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The RUM DIARY: A LONG LOST NOVEL
Hunter S. Thompson
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Binding: Hardcover

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"Disgusting as he usually was," Hunter Thompson writes in this, his 1959 novel, "on rare occasions he showed flashes of a stagnant intelligence. But his brain was so rotted with drink and dissolute living that whenever he put it to work it behaved like an old engine that had gone haywire from being dipped in lard." Surprise! Thompson isn't writing about himself, but one of the other, older, aimlessly carousing newspapermen in Puerto Rico, a guy called Moberg whose chief achievement is the ability to find his car after a night's drinking because it stinks so much. (I can smell it for blocks, he boasts.) The autobiographical hero, Paul Kemp, is 30, trapped in a dead-end job (Thompson wound up writing for a bowling magazine), and feeling as if his big-time writer dreams, soaked in Fitzgerald and Hemingway, are evaporating as rapidly as the rum in his fist.

In fact, Thompson was only 22 when he wrote The Rum Diary, but his fear of winding up like Moberg was well founded. What saved him was the fantastic conflagration of the 1960s, a fiery wind on which the reptilian wings of his prose style could catch and soar to the cackling heights of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Puerto Rico in 1959 doesn't have bad craziness enough to offer Thompson--just a routine drunken-reporter stomping by local cops and a riot over Kemp's friend's temptress girlfriend, a scantily imagined Smith College alumna who likes to strip nude on beaches and in nightclubs to taunt men.

Thompson's prose style only intermittently takes tentative flight--compare the stomping scenes in this book with his breakthrough, Hell's Angels--but it's interesting to see him so nakedly reveal his sensitive innards, before the celebrated clownish carapace grew in. It's also interesting to see how he improved this full version of the novel from the more raw (and racist) excerpts found in the 1990 collection Songs of the Doomed (available on audiocassette, partly narrated by Thompson). --Tim Appelo

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The Rum Diary was begun in 1959 by then-twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson. It was his first novel, and he told his friend, the author William Kennedy, that The Rum Diary would "in a twisted way...do for San Juan what Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises did for Paris." In Paul Kemp, the novel's hero, there are echoes of the young Thompson, who was himself honing his wildly musical writing style as one of the "ill-tempered wandering rabble" on staff at the San Juan Daily News at the time. "I shared a dark suspicion," Kemp says, "that the life we were leading was a lost cause, we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles -- a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other -- that kept me going."

The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery & violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. "It was a gold rush," says the author. "There were naked people everywhere and we all had credit."

Puerto Rico was an unspoiled tropical paradise in those years -- before Castro, before JFK, before civil rights & moonwalks & flower power & Vietnam & protests & even before drugs -- but the San Juan Daily News was a vortex & a snakepit of all the corrupt new schemes & plots & greedmongers who swarmed in. Paul Kemp, The Rum Diary's narrator, speaks for the unfocused angst of those times: "In a sense I was one of them -- more competent than some and more stable than others -- and in the years that carried that ragged banner I was seldom unemployed. Sometimes I worked for three newspapers at once. I wrote ad copy for new casinos and bowling alleys, I was a consultant for the cockfighting syndicate, an utterly corrupt high-end restaurant critic, a yachting photographer and a routine victim of police brutality. It was a greedy life and I was good at it. I made some interesting friends, had enough money to get around, and learned a lot about the world that I could never have learned in any other way."

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Quality ish..........2007-06-06

I just finished this and it is a real hoot. I have never read any of his other works and intend to. I recommend this book for anyone who wants a laugh and enjoys reading about people who live at the bottom of the bottle. Enjoy!

Rum Diary a must have Thompson Book.......2007-05-16

This is one of the best books of Hunter's I've read. It ranks with Hell's Angels and The Curse of Lono as a great insight into life from another point of view.

A Rum Diary.......2007-04-05

Thought the book was OK would recommend it to anyone who is a HST fan. One of his earlier books and you can tell his writing style with the trademark cynicism and sarcasm is still developing. Made me laugh at loud a couple of time but not like fear and loathing in LV.

A Great and Honest Book.......2007-03-09

This book was great. Through the characters and their relationships, you could see the purity and honesty in Thompson's work. He doesn't beat around the bush and try to be politically correct. The book may have been set in the 50's but it parallels today. I hope the movie will hold the same integrity as the book.

A side of human nature that is ugly and wrong........2007-02-17

Recently, I've been reading Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diary. Actually, I'm almost finished with it. Hunter wrote it when he was 22 and it shows, but in the way that a sapling has the blueprint for the whole tree in it's little structure. In it, the very Hunter-like protagonist, Paul Kemp, runs around Puerto Rico, doing very Hunter-like things, but there's something extra odd in there that isn't in anything else I've read of his.

Paul has recently turned 30 and he's realizing how arrogant and cocky he was in his younger years, how he eschewed the plain averageness of middle class suburban life, rebelled against everything and how now that's not what he wants. Something has changed and to the younger, invincible self, it feels like death. It feels like the end of an era, the end of some mythological golden age, a stage we all go through and only realize it on the way out the door, when you realize that the "best years of your life" - the time when nothing could destroy us, that anything and everything was possible, when we were bigger than the world, even the universe, up knocking at God's door, absolutely sure we could do it bigger, better, faster, more.

And this too, far in the future, I will look on as youthful folly.

Book Of Jasher One Of The Sacred Books Of The Bible Long Lost Or Undiscovered

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An Obscure Biblical Book Unveiled!

Book Of Jasher One Of The Sacred Books Of The Bible Long Lost Or Undiscovered
Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing
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The Book of Jasher

ASIN: 1417910984

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1829. With testimonies and notes, critical and historical, explanatory of the text to which is prefixed various readings and a preliminary dissertation proving the authenticity of the work. "Is it not written in the book of Jasher: Joshua x. 13. The Book of Jasher is one of the sacred books which should have been included among the other books of the Bible but which was omitted as were many other books. Why was the Book of Jasher lost, hidden or suppressed? Read and find out.

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An Obscure Biblical Book Unveiled!.......2005-11-04

Published in November, 1751, the title page of the book says: "translated into English by Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus, of Britain, Abbot of Canterbury, who went on a pilgrimage into the Holy Land and Persia, where he discovered this volume in the city of Gazna." The book claims to be written by Jasher son of Caleb, one of Moses' lieutenants, who later judged Israel at Shiloh. Jasher covers Biblical history from the creation down to Jasher's own day and was represented as being the lost Sefer HaYashar mentioned in the Bible. In Alcuinus' purported translation the book the Law was given to Moses on Mount Sinai not by God but by Moses' father-in-law Jethro.

If you are a scholar of lost books of the bible and the old testament in particular, you will find this book quite informative and arresting. Definitely a worthy read!

Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands

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An interesting book on the Holocaust in Muslim and Jewish North Africa
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Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands
Robert Satloff
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Thousands of people have been honored for saving Jews during the Holocaust-but not a single Arab. Looking for a hopeful response to the plague of Holocaust denial sweeping across the Arab and Muslim worlds, Robert Satloff sets off on a quest to find the Arab hero whose story will change the way Arabs view Jews, themselves, and their own history.

The story of the Holocaust's long reach into the Arab world is difficult to uncover, covered up by desert sands and desert politics. We follow Satloff over four years, through eleven countries, from the barren wasteland of the Sahara, where thousands of Jews were imprisoned in labor camps; through the archways of the Mosque in Paris, which may once have hidden 1700 Jews; to the living rooms of octogenarians in London, Paris and Tunis. The story is very cinematic; the characters are rich and handsome, brave and cowardly; there are heroes and villains. The most surprising story of all is why, more than sixty years after the end of the war, so few people-Arab and Jew-want this story told.

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Interesting book on little known facts.......2007-06-22

The "righteous" would be those who risked their lives to help the unfortunate....in this case Arab Jews during the holocaust. We remember the WWII battles in North Africa. We may forget that they were necessary because the Germans and Italians controlled those areas that were at the time colonies and only became nations post WWII. Because there have been no stories about righteous people rescuing Jews in those countries, Robert Satloff set out to find them. He did find some and he also opened up a whole area of research because he is sure there are many he did not find. That said, however, he had trouble finding descendents in families who would admit this heroism. Apparently this kind of heroism is so unpopular these days that a family would rather not be known as heroic. This leaves one extremely depressed.

One interesting fact I learned is that the definition of the word "Zionism" is completely different in Moslem countries than it is elsewhere in the world. Here we see it as another word for Israeli nationalism. There it means, "the purposeful infliction of pain and suffering on Arabs and Muslims." Wow! No wonder we have so much trouble acquiring peace in the region! So let's abandon the term and simply say there are two countries there that need to have borders established.

By all means read the book. It does depress one a bit, but it also shows that simple humanity is possible. Let us build on our common humanity.

An interesting book on the Holocaust in Muslim and Jewish North Africa.......2007-06-17

While I tip my hat to Robert Satloff for trying to prove that Muslims and Jews were much closer before World War II by trying to find Muslim's who risked their own lives to save Jews during the Holocaust in Islamic Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, I have to warn the readers that Satloff, sadly, comes up empty-handed. It is even a little bit annoying because he tells us of all the success he has in finding these "righteous Arabs", but the stories he researched are unimpressive, sadly enough. There may have been a couple "righteous Arabs", but not a whole lot, and none approaching the likes of Oskar Schindler.

The real value of this book is that Satloff does a very good job of researching and writing about the Holocaust in Muslim North Africa, where perhaps a million Jews lived before the Holocaust and practically none live now. When I traveled to Morocco recently, I heard repeatedly how well the Jews were treated there and how prosperous they were, and even how King Mohammed V refused to give lists of Jews to Hitler during the war. So it didn't make any sense why, of the 260,00 Jews that lived in Morocco just before the War, only 5,000 remained now, almost all of the rest having left for France, the US, and Israel.

Sadly, again, I believe the answer is that despite all the talk of being treated well, the reality of the situation was that the Jews were not treated well; otherwise, I'm sure more would have stayed. And Satloff, to his credit, admits this, even going as far to state that without Arab capitulation the Holocaust could never have occurred in North Africa. I just wish he were more objective in the rest of the book.

In any case, the Satloff does a fine job of destroying the perception that the Holocaust only occurred in Europe. Satloff points out, that there were hundreds of Nazi slave labor camps throughout North Africa, too, and had the Nazi's been kicked out any later, it seems very likely that the Jews of Africa would have met the same fate in much larger numbers as those of Europe.

There was also a little section at the end of the book, seemingly unrelated to the other sections, where Satloff tells personal stories illustrating the Arab perception of the Holocaust today, and how their view of it differs from that of the Jews and how understanding this difference is very helpful in better understanding and ameliorating the current Arab-Jewish conflict.

Arabs & Jews: a complex story.......2007-02-13

Robert Satloff follows Germany's genocide plan to wipe out the Jews in North Africa during World War II. As in European countries, some neighbors helped the Nazis and others helped the Jews, either colaborating with the Nazis or risking their own lives helping the Jews of Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. Satloff did intense research and traveled to the locations of the labor camps and communities. He gives the reader a complete picture and a very well written history.

Salvaging "Lost" History.......2007-01-24

Before I go too deeply into this book, two general observations right off the top.

Firstly, considering all that has been written about the Second World War in its magnitude, to have a relatively untouched subject such as this be brought to light at this late date is truly welcome and laudable. Secondly, as I've often noted, an unfortunate side-effect of the coverage justifiably given to the evils of the Holocaust has been a certain infrequently-admitted desensitizing to the horror of the mass murder at its heart, and this new study of that period helps reawaken some comprehension of the utter dimension of cruelty that was behind the atrocities.

This book and its true stories of Arabs as rescuers of persecuted Jews (and sometimes as pro-Fascist collaborators who oppressed the Jews in North African labor camps) is a meaningful read for any scholar, or for the curious-minded. Telling tales of bravery in a time of great danger, there are many feel good moments, foremost Tunisian statesman Mohamed Chenik's clever and brave duel of wits and nerves with the occupying Nazis, courage on his part that saved Jewish lives, but there is also a scattering of disheartening tales, too, showing no culture has a monopoly on indecency.

I think anyone who deems peace between Jews and Arabs to be impossible would do well to consult the history recorded here. Not only is it a fact that traditionally Jews received better treatment when dwelling in Muslim nations than in Christian ones, but many Muslims regarded the slaying of Jews, identified in the Koran as "a People of the Book" to be a direct sin against God. Furthermore, I also think it's a sad fact that so many Muslims who worked to assist their Jewish countrymen later denied their roles, lest they suffer repercussions at the hands of reactionary fanatics intent on waging war on Judaism and those seen as soft on it. Progress may not be a constant in human affairs, but a book like this is fuel for the light of optimism.

Arabs Helping Jews Survive the Holocaust.......2007-01-04

A most interesting book that I'm not quite sure just how to take. The primise is quite simple, 'were there Arabs that assisted the Jews during the Holocaust.' And the answer comes out a resounding yes. In Arab lands, such as those ruled by Vichy there were concentration camps set up. At the same time there were Arabs that helped Jews escape. It seems that the Arabs were pretty much like the other people in similar situations. Some helped the Germans, some helped the Jews, most simply stood by.

What makes it hard to take, is the present situation. If you found an Oskar Schindler or a Raoul Wallenberg among the Arabs that was still alive he wouldn't admit saving a Jew because of fear of his own life.

Still this book is important from the standpoint of understanding more of what was happening during the farther reaches of the Nazi empire during the war and for understanding a bit more about the history of the middle east and how it got into the confusing situation that it finds itself today.

Pow-Wows: Long Lost Friend, a Collection of Mysteries and Invaluable Arts and Remedies

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Pow-Wows: Long Lost Friend, a Collection of Mysteries and Invaluable Arts and Remedies
John George Hohman
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An Instruction Book on spiritual Healing Spells.......2007-05-12

I had previously read parts of this book at the local library and knew I had to add it to my collection. The book is amazing, it contains healing spells, and can also be used as an amulet. Some of the language is a little dated so you'll have to do some homework to find out the modern equivalent to the words and conditions named in the book. I highly recommend anyone interested in spiritual healing purchase this book.

Greatest book ever.......2006-10-25

I was given this book by my great grandmother. She said it was the reprint of the book my great-great-great grandmother had used. My 3*great grandmother had been a wonderful christian healer and swore by this book. I do not used it, but love everything I have read in it.

This is from the writing of Manly Wade Wellman.......2005-12-05

If you haven't read Manly Wade Wellman, then you have missed a wonderful opportunity. It's good writing, and the best of his writing is about Silver John, who wanders the Applachian mountains finding song, and dealing with supernatural evil, often with the help of this book. No, it's not a grimoire, but it does have some wonderful folk wisdom that will make the major drug companies hate you, since you won't be buying their drugs if you use these natural remedies. A wonderful book, and even today, well worth reading.

More than pleased.......2004-11-11

I bought this book with having any prior knowledge of its contents except whay i saw on an old 80's film. I can say how plweased i am. If you are looking for a time tested tride and true book on folk healing then this is certainly the one your looking for. I would deffintly reccomend this one to anyone. Peace,prayers, and good luck.

Uniquely American Magical Beliefs.......2004-01-13

Despite the title, this book has nothing to do with Native American beliefs and traditions. Its actually the folk beliefs of the Pensylvannia Dutch folk doctors, hex-crafters, magicians and healers. A unique blend of Christianity and German folklore, this book was a major influence on American folk magic (from Hoodoo to Appalachian study-witches) for many years, and was mentioned several times in the fictional works of Manly Wade Wellman. Its still practiced in some remote areas. It includes a number of charms, hexes and spells. Amongst these are numerous cures for bleeding, warts, colic, epilepsy, headaches, scurvy, tapeworms and many livestock ailments, as well as charms for a safe journey, catching lots of fish, legal success, protection against bullets, driving away vermin, bringing back lost animals and so forth. More esoteric/mystical things include spells against witchcraft, evil spirits and the like, as well as binding a theif or releasing someone from bindings. Theres also certain lore such as advice for pregnant women, unlucky days and hunting talismans.

This is quite an encyclopedic work, covering just about every element of rural folk magic in the United States. This is quite a wonderful book for anyone interested in magic, mysticism and the occult (especially in a historical, folk or Christian context), and a uniquely American book. Definately worth checking out.

The Atlantis Blueprint: Unlocking the Ancient Mysteries of a Long-Lost Civilization
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Atlantis Blueprint

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The Atlantis Blueprint: Unlocking the Ancient Mysteries of a Long-Lost Civilization
Colin Wilson , Rand Flem-Ath , and Rand Flem-Ath
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CAN ARCHAEOLOGY’S GREATEST MYSTERIES
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The Great Pyramid. Stonehenge. Machu Picchu. For centuries, these and other sacred sites have attracted pilgrims, scholars, and adventurers drawn by the possibility that their true spiritual and technological secrets remain hidden. Who could have built these elaborate monuments? How did they do it? And what were their incomprehensible efforts and sacrifices designed to accomplish?

Now comes a revolutionary theory that connects these mysteries to reveal a hidden global pattern--the ancient work of an advanced civilization whose warnings of planetary cataclysm now reverberate across one hundred millennia. Here is startling evidence of an intelligent society dating back as much as 100,000 years--one that sailed the oceans of the world, building monuments to preserve and communicate its remarkable wisdom.

The Atlantis Blueprint is the authors’ term for a complex network of connections between these sacred sites that trace back to Atlantis: a sophisticated maritime society that charted the globe from its home base in Antarctica...until it was obliterated by devastating global changes it anticipated but could not escape. Opening up a Pandora’s box of ancient mysteries, lost worlds, and millennial riddles, The Atlantis Blueprint is a story as controversial, fascinating, dangerous--and inspiring--as any ever told.

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My best book on Ancient Mysteries.......2007-03-22

I can honestly say that I found this book gripping. The authors researched everything excellently and the way it was set out was perfect. It was wonderful how they managed to sort out all the many bits of research by hundreds of other authors and single out the most important relevant to Atlantis. I shall be reading this book again and again and plan to buy several of the other books mentioned in this one. Bravo to the authors!

Atlantis Blueprint.......2007-01-11

I find it very interresting, even though I must disagree with the author's idea of the exact location for Atlantis Continant. I also find it very interresting concerning the shift of the North Pole Magnetic field, and I believe that we are seeing the same result today of another shift instead of what many wants us to believe concerning the Globle Warming. I can see now why the North America continant was under Ice in the Ice age at one time, who knows where the next Ice age will appear? I guess that is my two cent opinion. Well, I am fifty Nine years old so I guess I can truthfully say I am over the age 13.

quite good, thought provoking, but incomplete.......2006-11-05

There is just far too much evidence (physical, theoretical, mathmatical and much of it plainly scientific by any standards) that very advanced cultures have existed in our distant past. And, although they probably did not have plastic cell phones stapled to their ears, drive SUVs with 21 inch mags, or felt the need to consume copious bowls of carmel machiatos, this does not mean that they did not achieve a certain mastery over communication, travel, nutrition, health, astronomy, and science in general. They were every bit as sophisticated as we think we might be. They were clearly on this planet, they widely travelled this planet, and they built many mega projects (or inspired other later peoples to do so) before they died off (or left the planet, or were genocided, or quickly assimilated with other more primitive cultures for some reason). This much has to be viewed as fact, although any mainstream historian, geologist, archaeologist, and / or anthropolgist is much too busy singing for their collective suppers to ever be honest with themselves or the rest of us. So, sadly, ironically, and even paradoxically, current mainstream academics only hinder humanity's quest for the truth about our origins, and for this reason, they are better left out of the discussion and their cries of psuedo-science and blasphomy ignored, at least for now, which is what makes this kind of book and others so important to read and ponder.

Having said that, the Atlantis story is complicated and many previous authors lack, in my opinion, a wide enough perspective to really tie it all together. That is my primary critique of this book. Cleary Antartica is a very important piece to the mystery as it was in a much different local in the not too distant past, but there are many other sites (the Bermuda Triangle area especially Bimini Island, and the Azores region, for examples) that deserve at least as much attention due to various discovered artifacts and phenomina. So, just where was Atlantis? What was it exactly (city, region, country, continent, religion, movement)? Which land masses sunk, arose, shifted, and at what times? What roles did interstellar comets, asteroids, or our obviously artificial moon play? These are questions that must be addressed within a more complete thesis in order to be more fruitful and to really explain the Atlantis saga satisfactorily. This book falls a little short by these criteria.

A Good Addition To The Atlantis Myth Cannon.......2005-08-25

If you're interested in Atlantis, lost civilizations, etc., then this book is definitely worth a read. I found the most interesting pieces to be the evidence of Antarctica as a potential site for Atlantis, complete with comparisons to ancient maps, the concept of the North Pole having moved twice before from the Yukon and Hudson Bay, and the subsequent mapping of ancient sites. No doubt the authors have uncovered some very interesting correlations here on locations of ancient sacred sites and their relationships to each other. These issues are something that "mainstream" science should definitely be addressing, but of course will refuse to and call this book "pseudo-science". Of course that's just any subject the mainstreamers don't want to address. Much of the rest of the book gets bogged down in details, and Wilson's third-person approach to writing about Flem-Ath is annoying and over done. Still and all, a good read with many interesting proposals put forth.

o.0 Interesting, but..........2005-06-14

I found the book interesting in its mentionings of Dr. Hapgood and Werner. The historical aspects of this novel are interesting, although not as much so.

There are gaps in their arguements, but wouldn't dismiss everything they have to say. I find the theory of an ancient civilization on Antarctica to be intriguing. There isn't a lot of proof to say otherwise either. Even if there isn't a civiliztion under the miles of ice over Antarctica, I strongly feel there are potentials for another (several other) species (or the ilk) and believe it would be an interesting place to search.

Otherwise, a number of arguments I do find somewhat stretched (albiet interesting).

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Long Lost
David Morrell
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Brad Denning is a successful architect living a perfect life in Denver with his loving wife and son. Or so it would be, if not for the haunting memory of his brother Petey who disappeared while under Brad's supervision when they were kids. Now, a man claiming to be his sibling has mysteriously appeared and Brad is eager to take him in, despite the man's haggard appearance and reluctance to reveal anything about his past. "Petey" is a welcome addition to the family, until a camping trip goes terribly wrong and Brad returns home to find that his devoted wife and son have been abducted. Certain that Petey-or whoever he may be- is responsible for the horrible crime, Brad sets out to recover his family. Travelling alone through America's heartland, it's a race against time as Brad struggles to get to his family before the terrible secret of what really happened long ago destroys everything he cares about.

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Fast Paced.......2006-07-16

I agree with many other reviews that this is not Morrell's best work. However, it's definitely a page turner. It kept me up well into the morning for two days. It's a simple story but sometimes that's okay.

What is wrong with David Morrell?.......2006-04-03

When David Morrell started writing, his books were kind of thin and not really thrilling. Then he seemed to have taken a break and started a new writing style with great (and longer) books like "the fifth profession", "the covenant of the flame", "assumed identity" or "extreme denial". All of them kept me glued to my seat for hours since they were complex thrillers with great stories and brilliant characters.

Since then Morrell seemed to have changed his writing style again and his recent books like "double image" and "burnt sienna" remind me of his earlier books. They are not that thrilling anymore, the characters lack depth and the plot is rather simple again and not as complex as before.

Unfortunately "long lost" falls in the latter category. Even if the basic story of a man facing his worst nightmare of losing his child and wife to a "stranger" and then starts a hunt on his own is pretty good, Morrell misses the chance to write a more complex story with better-developed characters. Therefore this book is disappointing again. Especially if measured against his brilliant books mentioned before.

I almost start to wonder if the mentioned books are really from the same author...

I "read" it as a book on tape and I was very impressed.......2006-03-24

This is one of the best books on tape that I have ever heard. Neil Patrick Harris (AKA Doogie Howser) does an absolutely wonderful job of conveying the emotions of Brad Denning, the main character. Harris makes you feel the loss of Denning, the joy of re-discovering his long-lost brother, the horror of having his family kidnapped...Well done!

The plot of the book is detailed elsewhere but I can tell you that this was an absolute joy and a thrill to listen to. If you are looking for something to do during a boring commute, this is the book you are looking for. I couldn't wait to hear more.

I give this one an A+. Kudos all around!

Great read.......2005-11-02

For 25 years Brad Denning has been haunted by the memory of his scrawny nine-year-old brother Petey peddling away from the ballpark on his bike. "Bug off," he had yelled at Petey, "go home." But Petey never made it home Petey disappeared. All the police ever found of him was his bike and his baseball mitt. Now, so many years and so much pain later, a man shows up in Brad's life claiming to be Petey. This man has to be Petey. He knows things only Petey could know. Brad takes the man into his life and the haunted memories stop. But one day, Petey disappears again, and this time he takes with him Brad's wife and son, but again, leaves behind his baseball mitt. Weeks and months go by, their search at a dead end the only thing the police and the FBI can tell Brad is that the man was not Petey, there is nothing more they can do. But this time Brad isn't thirteen, this time he has resources he didn't have before and this time the only one Brad can count on to find his family - is Petey. Brad has to find his brother, he has to think like Petey, he has to travel the roads Petey traveled because finding Petey is the only way the nightmare will end

Excellent.......2005-08-10

Again, I repeat----Why David Morrell is not a more recognizable name in this world, is beyond me. This is the man who wrote Rambo!! Morrell was there way before Lehane, Cohen and all these other popular mystery writers. If you want an original story, go back through the years and pick up ANY of Morrells books!!!

This was different from his other books, but it was still amazing.

Mystery of the Long Lost 8th 9th and 10th Books of Moses: Together With the Legend That Was of Moses and 44 Keys to Universal Power

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Mystery of the Long Lost 8th 9th and 10th Books of Moses: Together With the Legend That Was of Moses and 44 Keys to Universal Power
Henri Gamache
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ASIN: 0942272056

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Providw a concise bioraphy of Moses, Man and Magician. Plus a discussion of the lost books and their magical secrets. More than 200,000 in print.

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Excellent.......2006-11-11

This is an excellent resource for rootworkers. The author compiled a lot of great information on Moses including history, drawings, and references to biblical sources. There are seals and spells for many purposes and a wonderful chapter called "The Great Voodoo Man of the Bible". I highly reccomend this book.

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This Book Belongs in Your Library
A rollicking, involving time travel story emerges with delightful twists and turns of plot.
Such an adventure to find a map!
Puzzles left by the strange Ulysses Moore may help in this fine audio mystery
senior reader

Long-lost Map (Ulysses Moore Book)
Ulysses Moore
Manufacturer: Scholastic Inc.
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ASIN: 043977439X

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Jason, Julia, and Rick have discovered one of the secrets of Argo Manor -- the Door to Time. Now the door has transported them to Ancient Egypt, a mysterious land of labyrinths, riddles, and secrets. But when they are accidentally separated, Julia ends up at Argo Manor again -- and she can't get back to Egypt, or the boys. Now Jason and Rick have to find the long-lost map of Kilmore Cove, hidden somewhere in the past. But where? And with the wicked Oblivia Newton and her servant, Manfred, on their trail, the stakes are higher than ever. . . .

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This Book Belongs in Your Library.......2007-03-06

The book: Ulysses Moore: The Lost Map was an excellent read and belongs on your book case. Its educational, exciting, and all about Egypt!
The story takes place in the land of punt: a forgotten Egyptian city lost in time. Ulysses Moore (the man who found this land before the children) is dead now and its up to recover the map of Kilmore Cove. It all starts when the kids walk into the chest and make a mess. Julia, and Rick are twins, and Jason is a young boy with a "devil tongue".

When they walk threw the door they find them selves in a humongous storage room. They hear tapping and all of the sudden the walls start crashing down and the boys are trapped in Punt, with there sister outside of the door! In the book before the children are trying to find a map and discover the secrets left behind by Ulysses. That book continued into this book. Now that the boys are in Punt they meet a young girl named Maruk. She will be there guide threw the Land of Punt. With only Mr. Moore's journal, they will find the map and hopefully return home safely.

I loved this book. If you like adventure, comedy, and even action this book is for you. The best thing about this book is that the author knows how to make the characters sound realistic and alive. Especially in the beginning they give us an "e-mail" from Michael Merryweather explaining that he found the second manuscript to the Ulysses Moore mystery. I find this amusing even though it isn't real, it makes you feel as if your becoming a detective yourself; solving the mystery, and watching as the children make there way through the Land of Punt.

I did not like this book because at the very end they continued to a different book. Honestly I would like to know the end of the story and if the bad guy gets away with it right now! I don't want to go out and buy the book and them read the whole thing just to see what happened!!!

I would recommend this book to anyone who is an aspiring Egyptologist, like me. I also would recommend this book to children over 10, because it has something that you might have to figure out in your head, or really think about it.

A rollicking, involving time travel story emerges with delightful twists and turns of plot........2006-12-10

Ulysses Moore: The Long-Lost Map by Pierdemonico Baccalario tells of three kids who journey back in time into ancient Egypt - but an accident returns Julie to home, with the boys trapped in the past. They must find a long-lost map hidden somewhere in Egypt to return - and in the process, solve more puzzles left by one Ulysses Moore. A rollicking, involving time travel story emerges with delightful twists and turns of plot.

Such an adventure to find a map!.......2006-12-10

A wonderful book with lots of excitement and great adventure. Twins, Jason and Julia and their friend Rick go on an adventure through time to Ancient Egypt to find the long lost map of Kilmore Cove.In this course, they go through many adventures using the clues left behind by Ulysses Moore.
I really enjoyed this book and could never put it down!I definetely recommend this book to other children because I know they'll love it! This book even has a strong sense of humor in it!

Mira,Chicago

Puzzles left by the strange Ulysses Moore may help in this fine audio mystery.......2006-09-15

Michael Page's reading brings to life the story of Jason, Julia and Rick, time travelers to ancient Egypt who are trapped in the past, unless they can locate the long-lost map of Kilmore Cove hidden somewhere in Egypt. Puzzles left by the strange Ulysses Moore may help in this fine audio mystery.

senior reader.......2006-08-15

my book came in the mail and i got my glass of water and munchies and sat down to read. wonderful fun and adventure. i intend to purchase all the future books to pass to my niece. it has the same mystery writing as the first with lots of twists and turns. wonderful escape telling in tunnels and the villian is nasty as she should be. i give it a 5 for there is no naughty words or parts any child couldn't read. good great fun and adventure with thrills and wonders through out the book. hope all the future books are as fun as these first two. enjoy.

My Boyfriend's Back: True Stories Of Rediscovering Love With Long-Lost Sweethearts

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My Boyfriend's NOT Back
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My Boyfriend's Back: True Stories Of Rediscovering Love With Long-Lost Sweethearts
Donna Hanover
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ASIN: 1593160488

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The former First Lady of New York writes of her reunion and subsequent marriage to her high school sweetheart, more than thirty years after their breakup, and chronicles dozens of similar reunions among couples nationwide in what experts call a twenty-first-century relationship trend.

Poignant and heartwarming, My Boyfriend's Back captures the love story of former high school sweethearts Ed Oster and Donna Hanover-journalist, actress, and First Lady of the City of New York from 1994 to 2001-who, more than thirty years after their breakup at Stanford, reconnected, rekindled their love, and married, becoming part of what experts are calling a "twenty-first-century trend" in relationships. Exploring the myriad ways rekindled love is different from new love and why so many couples are reuniting now, Hanover also details the role of the Internet in this trend, and offers some recommendations-and some warnings-for aspiring "reunitees."

Accompanied by a wide array of other couples' stories from across the country-including celebrities Carol Channing, Suzanne Pleshette and Tom Poston, Nicole Miller, Liza Huber, and others-who have also rediscovered their early loves later in life and are building committed lives together, this book combines expert advice and inspiring anecdotes to help readers reconnect with past loves. Whether it's Googling an ex-boyfriend or attending a class reunion, My Boyfriend's Back encourages readers to find out whatever happened to the ex they can't forget; it is the book single, widowed, and divorced romantics everywhere have been waiting for.

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My Boyfriend's NOT Back.......2007-05-21

I looked for a lost love for years and never found him until it was too late. He'd been murdered 1-1/2 years earlier by his then-current girlfriend.

My loss sparked an interest in reading about lost and reconnected loves. This book is recommended by several psychologists who specialize in this particular field.

The recommendation is a good one. The stories are mostly, but not all, happy endings. The age ranges of the reunited couples range from 20s thru 70s. It includes regular folk and some celebrities, like Suzanne Pleshette, the late Tom Poston, and Carol Channing, who reunited with someone from grammar school.

Donna Hanover intersperses her own story of reconnection with the chapters of the book, which are broken down by particular topics of interest. The book was well organized and well written. I enjoyed every page of it. The photos are superfluous, but are, of course, easy to skip.

If you need more material on the subject of lost and found loves, Nancy Kalish, a psychologist has written several books on the subject.

fun.......2007-01-12

got it for my mother in law(she is currently dating her highschool sweetheart). She loves it, and she actually passes it on to her boyfriend to let him read it. I read a few chapters myself, and really emjoyed it.

My sister is the ex-wife.......2006-12-13

I want to know why my sister can't talk about her divorce from Ed Oster that had to take place before this marriage and book could be written. A divorce with a gag order ?

Touching and romantic tale of love rediscovered.......2006-02-09

Do you ever wonder what became of your very first boyfriend or
girlfriend? If so, join the crowd . . . then get hold of MY BOYFRIEND'S
BACK by Donna Hanover.

I listened to this book--also read by the author--on CD and found
it to be both touching and romantic . . . Hanover, the former First
Lady of the City of New York, talks about how she reunited
with her former high school sweetheart more than thirty years
after their breakup.

She talks about how they reconnected, rekindled their love
and married . . . in doing so, she gives helpful advice for those
who might actually want to do the same thing.

Hanover also presents other couples' stories from across
the country, including such celebrities as Carol Channing,
Suzanne Pleashette and Tom Poston, and Nicole Miller . . . it
was interesting to find out that this is actually becoming
a twenty-first century trend in relationships, and that
couples ranging from their twenties to eighties are
engaging in it.

If you're looking for a change of pace, do read MY BOYFRIEND'S
BACK . . . and it will put a smile on your face, as you'll really
feel good for all the relationships that somehow managed to
get together again.

Don't compete with partners who grew up together.......2006-01-27

These real-life stories provide some proof that there is something to said about why our first real loves never leave us. It's terribly romantic but it's the kind of ending that might make current partners real nervous should their partner go to his/her High School reunion. This is especially true if they are still carrying a torch and still always wonder about the other person years after they said good-bye.

No wonder people often worry about their partner's former paramour.... so consider this ... Everyone is going to be different than you, not better or worse. People are at different points in their life when they meet with different people. When you feel that you are being treated as 2nd best, pull back. You are the best thing in someone's life, what they have always wanted and been waiting for. The rest is their stuff and not worthy of you.

If you fear being replaced by a return of a prodigal soul mate ...leave before you are left! If he or she is stuck on their ex ... don't be time filler. And in the meantime ... do everything you can to be clear of your past romances too. Being incomplete with the past is unfair to yourself and another person.

Archyology : The Long Lost Tales of Archy and Mehitabel

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Archyology the long lost tales of archy and mehitable
Nearly Lost Art
archy and mehitabel are as unique as hamlet!

Archyology : The Long Lost Tales of Archy and Mehitabel
don marquis
Manufacturer: University Press of New England
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"Archy and his racy pal Mehitabel are timeless," noted E.B. White in his essay on Don Marquis and his famous creations. The undimmed enthusiasm of several generations of fans (including yrs. truly) -- who every year buy thousands of copies of Marquis' earlier collections -- testifies to their appeal. A whimsical and sophisticated sage, archy the cockroach entertains readers with iconclastic observations on pretensions, politics, and our place in the cosmos. This collection of long-lost pages from archy's writings is funny yet profound.

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"Archy and his racy pal Mehitabel are timeless," noted E. B. White in his essay on Don Marquis and his famous creations, and the undimmed enthusiasm of several generations of fans -- who every year buy thousands of copies of Marquis' earlier collections -- testifies to their appeal. A whimsical and sophisticated sage, archy the cockroach entertained readers with iconoclastic observations on pretensions, politics, and our place in the cosmos during Marquis' career as a New York newspaper columnist in the 1920s and 30s.

Allegedly tapping out stories at night by leaping from key to key on Marquis' typewriter, archy couldn't quite manage the shift key for capital letters. Although his tales appeared in lower case, his views achieved a level grand enough to solidify Marquis' reputation as an American humorist in the tradition of Mark Twain, Joel Chandler Harris, and Ring Lardner. archyology brings together selected "lost" tales that were literally rescued from oblivion by Jeff Adams, who found them among papers stored in a steamer trunk since Marquis' death.

And so archy emerges from his long silence. Whether reporting on characters like emmet the ghost, sailing to Paris to visit the insects of Europe, being trapped for days in a New York subway train, or hanging out in a Long Island orchard enjoying fermented cherries, archy is always both provocative and inimitable. With illustrations by Ed Frascino, a New Yorker regular, this collection reintroduces a delightful cast of characters who reconfirm archy's view of the world: "the only way to live with it is to laugh at it."

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Archyology the long lost tales of archy and mehitable.......2005-08-06

These are some of the most wonderful humorous writings ever. I first encountered them back in the '40s (1940 that is). Even copied them on an old manual typewriter (like Archy used). Have had the copies for over fifty years. It's great to get them in a book (my pages had become yellowed and crinkley). I hope to get the other books to go with these. For fun and entertainment and a good chuckle, you can't go wrong with "archy and mehitalbe"

Nearly Lost Art.......2004-03-20

Of course there's a value in teaching Emily Dickinson to our children. And no one would debate that every college student should immerse themselves in the likes of T.S., Joyce and Williams. But why are teachers missing out on such a classic collection of incredible poesy? wotthehell? Give it a read and see if you don't immediately take a copy to your next PTA meeting.

archy and mehitabel are as unique as hamlet!.......1998-07-18

picture two characters who inhabit the newsroom of a daily newspaper only in the night hours in the 1920s and 30s. a cat who believes and acts as if she s the reincarnation of cleopatra and a cockroach who writes his boss - that s in quotes - who s a reporter on the paper. but writing comes so hard that it is, well n-o-t what is written in the - booklist - review in amazon s internet review. i quote from the review - the cockroach, archy, couldn t hold down shift and hit another key. - wronggggg.,.,., i quote from don marquis s description - he did not see us, and we watched him. he would climb painfully upon the framework of the machine and cast himself with all his force upon a key, head downward, and his weight and the impact of the blow were just sufficient to operate the machine, one slow letter after another. he could not operate the capital letters... - can t you just cry with pain as you picture archy, or rathe! ! r, don marquis, writing his material, any and all material , for us. and suggesting that many writers must suffer as did archy to give us their thoughts, their beliefs, their observations, their opinions, their joys, their sufferings.... b-u-y- t-h-e b-o-o-k .,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,., - imagine caps, or parentheses - i can't do it, you see....

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