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Winner of the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award; finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
"Ten days before Christmas I lost her. What do I remember? Every little thing….For twenty-one years I've picked away at my memory of it, lifting up moments, testing myself. Believing I might have finally healed to a neat white scar."
Pregnant with her first child, Eve Green recalls her mother's death when she was eight years old and her struggle to make sense of her parents' mysterious romantic past. Eve is sent to live with her grandparents in rural Wales, where she finds comfort in friendships with Daniel, a quiet farmhand, and Billy, a disabled, reclusive friend of her mother's. When a ravishing local girl disappears, one of Eve's friends comes under suspicion. Eve will do everything she can to protect him, but at the risk of complicity in a matter she barely understands. This is a timeless and beautifully told story about family secrets and unresolved liaisons.
Customer Reviews:
Simply Stunning.......2006-06-15
I absolutely loved this book. Susan Fletcher has a way with words that actually made the hair on my arms stand up!
Filled to the brim with the most stunning imagery of Wales and life in rural Wales, Fletcher chooses her words so carefully and each sentence is simplistic and beautifully put together.
What I love about this book is that at no time do you feel like the author is trying to show off. Some books that I have read recently have left me reaching for a thesuarus and several Asprin before I got to the end.
This story flows and feels like poetry.
Beautifully written, lyrical prose & a riveting story! .......2006-01-23
Author Susan Fletcher's narrative caught me up from page one and kept me riveted until the conclusion of her Whitbread-winning debut novel "Eve Green." Although not billed as a suspense thriller or mystery, I found this excellent novel to be extremely disquieting, tension-filled and, even though the reader is made aware of what is to come early on in the story, it is a real page-turner.
Twenty-nine year-old Eve Green narrates. Pregnant with her first child by the man she has adored for almost twenty years, she reflects back on an earlier, more innocent time.
Evangeline lived in Birmingham with her mother, a single parent, until she was suddenly, tragically orphaned at age seven - about to turn eight. Evie, as she was then called, was sent to live with her maternal grandparents on their farm in the Welsh countryside, just outside the tiny village of Cae Tresaint. Her mother's parents, devastated by the loss of their only child, welcomed their granddaughter with open arms and much love.
Evie never knew much about her father. Her Mom, Bronwen, and later her grandparents made sure she was kept in the dark about the man who sired her. It was obvious to the child, however, that her mother loved him and thought he was in Birmingham, where she believed she would find him one day. She even kept a shoe box full of mementos of their time together, and a diary, which Evie was forbidden to touch. The shoe box made its way to Wales along with the little girl. Evie would sneak the box down from its hiding place at the top of a wardrobe and look through the contents time and time again, as she tried to piece together the history of her becoming. She was told in Cae Tresaint never to mention her father, but she knew he was called "the Irishman," and that she got her wild red hair and freckles from him.
There were other secrets, prejudices and mysteries concerning the town's people, including the disappearance and probable death of a local girl. Evie had some classified information of her own - her undisclosed friendship with an outsider believed to be mad, a lie she told which had terrible consequences, and a chilling incident with a green-eyed man that marked her forever.
"Eve Green" is compelling in the beauty of its lyrical prose. The magic of a little girl's poignant memories illuminates the novel. Here are revealing portraits of the grandparents Eve loves so much; her three deep and important childhood friendships - all with improbable people - a sensitive and caring farmhand, a crippled recluse, and an intellectual schoolmate with dreams of wandering the world. Eve's love of the Welsh countryside, language and lore is also evident. She has a sense of belonging in the natural world and Ms. Fletcher outdoes herself in her atmospheric descriptions:
"Tor-y-gwynt is surrounded by peat bogs and grass so sharp that it can nick your skin. Red kites are spotted there. Sheep and rabbit dung peppers its lower stones, and I've found many animal bones in the peat over the years - sheep, deer, others. And the wind is strong at the Tor. Hair flutters like a snared bird, and I used to like standing on the highest boulder, trying to keep my balance in the wind."
And: "Comes from the old shepherd's hut on the ridge. My castle. My mossy, windy outpost. I'd charge up there on clear days hoping to spy a distant, hazy Cardigan Bay. I'd lie in wait behind the stones for hikers or birdwatchers or deer, or a glimpse of Billy Macklin before he became my friend. And I had breezy picnics in that tussock grass, secret teenage cigarettes, long daydreams, and I hid there in rainstorms or when I just didn't want to be found."
"Eve Green" reminds me, in some ways, of Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird." (Also of Richard Llewllyn's extraordinary "How Green Was My Valley"). Scout Finch, like Eve Green, is eight and bereft of her mother. Both novels are set in rural areas. They are both rich and colorful in description of locale and locals, and they explore the native customs and mores of the period. Reclusive characters Bo Radley and Billy Macklin are not dissimilar in nature. There are other commonalties, but the one which stands out the most is that these are both outstanding novels. Although, personally, I don't think there are many works of fiction written in English in the last 100 years to match "To Kill A Mockingbird." Given my feelings on that - "Eve Green" is an outstanding work and I recommend it highly! ENJOY!
JANA
recommended read!.......2005-12-07
Reviewed by Steve Himmer for Small Spiral Notebook
Susan Fletcher's Whitbread-winning debut Eve Green is a story assembled from secrets, those life has kept from the narrator and those she in turn keeps from the reader. The eponymous Eve is seven when she suddenly loses her mother and is whisked away to her grandparents in rural Wales, to live in the house where her mother grew up. With her observant eye and honest, endearing voice, Eve recalls Cassandra from Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle, but with a rich twist. Cassandra sought to order the world by writing, whereas Eve relies on reading what has already been written--in particular, on scraps of paper in a shoebox of her mother's. Those textual fragments provide the only record of the father who vanished before Eve was born, and about whom neither her grandparents nor anyone else in their village will speak.
The novel is narrated by a twenty-nine year old Eve as she awaits the birth of her first child. Recalling the earlier years of her life, she weaves an account of recovering the lives of her parents together with the disappearance of a girl her age from the village and the ensuing panic and suspicions. She also reveals a deep attachment to the Welsh valley and crumbling farmhouse that became her home in childhood and in which she still lives after her grandparents have passed away. This sense of place and belonging is one of the novel's great strengths, counterbalancing Eve's sense of rootlessness, as when she reports that the best view of the valley
comes from the old shepherd's hut on the ridge. My castle. My mossy, windy outpost. I'd charge up there on clear days hoping to spy a distant, hazy Cardigan Bay. I'd lie in wait behind the stones for hikers or birdwatchers or deer, or a glimpse of Billy Macklin before he became my friend. And I had breezy picnics in that tussock grass, secret teenage cigarettes, long daydreams, and I hid there in rainstorms or when I just didn't want to be found.
Vivid passages like these come so often in the novel, and so gracefully, that it is easy to overlook how skillfully Fletcher winds the threads of her story together. Characters and locations are introduced with such subtly that when they take on greater importance later, it feels both surprising and natural at once. Those threads are also tied to the landscape, and the lives of the characters are echoed by the quiet details and slow changes of the place in which they live.
Even as the reader revels in these connections, Eve herself remains unaware, seeing both both the natural and social worlds she lives in almost entirely as a collection of details much like her shoebox of scraps. Of the days following her mother's death and her own relocation she notes,
tap water tastes cleaner in Wales; wet earth has a real, incredible smell to it; clouds are bigger; birds come closer. Flowers seem much brighter out here. I don't know why, but they do.
Eve sees her own body, too, as a jumble of individual parts, owing perhaps to the red hair and freckles she has inherited from her father, and how those distinctive features remind the whole village--Eve's grandparents, too--of the criminal he turns out to have been. This sense of assembling herself as she assembles (and we) assembles her story creates an understated suspense and provides the novel with both intrigue and momentum.
For the most part, Eve Green succeeds at striking a melancholy but hopeful balance between what a young Eve slowly discovers, and what the older, narrating Eve already knows. There is an organic, engaging tension in piecing together the details of her history at the very moment she does the same. Other sources of tension, however, feel a bit forced--in particular, the story of the disappeared girl and the sometimes cloying awareness with which the narrator withholds all she knows of that event. While that disappearance provides a local, more tangible loss through which to reflect on Eve's absent parents, it never becomes quite as convincing as the other strands of the novel. It seems to bear little impact on Eve aside from offering a convenient object of transference, and while this may be a result of the distance between the disappearance itself and the narration, such a violent, tragic event seems to demand more significance than it has been allowed, leaving the suspense it engenders somewhat hollow. The reader is never able to forget that the abducted, tangential character exists only to allow the narrator to discuss herself, and that awareness is cruelly unsettling.
Still, to the credit of the novel and its author, that issue only emerges as problematic because the other elements cohere so naturally, and it should by no means overshadow the larger achievement of a fine debut.
Eve Green A Welsh Treat.......2005-06-03
Evangeline Green is a thoroughly unbelievable 8 year old whose creator, the young British writer Susan Fletcher, has made the centerpiece of this eponymous memory book.
She's got the kind of feistiness we loved in Harriet the Spy, but those red curls make me think of the unfortunate John Hughes picture "CURLY SUE." I was sorry for her when she lost her mother, and couldn't help but be reminded of Sylvia Plath turning on the gas taps while her two children slept on, in that cold English February of 1963. This was long before Susan Fletcher's birth of course, but she has a poetic habit of mind that comes from long familiarity with English verse.
The story line Eve precipitates is a good one, even though she does seem too young to do half the things Fletcher has her do. It's a book about motherhood, impending and refusing, the things that a mother must do, and the things she hopes she never has to face. Billy, the bizarre friend she meets in the little Welsh village, is the first one who helps Eve lift up out of the depression and trauma caused by her Mom's sudden exit from her life. He's sort of a freak, but Cae Tresanit is the sort of village that wouldn't have its charm had it fewer freaks and twee people. It's a cozy village, is Cae Tresanit, an anagram in fact for "Tea Canister."
If you, like I, enjoyed the 30s novels of Rosamund Lehmann, with their intense, poetic concentration on broken families and children struggling to understand the lessons of the past, then you will join me in applauding Susan Fletcher. She will do better next time, I'm sure.
"Love is as varied and unpredictable as the rain is".......2005-02-27
A mother, who has suddenly died of heart failure, an eight-year-old spirited girl, a father that remains illusive, an aggressive redheaded Irish burglar, and a missing teenager, are all the ingredients of this marvelous coming of age story set amongst the hills and dales of rural Wales. Eve Green is a haunting tale that is part mystery, part love story, part inter-generational saga, and also part memorandum to loved ones that are now lost.
After the sudden death of her mother in Birmingham, eight-year-old Evangeline finds herself transported to her grandparents' tiny Welsh village of Cae Tresanit - with its quaint farmhouses, shady lanes, peat bogs, and dank old gold mines. Eve gradually becomes to love the natural beauty and farm life of old Wales. She's a brave, strong-willed, and flame-haired girl, who embarks upon a journey to discover where she really comes from. But as she gets older, she gradually becomes embroiled in her own mysterious family history and the inexplicable disappearance of Rosie a young village girl, who liked to wear short skirts and roller-skate through the village.
Finding an old shoebox with a collection of her mother's mementoes, Eve manages to piece together the story of her mother's affair with the man that became Eve's father. The only clue that Eve has to his identity is that his first name begins with K. Meanwhile, Eve befriends mad old hermit-like local boy Billy Macklin. Billy a mystical and forlorn figure has been physically and mentally scarred when a bucking horse disfigured his face. But it is through the enigmatic Billy, that Eve is able to discover the truth about her mother, the mysterious man called K, and why local village shopkeeper Mr. Phipps despises her so.
From the outset Eve is different from the other children in the village. She's often haughty and rebellious, and picks fights with the other schoolgirls. Eve's grandmother - who hides the truth about Eve's past - is frightened of losing her grip on her granddaughter, just like she did with Eve's mother. As Eve garners more misty-eyed secrets, she becomes more reliant on Billy, and realizes "if there is a little box of secrets she couldn't quite prize open, Billy is the one with the key." Billy knows all about love, and Eve sees the signs of a saddened heart - solitude, quietness, a lethargy that sat alongside a desire to protect all that reminded him of Eve's mother.
Author Susan Fletcher cleverly hints at various dramatic incidents that unfold throughout Eve's life. But it isn't until the last chapters that these incidents are pieced together and the reader finally gets a picture of what really happens to Eve and how these events are related. As the proceedings become clearer, they irrevocably change the village, forcing Eve to face the ghosts of the past and look towards the future. Eve "holds up the past to the wind, uncloses her hand and just let's it go."
Memory and love are a powerful force in Eve Green. And of love - it patters into you, or it washes you clean of your senses. It can drip or become a downpour. It is also strange and manipulative. There's no doubt that Eve Green is a beautiful novel, but the real treasure lies - not just in Eve's emotional journey of self-discovery - but also in the picture that Fletcher paints of rural farm life and the ordinary lives of the people of Cae Tresanit. Powerful, poetic and visionary, Eve Green is what serious literary fiction is all about. Mike Leonard February 04.
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art love story, part utopian fantasy, part spiritual fable, The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You is "a beautiful, symbolic journey of the soul" (Berkeley Monthly). Into the world of the Ata comes a desperate man, running from a fast life of fame and fortune, drugs and crime. He is led by the kin of Ata on a spiritual journey that, sooner or later, we all must take.
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Another Strand in the Web..........2007-10-05
I read this book several times back in the 70's and recently found myself reading it again. The shocker came when I finally discovered the depth of the writing and the amazing parallels to the concepts you can learn in "A Course in Miracles"...(talk about inspired writing!) Anyone who is traveling the Course or who is a fan of Eckhart Tolle, Dr. Michael Ryce, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Don Miguel Ruiz, Brian Weiss, Robert Perry, etc, etc, etc, NEEDS TO READ THIS BOOK!
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Atans have no word for past or future..."only the present Now"...
Atans don't have personal pronouns...all are "kin"...
Atans have unconditional love for all...
The Atan word "Nagdeo" means....God, light, joy, peace, love, right, spirit, etc. Anything that honors kin.
"Donagdeo" means anything that interferes with "Nagdeo"...the people are not pefect, Utopian...they struggle with all the vices and errors everyone else does....but they strive towards the "Nagdeo" and avoid anything "donagdeo"....
The Rays of Light and the "shining jewels" the protagonist sees...
Also this book has the clearest insight I've even heard into the "Loaves and fishes" message...to give IS to receive.
I could go on, that's just a few. I hope I have gotten my point across...you will find your own truths here...
Like the book states ("A Course" does too) in the end words fail and fall short. The Truth is in you and me. You'll recognize it when you see it...Nagdeo.
The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You
A SECOND CHANCE DANCE..........2005-11-26
This is an allegorical tale that provides food for thought, as the reader accompanies one man on his journey to redemption. The man is question is a deeply flawed one, driven by many of the seven sins. When he kills his girl friend and flees in his car, he has what would appear to be a fatal accident. Instead, he mysteriously finds himself in the land of Ata. Thus, begins this fantastical Utopian tale.
The book is simply written and chronicles one man's entry into a world where the dream state is reality. It is a world where unconditional acceptance of others prevails, and symbolically all are spokes in the circular wheel of life. Much of the book is redolent of Christian ideals. How much of Ata is in this man's mind and how much of it is truly real, I leave to the individual reader to discern. It is comforting to think, however, that the kin of Ata just may be waiting for you.
beautiful, but preaches mostly to the converted.......2005-10-14
It is a lovely book... somewhat surreal and definitely Utopian in theme but Bryant takes you so gently and slowly to her thesis that it's ultimately easy-to-swallow. Reflection over time, however, yields a few problems.
As another reviewer has pointed out, Bryant uses a dispicable character to explain and augment the premise for the culture of Ata; many readers will find it hard to sympathize with his supposed enlightenment. Also, the id is completely glossed over in this book, the idea being that proper socialization within such a Utopian culture would erase or negate animalistic urges down to permanently manageable magnitude; many readers will question her conclusion in that regard and doubts will emerge on the entire premise. Lastly, the protagonists obtuse nature makes the book plod a bit; many readers will "get it" right away and be annoyed with how long it takes the main character to catch up (which in some respects he never really does)
Then there's the attitude of the Kin of Ata themselves. While beautiful and loving and empathic and yadda yadda, they can easily come across as lackadaisical or just plain apathetic. While much is made of their near-telepathic "oneness" and reliance upon their spiritual nature, their repeated indulgence of the main character becomes tiresome.... have they no self-preservation? No passion? No overriding discipline? These questions are best exemplified by the fact that the Ata see no benefit from the notion of the written word. Much is made of their connection to one another; their oral history that becomes the art of storytelling etc. Apparently, historical fact-keeping is anathema to Utopia. I found that notion to be impossible to accept. Within the framework of a people absolutely cut-off from "modern" societies influence perhaps that could MAYBE be true, but one does not simply dismiss an obstacle to spiritual awakening by pushing it out of view. This comes across as a basic ostrich manuever to avoid facing the difficult realities of human natures: heirarchical thinking, competiveness and basic surivival needs that when unmet turn to aggression and antagonistic behavior. Those may not be pleasant realities but they are realities.
For a more interesting (and possibly more intellectual) take on the same notion, try out Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Although her victorian attitudes about female sexuality date the piece, all other aspects of her Utopia seem more plausible to me. Which is saying something, really.
Actually, I'd be more enthusiastic to recommend The Dispossessed (or nearly anything by Ursula K LeGuin) or Wild Seed (or nearly anything by Octavia Butler) as both (the books and the writers) explore the notion of a Utopian ideal by handing it to humanity via an alien race who are well aware of the not-so-nice aspects of human nature. Both writers understand that some unsavory elements are iron-clad stuck in us, not just taught to us.
By keeping the Utopianists as human as anyone else, we beg the question "why do those humans never fight, never hurt each other and how would they deal with a natural disaster?" which never seems to be answered by Utopian writers adequately. By beginning enlightenment with an outside species/race, we change the question to "can humanity resist its negative tendancies in order to accept this Utopia?" which is imminently more interesting and quite possibly answerable on some level.
The Kin of Ata... neither addresses nor firmly answers these questions, which is it's only flaw. For fantasy, however, it sure is a wonderful read.
Where dreams are what's true.......2005-04-22
One reading of this book is a modern Utopia. It's a place built on peace: happy, pastoral, multiracial, communal, and sexually liberated. The people are so viscerally in tune with their environment that they very nearly hibernate through the cold season and usually bear their young in the spring. The whole populace is dedicated to their dreams, to sharing their dreams, and to living more deeply in their dreams.
A man from our outer world appears in that place, not the kind you'd want as your representative. He can not see into their depths, and violates one of the women who tends him. These peaceful people still accept him, though, and envelop him in their way. After many years, he finds his place among them. He also finds the true meaning of this Eden, a power and an ongoing place in the world that he never imagined.
I'm still not quite sure what to make of this book. It comes from the hippy/commune era around 1970, and carries the indelible mark of its time. It's a bit simplistic at times, and only the first-person character is developed in any depth. This is a bit more than the common Utopia story, a bit more optimistic and a bit more magical.
The very worst you can say about this is that it's light and readable, even enjoyable if you let yourself enjoy it. The story of personal transformation has been told before and is told well here. I guess real point is that this little land of loving dreamers is itself a dream worth having.
//wiredweird
Forever changed.......2004-12-08
There are no words to describe the immense affect this book can deliver to the reader. The spiritual implications and subtle teachings interlace with this beautiful story that you will never forget. I read this book about 20 years ago or so, and it still remains at the top of my list.
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Originally published by the author under the title of "The Comforter". This is a feminist novel.
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Memories of Maggie: A Portrait of Margaret Thatcher
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A collection of more than 100 anecdotes and reminiscences of Margaret Thatcher, arguably Britain's greatest peacetime Prime Minister, bythose who knew her best. The book includes contributions from Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Vaclav Klaus, Lord Owen, Matthew Parris, Sebastian Coe, John Redwood, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, Geoffrey Howe, Alexander Haig, Neil Hamilton, Michael Dobbs, Bob Hawke, Ann Widdecombe and William Hague. This unique book is edited by Iain Dale, author of As I Said to Denis, the Margaret Thatcher Book of Quotations.
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Thatcher - a non self serving grocer's daughter........2003-07-05
I tried to buy a copy of this book on July 4 (Charter day/Independence Day) from Charter Books, but Charter Books do not serve overseas customers. Charter books are too new, have too high prices, and have yet to sell anything. Thus I am unable to become the Charter Customer of Charter Book. Darn.
I am buying a copy "Memories of Maggie", from another source.
I will be particularly interested in what the book says about Thatcher's younger days in a grocer's shop, where she probably learned to serve the customer's interest, except occassionally when the customer's needs could not be met, and the young Thatcher could shine explaining alternatives.
Thus Thatcher become a World Leader with a non-self-serving frame of mind (I admit to not liking her at the time), unlike many other tyrants for whom self-servingness is a way of life. The Thatcher revolution "chartered" a new way.
Back to Charter Books. So long as other book shops in the neighbourhood sell at normal prices, there is nothing wrong in you selling at tenfold prices, though you may need to make exceptions from time to time.
The writer thinks it will be useful to be able to compare the Thatcher grocer store and things like charter books ... ...
Thus concludes the Charter review of "Memories of Maggie".
DH 04/05 July 2003
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Carla Day and her father, an Egyptologist suffering from Alzheimer's disease, return. A connection between a millennia-old Egyptian death and a present-day California one lies in the depths of Dr. Day's faulty memory. And only Carla can decipher the clues.
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An Alzheimers hero -- what a concept! .......2007-02-03
There are two heroes in this mystery: a gentlemanly scholar (his expertise is ancient Egypt) who happens to have Alzheimers, and his feisty not so ladylike daughter. They make a terrific -- and humorous -- pair. He's in danger, but doesn't exactly know it. She does know it, and is trying to save him. I liked the author's first book (Murder Never Forgets) in this series just as much. The action all takes place in California, which in a way becomes a character, too.
terrific Egyptology mystery .......2006-12-09
In Northern California, Carla Day takes her octogenarian father Edward, a renowned Egyptologist suffering from Alzheimer's father to see his greatest find, an ancient coffin lid housed at Egypt Regained Museum. While there, a man collapses to the floor; Edward rushes to his aid starting with loosening the victim's tie. However, security yanks him away as they assume he is choking the man to death. Local police arrest Edward charging him with strangulation, but the man lives lying in a coma in a nearby hospital.
At the hospital, the comatose man apparently got up and left. Not long after he vanishes, he reappears as a corpse with an ankh in his mouth. Edward keeps arguing that they came here to see his coffin lid though he has visited it several times while Carla tries to uncover the truth about the dead man, not realizing how much danger she and her father are in from an unknown assailant who prefers to remain anonymous.
The sequel to MURDER NEVER FORGETS plays out on two levels as readers obtain a first hand look at the ravages of Alzheimer's on the victim and his daughter inside a cleverly design whodunit. The story line is fast-paced from the moment Dr. Day intervenes until the final unnerving shocking final confrontation. Diana O'Hehir provides readers with a terrific Egyptology mystery combined with a strong personal look at senior health care issues.
Harriet Klausner
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Memory Prime
It is the central core of an immense computer library -- an elite network of research planetoids. Here, the Pathfinders -- the only artificial intelligences legally permitted to serve the Federation -- control and sift the overwhelming dataflow from thousands of research vessels across the galaxy...
Now the greatest scientists in the Federation have gathered here for the prestigious Nobel and Z-Magnees prize ceremonies -- unaware that a deadly assassin is stalking one of them. And as Captain Kirk struggles to save his ship from sabotage and his first officer from accusations of murder, he discovers the hidden assassin is far from the deadliest secret lurking on Memory Prime...
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It is the central core of an immense computer library-an entire network of research planetoids. Here, the Pathfinders-the only artificial intelligences legally permitted to serve the federation-control and sift the overwhelming dataflow from thousand and thousands of research vessels across the galaxy.
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Above average Star Trek:.......2002-11-13
Four stars is a little high for this book, but three would definitely have been too low. The plot is interesting, if somewhat implausible; the characters are reasonably well-handled (except for Commodore Wolfe, whose handling was not particularly consistent), the writing was generally good if not spectacular. Perhaps my biggest objection is in an anachronism within the Star Trek universe: if the Federation had had to deal with the question of self-aware AIs as early as this, certainly the Next Generation episode "The Measure of the Man" would never have happened; Data would automatically have been accepted as more than a machine, without the need for a trial. Of course, this book came out at about the same time as that episode, probably a bit earlier, so one can hardly blame the authors for that fact; still, "Next Gen" was already a year into its run when this book was published, and clearly ALL of the questions raised by Data's existence (to say nothing of Voyager's EMH, who WASN'T part of the canon yet, but who even more poorly fits into a timeline in which this book is placed) would have long since been answered were this book to be considered canonical. So clearly, it must be considered one of the many Star Trek novels to exist in some nearly-parallel universe, rather than the "real" Trek universe.
Excellent Trek.......2002-08-20
Memory Prime is a "prime" example of why Judith and Gar Reeves Stevens were among the most popular Trek writers in the late '80s. The novel succeeds on nearly every basic level. The moves briskly, striking a fine balance between action, mystery, and dialogue. The characters all seem true to the television series, with some particularly good Spock/McCoy interplay. The story, involving the threatened assassination of most of the Federation's top scientists, is, perhaps, not exceptional but it gets the job done. There are a few issues that prevent the book from receiving four stars, however. For one, the ending - like almost every Trek book - is too contrived, too pat. For another, the novel is graced with a very intriguing cover - a cover that bears no resemblance to any plot point whatsoever. Still, Memory Prime is a good read and worth the time of any Trek fan.
ATTENTION: SPOCK LOVERS!!!.......2002-01-23
WOW! This is THE BEST book I have EVER read (and I read 8 books a day on average)! It deals a lot with the bond between Kirk and Spock. LOTS of adventure!
Boring, boring, boring!.......2001-08-31
In one of the Original Series episodes, there was an intergalactic library -- sort of like a Library of Congress for the galaxy. That library was destroyed in TOS. In Memory Prime, the library is rebuilt, using artificially-intelligent (AI) computers to store the info. These AIs interact with the human librarians through electronic implants. Problem is, the AIs get bored easily with their super-fast processing brains -- and therein lies the plot.
Now, this MIGHT have been a really good book if the author had not gotten bogged down with so much technobabble -- pages and pages of it. Yes, the AIs are bored and they play super-fast games among themselves -- that's all I need to know to understand the plot. I do not need endless descriptions of how many nanoseconds this or that game takes to play or whatever. Far more interesting would have been to find out something about all the fascinating cultural info stored at Memory Prime (which is what I thought the book was going to be about.). Maybe it's because I'm a teacher, not a computer hack, but this book was very disappointing.
Totaly Awasome!.......1999-10-23
I love Memory Prime actually I'm never dissipointed with any of there work. I think it's wonderful because I'm a fan of Scott and it was great to see him be reunited with Mira Romaine and some of the things that happen in the book are amazing just the thought of some of them. There also is some down parts like a bunch of parts detacated to pure tecnobabble and those parts were boring but besides that I loved this book so much!!!!!!
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Lord Swinton's account of eleven Prime Ministers illuminates not only the men themselves but also the political generation to which they, and he, belonged.
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Memory Prime
It is the central core of an immense computer library -- an elite network of research planetoids. Here, the Pathfinders -- the only artificial intelligences legally permitted to serve the Federation -- control and sift the overwhelming dataflow from thousands of research vessels across the galaxy...
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Starfleet's most sacred commandment has been violated. Its most honored captain is in disgrace, its most celebrated starship in pieces, and the crew of that ship scattered among the thousand worlds of the Federation... Thus begins Prime Directive, an epic tale of the Star Trek® universe. Following in the bestselling tradition of Spock's World and The Lost Years, Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens have crafted a thrilling tale of mystery and wonder, a novel that takes the Star Trek characters from the depths of despair into an electrifying new adventure that spans the galaxy. Journey with Spock, McCoy, and the rest of the former crew of theStarship Enterprise TM to Talin -- the planet where their careers ended. A world once teeming with life that now lies ruined, its cities turned to ashes, its surface devastated by a radioactive firestorm -- because of their actions. There, they must find out how -- and why -- this tragedy occurred and discover what has become of their captain.
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Imre Nagy, martyr of the nation: contested memory and social cohesion.: An article from: East European Quarterly
Karl Philip Benziger
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This digital document is an article from East European Quarterly, published by East European Quarterly on June 22, 2002. The length of the article is 7918 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Imre Nagy, martyr of the nation: contested memory and social cohesion.
Author: Karl Philip Benziger
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East European Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2002
Publisher: East European Quarterly
Volume: 36
Issue: 2
Page: 171(20)
Distributed by Thomson Gale
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This digital document is a journal article from Infant Behavior and Development, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Memory reactivation has not been systematically studied with infants older than 1 year. Currently, three experiments examined the effects of a reactivation treatment (priming) on retention throughout the second postnatal year. Fifteen- and 18-month-olds learned an operant train task, forgot it, received a 2-min or 10-s prime, and later were tested for retention. Although the longer prime was effective for 15-month-olds, 18-month-olds required the shorter prime (Experiment 1). The memory was reactivated after delays two (18 months) and three (15 months) times longer than infants originally remembered it (Experiment 2). The reactivated memory was forgotten as fast as the original memory after the 2-min prime and twice as fast after the 10-s prime (Experiment 3). The fact that reactivation changes quantitatively but not qualitatively throughout infancy suggests that the same mechanism mediates it at all ages. These findings have major implications for the impact of early experience on cognitive development.
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One of the best in showing with God there is no prejudice.......2007-10-10
I have had multiple copies of this book for over 20 years and have given many as gifts. It is marvelous in showing how Adam and Eve were multi-genetic and how all the races could come from just two individuals. It covers other areas of creation (plants, dinosaurs, etc.) but learning about the multi-genetics of our forefathers was the most profound for me. God clearly does not make mistakes and planed all the people in this world to be of all colors from the beginning (just like flowers and animals are). It does not get unnecessarily complicated and mind-boggling -- it is clearly written and very easy to read so children and adults both can understand it.
Oh dear..........2006-07-06
This book is poorly written and inaccurate to say the least. The author is shamelessly patronising and lacks a grasp on basic science, claiming expertise in subjects which he clearly has very little knowledge.
He fails to understand that the main principles of physics can be demonstrated mathematically as well as observationally, and overlooks basic laws such as the conservation of angular momentum. He consistently refers to evolution as some elaborate atheistic conspiracy supposedly explaining every aspect of the universe. Evolution refers to mutation and natural selection in existing living organisms. It bears no relevance to the origins of the universe or of life and it is perfectly compatible with belief in god. He makes sweeping statements about a lack of transitional fossils and positive mutations, citing widely discredited and out of date sources, and overlooking the evident transitional traits and commonly observed behaviour of bacteria and viruses which mutate to transmit more efficiently and to become immune to medication.
In many places, the "science" he attacks is severely misrepresented. His scientific claims are often laughable, and his theology isn't much better.
Colorful and easy to understand.......2006-02-21
The Amazing Story of Creation is a colorful and easy to understand book for any age. This Christian book makes it clear God loves and created us for his will. The illustrations are beautiful and efficiently explain and harmonize with what the book has to say.
It was an enjoyable read even though I disagreed with many of its main points. It first states "Neither can one really believe in the facts of science and believe in evolution." The Amazing Story of Creation never gives the option, evolution and creation can synchronize, saying that evolution is not even a science.
Duane T. Gish repeatedly writes evolutionists do not believe in God's word. He ignores the fact that many evolutionists are good Christians. This book goes on to say that evolution is an inefficient, cruel method that God would never have used.
The Amazing Story of Creation gave good views to why evolution did not happen, but it never proves that evolution to be a wrong or inaccurate concept. It depends on how you "take" and use the evidence presented.
Overall, I enjoyed this book and recommend reading it. The message this book gives is, you and I were not randomly created by chance but fashioned by God with love for His purpose.
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The Amazing Story of Creation from Science and the Bible
Written By: Daune T. Gish, Ph.D.
The Amazing Story of Creation focuses on the debate between creationists and evolutionists. The Amazing Story of Creation brings vivid pictures and the simple words of Duane T. Gish together in an easy to read book. Daune T. Gish gives his view on how the world was created and what he thinks about evolution.
Inside this book you will find interesting drawings and detailed descriptions of the world before the creation of man through the author's eyes. This book gives only one piece of evidence why evolution is ineffective. The author states that evolution is a waste of time and that God Almighty would never use such a cruel method to create man.
Over all, I thought that no new evidence was brought up in the book and that the great mystery of creation still depends on the side you choose to look at it. This is a book I recommend for younger people who want to begin learning about creation and evolution.
The Amazing Story of Creation:From Science and the Bible.......2005-03-01
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