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The Butcher's Boy
Thomas Perry
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ASIN: 0812967739
Release Date: 2003-06-10 |
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The Edgar Award–winning novel by the “master of nail-biting suspense”(Los Angeles Times)
Thomas Perry exploded onto the literary scene with The Butcher’s Boy. Back in print by popular demand, this spectacular debut, from a writer of “infernal ingenuity” (The New York Times Book Review), includes a new Introduction by bestselling author Michael Connelly.
Murder has always been easy for the Butcher’s Boy—it’s what he was raised to do. But when he kills the senior senator from Colorado and arrives in Las Vegas to pick up his fee, he learns that he has become a liability to his shadowy employers. His actions attract the attention of police specialists who watch the world of organized crime, but though everyone knows that something big is going on, only Elizabeth Waring, a bright young analyst in the Justice Department, works her way closer to the truth, and to the frightening man behind it.
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One of my all time favorite books .......2006-12-10
The Butcher's Boy is not lyrical or beautifully written, it gets straight to the point--action and suspense. It is dark but lightened with sarcastic humor, and it is an intense, page turning thriller: a Female detective desperate to catch the killer, and a killer so well defined that you keep finding yourself rooting for him too. This book has a very satisfying ending no matter which one you were rooting for.
And I totally disagree with the reviewer who wanted to leave the last two pages out--they were the perfect, satisfying ending.
One of my other favorite books is Ludlum's The Bourne Identity (the movie was NOT based on the book!!! so read the book.) The Bourne Identity and the next two in the series were similar to The Butcher's Boy in that they were page turners that have a certain humor that showed itself just when you needed the relief.
A twenty-five-year-old first novel--but a new author for me.......2006-08-04
It was Michael Connelly's introduction that led me to this book. I read somewhere about the re-issue of "The Butcher's Boy" with an introduction by my favorite author and I was so impressed with Connelly's assessment of the book that I ordered it from Amazon. I enjoy reading debut novels and I will certainly continue to read Thomas Perry's books. Obviously, he has become an accomplished novelist since writing "The Butcher's Boy" and I am anxious to read more of his work.
A 'new' author with no wait!.......2006-05-30
This guy is great! The writing, the plotting, the twists and turns are terrific. Fresh ways of looking at people's actions & their feelings. Sense of humor is welcome too. I sometimes find 20 or 30 year old books sort of dated but this wasn't at all. Now reading Dead Aim by Perry and finding that just as entertaining. Will be collecting this one.
No need to discuss the meat of the book, but I highly recommend this author.
Couldn't put it down.......2005-11-08
If you like compelling thrillers, Thomas Perry is your man- at least with this book and the sequel- Sleeping Dogs. I discovered this book when it was first pulished, and spent a number of years trying to find it after it went out of print. Now it is back, and I no longer have my copy because I loaned it to a thriller loving friend. Shouldn't really like the book- the "hero" is a hit man who is truly amoral, and yet somehow you still get engaged with him. The writing is lean and moves the story at a perfect pace. I love deep books about complex charcters, but for relaxation give me a well written page turner anytime. And this book is just that. I recommend reading both books, as I think the story becomes fully fleshed only in Sleeping Dogs. Then move on to the Jane Whitfield novels- great plotting and writing and the heroine is truly that.
Good Planning.......2004-09-30
This is the story of a professional killer who is hired to perform several killings to avoid an investigation. The fun of the book is watching the killer react when his plan goes awry. He cleverly with exquisite execution defuses the situation.
The FBI agent who is pursuing him adds very little to the effort. I keep waiting for her to add some significance to the narration but it never happens.
The character of the hit man who for some reason Mr. Perry only names once in the book is engaging. We forget that he is a cold blooded killer until we are reminded by an FBI agent. The second wonderful part of the book is the description of Las Vegas. I have shared it with a friend of mine who lived and worked in Las Vegas for several years and from her description it was right on.
Lastly and this may be carping. The book would have been better without the last two pages.
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"I was thinking how right ma was -- Mrs. Nugent all smiles when she met us and how are you getting on Mrs and young Francis are you both well? . . .what she was really saying was: Ah hello Mrs Pig how are you and look Philip do you see what's coming now -- The Pig Family!"
This is a precisely crafted, often lyrical, portrait of the descent into madness of a young killer in small-town Ireland. "Imagine Huck Finn crossed with Charlie Starkweather," said The Washington Post. Short-listed for the Bram Stoker Award and England's prestigious Booker Prize.
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"When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs. Nugent."
Thus begins Patrick McCabe's shattering novel
The Butcher Boy, a powerful and unrelenting journey into the heart of darkness. The bleak, eerie voice belongs to Francie Brady, the "pig boy," the only child of and alcoholic father and a mother driven mad by despair. Growing up in a soul-stifling Irish town, Francie is bright, love-starved, and unhinged, his speech filled with street talk, his heart filled with pain...his actions perfectly monstrous.
Held up for scorn by Mrs. Nugent, a paragon of middle-class values, and dropped by his best friend, Joe, in favor of her mamby-pamby son, Francie finally has a target for his rage--and a focus for his twisted, horrific plan.
Dark, haunting, often screamingly funny,
The Butcher Boy chronicles the pig boy's ominous loss of innocence and chilling descent into madness. No writer since James Joyce has had such marvelous control of rhythm and language... and no novel since
The Silence Of The Lambs has stunned us with such a macabre, dangerous mind.
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Banana.......2007-06-19
If bananas are the world's perfect food (as banana growers would have us all believe) then this book is the banana of literature. Sum it up in two words: brilliant and heartbreaking. Why are you reading this review--you should be reading this book! I'd like to give it 5 stars twice! And so on . . .
I was so looking forward to this book........2007-04-10
I've only once put up a review on a book I disliked. Actually I rarely write a review, but have several times in the past and usually on a book that really touched me and stood out in my mind. This book certainly stands out so I will review it. I absolutely hated this book! I'm so disappointed because I was fully expecting to really enjoy it. Not so! As one other reviewer put it - "one mind-numbing, expletive-filled page after another" fits the book perfectly. I kept plugging away, expecting to hook up with the book, but by page 100 I just gave it up. A terrible disappointment.
One of my favorite books.......2006-10-16
I don't want to give too much away, but I was really surprised by the main character's take on reality. When you finally realize what is really happening, you will be shocked.
Muck, pluck, mick, pigs.......2006-06-07
Re-reading this after a decade, (really rated 3.5 stars) over the past two nights--half the book at a sitting, as the pace demands such immersion--I find the book more horrifying than the hilarious incidents I dimly recalled. The penchant of the Irish for gallows humo[u]r has never been more thoroughly hung up, drawn, and quartered. It's an act that McCabe in his later "Breakfast on Pluto" again takes on: sexual abuse, pedophilia, dressing up a lad in women's clothing, not to mention the usual clerical abuse, crazies, drunks, slatterns, bogmen, poor parenting skills, and village layabouts.
If McCabe was, say, from London with no Irish connections, this book might well have been vilified as stereotype. The movie version, by the way, played up the clerical abuse and Marian visionary subplots much more prominently than they were featured in the book taken as a whole. Anyone familiar with Ireland since 1985-2000 would know why these two plot-points would gain presumably an eager audience expecting scandal and satire via the scenes around fallen idols of a past generation.
As it is, the immersion that the prose forces upon you makes for a bracing plunge into a demented, yet often logical in its illogical reliance on instinct rather than intellect, that pulses in Francie's head. The black humor of many passages, as the novel goes on, becomes less entrancing, and as the casualty rate climbs of those near Francie, you tend to lose your identification with the protagonist. This element comes close to the book and film or "A Clockwork Orange," although McCabe eschews Burgess' philosophical and theological undertones concerning free will, psychological trauma, and sin. The political and sectarian allusions that the Publisher's Weekly blurb cited above mention completely escaped me, I confess, although I noted only that Nugent, like Joe Purcell's surname are Norman derived and not native Celtic, and this registered softly as another badge of distinction. Any stress upon the Nugent's Protestantism has to also consider that Joe too becomes as much a part of that class as the Nugents, and Joe, so it seemed at the start of the book, was pretty much equal to Francie in status. Any resentment Francie harbors for the Nugents seems much more class-based than religiously fueled. Francie's animus heeds shame more than sin.
The book would have been far better if the demands of a slasher-seeking marketplace mean that at least an up-and-coming writer (such was McCabe circa 1992 when this was published in Britain) cannot put out a frightening but well-honed hundred-page novella but has to stretch out the tale with padded incidents and repititious scenes so it swells well more than twice that length for a book-length manuscript to sell.
Still, this is where to start, and then Breakfast. If Breakfast had come first, it may well have reversed the order of merit; the two novels are paired well, for better and worse, in similar set-ups and characterization and style. I read a later novel, Call Me the Breeze, which again tries the tale told by a misfit full of sound and fury, but to less successful results. Trouble is, even in this his best book (although Breakfast's a close second), the traces of McCabe's influences indelibly endure: Salinger, Faulkner, Joyce, Beckett, and Burgess among others. The author knows how to channel these formidible forebears into his own take on early 60s Ireland, but the pat nature of some of the incidents that Francie finds himself in on his picaresque journey from home to asylum back to home and back to incarceration seem--as in other such allegorical or symbolically driven stories from the past centuries--a bit too neatly arranged and so to bely the realism that in the many smaller details in the childhood and village scenes do show that McCabe's capable of more original craft.
McCabe's prose is by far the best feature of this book, and how he manages to out you into Francie's convoluted mentality while affording by carefully placed seemingly tangential details that clue us into what the narrator himself cannot understand is skillfully done. So much so that this technique over the long course of even a rather short novel means that its pages are densely packed with what becomes dispiriting, depressing, and self-lacerating incidents which no plucky turn-of-phrase after a while can repair. This slim book weighs you down.
The stamina of author, plot, and main character cannot last until the last pages with the reckless spirit with which it started. Too much sadness accumulates. But perhaps, despite the flaws, this is appropriate for this type of story, when as the horrors mount, the laughter fades and we find ourselves face-to-face with the muck. I remember what no character here recalls, even in an Ireland then (circa 1962--Bay of Pigs incident is in the background of the latter portion of the novel) compelled to try to educate its children in Irish, that muck comes fittingly from "muc," Irish word for pig.
so you want to know what it's like..........2005-03-16
As a stark raving looney myself (albeit a medicated one) I could understand Francie's deep obsessions and inability to grasp reality more than some. This book touched me deeply and the sometimes horrific, selfish, and often childish aspects of insanity are captured wonderfully. If you truly want to delve into mental illness trash your copies of Catcher and the Rye and read this. Obsession, paranoia, hallucinations, crushing despair... it's all in here and tossed about with the wicked humor that keeps us alive at times. I don't know if Mr. McCabe knew what he was tapping into but he did it successfully!
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In the realm of Alera, where people bond with the furies-elementals of earth, air, fire, water, and metal-fifteen-year-old Tavi struggles with his lack of furycrafting. But when his homeland erupts in chaos-when rebels war with loyalists and furies clash with furies-Tavi's simple courage will turn the tides of war.
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Episodic.......2007-09-07
Best known for his Dresden Files series, author Jim Butcher's foray into epic fantasy begins with the tediously predictable yet irritatingly addictive FURIES OF CALDERON. I found the book mostly epic fluff, but surprisingly unputdownable. The book contains episodic, soap-opera plotting which will inexorably compel me to find out what happens to some of the characters in spite of my overall lack of enjoyment. With names like Gaius Sextus and Legionnaires in the Legion, a Roman inspiration characterizes the book's settings and backdrop. This book firmly belongs to the young woman Amara, her missions under the First Lord and her romance with Bernard.
Some positives to begin with. I liked the magic system: humans command "Fury" elementals incipient in earth, water, air, wood, steel to do their bidding. Some of the elementals lend themselves to naturally restorative functions such as water furies while other elementals exhibit a tendency for destruction such as earth furies. For a fantasy series, Butcher injects the book with a prevalent romantic flavor. Astonishingly, I felt some of the romance here could have been written by pure romance novelists, and it almost seems like Jim Butcher has read some historical romance novels. For instance, Amara's tingling, melting reactions in response to a tall, broad-shouldered, handsome widower. The pacing is fast, and Butcher keeps the action and romance flowing in this 504-page paperback. There's some genuine gray characters and the book thankfully dismisses the black-and-white Good vs. Evil struggle in epic fantasies. In fact, treachery and civil conflict marked much of the climactic battle here with each group and character striving for their own end goals.
Possible SPOILERS ahead.
Now for the negatives which easily overwhelmed the positives. The plotting was entirely formulaic and predictable. There's even a magical river flood akin to the flood in Tolkien's FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING before the companions arrive at Rivendale. The prose was, in general, below average to average. There's an attempt at settings and world building but I've seen better, even in pure romance novels. I hated that our 15 year-old protagonist boy Tavi behaves more like a 7,8 year-old baby often crying and screaming in terror most of the time. If I were a 15 year-old boy, I'd resent anyone calling me a "boy" or "child" at every turn, and I'd definitely avoid any emotional outbursts in public (hugging, crying). Tavi is too much of a do-gooder at 15, I know I found myself in much more mischief at the same age. For a series about a boy's coming-of-age, the first installment FURIES OF CALDERON firmly belongs to our young woman Amara, and her mission as Cursor under the First Lord of the Aleran Kingdom. I really could have done without Amara's romance with Tavi's uncle, the tall, broad-shouldered, strong and handsome Bernard. I found myself begrudging any chapter from Amara's perspective, which comprises a majority of the novel. I don't know, something about her, I just didn't like, and I liked Bernard even less. The entire combination was just... bleh. Butcher mostly employs Amara's perspective in the prolonged climactic finale featuring the battle between the Marat barbarians and the Roman-inspired Alerans at the Garrison in Calderon Valley. The interminable climactic battle was long and pointless! Almost every other chapter, there's the threat of a major death, but unfortunately, you know this type of novel lacks the audacity to kill off a major character. By the end of the novel, with *everyone* surviving for future books, it all seemed sooooo very, very, very vapidly pointless. It's funny, I couldn't take The Major Death in Scott Lynch's RED SEAS UNDER RED SKIES, but I was begging for some deaths here, Amara and Bernard most of all. I would have given the book 2 stars if this novel had killed off Amara and Bernard! Most of the protagonists I found aggravating or unlikable. I disliked Tavi, hated Bernard and Amara. I liked Tavi's Aunt Isana (though she sparingly appears), I enjoyed the redoubtable warrior Aldrick's mistress, the water witch Odiana, and I definitely enjoyed our disillusioned antagonist Fidelias. Finally, the magic is egregiously overused. It's a danger of fantasy novels, but magic users here fling their furies at foes and allies alike with impunity and without any limitations. Whenever Amara needs some aid in a pinch, oh let's just call on her wind fury Cirrus to fly her to safety or deliver a lethal blow! Oh someone suffered a fatal wound? Fear not, Isana's water fury Rill to the rescue! It gets seriously out of hand, and you start to question whether death exists for our main characters in Butcher's world at all.
Anyway, I can't believe I want to read the next novel in this series after this poor fantasy effort. I guess Jim Butcher hooked me enough to find out if/when Tavi will ever get his fury, who Tavi's parents are, will we see Tavi's Marat rival Kitai who turns out to be a girl, will Tavi grow out of his crying and screaming, will Amara and Bernard ever die. Episodic? Anecdotal? Fluff? Yep. Yep. And yep.
fast and furious [no spoilers].......2007-09-06
"Furies of Calderon" starts "The Codex Alera" series with appealing characters amid pure storytelling. The characters and environment details are exceptional plus the intriguing tale has plenty of adventure and suspense. Constant action outside of the great battles develop all of the characters sufficiently, protagonists and antagonists alike.
The magic is fascinating yet overwhelming since an entire populace has it. Aleran's work with at least one fury, a spirit like entity related to air, earth, fire, metal, water, or wood, and each fury has special abilities and strengths generally depending upon the creativity and skill of the crafter. Unfortunately young shepherd Tavi cannot summon any furies and relies solely on his strength and wit to function in an enhanced realm.
There are countless characters throughout, the sneaky Cursors Amara and Fidelias, the dangerous duo furymasters Aldrick ex Gladius and Odiana, and Tavi's guardians Aunt Isana and Uncle Bernard (sister and brother). All individuals receive enough literary consideration to understand their primary motivations but leaves adequate mysteries unresolved as excellent cliffhangers for future novels. Several of them unreasonably survive near death experiences, a trait numerous authors exploit with their favorites.
Even though the occasional sentence structure suffers from rambling, the novel would be more acceptable by young readers if not for the rare vicious incident where its specifics aren't essential to the plot. A detailed map of the significant terrains and comprehensive appendix would have been useful.
I recommend this series to any fan of the fantasy genre.
Thank you.
Excellent Fantasy Read.......2007-07-16
My girlfriend picked this book up for my birthday last month and I devoured it over the course of several days. The setup does take a little while, but I did not feel that it dragged, and it was well worth it once the action really began kicking. This is definitely a page turner, as the characters face crisis after crisis and combat after combat. The concept of "furies" - elemental spirits that bond to almost everyone in the land (with the exception of Tavi, one of the protagonists) - is a well-executed one and Butcher was very creative in how he had his characters use them to help them in various situations. The world itself also feels well fleshed out and most of the characters really do read like characters, not just caricatures - the protagonists are likeable and you root for them to come through, while the antagonists are a mixed bag - they range from truly evil (Kord), to conflicted but determined to follow their beliefs (Fidelias). Well done there.
The only disappointments I had with the novel were minor - he really lays it on a bit thick in the ending, specifically the last chapter, rather over the top and kind of indulgent (the very last couple of paragraphs are nice though). And his sexual morality seems rather on the conservative side (good guys blush at nudity, enjoy only fleeting kisses and nothing more - bad guys enjoy nudity, sex, infidelity, rape, etc), which seemed somewhat out of place given the darker aspects of the plot. Perhaps he wrote it this way because he was going for a younger audience, but then again, there are some pretty sinister scenes and chapters that may not sit well with kids (or more likely their parents).
Despite those two complaints, I'd have to give this a strong recommendation to anyone into the fantasy genre. The book is well-written, with nice description, believable motivations and a gripping tale in a land rich with magic and history. I'm very much looking forward to continuing into the series.
Oh, and as a side note, both of the "professional" reviews at the top of the page have typos and/or misinformation. User reviews are much better for this novel.
Do not eat this book.......2007-06-15
OK, silly heading, I know, but it's what came to mind, because this book reminds me of a dessert: no nutritional value, but still tastes pretty good. And that is this book in a nutshell, for me. The writing is lazy, cliches abound, the plot is totally predictable and rather derivative, but yet it is still entertaining. For all its flaws this book is good to relax with if you just want to unwind at the end of the day and not have to think too hard--it's literary meringue. I just wish it wasn't quite so cheesy.
Amazing.......2007-06-10
I've found Butcher's series to be a fantastic series which rivals that of Fiest, Jordan, Martin, and Goodkind. Unlike the previous authors Butcher's story is much more involved with character development, he's more restrained with random plot threads, and each novel gives some sense of cloture. Whereas at times with Jordan and Martin you can get drowned in the subplots, Butcher's subplots enhance our understanding of the characters seem to have definitive path, albeit with a few twists, and are all together interesting. Finally, the series seems to be on shcedule of 1 book a year. If you love Martin, Jordan, Fiest, and Goodkind (and especially if you get frustrated with them) you'll love the Codex of Alera.
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The Butcher Boy (Ireland into Film)
Colin MacCabe
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* Lucid and accessible style makes the series appealing to the general reader
* Liberally illustrated throughout with stills from the film under discussion
* Collaboration between Cork University Press and the Film Institute of Ireland.
"The Butcher Boy" is perhaps the finest film to have come out of Ireland. Although it breaks clearly with the banal canons of realism, it is nonetheless the most realistic of Irish films. It engages with the society and culture of modern Ireland with a wit and ferocity that denies the viewer any easy moral position. Cinema is often thought of as a purely visual art, but this film is adapted from a groundbreaking novel by a filmmaker who is himself a writer of prose fiction. In this present study, Colin MacCabe examines the process by which fiction becomes film, and writing becomes image. The book places "The Butcher Boy" in the overall context of Neil Jordan's career, and analyzes the trajectory between his international and national films.
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Precious Moments My First Communion Book: Boys
Daniel J. Porter
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Butcher Boy
Patrick Mccabe
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Butcher's Boy
Thomas Perry
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After the bloody battle of Shiloh, the beautiful wife of an important congressman and her twin sister are found shot in the heart, embalmed, and placed in the same coffin. Now, Harrison Raines must discover what bound the sisters in such a bizarre death.
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Very Slow Start Redeemed by Entertaining Second Half.......2004-12-08
General Grant is getting his army ready to march on Corinth, Mississippi when a beautiful woman enters his tent. She's the wife of a congressman and demands a pass to visit her twin sister across the line. Grant reluctantly agrees, but regrets his decision when the Confederates attack the next morning. In the aftermath of the bloody battle, not a trace can be found of either woman.
Meanwhile, Harrison Raines and Jacques Tantou are returning from New Mexico. Harry insists on going through New Orleans to follow up on a bit of information he got on Louis Devereux to try to quiet his mind about the loyalties of this beautiful actress. What happens there sends them up the Mississippi and across the path of Grant. Suddenly Harry finds himself on a quest to solve the mystery of what happened to the sisters to prove his loyalty to the Union.
Like the last book in this series, it starts out very slow. In fact, the first 50 pages of Harry could be cut out without missing anything critical to the story. Even when his story gets interesting, he behaves in such a stupid manner it was driving me crazy. The second half returned to the good plotting of the first few books in the series. Here there was plenty of excitement and I felt like the book was actually getting somewhere. Plus Harry grows a brain and starts acting like a grown up and not a teenager. And the ending has such a nice wrap-up, I wonder if we will have more in the series or not. Once again, the setting and real events of the time come to life. The author has spent lots of time researching the time period and it shows.
On the whole, I'd probably give the book a 3.5 rating, rounding up to four to be generous. Fans of the series will want to read it, but new comers won't care about the characters enough to continue to the real meat of the story, the second half.
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Diverticulosis: A Self-Help Plan
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome is an extremely common disorder which is diagnosed in 50% of cases of people who have consulted a gastroenterologist.
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Amazing, almost miraculous help.......2007-06-22
I was diagnosed with IBS many years ago when I was having three or more episodes each week. My life was unmanageable with it; I couldn't leave the house because I'd be fine one minute, and in a cold sweat and excruciating pain ten minutes later. Often, there was no warning.
My condition had built up slowly, over a period of about five years. Initially, doctors thought that it was a food allergy. In time, they realized that I had a chronic condition--probably IBS but possibly diverticulitis or something related--but their advice involved an extreme (and unrealistic) limited diet and painkillers that knocked me out for nearly a day. Their advice seemed like a band aid, not a cure or even a workable solution.
I was becoming an anxious recluse, afraid to leave the house or schedule anything important. The pain was beyond anything I'd experienced, except in childbirth.
I bought this book out of desperation, and started applying some of the dozens of helpful tips right away. Most worked, but a few didn't. (They didn't make it worse, they just didn't help.)
Gradually, I narrowed my focus to three or four recommendations that helped the most, and I used them every time. (For me, enteric-coated peppermint oil capsules are vital at the earliest symptoms. I learned about those readily available capsules in this book.)
My IBS episodes became shorter. They "aftershocks" (lesser episodes that followed a major IBS attack) were gentler and smaller in number. In time, they stopped altogether.
It's been over four years since my last full-blown IBS episode. During those years, I've had three minor incidents, but nothing that kept me in bed for a full day afterwards.
This book is the single most important reason why I was able to resume a relatively normal lifestyle after being pretty much housebound for close to a year. Years later, I can barely remember how awful life was when I constant worried about an IBS episode interrupting everything from professional meetings and my kids' school picnics, to grocery shopping.
My doctors were amazed and impressed at my improvement, and time has proved that my condition is stable now.
Some doctors estimate that IBS and related issues are second only to the common cold as reasons why people call in sick at work. Whether or not that's true, I was amazed when I started admitting that I have IBS. Close to half of my friends confessed that they suffered from IBS episodes as well.
Without exception, everyone I've talked with who has IBS--including my mother--has used this book with rave results. Many of them have referred other people to this book, too.
This book changed my life for the better.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome & Dverticulosis.......2003-05-03
Got Diverticulosis and want help? Dont buy this book. These are two different ailments and the author treats them as one.
Very dissapointed, save your money.
Misleading Title.......1999-12-09
Except for the title, you cannot find any reference to Diverticulosis in this book. Otherwise, it is a useful book.
This information has really helped me........1999-08-17
I have found that the information in this book has helped me more than anything I have tried in the past 12 years... My experience with MD's has been futile. Anyone suffering with IBS or diverticulosis would be well served reading the exceptionally well written book.
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