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Some Night My Prince Will Come
Michel Tremblay
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I LOVE THIS BOOK.......2005-07-01
"Some Night My Prince Will Come" is the first Michel Tremblay book I have read. This is truly a fantastic book and I'm going to read it again. I have never laughed so hard, to the point of bringing tears to my eyes and then crying at the end. I am going to be ordering as many Michel Tremblay books as possible. What a fantastic writer. I've been trying to find an email address to tell him how much I appreciated his book. My recommendation: BUY IT AND READ IT IMMEDIATELY. You won't be disappointed.
One of a kind, and hard to beat.......2005-01-10
Tremblay has said in interviews that he doesn't want to be a "gay writer" and his work, although often invested with gay themes and characers, is evidence that he means what he says. But Some Night My Pnice Will Come (La Nuit des Princes Charmants) is the only coming out novel I ever read that was funny, moving, sad, and... true to the core. And did I say funny? I am delighted thati it is in English so my friends who are tired of hearing me rave about it can just go read it themselves. And be prepared for the character Francois, a musician who comes and goes in this novel and then reappears in a later novel (shades of Balzac and Proust) titled "55 minutes 55 seconds". Read both, they are each (and both) wonderful. It's not a question of a "gay novel" but rather of a wonderful novel with many gay characters. An if you've read "The Fat Lady Next Door is Pregnant" through to the end when the fat lady (Tremblay's mother??) gives birth to the baby she carries throughout the novel (Michel Tremblay????) you'll be fascinated by the mother-son relatiionship in this novel (Prince) eighteen years later.
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Best series ending module from TSR.......2006-08-03
This is the best series ending module in my opinion. I have run the Temple of Elemental Evil [T1-4], Against the Giants [G1-3], Decent into the Depths of the Earth [D1-2], Vault of the Drow [D3], and this module [Q1]. This takes the PC's from 1st to usually 15th level.
The module can be used stand alone, or as the end of the series. The concept of the web is excellent, and will put most PC's to the test. Properly played, most of the rooms will give problems to low level PCs unless they play carefully. PCs in the campain I ran never were able to defeat Lolth herself. This module is an excellent model for multi planes, or for semi-sci fi [not as much sci fi as Expedition to the Barrier Peaks]. This is one module that I highly recommend to have in your D&D module library [I had many modules that I gave away but could not bear to part with this one].
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Revisiting classic adventures has been extremely successful.Queen of the Demonweb Pits was one of the most popular adventures ever created for the
Dungeons & Dragons game. This novelization appeals to those who have played through the adventure, as well as to those who have an interest in drow elves--one of the most popular races in the game.
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The Best.......2006-06-05
This was the best of the three. What a ride. Action and humor is a hard combination to do and Paul Kidd is the best at it. This is the end of the best fantasy trilogy that I have ever read.
Wizards, DO MORE!!!!.......2005-08-17
Paul Kidd has written 3 really enjoyable books. I looked forward to each one, and was really disappointed when I learned that there was not going to be a fourth. Write to Wizards and demand more!
No one messes with the Fairy!.......2005-05-01
A little stereotypical with a stoic Ranger, a soldered old guy (usually a dwarf in most books) but in this case a wolverine, the kid (read apprentice / pupil), the unlikely good beast-a sphinx and the comic relief. What makes it work so well in the Queen of the Demonweb Pits is when these characters are grouped together they are a hoot and the silly banter is first rate. They stumble from one misadventure to another all the while saving the world.
The Justicar, a ruthless ranger with a haunted past.... aren't they all, carries a sentient sword that preaches chivalry. To top it off, he wears an animated, fire breathing, hellhound pelt named -of all things Cinders- that can spell and doesn't like to get wet. ...something about smelling like a wet dog
Comic relief comes in the abbreviated but pert form of Escalla, a Fairy whose self proclamation of having the cutest bottom in all the land and penchant for slinky attire strikes a contradictory visual to her rough and tumble, kleptomaniac actions. I won't even go into the fact that she keeps several bottles of giantism around for those "special moments" between her and her man.
Add to the mix Enid the sphinx, Henry the sidekick, Polk the former human now a wolverine and a stir in decent nemesis like Lolth, the Demon Queem of Spider and this is a fun filled adventure!
If you like the genera this is a must.
Enjoyable, action+humor--but predictable.......2002-01-16
Justicar, Henry, Enid (a sphinx), Escalla (a fairy), and Polk (a warrior turned badger) have defeated Lolth, Drow queen of the spiders, but they cannot kill her in any but her own plane. And now she is out for revenge, spending millions of spiders, drow wizards, trolls, and undead to destroy their planet. With only the talent and magic that they have learned, they must face a dark elf-turned god, her minions, and two enemies Lolth has pulled from their nightmares.
QUEEN OF THE DEMONWEB PITS combines continual adventure and action with humorous dialogue and characters. All of the four main heros, and especially Escalla, have their humorous sides as well as their warrior/mage powers. Polk, the ultra-serious chronicler/badger puts the entire adventure genre in perspective with his frequent advice that they take on unbeatable god-class enemies head-on with no strategy except glorious battle (needless to say, the other characters know better and at least attempt a bit of maneuver).
Readers of the genre will find QUEEN OF THE DEMON PITS to be somewhat predictable, but will certainly find it an enjoyable read.
Wildly exciting.......2002-01-13
The spider goddess Lolth burns for revenge, and she yearns for conquest. The Justicar and his fairie companion Escalla humiliated her, and destroyed her body on Oerth. Now is the time for revenge: to bring all of Oerth to heel, and destroy Escalla and the Justicar. So now, the Justicar and his companions must avoid the deadly opponents that Lolth has placed on their trail, and thwart her plans to destroy their entire world.
I must admit that I had trouble taking this book seriously at first: a ruthless ranger in love with a thong-wearing fairie? However, Paul Kidd succeeds in weaving a story that is wildly exciting and mildly funny. When I picked it up, I did not realize that this book was part of a series, the cover does not tell you that it is. Fortunately, though, this book functions quite well as a stand-alone story. So, the bottom line is that I loved this book, and highly recommend it to you.
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- 'Must Have' MCMS Guide
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Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server MCMS: Working with the Publishing API, Placeholders, Search, Web Services, RSS, and Sharepoint Integration
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If you've mastered the basics of MCMS development, this book provides the next step. It has unique coverage of MCMS and Share Point Portal Server (SPS), a detailed tour of the Publishing API (PAPI). Hot topics like InfoPath, Sharepoint WebParts, placeholder tips and techniques are also covered. Following on from "Building Websites with Microsoft Content Mangement Server", this book takes MCMS development to a higher level of both power and integration. Like its predecessor, this book is packed with code examples and never-before seen secrets of MCMS. Years of active participation in MCMS newsgroups and mailing lists mean that the authors' hard-won experience puts them in the ideal position to tell you what you really need to know as you build more advanced MCMS applications.This book has the most in depth-coverage of important MCMS development topics found anywhere. Each author of the book is a renowned expert in the area.
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'Must Have' MCMS Guide.......2006-06-19
If you've ever been involved with MCMS 2002, you will know the authors of this title, and the great work they do for the Content Management Server community. They are either Microsoft employees or MVPs and are recognised experts in CMS development.
This book is next in line after the title, "Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server". It delves deep into the more advanced development topics on the MCMS platform. To help you understand the topics and areas presented, there is an abundance of code which is essential. The best thing about the code examples is that they are not throw away HelloWorld demonstrations, but real life applications and uses of functionality that you will more than likely adapt to use in your own implementation. That's where the experience of the authors shines through.
As well as pure MCMS content, there are also a number of chapters dedicated to explaining and demonstrating Sharepoint integration points and searching (a major feature lacking from MCMS). For many company intranets, MCMS or Sharepoint are not enough on their own and must be combined to provide a complete solution. This book goes some way towards making the combination less painful.
My only (selfish) criticism of this book is the timing of its release. It would have been an awesome training tool when I was getting into MCMS development!! That aside, the examples given are still very relevant for development today and will offer even the seasoned developer new tricks, give them a deeper understanding of the APIs, and provoke new ideas and thoughts on what can be achieved. Chapters on RSS enabling your sites and integrating Infopath forms to web services in MCMS are two areas that probably wouldn't have been covered a few years ago, but are now hot topics.
The book also includes a number of "essential how-tos, tips and tricks" that are obviously taken from the authors' own experiences with MCMS customers. You too will have wondered how to do these things, and if you worked it out alone, would be cursing not having had this book in your collection at the time.
I consider this book, along with its predecessor, `must have' guides with material for anybody involved in MCMS development. You will definitely get a lot out of them.
Very useful book.......2006-06-06
This book offers a hands-on approach to learning MCMS topics that mimic real world problems. While most books and manuals focus on the ideal or typical scenario, this book explores how to deal with the tough scenarios where the product shortcomings need to be overcome by creative and innovative solutions. Definitive answers are provided to many of the tough questions that every developer asks when delving deep into MCMS. Working code samples make up a significant portion of the book and are extremely valuable in understanding the topics being explained.
A few chapters of the book focus on the integration of MCMS and SharePoint technologies which while being a failry popular topic in industry is not something that has been well documented until now. Integration of MCMS with SharePoint or RSS is viewed as a difficult task but has now been made significantly easier.
This book is meant for developers that want to push MCMS past the typical scenario and get the most out of the product. It is not meant to teach MCMS but to help developers familiar with the product to get to the next level of expertise.
Solid Book .......2006-06-05
This book starts out strong with 3 chapters fully devoted to creating a sample application using the Publishing API. While the code examples are copious they are (necessarily) somewhat redundant. The authors chose to create an administration tool as the most effective means of illustrating the Publishing API's capability. This was an effective technique in that it exposed the core of the API very quickly to the reader, as well as having the added benefit of communicating the purpose of the MCMS Server. If you are uncertain, as I was, on what problems Microsoft Content Management Server may or may not be the right solution for, this book will take you a long way towards understanding the product and its role in the platform.
After finishing the baseline administration tool, the book takes a refreshing detour on the topic of search engines. Rather than going into detail I will summarize this chapter by saying this, if you need a primer on the basics of Search Engine Optimization, give this chapter a shot. I think you will like it.
Next, the authors spend three chapters on SharePoint integration and configuration. If you are using SharePoint as a foundation for your product or the enabling technology for your internal portal, you should consider the benefits of integrating with MCMS or possibly using MCMS in lieu of SharePoint. My experiences with SharePoint have always reminded me of the end of a brewery tour; fraught with bloat. While SharePoint is remarkably feature-rich, it always seems that the average user either isn't interested in the features or is intimidated by them. The appealing aspect of MCMS, from my perspective, is that the Publishing API is designed to allow you to write your applications/sites your way (with some caveats), and still have the added benefit of a tool that handles the administrative duties (transactional document management). I quickly got the feeling that if my singular goal was to manage web content across any number of channels then MCMS was a nice lightweight alternative to SharePoint. In fact, I kept thinking about website design firms and wondering how a product like this could impact the efficiency of their business.
The refreshing thing to learn, for me at least, was that while MCMS can and does integrate with SharePoint, SharePoint is not required. In fact the book does a fine job of illustrating how to avoid using SharePoint altogether.
With SharePoint fully dealt with, the book moves on from that point to discuss the intricacies of the aforementioned caveats of implementing dynamic content, validating dynamic content, and staging static content as well. Also of note are chapters devoted to integrating InfoPath as an editing tool and integrating RSS feeds into yours site, all with full code samples.
All in all, this book was enjoyable. With the exception of the unavoidable SharePoint section, the book was devoted to MCMS development and as such had a lot of example code to sift through. As a testament to this book, I think you could read the code examples alone and get an introduction to the Publishing API. One disclaimer, the example applications in this book are intentionally straight forward. All the sample code is procedural in nature. Take it for what it is, a readable set of examples. This book is not intended to address issues of application design, and if you expect that you will be sorely disappointed.
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Logan's Search (Logan Series, 3rd Book)
William F. Nolan
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Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03
Logan's Search, the third book in the Logan series, is really pretty pointless. It takes him out of the setting of the first couple, and has a lot of elements of do it all again.
Exploring further what was going on originally, on his own world, would have been a much better idea.
Great Continuation.......2000-12-29
Stunnung display. Just as good as its' predecessors!
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Ahoy matey! This story is about a school boy named Nicholas who solves his problems through a magical parallel pirate world where he is Captain Nick Logan and his crewmates are his school pals. With his father lost at sea and the coincidental disappearance of his mother's wedding ring, an eerie omen hangs over the household, and hope runs thin that his father will return. The lighthouse at Perry's Cove beams steadily over the waters, longing to catch a glimpse of sails on the horizon. As Captain Nick and his ship, The Maiden, take to the high seas in search of the lost diamond, they are pursued by pirates, ghostly galleons, sharks and other dangers as the hunt for the treasure takes them on a magical journey of swashbuckling adventure! Rich in suspense, mystery, humor, and sword-clashing adventure, this book is a must-read for the whole family. Students of all ages will be able to relate to Nick's experiences both in and out of school. Enjoy the voyage! Fair winds!
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Sympathetic Review of James' Varieties with updates on his insights.......2005-12-14
Contemporary Varieties of Religious Experience: James's Classic Study in Light of Resiliency, Temperament and Trauma by Lynn Bridgers (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers) (Paperback) both celebrates the distinctive analytical phenomenology of James varieties while at the same time extending his views by applying insights from contemporary cognitive and clinical psychology. Useful Text for students and scholars. "Lynn Bridgers's expose on conversion is exquisite-a thoroughly researched and beautifully written contribution to the psychology of religious experience and practical theology. I n these pages, readers will discover the rich textures of diverse religious forms-especially the prophetic, monastic, and mystical. Her book will surely be as influential as it is impressive." -Mary Elizabeth Moore,
First published in 1902, William James's Varieties of Religious Experience is considered a classic in religious studies and the psychology of religion. But how has James's classic study weathered decades of development in psychology and the behavioral sciences? Do the assertions about religious experience in Varieties still ring true in light of neuro-cognitive and neuro-hormonal research, resiliency studies, studies of temperament, and traumatic studies? By extending William James's own research in the century since its publication, this volume seeks to answer those questions. In doing so, it revolutionizes our understanding of James's own view of psychology and reveals the extraordinary value of his perspective for religion, psychology, and spirituality today.
The Varieties of Religious Experience is a strikingly unique phenomenology of religion. and remains unsurpassed. James sees the human animal, as well as the religious person, as moving toward selected goals and eager to find legitimate explanations for that which we wish to do regardless. As my grand-mother used to say. with full respect to her listeners, -Do what you damn well please, you will anyway." James suggests believers seek similar approval but ultimately follow the same course. Or, as James observes in a more complex fashion. "The truth is that in the metaphysical and religious spheres, articulate reasons are cogent for us only when our inarticulate feelings of reality have al-ready been impressed in favor of the same conclusion."
But James's "teleological" conception of the mind will direct his attention to the practical results of belief, the -fruits," and not simply their professed justification. Neither could his conception of the self be simple, unified, or static. It will distinguish between all the selves we have been in the past and the self that is experiencing the flow of today, of this moment. even the self we are be-fore the world is divided into realms of subject and object. James's perspective is a very physiological view in that regard, reflecting his medical training.
Given these perspectives, it was natural for James to focus on conversion-to the changing conception of one's religious self-and to develop not a monistic, normative framework, but a conversion typology, a framework for presentation of varieties. But perhaps most impressive is the sheer breadth of information collected that informs his views, and his refusal to pigeonhole religious experience, to limit it down to even the most attractive of corners.
In The Varieties, James does, admittedly and self-consciously, focus more on the world of the individual than the collective, and on Christian more than other belief systems, but his exploration of individual religious experience is strikingly broad. He looks at conversion, at the psychological dimensions of individual temperament, at saintliness, at mysticism, and at the philosophy of religion. He states, almost from the start, that he will look at extremes in religious experience in terms of positive and negative, of healthy and unhealthy, of Protestant and Catholic, of active and contemplative. He explores the authority of mystical experience for experiencer and for others, and has a particular fascination for the lives of founders.
But for James the authority, the actual evidence of the profound interior experience will always be tied to its expression. We cannot observe, or share, the profound interior experience that drives the individual -who lives in his religious centre of personal energy, and is actuated by spiritual enthusiasms." But we can observe the activities that they evoke, and James will place considerable evaluative weight on that expression.
As we find upon closer examination, James still has quite a hit to teach us a century after he penned his works. Today, we find James read by a surprisingly diverse group of scholars and researchers. He is read and commented on by those in neurology, in the behavioral sciences, and in neurocognitive and neurohormonal studies. He is read by psychologists as a unique "founder" of the discipline. He continues to be read by theologians and scholars of religion and by those working at the intersection of psychology and religion. And he is read by philosophers working on his uniquely American stream of philosophical thought, as well as by those whose interest moves toward his European progeny that have descended through Husserl.
In part this reflects James's own shifting identity through his life-from artist to medical doctor, from medical doctor to psychologist. from psychologist to scholar of religion, and from a scholar of religion to philosopher. But is it simply the historical identification that brings readers from such diverse areas to study William James today, or is it that in a striking way James anticipated streams of development only recognized in the next century in these disparate fields?
Antonio Damasio. a neurologist who studies the links between emotion and cognition, believes James's theory of emotion-long discounted as incorrect-is actually closer to our understanding of feeling and emotion to-day. As will be addressed at greater length in chapter 3, Damasio believes the mechanisms he identifies to bring about emotion "are compatible with William James's original formulation on this theme.... None of the features I have added undermines or violates the basic idea that feelings are largely a reflection of body-state changes, which is William James's seminal contribution to this subject. Damasio's work is sparking renewed interest in James's theory on the origins of emotion and its relationship to cognition and moral thinking.
Psychology has taken a broad turn toward the biological in the past two decades of the twentieth century. This has brought renewed interest in James's more biologically based psychological approach. The development of studies in dissociation, along with studies of resiliency and traumatic studies, also have focused attention on alterations in consciousness and brought renewed interest to the "polypsychic' psychological model that James used and shared with such early notables as Pierre Janet and Théodule Ribot. Work by historians of psychology such as Eugene Taylor have unearthed James's previously unrecognized research in exceptional mental states, giving greater depth and understanding of the continuity of James's research interests throughout his life but also helping us to better understand the complexity and sophistication of the model James's employed.'
The significant wake James left in philosophical thought continues to have its effects. Given his influence on Husserl, it is relatively easy to track indirect influence on the students of Husserl, as noted above. These include Maurice Merleau-Ponty's psychological phenomenology. Jean-Paul Sartre's philosophical existentialism, Emmanuel Levinas's continental philosophy and Levinas's influence on Jacques Derrida, and the recently canonized Edith Stein. As Eugene Taylor observes, through William James's break-through perception of conscious and object as the same functional complex "we have the germ of phenomenology, contextualism. and modern hermeneutic analysis, all of which can trace their origin through various routes back and then across James's path."
So perhaps it is time, after a long romance with ethnography and anthropology, for religious studies to turn back to William James with a fresh eye and give him serious consideration. Perhaps it is time to see what an extension of James's landmark study, The Varieties of Religious Experience, might yield in the century since its original publication. James often employs terms that were common in his day but that have since become obscure-the mind-cure movement. for example. When these arc translated into terms more in keeping with popular usage today and put into dialogue with new information from the behavioral sciences. we might find that William James's thought still speaks to us, still has the power to teach us a thing or two. We might find that James's Varieties of Religious Experience has lessons we have forgotten at our peril, that we need to be reminded of for our collective spiritual health. James has certainly taught me a thing or two over the past several years. Having come full circle with James. I'm ready and willing to begin the journey again.
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