demanding about this book, nor is there anything surprising. It's an entertaining read in the lightest sense, like watching a made-for-TV movie after a hard day's work. Reading this was both relaxing and tedious. The main interest was in spotting where Dunne shamelessly imitates life such as when the defense attorney, based directly on the Menendez Brothers trial, faces the TV cameras with her raised middle-finger shouting, "This what you want?" or in weaving into the plot a case similar to that of Wayne Lonergan the devastatingly handsome (how easily one falls into this flat and florid style) bisexual social climber who murdered his socialite wife. (Both stories are reported in JUSTICE so that's how I know they're lifted and proves that Mr. Dunne is obsessed with the proceedings of justice, an admirable quality in itself.) That friendly and confidential voice of Mr. Dunne's gets there in the end and I was moved by the story of the victim's mother and that the murder of her daughter was never revenged. There's no denying that Mr. Dunne has his heart and intentions in the right place.

Perhaps my three-star opinion is based on my own moodiness since recently my dog had to be put to sleep and I finished this book while it was snowing outside. In this circumspect mood, I sprawled on the couch and read this while watching the television summary of the Australian tennis tournament at the same time, and with the same lack of personal interest since I don't much care for tennis. The book has a nice cover, showing a summery house with a tennis court. Enough said.

I can't agree with other reviewers that this is "vintage Dunne" or "quintessential Dunne" because this is my first Dominick Dunne book, but it certainly kept my attention for all of its 500-odd pages. The book was recommended to me by a friend who had seen the made-for-TV movie, and it did not disappoint.

Based "loosely" (read obviously) on the Martha Moxley murders, the book is about a friend of the Bradley family, Harrison Burns, who helps the family's favorite son, Constant Bradley, move the body of Winifred Utley, whom he's murdered. Gerald Bradley, who bears a striking resemblance to Joseph Kennedy, buys Harrison's silence, but the book is less about Harrison's struggle with his secret and more about how he got involved with the Bradleys and then later disentangled himself.

The book was written before Michael Skakel went to trial, and I read the trial portion of the book hoping that the book would mirror the real life outcome, justice for all, etc. Ultimately, this book is an indictment of people in power who hush up unsavory incidents to help themselves. Take it with you if you need to stay awake.... you won't want to put it down.

This novel is Dunne at his best. In this story Dunne fictionalizes the Martha Moxley murder and shows his strengths as a storyteller. Here Dunne shows he can balance plot as well as charcter development.

This story is told from the point of veiw of Harrison Burns. When Harrison was a teenager he saw his friend Constant Bradley murder the girl next door. Constant's family buys Harrison's silence through the years by paying his college tution and sending him abroad.

However as the years go on Harrison finds it harder to live with what he has seen. These feelings cause the demise of his marriage and general self loathing. Harrison is forced to face off with the Bradley's when they invite him to their home to ask Harrison to write a book about Constant's life.

Along with Harrison's dilema Dunne tells the story of the demise of a family. The skill with which Dunne tells both stories make this book well worth reading. The other to reason to read it is of course, affairs, family battles, and good gossip.

I have not read this book, but I have read all of your fellow reviews and I agree totally (with most of them). Authors, you need some help. PUH-LEASE! LISTEN to what your readers are telling you. Your are making people disappear in thin air. Dylan? Katie? Tor? Sam? Max? Cindy? Joanna Campbell wrote ten books just on Cindy, and then she's just...gone, for heaven's sake? You can't do that to us! It makes the book seem much less real and lost it's touch. Please, LISTEN TO YOUR READERS. Okay, and then horses? Right. Champion just...died? Whatever happened to him? I thought he was famous and all! What about Glory, Pride, Mr. Wonderful...and EVEYRONE! There are so many horses missing I feel like I can go straight to my bookshelf and spend hours writing down all the people you have just...forgotten about. Yes, and Hannah, you're totally right. What about Ashleigh being pregnant again? HEL-lo? PLEASE! Townsend's Acres colors have been changed about four times; Christina's hair has gone from strawberry blonde to brown to reddish brown; AND ALL THESE CHARACTERS HAVE DISAPPEARED! Joanna, please come back. I am begging you. Or give the new authors some advice, and tell them NOT to make characters disappear! I mean, I get that you want it to be a whole new generation. But then you could at least make up some reasonable excuses! Gosh! And I totally don't get why Sam and Tor went to Ireland either. Am I missing something? I don't think so. Get with the program and listen to your readers.

I love the TB series. I will never EVER give it up. I agree that the authors have to get with the program. There are WAAAAAYYYY too many loose ends now. I agree with all the reviews about that. There is one review that I have to correct something about though. When we were introduced to Cindy, that was the exact point that Joanna Campbell stopped having so much to do with the series and other authors started writing. Joanna didn't write the books on Cindy. In this book, Cindy is a major brat, but she finally gets an attitude adjustment. I was like, sheesh she's even worse than before, but then I figured, oh well it's just Cindy. Christina's longtime dream was to jump. Ashleigh wanted her to race. Ashleigh finally gave in to Chris's dream, and now Christina has decided to give in to Ashleigh's dream. I found that a little odd, but at least Christina is trying. One thing that really irritates me is when the authors mix up the physical descriptions of the characters. That bugs me so much! Anyway, the series is good, but not as good as the original first books. There should be a reunion book, maybe that will tie up ALL the loose ends. It could be each past and present character telling his/her story. That would be cool (I suggested it to Joanna Campbell in the past and she liked it). TB series, though it's had some serious issues, will remain a fave of mine.

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This is a great book! Everything is going Chrisina's way, untill Star is invected by a dangerous sikness. This sickness has already killed two horses,and it looks like Star's a goner! But Chistina wont give up on trying to save Star. She's been saving her money to try to convince Brad Townsend to sell his half interess in Star to her, and know he's really going to!

Unlike everyone around her, Christina still has hope that Star will make it. Brad tells her that the only reson he's selling his half ownership on Star is because he thinks Star's going to die,like all the other horses who got it.

Even though almost everyone has given up hope, Christina will give up anything to try to keep Star alive. She even gave up riding, her number one occupation is to keep Star alive. this is a repete of Wonder's first colt,Wonder's Pride, and Samantha Nelson.

This is one of the best books I have read. I've recommended it to many friends and all of them have loved it. Mrs. Campbell blends the topics of personal, social and racial relationships into an incredible work of art. Don't worry about being bored with this novel, because Brothers & Sisters will definitely keep your attention. While reading this book, it was very easy for me to imagine it being brought to the big screen. I think this would make a very enjoyable movie for everyone. I liked the way all the characters were written and how the plot had some twists & turns in it that eventually leads to a satisfying end. As with me, this book will make you a Bebe Moore Campbell fan!

Campbell's Brothers and Sisters is a great book, it depicts the relationships between blacks and whites at a very heated time: the Rodney King riot. This book raises many issues that the American people today must face and overcome..... I truly enjoyed this book and I found that it is very hard to put down. I recommend this book to everyone who can read and understand literature, in other words this book is a must read book for everyone!! Please read the book for those who haven't read it, and for those who have tell me what you think of the book and what other issues and questions this book raises. E-mail me with your response! Areggae@aol.com

Bebe Moore Campbell is definitely the most underated author of our time. Bebe writes books about characters that many of us know (or are) in real life. She writes books that you can step into and feel like you are a part of these people's lives. But I have to say, of all of her books, Brothers and Sisters is by far my favorite! Get this book!!!!

I read "Paris Trout" (which I picked up wondering what the City of Light and fish have to do with one another) and was hooked. Pete Dexter writes books about people you don't really want to know -- racists, violent men, drunks, people who are depressed to the point of dragging you down with them -- but he gets his hooks in you on page one and never lets go. "Paperboy" is basically about failure and how close we are to it even when it seems that life is going OK -- something can come into our lives that takes it all apart. The story is magnificently told in prose so tight that you can almost hear typewriter keys clicking away (Pete Dexter's books don't read like they were produced on a word processor). Best of all, there are the many places in the book where the words "as if" or "like" appear. Nobody does descriptive comparisons better. This is a great book, just like the other Pete Dexter books -- you just can't go wrong with him.

The opening paragraphs of Pete Dexter's latest novel set the tone and pace of a story of quiet poignancy and crystalline violence. Dexter really does have a genius for openings. Even better than Brotherly Love (and less gratuitously bizarre than Paris Trout) The Paperboy also cleverly reveals a relationship of brothers, making us wonder how much we know and understand our own family. There isn't a poorly realised character, the love story is subtly drawn and profoundly sad, while the plot (investigating the conviction of a death-row murderer) makes the book un-put-downable. I can't wait for his next

Pete Dexter is one of the most overlooked writers around. His style is beautifully lyrical, insightful with great characterization. Granted, his stories are dark examples of the human condition but well worth the journey. If you want a fast-moving plot, a pretty story or happy endings, you won't find them here. What you will find is some of the best writing you will ever read. I must admit to a bias here because Pete and I worked together in the '70s at a couple of newspapers so I consider him a friend. But I'm also a book editor and reviewer and read a lot, and I've read all Pete's books and consider this one of the best. Now, if he'll quit writing movie scripts ("Rush" and "Michael" to name a couple)long enough to write another fine novel, we'd all be happy!

I was looking for a good introductory text to hand to our new project managers and this book got some great references from some of my associates. I got the book and knew in 5 minutes that it wasn't what I wanted. In retrospect I realized that the people who recommended the book were both in construction and both lived outside of the United States. If you work in a small company, with little to no infrastructure; where PM practices are primitive at best, I think this book would live up to it's reputation. If you, rather than your organization, are new to PM I would suggest getting James Lewis's Fundamentals of Project Management which Amazon also carries, instead.

I recommend this book to all manager who first time meet project management. The book is wrote easy with many helpful hints. I am sure that you will read it in one breathe.

I've been using the first edition of this book in my PM seminars for a year. This new edition is even better than the first--which I loved for its fun, informative, real-world approach to PM for almost any type of project in business or not-for-profit enterprises. It contains expanded information on stakeholder management, risk assessment, standardizing PM in your organization, and generally more information and tips on the standard processes in PM. This is a great improvement to a book I recommended to every one of my clients; I'll recommended it even more enthusiastically now.

The only reason I didn't give this book 5 stars is because, from reading the other reviews, I see that the author kind of turned people off a bit to his methods. Here's the real scoop: Yes, he thinks that His Way Is The Right Way. He's really into this idea of walking around your house with a special kind of apron and keeping your tools and cleaning objects in various pockets of the apron so that you can easily and "speedily" get to them. Okay, so now that you know this, you can forget about it. In fact, you can even forget about the speed part of the speed cleaning because that is not even what I consider to be the best part of this book.

So, who is this book good for? Well, it's good for people like me who thought they knew how to clean but (as someone else mentioned) were using all the wrong methods and all the wrong products. Quite frankly, my mother never showed me how to clean the house properly and I can safely say -- since my mother won't be reading this review -- that my mother knew zip about cleaning house. Oh, she did the best she could, but it wasn't really very good.

This book is great for someone who really feels like a slug trying to clean the house. Oh, and by the way. For all of you messy cluttering slobs out there. You're not going to be happy about cleaning until you get rid of your clutter. So I'd suggest you either start de-cluttering your homes or first buy a book about getting rid of clutter (a good one is "Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui" by Karen Kingston). Once you've gotten your place de-cluttered, you will find that cleaning it is quite a bit easier than you ever thought. Then, buy "Speed Cleaning" and get some extremely useful ideas about how to clean, what to use, what's important to clean every day or every month, etc. Don't be put off by some of the negative reviews here because the author is not your parent and you can take what's useful from the book and leave the rest of it alone. And, yes, Mr. Campbell does have a catalogue of goods that he sells, but you do not need any of his products (that is, you can probably find any and all of those product in your own neighborhood). Personally I have bought a few products from his catalogue and I think they're of extremely high quality and often much nicer than the cleaning products I find in my local stores. But, again, use the book to give you some good ideas about cleaning. And, if you're a seasoned cleaner, you might find that this book is a bit below your abilities, so take a pass on buying it. Good luck to all and I hope you all eventually have a nice clean house to come home to! It really feels good to not be such a slob anymore.

I've always tried to keep a fairly clean (2,600 sq. ft.) house. My friends thought I was successful, too. But after the first "Speed Cleaning" pass through my house, I can honestly say that my house has never been cleaner. Yes, it took over 5 hours to complete the job the first time. But I can see that once the initial "baseline" cleaning job is done, the weekly trip through the house will be much faster.

There are great tips in here for how to clean things, what tools and cleaning agents to use, how to enlist help from your family and more.

If you want to buy the "right" tools, you can obtain reasonable facsimiles of the recommended products at Home Depot and Target/Wal-Mart for a lot less dough.

I would recommend this book for anyone who wants a cleaner house, but is overwhelmed at the prospect of attacking the cobwebs in the corners or the dustbunnies under the beds. You'll learn the fastest, easiest, most effective ways to conquer these areas in addition to the basics (scrubbing the bathrooms, kitchen, dusting EVERYTHING, etc.)

This book is not for ridding your house of too much stuff. In fact, if clutter is a problem that needs to be attacked before the real cleaning begins, I recommend Campbell's other book, "Clutter Control" or "How Not to be a Messie" by Sandra Felton. Both give detailed instructions and guidelines on how to reduce the amount of stuff in your home. If this is a problem for you, you will be amazed at how freeing it is to discard things. The more you discard, the more you will want to discard, so motivation to complete the project is sort of self-perpetuating.

I discovered The Clean Team almost 10 years ago. Their philosophy and approach to house cleaning is only surpassed by their tools and products.

This book gives a great plan for organizing your house cleaning tools and tasks. Even for those rare types who enjoy cleaning, there is always room to make the job more effective and rewarding.

Yeah, I get lazy sometimes and stray from The Clean Team methods and tools, but I keep coming back to it when I really need to shape up my house. In particular, the Shmop is nearly life-changing...really takes the mess out of mopping!

I heartily recommend SPEED CLEANING. HAPPY CLEANING!

While the white wolf system is usually thoroughly enjoyable, I have found that the Mage characters start off fairly weak, easy pray for any others. The book itself was fairly easy to follow, but a little too much game specific information that newbies would not understand. I have also found the combat system to be a bit clunky at best.

The play section was misorganized (Character creation should come before playing rules) and the whole 5 pages that explain the rules do a poor job.

If you want a game to melt your mind, pick up Mage. This is the third of five lines of game books in the World of Darkness, and the one with the most hope. In Vampire, Werewold, and Wraith, you play the monster. In Changling, you play the doomed to die crazy hero. In Mage you wrestle with Reality. Your views shape the world around you. You are fighting other views, that clash with yours, to the point where your magic can be harmful to you. Overall, this is a great game. The layout is average, the system is standard White Wolf. The philosophy is fantastic. The world is what you make it. Literally. Things exist and happen because people believe they do. Your job is to change or survive people's beliefs. On the negative, the index is one of the worst I've seen. 1st Edition Mage had a much better index. The index is too short and not nearly complete enough. It even lacks the normal page framing, making it look like the authors forgot to do it before sending it to the printers, and just whipped something together. If you use this book and this game, make sure to use sticky notes for your most common rules...

Thats right. You'd have to be right out of the box of Autumn People if you think this game suxs. Seriously, this game is the best as far as the World of Darkness goes. I mean yeah the others do have some definite things running for them but come on. You get to toy with peoples beliefs here, even if that person happens to be an Atheist. The problem is those types might find this game frightening especially when they realize that reality IS up for grabs and regardless of belief its gonna be exactly the way you percieve it. Maybe some people can't handle that kind of responsibility and try to play ignorant to it. Well the Technocracy likes people like them and I like to watch them squirm to define something vulgar as a rational thing. Some people will never learn. But enough about people who such cause they can't figure a good cronicle to run, Mage: The Ascension is a book worth reading for enjoyment of reading alone. Hell I've been playing the game for years now and I still can't help but pick the book up and re-read it every once in awhile. As player and storyteller of this game I must admit its one of the most fascinating roleplaying game I've ever played.