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- Brautigan's Style is 5 star for me.
- A lot of hype, not very good
- Who really cares about trout?
- He heard the sound of his own drummer
- Dear Zik, I Lied: I Really Hated This Book But Didn't Have The Heart To Admit It
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Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar
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A Brautigan omnibus, reissued in paperback in celebration of its twentieth anniversary, this one-volume edition includes three contemporary classics that embody the spirit of the 1960s.
Customer Reviews:
Brautigan's Style is 5 star for me........2007-07-24
I have read just about all of Brautigan's books, and never with disappointment. They are all so good that it is hard to pick a favorite. .-- Sam Yulish, author of WHERE HAVE ALL THE HIPPIES GONE and THE HESITANT PSYCHIC AND OTHER STRANGE STORIES.
A lot of hype, not very good.......2007-06-27
I bought this book after my brother-in-law recommended it but was not impressed. Some of the stories are somewhat entertaining, but most seem pointless or weird for the sake of being weird.
Who really cares about trout?.......2005-11-28
Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America could have been a real classic for the ages. That is, it could have been a classic if it wasn't about trout fishing and if it wasn't written by Richard Brautigan. Brautigan seems directionless as usual here, leaping haphazardly from one place in time to another. Just when he comes up with an interesting line or word, he seems to forget about it and leave you hanging while he goes off to some other world. His writing is the equivalent of sitting in a chair under a tree drinking MD 20/20, suddenly falling onto your back, and then staring up at the leaves and wishing that it all meant something quite profound. And that is where the problem lies--Brautigan wants the grander themes and ideas of the world to be expressed in his books, but he never does the legwork to get you there. You feel teased after reading his poems, like a girl who says she'd like to date you, then leaves you to go swimming at the YWCA, and you never hear from her again. Do you see where I'm going here? You can't make lemonade out of a sourpuss. Brautigan never gave it his best shot, and unfortunately, he left the world without having said very much to it.
He heard the sound of his own drummer .......2005-09-20
The man is no longer here so its necessary to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Brautigan was in the long tradition of American originals. Thoreau defined it as the person who can't walk in step with the others because he 'hears the sound of his own drummer'.
Brautigan put a number of things together. A kind of clearness in telling about what he was seeing right before him. A kind of whimsical random associativeness which broke up the prose line, and often make it feel as if what was on the page had nothing to do with what had come before it or after it. And most savingly, a kind of humor , this very much connected with the going his own way, and displacing things and putting them in strange order. Surprise. He also had a closeness to America, whether he liked it or not.
I agree with many of the readers about his big problem being that he often seemed to not really know or care what he was talking about. Writing was his business, and whatever came to him that's what made it on the page. So it seems.
But he had a kind of lightness with it all, and he could really sometimes make the reader laugh, which in my opinion, is saying a lot.
I do not know what he really believed, unfortunately.
Reading him is like taking a ride in an amusement park. You enjoy it but you are not exactly sure you know why. And in the end it is not something that is going to stay with you in the strongest way.
Enjoy the reading while you are reading it- and don't expect too much more.
Dear Zik, I Lied: I Really Hated This Book But Didn't Have The Heart To Admit It.......2005-09-07
Brautigan was a very weird man. I understand he went on to take his own life. That's a shame, but honestly I can kind of see the suicidal mindset in him if the man he writes about in the first-person in these is a real reflection of how he truly thought. He was a grouch and mean-spirited to the people around him. He clearly thought he was smarter than everybody else and his writings show he probably wasn't. A lot of people say this book is original but it's not, it's more like...typical midling-talent hack writing with countercultural, back-to-earth themes. He wanted to shock and tease and praise a simple life all at once and be non-tactfully frank about certain things to the point of grossness, and that's not my cup o' tea. Other than the poignant "childhood Kool-Aid" piece, the only part I liked in any of these books was in "Trout Fishing" when Brautigan caught a humpbacked fish whose odd manner of swimming he compared to Lord Byron's limp. Even that wasn't spectacular. Also, his wife should have left him over all the mean things he said about her. She must've been a saint to put up with him. I honestly don't see why any of these books make for good reading. They're a waste of time.
(If by some cosmic chance you ever happen to read this review, Zik, wherever the heck you are in this decade, sorry I lied about liking this but I didn't want to be rude about your favorite book. Since you "borrowed" those CD's of mine that I never saw again, I wish I'd have admitted how sucky I thought Brautigan was at the time.)
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Trout fishing in America,: The pill versus the Springhill mine disaster, and In watermelon sugar
Richard Brautigan
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In book two of the Highland Lords series a stranger to his ancestral Scottish lands, the dashing nobleman comes to the Highlands to reclaim his birthright , only to find something more wondrous and unexpected awaiting him: his bride!
Customer Reviews:
Could Be Better.......2007-01-23
There's no question the story lines are good, and the characters interesting, but the pacing of the story is burdened by endless pages and pages of subjective dialog rehashing again and again the same thoughts and feelings of the characters that have already been covered. I'm skipping pages everywhere trying to find the STORY and am beginning to think the inclusion of this type of endless rehashing is little more than a way for a writer to fill pages, thus my 3 star rating. I would also tend to think that many of the reviewers of this book who have given it a 4 and 5 star rating, have not read "The Princess & The Barbarian" by Betina Krahn; "My Wicked Highlander" by Jen Holling; Susan Carroll's "Dark Queen Trilogy" - book 1; "The Dark Queen", book 2; "The Courtesan", and book 3; "The Silver Rose"; "Once a Warrior" by Karyn Monk; "The Prize" by Julie Garwood, or Judith McNaught's "A Kingdom of Dream's" - one of my favorites, but sadly the only book by J. McNaught that I have enjoyed.
So much potential wasted.......2006-08-09
This book had so much potential that was wasted. I'm used to the excellent writings of Garwood, McNaught, and recently Paula Quinn to name a few. Ranney's book was a huge let-down. I couldn't care less about the characters, which is a major red flag for me. Niether Aldisar nor Isaebel displayed any true passion or witty banter that to entice me to care for them. Basically beautiful, but bland people.
Ranney writes in circles without getting to the point. Way too little dialogue. Both the hero and herione speak to each other mostly in single sentences. I felt as if I was being tortured just to get to the point. Books are supposed to elicit emotions like love and anger. This just left me annoyed. This was a very frustrating read. The love scenes are written poorly and are either too short or insanely long (10 pages!). For example, during love making Aldiar keeps thinking in his head -now, now, now- and -hurry, hurry-. He's not really in 'tune' with his wife either. Not exactly romantic.
If you've read any of the above authors, you won't like this one at all.
This story was very interesting, just the writing and characters didn't come through. I'll try one more Ranney before I call it quits, hopefully its better.
Beautiful.......2006-06-29
Karen Ranney is a wonderful writer! She takes you into her world of magic and wonder! My favorite line from the book, "Happiness is a greater comostic than any paint." Wow! How true and I love that she can tell a great story and motivate at the same time. I love her books and I would definitely recommend this book and her others. Thanks!
Great..........2005-02-05
I've read a couple of books by this author now and NONE can be called boring. Plots are a little lame but the romance is certainly there and the love the characters are supposed to feel for each other is believable.
I would love to give this book 20 stars!!.......2003-12-23
What can I say about this book? It is absolutely wonderful! I just LOVED Alisdair and Isabeal. I really like Karen Ranney's style of writing. The heros arent too harsh, the females are strong and the love scenes arent nauseatingly explicit. All in all, that makes for an excellent book! Alisdair is so wonderful and I loved how Isabeal loved him so much! I also like how Patricia was factored in. A nice way to add to the story. This book was wonderful, this whole series is! To anyone browsing, pick up this book, no, the whole series, and dig in!
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Hard Cover Book Club Edition,Avon Books, 2002. Hist Romance set in Scotland. Alisdair MacRae dreams of reclaiming his ancestral Highland estate, so he agrees to marry Iseabal, the daughter of an unscrupulous laird.
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The Star Trek: The Next Generation
® Technical Manual, written by Rick Sternbach and Michael Okuda, the technical advisors to Star Trek: The Next Generation, provides
a comprehensive schematization of a Galaxy-class starship. From the bridge to the shuttlebays, from the transporter room to crews' quarters, this book provides a never-before-seen glimpse at the inner, intricate workings of the most incredible starship ever conceived.
Full of diagrams, technical schematics, and ship's plans, the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual also takes a detailed look at the principles behind Star Trek
®'s awesome technology -- from phasers to warp drive to the incredible holodeck.
Customer Reviews:
Poor quality.......2007-08-04
I bought the first book in 1991 and was very well pleased. Several years later, I lost it. I recently saw this one in a search and decided to purchase it. Much to my extreme disappointment, it was not what I was expecting. All of the color was gone and the text within the black ovals was hardly legible. There is a page which is supposed to have a picture of our spiral galaxy on it, it looks more like an ink smudge. The entire book looks like it was copied on a five year old copy machine.
If you're replacing a copy, find one published in 1991 that's in good condition.
A must have for Trekers.......2007-07-31
Love this in my Star Trek collection. All of the technical aspects of the ships. Great find.
Direct from Starfleet Research and Development.......2007-02-09
Highly recommended for freshmen at Star Fleet Academy (and for Trekkers everywhere).
For a couple of years I was a member of a local science fiction society in part just to see if there was any other science fiction comparable in quality to Star Trek (in whatever series, whether The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space 9, Voyager, or Enterprise). The answer is No, Non, Nyet, Nada, Lo. If Star Trek is like graduate school, then most other science fiction is like pre-school. Or if Star Trek is like a blues master, then other science fiction sounds like the noise created by a hip hop "artist."
The attention to detail and the care in presentation of Star Trek are represented very well in this Technical Manual. There are 17 chapters: USS Enterprise Introduction, Spacecraft Structure, Command Systems, Computer Systems, Warp Propulsion Systems, Impulse Propulsion Systems, Utilities and Auxiliary Systems, Communications, Transporter Systems, Science and Remote Sensing Systems, Tactical Systems, Environmental Systems, Crew Support Systems, Auxiliary Spacecraft Systems, USS Enterprise Flight Operations, Emergency Operations, and Conclusion. There is a fine Afterword by Rick Berman, the Executive Producer of Star Trek. There is also an Index and Key to Acronyms, and a list of Units of Measure. Illustrations abound.
The logical consistency and logical extrapolation and creative imagination shown in Star Trek represent human beings at their best and brightest. If you like thinking about the far future, this Technical Manual is for you.
Great book, horrible reprint quality.......2006-09-09
I originally purchased this book in the early 1990s when it was first published. It is an awesome "reference" to the Star Trek: TNG technical world. Having lost the book in a move several years ago, I decided to purchase a new copy.
I wish I had read the reviews before I bought the book. The print quality is terrible, and indeed looks like it was done on a copy machine. The text is adequate quality, but the color is gone from highlights. Even worse, the wonderful color graphics are now simply terrible. They aren't blue either, so no longer can you call them "blueprints." No crisp lines, the previously fine details now run together. Graphics with text in them are almost unreadable.
Very, very disappointed.
Terrible Quality!.......2006-08-30
I've had the TNG Technical Manual for years, but recently lost it in a move. So, I decided to buy a new copy.
What I received was NOT the same book I was replacing. The entire book is some sort of low quality photocopying job. There was no color in the edition I received, and the graphics looked like they were printed on a copier low on toner.
I don't reccomend that anybody buy this version. You'll probably have a better experience looking for a good condition used copy.
I'm sad and dissappointed, and will be asking for a refund.
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You are hereby authorized to assume command of this official inspection tour, to move throughout the ship without restriction, as you investigate the 24th Century's crowning technological achievement, the Starship Enterprise NCC-1701-D.
You'll travel the corridors, command the bridge, handle the controls, and explore every facet of the holodeck and engineering. Secrets the Cardassians would love to get their hands on are at your fingertips. Examine the ship's hull from space, seeing everything in exquisite detail, from the warp nacelles to the shuttle bay, the Captain's yacht to the main deflector shield.
Then take a break at Ten-Forward.
From detailed schematics of the ship's most vital systems to the personal effects of Captain Jean-Luc Picard™ and his senior officers, you'll go where only crew members have gone before. Welcome aboard.
Featuring the actual sets, props and models used in the production of Star Trek: The Next Generation
Fully explore 360-degree, photographic interiors and exteriors
Travel 150 fly-throughs of corridors connecting the interior quarters
Examine hundreds of objects, diagrams, text entries and episode clips
Discover behind-the-scenes info, plus locations and objects never seen before
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Multimedia PC including:
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- Nice but Caution also advised...
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Star Trek The Next Generation: Interactive Technical Manual U.S.S. Enterprise
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Nice but Caution also advised..........2006-01-28
As noted in the description and other reviews this is an older product and may not be an easy install for Windows XP since it was originally made for Win 95/98. If you're technically inclined it's very likely you'll get it to work, but one of our purchasers said they couldn't install it on XP (we haven't tried that). That said it seems to be well liked and does have some nice features that make it sort of unique.
The Enterprise, inside and out.......2005-07-12
Basically an interactive CD-ROM version of the hardcopy (trade paperback) edition written by ST:TNG designers Rick Sternbach and Michael Okuda with a few extras, the Enterprise-D Interactive Technical Manual is definitely a must-have addition for the NextGen tech head with a PC, a CD-ROM drive, and a Windows 95 or newer OS. Although it's several years old, I enjoy looking through the info compiled in this disk from time to time.
One big advantage that the CD-ROM version has over the hardcopy is that you can actually 'tour' the ship, and look in several different areas, including engineering, bridge, and crew quarters. You can either do this on your own or have Number One lead the way. I usually prefer the Riker tour myself, although his little anecdotes and remembrances get a bit too maudlin and sentimental at times. Methinks Number One may be a bit TOO attached to the Enterprise!
My only problem with the Interactive Tech Manual is that parts of it depict some fairly complex concepts about how the starship's doohickeys work. Although none of stuff inside this CD-ROM approaches the complexity of, say, quantum physics equations, it can sometimes be a bit too daunting for the Star Trek layman to enjoy. So if you're not really big on the technical aspects and jargonese that makes up NextGen technobabble, this item probably won't be your cup of tea. As for myself, I've just managed to synthesize some tritanium, and am now starting work on the warp core articulation frame. If I follow the specs in the Interactive Tech Manual to the letter, and put in all my free time on the project, I'll have my own Enterprise-D up and ready to go by the twenty-fifth century. Just in time for it to be obsolete! Heh...
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IMPRESSIVE........2003-05-13
I agree with the other reviewer. This CD was released in 1994 and pixelated, but still holds up well. Recorded in 640x480x256 colors, this CD allows you to explore the Next Generation Enterprise through digitized Quicktime videos, pictures, and voice-overs from Majel-Barrett-Roddenberry (computer/Troi's mother) and Jonathon Frakes (Commander Riker). In addition it includes hundreds of pages describing the history, technology, and behind-the-scenes info about the show! Worth buying if you're a Trekkie/Trekker.
Impressive..........2000-10-02
The views inside all the major sets were spectacular. Why hasn't the 360degree technology been used on something similar for Voyager or DS9 - it's just brilliant!. Combined with the technical manual book as well as the later blueprints, the Enterprise-D really lives! Well done.
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This groundbreaking book reveals a new system of occult cycles that gives you complete Control over your own life. The Kabbalistic Cycles System explains heretofore hidden universal laws known to but a few. The knowledge of these strange cycles--and the detailed, step-by-step explanation of their derivation and use--will place you light years beyond those who would maintain a stranglehold over you.
You will know when to act in all matters--instantly. You will be able to discover the hidden agendas of others, and see every opportunity and adversity for what it really is. More than anything else, you will attain what has been the goal of mankind throughout its long and arduous history: Mastery Over Your Own Life!
Customer Reviews:
A very workable life tool.......2007-10-11
The first thing a biologist learns early on in his or her education is to search for patterns and cycles since they enable one to see into and understand nature's processes. They also enable prediction and independent laboratory verification of what has been observed over time. Having had a deep interest in esoteric matters all of my life, I purchased this book owing to the "cycles" in its title, and began to work with it. I was intrigued by the claims the author made, and after informally applying it to some of my daily matters, I decided to put it to a hard, scientific test. For twelve months I kept very careful records, and reduced my results to data points so I could run some statistical computer packages on that data. To make a long story short, the formal statistical analysis confirmed what I had seen for myself over the twelve month period. This "Kabbalistic Cycles" approach to daily life works, and works extremely well. I do not know if these cycles are purely physical or if they are effected by one's mind or belief system, or possess a composite physical and psychological nature (a lack of understanding of which could account for some of the childish negative reviews I read here.) But I do know that there is something going on here. Something that works amazingly well, and which all but eliminates randomness from the affairs of one's daily life issues.
In my opinion, if a person were to approach this book with an open mind and diligently work at learning what the author has to say and then applies it is a practical, direct way, he or she will find what I have found: a very valuable tool that puts astrology, tarot, and other forms of `advanced assurances' to shame. It is worth every penny, and then some.
Sounds neat, but doesn't work!.......2007-09-18
Joseph Lisiewski has made it his personal mission to make life seem so very straightforward and easy. This book does contain some decent information on basic Kabbalah, though he uses the somewhat flawed Western Tree rather than the 13th century Hebrew Tree which is symbolically and magically much more coherent. In the midst of lengthy and authoritative-sounding dogmatizing, Lisiewski presents a system of self-mastery and personal empowerment that flies one skyward to the heights of self-confidence and then!... doesn't work. At all. I lived this system for about six months because I didn't want to throw it out without having given it a fair shake. Fair shake given, it's little more than a money trap. Buy it if you hate that heavy feeling you get in your wallet.
Time to get down to the Work at hand.......2007-07-03
After reading various reviews of this book, it's interesting to me how many people have completely missed the point. Even after completing this and other books, some among us are still trying to find the easy way out. The truly sad thing is that they themselves don't even seem to be aware of it. I dare say that the question here is not, "Does this book finally have the 'end all be all' of answers for me?," but rather, "Can I truly be honest with myself?" If you are honest with yourself, and you apply the principles found within this book, you will discover some amazing changes in your life. And, I don't mean to imply that you can apply the principles for a few months (as one reviewer stated), and WHAMO! the world quakes beneath your feet. This is something we all have to work at if we intend to get it right, and it's a long long path that is intended to be followed for the remainder of our lives. Wake up, people, and let's get down to the Work!
Life is an endless, predictable, boring cycle?.......2007-03-17
This book is not at all what I expected, and most certainly is not new and innovative. The calculation of these planetary cycles has been discussed by many other authors, from the 17th century Agrippa to Donald Kraig to a host of New Age Llewellyn authors. Granted, all those writers focused solely on the planetary attributions, and did not take the further step of linking up those astrological influences to the Tree of Life. This is all that Mr. Lisiewski has done here: he's taken the traditional planetary cycles system, linked in the associated Sephiroht (from the Golden Dawn list of correspondences), and then decided that the planetary hours and days can be linked by the paths from the Tree of Life (which have Tarot correspondences, again taken from Golden Dawn material). In fact, this entire system has been pilfered from the Golden Dawn (and somewhat from Crowley) and his interpretation of the Tree of Life paths (which are equated with the Trumps of the Tarot) are lifted from A.E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot with an inadequate citation.
Exactly how is any of this "groundbreaking"? Only someone who had no familiarity with the Golden Dawn, Tarot, the Kabbalah, or the traditional astrological association of the planets would be at all impressed with the uniqueness of this system. I will admit that the idea of tying in the paths is somewhat new to this system, but Lisiewski's contribution in this regard feels even more arbitrary than the attribution of planetary influences to the days of the week and the hours of the day! And that goes to the heart of my criticism of this book...
Why would anyone base their life on this system? Why should we assign the influence of the Sun to Sunday, the Moon to Monday, and so on for the Seven Planets of the Ancients (nevermind the fact that the ancients couldn't see Uranus or Neptune, and so those planets aren't included)? Then why should we further cycle through planetary influences for each hour of said day, adjusted for the length of the solar day (e.g. giving us such wonders as the Moon hour on the Sun's day, etc.). And then, on top of this traditional planetary cycle, now we should throw in the Kabbalah's Tree of Life, so that if Venus is ruling the hour of Mercury's day (Wednesday), this is reflected as the path of "Peh", which corresponds to the Tarot's Tower, and you should go run and hide lest disaster strike you down!
I like this author and his refreshing clear-headedness (compared to most New Age authors), but I refuse to form the "subjective synthesis" (a.k.a. brainwashed reality tunnel) that would allow me to employ this insane system. If you believe in it, I suppose it will work. However, I strongly doubt that the system has any basis in objective fact, and the whole thing seems sloppily thrown together based on increasingly attenuated sets of correspondences. If this system were true, we'd be reliving the exact same set of influences from year to year (based on the changing length of the solar day), without deviation. Thankfully, it's most assuredly not true in an objective sense... unless someone were foolish enough to give it power over their lives. Regardless, Mr. Lisiewski has been nice enough to provide an online "Kabbalistic Cycles" program on his website, completely free. The prospective purchaser should test drive this system there first, before committing time and money to these controlling cycles.
Patterns and Cycles for the Observant.......2007-03-15
I'm not much of a fan of modern Kabbala oriented material, although I have to admit that this book can only help those who apply it to thier lives. I read something very similar to this in the 80's from a book by Joseph J. Weed on Rosicrucianism. There is a similar treatment of cycles within that book as well.
Living within the grain of life has it's immediate advantages. However, as one who awakens to see that reality is something like a dream or holographic existence, the idea of living ones life according to a pattern is in effect subscribing oneself to ideas of limitation.
I would recommend this book as grounding material. I like this author. My enduring impression of his work is that his manner of communication is straightforward and very clear.
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