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The first Corps novel--the first Corps New York Times bestseller.
Semper Fi sets the stage for World War II and brings to life the men of the Marine Corps--their loves and their loyalties--as they steel themselves for battle, and prepare to make the ultimate sacrifice.
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semper fi.......2007-05-14
An extremely good book, the first of a series. It sets up and begins the second world war in the Pacific.
Griffin's The Corps Series Is a Good Start For WW II Pacific War Reading.......2007-05-09
W.E.B. Griffin's The Corps series begins with Semper Fi, introducing us to China Marines, Old Breed Marines, and WW I-era medal winners who still felt an intense loyalty to their Marine Corps.
(Read R. Sander's excellent reader's review of Semper Fi. What Sander wrote holds good for every book in this series. Then come back to my review.)
Griffin focused the first seven books in The Corps series on the old and new Marines who fought, with obsolete equipment, inadequate manpower, weak help from the US Navy, and heroic bravery, to prevent Japan from winning an early, permanent, victory in the Pacific theater.
Griffin suspended this series as of late 1943 --
[When off on the US mainland -- never mentioned by Griffin, the American populace, including our scientists, designers, manufacturers, and patriotic work force, brought to fruition a massive, modernized US Navy Fast Carrier Fleet and US Marine Corps Amphibious Force.]
Griffin's abrupt halt in the series "forced" me to take up a fascinating study of the Pacific War, as it was carried out by two invasion forces -- an Allied, multi-country, Army/Navy/Marine, air-sea-amphibious force managed in the Southwest Pacific by General Douglas MacArthur, and a US Navy/Marine sea-amphibious force managed alternately in the Central Pacific by Admirals Bull Halsey and Raymond Spruance.
I am eternally grateful to W. E. B. Griffin for starting me on my quest to learn what happened to the US Marines both during and after the periods and battles referred to by him.
The Pacific war fought by US Marines, and US Sailors, from late 1943 until August 1945, was filled with real stories of great heroes and magnificent sea battles every bit as thrilling as fictional Napoleonic War tales about Patrick O'Brian's James Aubrey or C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower.
Griffin a Master Storyteller........2007-03-22
Semper Fi is the first book in Griffin's The Corps series, a collection of ten books constituting about five thousand pages that give an anecdotal history of the Marine Corps during WWII and the Korean War. The series is so captivating that I finished all ten books within a month of starting Semper Fi, even catching a great deal of grief for having the next two books delivered during a tournament in Las Vegas.
Semper Fi starts out with a spy story set in Pre-WWII China among the Fourth Marines, our little known contribution to the western imperialist forces in prewar China. In this compelling story, Griffin introduces his key characters whose lives form the central thread of the rest of the series.
The series is historically quite accurate, making it practically a Roman a clef. Actual historical characters pop up frequently. This makes the series fascinating to a history buff like me, but what I found truly fascinating is Griffin's manner of storytelling. Almost all the battle action is related by characters narrating it, usually over a beer or a Famous Grouse scotch. Their modesty saves Griffin from getting bogged down in detail, or even needing to spin evocative descriptions. The characters emotional reactions (and their alcohol consumption) evoke the appropriate responses from the reader.
The biggest weakness in his writing is his almost Jimmy-Buffett-like use of very rich characters as deux ex machine. The few poor characters in the book tend to end up being improbably rich, usually through marriage to girls who are every Marine's dream (i.e. rich, beautiful, and insatiable)
Griffin is a wonderful storyteller, and his use of the storytelling hero technique is a wonder to behold. His success speaks for itself.
ALL THREE.......2006-11-11
I ORDERED THESE ON TAPE, THEY SEND BOOKS... I AM BLIND.... THEY ALL WENT BACK... STILL WAITING FOR REFUND......
Perfect Summer Reading.......2006-08-21
Although i read the later books in the series first, i found extreme amusement in reading this book. There is no question of who is good or bad in this book, which is a nice contrast to the reality today. If You have a military background You should really consider Griffins books before anything else.
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W.E.B. Griffin's The Corps, 9-book series in Mass Paperback edition.
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Semper Fi issue #7. June 1989.
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Semper Fi issue #8. July 1989.
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Semper Fi #9 Tales of the Marine Corps (Raider!, Volume 1)
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Semper Fi issue #9. August 1989.
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"Despairing plot about the reality of madness and life, leavened with strong doses of bittersweet irony. The idiosyncratic investigation and its laconic detective haven't aged one iota."-Guardian
A child-murderer escapes from a Swiss insane asylum. The stakes get higher when Detective Sergeant Studer discovers the director's body, neck broken, in the boiler room of the madhouse. The intuitive Studer is drawn into the workings of an institution that darkly mirrors the world outside. Even he cannot escape the pull of the no man's land between reason and madness where Matto, the spirit of insanity, reigns.
Addicted to morphine,
Friedrich Glauser spent much of his life in psychiatric wards and prison. He began writing mystery novels while an asylum inmate in 1935.
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Typically unconventional ending.......2007-04-18
Like Fever and Thumbprint, the conclusion of this book was sort of unconventional for a detective story but somehow this one was more satisfying. Wonderfully consistent and concise tone of storytelling.
dark period piece police procedural .......2006-01-18
In the late 1920s in Bern, Dr. Ernst Laduner specifically asks to see Detective Sergeant Jakob Studer as they met in Vienna though the cop does not remember the psychiatrist. Laduner informs Studer that a patient Peter Pieterlen, a child murderer, escaped from the Randlingen Psychiatric Clinic; Studer concludes the psychiatrist is performing a classic CYA especially since another patient director Ulrich Borstli vanished.
Studer questions those on duty when Borstli allegedly disappeared and Pieterlen escaped from the asylum. As he continues his investigation in the boiler room, he discovers the murdered corpse of Borstli, whose neck is broken. While his superior and the psychiatrist claim that the murdering maniac Pieterlen killed Borstli before fleeing the crime scene, Studer thinks otherwise. The psychological theories brought forth to accuse the missing patient as the killer makes him wonder if someone is hiding the homicide behind psychological theory that sounds more like mumbo jumbo.
IN MATTO'S REALM is a dark period piece police procedural that grips the audience from the moment Studer enters the clinic and never lets go as the sleuth realizes those inside reflect those outside. The strong story line is cast-driven as the audience obtains a deep look at a 1920s German mental asylum accompanied by the prevalent psychological theories of the day. The who-done-it is shrewdly developed so that readers receive a fine detective story used to provide a look at a psychiatric clinic by an insider as author Friedrich Glauser spent time in psychiatric wards where he began his writing career.
Harriet Klausner
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A Deal With the Devil
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The acclaimed author of The Devil You Know pens a shimmering novel about a Scottish noblewoman on the run from her past and a powerful English lord brought to his knees by desire.
Aubrey Montford claims to be a widowed housekeeper. Desperate to keep her new post -- and her secrets -- she transforms desolate Castle Cardow into a profitable estate. Yet soon after her employer, Lord Walrafen, returns from long years of absence, Aubrey is suspected of murder. Sparks and tempers ignite whenever she and the smoldering earl meet, but he may be her only hope.
Walrafen returns reluctantly to the childhood home he loathes. Cardow is said to be haunted -- by more than the earl's sad memories -- but it was no ghost that murdered his uncle. Is the castle's beautiful chatelaine a murderess? At the very least, she's a liar -- he has proof. Yet the truth of his soul is that he's drawn to her with a kind of fierce passion he's never known....
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"The acclaimed author of The Devil You Know pens a shimmering novel about a Scottish noblewoman on the run from her past and a powerful English lord brought to his knees by desire. Aubrey Montford claims to be a widowed housekeeper. Desperate to keep her new post -- and her secrets -- she transforms desolate Castle Cardow into a profitable estate. Yet soon after her employer, Lord Walrafen, returns from long years of absence, Aubrey is suspected of murder. Sparks and tempers ignite whenever she and the smoldering earl meet, but he may be her only hope. Walrafen returns reluctantly to the childhood home he loathes. Cardow is said to be haunted -- by more than the earl's sad memories -- but it was no ghost that murdered his uncle. Is the castle's beautiful chatelaine a murderess? At the very least, she's a liar -- he has proof. Yet the truth of his soul is that he's drawn to her with a kind of fierce passion he's never known.... "
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Dead on, to the point, fearless. A third-generation black nationalist feminist, Pearl Cleage recognizes the pure power of telling the truth -- about African-American life and about the fate of the race in racist America. This book will incite any and all thinking people to ponder, argue, rage, reflect, and maybe even riot . . . .
"Uncompromising . . . Blistering." -- San Francisco Chronicle
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Incisive.......2002-08-26
This collection of essays from Pearl Cleage, Black nationalist, feminist (actually a womanist) and artist gives her views on sexism, domestic abuse and racism. These essays were written in the early 90's and delve into controversies as diverse as the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Miles Davis' brutality to women, the flap over Luther Campbell's raunchy lyrics and the fuss over Spike Lee's films. Lee came under fire from scared White folks who feared (unnecesarily)that "Do the Right Thing," would incite violence and angry Black activists who worried that "X" would be a disservice to Malcolm's legacy. Cleage gives her own take on these events and many others that I won't attempt to list here. She lets no one off the hook and challenges us all to think critically instead following the herd.
I was a little put off by the first few essays in this collection because the author comes off as overwrought in the discussions about sexism, but the more I read with an objective eye I began to get upset myself. If it is true as she says that five women are murdered each day by men who claim to love them -- then why aren't more people discussing this? Domestic abuse certainly affects Black women across all socieconomic strata, yet you rarely hear Black leaders discussing it. Where is the outrage and condemnation? Where are Jesse, Johnnie, Al and all the other perennial frontmen for issues of race and racism? I am ashamed to admit that I never really gave much thought to sexism and domestic abuse, and this book was a real eye-opener.
"Mad at Miles," asks why so many people continued to support an artist who admitted to being abusive to his wife and was rumored to have beaten other women also. According to Cleage, fans were willing to turn a blind eye to Davis' mean streak even after he revealed in book that a frightened Cicely Tyson once called the police on him after he slapped the taste out of her mouth. And the incident isn't relayed with any sense of remorse. Still, folks continue to buy his work reasoning that she either asked for it, or protesting that his private life was off-limits. Cleage asks whether the same support would be afforded to a White artist who admitted to beating Black men who got on his nerves. Very interesting. While Cleage is Mad at Miles, she is supportive (if uncomfortably) of Luther Campbell's right to make his profane "music" and even allowed her teenage daughter to buy his CD.
Although Cleage takes issue with Black men who supported Clarence Thomas publicly while voicing their misgivings privately just for the sake of supporting the brother, she is also critical of Anita Hill for having taken so long to come forward about the harrassment she endured at his hands. This delay lead Cleage to question whether Hill is really the "Shero" she was made out to be after the hearings concluded. The way Cleage sees it, Hill's failure to report the harrassment violated the laws she was supposed to be uphold, and she only came forward during the hearings because she was compelled to do so, which was not quite as honorable as it would have been had she come forward on her own. Or even better, if she had reported Uncle Thomas way back when he first got out of line.
Passionate and informed, Cleage has firm opinions on everything, and while I might not always agree with her position, I do admire her zeal. And just because you don't agree with someone that doesn't preclude you from learning something from her. This book will make you rethink some things about your own thought process and values, and for that I am grateful. After all, it is challenge that leads to growth.
Survival Manual for the Black Woman's Psyche.......2001-04-19
In this collection of essays, Pearl Cleage seems to speak my thoughts -- all of the things that I think about but am afraid to say for fear of being labeled as a traitor to my race. And she says these things in an easily readible down to earth tone. Cleage takes a brave stand - calling out the inequities that come from being a member of an oppressed sex within an oppressed race. This book is one of several that essentially changed my life, letting me know that the notion that gender struggles must take a backseat to racial struggles is not only misguided but dangerous.
This book is AWESOME!!!.......1999-06-15
Electrifying, Deep-joy crying! Undying! Never lying! This Book is a MUST READ!!! You GO GIRL!!!!!! Cleage is a truth teller...Buy this Book for yourself, your children, your children's children, your neighbor, their neigbor, your momma, yo momma's momma, and so on and so forth!! Pass it on as Oprah says, Pass it on........
THOUGHT PROVOKING.......1998-02-02
Cleage is an unsung master of the essay. She writes about issues that affect African Americans that are on eveybody's lips but also about things that do not come up as often. I would certainly recommend this book to any man or woman who wants to thinks critically about gender and how it plays itself out in the African American community. Cleage writes about people you know and celebrates them when they are beautiful as tell it like it is when they are wrong. "Deals With the Devil" is an excellent choice for book clubs because it lends itself easily to discussion and debate. In short, READ this book, then pass it on.
THOUGHT PROVOKING.......1998-02-02
Cleage is an unsung master of the essay. She writes about issues that affect African Americans that are on eveybody's lips but also about things that do not come up as often. I would certainly recommend this book to any man or woman who wants to thinks critically about gender and how it plays itself out in the African American community. Cleage writes about people you know and celebrates them when they are beautiful as tell it like it is when they are wrong. "Deals With the Devil" is an excellent choice for book clubs because it lends itself easily to discussion and debate. In short, READ this book, then pass it on.
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Deals with the Devil
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Panda Myrtle Young'n'Splat.......2006-03-04
BLOODY BORING. NO IMAGINATION. NO PUNCH. NO KICK. NO HOPE. TO HELL WITH IT...PUN INTENDED!!!
Nice, tight and full of the devil.......2001-12-09
A solid collection of extremely well-written and accesible tales about the oldest villain in the game: Satan. The takes some people have on him are numerous and colorful, and there's almost not a single stinker in the book. Not inundated with stories that require degrees in theology, either. Great fantasy with a social edge, and good for people who don't even dig fantasy.
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demons and how to deal with them.......2002-12-05
I orderd this socall book its only 26 pages long.
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Battling with the devil and depression
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A Deal With the Devil
Leonard Maxwell
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Fletcher Stryker and his top assistant
Sonny Anderson are seconded to the U.S. President¡¯s special committee for International Corruption and Fraud to recover or destroy, a set of almost perfect U.S. dollar printing plates that have disappeared.
Their investigations take them to London, England; only to find that their lead, a young Barbadian man named
Joe Large, has been brutally murdered. They meet the
¡®Englishman¡¯ and their beautiful contact
Roberta Campbell and they challenge and uncover the interests of
Leonardo Giuliani, the head of the most powerful crime family in Italy, and his son
Fredo. Influential, black Lawyer
Oliver Sobers and his daughter
Bess get involved in the investigation as does
Tudor Knight a suburban housewife married to a successful lawyer and has two children. Exceedingly artful she cleverly constructs a double life where she is able to find the love and excitement t is so important to her but it gradually and unwittingly leads her into a web of international intrigue and crime. The story switches from Barbados to England and from America to Italy. At the end it is Tudor Knight who is left to make a crucial decision. Her actions have inadvertently put at risk the lives of her innocent children. To save them she has to sacrifice herself or perhaps make a deal with the devil.
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Deal with the Devil
Robert diChiara
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Deal With The Devil
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One of America's foremost couples therapists offers expert advice on rekindling relationships through "naked intimacy"
Naked Intimacy is for everyone who yearns for an intimate relationship and wonders why it seems so elusive. It is for couples who are experiencing emptiness and loneliness in their relationships and dream of rediscovering the deep intimacy that existed in the early days of the relationships.
Joel D. Block, one of the founders of the modern self-help movement, entices the reader to take his or her clothes off emotionally with a love partnera daring and courageous act, to be sure, but one that ultimately brings new vitality and eroticism to a relationship. Based on interviews with more than 200 people whose experiences speak directly to readers, concerns about love, happiness, fulfillment, and sexuality, Naked Intimacy is an important work that challenges love partners to do what it takes to achieve even greater levels of intimacy in a relationship.
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Karen Scaife.......2003-02-08
After reading Naked Intimacy twice, I was amazed at how profoundly it had changed the way I perceive my own love relationship. A truly remarkable piece of work!
Naked Intimacy.......2003-02-08
After reading Naked Intimacy twice, I was amazed how profoundly it affected the way I perceive my own love relationship. A truly remarkable piece of work!
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