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The Terri Schiavo case was a key battle in a larger political struggle over abortion, stem-cell research, physician-assisted suicide, gay rights, and the appointment of federal judges. The religious Right chose to make it a national spectacle because they thought they could win. They were wrong. But there are many more battles to come.
Jon Eisenberg, who served as one of the lead attorneys on Michael Schiavo's side, exposes the religious Right's strategies and follows the money trail to reveal how they are organized, who is funding the movement, and where we can expect future legal maneuvers to combat the American traditions of autonomy and freedom.
Jon Eisenberg has experienced the family struggle of removing a feeding tube from a loved one and witnessed firsthand the Florida drama that will continue to have national legal and political consequences for years to come. What tactics can we expect to see in courtrooms and state legislatures all across this country in the days ahead? Who is behind the funding and what do they hope to accomplish and when? What are the religious and bioethical issues that are at the center of these debates and how will they affect future legal battles? Using Terri gives us a behind-the-scenes look at what happened -- and what's coming.
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Dissagree With Any Who Agrees With Michael Schiavo!!!!.......2006-08-11
My problem is, is that I didn't read any of the books. But just ordered one & waiting on it. I do feel that the people who think Michael Schiavo was thinking of the best interest of his wife, was only for his own personal needs. He wanted to move on with his life, he should have done it in a different way. He should of turned everything over to "Terry Schindler's" family. I am a CNA, and I have taken care of people who have had feeding tubes & did not feel they were in a vegetative state. When rolling them over in bed, from side to side as you are suppose to do every 2 hours, they look at you in different ways, they make noises if you ACCIDENTLY hurt them when turning them. They are people just like us. Just because Terry was supposevly running out Michaels money, that did not belong to him in the first place, was no reason for that Son of B*^ch to make her suffer the way she did. If Terry was going to die, she would have died a long time ago.....ON HER OWN!!! She was just to strong of a woman to NOT GIVE UP!! And as far as I see it, there is no reason to rate any of the books if you had followed the NEWS. That's what I did. It didn't take Michael to long to find another woman and move on with his life, no matter if he was there with Terry everyday. Michael was just lucky enough to find another woman to put up with that, or she was just looking for the same thing Michael was looking for. And I feel that was the rest of Terrys money, so they could enjoy there life with Terrys money. I think i've said enough......everyone needs to remember, "What Goes Around, Comes Around!" Michaels day is coming & when it does......Terry will be waiting!
The right to murder........2006-04-16
Terri Schiavo wasn't allowed to die--she was slowly and painfully murdered. If she was in a PVS, why was she given morphine as she lay dehydrating and starving? People who are in a vegetative state are not supposed to feel pain--right!? Murderers are put to death in a more humane way than Terri was. They pass within minutes of their humane lethal injections. Terri suffered for two weeks until she died. And, since when is giving food and water artificial life support!!! I care for an 8-year old mentally challenged girl and I feed her strictly through a feeding tube. Terri was not on a respirator.
If you want the real truth about this case, first read SILENT WITNESS by Mark Fuhrman. It is an unbiased account of the Terri Schiavo case. Next, I recomment A LIFE THAT MATTERS by Terri's family. There has been so many lies and misconceptions about Terri's condition. One person and one person only decided Terri's fate--Juge Greer. One person should not have all that power. There was overwhelming evidence that Terri was not a "vegetable" and he didn't care. Please read the books I have suggested. If it is illegal to commit suiside, why is it legal to starve and dehydrate a defenseless human being? It's one thing to turn off a respirator, but to kill someone in the manner they did Terri is horrific. Didn't someone named Hitler do that across Europe several years ago?
Christine
A moving and frightening book.......2006-04-14
I believe strongly that people should be able to decide for themselves, to the extent that it is possible, how much medical care they want. This goes both for people who want no heroic measures and people who want everything possible to be done. One of the most upsetting things about this story is that a number of people trying to keep Terri Schiavo on the feeding tube, including her parents, admitted that they didn't really care what she wanted, even if she had left even more specific instructions. Does the reviewer who professed to be distressed by the arrogance of Michael Schiavo, et al., apply the same standards to the Schindlers and others trying to warp the law and established practice? They were certainly convinced that they had a direct pipeline to God. The reviewer who claimed that he had no problem with the decision to remove the tube, but felt that Eisenberg was unfairly attacking Christian conservatives should give more thought to what they did. Did this person stand up and say, "You're not speaking for me when you claim that God requires extraordinary measures"? Eisenberg pointed out that a number of Christians, even conservative Christians, were puzzled by the reluctance to let Terri Schiavo go to God.
I already have advanced directives, and after this, I think that I will try to strengthen them.
Eisenberg's account of events was compassionate, careful and fair. In all that I have read about this, I have not seen any good evidence that Michael Schiavo was a bad husband while his wife was living with him, or failed to do the best for her until it became clear there was no hope. I cannot understand the argument that it is playing God to remove the tube any more than it was playing God to use it in the first place. Terri Schiavo would have died naturally more than 15 years ago.
There were times when I thought that perhaps Michael Schiavo should have turned care over to his in-laws, since they felt so strongly, but that is only because I don't think that Terri Schiavo was alive enough to care. I don't judge him for that, however. I know what it is to decide with family members when treatment should be ended since death can only be briefly postponed. I don't know what it is like to have to watch someone in that condition for more than fifteen years, convinced that they would not have wanted it to happen that way.
I hope that I am never the cause of putting my own family through such character assassinations, public intrusions and sufferings.
Simplistic, mean spirited with no redeeming value.......2005-12-19
In "Using Terri", Jon Eisenberg attempts to provide the reader with insight into the legal, ethical, moral, and medical aspects of the tragic death of Terri Schiavo. He falls far short of the mark on all of them. In his November 6, 2005 review for the New York Times William Saletan succinctly sums up the book: ""Using Terri" is just another use of Terri." Eisenberg begins with the death of his 79 year old aunt Ros trying to draw a parallel between her and Terri. The situations could not be more different. No one, not Eisenberg, nor her two brothers had any desire to care for Ros. Her case is indeed tragic and agonizing. Had she not been dehydrated to death her fate would most probably have been to remain institutionalized and uncared for until she finally succumbed to a sad end. A very different fate awaited Terri were she to be delivered into the care of her parents and siblings. She would have received the best loving care and devotion that her parents could lavish on her; she would have most probably lived a long life, giving love to all those around her and perhaps even being able to receive the love that was lavished upon her. But Eisenberg and the bioethics community would have us believe that Terri's life was a life "not worthy of life". They are absolutely certain, beyond all doubt, that a severely brain damaged person is, in fact not a person at all. He or she is simply a vegetable to be treated as an inanimate object. Vegetables, like pet rocks, and tomatoes can never receive love. Vegetables do not have, nor should they have, access to the rights and privileges that "normal" people take for granted. This certainty permeates Eisenberg's book at every level and every page. Symptomatic of this certainty is the obscenely arrogant inscription placed by Michael on Terri's tombstone which reads "Born December 3, 1963, departed this earth February 25 1989, at peace March 31, 2005." What Eisenberg and so many in the bioethics community conveniently forget is that all too often the most horrendous acts of cruelty and evil are committed by those that, like them, are absolutely certain that what they are doing is good and just. Jacob Bronowski devotes a chapter in his classic work "The Ascent of Man" to the issue of knowledge and uncertainty. In describing the Nazi horror he stands in swamp outside the crematorium at Auschwitz and declares: "When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave. This is what men do when they aspire to the knowledge of gods... We have to cure ourselves of the itch for absolute knowledge and power."
If you feel you must read this book I would at least urge you to exam impartially the other side. Read Wesley Smith; read David Galenter, read Dr. Daniel Eisenberg; read Jacob Bronowski; read Rita Marker, and yes read father Frank Pavone whom Eisenberg so brutal and unjustly demonizes. They are my heroes. And question Eisenberg's statements, his description of the events, his conclusions and especially his demonizing of those who disagree with him. Sometimes one's motives and philosophies can be revealed in the most trivial passages. There is one such sentence that especially struck me in "Using Terri"; on p 191 Eisenberg describes the scene at the hospice on the last day of Terri life: "A woman blew on a shofar - a ritual horn sounded by the ancient Hebrews during battle." As a Jew and as human being I find such appalling ignorance of my religion deeply insulting. But in a wider sense perhaps it is symptomatic of Eisenberg's utter contempt for everything that does not fit into a purely secular framework and does not worship at the altar of the false god of autonomy.
The Thinking Person's Guide to the Schiavo Case.......2005-10-24
If you believe anything that Jeb Bush, George Bush, Tom DeLay, Bill Frist, Jesse Jackson, Robert Schindler, Mary Schindler, Bobby Schindler or Suzanne Schindler has said about the Terri Schiavo case, don't read this book. Actually, if you believe anything those people have said about the Schiavo case, you're not smart enough to read this book. Jon Eisenberg is an appellate attorney whose stock-in-trade is fact. Want to know who funded the Schindlers through bogus appeal after bogus appeal? Read Using Terri. Want to see how the judicial process can be undermined by the same people who scream about activist judges? Read Using Terri. It's an insider's view of what went on, written by a lawyer who has the ability to make it painfully understandable. It's worth paying retail for Using Terri!
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One of the lead attorneys on Michael Schiavo's side offers a behind–the–scenes look at the legal and political drama that was the Terri Schiavo case revealing the core issues that will plague all future right–to–die cases in America.
The religious right and ultraconservatives chose to make the Terri Schiavo case a national spectacle because they thought they could win. It became a key battle in their larger political struggle over abortion, stem–cell research, physician–assisted suicide, gay rights, and the appointment of federal judges. They lost. But there are more battles to come. Eisenberg exposes the Right's strategies and follows the money trail to reveal how they are organized, who is funding the movement, and where we can expect to future legal maneuvers to combat the American traditions of autonomy and diversity.
Jon B. Eisenberg served as one of the lead attorneys on Michael Schiavo's side and witnessed first–hand the Florida drama that will continue to have legal and political consequences for years to come. What tactics can we expect to see in court rooms and state legislatures all across this country in the days ahead? Who is behind the funding and what do they hope to accomplish and when? What are the religious and bioethical issues that are at the center of these debates and how will they impact future legal battles? Eisenberg will give us a behind–the–scenes look at what happened, what's coming, and what you can do to take control over your medical care and prevent the religious right from keeping you alive against your will.
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Marvellous! Sexy AND well-written!.......2007-04-28
Most erotica is rather sloppily written, on the theory that the people who are interested in it are not, in fact, interested in literary value, but in sexual arousal; the authors and editors of this book understand, delightfully, that there are those of us out here who enjoy an arousing story who are sufficiently literate as to be completely distracted from our arousal by poor writing, and they have written a wonderful anthology of extremely arousing stories with plot, characterization, and coherent language. If that's what you want, this is the book for you!
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Obsessions, lust, passion, and ecstacy are the subjects of this excellent anthology edited by the talented, award-winning, and prolific team of Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. With uninhibited stories from heavy-hitters such as Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Pat Murphy, Jane Yolen, and Michael Swanwick, Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers won't fail to capture your attention and hold it. These authors and many more take readers on a journey to the boundaries of love and sex, jumping freely into the abyss of magical fascination and strange desire. Highlights include Oates's Oedipal story of a teenage sex object, Kelley Eskridge's tale of a wanderer who only finds release and love in the heart of violence, and Tanith Lee's look inside Little Red Riding Hood's secret fantasies.
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Prepare to be seduced by powerful magic -- the sorcery of lust, need, and sensuality. Multiple award-winners Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have gathered together twenty-two tales of unearthly temptations wickedly concocted by some of today's most potent literary conjurers -- including Neil Gaiman, Jan Yolen, Michael Swanwick, and Joyce Carol Oates. Here are stories of incubi and succubi, of forbidden fruits harvested in erotic gardens, of pleasures that persist beyond death. So heed the sirens' song. Lie back, relax, and submit to the darkest delights you have ever experienced.
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What WAS this??.......2005-04-06
Magical tales of love and seduction, the cover promises. Stories of sirens and other daemon lovers. On the back cover, we're told `Prepare to be seduced by powerful magic... twenty-two tales of unearthly temptations wickedly concocted by some of today's most potent literary conjurers... Lie back, relax and submit to the darkest delights you have ever experienced.'
Can I sue for misrepresentation??
To say that this book failed to live up to expectations is putting it mildly. I should have known when the editors' introduction put me to sleep after only a page. Then I began reading the novellas... and couldn't believe what I was reading. The first was just weird, and with a writing style which completely failed to capture my attention. The second had a potentially interesting story, but written in such awful purple prose that I wanted to scream at the author to learn to write. And then there was Joyce Carol Oates' effort... WHAT the heck was that supposed to be? It had no beginning and no ending. It just started and finished. As for the content, I was left shaking my head, and even after I read the final half-page again was still baffled as to what it was supposed to be. In the authors' notes at the end of the book, I discovered that this was actually part of a novel. Huh? What was the point of that? I thought this was supposed to be a collection of novellas, not extracts!
Unfortunately, Oates' contribution was not the worst, or the most boring. Several others nearly sent me to sleep; others still left me rolling my eyes or wondering where the ending was when I read the final line. Why do these writers not seem to have a clue how to finish a novella? Is the reader supposed to invent an ending? And then there were the stories which just made me go `Huh? What the hell was that all about?' - Persephone and The Light That Passes Through You being examples. O For a Fiery Gloom and Thee and Taking Loup had me skimming after a few tedious paragraphs.
A small handful of stories were somewhat enjoyable - The Eye of the Storm, though it took too long to get going and ended too soon; A Wife of Acorn Leaf and Stone had potential, but again was under-developed. The Scent of Bitter Bark and Clove and The House of Nine Doors both needed to be full-length novels; both were promising, but ended far too soon and with inadequate character development.
Don't waste your money. This book should be advertised as offering Tedious Unfinished Meanderings of Weirdness and Drug-Induced Insanity.
wmr-uk
It was alright............2003-02-11
This is not a terrible anthology, but it wasn't great. Many of the 22 stories were forgetable, but a few were good, such as Bird Count by Jane Yolen, Persephone by Wendy Froud (I wish this had been longer), and The House of Nine Doors by Ellen Kushner. Most of the other stories were mildly erotic at best. Still, they were all pretty creative. If you're into sci-fi and fantasy stories, you'll probably enjoy it. If you only want good erotica, you might want to pass this by.
OKAY, KIND OF WIERD.......2003-02-01
Not quite what I expected. The stories were a little wierd. There was quite a bit of sex, but towards the end, it seemed tedious. There really wasn't any point in the act. Some of the stories were good. I enjoyed the one about the Acorn, Leaf woman. Mainly because of the Sidhe being in "our time" and known and descriminated against. I also like the Vampire one (there was only one Vampire story), but it ended abruptly. There was one about a "bird man" it was very short but cute. As for the book being "erotic", it didn't give me a rise. The stories were either humiliating and mean (the one about incest), or you just couldn't feel for any of the characters in any of the stories. If your a romance reader, or a lover of paranormal stories, save your money. There just doesn't seem to be any substance in any of these stories to warrant a good read. If you like off-the-wall stuff, then maybe this is for you.
A great collection of erotic stories.......2000-01-08
Definitely a worthwhile book to read if you enjoy both SF/fantasy and erotica. I thought the stories were well written and posed some interesting scenarios. I think the editors did an excellent job putting together this collection of sexy stories. My favorite story was "The Eye of the Storm" by Kelley Eskridge and I look forward to reading more of her work in the future. In many ways I felt that this was the most original story in the book and I find myself going back to reread it often.
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I'VE EVER READ.......1999-03-06
I stumbled across this book by chance, and I'm SO glady I did. It's extraordinary, sensual, and a completely wonderful read from start to finish. There's not a bad story in the book, and all of them are of the highest literary quality -- so much so that it's a shame this was published as "fantasy" and may not reach a wider mainstream audience. Whether you love fine literary fantasy or fine mainstream literature of an Angela Carter or Joyce Carol Oates calibre (Oates actually has a great new tale in the book), I can't recommend this one highly enough.
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The sword was the ultimate symbol of Romulan power, tradition, and pride. It lay in the Senate Chamber of the Romulan Star Empire, revered and untouched for centuries, until the day Dr. Leonard McCoy was tried for treason -- and both were stolen during a daring attack on Romulus itself.
Now, to avenge that insult and save face in the eyes of their deadly enemies, the Empire must recover the sword at any cost. Their envoys to the Federation demand the return of the sword and the extradition of the Romulan renegades who aided the Starship Enterprise™ in McCoy's escape. If diplomacy fails, the Romulans will trap the Klingons™ and the Federation in open war.
In such dangerous times, the Starship Enterprise is assigned the most valuable -- and volatile -- element of all: the fugitive Ael, her stolen Bird-of-Prey Bloodwing, and the sword they carry. Ael will undoubtedly attempt to use ship and sword to foil her enemies and play her hand in the dangerous game that she's begun. But she will do it all under the watchful eyes of James T. Kirk, the Federation starship captain who knows her dangerously well...
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This book has no reason to exist.......2004-04-09
Virtually nothing happens in this book. The Enterprise and Bloodwing rendezvous in preparation for a summit between Federation and Romulan forces and have a space battle with Romulan ships sent to capture Bloodwing's commander. There is much discussion of a powerful new doomsday weapon and many vignettes featuring characters that we have never seen before, do not see again (at least not in this book), and which amount to nothing at all. The ridiculous ending reveals that this is the first installment of a continuing story, but author Diane Duane has not even provided a provocative cliff-hanger to interest us in reading the next installment. Rest assured, if I ever decide to read any further (doubtful), it will be a used edition so that the publisher doesn't see any profit from this sorry excuse for a book.
A real disappointment.......2001-05-14
The first two books in what is now, apparently "The Rihannsu series" were excellent. Doing for the Romulans what _The Final Reflection_ (John M. Ford) did for the Klingons, the first two tightly-plotted books described Rihannsu history and culture: both books were good enough to be fanfiction, and have been treated as source material by many Star Trek fans.
I suspected, from the no-enthusiasm that was apparent in Trek fandom, that books 3 and 4 weren't as good. But I bought book 3 anyway, out of a completist instinct. That was a mistake. Book 3's plot plods along: we not only find nothing new about the Rihannsu, the information we already had is used in no interesting way: and finally, the supreme cheat, it turns out that "book 3 and book 4" are actually two halves: at the end of book 3, "the story continues in - ".
As my reaction while reading book 3 was somewhat "Why did I bother?" I shall certainly not be buying book 4, but I feel cheated - The Romulan Way was a sequel to My Enemy My Ally, but both were self-contained novels. Books 3 and 4 are really Part 1 and Part 2, and honestly: not worth the price of one book, let alone two.
I am disappointed in Diane Duane, because I know she is capable of much better. I am disappointed in Paramount, which seems to have given up on the concept of *good* Star Trek novels. If there was a rating for less than 1 star, that's what I would have given this book.
Will the real story please stand up?.......2001-01-16
Diane Duane is by far my most favoraite Star Trek author and I would have bet long odds that any book that she wrote is a "must have". However, 'Swordhunt' and 'Honor Blade' proved this assumption to be totally wrong.
There just seems to have a 'whole lot of nothing' going on in both stories. Correction: You have one somewhat hectic Star Trek shot-em-up style space battle in each book . . . and the rest of the story (??) so far seems to be in a continuation that has not yet been printed.
I have read and re-read both books a number of times and I have yet to have any clue as to what is actually going on.
No doubt, if and when we actually get to the *real* story . . . in the next volume . . . all this seemingly wasted effort telling a back story will make sense . . . but as it is now, be prepared to be disappointed.
To be continued.......2000-12-31
It is clear that most of us are unhappy with the way Pocket split these books up. Swordhunt is nothing without Honor Blade, and even that is continued with no publish date known to us readers. Packaging a group of books as a series is one thing, even though it doesn't thrill me, but not providing the completion at the same time is an insult to our intelligence. It greatly detracts from reading a story when you have a year's intervention where your memory of details fades. Having said that, the story is outstanding. I detract a star from the rating because of the way it's split up.
1/3 of a book at 100% of the price.......2000-11-07
I'll start by saying that I thoroughly enjoy Ms. Duane's writing style and her ST books in particular. In my humble opinion, only her and John Ford's books actually could stand on their own as good reads without the Star Trek name. Good, inventive characters, good plots, well written, entertaining; she's got them all covered.
That said, I'm rather peeved at Pocket for these books. When your first $xx book ends at chapter 4 and the next $xx book starts at chapter 5, you know that you're getting ripped off. This is one book at best split into two so that suckers who either want to see how the story turns out, like me, or those who just mindlessly buy every ST book will spend twice as much money. Then, after spending $xx, you find that it ends in "To be continued". These books are simply setting the stage for the actual story. Nothing much happens in them plot-wise that makes them worthwhile, rather they set up a premise for us to buy the book about later.
Had these books been put together as one paperback, I'd give them a 4 out of 5. Since they took one book and split it into two, with a third to come, I give it a 1. The book's a cheat.
Matt
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