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Secrets of the past.
Although Raistlin and Caramon urge him not to go, Sturm Brightblade attends an annual Solamnic ceremony that is interrupted by . . .
A stranger, taunting challenge. Clues from the past. Death.
Once he accepts a mysterious gauntlet, young Sturm must make a dangerous journey with some curious friends, rescue a fair if querulous maid, defeat a traitor knight, and learn the secret fate of his long-lost father. He must also learn the meaning of honor.
The fourth installment in the popular Meetings Sextet tells the story of Sturm Brightblade, the noble Solamnic Knight, in the years before Sturm joined up with the other companions of the best-selling
Dragonlance series.
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Classic tale intwined with Dragonlance.......2006-04-07
This book is an attempt to intertwine some Arthurian storylines into the Dragonlance mythos. Though not terrible, I was a bit upset by the lack of originality. The Dragonlance world has some very unique attributes and forces at work that make for interesting reads, this book, however, was quite low on my list.
The Green Man Commeth.......2003-03-30
I have mixed feelings about this book. This story makes Sturm look stupid and brash, which perhaps he was in his youth, but his character in this book is a far cry from the man we later meet in the Chronicles series. The storytelling, however, was really enthralling. Michael Williams' forest imagery was fantastic and reminded me of some of the great imagery in the Chronicles and War of the Souls books. He also gave depth to his characters and pulled some surprises that I didn't expect. I find this to be most interesting because I didn't like Weasel's Luck and Galen Beknighted by the same author mostly because I thought that his characters, even the main ones, lacked depth. I recommend reading this book if for no other reason than because there is a giant, friendly spider who's entire existence turns out to be quite ironic. Okay, that's not really a good reason. Read it or not, it doesn't really matter. I don't think you will learn much about the overall Dragonlance storyline from this book, but it is kind of an interesting read all the same.
Verbal runs of the mouth.......2002-02-12
it doesnt get much worse than this, green is green, and if you read the book you know what i mean. when in dought for descriptive terms, just use the word green. i love the dragonlance series, but i am amazed anyone wouldve allowed this book to carry that title.
It got better..........2001-12-05
I have to say that this book did start out a little slow, and didnt really get going until quite a ways into the book, but it did get better as the book went on. I found it to be a good read once it got going, and i do recommend it to any dragonlance fan who wants to learn a little more about Sturm's past. Though i can't say that it is the best book in the series, bit is written pretty well, and the characters are written pretty well. Recommend it if you plan on reading the whole series.
I've been saying this for a while..........2001-08-01
Where's the revelations? And what the -hell- is going on with Vertumnus? Where did he come from? And is he an avatar or what? This book is simply awful; it's by far the worst Dragonlance I've ever encountered. Micheal Williams is an excellent poet... however, his books (and short stories) aren't the best. I found myself falling asleep -constantly- with it's wandering, crappy plot. DON'T LET THE COVER ART AND TITLE FOOL YOU.
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The Oath and the Measure
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AFGHANISTAN - Dec 7 - Vowing To Restore Security, Karzai Takes Oath.(Hamid Karzai): An article from: APS Diplomat Recorder
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" DragonLance" The Meetings Sextet Series: Kindred Spirits, Wanderlust, Dark Heart, The Oath and the Measure, Steel and Stone, The Companions (Set of 6 Fantasy Novels)
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Lethal Practice
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Slow Starter.......2006-03-30
Dr. Earl Garnet is the Chief of the ER in St. Paul's Hospital in Buffalo New York. St. Paul's is suffering money problems, then the Chief Administrator is murdered in the hospital. The first half of this book drags a bit. Too much time is spent on Dr. Garnet's internal angst. He is worried about being a suspect/target. He is worried one of his staff is a murderer. And he goes over these thoughts again and again. Then the story comes together and moves along at rapid, action filled pace. The ending is a real corker. Worth the effort.
Very entertaining.......2005-01-26
I enjoyed this book as a whole. I brought it with me on vacation; started reading it on the plane and couldn't put it down until it was finished! I like Peter Clement's writing style; coupled with his first-hand knowledge of the ER, patient care and hospital politics, it made this story a winner. Not Shakespeare, but it's not meant to be. I personally enjoy medical jargon, so for me there wasn't quite enough, but for the average person I'm sure it suffices. The only minor problem I had with this book is with the dialog, which seemed somewhat prissy and not entirely realistic (when not a physician speaking). Otherwise, a great read!
Not Bad.......2004-10-11
I am a lover of medical thrillers and this one was okay. It wasn't the worst medical thriller I have ever read, but it certainly wasn't the best either. Earl Garnet is an ER physician, whose wife is pregnant and also a physician. Earl is plunged into the middle of trouble when he is called to the chief admisistrators office to find the man dead. He also discovers a cardiac needle has been broken off in the murder victims chest. There are only a handfull of doctors who are skilled enough to know how to use a cardiac needle, and Dr. Garnet is among them. This fact quickly makes him a suspect.
Garnet, struggling to identify the real killer and clear his own name, soon becomes the killer's next target.
The story started out just fine and had enough action and suspense to keep you wanting to read through dinner and past your bedtime. There is enough medical jargon to make it interesting, but Clement doesn't over do it. He gives a brief explanation so any layman can keep up with the story. Clement trys to give the story a twist at the end that is lame and out of the blue. It was not well done, but all in all, the story is a good one and worth your time. Hopefully Clement will get a little better with plot organization for his next effort.
Takes a while to get going.......2004-03-30
I was so excited to pick up this book due to my love of medical based thrillers. However, I found this book to be one of those that's "hard to get into".
The first half of the book was just OK and I found myself making myself read it. The main character seemed to be on the outside looking in rather than invovled in the story. Things just weren't happening to him like you would expect in a "thriller". Finally at page 153 things started happening and after that I was liking the book a little more.
The ending was well written and a great salvage to what I thought would be a downer of a book. I just wish the book would have grabbed me a little sooner than halfway through.
Thrilling!.......2000-03-21
Great Thrilling book. I am a novice reader and found this book difficult to put down. Highly Recommended.
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The Sin of Lawlessness: A Lethal Practice
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Title: Avian flu: spark that ignites the next pandemic? Extremely lethal to humans: expert calls for better surveillance systems, research into the Asian strain.
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Title: Duodenal and pancreatic injuries-complex and lethal injuries *.
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Title: Merkel cell: it's rare, lethal, and often gets misdiagnosed.(Skin Disorders)
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Osamu Tezuka, best known in America as the animator of Astro Boy, continues his first full-length work available in English. Japanese reporter Sohei Toge returns to his homeland, where he finally learns the secret that led to his brother's brutal murder at the hands of the Gestapo. But now the Japanese secret police are on his tail, and the SS officer who tortured him in Germany has followed him to Japan to hush him up-- permanently. Find out why Osamu Tezuka is known in Japan as the "god of manga."
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Watch Toge get tortured.......2005-01-22
I didn't like this so much as the first book in the Adolf series. Although the Adolf series proposes to tell us the stories of three Adolfs, Toge is our narrator so we focus heavily on him. Here we get to see Toge get tortured, then beat up, then tortured, then shot... and so on. That's a picture of him on the cover: screaming and getting tortured.
In the opening to An Exile in Japan Toge recovers the important documents that could totally destroy HItler. As we already know, the documents prove that Hitler is a jew. Personally I doubt that they could be so damaging to Hitler. The Nazi party could just claim that they are fakes. The Japanese secret police know that Toge has some important documents, but they don't know what they are about. Representatives of various countries also know that Toge has something important and they come and offer him large amounts of money. Toge is emotionally involved because his brother died to get the documents to Japan, and so he resolves to use his position as a reporter to publicize them. The secret police promptly get him fired and evicted and harass anyone who tries to help him. So the documents are safe but they aren't going anywhere soon.
Meanwhile Toge meets one of our Adolf's mothers. The recent widow of a German intelligence officer can't forget Toge. We see her son, Adolf in a prep school in Germany. He is at the top of the class and so shakes Hitler's hand at a ceremony. He still considers the third Adolf, a German jew who is staying with his family in Japan, to be his best friend, and so he can't accept some school doctrines.
The Adolf series is good so far, but this particular book didn't read so well. Mostly it is watching Toge get harassed and driven to absolute rock bottom by the secret police. And in keeping with the story it ends badly. This is a good series, but start on another book.
Worthy of your reading time.......2004-03-11
Admitedly, I've been reading the sequence of volumes in this series out of order. In fact, this was the first volume that I started with. With that being said, Tezuka's storytelling and plot pacing is compelling enough that I did not feel 'lost,' in this complex tale of WWII with it's assortment of characters and subplot. Within the first several pages I was more or less hooked into this epic tale on the racial origins of Adolf Hitler and the globe trotting antics of several parties to reveal and conceal the truth.
If you do decide to read this series, do it right the first time around and start with the first volume in the series: "Adolf: A Tale of the Twentieth Century."
Continuing the Adolf epic.......1999-01-29
This is an excellent follow-up to ADOLF: A TALE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. If you enjoyed the first book, this is a superb addition.
The artwork is fantastic, and the story is great. Adolf Hitler's characterization is realistic and funny at the same time.
The only drawback is that not all of the three Adolfs featured in the first book are in this addition. However, that doesn't detract from the ongoing story.
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This is a reprint of Kersey Graves' 1875 classic about the sixteen messiahs who are known to history before Christ. Graves was ahead of his time, integrating the links between nature and religion to develop a unique understanding of spiritual thought. Among his unusual discoveries are a link between astrology and Christianity, including the true meaning of December 25, The Birthday of the Gods. The forty-five fascinating chapters include: * The Holy Ghost is of Oriental Origin * 346 Striking Analogies Between Christ and Krishna * Virgin Mothers and Virgin-Born Gods * Prophecies by a Serpent * Christ as a Spiritual Medium The introduction and full text of the original book are included; new material -- maps, illustrations and commentary -- has been added by Adventures Unlimited editors.
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Anti-scholarship.......2007-10-01
If you have no interest in facts, this might be the book for you! Published in 1875 this book is a curiosity but little more. Even in the Victorian era when this was written, this book was considered silly by scholars.
There was a period in biblical scholarship when many scholars investigated whether or not Christianity had been influenced by paganism. The most famous biblical scholar who argued that Christianity had borrowed ideas from paganism was Bultmann.
But all this was long, long ago. There is now not a single credible scholar anywhere in the world that will argue in favor of this theory. Not one. Massive numbers of books were published on the theory, and whole libraries still groan from their weight.
The result of all this investigation? That Christianity not only did not borrow from pagan sources, but paganism borrowed from Christianity. The earliest Gnostic writing was a hundred years after the death of Christ, for example, yet the Gnostics stole names of apostles to give their works added credibility.
Most of the books on this topic are long out of print, but to read a summary of the entire "History of Religions" theory, as it was called, please buy "The Gospel and the Greeks" by Nash.
Non-scholarly, A big disappointment.......2006-04-18
Yes there is information available as to other avatars, but this is not the book to get this from. Even those who give this book a positive review state that the information is flawed. The only reason that this book continues to sell is due to its title and the fact that there are not many other books specific to this topic and that are of quality.
"Kersey Graves 1813-1883....Graves was a sceptic, atheist, and spiritualist. All sources Graves used were Freethought texts (i.e. no original sources), which in turn had synthesised random, miss-understood and half-digested pieces of mis-information...modern scholarship has cast serious doubt on the veracity of such claims, and demonstrated that Graves' scholarship is deficient. Graves massaged his data to fit his thesis, and where he had no data he falsified it...He often failed to cite proper sources for verification; although, many of the most important facts collated in this work were derived from Sir Godfrey Higgins' Anacalypsis" (wikipedia). "Other sources include Tom Paine's The Age of Reason, Robert Taylor's The Diegesis, Constantin-Fran?ois Volney's The Ruins; or a Survey of the Revolutions of Empires, Louis Jacolliot's The Bible in India, and Ernest Renan's "romance," The Life of Jesus." [...](John Benedict Buescher)
After reading Gerald Massey's 'Ancient Egypt - light of the world' and being very impressed, I was hoping for great things from Kersey Graves book. I was somewhat perturbed by Graves' obvious emotional hatred of Christianity, but I was more interested in authentic, verified information and persisted. What came next told me that this book was bogus:
Pg 133 Footnote "The author desires it to be understood with respect to the cases of crucifixion here briefly narrated, that they are not vouched for as actual occurrences, of which there is much ground to doubt. It has neither been his aim or desire to prove them to be real historical events, nor to establish any certain number of cases. Indeed he deems it unimportant to know, if it could be determined, whether they are fact or fiction, or wether one God was crucified, or many".
Pg299 Footnote "The author deems it proper to state here, with respect to the comparison between Christ and Chrishna, that some of the doctrines which he has selected as constituting a part of the religion of the Hindu saviour are not found in the reported teachings of that deified moralist." What follows is Kersey saying that since, in his opinion, Christians have taken liberty, so can he.
To what more then can we believe from this book? To what encouragement do we have to continue on reading this book when such claims are made?
"Nevertheless, even Theosophist founder Helena Blavatsky-herself a writer of syncretistic, comparative religious histories, and also inspired by Godfrey Higgins' Anacalypsis-thought little of Graves' work. In Isis Unveiled, her own effort to out-Higgins Higgins, she noted the absurdity of Graves' claim that anyone had ever believed that Gautama Buddha or Apollonius-two of his sixteen saviours-were actually "saviours," except in the loosest sense of the term, or had been, in any sense, crucified. She also faulted Graves for relying on Orientalist visionary Sir William Jones (1746-1794) in some of his "hazardous speculations." [...](John Benedict Buescher)
On a number of occasions the present author states that he leaves critical information out due to lack of space. Hogwash, most of the book, especially the last 124 pages contain simplistic, unverified ramblings that are a continuation of the axe Kersey has to grind with Christianity. The following is an example of this:
"The Scientific Errors of Christ (Heading)
That Jesus Christ was neither a natural or moral philosopher is evident from the following facts:-
1. He never made any use of the word "philosophy".
2. Never gave any use of the word "science".
3. Never spoke of a natural law..." pg 402
Yep, I think we should crucify Jesus Christ on these SINS alone, even worse for not mentioning 'quantum physics'. If you like this sort of stuff, there's a whole lot more i.e. ""That he omitted to teach the most important lesson that can engage the attention of man, viz: that the great purpose of life is self development" pg 403. Is this not the biggest understatement of all time?
How about bible misquotes? "21. And Christ's declaration, that those who marry are not worthy of being saved (see Luke 20:34), shows that he was very ignorant of the nature of sexual functions of the human system" pg 405. I just happen to have a bible and like to check these things. This scripture describes the post resurrection where people do not marry, as they are as the angels. It in no way says that those who are married in this life cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.
Actually I'm glad I read this book for the following reason. This book states that there are no historic records of Jesus Christ from the era in which Christ physically walked this earth. Such hearsay finally got me to look into this and I discovered information to the contrary. I discovered that the Jewish Historian Josephus did mention Jesus Christ i.e. Antiquities XVIII, iii, 3. Most scholars have "no doubts" about the authenticity of the majority of the passage. There are 2 versions as per manuscripts. It does however appear that the shorter version finds greater favour with scholars i.e.:
"About this time appeared Jesus, a wise man and He drew to Himself many Jews. And when Pilate, at the denunciation of those that are foremost among us, had condemned Him to the cross, those who had first loved Him did not abandon Him. The tribe of Christians named after Him did not cease to this day."
IF ONE FAILS TO ACCEPT THIS, I discovered that there is a reference to John the Baptist in the work of Josephus Antiquities of the Jews XVIII Chapter 5. In reference to this passage of which is too lengthy to produce here, I present the following quote:
"The passage on John the Baptist is well-nigh universally accepted as affording no grounds for reasonable scepticism, and as therefore providing a most valuable external proof that John was a historical character." [...]. (Sacred-texts - 'The slavonic Josephus' account of the Baptist and Jesus') I.e. If John the Baptist existed, I'm personally feeling pretty good about the fact that Jesus did also. As to kersey graves view that there is no record as to massacre of the innocents by Herod, I would point to Macrobius Saturnalia (ii, 4) in opposition to this.
I am also glad for having read Kersey Graves book, as I am now aware of the 'Anacalypsis' and have purchased this book. I am also keen to read 'Isis Unveiled' and the Bhagavad-Gita for further study. I do not dismiss Kersey's premise that there were other Avatars that had a similar Christic drama to Jesus Christ; a superior source is needed however.
This book would have been better served with the presentation of the facts alone, inclusive of specific source material; facts that I do believe exist, but alas have been bludgeoned and blended in with Kersey Graves Christianity hating, 'axe grinding' illogic emotionalism. The world will always hate the Christ and seek justifications in its inquietude. To align oneself to this is to do an injustice to one's true self. To also think that the Christ force is particular to Christianity is also a grave mistake.
Terrible, non-scholarly, an embarassment .......2004-10-24
This book is a joke. And I am an atheist who does not believe the jesus of the gospels was an actual historical person. I am a fan of the masterful work of Earl Doherty, Robert Price, Randel Helms, etc. -- these men are geniuses. Their work is scholarly. This book was a MAJOR disappointment. It makes all kinds of claims, but has no support, evidence, or basic footnotes for back-up. For example, it says all these things about Krishna -- but gives no references. What story is the author erefring to? What text? When was it written? Every claims in this book is like that -- totally unstubstaniated. Don't waste your money. It is a very enticing book from its title, but it is a real dud.
A Very Important Work!.......2004-09-30
There is a reason this book keeps being reprinted: It is very important. Graves's seminal work has been widely assailed over the past century, yet it holds enough germane information concerning the world that is remains a classic, despite its perceived and real flaws.
I view "The World's 16 Crucified Saviors" to be so salient that I wrote the foreword to this edition, defending it against unwarranted criticism, of which there has been much, and much of which, it is shown, has been illusionary. The criticism Graves does warrant is that he failed to cite his sources often and carefully enough. Despite the fact that Graves was not a meticulous record-keeper, or, at least, what we have of his is hasty in its citation, we nevertheless possess significant, worldwide religious correspondences that go well beyond this one tome.
In spite of this difficulty, it turns out that many of the claims made popular by this clearly classic work are accurate to varying degrees, thus absolving Graves from the untoward characterization of his labor. The book is not fallacious--perhaps overly ambitious in its declarations, although it is not hard to get caught up in the moment when one discovers the real significance of comparative mythology. In that regard, this one small freethought book, written by an ex-minister, may have done more than practically any other in the past century to explore the odd correspondences among the world's religions and religious figures. These correspondences reveal a unity of thought that is extremely important today.
Acharya S, author of "The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold" and "Suns of God: Krishna, Buddha and Unveiled"
Superb edition of an 1875 classic........2002-03-23
What most Christians don't realize is that a great many of the elements of the story of Jesus Christ as related in the New Testament gospels are not unique in the recorded history of man. In fact, there have been at least fifteen demigods, saviors, or avatars that preceded Jesus in various times, places, and cultures -- including some that predate the Christian era by millennia! In 1875, Kersey Graves wrote a ground breaking treatise that told of these other miraculous and immaculately conceived personages, that stars pointed out the time and birthplace of the various saviors; the 25th of December is a common birthday attributed to these men; the 346 striking analogies between Jesus and Krishna; the stories of Appollonius, Osiris, and Magus; previous virgin mothers and virgin-born gods; prophecies by the figure of a serpent; the Holy Ghost of an oriental origin; Christ as a spiritual medium; the rival claims of saviors; and messianic prophecies. This photomechanical reprint of a true and seminal classic is now made available for a whole new generation of readers. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors is very highly recommended reading for students of Christianity in general, and the anthropological/sociological role of the redeemer figure in the cultural and religious histories of the world.
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- The Bread Bible
- Let the Lion Eat Straw
- How Democracies Lose Small Wars: State, Society, and the Failures of France in Algeria, Israel in Le
- I'm Not in the Mood: What Every Woman Should Know About Improving Her Libido
- Principles of Physics: A Calculus-Based Text, Volume 1
- Principles of Conservation Biology, Third Edition
- Midas Of Rockies: Story Of Stratton & Cripple Creek
- Inside the Celtic Tiger: The Irish Economy and the Asian Model
- Thomson WORLD Bank Directory 2003
The Companions (Dragonlance: The Meetings Sextet, Vol. 6)
Dark Heart (Dragonlance: The Meetings Sextet, Vol. 3)
Steel and Stone (Dragonlance: The Meetings Sextet, Vol. 5)
Kindred Spirits (Dragonlance: The Meetings Sextet, Vol. 1)
Wanderlust (Dragonlance: The Meetings Sextet, Vol. 2)
