A Garden of Sand (Thompson, Earl)

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If Breughel had directed The Wizard of Oz

Earl Thompson

Thompson passed too soon

Powerful and captivating

Garden Of Sand

A Garden of Sand (Thompson, Earl)
Earl Thompson
Manufacturer: Carroll & Graf
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0786709464

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Destitution, hunger, cruelty, rootlessness—all the odds stand against Jacky, the young boy at the center of this powerful, popular American classic, yet still he prevails. Resourcefully, doggedly, Jacky nurtures his spirit of independence, his capacity to love, and his faith in a nation’s dream in a journey that takes him from Wichita to Corpus Christi and from poverty to possibility.

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If Breughel had directed The Wizard of Oz.......2004-10-15

When the smoke of obscenity trials cleared in the 1960s, publishers were free to print well known novels like Joyce's Ulysses, Miller's Tropic of Cancer and Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. The new freedom to write about sexually explicit topics subsequently led not only to a spate of sexploitaton novels such as Grace Metalious's Peyton Place and Harold Robbins's Carpetbaggers but also to a handful of honest, forthright novels that focused on men and women in their teens and twenties, including Thompson's Garden of Sand, Agnar Mykle's Lasso Round the Moon, and R. V. Cassill's Pretty Leslie. The sexual frankness of these novels so overshadowed their merit that they were doomed to a sniggering relegation to the back shelf. It is time to redeem them. I doubt any American writer, including Mark Twain and J. D. Salinger, has ever got inside the head of an adolescent young man more than Thompson in Garden of Sand and Tattoo. There is sex, yes, but also the ethos and the degradation of poverty and the wild hopes and expectant dreams of people without money, privilege, or an Ivy League education. Clearly, Thompson lovingly worked and reworked his writing, piling up detail upon detail, observation upon observation, all of which results in a novel much like a Breughel painting: having naturalistic characteristics but an elegaic tone. He reminds us of what growing up REALLY was like.

Earl Thompson.......2004-02-18

Hi,
I love his work and am looking for any information on Earl Thompson, i.e., where he died and how, family, etc. Anyone out there with any info can contact me at dpollock@adelphia.com.
Thanks,
Donald Ray Pollock

Thompson passed too soon.......2003-09-05

He could have given us more books like Garden. Yes, the topics are a little off-kilter and the language a little rough, but the man could write! In my own opinion, Thompson belongs on the shelf next to Hemingway and Steinbeck as an American treasure.

Powerful and captivating.......2000-12-09

There are very few novels that have knocked me out of my chair as consistently as this one. Thompson's writing may seem crude to the uninitiated, but one cannot resist being swept up by his delightful tapestry of slang which peppers some of the most captivating prose I've ever read. It's about life in America, in it's underwear, up way past its bedtime, broke, beaten up, bombed out of its skull, with a tenacious hope running through it all like a river. No heterosexual American male in his right mind will be able to put this book down, and none should miss the chance to read it.

Garden Of Sand.......2000-03-22

A Garden Of Sand is representative of Wichita and the area in which Earl Thompson grew up. In an alley between the 15 hundred block on North St.Francis and Santa Fe streets. The moral decay of the 1930's was evident and compounded by the depression. People did what they could and grappled with a way of life that had been unknown in the U.S. up until that time. The characters in A Garden Of Sand were based on actual people and merchants in that area of town. This is a telling portrait of those times, and as other readers have mentioned it raises fear in ones heart to read this masterpiece. It should do exactly that! The lessons of the past often slip by those in the near future. The times change, and those times will come again to America. It may be different people and different authors, but history repeats itself in an unrelenting way. This book speaks for a community and time that can only best be described as "shattered". With the money and food gone, life and it's seeming gentleness often changes into an all consuming monster. A time that shall revisit us all. I think that this book is the definative primer of those times. It may run only second to The Grapes Of Wrath as a benchmark of the dirty thirties. But, it tells a far better story that the reader becomes entangled with. Earl Thompson gave us a lot during his short stay on earth. Somewhere, the spark of energy that drove this man is thinking and reacting to the surroundings he is in today. If you read this book and are unmoved by the characters and description of the times. Please get some help!

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Challenges the many myths surrounding `Zen gardens'
A conceptual tour de force

Gardens of Gravel and Sand
Leonard Koren
Manufacturer: Stone Bridge Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1880656434

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A simple and provocative book offering a revisionist photo-essay on the ever-popular Japanese "dry landscape" or "rock" gardens. Not Zen, possibly art, more like "meta-gardens," gravel and sand compositions reject nature, yet are made of omnipresent natural dust. Quick to crumble, they are defiantly maintained by priest/rakers. Credited with philosophical profundity, their origins are murky, their meanings uncertain but immediate. Koren deliberately ignores "celebrity" rocks, moss, and foliage to demystify and explore a most peculiar human enterprise. Beautifully illustrated with duotone photographs of gravel and sand gardens in Kyoto.

About the Author
Leonard Koren, who was trained as an artist and architect, writes books about design and aesthetics. Among his most popular books are WABI SABI: For Artists, Design, Poets & Philosophers and Arranging Things: A Rhetoric of Object Placement.

"Featuring over 30 photos of graval and sand gardens taken in Kyoto, Japan, this thin paperback underscores the importance of 'experienceing the garden as garden.'" -- The Tri-County News

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Challenges the many myths surrounding `Zen gardens' .......2006-04-02

A collection of photographs of nothing more than raked gravel and sand, Leonard Koren challenges the many myths surrounding the `Zen gardens' of Japan in short essays interspersed throughout this book. He shows that their special context as part of temple precincts does not necessarily imply that these gardens were meant as `spiritual' installations, but only that they grew in the context of a specific aesthetic and function that developed in Japanese ritual and society.

While Koren's book is bound to ruffle the feathers of traditionalists that would like to idealize these gardens as an expression of Zen philosophy, I believe he contributes to the demystification that is going on in contemporary writing about Japanese gardens. In that regard this book is an important contribution to the ongoing dialogue and discussion about the origins and history of the dry landscape garden in Japan.

A conceptual tour de force.......2000-06-12

Everything I thought I knew about Japanese gardens, especially so-called "Zen Gardens," was turned on its head by this enlightening gem. I will never look at, or think about, Japanese rock gardens in the same way. Highly recommended for a completely fresh approach to an old subject.

Gardens from the Sand: A Story About Looking for Answers & Finding Miracles

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Gardens from the Sand, Dan Cavicchio

Gardens from the Sand: A Story About Looking for Answers & Finding Miracles
Dan Cavicchio
Manufacturer: Harpercollins
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ASIN: 0062510533

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Gardens from the Sand, Dan Cavicchio.......2000-02-26

(Despite the jaded outlook of the cynical reviewer from Kirkus, which condemned this book with faint praise)....Garden from the Sand sings with the inspiring power of the Nature that lies inside of each one of us....if only we listen.

A gentle and intriguing story for wise children, young adults, and adults who wish to remember the wisdom and innocence of their earliest relationships with Nature-- This is a story about trust...in the deeper powers of Life that run through all of us....and about Listening to the World as though your Life depended upon it.

It does.

It is a story about deep ecology---our relationship with the world, and how we change it, unwittingly, or with considered aaction.

This book offers a fresh and simple tale of a child's learning to understand the natural world and his place in it, and of coming of age in a single parent family.....

Clarion's search for his father, is a search for his roots..and his personal power. He finally finds himself in the relationship and stewardship of his environment and community.

Urban children will understand the renewing cyle of growth, and the healing of relationships, even in the deserts of inner cities and suburbia. An important book for every child, especially important for any mother raising a child on her own.....and an encouraging gift book for anyone struggling with the growing cynicism of popular culture.

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Legare the Low Country Lizard

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My 2 1/2 year olds love it

Legare the Lizard : From his Charleston Garden to the Beach
Christi Sanford
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A rhyming children's story about Legare (la-gree) the lizard who lives in Charleston, South Carolina. In this adventure, he finds a sand dollar in his Charleston garden and returns it to the ocean. It is very colorfully illustrated, and includes real South Carolina history and information at the bottom of each page.

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Legare the Low Country Lizard.......2004-01-27

A charming story that has delighted my children for years. We also have another Legare book which is equally loved. The illustrations are wonderful, the rhymes are catchy, and there is even a message about the value of friendship from Tradd the Tree Frog ("You don't need a tail to be my friend Legare!"). Small footnoted text on each page provides some informative background on Charleston, the setting for this story. I highly recommend this book for children.

If you love Charleston..........2002-10-11

My son and I love to read the about the adventures of Lagare and all his lowcountry friends. The illusrations are colorful and simple. The easy rhyming makes for a quick, fun read. Great footnotes, too! Can't wait for #3! Lisa

Legare.......2002-06-05

My son loves these books..the illustrations are simply wonderful!
These are very easy to understand for Little One's and our son just stares at the pictures. A definite book to add to your child's reading. Kim

My 2 1/2 year olds love it.......2000-09-22

This was given as a gift to my 2 year old twins. They absolutely love the characters and enjoy reading about Charleston. I highly recommend this.

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A Garden Of Sand
Earl Thompson
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Earl Thompson
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Japanese-American track-and-field star Mizuki is transferring to a high school in Japan...but not just any high school! To be close to her idol, high jumper Izumi Sano, she's going to an all-guys' high school...and disguising herself as a boy! But as fate would have it, they're more than classmates...they're roommates! Now, Mizuki must keep her secret in the classroom, the locker room, and her own bedroom. And her classmates, and the weird school nurse, must react to the new transfer student who looks like a very pretty boy...

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Mindless misogyny. .......2007-08-18

Eyes wide and glazed-over, brain hermetically sealed against anything remotely resembling a clue, cross-dressing "heroine" Mizuki barrels her way through the interminable volumes of this series without formulating anything like a thought in her head. This is NOT a sports shojo, as she cares nothing for her sport, only for her good looking fellow track star. You could call it a romance shojo, but she doesn't devote any part of her brain to her relationship with this boy either. It is pure swooning infatuation of the sort that would be ruined by actually getting to know him. So she settles for obsessing over him by day, and then "unconsciously" falling into bed with him and rubbing her breasts against him by night.

Naturally he knows she is a girl. He knows because the first time she showers in their shared bathroom, she leaves the door unlocked AND the shower curtain drawn back. Yet after he walks in on her, he simply pretends he still thinks she is a boy, and she believes his act. Mizuki is that breed of heroine whose cluelessness is supposed to be endearing, but comes across passive aggressive. She never grows or changes or needs to, as her idiocy comes in handy forcing others to run around taking care of her. Her girlfriend shows up for a spot of this thankless job, finds out Izumi has it covered, and then quickly leaves, because real female friends are as taboo here as real conversation with boys. This sort of heroine HAS to be the center of male attention, while avoiding anything like real male friendship and emotional connection. Honestly, I don't see the point.

Of course, the mangaka's idea of heterosexual relationships for ordinary girls is pretty horrific. A co-worker suspects our heroine is a girl and tries to rape her. Then he is fired because "You can chase the girls as much as you like, but not the boys." Gee, thanks boss! One bonus "romance" features a hero who blackmails his cousin into submitting to his advances by threatening to seduce her little sisters. Another "romance" features a boy who seduces a girl to get revenge on her father. A supporting character in HANA KIMI vents his insecurity by hurting his girlfriend during sex. With this view of heterosexual relationships, being a lobotomized cross-dresser does sound like a better alternative. Since most of the story revolves around the tortured passion of two boys for "clueless" Mizuki, maybe this isn't so much a romance as a passive-aggressive female revenge fantasy.

This is a long series - but not because it has a lot of story to get through. Each episode treads water around some pointless time-killer, only to leave everyone back where they started. The only subject presumed to be of interest is Who-Likes-Who, which develops a certain intricacy, but never any heart. Shrimp-like Mizuki is treated as an honorary girl/pet by all the other boys, so she scarcely needs to strain herself attempting masculinity, but instead happily coos over cosmetics in front of Izumi. Since he knows she is a girl, and she is too dumb to properly pretend otherwise, this is scarcely even a gender bender. The art is an endless parade of talking heads and identical school uniforms.

The one character with half-a-brain is Umeda, the school doctor. He instantly figures out our heroine's true gender, and throughout the series serves as confidante and voice of "wisdom" (actually cynicism) to her "naivete" (actually narcissism). He can usually be found inflicting sarcastic abuse on somebody who deserves it. After Volume 10, I skimmed and read only the Umeda bits. He has a lengthy back-story in the second half of Volume 14.

Besides Umeda, I have no idea what anyone sees in this manga. I got this from my library, and suggest you do the same. Sports shojo CRIMSON HERO and girl-stalker comedy-drama SKIP BEAT are infinitely better. If you want something lighthearted, but could do without the misogyny and the brainless heroine, then BEAUTY POP is pretty cool too.

What The Back Says.......2007-08-15

I noticed they didn't have what the back says so i'm writing it as my review.

MEN AT WORK
Izumi, his friend Nakatsu and our crossdressing heroine Mizuki are hired to work at a beach chalet run by the family of weird school nurse Dr. Umeda! But when Kagurazaka- Izumi's high-jumo rival- shows up with his two younger sisters in tow, the job gets personal! Kagurazaka's attractive sister Tamami has a crush on Izumi too, and she sees Izumi's classmate Mizuki as a way to find out about the object of her affections. And then someone realizes that Mizuki's actually a girl...

Worth continuing with..........2007-06-12

I have this volume and it's got enough humor in it that I will continue with this series. My 4 stars apply to Hana-Kimi as a story. But the text of this review is mainly to address the short piece at the end entitled "The Cage of Summer."

This is a very disturbing short story about a manipulative teenage boy and his older female cousin. She catches him sleazing around at a bar; he is shameless about it, and continues to play a dual role of 'angel boy' when he's with her family and manipulative seducer when they are alone together. As the story progresses he convinces the cousin that he loves her (using various typical lines). Then they sleep together, and when the girl awakens, the boy is gone. Two years pass during which she carries a torch for him, and he eventually swans back into her life and tells her he's been trying to transfer to her high school for 2 years because he loves her. End of story.

Well, his lines seemed just that - pickup lines fed to a woman he wanted to seduce. The fact that he disappeared that morning seemed to confirm this - that he had been playing her all along and skipped out to avoid the emotional aftermath. The fact that he doesn't resurface for two years also seemed to confirm this - that he simply didn't care about her once he'd conquered. When he is introduced to her as a transfer student he immediately embraces her and they seem to be in love. But even now, his lines don't ring true. Even on a second/third reading, he still comes across as a weasel.

Also, the girl is portrayed as a bit of a sap; throughout the story, as he manipulates her, she is completely trusting and believing of all he says, and she doesn't get angry about his skipping out, or anything. She just meanders on about her life. This is supposed to be a love story but it's more like a creepy exploitation story, and makes you just want to slap some sense into the female character.

Some people complain that my reviews are too picky and I read too much into things, but this story jarred me. I also noticed this same theme in the Love Egoist stories at the back of Ouran High School Host Club. The man is manipulative and the girl is a sap. Is this really a theme people like to read about?

Wow!.......2007-04-04

I bought this at Barnes and Noble because I wanted to start a new series, and saw that it was a large series. I was so hooked I read it straight through. (I usually try to do half and half.)
My only regret was that I ended it so quickly! It was slightly easy to read. But it's such a hooking series that I can't wait to go buy some more.

Hisaya Nakajo: one of my faves.......2007-02-28

I love Hisaya Nakajo's art. I could compare her attetion to detail to Hayao Miazaki's and Yu Watase's (she draws almost all of her own backrounds ^^). I love the storyline. These books are always filled with laughs and extremely colorful characters.

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Here is the blockbuster trilogy that chronicles the never-before-told story of the young Han Solo. Set before the Star Wars movie adventures, these books chronicle the coming-of-age of the galaxy's most famous con man, smuggler, and thief.

The Collection includes:

The Paradise Snare
The first book in this exciting new Han Solo series begins with a recounting of Han's late teen years and shows us how he escaped an unhappy adopted home situation to carve out an adventurous new life for himself as a pilot. Han Solo, the handsome rogue, is every girl's dream man, and every boy's hero. The Paradise Snare is another stellar Star Wars production, complete with original music and sound effects.

The Hutt Gambit
Solo is now a fugitive from the Imperial Navy. But he has made a valuable friend in a former Wookiee slave named Chewbacca, who has sworn Han a life debt. Han will need all the help he can get. For the Ylesian Hutts have dispatched the dreaded bounty hunter Boba Fett to track down the man who already outsmarted them once. But Han and Chewie find themselves in even bigger trouble when they agree to lend their services to the crime lords Jiliac and Jabba the Hutt. Suddenly the two smugglers are thrust into the middle of a battle between the might of the Empire and the treachery of their outlaw allies...a battle where even victory means death!

Rebel Dawn
The Millennium Falcon is "the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy." So when Han Solo wins it in a game of sabacc, he and Chewbacca become kings of the smugglers--uncatchable, unstoppable. But with the Empire clamping down, Han knows his luck can't last. Still, when an old girlfriend who is now the leader of an insurgent Rebel group offers him a shot at an incredible fortune, Han can't resist. The plan seems a sure thing. The resistance will be light and the take enormous. Han and his friends will divide it equally with the Rebels. Too bad for Han that the planet of Ylesia is far from a pushover, that the Rebels have an agenda of their own, and that smuggler friends can often turn into enemies...quicker than lightspeed.

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Greatest Star Wars Novel Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2007-06-05

In fact this may be one of the best pieces of science fiction from the last century. Hyperbole? Perhaps. Nonethelesss, I've read the trilogy 3 times now and it's been better and better each time. If you like Star Wars this is a MUST READ! Period.

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-Josh

OUTSTANDING, FANTASTIC AND FUN.......2000-04-11

I do not have the tape. I have the book (book club edition that put all three books in one hard back. I remember the ending of Paradise Snare but the other two ran into each other so well - I can't say. I can say that this author did the homework and weaved in cameo appearances, bits and pieces of actions in Daley's books and ultimate result was a smashing success. I stayed up all night with Paradise Snare and (learning I need sleep I did better with the rest). It was so hard to put down and parts I would read and re-read. It was wonderful to come to this book after Phathom Menance and Vector Prime. I could enjoy the characterizations, the story and the universe. I felt like I had come home to SW again. Thanks Crispin - a fantastic job. This will be one well read and well loved book. I am going to get another copy to keep in case this one falls apart.

Great History of Han Solo.......2000-03-26

This set of books was a wonderful to read. The story of Han Solo's life before the events of episode IV explained a lot of unanswered questions. The book takes you from the time before Han went into the Imperial Academy to him walking into Episode IV. It is a great book and I recomend it to anyone that likes Star Wars.

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Acting on the Concepts in this Book will Transform Your Life.......2004-09-29

This is the best book I have ever read on spirituality. It is simple, eloquent and infinitely practical. It has turned my life around.

Laura Ramirez
Author of "Keepers of the Children: Native American Wisdom and Parenting."

my real live experience.......2003-11-03

This book has led me to find what I have been searching for my whole life. I have talked and read about Divine Love. Now I am living it.

Superb book, not for everyone however ..........2001-10-30

One of my very favorite books in this genre - a wonderful book that gets richer with each reading. Anyone looking for a simple message and an easy, "feel-good" read should perhaps look elsewhere. While this book is certainly comprehensible to the average inquisitive reader, those that I've recommended it to that have most enjoyed it seem to have open minds and a frame of reference that includes a wide variety of other books about spirituality. For me, this book "transcends and includes" many other spiritually-themed books I've enjoyed by Wayne Muller, Joseph Chilton Pearce, Pema Chodron, George Leonard, Joseph Campbell and others. Both very practical and deeply insightful, I refer to it again and again.
This is an extraordinary book of inspired and delightful teaching. The criticism in some reviews appears to me to be silly and groundless, and mostly beside the point. Don't be discouraged. Buy it. You'll love it. Unless what you really want is a pleasant, mindless diversion, in which case you simply stumbled into the wrong department in this bookstore.

Brilliance in simplicity, profound in implication.......2000-04-24

I am continually captivated by THE SOUL. I have read the book many times, and each time I sense I am reading something new that touches me on a very personal and profound level. As a professional in the investment industry, I don't have extensive knowledge of the literature or lexicon in the field of spiritual development. Yet I found THE SOUL completely within my grasp. Mr. Jaidar addresses the reader in a very direct, practical, and uncomplicated manner that the layman can understand. But make no mistake about the content, the reader will be challenged (and in the most wonderful ways!). Mr. Jaidar makes this most important subject accessible to all without reducing or trivializing any concepts. THE SOUL has imparted a truth to me, which has forever altered my understanding of my life.

Quintessential Practical Spirituality.......2000-04-08

During the course of our lives, many of us have the experience of discovering what is for us the "perfect" - or the quintessential - something of its kind. For me, the quintessential flower is the peony, the quintessential comedian is Fraser, the quintessential scent is frankincense. I can enjoy other flowers, comedians and scents, but I always come back to those that embrace the essence of what they are.

George Jaidar's THE SOUL: AN OWNER'S MANUAL is just such a book. Mr. Jaidar fuses what we might think we recognize as Buddhism, Christianity, Sufism, quantum physics, and mysticism into a new and elegant paradigm. And although he makes references to the above, his book is not an abstract treatise for the seeker. On the contrary, Mr. Jaidar is the most practical of guides!

THE SOUL begins by asking us to consider the world as we know it, our culture and its institutions with a new eye. He clarifies various words that are used quite sloppily. For instance, he describes control as the manipulation of our world in order to attain our hopes and avoid that which we fear. Control pales in the face of the Power that is available to us, and Power is of our vary nature.

And we are brought to the point of having to recognize and to question just how deeply enculturated we are. So we are left with those basic questions: Just who am I? Why am I here? Where am I? And what am I to do?

Being a very practical and action-oriented man, Mr. Jaidar answers these questions for us. By doing so, he provides us with an immediately available (in each next event) Practice that he admits is new conditioning.

But this new conditioning is aimed at getting us out of our own way, and if we are attentive, leading us to Divine Love.

While on the topic of love, let me add that Mr. Jaidar has provided me with the only definition of love that has made any sense to me. It is based on my openness and ability to act by "responding according to the needs of the situation." What a relief! No vows, no dogma, no unattainable goals. This can even be fun!

So I have found my quintessential book on spirituality. I read others, but always come back to THE SOUL. It is elegant in its simplicity and clarity. What others have attempted in volumes, Mr. Jaidar has achieved in one 142 page book.

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