Hammerhead Ranch Motel

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Penzler Pick, August 2000: Is it Florida, or is it the mystery writers who set their stories there? There seems to be a tradition of Florida noir that is as loony as that name implies. Tim Dorsey is the newest writer from the Sunshine State whose stories are inhabited by a cast of characters who, in any other state, would probably be behind bars. In Dorsey's world, not only are they roaming free, they are also wreaking havoc with impunity up and down the peninsula.

In his first book, Florida Roadkill, Dorsey introduced us to several characters who are still at large as his second story begins. Serge A. Storms is a spree killer and Florida history buff, still looking for the five million dollars that's stashed in the trunk of a Chrysler--unbeknownst to the driver--somewhere in the state. Johnny Vegas is a playboy who, because catastrophic events always seem to get in the way, has yet to lose his virginity. Also along for the zany ride is 90-year-old Mrs. Edna Ploomfield, who blows away a man delivering her flowers and chocolates; a DJ who changed his name legally to Boris the Hateful Piece of BLEEP so that he would not be BLEEPED on the air every time he used the name; and Safety Officer Chester "Porkchop" Dole who watches the monitors on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Along with a dancing Chihuahua who forecasts the weather, the Diaz Boys, Harvey Fiddlebottom, undercover cops, and a variety of oddballs, they will congregate in or around the seediest place never to have been shut down, the Hammerhead Ranch Motel on the Gulf of Mexico. There, they will play out their lunacy as Hurricane Rolando-berto bears down on them. This is a wonderful summertime read, relentlessly funny and impossible to put down. --Otto Penzler

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There's a different schemer or slimeball behind every door: cocaine duckpins who have survived only by the dumbest fortune, hard-luck gigolos desperate to score, undercover cops busting undercover cops who are running sting operations on undercover cops. And just down the row, local historian and spree killer Serge A. Storms -- who has stopped keeping up with his meds -- is still looking for a briefcase stuffed with five million dollars...and is now capable of wreaking more havoc than hurricane Rolando-berto, the big wind gathering force offshore, just waiting for the opportunity to blow everything straight to hell.

Pack up your bags and head south to sunny Florida. Leave your rational mind at home and come well armed. There's a room with your number on it at the Hammerhead Ranch Motel.

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Pack up your bags and head south to sunny Florida. Leave your rational mind at home and come well armed. There's a room with your number on it at the Hammerhead Ranch Motel.

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Hilarious.......2007-08-06

This book is flat out hilarious, not quite as much action as the first book in the series but every bit as funny. I found myself laughing out loud countless times while I was reading it. This book was so good I will make sure I read every book in this series.

More Florida madness from Dorsey.......2007-04-21

Dorsey's sequel to "Florida Roadkill" takes a while to get going, but once it does it more than holds its own.

As he did previously, Dorsey introduces us to a wide range of offbeat characters. The book doesn't really gel until he brings those characters together. Dorsey is at his best when writing about Serge, his off-kilter main character, a Florida-obsessed schizophrenic/OCD/ADHD case. When Serge is leading the charge, he sort of infects the people around him with his insanity, and the novel takes on a sugar-rush, childish gaiety that is absolutely hilarious (especially when it's used, as it often is, during criminal activity).

Dorsey isn't able to exploit the characters for laughs quite as well as he did in "Florida Roadkill" here. His best character -- the one he savages the most -- is actually Florida itself. Dorsey paints it as Hell with beach-front property.

Dorsey's writing style is rather deadpan and cold, with the occasional spot-on observation that leaves you laughing out loud. It reminds you quite a bit of Christopher Moore.

Despite a bit of a slow start, once this novel picks up and gets going, it barrels out of control toward its finale with that dark, wacky comedy-madness Dorsey is known for. Dorsey gets great mileage out of little bits of nuttiness, like a local news station using a dog in the weather reports, and how the Floridians love it. It's these crazy little gems that glue together what is pretty much a plotless novel.

For me Tim Dorsey novels are like the aimless plots of Elmore Leonard with Christopher Moore's sense of humor. So if you like the idea of a crime novel with odd, lunatic humor, filled with hilarious degenerates and weirdos, Tim Dorsey is the novelist for you.

Truly, Dementedly Weird.......2007-04-02

This second installment in Tim Dorsey's series of books about Florida follows Florida Roadkill, and precedes something called Orange Crush, which I haven't read yet. A friend of mine recommended the series: he apparently likes books set in Florida, having been a lifelong fan of John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Dorsey's books, however, are nothing like MacDonalds', beyond the setting. Dorsey has a very very strange sense of humor, and his books are peopled with weird characters, bizarre events, and odd coincidences. Nothing normal ever happens in Dorsey's Florida.

As much as there's a plot, it involves Dorsey's main character, the eccentrically-named Serge A. Storms. Dorsey likes names that are alliterations of one form or another, so in addition Lenny Lippowicz, a dog named Toto, a girl named Gigi, etc. You get the picture. It seems everyone who doesn't have a name that has double initials has to have a nickname of some sort. Anyway, Storms is chasing around Tampa, looking for a briefcase full of money that came his way in the previous Dorsey book, "Florida Roadkill". He keeps finding the money, and then losing it again. Since Storms is a violent psychopath (in this book he beheads a teenage girl) it's hard to sympathize with him much. He also has an annoying habit of launching into lectures extolling the history and virtues of the State of Florida at the drop of a hat. You have to wonder why someone doesn't shoot him every thirty minutes in the book, but he's the main character and just seems to drift along, aimlessly searching for the money, then displaying some pretty canny intelligence in looking for it just when you thought he was completely crazy.

I enjoyed this book, after a fashion. There's not much point in reading it by itself: it's basically Don Quixote on crack, with a deadhead soundtrack, but it's only some chapters from the middle. You really need to read Florida Roadkill first, and I'm hoping that somewhere in here Dorsey will get to a point other than pointing out what stupid monsters he believes the human race to be. Given that, the action is fun, if a bit violent and bloody, the characters are amusing, if improbably overdrawn, and the coincidences that Dorsey spins into his story lines are weird, to say the least.

Not as Good as Dorsey's Other Work.......2007-02-17

This is Dorsey's second novel and takes up from the to be continued final pages of his debut novel Florida Roadkill. It is not of the same quality as the initial adventure with less action and bloodshed throughout the pages. It is almost as if Dorsey killed off too many of the main characters in Florida Roadkill and had to rush and put together some more characters to accompany Serge in his quest for the briefcase of money where we left him at the to be continued ending. Dorsey is a good author, he has written some great surreal adventures, just this novel isn't up to that standard. If you haven't read any of his work yet and are looking for somewhere to start either read Florida Roadkill or better yet read his fourth book Triggerfish Twist which was actually a prequel to Roadkill and easily the best of his initial novels.

In Hammerhead Ranch Serge, a criminal with an obsession with Florida history is back and along with him Dorsey brings in a hurricane, racist low IQ fundamentalists who want everyone to vote for proposition 213 to get rid of all foreigners, retirement homes paying dimwitted villains to dump Alzheimer's Medicare patients without their ID in other cities so they can get more money from private patients, undercover cops busting other undercover cops at the same hotel as the drug trade is just not that profitable for normal criminals anymore as well as many other surreal events and characters.

Miami Vice meets Mad TV.......2007-02-14

If you are looking for a bit of slick wit and clever comedic writing, Hammerhead Ranch is a surefire bet that injects some fun into the usual dry and typically serious genre of Murder Mystery/Crime novels.

A sequel in a sense to Florida Roadkill, some characters make a triumphant return and Dorsey is able to continously keep them fresh with even further development and fleshing out. At the same time, a new cast of supporting characters are introduced, and again, Dorsey is really able to keep them all unique with their own quirks.

Most of the novel centers around the re-capturing of a stolen briefcase containing millions of dollars as last seen in Florida Roadkill. But most of the action finds our keystone-cop like characters congragating around the central location of the Hammerhead Ranch Motel.

The book was indeed entertaining and reminded me a lot of sketch comedy actors let loose on a serious mission--recover the money and the hijinx that entail.

My only issue with this installment of the series is that when dealing with such a large ensemble cast, Dorsey tends to jump around in chapters quite a bit. It can be easy to lose track of who is who and whats going on. For much of the novel, many of the incidents seem far removed from the actual plot,making me wonder at times....'What is the plot anyway?' Only near the very end are you rewarded with a semi-climax of the briefcase, and of course since unresolved, leads to a third installment.

I felt at times, that while funny and entertaining (which isn't bad), many instances were filler material only, just to get a joke in and didn't contribute to the overall resolution. However, that being said, I will indeed purchase and read the third book.

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Hammerhead Ranch Motel
Dorsey Tim
Manufacturer: William Morrow
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Binding: Hardcover
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At Taiga Lodge, George Perry's exclusive big-game hunting camp 125 miles northeast of Anchorage, Alaska, the price of admission has a unique flavor. "The charges depend on the customer's attitude," George tells Kate Shugak, who's working as one of his assistant guides. "The more they piss me off, the higher the price." Which means the party of German computer executives that Kate and her colleagues are looking after will be lucky to go home with any money at all. More interested in firing off their expensive guns than in the sport of hunting moose, these guys are a danger to themselves and anyone else within range. But when human bodies start to outnumber moose-head trophies, the resourceful Aleut Indian Kate realizes that the deaths have more to do with financial and moral crimes back home in Germany than accidents in Alaska.

Hunter's Moon, Dana Stabenow's ninth installment in the excellent Kate Shugak series, is enriched with the intricate details of everyday Alaskan life. The author follows the lives of ordinary people as they try to survive the harshly majestic environment as best they can. She shows how people can be tempered and improved by the rugged country, or bent by it to the breaking point. Kate herself might occasionally acquire the mythic proportions of a fictional heroine, but she also embodies the pain and human frailty that make her instantly recognizable as one of us, no matter where we live. --Dick Adler

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A corporate hunting retreat turns into a deadly game of cat and mouse in this latest addition to the Kate Shugak series.

"With eight Shugak mysteries under her belt, Stabenow is rapidly emerging as one of the strongest voices in crime fiction in the vast expanse of Alaska," wrote The Seattle Times of last year's Killing Grounds. With Hunter's Moon, the unstoppable Kate Shugak guides a hunting expedition gone horribly wrong.

It's September and the height of hunting season in the bush. Experienced hunter Kate and her boyfriend, Jack, volunteer to help out their friend and big-game outfitter George Perry with a hunting trip. But while they kill to pack their freezers, this wealthy group of German computer executives wants trophies to hang on their walls. The conflict of interest doesn't end there; used to pampering, the group has a style that clashes with Kate's self-sufficient ways.

After successfully bagging a moose with two of her charges, Kate returns to camp to learn that a hunter has been shot. It appears to be an accident, until the body of a second hunter is discovered in even more gruesome circumstances. With no shortage of potential suspects, Kate realizes the moose and the bears aren't the only animals being hunted in the bush.

In a plot that combines elements of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None and Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game, in a setting as perilous as it is beautiful, with a cast of characters as rich and full as any in detective fiction today, Dana Stabenow weaves a story that will test the limits of Kate's strength, ingenuity, and determination, and will ultimately change the course of her life forever.

Customer Reviews:

Surprising, to say the least.......2000-10-19

Everybody keeps saying horrible things about this book, and if you asked me what I thought right after reading it, I would have agreed. However, looking back a few months later, I realize that this is a prime example of what happens when bad things happen to good people. It's a test of Kate Shugak's character - will she snap under the trauma of losing the only person she's grown to trust, or will our heroine somehow find a way to pick herself up and carry on? Though I don't believe this is one of Dana Stabenow's better ones, I think that rather than shaking off a loyal Shugak fan, this book has hooked me more firmly. I hate the fact that Jack died, but I can't bear to leave Kate dangling, not knowing if/how she copes. I also can't bear the fact that somebody got to my library's copy of Midnight Come Again before I did. ^_^

Disappointed Kate fan.......1999-12-31

As a Kate fan, I was very disappointed with this book. The author resorted to blatant stereotyping to force her plot, and as a result, I found her normal small errors about firearms, airplanes, and bush Alaska more annoying than usual. Ms. Stabenow has obviously never met a true German big game hunter, considered by many to be among the most ethical of hunters and respectful of the game they shoot.

Powerful, moving, but first read Stabenow's others..........1999-11-23

This is a powerful and moving book about Kate and the ones she loves. To get the full impact of this latest book, though, a reader should read the previous books in this Alaskan series. I give the author credit for having the courage to "challenge" the reader and Kate to survive the surprising ending. Afterall, if we live long enough, we will all have unbelieveable joy and tragedy in our lives...it is what either defines us or "kills" us. Personally, I cannot wait for the next in this series to see how Kate "moves on" with her life!

Good book but, hard tense and shocking to kate fans........1999-09-04

I love kate and mutt books. This book is good but missed the friends and family I have come to expect and care about. I am in denial about the hard ending and can only look forward to book 10 to unfold the new direction Kate will take.The exerpt, found on dana's website is reassuring, and tantalizing. I wait on tenterhooks.

Not her best, didn't leave me waiting for the next title........1999-08-11

Thought this plot bordered on being 'over the top' in relation to the earlier titles that had cumulatively developed the main characters into people you cared about. This also took away from her usually excellent descriptions of Alaskan settings, folklore and characters. For the first time I'm not waiting impatiently for the next in the series. The ending was a real cop-out. Can't strong women characters also handle strong, mature relationships with males? It seems not, my other favorite Alaskan author, Sue Henry, took a similar detour at the end of her new title. This is a trend I could do without.

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I knew the ending already..
If you loved the series up to now...
Tear jerker
Where's the Mystery?

Hunter's Moon (Kate Shugak Mystery)
Dana Stabenow
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ASIN: 0425172597

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Experienced hunter Kate Shugak and her boyfriend volunteer to help out their friend and big-game outfitter George Perry with a hunting trip. The would be hunters are a wealthy group of German computer executives who blaze away at every moving target. After successfully bagging a moose with two of her charges, Kate returns to camp to learn that a hunter has been shot. It appears to be an accident, until the body of a second hunter is discovered. With no shortage of potential suspects, Kate realizes the moose and the bears aren't the only animals being hunted in the bush.

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Superb.......2005-09-29

Of all the Kate Shugak novels, this one stands above. Dana Stabenow takes a huge risk in killing a sympathetic character, but it's one that sets Kate up for the significant development she undergoes in subsequent books. Wrenching, emotional, harsh, superb. Dana's talent shines.

I knew the ending already.........2005-02-24

People on previous reviews let it slip, but that didn't make me not want to read this book. I have enjoyed the series, and I even liked this book, sad though it was. It just shows more growth for the main character. I hope Ms. Stabenow gracefully has Kate recover from this and writes many more enjoyable books. So many other authors have done this and the series never are quite the same.

If you loved the series up to now..........2004-12-05

I'm writing this review because of all the people who have said they will stop reading the series because of this book.
If you have read the other reviews, you know that a Very Bad Thing happens in this book -- many of the reviews have said exactly what that Very Bad Thing is.
I had a similar reaction. But I already had the next book in hand, and wanted -- needed -- to see what happened after. So I read it, and the next one, and the one after that, and the one after _that_ (and I'll be reading the most recently released as soon as I get my hands on it).
They are worth reading, just as much as the ones before. Yes, a Very Bad Thing happens in this book. Senseless, unforeseen, and devastating. But such things happen in real life too. And people go on, much as this series goes on.
So if you liked the series up to this point, read Hunter's Moon, react, and then keep reading the series. I don't think you'll regret it.

Tear jerker.......2004-10-29

I started reading this series with 'A Fine and Bitter Snow' and have made my way, increasingly faster, through the earlier books. Having read references to the tragedy that befell Jack, I knew of the premise before I started the book. However that didn't soften the blow. I too found myself with tears, greatly caring about these 2 fictional characters (and Mutt too!).

Reading later books in the series first, I didn't initially warm to Kate's character who I felt was somewhat cold and detached. Now I completely understand that part of her character, a result of the loss she experienced. It has been enjoyable to read the earlier books which she shared with Jack, and I'm enjoying reading later books where there is a glimmer of happiness in her future.

Dana has made me a fan of mysteries and added to my love of all things Alaskan!

Where's the Mystery?.......2004-08-16

I avoided reading this novel for a long time because I accidently found out the ending in a review. I was quite disapointed in the stunt ending and the lack of any real mystery. I read to be entertained, to learn someting new, not to be annoyed at the end because there was very little value in what I had paid for. The German hunting party for the most part was a sampling of every cartoon character that portrays bad guy, killing off a main characther because there was no effort to write a better solution to ending a romantic dilemma, and the "Outside" bashing. This series has probably come to and end for me as I'm finding the writing formulaistic and am not as entertained as I once was when the plots were more cunning and the charaters more believable.

4 Titles in the Kate Shugak Mystery Series: (1) Hunter's Moon; (2) Killing Grounds; (3) Breakup; (4) Play With Fire (Set of 4)

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4 Titles in the Kate Shugak Mystery Series: (1) Hunter's Moon; (2) Killing Grounds; (3) Breakup; (4) Play With Fire (Set of 4)
Dana Stabenow
Manufacturer: Berkley
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WWSLY8

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Escape from Five Shadows is another great Elmore Leonard prison-break novel set in the Old West, with Corey Bowen as an innocent man looking to escape from a work camp run by a sadistic embezzler willing to kill to keep his scheme running. As always with Leonard, there are no throwaway lines, and success comes to those who act with competence and conviction. In Last Stand at Saber River, a Confederate veteran returns to his Arizona homestead to find that Yankee mercenaries are occupying his home. That situation's bound to change, and not peacefully. In The Law at Randado, a young deputy must prove himself to a rich man who represents the legal authority in their community. These three short novels from the early stages of Leonard's career are like blueprints for the crime fiction he would come to master in the 1980s and '90s, and will prove a delightful surprise to any of his fans. If you don't think you like Westerns, read any of these stories and you may find yourself reconsidering your taste for the genre. --Ron Hogan

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Escape From Five Shadows: It was supposed to be impossible. No man could break out of the brutal convict labor camp at Five Shadows. Until they locked up Bowen. He was like dynamite--charged to go off, to explode out of that desert hell so he could clear his name. Already the deadly trackers have caught him, dragged him back through the mesquite and rocks, beat him and left him to rot in the punishment cell. But they can't stop Bowen. He's a different breed, a man who will go to any extreme to escape. Any extreme.

Last Stand at Saber River: A one-armed man stood before Denaman's store, and the girl named Luz was scared. Paul Cable could see that from the rise two hundred yards away, just as he could see that everything had changed while he was away fighting for the Confederacy. He just didn't know how much. Cable and his family rode down to Denaman's store and faced the one-armed man. Then they heard the story, about the Union Army and two brothers--and a beautiful woman--who had taken over Cable's spread and weren't going to give it back. For Paul Cable the war hadn't ended at all. Among the men at Saber River, some would be his enemies, some might have been his friends, but no one was going to take his future away--not with words, not with treachery, and not with guns

The Law at Randado: Kirby Frye was a local boy come home again--with a badge and a reputation in some circles. But to the men with money in Randado, Kirby Frye meant nothing. Twelve upstanding citizens, prompted by a hard-drinking, free-spending cattleman, hanged two of Kirby's prisoners behind his back. Then they laughed in his face. Frye was young, but he was no fool. He took their taunts, took their hired men's blows, and waited. For with a hotheaded sheriff from Tucson and a breed tracker on Kirby's side, it would be three men against many. And what they didn't know about Kirby Frye was that three against many was good enough for him--good enough to go up against their guns, good enough to bring the law back to Randado, and good enough to drive a rich man to his knees.

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A great Leonard Western.......2004-09-23

In the course of the last month, I've become a big fan of Elmore Leonard's Westerns. I'm new to the Western, late in the game. After a few L'Amour's, a friend put me on to Leonard. He's the very top of the genre, in my view. The dialogue and the action tell the story and make the points about toughness and character, not the sentimental interior thought process of the hero, so common in this genre; at least what I've seen thus far.
In The Law at Randado (one of the titles in this collection), Kirby Frye is young and green (as a deputy), but he stands up to the townsmen and Phil Sundeen, the bad cattle baron, much to their surprise. He reminds me a lot of the implacable Roberto Valdez in "Valdez is Coming" (I think Leonard's greatest Western), and there are similar qualities to the story. But this is early Leonard (1954), and he only gets better as time goes on.
We again meet the scoundrel Sundeen and see his fate in Gunsights, a much later book (1979).
It's going to be hard to go back to other Western authors having been introduced to Elmore Leonard this early on!

Western fiction may be out of style, but not Elmore Leonard........1998-09-21

Although the author has tended to underrate his earliest work in the Western genre, later Elmore Leonard crime novels like CITY PRIMEVAL, KILLSHOT (a corker, by the way) and OUT OF SIGHT are certainly influenced by earlier books such as VALDEZ IS COMING. He will often include references to the movie Westerns that were made from his stories in the novels. The famous restaurant confrontation between Chili Palmer and a stuntman-bodyguard in GET SHORTY imitates a similiar scene in the Leonard-written Clint Eastwood movie JOE KIDD (which Chili, a true movie buff, remembers vividly). The very funny novel PRONTO gets even funnier when you realize that Leonard is, to a great degree, satirizing traditional Western heroics and the conventions of a genre that he truly understands and loves. I can't imagine any fan of Elmore Leonard's - or the American Western - being disappointed in THE LAW AT RANDADO (my personal favorite), HOMBRE (which won the Golden Spur Award for the 100 best Western novels of all time) or VALDEZ IS COMING. It's great to have these books back in print in any form (as well as the new set of Western shorts THE TONTO WOMAN) and collectors should move fast - these tend to be taken out of print very quickly. Don't buy one - buy all three!!

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Disappointing
Nice but tough comprehension
Nice but tough comprehension
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Refreshingly real characters!

Saber and Shadow
Stirling
Manufacturer: Baen
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Disappointing .......2007-03-06

The first book in this series "Shadows Daughter" was excellent, this book however is not. But it also, except for the name of the main character, has almost no relation to the first book at all. The break in characterisation and culture from the first is completely jarring. This is an action book from start to finish and Stirlings heavy hand is all over it. Not that I dislike Stirling, when he is on form he is a good writer, but this book shows him almost at his worst. It was, I think, supposed to be a collaboration with Meier, but ended up being just another Stirling battle and gore fest. As a stand alone Conan with a sex change type novel it is only bearable. As a sequel to an excellent beginning novel it is simply trashy.

Nice but tough comprehension.......2000-08-05

I first read this book when I was a teenager back in the early-mid nineties. I just recently read it again, and I found things that I didn't understand the first time. Things like plot details and names.

The fight scenes are really cool, in fact this book and books by author Elizabeth Moon has inspired me to write my own fantasy novels (not published, but in the process) I love reading fantasy stories where the female is a strong character who can hold her own. It gives girls a chance to fantasize about being a warrior for once and not just the boys.

However, the plot took me a while to digest, even the second time around. I found myself having to back track to find out what was going on. And even now there are still instances where I don't know the exact details of what is going on. For example, not to give away too much of the plot, the female general's plans for war. I don't know the exact details and it wasn't explained clearly in the book, so I just accepted the fact that she's declaring war, but not entirely for the reasons she claims. It's little things like these that tend to get in the way of the entire plot. So it's easier to just accept the gist of what's going on and try to figure out everything else. I'd give more examples, but that would give away too much of the plot.

Also when I first read this, I was a teenager in high school, and the idea of a love affair between two women was new to me. I fact the whole IDEA of sex was new to me. Now, about eight years later, I kinda understand it a little more, and find it interesting that the authors would take the relationship of the two main characters to this level. It's not easy to imagine that sort of relationship, but that doesn't mean it can't happen. I'm not shocked, just impressed that they did that.

On the whole, not a bad book, but be prepared to read it a few times if you want to get all the nitty gritty details to really understand stuff. But if you don't, there's enough basic info to give you the general idea

Nice but tough comprehension.......2000-08-05

Hack and Slash Desecration.......2000-03-26

I had high hopes for this novel, since it continues the story of the "ethical thief" created by Shirley Meier in Shadow's Daughter. Shadow's Daughter portrayed the development and maturation of Megan Whitlock, a girl making the best of her life when trapped by poverty and subject to the whims of uncaring royalty. However, Saber & Shadow takes a complex character and turns her into a typical moral-free warrior, gleefully maiming or murdering every innocent that crosses her path. This book creates an adventure story interchangeable with that of hundreds of others, composed primarily of bloody chases, "political maneuvering" notable only for its unreadability, and enemies who could have stepped right out of the pages of an "Encyclopedia of Fantasy bad guys." I would classify this book as yet another example of why talented writers should not turn their creations over to authors unable to measure up.

Refreshingly real characters!.......1998-09-21

Saber and Shadow is remarkable in its plot and setting as well, but I found the characters to be its main strongpoint. Megan and Shkai'ra are very well-developed characters, and the authors did not give in to the trend of making the main characters disgustingly idealistic. This book, as someone once said of the Illiad, "embodies all the ethical untidiness of living people." Three cheers for realistic characterization!

Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup #2 : Escape from Five Shadows, Last Stand at Saber River, and The Law at Randado

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Elmore Leonard's Western Roundup #2 : Escape from Five Shadows, Last Stand at Saber River, and The Law at Randado
Elmore Leonard
Manufacturer: Dell Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MBNSD8

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Take Charge of Your Own Health

From hypertension to hardening of the arteries, cancer to cataracts, Heimlich's authoritative guide surveys the latest nonconventional medical treatments for today's most prevalent diseases. What Your Doctor Won't Tell You is an objective, up-to-the minute sourcebook on the most significant alternative approaches to health, including:

Antioxidants • Bach Flower Remedies • Biomagnetism
Colon Detoxification • Electrodiagnosis • Fish Oils • Homeopathy
Kinesiology • Live Cell Therapy • Macrobiotics
Orthomolecular Medicine • Ozone Therapy • Vitamin C Infusion
• And much more

What Your Doctor Wont Tell You introduces you to a new world of medical doctors trained in nutrition and preventive medicine. Heimlich offers objective appraisals of dozens of mainstream medical treatments, from chemotherapy to bypass surgery, and describes why the medical establishment continues to rely on toxic drugs and ineffective treatments owing to its ties with big business and government.

Covering both time-honored and cutting-edge procedures, What Your Doctor Won't Tell You is an in-depth overview of the best that alternative medicine has to offer.

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Not such a great book.......2007-05-13

Don't bother with this book as there is nothing much to be found new here.
Anyone who likes to read this type of book will be disappointed.

Not The Latest or The Best.......2006-09-27

At least Ms. Heimlich tries to get to the real truth about alternative medicine, unlike Trodeau who only wants to make money by exploiting fear. Further study into the mind, body, spirit connection would make this a better read. Forget The Cures, Find The Cause would be a geat companion to this.

Interesting but all over the place.......2006-08-05

Some of the information was new and interesting, but I found the book to be very non-specific. In other words, it would be very hard to create your own health plan based on information from this book.

Controversial Book!.......2006-05-31

This book really is controversial. I would suggest more research and self education because some of the information provided is just not true! It gives a neat perspective on things but not a book to use for diagnosis! I would suggest supplemental reading if you are serious about your health. I found a great report on Inner Health available at librarydepot.com It includes a nutrition benefits chart that links nutritional support needed to many diseases/disorders.

A MUST READ FOR EVERYONE!.......2005-07-28

Informative and revealing. Don't order without it in your cart.

WHAT YOUR DOCTOR WON'T TELL YOU : THe Complete Guide to the Latest in Alternative Medicine

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WHAT YOUR DOCTOR WON'T TELL YOU : THe Complete Guide to the Latest in Alternative Medicine
Jane Heimlich
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OEYVNE

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