Mountain Time : A Novel

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Celebrated for his stirring, clear-eyed memoirs and novels of Montana--Dancing at the Rascal Fair, This House of Sky, and most recently Bucking the Sun--Ivan Doig vaults over the mountains in his new novel and lands in the midst of Seattle's fin-de-siècle coffee and computer culture. Mitch Rozier is an oversized, Montana-born, divorced, fiftysomething environmental columnist for a once-hip weekly newspaper on the verge of going under. Lexa McCaskill is his scrappy, earthy, no-nonsense "spousal equivalent"--a "compact Stetsoned woman in blue jeans," also from Montana and divorced, who makes a handsome living catering swanky parties for Seattle's software plutocrats. Doig has a fine time satirizing the excesses and absurdities of "Cyberia" before he abruptly shoos his characters back to Montana: Lyle Rozier, Mitch's Stegner-esque father, wants to involve his son in one more ransack-the-land scheme before leukemia kills him.

The wary standoff between father and son works on many levels: as a deeply realistic clash between two fierce, disappointed men; as a symbolic confrontation between the Old West and the new--Lyle's frank, freewheeling exploitation of Montana's vastness versus Mitch's helpless reverence for the environment; and as a brief, brilliant history of how people have lived off and with the land in 20th-century Montana. All of these strands come together in a stunning climax played out against the glorious backdrop of the Bob Marshall Wilderness.

One of the great novelists of the American West, Doig proves here that he is just as adept at conjuring up the vagaries of our shiny new cities as he is at taking the measure of rough, tough, old Montana. Mountain Time has everything going for it--great characters, breathtaking scenery, heartbreaking family feuds, wicked humor, a page-turning love story, prose so perfectly pitched you'll want to read it out loud. And there's something new for Doig aside from setting--a serene, twinkling levity. This is the work of a master having a hell of a good time. --David Laskin

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At fifty-something, environmental reporter Mitch Rozier has grown estranged from Seattle's coffee shop and cyber culture. His newspaper is going under, and his relationship with Lexa McCaskill is stalled at "just living together." Then, he is summoned by his sly, exasperating father, Lyle, back to the family land, which Lyle plans to sell in the latest of his get-rich schemes before dying. Lexa follows, accompanied by her sister Mariah, and the stage is set for long-overdue confrontations -- between lovers, sisters, and father and son. Mountain Time is distinguished by humor and a wry insight into the power of family feuds to mark individuals and endure. Set against the glorious backdrop of Montana mountain country, it is a dazzling novel of love, family, and the contemporary West.

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Love the unpredictability of human behavior and the outstanding story.......2006-10-29

This story provides the reader with characters that are so real, so unpredictable, so human, that the world around you is mirrored in each one. Not always pretty, not always rational, not always logical, just the kind of story that I love. And Doig weaves a fantastic story as he always does and it is one highly worth reading. I would not miss this modern look at Montana and its people.

Mountain Time by Ivan Doig.......2006-04-10

Ivan Doig is an excellent writer and Mountain Time rates as one of his best. He bases his books in Montana and provides outstanding pictures of the people, attitudes, landscape, and scenery of the state. I am a native Montanan and know both Seattle and Montana's Rocky Mountain Front. Both are accurately depicted here. Doig's description of a cafe that is "somewhere between unfinished and deteriorating" would fit any number of cafes in small-town Montana. On a plot level, Mountain Time presents some unique twists and many poignant moments that will keep the reader involved from the beginning to the end. This is not a book where you will guess the ending before you get there.

story interuptus.......2005-05-14

Scanning some of the reviews, I notice I felt many of the same impressions as other readers with this book. I just finished the trilogy, _Dancing at the Rascal Fair_, _English Creek_, and _Ride with Me, Mariah Montana_. The first two were the best, the last was so-so, and _Mountain Time_ just fell flat.

I found the conversations annoying, especially between Mitch's daughter and Mitch.The jargon was forced and very unflattering to the characters. The book was somewhat stiff to get into, but my respect for Mr. Doig encouraged me on. When the story line gets to Montana, it does pick up a bit and become more promising. The best part was the 3 day back pack trek into the mountains to scatter the ashes of Mitch's dad. Unfortunately, the cadence did not sustain itself, and the ending was spiritless.

Some considerations bothered me. For instance, I kept waiting to find out the cryptic reason Lyle was so intent on making Mitch promise to scatter his ashes up on the look out tower. I expected some message to be written on the walls, or some other justification for such an insistent request by the father, Lyle to be fulfilled by his son, Mitch. Another let down was the bit about the torn up camp site that the 3 characters come upon during their hike up the mountain, allegedly by a grizzly bear. We have torn up sleeping bags, (where's the bodies?) and a ripped up teepee. Alas, I thought!! A little action, mystery, hey, the story is going to pick up now..!!

But..,not exactly..

It looked promising for a while when they scuffled over the old man's ashes, and Mitch got seriously hurt. Lexa made the brave decision to be the one to hike out off the mountain for help, against the odds of time, weather and the elements to save her lover. Leaving her cutie sister, Mariah up in the watch tower as the nurse, the story alludes very suddenly to romance between her and Mitch. What? He has a broken leg, little food, stinky armpits and no alcohol. This was just too hard to swallow.. but it did suggest the story might improve.

But, ok, now Lexa is hiking down, the weather is worsening, food is low, she is exhausted and what is lurking in the woods but that big huge woolly grizzley bear. OK!! ACTION!

But, noooo.....

Suddenly the story is about over, Mitch is saved, Lexa is on the outs in favor of Mariah, and one feels the story can't get much worse when you have to read these side line reflections of Bob Marshall. (Who is Bob, many of you may ask?)

The last 15 pages you hope for some kind of conclusion to all these loose ends.. does Mitch repair his relationship with his kids, and if there is no furthur mention of them, why bring them in at all? There is the rushed explainations of the hobby buisnesses of Lyle and how he makes his tire irons (I didn't care) and this abrupt resumption of Mitch's and Lexa's love affair. All this in a fatal gasping ending.

Mr Doig, I loved your personal history books, _Heart Earth_ and _This House of Shy_. They were exquisite representations of the beautiful Montana area and a wonderful accounting of your incredible family. I promise not to let this book disappoint me so much that I won't read you again, indeed I am going to start your other books next.

It is just that this story was, well, a story interuptus..

Top notch storytelling.......2000-07-13

It's true this is not Ivan Doig's best work. It would be difficult, if not impossible, to top my favorite, Dancing at the Rascal Fair. Mr. Doig's storytelling is honest and straightforward; his wordsmithing in high form. Some of the reviews indicate trite characterization of western Washington, and an uninvolving story with unsurprising revelations. Not true if you come to this story with different expectations. Life in Washington isn't the point of this story (and what may seem trite seemed all to real to what I've seen here in Seattle. Mr. Doig writes issues many Baby Boomers may be facing or have confronted: a dying parent; coming to gripes with a parent's choices; life changes, in this case, the impact of divorce on self; loss of job. Having experienced aspects of what this story covered, I found the novel a good depiction of these issues and relationships. Yes, it takes a while to get into the story, but once in I found it quite satisfying.

Still one of the West's best.......2000-05-11

In Montana, not far from where Ivan Doig grew up beneath a big sky that still haunts him, three rivers flow together to form the deep and wide Missouri, lacing through both time and landscape, the old West and the new. And like the brawny Missouri, Doig has channeled three deep literary tributaries into "Mountain Time," a coda to his McCaskill family trilogy.

Three people, three intense relationships, three rivers. "Mountain Time" is the confluence: The very real familial clash between Lyle and Mitch echoes the clash between the historic and contemporary West, where exploitation has always been at odds with environmental anxiety.

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Great read aloud -poetry/stories of 19th C. Adirondacks.......1999-04-19

Have you ever driven down a back road and noticed one of those old shifting-to-the-side-run-down houses? Have you wondered about the folks whose footfalls used to creak the floors, whose faces used to be framed inside the now windowless panes? Jeanne Robert Foster's stories and poems, while written about the people, poverty, and places of the remote Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, give voice to themes which are universal and timeless. Jeanne's own story began in 1879 in the Great North Woods. She became a model for Charles Dana Gibson and Harrison Fisher, an art agent for John Quinn who was the promoter of the famous Armory Show of 1913, a writer/editor for Albert Shaw, as well an advocate for housing for the poor and elderly. She was a woman who touched many lives including that of the editor of ADIRONDACK PORTRAITS: A Piece of Time, Noel Reidinger Johnson whose labor of love made this volume possible. For more information about Foster, watch for future publication of her biography by Janice Huddleston Londraville.

Mountain Standard Time/3 Novels : Three Enduring Novels of the 20th Century West by ""One of the Gr

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Mountain Standard Time/3 Novels : Three Enduring Novels of the 20th Century West by ""One of the Gr
Paul Horgan; Introduction D.W. Brogan
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Mountain Time, a Novel
Bernard Devoto
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MOUNTAIN TIME. A Novel.
Ivan. Doig
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A simple, boring little story

The Sensual Thread: A Novel
Beatrice Stone
Manufacturer: Third Side Pr
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Binding: Paperback

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A simple, boring little story.......1998-04-18

The Sensual Thread is a first novel, as I understand it. Like many first novels, it probably does not live up to what will later be the author's potential.
The story, such as it is, revolves around a lesbian woman named Lee Brant. Her grandmother is in a nursing home, her grandfather having passed on, and Lee comes to live at their vacated farm in the mountains of Tennessee.
There she renews her friendship with her old childhood "sweetheart" Kay Holt. Nothing beyond one kiss ever happened between them in the past.
We discover Lee has an unusual gift--she is able to go inside others minds and see and feel through them. This "gift" only serves a useful purpose one time. The rest of the time it doesn't amount to anything.
The most outlandish of this going inside something mentally--is when she decides to "connect" with a tree. I don't know, but I don't think plants can be connected with mentally.
Most of the book is taken up with aimless horseback rides, and extremely banal conversations about everyday chores and tasks.
What Lee is doing for income while living on this little farm is never explained. Lee also has a stiff leg from an automobile accident that occurred some time in her recent past. Although this was apparently traumatic for her, it is never really examined in any way. And like most of the things in this book really doesn't come to anything.

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Where Time Ends review
Where Time Ends Review

Where Time Ends: A Novel
Thomas Baird
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
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Binding: Hardcover

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Where Time Ends review.......2003-04-02

"Where Time ends" is an excellent book. The plot was very interesting. The book was very well written also and had some great ideas in it. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys realistic-fiction.

Where Time Ends review.......2003-04-01

"Where Time Ends" was an interesting story. Although it was fiction, the scenario seems like it could really take place, I think that is part of what made it so interesting. I would recomend this book to poeple who enjoy realistic fiction.

Where Time Ends Review.......2003-04-01

This book was not what I expected it to be. I saw the title and expected it to be very good. Instead, I finished the book dissapointed and wouldn't recomend it to anyone else. It wasn't very well written and the plot was too real and left nothing to the imagination.

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Mountain Time: A Novel
Ivan Doig
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Three Great Stories

LOVED IT !

The Sheik's Virgin

A collection of very romantic stories!

Fiona Brand is the reason to buy this!!
Sheiks Of Summer
Susan Mallery , Alexandra Sellers , and Fiona Brand
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Three bold, irresistible men. Three brand-new romances by today's top authors . . . Summer never seemed hotter!

"The Sheik's Virgin" by Susan Mallery

He was the brazen stranger who had made it his mission to chaperone innocent, beautiful Phoebe Carson around his native land. But what would Phoebe do when she discovered her suitor was none other than Prince Nasri Mazin -- and he had seduction on his mind?

"Sheikh of Ice" by Alexandra Sellers

She came in search of adventure -- and discovered passion in the arms of tall, dark and handsome Hadi al Hajar. But once Kate Drummond succumbed to Hadi's powerful touch, would she succeed in taming his hard heart?

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A star-crossed love affair and a stormy night combined to bring Lily Abernathy into Sheik Kalil Xavier Al Jahir's world. Now, as she took cover in her rugged rescuer's home, Lily wondered if it was her destiny to fall in love with the mesmerizing sheik . . .

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Three Great Stories.......2006-04-16

I liked these three stories a lot and would have given them 5 stars except for the fact I think the short stories don't allow for that relationship growth that really draws you into a good story.

Susan Mallery's The Shiek's Virgin is the first in the series. An innocent young woman following her late aunt's wishes to travel to her home country meets and falls in love with a handsome native only to find out that he's the crown Prince.

Next is Alexandra Sellers Sheikh of Ice-If you liked her Sons of the Desert series you will enjoy this short story. Kate is in the Barkat Emirates on business to check out the possibilities of her agency endorsing it as a vacation spot for their exclusive clientele. She is assigned Cup Champion Hadi as her guide. Although she doesn't know until later in the story that he is a cup champion she recognizes from the beginning that he is meant for something bigger than a tour guide. Hadi has had a bad experience with love and has hardened his heart to that emotion. He cannot hide his attraction for Kate even though he vows that he will only offer his body not love. She vows not to give into sex without the needed emotion. These two have clashing personalities that creates a lot of chemistry, but once again the story is a little too short to do it proper justice.

The third story and my favorite of the three is Kismet by Fiona Brand. The story opens 800 years ago with the death of Kalil the husband and love of Laure during the Crusades. Laure is devasted by his death and even more so the fact she never got to tell him she loved him. Back in future we realize that descendant Laine is dreaming about this after finding long lost family relics (a dagger and brooch). She is cleaning out her late aunt's house on an the island that her aunt has recently sold to a sheik. She doesn't know the sheik, but is attracted to his handsome aide even though she's only seen him a time or two. Laine is 32 years old, divorced and a librarian who dresses in plain clothes and lives a lonely life alone. Laine cuts her hand on the dagger then gets stuck in her aunt's house because of a cyclone. Her hand gets infected and she passes out to find the roof being torn off in the storm. The sheik's aide busts into the house and rescues her taking her to the sheiks fortress where he takes care of her. We find out that the aide is really the sheik and he lost his wife over five years ago to cancer and hasn't been attracted to a woman since, until he met Laine. We also find out that he has had flashbacks since his childhood to the Crusades and it is believed he is the first Kalil reincarnated. During delirium, Laine calls to him in Arabic and French and he realizes she is the reincarnated love of his life Laure. When she recovers they have sex and he tells her he will marry her if she is pregnant. When she finds out he is the sheik, she flees convinced he doesn't really want her. Of course, he follows and convinces her otherwise.

This was a pretty good series although I would have rather them been full length stories.

LOVED IT !.......2006-01-26

I love this book and all 3 stories but LADIES you have to have to have to read the last one, its breathtaking, romantic and sweet its the i can't put into words because its that good story, it gave me goose bumps just reading that story...

I think you should buy this book its a keeper i know i said all three are good but when you read the last story you guys will know why its soooooo romantic....

The Sheik's Virgin.......2005-11-29

A very sweet story of an innocent young girl who arrives on the beautiful Island of Lucia-Serratt. She finds the beautiful, handsome Prince Mazin who takes her breath away. He agrees to show her arround the island and their mutual attraction soars out of control.

Later Phoebe learns that the Prince is a Prince and that he has four sons. She also learns about desire and attraction and takes her relationship with Mazin to the next level.

Even though this is a short story, one of three in the Sheiks of Summer, it was just another example of Susan Mallery's incredible writing skill.

A collection of very romantic stories!.......2003-03-26

Each one of these stories is worth the reading time, and the price off the book!! This is one of the better trilogys of by multiple authors that I have read in a long time! I personally greatly enjoyed this book, and i think anyone who enjoy's ether romance stories or Susan Mallery in general will find this a great read!!! Thats all I can say without giving away the plots of the stories, just get a hold of a copy for yourself and I'm sure you'll agree!

Fiona Brand is the reason to buy this!!.......2002-10-26

I bought this book, too, to read Kismet. I'd read an excerpt on the Intimte Moments Board and I was hooked. It is simply brilliant. Kismet should have been its own book, it is so powerful. I can't see why the previous reviewer is raving about Ms Sellers' story to be honest. I would have given this anthology a 5 based on Ms Brand's story alone, because the other two drag this anthology down. Good stories - but Kismet surpasses them.

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5 - FIONA BRAND - MARRYING MCCABE - TOUCHING MIDNIGHT - BLADE'S LADY - HIGH-STAKES BRIDE - SHEIKS OF SUMMER
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With his international bestseller The Power of Now nearing one million copies in print, the humble man known as Eckhart Tolle is fast becoming America's most popular spiritual teacher. Recognized for his unique ability to draw listeners into the awakened state he calls "presence," Tolle continues to top bestseller lists and fill auditoriums with men and women seeking a deeper sense of connection with life. Now, in a momentous publishing event, Realizing the Power of Now invites listeners to immerse themselves in a full-length audio retreat with Eckhart Tolle.

Recorded at a rare five-day gathering led by Eckhart Tolle, here is a special opportunity for those familiar with his work — or hearing it for the first time — to transcend the finite world of fluctuating thoughts, ambitions, and fears, and touch their true essence. This all-new program includes insights into: entering the Now through the portal called "allow", how to use the "inner body" and sense perceptions to find a peace that exists independent of conditions, expanding the space between thoughts for a deeper experience of the Now, and much more.

Spoken simply, with his hallmark warmth, humor, and compassion, here is Eckhart Tolle's full presentation of a beautiful way to live that arises through Realizing the Power of Now.

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Soulful and Powerful talk.......2006-01-12

Ramana Maharshi one of the greatest spiritual teachers of last century, when asked about the number of spirtual teachers teaching various paths, Whom should one take for one's Guru (teacher)? He said to choose the one where you find you get shanti (Peace). Well Eckhart Tolle is the one that brings me the greatest Peace. Eckhart comes across as a gentle humble man with great insight and an extraordinary skill in bringing profound wisdom in an easy to digest format.

This is a great talk with much warmth, humour, wisdom and insight.

If you have enjoyed Eckhart's previous work, I'd highly recommend this one :)

truly a test to keep you in the present moment.......2005-09-26

If I was actually on this retreat, I suspect I would have daydreamed my way through most of his lectures, and ultimately the retreat would have been a wonderful opportunity to watch my ego as it said, 'Boring, get to the point,' or 'He's babbling again. God help me.' Why do I suspect this? Because it's exactly what I did while listening to the recording. All sorts of egoic garbage came up, and yes, that's something I do need to observe, but honestly, if his book had been this unfocused and tedious, it would have never been a bestseller. Not even close.

What you get here is an occasional insight mixed with all sorts of other musings. There's no structure to what he's discussing. No plan. Nothing more than a man spending hour upon hour rambling about all sorts of random things. Skip this one. Save your money. The books are far better as they are coherent and incisive, which this retreat is certainly not. By the fourth hour, I simply could not withstand another minute of this. My NOW is far too precious to waste on this. And I truly do adore Eckhart's books. I recommend them to everyone and enjoy them every time I reread them, but this retreat was truly a test of my ability to remain in the present moment.

Contrived and insipid.......2005-03-18

Let me say right away that I found "Realizing the Power of Now" much less inspiring than "Even the Sun Will Die" by the same author. And it is definitely not the complete programme of lectures of a week-long retreat since many concepts handled by Tolle in the course of his speeches have never been explained before.

What you will find here is a quite commonsensical mixture of Zen quotes, Christian meditations, all too predictable recommendations to be aware and to accept "what is" and jokes about human silliness, all of this interspersed with the sound of Bali bells, supposedly meaningful silences, outbursts of noisy laughter and the heavy sound of E.T.'s breathing.

Somehow I find that E.T., whose books I have all read and studied, has been corrupted by the enlightenment industry or the "enlightenment club". I have a feeling that he is now increasingly playing a role and trying to conform to people's expectations about what a spiritual teacher should look and sound like. His slow manner of speaking seems terribly contrived, almost calculated to create a state of hypnosis in his hearers. There is affectation in everything he says.

I found the content of "Realizing the Power of Now" boring, shallow and repetitive. If you really want to follow E.T., I recommend "Even the Sun Will Die" instead. "Even the Sun Will Die" is an interview with Tolle made on September 11. In it, Eckhart develops a number of rather profound ideas and relates his own adventure. It is much more interesting than this insipid stuff for mass consumption about awakening.

I recommend Jiddu Krishnamurti, who is both a profound "thinker" and a delightful English prose writer (read his "Commentaries on Living"). But no matter who your "teacher" is, I think it is essential not to accept anything just because he says it. All teachings are dangerous and misleading because words are by definition misleading. As St John of the Cross said, our two most fearsome enemies are the devil and...our spiritual director!

Well said, Juan...

Tolle's Teachings Can How You Live!.......2004-10-08

I have been reading and listening to Eckhart Tolle for a few years. His message (or as he would say "signposts")is simple, but profound. If you open yourself up to his teaching, it can change how you live and perceive your life situation.
At a time when our world is in such utter chaos, his message has never been more meaningful or important.

As life affirming as it is highly recommended.......2004-06-07

Realizing The Power Of Now is a 6 CD audiobook in which counselor and spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle provides the listener with an wonderfully articulate and insightful presentation on transcending the finite world to touch our tree essence which has "no form, not time, nd no name". Eckart Tolle deftly addresses the use of our "inner body" as an anchor to the Now; the cultivation of "pure awareness" moments; the power inherent in the simple act of noticing; the liberation of laughter; nature as a bridge to the divine; dissolving our "pain-body" with the light of consciousness; finding the peace underlying personal loss; separating our "life situation" from our life; and so much more. This 7 hour, 30 minute, flawless recorded presentation by Eckhart Tolle is as life affirming as it is highly recommended.

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