Halfway Up the Mountain: The Error of Premature Claims to Enlightenment

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"Fool's gold exists because there is real gold," coined Rumi. Here author and anthropologist Mariana Caplan herself extracts valuable nuggets from the writings of spiritual masters, both ancient and contemporary, as well as personal interviews with more than 30 esteemed masters, spiritual practitioners, and scholars and psychologists such as Andrew Cohen, Claudio Naranjo, and Robert Svoboda. Contending that "the present condition of contemporary spirituality in the West is one of grave distortion, confusion, fraud, and a fundamental lack of education," Caplan sets out to correct this situation by encouraging seekers to carefully examine the ideas--and ideals--of the spiritual teachers with whom they are involved. The introduction by Fleet Maull, a lay monk in the Zen Peacemaker Order and founder of the National Prison Hospice Project, alone makes this worth reading. --Randall Cohan

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Fantastic book for those who have been involved in spritual communities.......2007-04-24

This book is extrememly helpful for those have been hurt within a spiritual community or for those who are currently involved in one.
It is a must for anyone who is being put into a teaching position; i.e. all the growing spiritual movements especially in california.
This book has an amazing section on transference with students. It is a more psychologically sophistaced book in my opinion not meant for idealists who are still new and wide eyed on the path, nor for intellectuals with control issues such as the above reviewers who would never think to humble themselves to work with a teacher within a spiritual community. Much can be gained by working with a teacher but it is always a risk. One that has been worth it for me fortunately. However, as a therapist I have worked also with many people who have been damaged within spiritual work. This is an excellent book for that kind of work.
THe Book will make the paranoid more paranoid, make the average seeker cautious, and the devotee upset that someone would try to humanize thier teacher. It can also help to heal those who have had thier trust misused by teachers and learn to trust again but being more cautious.
It is a difficult subject to deal with and I think the author has done the best that can be done. If you like this one youll also enjoy Jack Kornfields after the ecstasy the laundry.

Some problems, but helped me a lot.......2007-01-10

This was the book I needed. It's helped me re-write in view of spiritual reality and turn my own disillusionment into something calmer, and send me back to some more genuine motivations.

There are some problems with the book. Nik Scott is right that the book is messy and swollen with quotes from others (although that is also part of it's value). It's true that worrying so much about enlightenment is beside the point - which is what the book says in fact, but it still never frees itself from the lingering hint of judgementalism implied.

As others have alluded to, this book has an incredible depth. Half of it could stand on it's own as a perceptive survey of different spiritual experiences. I have the feeling I'm talking to someone who has been around awhile, very wise - and cynical, but in a useful way.

liked it.......2005-11-07

I really liked this book. First of all its very readable, at least the dutch translation is. She puts enlightenment into perspective, and also the behaviour of some of the "enlightened teachers". There is a lot about the ego and the non-ego. I have read many buddist books and this is one of my favourites. It makes you think for yourself about what is enlightening and what is a good teacher.

Mystification of the obvious.......2005-09-05

We, everyone of us, are currently enlightened. Each guru quoted herein does have a book to sell, a system to further, or their own ego to feed. What are their credentials? Well, YOU wouldn't understand so you need to take it on faith. Frankly, doubt is a better religion. If one is serious about enlightenment, and it okay to be serious about it, pursue it youself. Go to your library, or Inter Library Loan, and read anything by Ramana Maharshi, or Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now, and avoid this bomb. Look into the Four Noble Truths of the Buddha, but avoid the Sutras & Suttas. Enlightenment is less not more, but it is all. You Will Be Amazed. HUTM is a sales pitch for the gurus contained within the book: create a need and then fill it. If you must read this, get it from the library -- there are better books to buy.

Sloppy logic?.......2005-07-27

Here we've had the greatest mystics through the ages (such as Ramana Maharishi) telling us two main things: (a) time is a total illusion and (b) everybody is already enlightened, therefore the concept is meaningless, everything is already perfect as it is.

Then we get this book which manages to gut-shoot both the above insights right in its title phrase: 'PREMATURE claims to ENLIGHTENMENT'. Well if life is but a dream to begin with, it's no harm no foul. Mountain out of a molehill. And, if this is a warning to stay away from the Jim Jones of the world, there are much better books on the whole anti-cult thing.

This book seems to be reinforcing the laborious duality that the best mystics are trying to sand-blast off of us. Meanwhile, the highlighting of commentaries from certain spiritual celebrities (e.g. Andrew Cohen), commenting on the dangers of this prematurity seems to suggest that THESE (quoted) people, at least, ARE qualified to teach us what's the view like from all the way up the mountain, so there's a kind of unspoken endorsement there, based on nothing at all apparent to me.

But for the sprinkling of cute anecdotes I've generously given it two stars.

Meanwhile, instead of the mountain I think I'll head for the beach.

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Halfway up the mountain
David C Morley
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INSPIRING!! I HIGHLY RECCOMEND IT!

Halfway Up the Mountain
Martha Smock
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INSPIRING!! I HIGHLY RECCOMEND IT!.......2004-05-06

There are so many words of wisdom in this book. I keep it by my bed and find inspiration every day. I strongly reccomend this book to anyone searching for the wonder within. This book is teaching me to discover God within me and my potential as a child of God. Its very straightforward easy reading.

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HALFWAY UP THE MOUNTAIN
KIRAN KHALAP
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Halfway Up The Mountain
Kiran Khalap
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Kiran Khalap's first novel is a poetic work, in which prayer, spirituality and reality are interwoven. A mountain girl, Maya, fights her fate in a traditional Indian family. She makes steamed pancakes with turmeric leaf fragrance and skips school. Her fate is tied to Ravindra in an arranged marriage that falls apart when Maya meets the poet, Krishnarao, and is forced to spend the night in his house by a torrential storm. Ravindra refuses to believe that their son Sharan is his own, and he leaves her. The young girl is undone by the men closest to her, abandoned in an Indian society that places no value on a woman on her own. A tale of snakebites, separation and sadness.

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Halfway Up the Mountain
Dorothy Hewett
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Halfway up the mountain (A Lippincott I-like-to-read book)

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Theo E Gilchrist
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Much improved compared to the first two

Brilliant conclusion to excellent trilogy

beautiful fantasy
The Firebird's Vengeance: A Novel of Isavalta
Sarah Zettel
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agic and the force of destiny propelled Bridget Lederle across the void between worlds, through the Land of Death and Spirit, to the world of Isavalta, where she discovered secrets about herself and her family which had been hidden since before her birth. It seems like only yesterday that a charismatic stranger swept her from her home on the shore of Lake Superior and took her on an impossible journey to a strange, bejeweled world where sorcery could spring from the simplest of patterns, with most serious effects. In Isavalta Bridget also discovered magical powers she had never suspected she possessed. More than self-knowledge has changed her: she is in love with Sakra, a powerful sorcerer and her staunch ally. And she learns that her daughter, whom she thought was lost to her, is alive. But that daughter is also the pawn in a dangerous game of power and politics. The powerful spells of a ruler intent on conquest threaten to destroy both women. Torn between the contending forces of magic and empire, Bridget must rely on the aid of supernatural forces she can't control, lest she be destroyed by a fate she cannot imagine.

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Much improved compared to the first two.......2007-03-14

"The Firebird's Vengeance" is the third novel in Zettel's Isavalta trilogy, but picks up shortly after the events in "A Sorcerer's Treason" (since "The Usurper's Crown" was more of a prequel). Bridget has returned to Isvalta to build a life there, but that is quickly thrown into turmoil once more when she learns that the Firebird has vowed revenge against Isavalta and Hung-Tse, and that the daughter she thought was long dead may still be alive.

The daughter, Anna, is in fact still alive, and the story follows her travels through a good portion of the book. She is accompanied by her guard, Mae Shan, who I thought was one of the best characters that Zettel has created in this series. She makes a far better heroine than Bridget or Ingrid, and I was mostly interested in her story, and her interaction with Anna and the others. Mae Shan is intelligent, strong, quick-witted, resourceful, and compassionate, but still maintains a vulnerability that makes her easy to sympathize with. Anna as well is very likeable, and despite her power, a believable child.

Other storylines involve Bridget and Sakra as they simultaneously search for Anna and try to discover a way to stop the Firebird; Mikkel and Ananda as they deal with the unrest in their kingdom; Grace as she finally faces what's happening to her family; and of course, the spirit powers who are still vaguely defined and yet controlling many of the outcomes in the novel.

Once again, some of the issues I had with the previous novel are still there. The spirit powers, for one, who actively influence events but never reveal their reasonings are still annoying. It simply results in their use as plot devices, to present problems or offer tidy solutions without any real explanation. The use of magic is also still very erratic.

But other than that, the story itself is actually very engrossing. The depth of characterization has improved, as has the writing style, which flows more easily now. I'd say this was a lot better than the prior novels, and was a very satisfying read.

Brilliant conclusion to excellent trilogy.......2004-10-04

Brigets story resumes with the revelation that Briget's daughter Anna is alive - knowing this she will allow nothing to hinder her search for her daughter.

The landscape is in ruins as the Firebird is released and wreaks vengenance on those who have allowed it's captivity for so long, and both Isavalta and the Seven Kingdoms.

In a devestating world of fire, flame and demons, Anna must find the strength to free herself from her captivity as her father Valin Kalami seeks to control her even beyond the grave.

The spirit world have a vested interest in events, and interfere sometimes benevolently and occasionally malign.

Preponderance of wonderful characters throughout and my favorite is Anna's bodyguard, a dedicated and honour bound young (female) soldier ... the romance between Briget and Sorcha, only hinted at in the first book, is an enjoyable plus.

It is interesting that the characters motives are so very justified, from Medeoan to Kasha to the sorceror who is Anna's father - a little bit like the misguided attempts of some revolutionists or freedom fighters who cause so much tragedy in our world. The author does an excellent job of making even the villians sypmathetic.

Brilliant - I was devestated when I finished.
Kotori - ojadis@yahoo.com

beautiful fantasy .......2004-08-03

The Nine Elders of Hung-Tse called their guardian the Firebird to help them when their enemy Isavalta threatened to invade their kingdom. The Empress Medeoan using powerful magic managed to cage the Firebird for thirty years but upon her death the spell broke freeing the Firebird. The angry guardian vowed vengeance on both kingdoms. He flew to Hung-Tse and killed the nine elders, plunging the country into anarchy; in Isavalta, he took away the fire.

Bridget Lederle, who once lived in Boyfield, Wisconsin crossed over through a magical portal to live in Isavalta where she is a powerful sorceress and part of the Emperor's court. The daughter she thought had died is very much alive and Bridget is determined to find her not realizing that both of them are pawns in a scheme to free a nation from Isavalta's rule.

THE FIREBIRD'S VENGEANCE is a beautiful fantasy starring a beautiful sorceress, a handsome mage and an evil wizard who threatens to destroy them all including his own daughter. Readers will empathize with Bridget who searches two worlds to find her daughter. Fans will adore nonagenarian Anna who has the wisdom and goodness that few mortals possess. Sarah Zettel is an outstanding author whose latest work will appeal to fans of Mercedes Lackey and Andre Norton.

Harriet Klausner

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Talented writers, poor characterization.......2007-03-05

I'm kind of embarrassed to review this book. I loved it and the sequel when I was about thirteen. I had no concept of the idea of slash at the time. Now? It's thinly disguised fanfiction. And let me add that there is really, really good fanfiction out there, but this is not it. Every Star Trek book by these authors has heavy duty Kirk/Spock subtext and the subtext is practically text in this one. Add the melodramatic storyline and...it's just not good Star Trek.

Incredible story!.......2006-06-05

I've read many Star Trek books throughout the years and can unequivocally say this is the best one. This book is for serious readers only. It tackles many deep issues and is loaded with metaphors. The central theme is whether immortality is worth the price of your soul. The prose is amazing and is almost poetic. It is very dark compared to the original series but the loyalty and pure friendship that made the series great is captured here and taken to new heights.

The sequel to this book is nearly as good and I've wished for years that the authors would write a final third installment to the series. Read this book if you're looking for substance and an incredibly ominous villain rendered compelling and at moments even symptathetic. This novel stands on its own outside the science fiction genre as one of the best reads of all time.

Ponderous, tiresome, and overall a difficult read........2003-08-24

I grew up a Star Trek fan. I grew up watching the 1960's Star Trek Television show. It's important to understand this to put some perspective on this review; i.e. I liked Star Trek as a young man. And to this day I still have some fondness for that show.

I bought and read all the Star Trek novels I could growing up. I've even read a couple of them more than once. But the two that I wished I had never read were Sondra Marshak's and Myrna Culbreath's "The Price of the Phoenix" and "The Fate of the Phoenix."

It's been over twenty years since I've read either, and I would rather keep it that way. Both books were very difficult to get through, and follow at times the first time I read them. At the time I thought reading through such books was a great accomplishment. Afterall, our English teachers in high school and college asked to read books that at times could be difficult to read. But the difference between the two is that popular sci-fi, as artistic as a lot of it can be and is, was never meant to be so hard, or so tedious as the "Phoenix" books. Certainly not like a Virginia Woolfe novel, and neither "Phoenix" book can hold a candle to any mandated scholastic reading material.

And it's a real shame too. Largely because both authors edited "Star Trek: The New Adventures" and "The New Adventures 2" books, which were fairly good reads, though nothing sterling.

One of the problems with writing for a popular sub-genre like Star Trek is that everyone's got a story for their favorite characters (Kirk and Spock in this case), which makes for a large pool of talent from which interesting tales should be forthcoming. The downshot is that everyone's got their take on what the U.S.S. Enterprise does, is doing, has done, and will do in the future. Add to this you have people who want to add their own social twist and messages to the story, all in an effort to push their way of thinking.

Well, all I can say is I "got" the messages in both "Phoenix" books, and believe you me they're not worth contemplating (and are somewhat insulting to the true sci-fi fan, though a Trek fan may be blinded by his love for the franchise). The prose is tiresome, the story meandering, the action rather sadistic and pointless at times, and overall it's just not very good.

If you want to read the classic 1970's Trek novels published by Bantam, then go look to Gerrold's "The Galactic Whirlpool," James Blish's "Spock Must Die" or Gordon Eklund's "Devil World." The original Trek novels are largely hit and miss deals. The ones that are good are passing, but the ones that are bad, like the Phoenix books, are exceptionally horrid. Read at your own risk.

I've been waiting two decades to vent that ... I feel better now.

Pricing the Phoenix.......2002-12-21

The fourth of the original Star Trek novels, this was part of the attempt by Bantam to step up publication of Star Trek-related material, with interest increasing in the syndicated reruns and word of a new TV show/movie becoming a hot topic. Already the editors on a book of short stories, the authors tried their hand at a book-length adventure. Reportedly, this was planned as a short story for the "New Voyages" book, but turned into a longer story. It would probably have been better at short story length. As the book opens, Captain Kirk is dead. He has been killed through the machinations of the leader of a planet peopled mostly by political and other refugees, and the man named Omne has caused Kirk to be at the scene of a burning building, and the Captain has sacrificed himself to save a mother and baby. Spock, livid at the turn of events, returns to the planet to confront Omne, and finds that there is a surprise: Omne has created a process to clone bodies, and also to snatch away a person's conciousness at the moment of death: he has created a duplicate Kirk! The plot comes to a showdown between Omne, Spock, Kirk, and the female Romulan commander. Omne is defeated, but there is doubt that he is really beaten, later turned into a sequel, "The Fate of the Phoenix." The writing is at turns interesting and tedious. The book is melodrama, and has a tendency to switch between fast-paced fight scenes and long conversational pieces, usually with one or more hostages in Omne's custody to attempt to heighten the tension. The melodrama also results from the authors' tendency to cast Spock as a superhero, with Kirk in the Lois Lane role of damsel-in-distress. Much is made of "Vulcanoid strength," and superhuman abilities. The long conversational scenes tend to take on a Jungian tone, with the characters in the guise of archetypes. Spock in particular gets his character rewritten to fit the authors' impressions, and the Kirk here often feels unfamiliar as well. It plays something like many of the third-season episodes, where Spock had some kind of emotional outburst on every other show to heighten the dramatic tension, since he was acting against Vulcan type. It might work once, but regularly it gets tiresome as it does here. For all that, the story is gripping, as good melodrama always is. One does wonder how this can be resolved, and even though the conclusion is somewhat unsatisfactory, it does wrap up the plot and leave loose ends to ponder. There is much sound and fury here, but not much is signified. If you want to see an early version of a Trek novel, see if you can get this one cheap. It's a summer beach type of book, throwaway entertainment.

The pits.......2002-03-20

I've decided that this book is worth two stars... why? Well, I must say that it is the absolute worst of the Star Trek novels I've read. It was difficult to understand and the plot was a bit obscure. Also, it seemed to me that Spock and Kirk were portrayed as homosexuals. I began to wonder whether or not this was a story based on sexual fanasties(as a previous reviewer stated). I did, however like the fact that the character of the Romulan Commander was reintroduced. All in all the book was creative yet poorly written. I will not buy the sequel.

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Stranger than reality.
Avoid this book if you have anything important which needs to be done!
Three stars due to the audacious plot idea
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Bestselling author Kyle Mills' stunning debut thriller -

In the most chilling yet plausible thriller of the decade, a renegade DEA agent and a TV evangelist team up to introduce the Final Solution to America's most intractable social problem.

POISON THE DRUG SUPPLY

John Hobart is a sociopath to who only results matter. Simon Blake takes his orders directly from an angry God, who demands an end to the devastation of drug addiction and damn the human cost. The narcotics are poisoned at their source, in the cartel's processing plant hidden in the jungles of South America. Meanwhile, full page ads appear in newspapers all across the national, giving addicts a simple choice:

QUIT OR DIE

Soon America's emergency rooms are flooded, chaos reigns in the inner cities, and the government is forced to act. Maverick FBI agent Mark Beamon is given the thankless task of finding out who's behind the shadowy "Committee for a Drug-Free Society". Teamed with Agent Laura Vilechi, who is as icily analytical as he is intuitive, Beamon begins a desperate "all-points" search across three continents, racing against the drug cartels, the American Mob and the mounting violence of "the street".

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Stranger than reality........2007-04-05

Reality #1: over the past 20 years, there have been at least 3 outbreaks of poisonings related to contamination of street drugs. In none of the outbreaks could a "reason' for the substitution or addition of one drug be determined. Additionally, the perpetrator or perpetrators have never been caught.
Reality #2: "unintentional" deaths from drug abuse outnumber deaths from homicides
Reality #3: drug abuse crossess all economic and demographic boundaries

Along comes Kyle Mills to put a new spin on reality with his gripping novel of intrigue and science. Could his fiction really be reality? When a rogue DEA agent and a frustrated, do good, clergyman join forces and poison the street drug stream, chaos is produced when dead drug abusers start piling up in hospitals throughout the world. Guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat.

Avoid this book if you have anything important which needs to be done!.......2007-02-19

Annually my Christmas gift to friends is the best book I have read during the previous year. Kyle Mills' first published work was my choice during an earlier year, and I would encourage anyone who enjoys a thrilling almost real-life scenario to add Rising Phoenix to your list of books to read. However, I will give you the same warning I voice to whomever I share this book with: Do not begin reading if you have anything important which needs to be done, as I can assure you that once you complete the first chapter, whatever you deem important will have to wait.

Three stars due to the audacious plot idea.......2006-11-03

Well..how to begin. I think that this book had an excellent and relatively innovative idea to wrap a story around. Poison the drug supply and what happense to the US and Columbia..neat concept! It's in the execution of the story that things start to fall apart for me. As an example (and I freely admit that his editor should probably be flogged for this as well) the author described Houston as a desert. The rugged terrain, the exposed rock etc etc during a car chase that seemed to have no real connection to the story other than to show Mark's character. While the character development was nice, it is a bit of a problem as Houston was built in a swamp. To find anything that resembles desert is a several HOURS drive to the west. All the scene needed was some tumbleweed rolling through to complete the illusion of the old west..well, some tumbleweed and the ability to move the location a few hundred miles west. It's that sort of jarring detail that makes me question the remainder of the story and it was that scene that in fact started me down the road to losing interest....A nice if somewhat underperforming start to what I hope is a good career..

Enjoyed the Concept.......2006-08-06

I really enjoyed the concepts and ideas in this book. I'm not going to write a plot summary because Amazon and other reviewers have already did that. But the concept that someone could poison cocaine and heroin at the production stage to get people to quit using is interesting. I really enjoyed the character development. I'm looking forward to reading Storming Heaven next to see what Mark Beamon gets himself into next.

Heavy-handed and dull.......2005-10-09

Take a maverick FBI agent mired in the bureaucracy of law enforcement, (with the predictable pinhead director), a self-righteous preacher, strangely competent bad guys and a pseudo-moralistic plot, and one might be forgiven in thinking that, "I've read all this before.". Well, you have ... in better books. One doesn't feel led through this story as much as shoved from behind with the author's hand on your collar with no subtlety or tension. After being sledge-hammered with character development, (all that is missing are white and black hats), the plot takes much too long to develop. Testimonials on the cover aside, (from Clancy, Griffin and Forsyth no less), this one didn't work for me.

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The tiki volcano is erupting all over again, and now Trader Vic's, the legendary purveyor of Polynesian food, drinks, and fantasy, wants to help us bring it all home. Step behind the bar and into the kitchen at Trader Vic's and learn how to create the kind of tiki magic that made the Trader famous. It's all here: recipes for 95 of the restaurant's best-loved tropical cocktails and after-dinner drinks along with more than 35 party-friendly recipes for pupus, tidbits, finger food, entrees, and desserts all adapted from the past and present menus of Trader Vic's. Dozens of tips and ideas for inexpensive, easy tiki decorating and entertaining at home are included, as is a guide to the basics of bartending equipment and techniques. Whether it's a blowout tiki party for friends or a spontaneous occasion to dust off the shaker, this book brings favorite concoctions from Trader Vic's into your home.

Customer Reviews:

Memories of Trader Vic.......2007-09-09

If you're planning a Luau you NEED this book - decorations, drinks and food - along with the background of "Vic" - his other books won't give you the background of this great guy - whose rum conconctions are still legend today.

Great Party Book.......2007-05-29

It's clear and wonderful. I had a hard time choosing what I wanted for the party. Great for big parties!

Great Little Book.......2006-11-12

I enjoyed reading this, b/c of the tidbits of history, good illustrations, and well written recipes. I haven't made any of the recipes yet, but they seem easy to execute and sound delicious.

A Campy, Kitschy Delight.......2006-09-04

By Bill Marsano. Trader Vic's Tiki Party!: Cocktails & Food to Share with Friends," by Stephen Siegelman, is perfect for retro theme parties. Trader Vic, with his famous rival Don the Beachcomber, ushered in the Tiki Bar Era of American partying, which centered mainly on the 1950s and 1960s (which of these two men actually invented the Mai Tai, signature drink of the epoch, remains in dispute--both claim it.) Those were days of restaurants blanketed with faux-Polynesian decor, when pupu platters were the rage and drinks came in bowls serving four or more and were decorated with paper umbrellas, which folks later learned to call parasols. Relive that glorious and joyously ridiculous time with this collection of tropical cocktails and food recipes for everything from finger food to entrees. The recipes are interesting, mostly pretty easy to make, and generally fun to eat or drink. The photos are very nice but the main appeal is that the recipes are clearly presented and easy to follow.--Bill Marsano is an award-winning writer on wines and spirits.

Let's Hula.......2005-12-26

The book contains "recipes for 100 of the restaurant's best loved tropical cocktails like the Samoan Fog Cutter, Potted Parrot, and of course, The Original Mai Tai, invented by Trader Vic himself in 1944." (summary from Buch Gourmet)
This has some terrific ideas for outdoor parties. Think of having a luau and how much fun it would be. Besides drink recipes, the book has nibbles. How does Crab Rangoon, Cha Siu Pork or Crispy Prawns sound? With this book, you are ready for Polynesian-style entertaining.

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