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Honor Without Integrity is one patrol officer's personal journey across the "thin blue line" of the Los Angeles Police Department. Set in the backdrop of South Central Los Angeles, Officer Bentley and his partner did whatever it took to arrest, book and ensure convictions of dangerous gang members. As a subplot, they also did whatever it took to make the late nights more exciting and pleasurable on a personal level. LAPD: Honor Without Integrity is dramatic personal testimony and insight offered in a manner that is intriguing, intense and at times humorous.
"My training and experience gave me the confidence that I could justify pulling over anyone I pleased. I'm certain I could have justified stopping a car driven by civil rights attorney Johnny Cochran, with Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Jesse Jackson as passengers, solely because I felt like it. Like it or not, every person driving through the hood is fair game."
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Another Five Star Performance!.......2007-01-14
I've read both books written by Officer Brian Bentley. I wish I had the chance to meet this fine brother in arms! We've seen the usual "Root! Root! Recruit!" squeaky clean image of the Los Angeles Police Officer deplicted in such tv series as LAPd Life On The Beat, Adam 12, among other shows. This book actually shows the real world behind not only the LAPD, but sadly alot of law enforcement agencies everywhere! You could be a Housing, Transit, Campus, Deputy Sheriff, Highway Patrol/State Police Officer. The politics and lack of comraderie are the same! Officer Bentley brought my occupation into reality and it took reading his book to finally put my career (Even Though I've Worked For Over 20 Years In This Field!) into some form of prospective! We in law enforcement all wanted to make the world safe. And create change. But it is much an uphill battle. Especially if one gets no support from their colleagues, or administration. Change the names! Change the faces! But we've all worked with someone like the characters the author deplicts! Kudos to you Officer Bentley!
Lynne's Thoughts.......2007-01-08
loved it! I think anyone interested in becoming a police officer or a prosecutor should read it. Writing this book took courage.
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Merlin's mother has fallen ill. To save her, he must learn the Seven Songs of Wisdom, which will enable him to journey into the spiritual Otherworld and obtain the elixir he needs. But first Merlin's growing power will be put to the test when he has to defeat a vile ogre whose merest glance means death...
"Full of action and excitement...while its origins are epic, it is foremost a tale of the heart...it is Merlin's inner journey that readers will cherish above all: His development is convincing and heartwarming. A rich and resonant read."-- Kirkus Reviews
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The Seven Songs of Merlin.......2006-12-13
In this book, Merlin must return the dark hills to normal and restore all the land in Fincayra with the flowering harp. He is aided by his friend Rhia and Bumblewy, a pathetic jester. His longing for his mother soon takes priority over restoring the land. With the help of the wisest shell he is able to bring his mother from Earth to Fincayra. But she quickly catches the death curse and the only way to cure it is by traveling to the otherworld to retrieve the Elixir of Dagda. In order to do this he must find the souls of the seven songs of magic, travel through the otherworld well, fight a Cyclops named Balor, retrieve the Elixir and return it to his mother. With the help of his two companions, he will have to do this in one month before his mother dies.
This second book of the Merlin series was good. It was well written and interesting. The only thing I didn't like was how easily everything fit together, and how something always happened to break Merlin's way when he was looking for the souls of the songs. I think T.A. Barron did a great job of expressing the emotion of the characters. This book is filled with magic. I would recommend this for people of all ages.
The Seven Songs of Merlin - Pure Genuis! .......2006-11-09
The Seven Songs of Merlin is the second book in the Merlin series written by T.A. Barron. This is a story about a young boy who is discovering himself and what's within him. It is an adventure including mystical creatures, distant lands, and eccentric characters. This series of five books tells the adventures of a well- known wizard before he was famous. It is prologue to the stories King Arthur. The Merlin series is a great series and I do recommend it.
For you to understand some things I will explain about the Seven Songs book, you must know a little about the previous book. The first book starts out with Merlin waking up on a shoreline not knowing who or where he is. A woman takes him in and claims to be his mother, but he is not sure that she is. Merlin discovers he is not an ordinary boy and goes to the mystical land called Fincayra. On this island he finds out that the woman is his mother and discovers his fate. He has powers and is destined to become a greater wizard than his grandfather Tuatha. He goes on an exciting adventure and finds a new friend Rhia. When the first book ended it left me hanging and wanting more, and that is what led me to read this book, The Seven Songs of Merlin.
The book starts out with Merlin missing his mother and wanting her to be with him on Fincayra, so he finds a way to bring her to him. This way is to find the talking shell and tell it what he wants most. When he does this his mother arrives on the beach. When she arrives she is enticed by a cursed flower and the second she touches it she becomes extremely ill and weak. Merlin is filled with guilt and rage. Then he is told that the spirit Dagda has an elixir to cure the disease, but the only problem is Dagda is in the otherworld which is where all spirits live and Merlin is in Fincayra, the middle world. Fincayra is neither mortal or spirit; it is called the in- between place. Merlin is told he must follow the seven songs of wisdom left for him by his grandfather. He must get through all seven songs in time to save his mother. This journey will prepare him to face the giant vile ogre Balor guarding the entrance to the otherworld. Merlin finds these songs on the inside of an ancient tree and sets off on his quest. These tasks are not easy and they take him all over the land. He learns many things about magic as well as things about himself.
Will he make it to the otherworld in time, will the ogre, whose smallest glance can kill, be Merlin's end, or will he prevail and accomplish the task he set out for? Read this fantastic book to find out. I really enjoyed this book. It never had a dull moment and I just couldn't put it down. I recommend this book to anyone who likes a good adventure or fantasy. The character development was great and it had an intriguing plot. Free time is not something to be wasted, so have a good experience by reading this book. Plus, when you're done reading this one, there are three more books left that are just as good, if not better, that you can read which also tell the story of an interesting adventure.
There are only a few drawbacks that I was able to come up with. The first one that came to my mind is that you have to read the first book to read the second one so you will understand the plot. So, if you want to read the third one you must read the first and second. Its not a drawback if you like to read, but if you're looking for a book that you can just sit and read without wondering what happened in the previous book or what is going to happen in the next book, then this is not the book for you. Another drawback is this book isn't very short and takes a while to read. It is around 300 pages. I think the benefits outweigh the drawbacks, and have personally read 4 of the 5 books and consider them all to be well written and excellent books. Once more I would like to say I personally recommend this book and series to anyone, but mostly fantasy fans.
John F.
Fun Fantasy For All Ages.......2006-08-21
The second installment of the Lost Years of Merlin finds him fighting not only for his own life, but also the lives of 2 people close to him. He must solve the mysteries of the seven songs and come to understand their meanings before he can be of any use to those who desperately need him. The perils are many, the rewards are spectacular.
T.A. Barron writes another winner as he continues his saga of Merlin, before Camelot and King Arthur. The characters in this book are full of life and begin to feel like old friends as you read the story. There are appearances from past friends also and Barron makes certain they remain true to their character. These books are intended for a younger audience, but the story is so engaging and wonderful, readers of any age will find them hard to put down.
Join Merlin and company as they journey to exotic lands full of strange creatures, friend and foe. Cheer over their triumphs and feel saddened by their losses.
I highly recommend this series to all ages and interests. This is rich story telling at its best. It's also fun to discover where Merlin came from and how he became such a powerful wizard. The books are short and easy to read.
THIS IS A GREAT BOOK!!!!!.......2006-04-21
This is a wonderful sequel to the already great 1st book, the lost years of merlin.
After merlin topples stangmar, his father, he needs to "revive" the land with the flowering harp. however, he decides that he wants to bring his mother to Fincayra 1st. Using the wisest shell from the shore of speaking shells, he summons his mother to the island. when merlin's mother tries to smell a flower, a death shadow slides out and forces her to swallow it. A death shadow is Rhita Gawr's most painful way of killing someone.It gives the victim a month to live in which the victim will begin to suffer more and more pain. at the end of the month, he or she will die while enduring almost unbearable pain. Merlin finds out that to stop his mother from dying he must retrieve the elixer of Dagda. that means that he must journey to the otherworld to get it. However, the only way of getting to the Otherworld(apart from dying)and returning to the real world alive is to master the seven songs that Tuatha himself carved into Arbassa, Rhia home, a tree. After mastering all of the songs he must defeat/slay Rhita gawr's most fearsome servant, Balor, the one-eyed ogre. While merlin is quickly trying to get the elixer of Dagda, he discovers some thing abouut Rhia that leaves him in a great shock but only makes him triple his efforts to finds the elixer.
This is truly the best book that i have ever read and i think it deserves seven stars out of five. I hope you enjoy it as much as i do.
COMPLIMENTS TO YOU MR. BARRON!!!!!!
THIS IS A GREAT BOOK!!!!.......2006-04-21
This is a wonderful sequel to the already great 1st book, the lost years of merlin.
After merlin topples stangmar, his father, he needs to "revive" the land with the flowering harp. however, he decides that he wants to bring his mother to Fincayra 1st. Using the wisest shell from the shore of speaking shells, he summons his mother to the island. when merlin's mother tries to smell a flower, a death shadow slides out and forces her to swallow it. A death shadow is Rhita Gawr's most painful way of killing someone.It gives the victim a month to live in which the victim will begin to suffer more and more pain. at the end of the month, he or she will die while enduring almost unbearable pain. Merlin finds out that to stop his mother from dying he must retrieve the elixer of Dagda. that means that he must journey to the otherworld to get it. However, the only way of getting to the Otherworld(apart from dying)and returning to the real world alive is to master the seven songs that Tuatha himself carved into Arbassa, Rhia home, a tree. After mastering all of the songs he must defeat/slay Rhita gawr's most fearsome servant, Balor, the one-eyed ogre. While merlin is quickly trying to get the elixer of Dagda, he discovers some thing abouut Rhia that leaves him in a great shock but only makes him triple his efforts to finds the elixer.
This is truly the best book that i have ever read and i think it deserves seven stars out of five. I hope you enjoy it as much as i do.
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In a sequel to A Million Open Doors, John Barnes writes another novel in the universe of the Thousand Cultures. Humanity dwells in colonies (some natural and some artificial) spread over hundreds of planets that lost touch with each other for over a thousand years. Due to the invention of the springer, an instantaneous teleportation device, the worlds are communicating again. But after centuries of isolation, reunification results in intense cultural and economic stress.
Giraut and Margaret, characters from the earlier book, are now a husband and wife diplomatic team for the Council of Humanity. They also do clandestine work for the Office of Special Projects, an undercover organization that deals with serious problems that result when local governments prove intractable. Their next assignment: promote peace and cooperation on Briand, a hellish planet whose physical hostility is matched only by the hatred its two cultures show to each other.
Tamil Mandalam was founded by classical Tamils, and Kintulum was founded by classical Mayans. Tamils believe themselves to be perfect and believe that once the springer does open Briand to humanity, they will show the rest of the universe how to live. The Mayans, when they communicate at all, apparently feel the same way. The magnificence of each culture's accomplishments in art and literature is overshadowed by citizens' bigotry.
A difficult assignment indeed; as if high gravity, high temperatures and ethnic attacks weren't enough, Giraut and Margaret's mission grows even more troublesome because of their marital problems, Margaret's depression, and the bureaucratic thick-headedness of Briand's Ambassador. --Bonnie Bouman
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Welcome to the Thousand Cultures--in which humanity's hundreds of settled worlds are finally coming back together, via the recently invented technology of instantaneous travel. And in which Giraut and Margaret work as professional diplomats, helping to finesse the stresses and strains of so much abrupt new contact among wildly diverse cultures.Now, however, their task is to bring in the terrifyingly hostile world of Briand, a planet of broiling acid oceans whose only habitable portions are Greenland-sized subcontinents that project out of the abyssal heat of the planetary surface into it stratosphere.But Briand's physical hostility is nothing compared to the venom its two human cultures bear toward one another. Into this terrible world come Giraut and Margaret to try to do the right thing by the Cultures, by the inhabitants of Braind, and by one another.
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Earth Made of Glass.......2006-07-05
As always John Barnes bring us into a fascinating future world which is very realistic, build up upon real facts and cleverly constructed fiction. This book provides the reader with an option to think over about the world, not even the one that is being described in the book. J. Barnes learns us how to think about the present world from many points of view just by entertainlingly shifting us into a fantastic world.
I think if more peoples on this world would be reading such books the world would look better already...
What ethnic hatred really means.......2006-04-23
This sequel begins twelve years after the end of the first volume (in what now appears to be a planned series of five). Giraut and Margaret have been professional diplomats for more than a decade, on a number of worlds, and in situations that varied from tedious to way too exciting. They specialize -- officially -- in culture and tourism, and they know how to do their jobs, but this time that won't be enough. Because they are also agents for the Office of Special Projects, a shadowy bureau whose job is to reunite far-flung humanity in preparation for the inevitable first contact with aliens (whom two dozen known artifacts demonstrate are definitely out there). Briand is a frontier world with only two cultures, both of them "artificial": A Tamil city filled with ornate temples where everything revolves around the traditional medieval literature of south India, and a Mayan city, also filled with temples, where everything is as close as possible to the traditional subsistence agricultural society of ancient Central America. No problem -- except volcanic eruptions have forced the two to share a much small space than originally intended and centuries of increasingly violent ethnic hatred are proving impossible to overcome. The story gets darker as it progresses and the not-happy ending is extremely pessimistic. Or maybe just realistic. In addition to Barnes's proven anthropological talents, there's a lot of personal psychology here, too, as Margaret finds she can't come to terms with her husband's nostalgia for his lost youth and seeks solace elsewhere. (Which comes as a shock to Giraut, though it was telegraphed to the reader pretty early.) In fact, one of the overarching themes of this volume is betrayal: Personal, professional, political, and ethnic. I'm happy to say, in any case, that this one doesn't suffer from "sequelitis." And I've already started on the third volume.
Disappointing, unpleasant book.......2004-11-30
I have enjoyed many of John Barnes' other books (Orbital Resonance, Mother of Storms, the Timeline Wars line, Kaleidoscope Century, etc.), and I highly recommend them. However, this one left me cold. Earth Made of Glass is one of only two or three books in my life that I have abandoned mid-read. Although doing his usual fine job at painting a vivid picture of a world and culture, John Barnes has made his main characters so depressing and unpleasant that it's hard to care about them. And, after all, it's the characters that drive a novel. Once you don't give a darn what happens to the main characters, there's no reason to keep reading.
I suspect that John Barnes had recently gone through a divorce or other unpleasant event in his life, because his main character Margaret has all the brushmarks of a "revenge" character. She is whiny, incoherent, unreasonable, and thoroughly unpleasant. She bursts into tears for no reason, punishes her husband because he is not the youth he was 20 years ago, and irritatingly, constantly bemoans the state of her own middle-aged body. I somewhat remember acting this way when I was 13 and deep in the throes of adolescence. But I grew out of it darn quick. I kept wanting to shake her and tell her "Deal with it!" And Giraut's response is hurt confusion and a tendency to run away from the problem. Pack your bags and leave, buddy!
Being a middle-aged woman who has been with my husband for 25 years, I know well the stress of not having your life turn out the way you planned it but, I swear, if I am ever as unpleasant to my husband as Margaret is to hers, I give my husband full permission to drop a bucket of ice water on my head.
I suppose it is a testament to the book that I became so emotionally involved with the characters to the point that I wanted to kick them in the kiester, but this book is just too depressing and irritating to take a place in my library.
Irreconcilable differences.......2004-03-13
I just finished re-reading Earth Made of Glass and then the third book in the series, The Merchants of Souls.
Both are compellingly written and readable. The author is very good at telling stories through the viewpoint of the main character. Giraut's viewpoint is an interesting place to be.
Giraut's marriage with Margaret is in trouble, and he doesn't understand why. Previous reviews characterized Margaret's behavior as irrational and irritating. It didn't strike me that way at all.
She seemed to be behaving very reasonably by what was actually wrong: she didn't want to be married to Giraut anymore, but she still loved him as a friend, and she recognized that he still was in love with her, though she was insecure enough to consider that being in love with her was stupid of him.
Both characters were very clearly of their cultures, which the author describes and delineates beautifully so that when they are being what we might think of as obtuse, they're using different cultural markers. It might have seemed obvious to us what Margaret was doing, and how everyone else knew, but in Giraut's culture it was a duel-worthy challenge (and worse, as he would put it, "ne gens") to doubt someone's word or faith. Not something he would willingly ever do. Also in his culture, women were expected to act irrational and flighty toward men whether or not that was their nature. So he didn't really see anything peculiar about how Margaret was acting; what had been strange was her earlier Caledonian candor and straightforwardness. If he'd thought of it, he would have realized she was acting weird; he didn't think of it because, to him, her behavior seemed natural.
Barnes is a tremendous writer and I enjoy almost all his work. The sequence that Earth Made of Glass is part of is tied for my favorite of his series. I dislike star ratings but I can't bring myself to give the book less than 5 stars, although in an ideal world I'd be able to give it a less linear-scale rating or ratings on several axes of quality.
I agree with earlier reviews that putting parentheses in characters' speech is jarring. I also think that in the edition I read, the grammatical errors were fixed: I didn't notice any.
A perfect book..........2003-08-29
A friend of mine gave me this book as a gift. Being a sequel I figured it might be good. With over 400 pages, there had to be something interesting within. I was wrong. It wasn't good, it was perfect.
The characters of Giraut and Margaret are painfully real, the science fiction is interesting, the ideas are beautiful, the story itself can't help but hook you and the two cultures really give the book many flavors. The ending has a COUPLE of surprises, some of which you MAY of seen coming, but I doubt it. With hindsight I can say, 'Oh..OK..', but the end was enjoyable, thoughtful and powerful.
I can't wait to get the FIRST book 'A Million Open Doors'. I can't believe this is the same author who wrote 'Washington's Dirigible'.
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Plumb the depths of your soul and soar to the heights of your spirit Approaching the Eastern path is to embrace mystery-to accept that there is much beyond our ability to understand. Western Seeker, Eastern Paths helps Westerners explore the philosophical underpinnings of Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, and Tantra, and offers specific practices, meditations, and techniques for implementing these mystical teachings into your life.
The Eastern paths embrace the subtle realms of consciousness beyond the rational mind. You will learn techniques for gaining a peaceful mind, to access the inspiration that comes from following spirit, and to experience the depth of meaning by listening to the needs of the soul.
Selling Features: Presents the core beliefs and practices of four major Eastern traditions for the Western spiritual seeker Surveys Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, and Tantra Includes meditations and other practices the Western spiritual seeker can incorporate into his or her own spiritual practice Makes comparative religions accessible to a wide audience
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GREAT BOOK! Recommended.......2004-07-23
I highly recommend this book as INTRODUCTORY material. It is an OVERVIEW of the BUDDHIST, HINDU, TANTRA & TAOIST paths.. A very good one, I must say, as David Pond also won a COVR award under "best new Eastern book" if I do remember myself, at INATS (International New Age Trade Show).. I HAD to get it! While it does not go into too much depth about Buddhism (not covering the samsaric wheel, spiral path, etc) it provides necessary introductory material, along with the other Paths' information. I would definitely recommend this book; what an asset, especially to the Pagan or Eastern mystic's library! :)
~Colin/Raven~
Wealth of Wisdom.......2003-12-14
This valuable book assists Westerners in exploring the philosophical foundations of Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism and Tantra, the four major Eastern traditions.
The book provides excellent practices, meditations and techniques for applying the Eastern mystical teachings in the individual's life. These practices will help the reader to maintain a peaceful disposition, to harness the creative inspiration within and to enjoy greater depths of meaning by paying attention to the needs of the soul.
The core beliefs and practices of the four great Eastern traditions are made accessible whilst their techniques and practices are presented in a way that makes it easy to incorporate into the life of the Western spiritual seeker. The book contains illustrations and concludes with a thorough index.
Western Seeker Eastern Path.......2003-01-26
Loved the book! The previous reviewer must not have read the preface and introduction. The book gives a wonderful overview of the Eastern philosophies. It doesn't intend to be an in depth study of any. The Author has wisely listed other books for that at the end of the chapters. I for one wanted to have an idea of the workings of each of these Eastern Paths and decide which one or ones-- I might want to pursue further. The book was a tremendous help, giving all of the basics and then some. It was very enjoyabe. interesting and easy to understand.
I am going to start trying some of the meditation and yoga techniques that were described so well.
This book should be on everyones shelf that is interested in knowing the basics in Buddhism,Hinduism,Taoism and Tantra.
It is a fantastic Reference Book.
Kudos to Mr Pond. Thank You.
Great introduction to Eastern philosophies.......2003-01-23
The world of Eastern philosophies can be intimidating when you are just getting started. This is a book I had always wished existed, a title that looks at dozens of branches of spiritual and religious ideas in short chapters. David Pond, who has a Masters of Science degree in Experimental Metaphysics, writes Western Seeker, Eastern Paths. He examines Buddhism, there's more than one kind. Learn the basics of Hinduism, where there is more than one god...so many more! There is also more than one kind of yoga, and he gives you a brief introduction of other forms. I had been cautious of getting a book on Tantra, fearing if I left it out on a table people might think I was studying sex magic. Tantra, as with the other topics, has more than one level. This book showed me that although there is such a thing as Tantric sex, Tantra is a different topic on its own. Tantra is explained as a "path of constantly expanding awareness." Each chapter ends with a few quotes to ponder, and then a wonderful in-depth suggested reading list to further your knowledge. The Tao te Ching, Tibetan Book of the Dead, or Bhagavad Gita are great works, but where does one start when you begin the Eastern path? You start with Western Seeker, Eastern Paths-it will definitely help you find directions in your learning.
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