The Frequency of Souls: A Novel

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Intriguing premise and characters with chemistry!

Excellent Book

Very enjoyable

Theme was a little different than expected, but satisfying.

A New Kind of Mainstream Novel

The Frequency of Souls: A Novel
Mary Kay Zuravleff
Manufacturer: Picador
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The Bowl Is Already Broken : A novel

ASIN: 031242485X
Release Date: 2005-03-10

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'Beguiling and wildly inventive....A funny and wholly original love story that weds the everyday to the supernatural.' -Chicago Tribune George Mahoney suspects he is getting a little stale at redesigning refrigerators, after fourteen years in the same job. With the arrival of his new office mate, Niagara Spense, George is forced to re-evaluate everything in his life from love and family, to science itself. Obsessed by the six feet tall Niagara, the very foundations of George's belief in facts and the physical world are shaken when she reveals that she is on an incredible quest for electrical evidenceof life after death-'audible fossils' she calls them. As Niagara Spense seeks the dead, and George seeks her, everything suddenly becomes possible in a novel that makes engineering funny, and mixes the world of icemakers and buttersofteners with the miraculous.Winner of the American Academy'sRosenthal Foundation Award Winner of the James Jones First Novel Award

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Intriguing premise and characters with chemistry!.......2007-09-16

We gladly suspend belief for Mary Kay Zuravleff's novel, The Frequency of Souls, a delightful tale with vivid characters and an intriguing premise that lures the reader along. Zuravleff gives her characters clear intentions, yet vulnerability based on idiosyncrasies that bring them to life. I appreciate the unpredictability of the chemistry between main characters, refrigerator engineers, George and Niagara. The secondary characters are as distinctive and well developed. While George's ponderings mire the plot about three quarters of the way along, the book picks up pace again for an ending that is not pat, yet pleasing.

Excellent Book.......2004-06-04

I absolutely L-O-V-E this book and I know you will too. If you are looking for a good read, definitely give this one a try. You won't be disappointed!

Very enjoyable.......2002-02-09

Frenquency of Souls was an enjoyable novel with well crafted and belivable characters. The premise while fantastical was shaped in a way to give credibility so that you are not saying, "aw, come on." I'd say give it a read!

Theme was a little different than expected, but satisfying........2001-01-18

I had been looking to read a story that did not require the heavy concentration of "work", that took me away a bit at bedtime, that was comfortable on the mind if not the spirit.This book's title intrigued me because I am interested in outer space, music, sound, and the relationship of people and sounds in the universe.

I enjoyed this book. It did exactly for me what I was looking for - escape. It was a decent story. However, the book is more a novel about a man in mid-life dealing with love, life, family and work, with some science flavors, rather than a fictional story where the primary theme involves galactic frequencies or paranormal phenomena with people as the conduits. So if you are looking for the latter, beware. Basically, since I was really expecting a story about "The Frequency of Souls", I felt teased and let down that this theme was not primary. Otherwise, the book is a basic fun read. And I happily learned a lot about the creative history of refrigerator design.

A New Kind of Mainstream Novel.......1997-06-06

The Frequency of Souls shows how much the mainstream novel market has changed in recent years. A few years ago this book, had it been published at all, might have been at best an orphaned science fiction novel, doomed to be ignored because it contained no "hard" science (Niagara's vacuum tube radios hardly qualify as high-tech innovations, after all); because of its love story characteristics (in sci-fi parlance, it would be called a "space opera," a label to be avoided at all costs); because the characters are hardly swash-buckling heroes; and because the life after death theme is given a mundane treatment. So why all the fuss over The Frequency of Souls? Because times have changed. The mainstream market now accepts death as survivable, engineering nerds as real (and even sexy) people, an approximate equivalence between physics and metaphysics, and a recognition of the specialness of long-term commitments in a society that measures success in quarterly statistics.

The result: themes that are the stuff of the `90's -- Nerds in Love, Life after Death, Mid-life Crises, Middle Aged Craziness -- written well enough to let the story speak for itself. Never mind the lack of skill evidenced in certain sections; The Frequency of Souls is entertaining and compelling, with characters that stick with you when you're done.

Is The Frequency of Souls really a mainstream novel? According to the times, yes. Is it great literature? Well, no. But is it fun? Yes, definitely.

Dan Everman

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In Book Two of the epic adventure that began in SPLIT INFINITY, Stile discovers life on Proton and Phaze is getting more difficult. On Proton he's a serf trying to prove his right to exist by competing in the Great Games. And on Phaze, where only magic worked, he was the Blue Adept trying to master the powers of sorcery. On both worlds, someone was trying to assassinate him. And as if that weren't enough, he has to win the love of Lady Blue, fight a dragon, discover the ultimate weapon, and of course, seek out the all-powerful Citizen who was trying to kill him!
THE APPRENTICE ADEPT SERIES
Book One: SPLIT INFINITY
Book Two: BLUE ADEPT
Book Three: JUXTAPOSITION

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Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03

Not your average bear on the fantasy world either.

When in the fantasy world Stile discovers that he can do the magic thing, and holds the title of the novel, in fact. Opposite of Blue is Red, it seems, and he has an enemy, who he must defeat on Phaze and also in the Tourney via the Game back on Proton, to keep everything cool.

Introductory Course: How to Live in 2 Worlds, Simultaneously.......2000-10-17

Journey with Stile, in a world of High-Tech--Juxtaposed with a Realm of Fantasy and Magick. Experience a world in-which you are not allowed to wear clothing (unless absolutely necessary), if you are not among the Elite...and a piece of Lingerie is a treasure to be kept safe, like gold or diamonds in our own world. Our hero is a man of Sports and a contender not-only in games and Olympic feats, but of quests in magickal lands... trying to survive assassination on both planes of existence! Even crossing-over is a danger to his life. This is very adventurous reading, with Sci-Fi & Fantasy...Futuristic, High-Tech & Magickal, Low-Tech scenarios...combined in a flowing epic of self-discovery and Mastership. You may have noticed, that I did not review the first book of the series ("SPLIT INFINITY") and opted for "BLUE ADEPT," instead.... Well, the cover of this book attracted me to the series (Glad it hasn't changed :) --So, I went with my...instincts...on this issue. Anyway, all the books are great! Make sure you don't forget "JUXTAPOSITION," or you will be left hangin' until you receive the next purchase. I loved the series and I suggest searching for all of Piers Anthony's novels.... This is a guy you can't go wrong with. So, there you have it--Introductory Course: How to Live in 2 Worlds, Simultaneously!

Another frustratingly typical Anthony sequel!.......2000-09-06

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Piers Anthony books are like crack. They're everywhere, and once you start, you have to read them all. It's awful. Because everyone I know who's read them has read them all, and I suspect almost everyone who reads them reads them all, and yet at least a third of every one of them is exposition. You can skip whole chunks of any book that's not the first in a series, and you will miss nothing. It's like old newspaper serials, where "The Story So Far" would be twice as long as the new installment. I've been here before. I know these people. Get on with it. And this is not complicated stuff to begin with. This is not hard to pick up.

Piers Anthony is the Literature Adept!.......1999-12-01

Piers Anthony is a Literature Adept! It's true. The man is encredible! I read his auto-biography (Bio of an Ogre), and it's great! I can just picture him in his cabin in Florida, writing great works of literature. The story of Stile, the next Scott Sethgreen, is magically transported from the world of Proton, to the world of Phase, is creative, and funny. There is no vernacular english spoken in Phase, and Stile suddenly becomes "The Blue Adept." His best freind is murdered by an unknown villain, who is coming for Stile next. Together with The Lady Blue, his charge, Sheen, his lovely robot, and the help of a Unicorn or two, magic harmonica in hand, Stile is off to destroy the enemy.

It was an enjoyable book........1999-10-26

It was a lot like Split Infinity, in the way that it seemed to be written not quite for adults, but not for kids. These first two books took me a bit more to get through, but the ones after these get a bit more interesting.

It's a pretty easy read too. It doesn't take long to read the whole book. It's like one of those books you read when you don't have much else to do, but it's more enjoyable than that. So anyways...I guess you'd have to read it to make your own opinion of it.

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BLUE ADEPT

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Blue Adept (Sequel to Split Infinity)
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Double Exposure : Split Infinity ; Blue Adept ; Juxtaposition
Piers Anthony
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In the late 1960s, NASA proposed hardware and mission parameters for an extended Apollo program that never materialized. Decades later, the existence of ice beds at the lunar south pole was discovered by NASA’s space probe Clementine and confirmed by the lunar satellite Lunar Prospector. Now, author and Apollo missions historian Shane Johnson explores the fantastic possibilities of what might have transpired, had the more ambitious version of the Apollo program gone forward as originally planned.

It is February, 1975. Apollo 19, the last of the manned lunar missions, has successfully landed. Exhilarated and confident, Commander Gary Lucas and Lunar Module pilot Charlie Shepherd set out to explore a vast, mysterious depression at the lunar south pole.

There, in the icy darkness–where temperatures reach 334 degrees below zero–the astronauts search for the fragments of crystalline bedrock the scientists back home had hoped for. But when tragedy strikes, the men are driven deeper into the lethal realm, where they find much more than they bargained for, including a strange machine that seemingly transports Lucas back to a pre-flood Earth, and startling evidence that could transform mankind’s perspective on all creation and its Creator– if only the men could miraculously make their way back home to earth to reveal it.

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Could not put it down!.......2007-02-15

This is one of the best books I have ever read. Have all of Shane Johnson's books now. Superb!

Christian hard-core SF - not!.......2006-09-07

"Ice" begins with all the trappings of a first-rate contemporary "hard core" science fiction novel. The technical details, skilfully woven through a nail-biting plot make it a page turner, apparently of the stature of a Michael Crichton book. Alas, it meanders off into lengthy passages of religious introspection, and plot-breaks based on snap-of-the-fingers magic. The basic story idea is an intriging one, and for that the author is to be congratulated. Unfortunately, his personal religious passion overrides his duty to entertain his reader rather than preach at him/her. Sadly the last pages collapse the story entirely - the reader ploughs through the Afterword just to see if there is anything else there, but there is not. If the reader shares the author's uncompromising approach to Christian faith it might work, but the classic Apollo novel has yet to be written.

Another great What If Novel.......2006-08-29

I love these novels that consider the "What If." And I am also fond of those authors that will take a chance on including Christian doctrine in them such as D. Shane Burton and Douglas Hirt. I would not even be offended if a Hindu or Islamic author wrote Sci-Fi and included their doctrine. They show lots of guts. The novel was an enjoyable read and kept me interested from the go.

Literalist biblical evangelism.......2006-03-18

I found it difficult to give a numerical score to this novel. As hard science fiction I found the Apollo-related story outstanding. Woven throughout the story, however, was a Christian theological plot that to me became stronger and increasingly heavy-handed until the end of the novel. This isn't necessarily a bad thing but it is not for me. Towards the end I almost felt as though a televangelist was standing in my house pushing upon me a literalist view of the bible that I do not subscribe to. If you do not mind a sermon incorporated into every part of your life, and you like good science fiction, you will enjoy this book. Otherwise, you may find it difficult to suspend your disbelief, particularly in the last chapters.
I am not saying that this is a bad book but it is not for everyone.

There is no fence...............2006-02-28

Great alternative history book. The book is a strange brew of Christian beliefs and Science Fiction. It shows some insight into the Apollo moon missions.

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Moon of Ice
original alternative history

Moon of Ice
Brad Linaweaver
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What if Hitler had not lost the Second World War?

After developing his own atom bomb, Hitler conquered most of Europe and Russia but reached a stalemate with America. In the ensuing cold war, Germany suffers renewed inflation and is stifled by an overstratified bureaucracy while America prospers but devolves into a fractured country of rugged individualists. This warped mirror image of our world is seen through the eyes of New York editor Alan Whittmore and through two of his publications.

Thirty years after the war's end, Hilda Goebbels, the daughter of Hitler's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and now a world-famous anarchist, threatens to release her father's long-suppressed diaries—revealing the bizarre fantasies at the core of Nazi doctrine, which could destroy the Reich.

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Moon of Ice.......2002-04-11

Winner of the 1989 Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian Fiction of the year, Mr. Linaweaver's "Moon of Ice" is incredibly frustrating.

It is not a bad book. In fact, the bulk of it is a rather good alternate history based on the premise that Germany won WWII. The frustration lies in the jarring lack of cohesion or integration.

There is a prologue which is not explained, and is brutal and cryptic at once. The meaning and context of the prologue are largely hidden until the final chapter, when it is revealed that they have no bearing on the main plot, but are merely a future (and rather arbitrary) consequence of it.

Then there is the first chapter, in which the consequences of the alternate history on the US are hinted at. This is a mixed bag, but drew me in. In essence, rather than creeping socialism taking control of all aspects of civilian life, the consequence of WWII in this time track was a creeping libertarianism and decreasing size of the federal government.

This is handled both well (the consequence of privately owned roads is that some roads are not owned or maintained, leading to moon crater potholes and the market solution of tires that can handle anything, but give a bone-jarring ride -- a concession to reality that few other libertarian novels ever make) and not so well (if a customer tips a waitress exceedingly well, she will serve him in the nude -- something I just don't buy at a posh restaurant in America, since the Puritan strain of our culture predates WWII by centuries).

But the various awkwardnesses are made up for in the fascinating background.

Then Mr. Linaweaver gives us many pages of autobiography from Joseph Goebbels's daughter, Hilda, which provide interesting insight into life in Germany after the victory. But it goes on too long. And then, the meat!

The daring conceit of this novel is that the bulk of it consists of the last entries in the diary of Joseph Goebbels himself, circa 1966. Whatever quibbles one may take with this portion of the novel, it is gripping, grotesque, and for the most part entirely believable. The only misstep, one that Linaweaver is quite conscious of and acknowledges, is the use of the hoary old cliche of the mad super-scientist who wants to destroy the world. The science he employs is simply not believable in the context presented, even for a super-genius.

That, however, is more than made up for in the scenes describing a Nazi propaganda film, and it's director, which turns out to be an exact analog of a very popular American film, right down to the racial stereotypes. And the American director, by implication, is skewered beautifully in the presentation of his alternate self.

So then the diary ends, and we are back in the mid 1970s with Goebbels's daughter and her publisher, and this is quite good too, living up to the diary. Until.

The.

Last.

Chapter.

The final chapter is an epistle written in the year 2000, and clears up the "mystery" of the prologue. Once that is done, the letter then details events that would have been well-known to the recipient, and proceeds to semi-coherently relate the theme of the novel over and over and over again in a feeble attempt to bludgeon it into the reader's head. Then it does it again. And still again. It is so poorly written that one wonders if the author fell ill and somebody else filled in.

If I give the impression here of disliking the book, that is only because the last chapter was so incomprehensibly awful that it eclipses the considerable merits of the rest. Even without the ending, it is far from perfect, as noted. However, on the whole, I am glad to have read it.

original alternative history.......2000-04-22

This book was originally a novella published in the 1982 AMAZING. It's one of the earlier examples of alternative history, now a big subgenre.

Highly original vision of "what if" the Nazis won WW 2 (author predicts they would have ended up much like the USSR -- a corrupt and declining totalitarian state, whose Party leaders only give lip service to their early "ideals," and whose children are spoiled Party brats).

The heroine is a libertarian revolutionary.

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One of the most dominant conquerors of all time, King Rahn was a man who could have any woman he wanted. The Ice Queen was his most beautiful courtier, but she treated the king with a regal disregard unheard of in the kingdom. Rahn was not one to tolerate such insubordination. She would submit to his will and learn to serve her lord in the fashion he had come to expect.

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Sorry but not one of his best works .........2004-04-26

thats for sure cause this author KNOWS erotica ....

The book deals with a mythical land and a powerfull king, Rahn, who rules with a firm hand generally rapoing and pillaging those who do not pay him homage. He has a large harmen populated generally by the wives and daughters of deposed kings and war lords.

We really don't see the 'Ice Queen' until the middle of the book and even then she really doesn't capture the reader's attention appart from being just another one of the kings' women.

Actually that is really the problem, we can't identify with the king or many of the other characters including the confidant of the king who ia actually telling the story of the Fall of the Ice Queen .....

I gave it 3 stars but really only out of respect for the author since this one is probably a stinker ....

Touch and Go.......2002-02-04

I bypassed this with barely a glance a hundred times, strictly because of the picture. It needs a Luis Royo kind of thing in blazing red and gold, with raised swords and muscles, else, who can guess it's this kind of story? Bawdy, barabarous, set somewhere in ancient history, maybe even tribal Scotland. Cool! It loses points with me for anachronisms that I feel could have been avoided. Example: "gods" and "the Church". Not fair to judge it harshly for being so MALE - it is what it is. For what it is, I'd recommend it to those whose tastes run in that direction. And for me, well, it had it moments. A fast story, adequately written except for some weak editing. As a female, I was looking for something comparable to THE TATTOOED ROOD by the author of MANDINGO, say something like that but less inhibited. THE FALL OF THE ICE QUEEN is thoroughly uninhibited, but I'm still looking.

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A sad but great tale about adolescent life in wintercold Norway
Elegant, completely at ease with words
Austere, Primeval, and Haunting
Absolutely beautiful
True art!

Ice Palace (Sun and Moon Classics)
Tarjei Vesaas
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novel, Norway, tr Elizabeth Rokkan

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A sad but great tale about adolescent life in wintercold Norway.......2006-08-31

This is one of Vesaas' last books, and quite well-known in literary circles, both in Norway and abroad. The book spins around two girls living in rural Norway in their eleventh winter. One of the girls has just moved to the tiny village, and instantly forms a bond of friendship with the leader of the pack of children at their school; the other girl. Then something sad happens that I won't reveal. The tale spins around these happenings: the struggle against the dark forces of the human mind, and the experience of growing up. The tale is a short read, and is Vesaas at his most typical style of writing. I really enjoy this book, and I've read it several times.

So if you want to get to know one of Norway's greatest authors, almost up there at Knut Hamsun's level, then this would be a great place to start. The author died in 1970, but his anti-modern thought was quite present in most of his books, although an annoying streak of pacifism and humanism is present in some of his works. But this is not one of those books, so no reason to avoid this great read from the winter nights of rural Norway.

(I read a different edition of the book)

Elegant, completely at ease with words.......2006-03-09

It is a beautiful piece of poetic prose. The innocent and simple story of two girls and their budding friendship broken by death is at the same time intense and calm. The descriptions of the surroundings, the ice palace at the waterfall, which claims Unn, together with the thoughts of Siss, create the Nordic climate, make the reader breathe the cold air, and show the world as a complicated and unyielding entity, strange for a little girl, hard to understand. Yet Siss understands somehow, her world gets in order and all the events have their place.
Only a poet can use words in such a beautiful fashion. This book was a sensual delight. Probably a great bonus is the translation, must have been not a trivial task!

Austere, Primeval, and Haunting.......2004-08-31

Vesaas's book is beautiful.

His style is experimental and modern, which means that he presents information in a slightly elliptical way, perhaps one that more closely echoes the motions of actual consciousness. This means that you may have to read the same passage two or three times: there are very few topic sentences introducing clearly defined paragraphs. Luckily, his vocabulary is pitch-perfect: small words, chosen for precision rather than pretence.

A novel has two major compenents, one being the social background of the story and the other being the story itself. The background is crystalline and very, very Norwegian: a harsh climate; reserved, good people; an aura of isolation that may only come from years of cold. The story itself turns on a secret and a promise, and the young girl Siss's reaction to them: not a secret like those in Babysitters' Club books, nor like the secrets in a spy novel: but a compelling one, an all-encompassing one, one that drives people in a way that doesn't make sense in a wholly rational world and yet drives them all the same. I won't say more.

Highly recommended. Oh-- and read it quickly. Like, perhaps, Faulkner (though not as difficult), you'll lose track of what's going on if you take too much time between readings.

Absolutely beautiful.......2000-07-19

A beautiful book. The imagery is lovely, and I got hooked when one of the characters actually wanders into the ice palace. The descriptions of the light, and the interplay of the changing colors and shapes of the ice were mesmerizing--I stayed up late and couldn't go to bed. And in the morning it seemed it should be all ice outside instead of the height of summer. Tremendously atmospheric, simply splendid. The first book in about six months to make it straight to my read-again shelf. And short--a quick read if you're busy.

True art!.......1999-02-21

One of the most beautiful books ever written. You are not literate before you have read this book.

ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S MYSTERY - Volume 32, number 10, October Oct 1987: The Quiktrip Church and Grill; Mercy Killing; The Rust on the Moon; Hunter and the Ice Man; Death of an Otter; Packer's Fortune; She Looked Like A Million; Moral Dilemma

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ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S MYSTERY - Volume 32, number 10, October Oct 1987: The Quiktrip Church and Grill; Mercy Killing; The Rust on the Moon; Hunter and the Ice Man; Death of an Otter; Packer's Fortune; She Looked Like A Million; Moral Dilemma
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ELDRITCH TALES - Issue 18 - 1989: I Can't Quite Remember; In the Great Milk White Eye of God; Crazed Cavorting; A Rose in the Garden of the Moon; Orchestra; And I Am Here Fighting with Ghosts; Ashtaroth; Ice Dreams; One Who Became One's Lover; A Thousand

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ELDRITCH TALES - Issue 18 - 1989: I Can't Quite Remember; In the Great Milk White Eye of God; Crazed Cavorting; A Rose in the Garden of the Moon; Orchestra; And I Am Here Fighting with Ghosts; Ashtaroth; Ice Dreams; One Who Became One's Lover; A Thousand
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FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION - Volume 28, number 4 - April Apr 1965: Arsenel Port; Keep Them Happy; Blind Date; Ice Ages; History of Doctor Frost; Lord Moon; Aunt Millicent at the Races; Eyes Do More Than See

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FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION - Volume 28, number 4 - April Apr 1965: Arsenel Port; Keep Them Happy; Blind Date; Ice Ages; History of Doctor Frost; Lord Moon; Aunt Millicent at the Races; Eyes Do More Than See
Joseph W. (editor) (Poul Anderson; Robert Rohrer; T. P. Caravan; Theodore L. Thomas; Roderic C. Hodgins; Jane Beauclerk; Len Guttridge; Gerald Jonas; Gahan Wilson; Isaac Asimov) Ferman
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Hostile Takeover: The Desperation of Moon Ice Angels

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Hostile Takeover: The Desperation of Moon Ice Angels
Nicholas Hades , and Steven Yu Zhang
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In 1959 a young couple in Puerto Rico see a strange silver orb in the sky. Forty years later that same young man is now a high school science teacher. He is assigned to mentor an eccentric art student obsessed with the work of a Victorian artist. It seems that this artist, a distant relative of the science professor has been in contact with the silver orb and the aliens traveing inside of it for decades. Professor Vliet and his student Gummi Carmichael race against time to try and figure out who the aliens are and why they are here.Are they friends or foes? Angels or devils? No one can tell, but time is running out.

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Ice Cream Machine Book
Rosemary Moon
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A fine researcher

For a good start !!!

Closer to understanding

A Wealth of Information

This book was complete and concise in its picture of Haiti.

Discoveries: Voodoo: Search for the Spirit (Discoveries (Abrams))
Laennec Hurbon
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A fine researcher.......2004-01-01

Hurbon is a very fine academic and I always enjoy his well-researched books. For me, though, they do not go far enough because I would like to USE Vodou practice in my daily life. Hurbon is great on the history and traditions of Vodou but a better book for parctical information is Ross Heaven's Vodou Shaman. I'd suggest you read them both, although Hurbon's is the better for academic study.

For a good start !!!.......2003-03-20

I have found this book interesting, delivering a most valuable information about history, loas, voodoo practices and religion. The artistic and esthetic content is also of high interest. It provides actually also a contemporary information regarding the present status of this religion and presents the christian religion coming from the US as its bitter ennemy. We will probably never ascertain the importance of the direct influence of voodoo on the present political status of Haïti, but this boook underlines the negative influence of papa Doc and his "tonto macoutes" who used voodoo to justify at times their political system.

Closer to understanding.......2002-09-13

I spent some time in Haiti but learned precious little about Voodoo. Although practiced by the majority of Haitians, it is not an open, in-your-face religion. The book has a good, detailed, historical background of both Haiti and Voodoo. The discussions about Voodoo are detailed, professional, informative, scholarly, and very non-biased. The history is quite in depth so don't buy this book if you are looking for a light hearted explanation of teh subject. This book helped me to understand Voodoo's cultural significance in Haiti and to understand why it is believed to be a "religion". The book's photos are excellent. I bought the French version of this book so I can't comment on the English translation.

A Wealth of Information.......2002-05-21

I did not know what to expect when I purchased this book. I needed a serious reference book to research Voodoo (or as I call it Vodou) in "my country" and I found it. This is a very smart and thoroughly researched and documented book that I highly recommend to anyone who has an intellectual curiosity of the Haitian Vodou culture.

This book was complete and concise in its picture of Haiti........1999-08-27

If you want to know about the Voodoo religion, this book has a very clear summary of this religion. It also writes about the history of Haiti in a very clean and concise manner. And seems very true. It's not slanted or biased in any way. There are pictures of interest also. This book kept me involved in knowing Haiti's history page after page.

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