Never Again Once More
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Mixed emotions
  • Never Again! A few more times.
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Never Again Once More
Mary Morrison
Manufacturer: Kensington
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ASIN: 0758200218

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Mixed emotions.......2007-08-28

Well there were so many things that made me stop reading this book, then pick it up again. First off, in this one, to me it seemed like no one aged meaning Jada or Wellington. Darius was what, 20 yrs old so that had to make them in their 50's but their language and the childishness of them both seemed like the writer forgot they were older than the first book. I felt like both Jada and Wellington forgot to grow up. If someone is your soulmate then why would you marry someone else, have a baby with someone else, have sex with someone else other than that person?? This book left me confused about soulmates.

3 out of 5 stars Never Again! A few more times........2007-05-10

I have all of the books in the Jada & Wellington saga. As I read the stories I continuously shook my head at the things the characters did. I don't think Jada & Wellington knew each other well enough to be "soulmates". Outside of the sack, they had nothing going for them. I was highly irritated at the fact that, although they were both still madly in love with each other and never stopped sleeping together, they went off and married other people! and don't even get me started on Darius. Regardless of the horrible logic the characters used Mary Morrison's books aren't that bad and might, just might, be worth your hard-earned dollars.

5 out of 5 stars Enjoyed it.......2007-04-05

I enjoyed the story- Morrison is now officially on my list of favourite authors. I like the poetry in her books, and the fact that the lessons she tries to teach come out clearly. You never have that feeling of 'and the moral of the story is...?

5 out of 5 stars DianeMoneyd.......2006-08-28

I enjoyed reading all of the books in the sequel of this story from beginning to end. Keep on writing these great books.

3 out of 5 stars Confused?.......2006-08-16

Okay, I liked the series (of the ones I have read). I am admitting that I started from the ending of the story and working my way back. I have currently just finish reading NEVER AGAIN ONCE MORE. Where I am confused is with the time frame for the books. Darius (Jade's son) Is just born in this book and in his twenties in the last book. So, why is she making it seem like they are all in the same time frame. In this book she mentions breath strips and current basketball players when Darius is 9. Darius is still trying to be those players in the last books. Somewhere with the writing of these books the time frame were messed up real bad. Someone should have caught that before they were published. This book and the one before should have time period should have been long before his is 20 years old. Twenty years from now the last book should have been more with that time frame instead of the current time frame that is used in this book. It reminds me of the daytime soaps. You turn off one of those with a baby being born and the next day the same child is now five, by the end of the week the same newborn is getting married. So, you can say I am a bit confused on her writing.

Once More With Feeling: You'll Never Make Love in This Town Again, Again
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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  • Very Interesting, Yet Disturbing
Once More With Feeling: You'll Never Make Love in This Town Again, Again
Joanne Parrent
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5 out of 5 stars Definetly good!.......1999-05-20

I love this book. Hey, I am a teen-ager, and loved it. It is really descriptive, so uh--reader discretion advised, but otherwise...great, great, and marvelous, darling!

4 out of 5 stars Very Interesting, Yet Disturbing.......1997-12-29

The young women in this book are all very troubled. They all have slept with some of the most important men in Hollywood. Most of the stories are quite interesting and it makes for a quick and good read.
Never Again Once More
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    ASIN: 140253955X

    ALL FOR QUINN (Loveswept, No 631)
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • One of Kay Hooper's Winners
    ALL FOR QUINN (Loveswept, No 631)
    Kay Hooper
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    ASIN: 0553444018
    Release Date: 1993-07-01

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    5 out of 5 stars One of Kay Hooper's Winners.......2000-01-18

    The conclusion of the Men Of Mysteries Past series certainly does not disappoint. All For Quinn finally gives of the tale of Morgana and the devilishly fascinating Quinn, the elusive catburgular. After hinting at their story through three books, Kay Hooper delivers as sparks fly in All For Quinn
    The First Inspector Morse Omnibus: The Dead of Jericho, Service of All the Dead, the Silent World of Nicholas Quinn
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    The First Inspector Morse Omnibus: The Dead of Jericho, Service of All the Dead, the Silent World of Nicholas Quinn
    Colin Dexter
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    5 out of 5 stars Great Omnibus.......2002-05-13

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    3 out of 5 stars Warning! Mistitled.......2000-07-21

    Please note: this "first omnibus" is *not* made up of the first three Morse novels. Last Bus to Woodstock was his first book (1975), and these are '77, '79, and '81. Confusing.... (ignore the star rating, please)
    Work, Work, Work
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • Keep it up. Even my three year old got the message.
    • My nieces and nephews will love this!!!
    • Another thought provoking book by Daniel Quinn
    Work, Work, Work

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    Release Date: 2006-10-03

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    Work, Work, Work is the story of an industrious gopher whose lifework is to burrow from dawn to dusk under an enchanted land that he never sees. While he grumbles about his unceasing labors, the morning sky is spray-painted from a dirigible (and the sun gets a drop of blue in its eye), two UFOs from different planets meet for a strange exchange, an enormous octopus-like creature (who has just come from laying waste to Las Vegas) is subdued by a barrage of hats, hotdogs, and toasters, and, at the close of day, a window opens at the horizon so that a purple giant can hang the moon in the sky. Surfacing in the twilight, the gopher sighs, “Well, at least something happened. I ran into a rock!”
    Parents will find that Work, Work, Work, with its colorful and detailed illustrations, is something different from the usual. It’s a book that brings readers and read-to together in a highly interactive entertainment, with the child investigating and elucidating all the strange goings-on that occur above the gopher’s underground travels.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Keep it up. Even my three year old got the message. .......2007-07-28

    As always Daniel Quinn delivers. Great reads for anyone alive today facing the reality of change.
    He is a writer for all, with a vision that wakes the soul, mind and consciousness of all who dare pick the books up and open Pandoras Box. Happy Journey. "B" creative and learn from those who know. .....

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    5 out of 5 stars My nieces and nephews will love this!!!.......2006-12-13

    I had a great time reading Work, Work, Work - with all the great colors, glossy pages and those fabulous pictures! The book is wonderful - what a lesson to share with children! I am definitely going to share this with my nieces and nephews. :)

    4 out of 5 stars Another thought provoking book by Daniel Quinn.......2006-12-13

    The book is intended for children but I'm going to share an adult review and perspective since I have yet to share it with a child so I can't comment on their impression or enjoyment.

    The book arrived and I read it about 2 minutes. It is mostly pictures, illustrated by DQ himself, with just a sentence or two on each page. At the end I was left scratching my head wondering, what did I just read? I have read it a number of times since then and love the depth and richness in the simple story. It can be interpreted a number of different ways.

    I've shared this book with a number of fellow MBA in Sustainable Business grad students at Bainbridge Graduate Institute. Their first impressions are often similar to mine and I enjoy asking them what they learned. Their replies and insights are always interesting.

    Without giving it away or providing my analysis of the story, I'll just end the review with the question, "Why do we Work, Work, Work so darn much?"
    Having It All ... And Making It Work: Six Steps for Putting Both Your Career and Your Family First (Financial Times Prentice Hall Books)
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    Having It All ... And Making It Work: Six Steps for Putting Both Your Career and Your Family First (Financial Times Prentice Hall Books)
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    4 out of 5 stars Moving book............2004-02-05

    When I first heard about "Who moved My Cheese", I had to read it right away! the concepts were basic and realistic.
    But now after reading "Having it all... and making it work" .. I was even more moved !
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    The Dead of Jericho, Service of All the Dead and The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn
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      But never eat out on a Saturday night: An appetizing glimpse behind the scenes in all kinds of great American restaurants
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • Another modern food classic with an eloquent voice
      • Behind the scenes in restaurants.
      But never eat out on a Saturday night: An appetizing glimpse behind the scenes in all kinds of great American restaurants
      Jim Quinn
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      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Another modern food classic with an eloquent voice.......2002-02-01

      "The last days of _haute cuisine_" is a phrase tossed off in passing by Jim Quinn in this classic book, most of whose chapters are his skillfully rendered accounts of time spent behind the scenes at a diverse array of restaurants, observing the foibles and cultures. Tell Erhardt working furiously in his restaurant kitchen in Chicago and dispensing "general advice about life and vegetables." Teenage girls at a Philly cheese-steak house firing orders for "Cheese with" amid comparing notes on a boy (evidently dippy). Quinn catches the tempo of these milieus beautifully -- he is a storyteller at heart, who is also knowledgeable about food and restaurants, exactly the sort of person who can write well about them. The chapters were published as articles in _Harper's_ and elsewhere before compilation into this book. The penultimate chapter, "Why it tastes so bad," indicts those parts of the "foodservice" industry that are traditionally so prominent in advertisements in _Restaurant Business_ magazine (which Quinn also mentions). They gave us frozen shrimp with the breading pre-dyed in a range of appetizing toasty shades even before it hits the hot Frymax, and those machine-made potato pieces "with just enough of the skin left on" that invaded all the upper-end chain restaurants about the time the book was written, 20 years ago. This chapter is delightful, and horrible.

      At this moment this book is out of print (as of course are most good books at any given moment) although like many others, it can be found used. A pity because it has lost none of its relevance. I should have gotten more copies for lending and gifts. (Maybe if I order enough of them, it will be reprinted again, as with Wechsberg's _Blue Trout and Black Truffles_ a few years ago.)

      "The last days of _haute cuisine_" was a casual sentence in Quinn's book. Recently Patric Kuh wrote a worthy new book about restaurants and used the same sentence for his title, but did not even mention Quinn (for reasons Kuh would know better than I). Quinn nevertheless is part of the context of new US writing on restaurants, whether or not its authors bother to know (or acknowledge) this. Here as elsewhere, the best writing on a subject is not necessarily the very latest. Rarely is this truer than about food, as witness Mary Anna DuSablon's remark that the 850 cookbooks in print in the US in 1962 became 6000 by 1984, with two new titles a day published. Does anyone seriously imagine a corresponding growth of new ideas, or imagine (conversely) that this contemporary scrambling to publish reflects anything negative on earlier classics?

      5 out of 5 stars Behind the scenes in restaurants........2000-04-06

      Jim Quinn writes about what goes on behind the scenes in a variety of restaurants - top of the line, a diner, a pizza place, a place at the Jersey Shore, a cheese steak shop, a Chinese restaurant, and even McDonalds. The first two pieces, on the diner and top restaurant, are fascinating. As an extra, he gives hints on what to look out for while eating out, and how to review a restaurant. An absolutely fascinating book, recommended for anyone who eats out.
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        6 Titles in the Inspector Morse Series: (1) Last Bus to Woodstock; (2) Silent World of Nicholas Quinn; (3) Service of All the Dead; (4) The Jewel That Was Ours; (5) The Way Through the Woods; (6) The Daughters of Cain (Set of 6)
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        All Changed: Fifty Years of Photographing Ireland
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          All Changed: Fifty Years of Photographing Ireland
          Colman Doyle , and John Quinn
          Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press
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          As Ireland has moved from a traditional to a modern society over the past fifty years, it has seen immense changes in attitude toward the Church, sex, relationships, property, emigration, and life in general. Here we see the faces, the landscapes, and the lives of the recently disappeared Ireland—Jack Lynch, JFK, Grace Kelly, Dev, de Gaulle, the Troubles, folk traditions—alongside the new faces and styles of modern society.

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          The All New Exiles #6 Vol. 1 March 1996
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            The All New Exiles #6 Vol. 1 March 1996
            David Quinn
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            "The Birthday Party"
            The All New Exiles #7 April 1996
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              The All New Exiles #7 April 1996
              David Quinn
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              The Stonehenge Gate
              Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
              • Must have been written for 14 yr old set...
              • "Try your little mama's magic key!"
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              • Not Impressed
              The Stonehenge Gate
              Jack Williamson
              Manufacturer: Blackstone Audio Inc.
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              Product Description

              A dark mystery has been buried beneath the sands of the Sahara for eons. In a basement in New Mexico, four poker buddies find reason to believe that a startling secret is out there, and these four amateur adventurers are about to uncover it.

              Curiosity propels mild-mannered professor Will and his three friends to the Sahara to excavate a site where radar has detected trilithic stones hidden beneath the sand. There they stumble upon an ancient artifact that will change their lives—and the world—forever: a gateway between planets, linking Earth to distant worlds where they will discover wonders and terrors beyond imagining. Now each traveler must play a crucial role in unraveling an ancient mystery, the solution to which may reveal the true origins of the human race—if they can survive the journey back to Earth.

              Customer Reviews:

              1 out of 5 stars Must have been written for 14 yr old set..........2007-02-15

              I couldn't put this book down - I threw it down. Sorry, I couldn't finish it. The writing style was amateurish and the characters were as dull as a butter knife. There was absolutely no set up - no tension building - no character development, that is except for Ram who was as annoying as he was fakey. I picked this book up because of the authors association with the sci-fi legend Fredrick Pohl. Too bad this book was so stinky as I will probably avoid this author in the future.

              3 out of 5 stars "Try your little mama's magic key!".......2006-12-11

              If they make a movie out of this it will probably be one of those so-bad-it's-good hits. It is too hard to take this story seriously. I tried, but I lost it at the above quote. I was listening to a book on CD I checked out of the library so imagine Harlan Ellison's voice delivering the line....

              The not so intrepid heroes of this story start belly-aching about wanting to go home barely seconds after passing through the mysterious ancient gate. (Think Stargate rip-off.) This would not be so bad except they invested a lot of time and money preparing for the trip. The story is therefore kinda ruined from the get-go.

              5 out of 5 stars wild journey.......2006-08-30

              I found myself right there watching every scene unfold, just when you think you're out of a spot something else pops up. This has been a wild journey across the realms of space.

              4 out of 5 stars Golden Age-like adventure of wonder and mystery .......2006-06-19

              _The Stonehenge Gate_ by Jack Williamson reminds me of some of the older, "Golden Age" science fiction stories I read in anthologies growing up, in books I found in my Dad's collection or in used bookstores, where educated, adventurous but otherwise seemingly normal people come across alien artifacts, hints of lost civilizations, technology so advanced it looks like magic, the stories not jaded at all but filled with a sense of wonder, of "gee-wiz," of amazement at the bigger-than-life mysteries of the universe.

              The novel's four main protagonists, at least at first, are four poker buddies, college professors at Eastern New Mexico University. Derek Ironcraft is a physicist and astronomer, Lupe Vargas is an archaeologist (the sole woman of the group), Ram Chenji is an African linguist that Vargas met on a dig in Africa and got him to the United States on a scholarship, and Will Stone (the narrator) is a English literature professor specializing in Shakespeare; together they call their little group the Four Horsemen. One night Derek shows the group interesting NASA images of a buried structure deep in the sand seas of the Sahara Desert, images that appear to show a megalithic, Stonehenge-like structure. Though Lupe is tremendously skeptical of the image, or at least of Derek's interpretation of it, saying that the region is not known for such artifacts and is located in an area that the last time it was decently habitable by humans was hundreds of thousands of years ago, well before they were building such structures, she eventually embraces the group's enthusiasm and the four of them manage to make their way to the very remote site, initially hoping during a break between classes to find enough there to justify a grant and a return trip.

              Dropped off by chartered helicopter among the remote dunes, many days travel from the nearest thing approaching civilization, they do indeed find that the satellite image was correct, that there are buried megalithic structures. They also find prior to their arrival that Ram had a very unusual background, that he grew up in Kenya, partially raised by his elderly grandmother that he called Little Mama, a woman who spoke a strange language and had taught some to Ram against his father's wishes and given him a strange pendant that had defied the few attempts he had tried to analyze it, covered with enigmatic writings and made of some unfamiliar material. Little Mama before she died had told Ram of having come from some other world, of having to go through Hell before she found the road to Heaven. Perhaps a little convenient, at least in my mind, but it becomes apparent to the group that Little Mama had somehow come through these megalithic structures from some other world.

              In very short order they find that they are gates to another world. Indeed, gates to worlds, plural, as the Four Horsemen hop from world to world, for a time separating, seemingly permanently though there are hints that the missing members are alive and well. The first world they encounter was deadly, apparently a trap for unwary gate travelers, but after overcoming those difficulties the remaining team members come to an apparently very Earth-like world, complete with familiar plants and animals. Perfectly maintained (and to my mind a tad too familiar) buildings, roads, parks, and farms are present on the planet, lovingly tended by bizarre robots, but not a sign of people or what had happened to them. Though most things look pristine and untouched, they do come across evidence that what ever had happened to the people had happened a very long time ago.

              The tone of the book changed abruptly though when they journeyed to another world, one that is very much inhabited, having a series of adventures on it that encompass a great portion of the book. Though touching on the possible destiny and strange origins of Ram and his people, the interlude on this world, one they later called Delta, had an entirely different, almost jarring tone from what came before and after in the story. Delta has two continents - Norlan and Hotlan - that are inhabited each by a native race of humans. Norlan is home to a race of mostly blonde imperialist European types, technologically close to that of late 19th century Earth as far as I could tell, while Hotlan was home to black African-like tribes and villages in the dense rain forest of a wilderness continent, largely beyond the reach of most Norlanders. The main characters become embroiled in the lives of individuals from both Hotlan and Norlan and in the growing conflict between the two groups (as the Hotlanders are for the most fantastic racists, not regarding the Hotlanders as human and at least officially condemning all mixed race individuals and their parents to death). Though the story was a decent tale of adventure and fairly atmospheric, it didn't flow well with the odd, otherworldly place they found before Delta and their discoveries about the builders and their origins in the incredibly distant past later on. It was as if I was reading an entirely different novel.

              The best drawn out characters are Will, who comes across as timid and passive at times, at other times willing to risk everything to save a friend, including friends he makes in Hotlan, and Ram, who is a fairly complex character, constantly at war with himself, struggling with what may be some sort of preordained destiny that was thrust upon him in Hotlan and the life he really wants to lead. Derek and Lupe were a bit less well drawn and not as major characters as either Will or Ram, their time and energy almost single-mindedly spent on trying to solve the riddle of the gates, the builders, and their various worlds and what that means for all of human history.

              Certainly not a bad novel, it was a fast read.

              2 out of 5 stars Not Impressed.......2006-02-03

              When I first read the synopsis of this book, I thought that it would be an interesting read. After the first 20 or so pages I was not sure what I had gotten myself into. The writing style seemed awkward and the phrase "I'd like to know" came up so often it became extremely annoying and at times out of place.
              Writing style aside, the premise of this book was very similar to the movie and series "Stargate" but less interesting and more confusing. The book itself seemed to be a mishmash of different stories and ideas. The book never seemed to flow. Sometimes the story went quickly and the reader was left trying to figure out what was going on. The author created situations without any explanation and many times I was left to wonder "how did that happen?"
              In other sections of the book, the author seemed to drag on forever. The longest subplot in the book seemed to be an odd take on Slavery in American and Colonial History. It seemed out of place and more of a rant on black and white culture and relations.
              This book was so odd that I never could figure out what the author was trying to accomplish in writing this book. Of course, Williamson did leave an open ended ending which leads me to believe he was thinking of writing other books about the different subplots he created. In the end, who knows? All I know is that after reading this story I am not inclined to purchase another book from this author.
              Stonehenge Gate
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                Stonehenge Gate
                Jack Williamson
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                The Stonehenge Gate
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                  The Stonehenge Gate
                  Jack Williamson
                  Manufacturer: The Easton Press
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                  Binding: Leather Bound

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                  In this beautifully appointed leatherbound first edition by Easton Press, Hugo-, Nebula- and John W. Campbell Award-winning author Jack Williamson offers a tale of four friends who discover a portal to distant worlds in the Sahara desert. Each friend embarks on his own private, life-altering journey without realizing that together, their journeys may uncover the origins of humanity. Beautifully appointed with gold-trim, gilt-edged pages and satin placemarker, this would make a handsome addition to the library of any serious science-fiction collector.

                  Listening Heart: The Spirituality of Sacred Sensuousness
                  Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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                  Listening Heart: The Spirituality of Sacred Sensuousness
                  David Steindl-Rast
                  Manufacturer: Crossroad Classic
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                  When he declares that any sensuous experience is at heart a spiritual one: a divine revelation, Brother David brings us to our senses again. Our holy senses.

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                  4 out of 5 stars Sacred Sensuouness .......2005-11-16

                  A Listening Heart is subtitled The Spirituality of Sacred Sensuousness. This subtitle really gives the meat of the book. Brother David helps us to understand the sacredness of sensual experienes - taste, sight, hearing, touch and smell. He carefully makes his case that we can come in touch with the the divine by becoming more fully aware of our reaction to sensual stimuli. The book is very well and clearly written.

                  I gave it four stars because of the chapter entitled Mirror of the Heart. I found this chapter rather obtuse - maybe because I am not a great fan of poetry. However, the book would have been better without this chapter. That's my two cents worth.

                  5 out of 5 stars incredible truths for living.......2000-02-21

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