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r s1ur emotions stop us being rational? For thousands of years, emotions have been thought of as obstacles to intelligent thought. This view has been challenged in recent years by both philosophers and scientists. In this groundbreaking book, the first of its kind, leading thinkers from philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience challenge this commonly held view of emotion in a series of fascinating and challenging essays.
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Darwin Retried: an Appeal to Reason
Norman Macbeth
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Fair, detailed, carefully reasoned critique of Darwinian theory.
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A Fair Assessment.......2007-07-01
It is many years since I read Darwin Retried, but I remember it as a thoughtful and careful book. MacBeth isn't trying to score big points, he is simply evaluating the Neo-Darwinian theories and pointing out some weak spots.
The main critique I've seen of the book (in other places) is that the author has no alternative explanation for the evolution of life. This is an odd attitude. You can't say that someone is wrong unless you have another explanation for the phenomena at hand? Why ever not?
I'd recommend the book because it is not strident, it is not part of any religious or political movement and it discusses some interesting problems with the "synthesis." On the other hand...it is pretty old...so some of the material is way out of date.
justice.......2003-06-08
I haven't read this book. I was reading the reviews to decide whether or not I should read it and saw that the previous reviewer decided to review it twice (giving it a single star twice) and decided in the interest of fairness to nullify that by adding a 5 star. I decided to check out this book because it was referenced by Jacques Barzun in his Dawn to Decadence history. And any book that generates the hostility witnessed in the previous review must be pretty good.
One of the worst putatively academic books ever written.......2001-09-28
"Darwin Retried" amounts to little more than Mr. Macbeth's committing the fallacy of taking a failure of imagination as an insight into necessity time and time and time ... again. One's belief that something is impossible does not make that thing impossible. Mr. MacBeth does not make a serious effort to understand the neoDarwinian position or is of such limited intellectual ability he simply cannot understand it.
The author is a Harvard trained lawyer. (This book is definitely not a ringing endorsement of HLS.) However, he does not apparently understand the difference between making an argument qua lawyer and making one qua academic. In court, one can appeal to the authority of an expert or experts in order to advance one's point. Such is the pragmatic nature of court precedings. In academia appealing to authority is unacceptable. One must say why those authorities to whom one's appealing are right; reasons must be provided, since X's saying 'Y is true' is independent of the truth of Y.
I find that someone decided to publish this book very troublesome. Mr. MacBeth's gossamers of arguments, clumsily expressed half-truths, misunderstandings, and muddleheadedness do not lead us to doubt the pith of neo-Darwinists' claims anymore than a lunatic's eschatological ramblings lead us to prepare for an apocalypse.
I'm sorry that this was ever published, and if you read this, you will be too. All theories should be carefully assessed and challenge. However any assessment and challenge simply won't do. Mr. Macbeth's work is one that simply won't do.
A lawyer's verdict: Darwinism guilty of many logical errors.......2000-06-30
I first read this book in 1980, and was quite impressed with its critique of Darwinism as a logical construct. Macbeth took up the study of Darwinist argumentation as a avocation. He does not appeal to any religious authority to contradict Darwinism, nor does he reject the idea of evolution in toto. Rather, he finds the evidence and arguments for Darwinism to be deeply flawed. Questions are begged, evidence is fudged, and extrapolations are unwarranted.
The first edition of this book (1971) came well over a decade before Michael Denton's pivotal critique, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1986), and well before the theistic Intelligent Design Movement, spearheaded by Phillip E. Johson's book, Darwin on Trial (1991; revised edition, 1993). (Johnson is also a laywer, and a professor of law at UC-Berkeley.) MacBeth has also published a small booklet of interviews on the topic called, Darwinism: A Time for Funerals (1985). This is a thoughtful and fair critique well worth reading. Let me end with a quote from the author: "Any profession [he has biology in mind] that does not supply its own criticism and iconoclasm will discover that someone else will do the job, and usually in a way it does not like."
Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Philosophy Denver Seminary
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Evolutionary Tales : Rhyme and Reason on Creation/Evolution
Ronald L. Ecker
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Ten fictional experts swap commentaries, in rhymed iambic pentameter verse, on evolutionary theory and the fallacies of "creation science."
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Excellant even if not perfect!.......2007-07-27
I was told by his widow that Mr. Sippert is now dead and I read this book under a different title a number of years ago: Eternity To Eternity: Evolution is Not a Science.
Even if this book does not answer ALL questions and arguments it still offers a great deal of valid answers to the evilutionist and is very worth the contemplation. However, any reader who begins prejudiced against the Bible or Christianity in general will probably not like this book. Mr. Sippert offers valid reasons for the Ice Age, the extinction of the dinosaurs, discusses the unreliability of carbon dating, how evolution violates all the major laws of REAL science and how it has affected society in a negative way. I highly recommend it for students and teenagers...and anyone else. But do not expect a mere man to have ALL the answers to explain GOD and His creation. That is what faith is for. This book is a springboard.
Tripe .......2005-10-07
This book is an absolute sham in that it tries to claim that evolution is unscientific while also trying to deny several other sciences (astronomy, geology, etc.), and then tries to validate the Bible as SCIENTIFIC. For someone with such obvious distate for scientific thought, it is both dangerous and idiotic to attempt to justify ANYTHING as a science. This man actually claims that he knows more about geological processes than educated geologists in the field (these people spent around ten years at least in studying nothing but geology). Mr. Sippert claims that millions of years would cause everything to turn into dust, denying that fossils or rocks that house them are formed at all. He then tries to use his 32 "scientific" reasons to demonstrate that evolution is not scientific. One of these reasons (and I'm not kidding here) is that evolution denies the Biblical flood. This book is hardly even worth the effort to write this piece. If you are a reasonable person, do yourself a favor: keep as far away as possible.
Dismay.......2005-04-25
I gave Mr. Sippert the benefit of the doubt. I first found this book when I met my wife. It was sitting by itself on our bookshelf as we were unable to categorize it as either science or religion. Mr. Sippert is a member of the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Mankato, Minnesota. This book has been distributed widely throughout the Church of the Lutheran Confession. As a member of this synod, I am glad the synod chose not to back the book with funding. Much of the science presented in the book is very poor as are some of the arguments, and some information is outright false. There are far better arguments for God's Word, and man should not attempt to compare the ways of God to the ways of man by demoting creation to the unmiraculous level of science. For by comparing creation to a science, one must denigrate that which is from the All-knowledgeable to the status of the revealed. It lessens the miracle favoring instead the hubris of mankind's finite wisdom in a vain attempt at unlocking it not for the goal of advancing the Gospel.
Horrible!!.......1999-10-09
This author obviously had no idea what he was writing about. The book doesn't even get the scientific notation for the anti-evolution "evidence" right. It is a vapid and poorly constructed series of disconnected essays with no science to back up various speculations. Mr. Sippert indulges in a diatrabe against evolution and science in general. This book is a waste of time and money. I cannot for the life of me figure out why the author thinks anyone would be interested in this rediculous novel.
For anyone who even thinks alittle, then avoid this book........1999-05-05
At first I thought this might be an interesting book, but when I started reading it through me for a loop. In one section it says that black holes are contradictory to creation because "supposedly" evolutionist think that the big bang came from a black hole. Then it goes on to say that we have no scientific proof that black holes exist. Well I don't know where the author has been the last decade. But we have chartened many black holes. Not only do they exist we can tell they exist because they give off gamma radiation and X-rays and cosmic rays that we can detect. Another thing I noticed in this book is at the beginning when he has reader's comments. One reader says " The book categorically devastates with truly scientific facts. Tell me now, isn't creation and God, and miracles all about belief and not science. Have we every been able to scientifically prove that God exists or that he created the universe is six days? No, its all about belief. So how can a book that slams science, slam them with supposedly scientific fact? There are many good creation books out there but this one seems to twists all the facts around and try to say stuff that has no validation.
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The formal systems of logic have ordinarily been regarded as independent of biology, but recent developments in evolutionary theory suggest that biology and logic may be intimately interrelated. In this book, William S. Cooper outlines a theory of rationality in which logical law emerges as an intrinsic aspect of evolutionary biology. He examines the connections between logic and evolutionary biology and illustrates how logical rules are derived directly from evolutionary principles, and therefore, have no independent status of their own. This biological perspective on logic, though at present unorthodox, could change traditional ideas about the reasoning process.
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The formal systems of logic have ordinarily been regarded as independent of biology, but recent developments in evolutionary theory suggest that biology and logic may be intimately interrelated. In this book, William Cooper outlines a theory of rationality in which logical law emerges as an intrinsic aspect of evolutionary biology. This biological perspective on logic, though at present unorthodox, could change traditional ideas about the reasoning process. Cooper examines the connections between logic and evolutionary biology and illustrates how logical rules are derived directly from evolutionary principles, and therefore have no independent status of their own. Laws of decision theory, utility theory, induction, and deduction are reinterpreted as natural consequences of evolutionary processes. Cooper's connection of logical law to evolutionary theory ultimately results in a unified foundation for an evolutionary science of reason. It will be of interest to professionals and students of philosophy of science, logic, evolutionary theory, and cognitive science.
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Of Very Little Use.......2003-06-26
In _The Evolution of Reason_, William S. Cooper shows that, using a simple decision theoretical model of evolution and another of the environment you can find the seeds of classical analytical thought. He does this by "reduction," showing that "evolution" requires decision theory, which in turn requires probability theory, and so on down to basic propositional logic. Although this is precisely the opposite of what is usually meant by reduction in mathematics, Cooper is trying to give a "scientific" or empirical underpinning to the rules of rational thought rather than to begin with a priori assumptions about truth, such as the law of the excluded middle, or the most elegant -- that is to say, smallest -- batch of primitive assumptions. It should be clear that every step except the first is valid.
This is only half of the book, however. In later chapters, he examines complications to his model to see how they affect his derivation, and upon this basis makes some suggestions about how logic as a discipline should be practiced. Although a simplification, I think it is fair to say that he would like further reasoning about logic to be descriptive, to show how we should think in light of biology instead of some
The major annoyances from this book come are in its tone: the author constantly compares himself with Copernicus, Newton, and Einstein and calls his thesis "scientific," even though it is based in no way upon empirical data, or even "evolutionary theory," as he claims. Like many theorists with radical conjectures, he chides (unnamed) people for trying to think of situations in the world that could actually test the hypothesis, and the empirical arguments he does refute are obviously straw men.
The least satisfactory part of the book is the identification of an ill-defined concept of fitness (which the author himself says he doubts) with subjective utilities. In particular, he postulates intelligence to be evolution by other means by imposing on human judgment that the limit of subjective probability assessment be objective probabilities and the limit of utility (happiness) assessment be evolutionary fitness (more or less, fertility rates).
Were this book less expensive, I would think about using it in a freshman or sophomore-level logic class in conjunction with Flew's _Thinking About Thinking_. Its earlier sections are a good introduction to the connections between differently levels of mathematics, its various discussions of plausible inference and subjective probability are accessible, and its later interpretations show logic to be alive in a way that could encourage students.
Usually, I wouldn't recommend it to the general reader, however I think that because of currently fashionable academic trends, it is likely that Cooper's theory or one very much like it will become very popular in the coming decades, and it might behoove an interested party to be familiar with it beforehand.
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Creation and Evolution pamphlets (10-Pack).......2001-11-18
This is a 10-pack of the popular "Creation and Evolution" pamphlet. Pastors and teachers will enjoy the clear layout showing various sciences (biochemistry, astrophysics, genetics, etc.) and how evolution fails to explain what is seen in nature. Contains quotes from respected scientists worldwide who express doubt about the "Darwinian evolution" that is taught as fact in schools today. For example, evolutionary theory says we ought to be able to expect human life to form from amino acids if given enough time, say 5 billion years. But modern mathematicians say this is highly unlikely, even given 100 billion years, far longer than evolutionist believe the Earth has been in existence.
Full-color photographs throughout this beautiful and useful chart. Size: 5.5" x 8.5" and unfolds 12 panels to 33" long.
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Volume 2 deals at some length with CP-violation, but is mainly devoted to QCD and its application to "hard" processes. The authors briefly cover "soft" hadronic physics, also. This work will provide a comprehensive reference and textbook for all postgraduate students and researchers interested in modern particle physics.
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A clear and well thought out treatment.......1998-09-16
Leader and Predazzi have written an exsellent text for graduate students. They cover the wide range of topics in great clarity. Especially in the chapter about renormalization they succeed in presenting the core in detail without technical obfuscation.
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A Certain Justice (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries)
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Although A Certain Justice begins with news of a murder, the victim isn't set to die for another four weeks. Publicly respected but privately loathed, Venetia Aldridge has far more enemies than a brilliant London criminal lawyer should--and at least one of them is determined to do her in. Venetia plies her superior trade in courts that harbor "the illusion that the passions of men were susceptible to order and control," but her past and private life are exceedingly unruly. Her married lover is intent on giving her up; her daughter loathes her; her fellow barristers are determined that she not become the next head of chambers. Even the cleaning women seems to have something on her.
The outline alone of this complex novel would take pages (as would the eclectic inventory of players), but P. D. James makes us admire far more than her brilliantly developed plot. James in fact creates a crowded gallery of surprisingly decent suspects, along with one suitably vile creature--who happens to be Aldridge's last client.
A superior murder mystery, A Certain Justice is also a gripping anatomy of wild justice. James's characters can be overcome by hate, but she is equally concerned with love's manifestations--human, divine, destructive, and healing.
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When distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge defends a young man for the brutal murder of his mother, she views the case as simply another opportunity to demonstrate her brilliance in the courtroom. But within weeks of the trial Aldridge is found dead at her desk, a bloodstained barrister’s wig on her head. And as Commander Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard attempts to make sense of events, the murders continue, inexorably spiraling into fresh complexities of horror.
“Shocking . . . fascinating . . . A Certain Justice sucks the reader in right from the dramatic first line.”
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“This is a P. D. James case to shiver through and revel in–dark page by dark page.”
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“Enthralling . . . [P. D. James’s] stories always captivate.”
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“Gripping.”
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“A compelling tale of pride, deceit, and revenge.”
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Superb British mystery.......2007-10-07
P.D. James is an author of immense skill. Her mysteries plumb the depths of the human soul and illustrate perfectly the fine line that separates the civilized world from the uncivilized.
A Certain Justice weaves together several complex and compelling storylines. There is a gradual buildup which begins with the commission of a crime and culminates in the unraveling of all the disparate threads that brought said crime to fruition. The characters are complex and believable and though the mystery unfolds slowly, it is never boring. Each character has a compelling story and James does a masterful job of showing how the choices that one makes in life can either lead to a continuation of the abuses of the past or a triumph over them, with Ashe and Kate serving as perfect foils.
Characters are James's strength. Dalgliesh remains rather elusive but the lives and experiences of those who serve under him and those whom he seeks to bring to justice are richly and vividly drawn. James's characters are entirely human and believable and seem as if they could walk off of the page and out into the real world. In short, she is one of the finest mystery writers out there and her novels are always richly rewarding literary works.
"You can't help people that are born evil.".......2007-01-03
P.D. James is an amazing author. I really enjoyed A Certain Justice. The book was lengthy, yet very readable. The cast of characters and their dirty little secrets are brought to life in evocative fashion. James clearly has an immense understanding of the criminal justice system, which certainly was gained from her time as a magistrate and while working for the British Civil Service.
I notice that several reviews speak of a "weak" ending. I disagree. The ending is not only plausible, but possible.
It is always a treat, when reading one of Ms. James's novels, waiting for the first appearance of Adam Dalgliesh. Amazingly, the story proceeds and is very intriguing before he and his murder team generally enter the fray. Yet, one he arrives, the book then becomes very difficult to put down.
It should be noted that Ms. James introduces us to one of her most indsidious and evil characters to date.
A strong 5 star read.
An Author Who Respects Her Readers.......2006-11-28
Why is it rare these days to encounter a mystery that hasn't been obviously dumbed down for a general readership? Perhaps the British market is more demanding and, yes, I obviously need to read more of Ms. James--yet I can't help but be impressed by an author that has command of her subject sufficient to write a conclusion that is all too familiar to anyone who has practiced law. To say more risks a spoiler warning but suffice it to say that the law does not have as good a track record as that of most literary detectives.
The exposition of the life of a barrister was particularly interesting to me--an attorney toiling away in the overworked American interpretation of a dispute-resolution method over a thousand years old. Frankly, I wonder how many of my colleagues could reasonably discuss Magna Carta (but I'll bet that they can discuss OJ) One need not worry about the specific terms of art--an English Type-A personality is very similar to the American Type-A personality so far as obsessive focus on professional requirements is concerned.
Not only are the characters fully and expertly developed, not only does the author have much to say about the spirit and purpose of the criminal defense, there is an intricate story of revenge that says much about the meaning of justice. What is more just? Self-help? Letting the system have its way?
The ending of this book, apparently unsatisfactory to many, is in reality a great achievement--it is the perfect resolution. No spoilers here, the title says it all. Here's the highest recommendation I can give, I have ordered the first Adam Dalgliesh mystery--Cover Her Face--and look forward to some excellent reading as I work through each and every one of these mysteries.
Fun Summer Reading for Mystery Lovers.......2006-08-03
Especially if you're looking for the fun escapism of an old fashioned murder mystery, P.D. James' "A Certain Justice" fills the bill perfectly. The structure is more complex than your average whodunnit (due primarily to the large number of characters), it includes the fine deductive powers of Inspector Dalgliesh, and a lawyer that most people in the story don't like is killed. So how bad can it be?
I've read that some of James' more constant readers don't care for the ending, but I did. After all, if everything always worked out as "expected," life (and certainly these mystery books) wouldn't be nearly as interesting.
One note if you've never read P.D. James before: I find her fun to read because she's great with language and serious about wanting you to "know" each character well. Thus, while it IS fun reading, it's not always exactly "light" reading, in that interuptions to the flow of her descriptions can make her books tough to drop at a moment's notice and pick up easily later. She's always well worth the effort, though.
Standard fare.......2006-01-09
Let's see, the writing is slow and tedious, there is very little suspense, the "main character" is not even introduced until the book is almost half over. The revelations are interesting but do not really titillate the imagination, and parts are rather predictable. In the end, everything is wrapped up a bit too tightly and easily. One comes from this book with a sense of hollowness.
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When the angry white mob poured out of the bar on San Francisco's Geary Street and surrounded an innocent black man, Kevin Shea was the only one who tried to stop them. He failed, and now, thanks to a deceptive news photo taken during the melee, he is wanted for the murder himself-and the real culprits have threatened his life if he says a word.
As riots rage and politicians posture, Lieutenant Abe Glitsky finds himself under pressure to bring Shea in at all costs. And as respect for the law crumbles-even among those sworn to uphold it-true justice is the only thing that can prevent the death of another innocent man.
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Never a dull moment.......2006-08-01
A senseless carjacking/murder by a black gang banger begets a mob lynching of a black lawyer and the city on the bay explodes into a race riot.
Against this violent background John Lescroart unleashes a cast of unforgetable characters.
Kevin Shea - the good Samaritan who tries to stop the lynching and is made to look like evil incarnate.
Loretta Wager - the over ambitious US senator looking for a quick ride to re-election and beyond.
Abe Glitski - a man battling his own demons and a political tidal wave threatening to swamp.
Wes Farell - a disenchanted lawyer trying to drink himself to death and fotget the law.
It is all here and more in another winner.
The Wrong Man.......2006-03-03
The innocent man wrongly accused: it's a story idea strong enough that Alfred Hitchcock made many of his movies based on it. In John Lescroart's A Certain Justice, we get a different take on this theme; although this is well-traveled ground, Lescroart is creative enough to add a couple new things and make an entertaining page-turner.
In San Francisco, after a white man is brutally killed during a carjacking, a black man is arrested. Although it is almost certain he is the killer, he is released for lack of conclusive evidence. During a wake for the CPA, the anger at the suspect's release, fueled by plenty of alcohol, creates a mob mentality that turns on an innocent black man. The leaders of the mob attempt to lynch him.
Kevin Shea tries to intervene, getting out his pocket knife and trying to free the man from the rope around his neck. He fails, the man dies, and an unfortunately timed photo makes him look like a killer. The nature of the hate crime sparks riots and soon Shea is a wanted man. While Lieutenant Abe Glitzky tries to investigate - and has his doubts about Shea's guilt - many others have already tarred him as a brutal killer. Certain politicians - including a U.S. Senator and the District Attorney - have spoken so certainly of Shea's guilt that they will not allow the possibility of his innocence: to do so could injure their own reputations and careers.
At times a crime novel, at times a political one, this story generally succeeds well, although I think occasionally some of the characters are a bit over-the-top. If Lescroart has a statement to make, it is a condemnation of people in responsibility who create or promote agitation for their own personal gains. But, any political statements are actually secondary; the main purpose of this novel is to entertain, and Lescroart has put together a good enough story to merit a high four stars. As a thriller, this is a success.
A wholly improbable premise salvaged by terrific story and commentary.......2006-03-02
San Francisco is simply not a credible locale for the lynching of a black man no matter what the circumstances. Lescroart attempts to create a credible scenario for the eventual lynching of a black man, but I was unable to overcome my skepticism throughout the book. But despite this egregious flaw the book still works and works very well.
Kevin Shea attempts to stop the lynching of a young black lawyer who just happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. He fails to stop the lynching despite his heroic efforts but is captured in an ambiguous photograph trying to stop the lynching and is cast as the villain by the media. Kevin Shea becomes the embodiment of evil and is vilified by every major organ of the media, the entire race baiting establishment, all of the elected politicians, and nearly the entire law enforcement establishment. So much is invested in his guilt and status as poster boy for racism that the question of his guilt becomes entirely incidental.
Abe Glitsky, an old friend Wes Farrell and Shea's girlfriend are the only characters that resist the rush to judgment. This book works on many levels. The romantic story between Shea and his girlfriend is well told and worked very well for me. But the level upon which the book works best for me is as a social commentary. Lescroart is no Tom Wolfe, but his insights and commentary are powerful and well drawn.
Dismas Hardy plays only a very minor role appearing seldom only enough to qualify as a "Dismas Hardy" novel. But Abe Glitsky plays a major role and of course San Francisco, though maligned by the author as the site of a modern day lynching, plays of course a central role as the setting for the book.
I would heartily recommend this book despite its incredible central premise. The remainder of the book and the behavior described by the characters are 100% believable.
Cheap cheap cheap....... dirt cheap.......2005-10-01
Holy cow.... Author took racism in U.S. to another level. A level of true entreprenuership filled with so much crap. I didn't know it was possible to fill pages with so much steaming pile of bull waste.
Black man dies, white man is accused, News runs the picture, there is a chase....wow..... How did the author come up with such originality? Where does he get the idea? Must be a genius!
Here I thought John Grisham's Time to Kill was a trash. This one by John L. takes the cake. I can't believe I spent $7 on this bundle of underqualified toilet paper.
Hot & Cold.......2003-06-01
The first quarter of the book is excellent, the last quarter pretty good. The other half is where I found myself skimming the pages for relevant and interesting material but didn't find much.
Perhaps I expected too much after this good start. Social issues underlying the story are relevant and well presented in my view.
Read it, just get over the rather boring part without quitting.
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It begins, dramatically enough, with a trial for murder. The distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge is defending Garry Ashe on charges of having brutally killed his aunt. For Aldridge the trial is mainly a test of her courtroom skills, one more opportunity to succeed, and she does. But now murder is in the air. The next victim will be Aldridge herself, stabbed to death at her desk in her Chambers in the Middle Temple. Enter Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team, whose struggle to investigate and understand the shocking events cannot halt the spiral into more horrors, more murders... A Certain Justice is P.D. James at her strongest. In her first foray into the strange closed world of the Law Courts and the London legal community, she has created a fascinating tale of interwoven passion and terror. As each scene draws us forward into new complexities of plot, she proves yet again that no other writer can match her skill in combining the excitement of the classic detective story with the richness of a fine novel. In its subtle portrayal of morality and human behavior A Certain Justice will stand alongside Devices and Desires and A Taste for Death as on of P.D. James's most important, accomplished and entertaining works.
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A Certain Justice
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From the Cumberland Mountains of 1858 Kentucky comes a young man forced by circumstances to start killing men at an early age. Adam Payton thereafter cannot escape the continual life of a skilled gunman as he moves along the road to adulthood.
Later drawn into the Civil War, Payton and a small detachment of determined Confederate cavalry are constantly faced with challenges from Yankees, Indians, and each other. Ultimately the tightly-bonded knot of survivors overcome the odds against them, but after the war still find themselves facing an uncertain future.
Across the country and into the booming growth of the west, Payton looks for the personal peace and satisfaction that eventually comes within his grasp. The faith of friends and the love of a woman encourage his attempts to avoid the violence that always seems to find him, but--is such a dream meant to be?
Rich with intriguing characters and bitter violence, this stirring odyssey-like saga of an intense young man's search for a west he can't find is thoroughly captivating from its dramatic beginning to its gut-wrenching finish.
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From the Cumberland Mountains of 1858 Kentucky comes a young man forced by circumstances to start killing men at an early age. Adam Payton thereafter cannot escape the continual life of a skilled gunman as he moves along the road to adulthood.
Later drawn into the Civil War, Payton and a small detachment of determined Confederate cavalry are constantly faced with challenges from Yankees, Indians, and each other. Ultimately the tightly-bonded knot of survivors overcome the odds against them, but after the war still find themselves facing an uncertain future.
Across the country and into the booming growth of the west, Payton looks for the personal peace and satisfaction that eventually comes within his grasp. The faith of friends and the love of a woman encourage his attempts to avoid the violence that always seems to find him, but
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A Certain Justice
P.D. James
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4 Mass Market Paperback Titles in Adam Dalgliesh Series - A Taste for Death - Cover Her Face - A Mind to Murder - A Certain Justice
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6 Mass Market Paperback Titles By John Lescroart - The Hunt Club - The Oath - A Certain Justice - The VIG - Dead Irish - Nothing but the Truth
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