Marjorie Morningstar

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One of the best..........2007-08-10

books I have ever read. You are able to connect with the characters and feel like you are part of the story. Wouk has a glorious way to write you into the story. I truly never wanted this book to end. It accurately depicts the social climate of the era and leaves you wistful about where Marjories life took her. I think women could find a similar plot with their first true love. Well written---well worth reading.

Well written, terribly outdated.......2007-07-05

While I found this story to be quite absorbing and well written, I couldn't help but feel a certain disgust by the treatment of the female characters. Marjorie Morningstar, an intelligent and beautiful woman, goes about her life as if in a dream; she does very little - travels a bit, dabbles in acting, and is basically a pampered Jewish princess. At a time when Hitler is rounding up her ancestors in Easter Europe, Marjorie Morningstar is spending lavishly on clothes, hanging out at the local five & dime, reading movie magazines on her bed, and travelling first-class to Europe to track down a no-good bum in order to force marriage upon him. We are told that she has a science degree, but nothing ever comes of it. After she graduates from college it is never mentioned again.

I am surprised by the heart-warming reviews of this book; it is terribly sad. In the end, she gets married. She is saved! But she ends up prematurely aged, dull, involved in church activities, and you just feel that her life was somehow wasted; that she was foolish to have ever wanted anything more, and is ultimately punished for it. At the ripe old age of 39, Herman Wouk has her sitting in a rocking chair, gray hair pulled back in a bun. Why? This book could be used in a gender studies class - it perfectly demonstrates the double standards by which women of this generation were forced to live.

A Winner from Wouk.......2007-06-20

Tracking the life of young Margorie Mornigstar (nee Morgenstern), Wouk traces the conflicts of young love, religion, feminism, and the pace of the changing world in the mid-20th Century.

Best book ever!.......2007-02-08

This is one of my all time favorites. I love Marjorie. It is a great coming of age story. I stayed up all night reading it. It will forever be with me. I gave this book to a friend who was on bed rest during a pregnancy. She said it was what kept her busy during those long days. I wish I still had the book to look forward too!

A classic.......2006-08-14

I do take exception with "A Reader" who is shocked at the double standards regarding sex depicted in this book. It wasn't double standards - it was The Standard. When you read a book that is about the 1930s or written in the 1930s, you need to remember the times and THAT WAS THE WAY IT WAS. There are a lot of things in it that don't particularily pertain to the way things are now. It wouldn't be the story it is if it was written in and about the 1990s. So read it for the excellent writing, the excellent story and remember the era that it is talking about. Consider it a history lesson as well as to how things were. The times were different. The thinking was different. The standards were different. The culture was different. One cannot compare a story set in the 30s to one set in the current. And to focus on the sexual climate where this reviewer thinks it's such a shame they didn't behave the same way the currect culture does. There are a lot of differences - wages, technology, schooling. Not only is it a terrific book - it is a lesson on how we got to where we are today and how things change. For good or bad.

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New direction, same ability to grab the reader

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So tedious, it's criminal.
Dead Is Forever: A Novel Of Crime
David Cray
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Blame it on the dragonfish. Exquisitely sculpted in yellow jade, it's a piece that collector and sometimes private investigator Philip Beckett simply cannot resist. To purchase it, against all his better filial instincts, he takes the case, for which his formidable sibling rival, aptly named Regina, with no little contempt agrees to meet his handsome fee. The family, which Philip has scrupulously deserted, has a problem, it seems, for cousin Audrey's wayward husband, Count Sergio D'Alesse, has added an embarrassing $40,000 gambling debt to his long list of dubious accomplishments. All Philip has to do is make it go away-which he does. Only before you can say Sergio, the count is dead. And Philip is the prime suspect. In this smart, suspenseful new crime novel, the enthusiastically reviewed David Cray turns aside from police procedurals to follow the fortunes of Philip Beckett, erstwhile scion of his family's industrial empire, in his attempt to solve Sergio's apparently senseless murder. Not that Philip doesn't learn soon enough who the killer is. It's what he can't determine that's more worrisome, to both him and his family, as it becomes increasingly clear that the shadowy figure behind the killer is one of them.

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New direction, same ability to grab the reader.......2005-02-03

In Dead is Forever, David Cray creates a Nick and Nora Charles for the new millenium. Not as dark as Cray's previous novels, Little Girl Blue and Partners, this story flies from start to finish as Philip Beckett, the black sheep of a wealthy family, and his girlfriend Maggie Santos, an attorney, join forces to protect his family only to find his family may be deeply involved in the crime. You won't be able to put it down.

A Page Turner.......2005-01-28

Dead is Forver is a departure for the venerable David Cray. I appreciate it when an author takes chances and presents a work that goes in a different direction than his previous novels. While not hardboiled, this novel shows Cray at his best with a strong narrative voice, sardonic humor, and a nice touch of spicy romance added into the mix. Who would've thought Cray would be the author to revive the style of Rex Stout with a PI named Phillip Beckett?

This novel takes a knowledgeable tour of New York City's upper class, of which Beckett is a former member who dropped out by choice, and is only pulled back in for his love of jade Chinese antiques. The premise is simple enough: A cousin who is count has a bad gambling debt that needs taken care of. Once Beckett takes the case, things fall into place rapidly, the debt easily addressed. At least until the count the turns up dead, and Beckett himself becomes the lead suspect. From there, Cray twists and turns through the streets of NYC, and ends up face to face with all of the members of his family, each of whom has a reason to want the count dead, and Beckett himself put away for the crime.

This is a sophisticated novel, and a successful one at that. I for one look forward to Cray's next novel because you never know where he's going to take you, but you can trust it will be a great ride.

So tedious, it's criminal........2005-01-18

David Cray's previous novels were somewhat dark and character driven. I liked the intricate plotting and exploration of the human psyche in Cray's compelling "Little Girl Blue" and "What You Wish For." Therefore, I was happily anticipating his latest effort, "Dead is Forever," thinking that it would be another book along these lines. Unfortunately, this time around, Cray branches out in a entirely new and unproductive direction.

The hero of "Dead is Forever" is Philip Beckett, the maverick son of a wealthy but remote titan of industry. In spite of having a Harvard and Wharton Business School education, Philip refuses to work for his father; therefore Regina, his ambitious sister, has taken over the role of heir apparent to the Beckett mantle of power. Against his better judgment, Philip is dragged back into the family's affairs when his cousin's wastrel of a husband, Count Sergio D'Alesse, is found dead of a gunshot wound. Sergio was a compulsive gambler with large debts that he could not repay. Who killed him and why? Philip, who is a licensed private investigator, looks into the case, fearing that a member of his family may be involved. When other people connected with the case also turn up dead, Philip puts himself and his girlfriend in danger by stubbornly continuing to pursue leads.

"Dead is Forever" has many weaknesses, including cutesy dialogue, pedestrian writing, and a tepid plot. I was never interested in the cardboard Philip or in his venal and selfish relatives, and I was not invested in the outcome of the case. The denouement, in which Philip gathers the suspects in a room and explains his thoughts about who committed the crimes, is reminiscent of a half-baked Hercules Poirot novel without Agatha Christie's wit and cleverness. Please, Mr. Cray, go back to your thriller roots. It's what you do best.

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Anne McCaffrey concludes the saga of Angharad Gwyn, the Rowan, her husband Jeff Raven, and their family of powerful telepathically and telekinetically Talented offspring with The Tower and the Hive. ( The first four books in the series are: The Rowan, Damia, Damia's Children, and Lyon's Pride.) As usual, McCaffrey delivers vividly real characters struggling with personal, political, and ethical issues and finding humane solutions.

Federated Teleport and Telepath, dominated by the Gwyn-Raven clan, provides interstellar shipping and communications for the Star League of Humans and Mrdinis--weasel-like aliens. In following the aggressive, ant-like Hivers, whose "spheres" have repeatedly attacked League worlds, naval vessels have discovered many more habitable planets, including some occupied by Hivers. Who will get to colonize these planets, Humans or Mrdinis? Should all Hivers be destroyed, or is there some way to contain them? Where will more Talents to staff the vital Towers come from? And how best to defeat those whose resentment of the Gwyn-Raven family's powers and friendship with Mrdinis could lead to violence?

McCaffrey's protagonists are four Gwyn-Raven grandchildren, now young adults who find romance and mature while studying both alien races. Old and new fans alike can enjoy her masterful blending of scientific extrapolation and fantasy elements to produce a universe they'll leave regretfully. --Nona Vero

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The long-awaited final volume in the New York Times bestselling Rowan saga.

For generations, the descendents of the powerful telepath known as the Rowan have used their various Talents to help mankind--some are powerful telepaths, others can teleport through space, others are empathic healers. The clan has grown powerful. They have led Earth to ally itself with the alien Mrdini, and together the two races have held back the predatory Hivers, a deadly insectoid species that kills all life it finds.

Like all powerful families, the Rowan clan has also made enemies. There are those who say the treaties with the Mrdini gave away too much--especially, that the Mrdini get more than their fair share of new living space as habitable planets are discovered--that the Hivers should have been exterminated by now, and that far too much power is concentrated in one family.

The clan has two goals to keep the peace: to help the Mrdini control population growth, so that newly discovered planets are distributed more evenly, and to put a final halt to Hiver advances. They are confident of success--if they can survive sabotage and assassination attempts aimed at destroying all they have worked for.

"McCaffrey continues to hone and extend this universe, which has become more convincing with each novel." -Booklist

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Is this Anne McCaffrey?.......2007-03-17

Who really wrote this book? I have to wonder if Todd McCaffrey didn't in fact write this.
That's the only explanation I can come up with for her having seemed to forget her characters so completely.
I just finished reading the whole Talent series back to back and the difference between those books and this is striking.
What happened? I have been wondering what the deal is with her allowing her son Todd to tinker with Pern, the results
of which you can read about in other reviews here on this site. Suffice it to say, they have not been a roaring success.
I personally think he had a large hand in this one, even if he received no credit for it. Why?
After 5 years with no sequel, all of a sudden she decides to come back, like with Skies of Pern and just like that book, this
one has some major problems. For example, the woodenness, the unfamiliarity of all the characters we have come to love
from the last 4 books. The characters just feel all wrong, almost like in fanfic when someone tries hard to emulate the original,
but is just too self aware.
What about the Rowan? She makes glorified cameos, along with Damia and Afra. And frankly, they were the only reasons I
kept reading this book. But they don't appear all that much and the reader is left with the boring personalities of their cookie-cutter
children.
The once interesting and vibrant characters in the first novels have been radically changed, as if McCaffrey did indeed forget
them. In this book, Afra is described as being `methody' when in fact the entire background of the Damia novel was all about him
NOT being methody, which was why he had to leave Capella. Jeff Raven is now a Peter Reidinger clone, shamelessly manipulating
his horde of offspring and heavily pressuring them to accept outposts on planets light years away from family and friends. The
Rowan is somewhere in the background there. She has one or two paragraphs, but not much else. What happened to the Jeff Raven
who wanted to rebel? Or even the Rowan for that matter.
My other misgivings about this so-called `ending' are these:

1. The plot meanders all over the place. I mean, why is the Hiver Queen now into her third book of incarceration, and no one has
a clue how to talk to her yet? Zara was supposed to be the liaison with godlike gifts of empathy, but she goes on to other things and
never comes in contact with the Hiver Queen again. Later they attribute her understanding of the Queen's distress as having been
just chance. Now, this is the first break with canon that got my attention and why I think someone other than McCaffrey had a hand
in writing this thing. You may recall, that Zara felt the pain of the Queen from several light years away, and when she got close, she
immediately understood that she was freezing to death. The continuity error here is a step beyond the shoddily written intro where
Afra is listed as being Damia's brother, for Pete's sake. This is just a straight cop out, and if they didn't want to write any more,
they would have been better off not bothering at all. Of course, there's no money in that, is there?

2.The other children and their significant others go from one planet to the other, hypothesizing and theorizing about Hiver biology,
when what the reader wants to know is: What happened to so and so --? And it just goes on and on, along with the ridiculous
subplot of developing birth control methods for the `Dinis. The final answer of how to talk with the Hivers is very contrived and
goes against earlier canon. Uh, why weren't the pheromones detected in Damia's Children when Zara pulled her `antic'? Why
didn't the Queen react to Zara's pheromones? You might remember she stank so badly, she was rushed into the showers, and yet in
the Tower and Hive, the mere hint of garlic caused a Hiver to react to cleanse the air. It's all just nonsense. Forget writing the
Biology textbook for the 24th century, this story was always about the PEOPLE and I think the communication thing with the
Hivers could have been so much more interesting . . . as in, what if they are Telepathic in some new way? That would have
explained why Zara could hear her all those light years away and the instantaneous communication from the Queen to her workers.
Pheromones take time, because they require air. And air, even in a hurricane, can only go so fast.

3. Damia's children. To the last man (or woman) they are absolutely perfect. They don't gripe about working full time jobs from
the time they are 12 or so and don't seem to want to rebel against their grandfather's unceasing demands as well as his schemes to
turn them all into baby factories. They don't seem to mind being bred like cattle. In addition, we are left at the end of the book
knowing that they will all be searching for Hiver worlds forever on board navy vessels in order to drop the pheromones on them.
For years and years and years. And I thought my job was bad.

4. No interesting characters. The one possibility, Vagrian, is given more time in the book than the Rowan or Damia but turned out
to be a red herring. Why did they bring in this character? He adds nothing to the story and once he is mind-fixed, has no other
purpose. Why did McCaffrey introduce us to him, if he doesn't do anything important? He doesn't even seduce one of her available
daughters, so there's no reason for him to be in the story. You begin to wonder if there wasn't more planned for that character McCaffrey
(or Todd) just lost steam and tied it all up.

5. That's yet another problem. Too many pat answers, the most glaring of which is the Laria/Kincaid relationship. Now, why go to all
the trouble to reinforce that the man is gay in the other books, and then just have him forget all that and become straight just for her.
Because he loves her? It doesn't work that way. So now, we are left with their very implausible relationship and of course her entry
into the halls of baby making. How about a female Talent that -gasp!- chooses not to have ANY babies! Now that might be a good
story.

So, we are finally left with an incomplete and hurried story, up to an including the Final Solution for the Buggers -I mean Hivers.
(Wouldn't want Orson Scott Card to get mad or anything.) What made these books so great was the concept of Talent combined with
the interesting personalities. From Rhyssa Owen to Damia, even Jeff Raven before his character got ruined. It would have been better
not to end it like this, but leave it with the open ended finale in Lyon's Pride.

Nice end to a nice series........2007-01-18

Well - the "Tower and Hive" Series (Starting with "The Rowan") has seen better books - but it manages to tie up a couple of loose ends from "Lyon's Pride" and puts an acceptable end to the series without making another book impossible...
It gets 4 out of 5 because I expected more a little more from the story...

The Tower and the Hive.......2007-01-10

Just filling out my library, completing the series. I find McCaffrey's books very easy reads, but good tales and well written.

Good Book in Good Series.......2006-11-14

Anne McCaffrey has a great series using ESP powers with Interseller Travel, Aliens (Good and Bad). Great series

A realistic conclusion to an exciting series!.......2005-04-17

I have read most every book by Anne McCaffrey that is out there including the Pern books and Acorna books. I have enjoyed the Talent series the most for the creativity of the author and the reality checks that are included. I admit it would have been nice to have a perfectly completed and everything resolved type of ending but for me, I enjoyed that while the major issues of how to get the Hivers to not go out and destroy worlds populated with sentient beings and getting the Gwyn-Raven-Lyon grandchildren out on their own and starting their own dynasty are resolved more quietly than with a big bang!

Especially touching and interesting in this book was the more information we got on Mrdinis, their hibernation and reproductive habits as well as their attitudes and politics. The relationships between Asia and Rojer and Laria and Dano were also very nicely matured.

I enjoyed learning more about the "bad guys" -- the Hivers -- their habitat was so well described I could just picture it. I also swear that I have had a "sting-pzzt" type of experience -- when my husband used to work in a factory before we were married and came home with a sort of metallic powder all over him. It was definitely a smell/taste/feeling!!

I was also glad that this book had a few less tragedies since the last book had quite a few. The invasion of the Blundell building was exciting and showed how Jeff Raven and the Rowan have still "got it."

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Boring
Great Read!
Lyons too Proud......
A good read worth the time.
An exciting, character-driven tale.

Lyon's Pride (Tower & the Hive)
Anne McCaffrey
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The beautiful woman called The Rowan was the most powerful telepath on all the planets of the Alliance - until the birth of her daughter, Damia. Damia and her husband, Afra Lyon, were the most extraordinary team of telepaths the Alliance had ever seen - until the powers of their children began to emerge.

Now the combined power of all these generations, especially the unique abilities of the younger Lyon clan, is needed to face once and for all the threat of the alien Hivers. The human worlds see themselves as peaceful, and traditionally they have used deadly force only in self-defense, but now the time has come to take the battle with the Hivers out into space. A fleet of starships, with the powerful Lyon clan as its leaders, is sent into Hiver territory. Their mission: seek and destroy the Hiver threat that is lurking at the edges of known space.

Customer Reviews:

Boring.......2007-01-01

This books along with the latter talent books are so unrealistic as to be boring. The first talent books, Pegasus in Flight and Pegasus in Space were interesting and fun because we were reading about real characters.They had Talent, but they were still real people.The characters in the latter talent books are nothing less than gods, with an almost all-powerful Talent, and seemingly little or no personal problems or limitations (which makes th books dull). Also, what the books really portray, without actually saying it is basically a Talent autocracy. Non talented are inferior and unimportant, and the talented rule over everyone else with their powers. This reminds me of Star Trek, where everyone is law abiding, and the authority of the Federation is unquestioned.So what happens to those who question the authority of the Federation? They are automatically outlaws. Its really quite totalitarian.
Anyway, this book is boring and not worth the money.

Great Read!.......2006-08-24

Really enjoy the story, with each new generation of primes the story is extended and made more interesting.

Lyons too Proud.............2003-12-03

I listened to the audio version of Lyon's Pride, and enjoyed it, with a few caveats. One: there was a distinct lack of plot, and two: very little actually happened. Sure, we got a peek into the perfect world of Damia and her Children, but the plot seemed to meander...And the hive 'menace' was not really much of a menace at all.

Pet peeves: Personally, I found the parents (and grandparents) meddling and matchmaking to be annoying. I also thought the gifts of the t-1's and how they manipulated the emotions of the lesser talented to be manipulative, and downright scary. Who says the t-1's have a right to mess with people's emotions? It was quite intrusive of Zara, to mess with the mind of Kincaid while he was sleeping, even if her intentions were good. Such powers can quickly become abusive and Damia's children seem to have no boundaries, despite their motivations.

Also, I liked the character of Kincaid, but nothing was really resolved with him. We never really found out the details about what happened to him on the deep space mission, and the character seems to be dropped halfway through the book. Other romances seemed flat to me. Roger's romance with his cousin Asia was tepid. Asia was just too timid, and Roger too self confidant. Plus there was the cousin thing...Errr, sorry, Anne, that didn't work for me.

Overall, despite these peeves, I liked Lyon's pride. It just didn't go anywhere; and the assumptions and liberties the 'talented' made towards those with lesser gifts were supercilious and grating.

A good read worth the time........2003-03-26

What makes this book worth reading is the that we are able to follow the lives of Damia's children as well as the rest of the extended family. For me that is always what made this series worth reading was the family's dedication to each other in-spite of their egos and talents. This 4th book in a series of 5 Lyon's Pride by Anne McCaffrey is set in the universe we have come to expect of her Talents series. The story continues on with Humanity and it's Allies continued fight against the hivers. There are several subplots that are set up or carried along for conclusion in the 5th book. But it is worth the read if you like this series, and McCaffrey in general.

An exciting, character-driven tale........2003-03-23

"The formidable Lyon's Pride," as a character in the next (and final) book of the Talent series calls them, are the children of T-1 Damia Gwynn-Raven and T-2 Afra Lyon; and that "T" rating is a measure of the Talented one's power. Telepathy and telekinesis keep Human and Mrdini commerce operating by moving travelers and cargoes instantaneously across vast reaches of space. Those same Talents enable the two allied species to battle successfully against a third: the implacable Hivers, who covet the same kind of real estate as do Humans and Mrdini.

All eight of Damia and Afra's children have Talent ratings of T-1. All are destined, as adults, to be known as Primes. Some, like eldest daughter Laria, will operate commercial transfer towers - a prestigious and powerful position, but one that can take a young Prime far away from home. Some, like sons Thian and Rojer, will carve out new roles for Talents in service aboard naval vessels. Second daughter Zara's strongly empathic Talent fits her for the career of healer - after it enables her to do what no one else can manage, by communicating (on however rudimentary a level) with a captured Hiver queen. The Lyon's Pride is, indeed, formidable. Its four eldest are reaching adulthood just in time to play key roles, as the Human-Mrdini alliance begins to solve the Hiver threat that first loomed when their grandparents were young.

An exciting, character-driven tale, which only occasionally bogs itself down with shipboard protocols and politics. If you can get past those pacing problems, you'll be glad you did; because "The Tower and the Hive," the next volume in the Talent series, provides a worthy conclusion to the long-running Gwynn-Raven saga.

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Taking his cue from the legendary Hollywood deal maker, Swifty Lazar who once said “Make something happen before lunch,” Stephan Schiffman has boiled down his extensive business experience into inspirational lessons that any business professional can use. Now Schiffman focuses his attention on the art of building and maintaining business relationships. Drawing on his lifetime of experience training sales people at Sprint, AT&T, American Express, and Chase, Schiffman offers fifty invaluable nuggets of field-tested business advice including: Discover the joy of rejection. Don’t take yes for an answer. Remember people live 2 weeks at a time. Don’t confuse an obstacle with a tragedy. With each tip providing a fresh insight into overcoming whatever the business world throws at you, Schiffman will change the way you think about business and success.

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Taking his cue from the legendary Hollywood deal maker, Swifty Lazar -- who once said "Make something happen before lunch", -- Stephan Schiffman has boiled down his extensive business experience into inspirational lessons that any business professional can use. Now Schiffman focuses his attention on the art of building and maintaining business relationships. Drawing on his lifetime of experience training sales people at Sprint, AT&T, American Express, and Chase, Schiffman offers fifty invaluable nuggets of field-tested business advice including: -- Discover the joy of rejection -- Don't take yes for an answer -- Remember people live 2 weeks at a time -- Don't confuse an obstacle with a tragedy With each tip providing a fresh insight into overcoming whatever the business world throws at you, Schiffman will change the way you think about business and success.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent Motivational Reading.......2007-09-17

This is one of my favorite motivational books - easy to read in small steps - each chapter filled with ideas that will immediately give you at least a few specific actions that will move you forward in growing your business.

Don't bother ordering downloads from Amazon.......2004-03-02

I ordered the download version from Amazon. What hell!! I could be out my money too - unless my credit card company will refund my money.

Took awhile for Amazon order to go from Open to Shipped. When I downloaded it, I never saw a file go to my computer. I had to use some Adobe Acrobat Reader THAT I HAD TO REGISTER. I registered - and was never able to find the downloaded file or access the ebook. I wasted up to two hours. Went to a local bookstore to get a hard copy book by this author.

When I tried to contact Amazon - there is no telephone number. When I tried to get my money back - the system says I cannot get a return. There is no way to contact Amazon. From now on, when I order online FROM ANOTHER COMPANY, I will make sure there is a way to contact the merchant by telephone.

I sent a message to support@amazon.com -- no response. I checked the support info - but it was not useful. I am a high tech person - Didn't realize you need to be a high-tech guru to download & read Amazon's e-books.

So goodbye Amazon!!

Avoid Failure.......2003-11-24

I have read a lot of Stephan Schiffman's books. This one is a great guide for keeping you focused on what really matters - getting the sale (or at least the next action). The points flow nicely, and you will learn a lot in a short period of time.

It is worth every penny!

Good insight into positioning to reach business prospects.......2002-03-27

Good information and insight into how to get through to key people and, then, how to get your point across. If you've read other books on the subject, this is redundant. However, if you haven't, this is a good place to start.

I MADE IT HAPPEN BEFORE LUNCH!!!.......2002-02-03

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This is and excellent Handbook,Training manual,or Tool for your tool kit. A must read for the novice and veteran in business.

Making it happen before lunch meets you at your current situation in life. For example, if you're just getting started in sales,business,student,or etc... You,ll begin in Part One of the book, you'll find rules that help you adopt(and reinforce)the right core ideas for achievement day in and day out.

Now, if you're already in business,sales,and etc... You can go directly to Part Two, You'll learn about some tools you can use to make the right things happen in your business relationship.

Veterans can to Part Three and find rules for keeping their focus over time... and persevering when people give you static,which is pretty much inevitable.

I use the make it happen concept for everything exercise,business,relationship and etc..

A "MUST READ IF YOU WANT TO MAKE IT HAPPEN BEFORE LUNCH"

So crawl,run,and leap to buy this book!

"A CLASSIC IN THE MAKING"

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