Puttering about in a Small Land

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Underrated PKD.......2004-11-13

Pretty slow, but full of utterly believable characters that I really cared about (even though they're pretty messed up people).

A strong novel of 1950s manners and morals.......2004-06-03

The title of this realist novel, written in 1957 but not published until 1985, refers to the "small land" of Roger Lindahl's TV repair shop. His wife, Virginia is ambitious, and ends up taking control of the business and expanding it into a large appliance store; but she, as much as Roger or any of the other characters, exists in the small land of her own mind. California, the land of opportunity which had lured the Lindahls from the East coast, is small in its own way: the deadening conventionality of 1950s manners and morals contract the range of human happiness there as elsewhere. Into this wasteland a fertilizing influence appears in the person of Liz Bonner. Roger finds her refreshingly uninhibited and sensual. In its concentration on the triangle of Roger, Liz, and Virginia, Dick fully develops the psychological dynamics of marital and extramarital relations. His sometimes fantastic descriptions of the wasteland of the "small land" of this novel anticipate the entropic landscapes of his later science-fiction novels such as Martian Time-Slip and Ubik.

Good, but lacks the energy of his S.F........2002-04-10

This book, a story about a TV repairman and his family in 1950's California, contains many of the elements contained in Dick's science fiction novels: bleak emotional landscapes; the aggressive wife; the everyman character stuggling to get by in the world. But it's missing the inventiveness, the creepiness, and also the humor of his SF work. This one dragged for me, a bit, though it does contain some memorable characters.

This is one of several non-science fiction novels Dick wrote in the 1950s in an attempt to gain recognition as a serious writer. It didn't work (while he was still living), and he went back to solid SF at some point. This one is worth reading for sure if you like PKD, but it's not up there with his very best science fiction.

Insights into human relationships not usually expressed.......2001-02-23

I loved this novel. The reactions the adulterers experience after their one 'affair' are so atypical of drama, film, TV but I suspect so accurate of human life. We can all learn many things from reading Dick's novels - both SF and otherwise. Somehow - even in extreme environments (which this novel does not show) - he shows everyday reality of the human mind.

My Favorite Mainstream PKD.......2000-11-04

I have a soft spot for this bleakly realistic novel about California life in the 1950's. The main characters are little people, anti-heroes, average Joes, but Dick's psychological insights are superb and singular. I remember one character's description of being popular in elementary school for two days because of making ears from breadcrusts and causing everyone to laugh; and a brilliantly believable internal monologue about getting caught in the act of adultery. Dick's evocations are haunting. He truly was capable of finding the unique and the universal in the quotidian realities of modern life, even when disguised by a wacky SF alternative-realm framework (not here, though). PUTTERING is straight slice-of-life.

I wish someone would make this one into a movie. It's bittersweet, evocative--filled with character like an aged burgundy. Read it.

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Puttering About In A Small Land
Philip K. Dick
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An Orgy of Blood and Carnage...

Hack and Slash

Great Sword & Sorcery! Finally!

Explosive early tales of Gotrek and Felix!

axe dwarf is cool
Trollslayer (A Gotrek & Felix novel)
William King
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Trollslayer is the first part of the death saga of Gotrek Gurnisson, as retold by his travelling companion Felix Jaeger. Set in the darkly gothic world of Warhammer, Trollslayer is an episodic novel featuring some of the most extraordinary adventures of this deadly pair of heroes. Monsters, daemons, sorcerers, mutants, orcs, beastmen and worse are to be found as Gotrek strives to achieve a noble death in battle. Felix, of course, only has to survive to tell the tale.

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An Orgy of Blood and Carnage..........2006-12-25

...And I loved every sentence of it! Sure, it's good to read about the exploits of friendship and love with Drizzt or Cadderly, but sometimes you want to get down and dirty with violence and blood!

Trollslayer does this brilliantly, it is a highly addictive book (almost as addictive as an RA Salvatore book). And you become familiar with the characters like you would if you read the Drizzt books. I can't help but laugh everytime Gotrek makes a joke at the expense of an elf!

This book is composed of short stories, but they all connect.

But the beauty of it is: This book shows what Warhammer is all about. It is completely bloody. Fans of WH or gothic fantasy or adventure for that matter, should pick this one up.

Hack and Slash .......2006-02-10

This was the first book of warhammmer I bought. I was reading at the time some book of Dragonlance or Forgotten Realms. I try to read it and I quit after reading about 50 pages or so.
Some time afterwords after reading the GILEAD'S BLOOD I try it again.. this time I didn't stop.
Some of the previews before say it all.
I like a lot of the dwarf with his bound-code of honor. It's nice to see a character not following some human characteritcs.
I mean... I've read some books with dwarves and elves and some of them put human carachterics in it or the other way around. They follow and never leave the general caractheritcs of a race.
In general I like it a lot.
Something didn't feel right althought.
Gotrek it's almost invencible. I don't like that in a character. But besides that everything fits alright.

Before each battle the Trollslayer passes his finger in his axe making it bleed. I bet his fingers are full of scars lol.

Great Sword & Sorcery! Finally!.......2005-11-11

I cannot give a higher review then to say that a writer has finally come forward with an excellent fantasy book. If you like, Robert E Howard, Fritz Leiber, Michael Moorcock, or R.A. Salvatore then you will like this book. Lots of action and no wading through endless pages of boredom. Now if only the major publishers would get their acts together and start printing this kind of fiction again.

Explosive early tales of Gotrek and Felix!.......2005-08-09

Gotrek and Felix battle the forces of chaos in a novel of non-stop action and plot progression. As a collection of early Gotrek and Felix short stories in one volume, Trollslayer has a few minor negative aspects such as repetition of a few key phrases. However, these short stories actually tie in nicely to make a good overall story that progresses in an orderly manner through time, creating a very enjoyable and sequential tale.

In this first novel, Gotrek and Felix (both complete badasses) are introduced and some of their first adventures together are told. An exciting book to say the least, the heroes are caught up in radical plots by evil villians one after another, with very little "spacer." Basically, you get action, action, action the whole way through, which may dull your senses after a while but makes for a quick read and isn't too bad if you remember to keep the stories in their original context as seperate short stories. Anyway, this first tale of Gotrek and Felix and their early escapades against the forces of darkness and Chaos in the world of Warhammer is exciting and fun. Highly reccomended.

axe dwarf is cool.......2005-08-05

I like the part where gotrek kills them all and felix helps too

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Captain Kirk's latest voyage has brought him far into the final frontier. His new mission: to help a determined band of pioneers colonize a harsh and unforgiving world, defend the vulnerable settlers from the constant threat of alien invasion, and protect the planet's unique and precious resources for the sake of the entire Federation!

Rough Trails

Months after their departure from Earth, the struggling colonists have barely established a precarious toehold on Belle Terre, a ravaged world still recovering from a catastrophic planetary disaster. Fierce cyclones, storms, landslides, and flash floods make the survival itself a never-ending challenge. While Captain Kirk and the Starship Enterprise™ patrol the sector, on guard against predatory aliens and greedy space pirates, officers Chekov, Uhura, and Sulu stay behind to assist the hapless settlers in their desperate battle to put down roots in the turbulent soil of and angry planet.

But the imperiled colonist are fractious and intensely individualistic group, not inclined to take orders or direction from their Starfleet guardians. Chekov and the others find their ingenuity and diplomatic skills tested to their limits -- to save a people who don't want their help!

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Seen Better.......2005-03-15

I've always enjoyed anything L.A. Graf writes concerning the original series, but this book was a disappointment to me. For one thing, they always have the same basic plot: get Sulu and Chekov (and others) into a desperate situation, beat the hell out of Chekov, and save the day in the end. This is not really a bad formula, but it gets old. Chekov couldn't possibly survive another book like this one, can he?

The entire Belle Terre idea is fascinating, so it's worth it to read the book for that. The Federation doesn't just fight Klingons and discover strange new worlds. It colonizes them, too, and it's really cool to see how this works. In general, it's a well-written Star Trek book that's a nice break from your basic, daring deep-space episodes. And if you're a Chekov fan, you can't loose. Unless, of course, you're like me, and can't stand to see another woman move in. . .

Great story bad writing.......2003-12-30

I gotta admit the first chapter or so bored me to death. But the story gets really good. I love the actual story format, but I don't like the way the writer wrote the story. What really threw me off is you have to really pay attention to the book when reading it, not distractions, because you'll miss key parts. ITs alomst like the writer put in detail in a sentence that tells you why something happend, and it seems to be put in out of the blue. Also like Dian Carey, they start another scene/chapter expecting you to have followed along, just giving a little back story of what happend since the previous chapter, and that just sucks. Like one page they're in the air in a shuttle, and the beginning of the next chapter they're walking the ground and getting shot at, and not untill a page or so later does the author exaplin what happend. Other then that though the storyline was awesome really entertaining.

Star Trek #91 Rough Trails - A long and drawn out tale!.......2003-10-27

This is the fifth L.A. Graf (Let's All Get Rich and Famous), Julia Ecklar and Karen Rose Cercone Star Trek novel that I've read now and I hate to admit it, but with the exception of their Star Trek Deep Space Nine Day of Honor novel, "Armageddon Sky," which was an excellent novel, their novels just don't seem to grab me as a reader. This novel doesn't transcend that feeling too well either. It may be their writing style, which for the majority of their novels seems to have a pacing problem and they just don't seem to grab the reader and give them the compelling feeling towards the story or the characters.

This third novel in the Star Trek New Earth series, "Rough Trails, does have one thing going for it though, it doesn't center around the three primary characters of Kirk, Spock and McCoy, as the majority of the novels and all of the episodes and movies do.

The cover art for this novel is an exception to the norm as well as it does paint a bright picture of Belle Terre. It may not be the Belle Terre that is described throughout a majority of this novel but it does come into play later in the novel.

The premise:

Following where the last novel, "Belle Terre" left off in which Captain Kirk was forced to move a small moon from a gas giant in the Belle Terre (Occult) solar system and crash it into Belle Terre's olivium rich moon in order to vent it and prevent it from exploding, "Rough Trails" sets a new tone for the New Earth series.

It is now some time after Belle Terre's olivium rich moon was struck by the other moon but during that explosion, debris from the collision hit Belle Terre, changing its environment in a very bad way. The colonists, who were more or less forced to stay due to a lack of supplies for the extraordinarily long journey back to Federation space, are now faced with living in the conditions created by the debris' collision with Belle Terre's surface.

Chekov, has been recently promoted to Lieutenant Commander and is scheduled to depart to become the First Officer on the USS Reliant has been working on the planets orbital platform while Kirk and the Enterprise have been patrolling the fringes of the system, preventing piracy of the olivium. Scotty, Uhura and Sulu have been working on the planets surface attempting to make things better for the colonists. Uhura has been attempting to create a communications system that works on the planet which is presently in the dry season and the atmosphere is laden with olivium dust which has been preventing a viable communications system.

As the story opens up, Chekov has hitched a ride down to the planets surface on a re-supply shuttle but during the shuttles run, it's shot down. Here is one of the few intriguing moments of this novel as Chekov must lead himself and the shuttle's crew members out from the bottom of Crater Lake, where the shuttle crash landed.

What follows from there is a tale, which in some ways contradicts some established facts from the two previous Star Trek New Earth novels, in which Chekov goes through a series of extraordinary events on this desolate planet and it's now, seemingly barbaric colonists and where Sulu and Uhura are doing everything they can to locate Chekov. Along the way, Sulu and Uhura discover that Crater Lake is about the break and the resulting flood will destroy everything in its path, causing them to divert their search for Chekov as they must warn as many colonists as possible.

I would only recommend this novel as it is part of the Star Trek New Earth series and that while this series may not be the best that Pocket Books have put out; it's still somewhat interesting to read. {ssintrepid}

A Star Trek Western.......2001-06-20

Although I liked the two previous books (and also the three following ones)I absolutely hated this one!!! The idea of giving minor characters Sulu, Uhura and Chekov an oportunity was a great one, but the way L.A.Graf implemented it, is downright disgusting. What should have been a Star Trek novel turns out to be a western, with stables and tumbleweed included!!! I kept on reading just to see if it would get better but it never did. Skip this book if you can, it won't detract from the rest of the series and you'll save $6 in the process.

Sulu, Chekov and Uhura Fans Rejoice!.......2000-11-10

Although I love Kirk, Spock and McCoy, it's nice to see Sulu, Chekov and Uhura get to play major roles in a story. This quality reminds me of another Trek Novel, Uhura's Song. I thoroughly enjoyed Rough Trails, L.A. Graf writes so vividly that you practically feel yourself choking on olivium dust right along with the characters! It would have been nice if Graf had played up the potential love interest for Chekov a bit more, but it was still a good story. I'm sure I'll enjoy reading it again someday.

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Rough Trails Ahead: Sequel to Grandpappy's Last Wish

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In Rough Trails Ahead, the Tanners have returned, bringing with them a new generation. Eighteen years have passed and this time the Tanner family is faced with more choices and even greater hardships. The true meaning of Grandpappy's last wish is revealed, which forces the Tanners to reconsider a major part of their lives: sell the ranch, do something different with the land, or risk losing everything. Do you think they make the right choice? New choices mean new beginnings; new beginnings mean stronger bonds between family and friends. Page after page, the secret of dealing with that not-so-perfect family and proving that love needs no words is unveiled. Paula Kesler's second book, Rough Trails Ahead, will forever claim a place in every reader's heart.

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Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is widely regarded today as one of the most original and intellectually challenging figures within the so-called renaissance of German-Jewish thought in the Weimar period. The architect of a unique kind of existential theology, and an important influence upon such philosophers as Walter Benjamin, Martin Buber, Leo Strauss, and Emmanuel Levinas, Rosenzweig is remembered chiefly as a "Jewish thinker," often to the neglect of his broader philosophical concerns. Cutting across the artificial divide that the traumatic memory of National Socialism has drawn between German and Jewish philosophy, this book seeks to restore Rosenzweig's thought to the German philosophical horizon in which it first took shape. It is the first English-language study to explore Rosenzweig's enduring debt to Hegel's political theory, neo-Kantianism, and life-philosophy; the book also provides a new, systematic reading of Rosenzweig's major work, The Star of Redemption.
Most of all, the book sets out to explore a surprising but deep affinity between Rosenzweig's thought and that of his contemporary, the German philosopher Martin Heidegger. Resisting both apologetics and condemnation, Gordon suggests that Heidegger's engagement with Nazism should not obscure the profound and intellectually compelling bond in the once-shared tradition of modern German and Jewish thought. A remarkably lucid discussion of two notably difficult thinkers, this book represents an eloquent attempt to bridge the forced distinction between modern Jewish thought and the history of modern German philosophy--and to show that such a distinction cannot be sustained without doing violence to both.

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Excellent Intellectual History.......2005-02-07

Peter Eli Gordon's book on Rosenzweig and Heidegger is a diamond of modern cultural history. Studying two contemporaries whose biographical, intellectual, and political itineraries could not appear more disparate, Gordon brings out not only the profound affinities and analogies between their philosophical projects, but also the way in which these affinities speak to the problems and paths of post-WWI German and German-Jewish thought and culture in general. He shows how Rosenzweig and Heidegger's opposition to contemporary neo-Kantianism provides a common stage for their different albeit parallel paths, and proceeds to question and reinterpret the work of each thinker on the basis of these parallels; this is not to say that the author easily takes the apparently parallel themes of the two (revelation and authenticity) without extensive and careful review, his care on reading texts is something the present reviewer wishes she saw more often among intellectual historians.

The treatment of Rosenzweig is excellent, easily standing its own against Stéphane Mosès' classic System and Revelation. The long, patient and careful analysis of Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption helps demonstrate not only why this work stands as a theorization of German-Jewish modernity in a manner not limited to its explicit Jewish impulse, but also the reasons why Rosenzweig is of contemporary philosophical promise. Two full chapters of the book are dedicated to understanding this work in these two contexts: the chapter Redemption-in-the-World, though the book's most difficult, is also the most interesting. As noted already, Gordon writes also with an ear to themes common to Rosenzweig and Heidegger (particularly the treatment of death) in a fashion that turns to show their deeper affinities.

Gordon constructs a Heidegger that is historically and philosophically valuable beyond the usual studies of his work: conversant with his contemporaries, not yet bound by his later Nazism, philosophically exciting, and engaged in contemporary questions (as opposed to hiding in his Black Forest hut). Of note is also the final chapter, on the so-called Davos debate between Heidegger and neo-Kantian Ernst Cassirer, where Gordon provides a remarkable interpretation of this foundational event of Twentieth-Century thought (and, by extension an interesting theorization of the meaning and significance of intellectual events in general).

The question that always lurks in the background (at least for this reviewer) concerns the influence of historical experience in philosophies concerned specifically with the relationship and limits between immanence and transcendence. On this register, Gordon says quite a lot, and the book can be read as a philosophically acute attempt to answer the question of the influence of WWI on intellectuals and writers of its generation.

This book must be published in paperback, as the hardcover's ridiculous price makes it impossible to properly study outside the cadre of university libraries. For those interested in modern European thought, this book is an exceptional guide to one of its most difficult chapters.

An Exciting Read.......2005-01-26

Peter Gordon's book has received many rave reviews on the study of Rosenzweig and Heidegger. The book's central idea of linking the two thinkers together is bold and intriguing. Overall the book is well-written and exciting to read.

The book examines Rozensweig's basic philosophy through his major works, starting early on with his dealings with Hermann Cohn, the neo-Kantian who he rejects, through his masterpiece, The Star of Redemption, and up to the Rosenzweig Buber Bible translation. Professor Gordon all the while weaves in Heidegger's theories of Being and Dasein, the notions of temporality, to convincingly suggest a link that Germans shared at that time in thought and other areas of life.

The book implies that had Nazism not arise, and had German Jewry like Rosenzweig and Buber continue their course, then the face of Jewish life, including the Orthodox world would look very different from what we see today. In some sense it is not only a great academic text, but an elegy for a lost life.

A cultural study of Weimar .......2004-10-16

Reading the book I could not get rid of the impression that Peter E. Gordon uses or misuses Heidegger to polish up Franz Rosenzweig, a philosopher that does not reach up to the philosophical complexity of Heidegger. The comparative lecture is therefore not always in a good balance. The interpretation - though very well written, with a didactic effort - sounds sometimes "forced" and is in several chapters not really philosophic. It is a good study of Weimar intellectual culture, not so much a philosophic one. It seems as if Gordon felt himself obliged to write a "comprehensive" book for a large public, not so much for scholars of philosophy, who will probably skip several chapters to "get to the point".

Controversial and Convincing.......2003-08-08

This exemplary work of scholarship focuses on the German-Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig - the last of the great German Jewish thinkers before World War II. Gordon's book provides the most coherant and honest assessment to date.

The larger point here is that we have to stop telling the story of modern German-Jewish thought as if it occurred in isolation from the story of modern German thought. Gordon takes issue with the standard view of Jewish thinkers as 'trapped" in a German intellectual context that rejected them, and he provides a truly welcome corrective to the fashionable idea that Jewish philosophy is a pristine and isolated island of "ethics" fixated upon the theme of alterity.

Until now, interpretators made Rosenzweig out to be a hero of authentic Jewish identity. They tended to confirm the argument of Emmanuel Levinas, who claimed that Rosenzweig was a thinker of ethical transcendence (just like Levinas himself). Gordon has provided a thorough refutation of this view, and he shows, through a careful reconstruction of Rosenzweig's masterwork, The Star of Redemption, that Rosenzweig was much more closely allied with German thought, especially with the sort of holist, post-Nietzschean discourse of finitude and authenticity developed some years later by Heidegger in Being and Time.

It may upset those who would rather think about Rosenzweig as some sort of pious sage, rather than a philosopher. But Gordon's point is that Rosenzweig was really a post-Nietzschean modernist, who was trying to develop a new, post-metaphysical idea of religious life as (in Gordon's words) "redemption-in-the-world."

Gordon's book is at times tough-going, but on the whole remarkably lucid, particularly when explaining ideas from Rosenzweig or Heidegger. He always proves his points with great quotations from Rosenzweig and Heidegger, and from other thinkers from the Weimar period. The chapters on the Star of Redemption are superb, though lit-crit types may prefer the chapter on the translation of the Bible by Buber and Rosenzweig.

Rosenzweig and Heidegger may be seen as the most controversial and convincing study of modern German and Jewish thought ever written.

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