The Best Men's Stage Monologues of 1997

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The seventh volume of America's best-selling monologue series. All monologues are excerpted from plays produced during the 1997 theatrical season.

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Spoonamore's Work is Great........1999-12-06

I have had the honor of working with Mr. Spoonamore on six shows produced in New York. Two monologues in the book (and the two in the best 100 women's monologues of 1997) are excellent examples of mystical realism in the theatre. Read them. Perform them. They Rock.

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Wisdom, humor, and dark observations by the founder of the Church of Satan. LaVey ponders such topics as nonconformity, occult faddism, erotic politics, the "Goodguy badge," demoralization and the construction of artificial human companions.

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Gods Among Men.......2007-09-02

Everything negative can be said about this book, even by those that read it. LaVey speaks only to very few who have a keen sense of humor, a sharp intellect, and a hearty taste for freedom. Most people need not apply for the position, and in fact, it's prefereable to everyone already inside. Purchase with care.

You've all got it wrong..........2006-05-27

Everyone, listen. Realize that when you are talking about Satanism you need to know that it is not about conjuring "demons", killing Christians, and the "occult." It is about living your life to the fullest without any stupid religious restrictions, "rejoicing life in the carnal, the mundane, the flesh." Stop looking at it from a "Christian" point of view. This book is good, yes, but of course it's not the first book you want to get if you want to be a Satanist. If you want to do it right, GET THE SATANIC BIBLE 1st! You need to already know this. If you read The Devil's Notebook first, you won't get the right understanding. And enough of the LaVey insults. If you're a Satanist you should have more respect for the man. Nuff said.

An Entertaining Read.......2003-10-19

This book is a collection of essays, written by Mr. (pope?) Lavey. Judging by the introduction, written by Adam Parfrey, it is some sort of tribute to him - though I am not for sure. It is good for entertainment, though not a whoooole lot else... but then again, books are a form of media, and the whole purpose of media is to entertain, so...

Alright, this is deffinatly a great read! I totally, TOTALLY loved the Diabolica, Duck-Billed Platitudes, and How to Be a God! They are all very entertaining and humorous (though I'm not sure whether or not they're supposed to be). Also, the whole book is pretty motivational for that little screaming, raving satanist in all of us.

That's about all there is to say about it. I mean, honestly, at only 147 pages, it's not a huge chunk of reading. I read it over one weekend. Not great, but not bad - not by any means bad - hence three stars.

An interesting read, no doubt. However..........2003-05-02

I feel kind of put off, if only because I have trouble giving this work more credit, simply because I find myself wondering how much was actually LaVey's own work. Run a google search on "LaVey", and you'll come across many websites, and many articles noting the fact that ASL was apparently quite a habitual falsifier. According to testimonies, research, and official documents, much of the life LaVey played up to the public, was built around tall tales. Everything from his name, to his personal holdings, to many of his "infamous" life experiences, were all made up or heavily exaggerated (apparently much of "The Satanic Bible" was just lifted from previous works, with no credit being given to said volumes.) Not to say that he isn't still an interesting individual from a psychological standpoint- it must have taken quite a sense of character for him to build up such a lifestyle, and, maybe he did indeed have a reason for all that carrying-on? Anyways, read this book for a collection of interesting, and sometimes thought provoking essays, whether they were all written by him or not.

The Best of Anton Lavey's Work.......2002-04-25

Greetings Everyone. Out of all of Anton Lavey's works (satanic bible, satan speaks, and the satanic witch), this book rght here, "The Devil's Notebook" (in my opinion anyway) is the best of Lavey's works. At the same time that some of the stuff in this is humorous (read chapters "Duck-Billed Platitudes", "Hatha Toilet Seat Meditaion", and "The Whoopi Cushion Shall Rise Again" for instance) most of stuff that Lavey says in this book is so true I'm surprised Lavey himself is not a perfect human being. Chapters like "on the Importance of Being Evil", "The Goodguy badge" and "Two Wrongs Make A Right" I agree with completely. You'll have to buy the book yourself and see why. Of course, I'm not actually a satanist, I'm really an atheist, so the only thing that I do not agree with in this book is all that magic and occult [stuff] that plague all of Lavey's work (I know that satanism doesn't equal to devil worship and Lavey's work doesn't mention anything about virgin sacrifices, animal mutilation or any other sick stuff that christians like to credit satanist with, for those of you that are satanist and are reading this review, so relax). Anyway, I have read other of Lavey's works. The satanic bible was okay, but it was filled with stuff that people should already know by instinct, satanist or not. The Satanic witch is just about the only piece of Lavey's work that I find repugnant and stupid. Again, in my opinion, those of you that are starting into satanism and/or never read one of Lavey's works, satanist or not, I suggest you start with this book first before you read any other material by him.

12 must die : a horror mystery straight from the Devil's notebook

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12 must die : a horror mystery straight from the Devil's notebook
Harold Ward
Manufacturer: Borgo Pr
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: 0893700827

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Bod XIV (The Bodleian Shelley M)
Percy B Shelley
Manufacturer: Routledge
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Binding: Hardcover

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Reading for the elite few

The Devil's Notebook

Manufacturer: Starmont House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1557421609

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Reading for the elite few.......2000-03-30

This volume is filled with the thought and vision of one of the great minds of our time! It's is a book with verse of a razor sharp wit and ideals for the superior intellect.

The Devil's Notebook: Collected Epigrams and Pensees of Clark Ashton Smith (Starmont Popular Culture Series)

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Very Good, But Not Essential

The Devil's Notebook: Collected Epigrams and Pensees of Clark Ashton Smith (Starmont Popular Culture Series)
Clark Ashton Smith
Manufacturer: Borgo Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1557421617

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Very Good, But Not Essential.......2001-04-30

This volume gives all of CAS's epigrams and apothegms in one handy little book. They are frequently quite humorous and illuminating, but nonetheless this item is essential only for CAS completists.

Shelley's "Devils" Notebook, Bodleian MS. Shelley adds. e. 9: A Facsim

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Shelley's "Devils" Notebook, Bodleian MS. Shelley adds. e. 9: A Facsim

Manufacturer: 1993
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IBBVL8

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Shelley's "Devils" Notebook, Bodleian MS. Shelley adds. e. 9: A Facsim
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Manufacturer: Publisher Unknown
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UFRUX0

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If you answer all 167 of these tricky number, word, chess, logic, and spatial games, you must be impossibly smart. Here are some samples: 1. Find the next term in this series: 1248, 1632, 6412, 8256 2. Discover the word, expression, or name depicted by these letters: T _RN. 3. If 89 players enter a single elimination tennis tournament, how many matches would it take to decide the winner, excluding byes? 4. "Bookkeeper" has three consecutive double letters. What common two-word phrase, if you remove the space, also has three consecutive double letters? Along the way you'll try to decipher a Top Forty song chart. Decide whether you'd rather a tiger chase you or a zebra. Give three boys' names that are anagrams of each other. And...figure out who we're talking about if the mother is three times as old as the daughter was when the father was the same age as the mother is now. Fortunately, the answers are provided. Answers: 1. Regrouping the sequence as 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, and 256, the next two terms in this sequence are 512 and 1024. The answer to the question is 5121. 2. No U-turn. 3. Each match will eliminate one player, so starting with 89 players will require 88 matches to decide the winner. 4. Sweet tooth. 96 pages, 77 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

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Brain Teasers are Brain Pleasers.......2001-11-05

I love brain teasers, and this book has a bunch! If you're sitting around on a rainy day, with nothing to do, get this book off the dusty shelf! I gaurantee it will stump you and make you laugh or just smile even.

A collection of puzzles.......2000-05-08

This book brings lot's of puzzles with answers, nothing more nothing else. I bought this book seeking for that. That's a good book.

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Fun little book!!!
Puzzles for problem solvers
so-so

Mathematical Bafflers

Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0486239616

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158 truly challenging conundrums for the expert puzzlist. Algebraic amusements, geometric exercises, diophantine diversions, problems in logic and deduction, probability posers, insight puzzles and assorted number theory problems. 130 woodcut illustrations by Ed Kysar.

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Fun little book!!!.......2002-08-26

I agree with the first reviewer! The problems are fun to read and think about. Unlike many problem books that state problems in a long-winded and confusing style, this book contains a series of interesting puzzles that are presented in a nice brief, easy to read format. The drawings are cute as well! It was this book, and others like it, that helped spark my interest in mathematics and problem solving from a young age. Now I use puzzles of this type for my own students! They make nice extra credit problems on exams! :-)

Puzzles for problem solvers.......2001-07-09

I actually have the 1st edition hardbound book that is copyrighted in 1964. It is also 217 pages and must be identical to the new editions.

This book is filled with puzzles that were chosen for "originality, elegance of solution, and imaginative appeal." "The book singles out problem themes and solutions calling for ingenuity rather than perseverance."

The book is arranged according to the types of problems. Here's how the chapters are broken up: 1)Algebraic Amusements, 2)Geometric Exercises, 3)Solving in Integers, 4)Problems in Logic and Deduction, 5)Probability Posers, 6)Insight Puzzles, 7)Assorted Number Theory Problems.

The problems vary from simple to difficult. Overall, there's a good selection of mathematical brain-teasers.

so-so.......2000-06-23

This book, while challenging, may be too easy for those past 7th grade, yet to hard for those below fifth. also, the layout is extremely confusing

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Second Book of Mathematical Bafflers

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Brain Bafflers (Number Crunchers)
Rowland Morgan
Manufacturer: Macmillan Children's Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0330367838

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Mathematical Bafflers
Dunn
Manufacturer: Mcgraw Hill Book Company
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000J3HJ2U

You'd Better Be Really Smart Brain Bafflers (Mensa)

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You'd Better Be Really Smart Brain Bafflers (Mensa)
Tim Sole , and Rod Marshall
Manufacturer: Sterling
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ASIN: 1402705433

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Spending another evening parked in front of the television, staring passively at the screen while your mind turns to mush? Give your brain a blast of energy instead with these stimulating puzzlers that make the most of your gray matter. More than 200 challenges to the powers of human reasoning are packed into these pages where each leaf's turn means another showdown at the I.Q. corral. Apply your skills to everything from geometric teasers to probability problems to pattern analyses. Maybe money's your strong suit. Take a turn with the financial word problems. Weights and measures your specialty? Try figuring out a parcel's volume based solely on its length of packaging string. Clever, inventive and decidedly difficult, this diverse collection of puzzles is not for the faint of heart. So fire up the synapses and give these bafflers a try. Your brain will thank you.

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If you think the only path to riches is through the stock market, then think again. In The Unofficial Guide to Real Estate Investing, Martin Stone and Spencer Strauss show how to generate financial security one property at a time. The authors, both real estate brokers, illustrate basic concepts such as researching and valuing properties, obtaining financing, managing tenants and expenses, and dealing with taxes. They believe that the "biggest little secret" in real estate is the tremendous leverage that investors can enjoy. They write, "If you have $9,000 to invest, for example, you could buy $9,000 worth of stocks, bonds, coins, or art. With $9,000 to invest in real estate, however, you could purchase a four-unit FHA apartment building worth $300,000." The book includes hundreds of tips on everything from how to minimize vacancies and be a good landlord to making an offer and working with contractors. Well written and easy to read, The Unofficial Guide to Real Estate Investing is a solid introduction for anyone seriously considering real estate as full- or part-time source of income.

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The inside scoop... for when you want more than the official line!

We've all heard stories of the millionaire real-estate tycoons who started out by scraping together enough money for a down payment on a modest first property-or so the legend goes. And we've all seen the books that promise to show you how to make a million dollars buying houses with no money down. But when average people like us can barely pay the mortgage or the rent, we don't need get-rich-quick schemes or hocus-pocus-we need the inside scoop on how real estate investing can improve our lives.

The Unofficial Guide to Real Estate Investing, Second Edition, gives savvy readers like you a foolproof appraisal of everything from the most basic concepts of real estate investing to complicated tax and financing formulations. Millions of Americans got burned when the Internet bubble burst and corporate scoundrels ran off with their retirement accounts. Now they're discovering that real estate can be their ticket to a prosperous retirement. Fully updated to take account of new tax law changes and now including listings of current apartment owners' associations in all 50 states, this new edition is friendlier and more comprehensive than ever. If you're looking for a long-term investment that you can control-safe from robber barons and market swings-look no further than The Unofficial Guide to Real Estate Investing, Second Edition.

Vital Information on the inside world of real estate investing
Insider Secrets on tax shelter benefits
Money-Saving Techniques for valuing property correctly and determining its most profitable use
Time-Saving Tips on borrowing money and discovering which investments have the potential to turn into tomorrow's hot properties
The Latest Trends in hot real estate investing options
Handy Checklists and charts that help you put together a top-rate investment plan, generate cash flow, and pick the best real estate agent

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It really depends on your level of experience..........2007-05-09

as to whether you will find this book helpful or not.

When I first entered the real estate market, I was a novice investor. I found this book to be very helpful and insightful and gave me a good solid vocabulary enabling me to converse intelligently with the Real Estate agents I was working with. I am now a full time Real Estate Agent specialing in commercial real estate and I continue to recommend this book to my customers with little background in Real Estate investing and purchasing.

If you are a seasoned investor with many purchases in your background and portfolio, then this book may not be for you. While you may or may not be aware of the many calculations and insights this book offers, I believe it is still a worth while addition to an investors library.

If you are new to Real Estate investing I highly recommend this book. It contains many helpful calculations and insights to give you a good solid background of what you need to know to invest in real estate.

The calculations are real world examples used in practice by both Residential and Commercial Real Estate Agents. It offers topics on Creative Financing, Property management as well as an overview of the various types of Investment properties.

Good, simple and to the point.......2007-05-07

Like most Unofficial Guide, this is no nonsense, yet authoritative and useful. I would recommend this book for first time investors in real estate or even for people who may have done some investment in the past but want to become serious in real estate investment.

Book is dividied into 7 major sections - Understanding Real Estate as an investment, Secrets of real estate investing, Mastering the Market, Setting your investment goals, Putting your money on the line, property management essentials, Facing your fears.

I think most initial investors (prime target audience for this book) will find section 1, 2 and 6 useful and something they should read as part of their preparation for starting a real estate investment career. Other sections are well written and will probably be used more as reference as opposed to an end to end reading during the first skimming through the book.

Just The Facts.......2006-01-30

If you want a no nosense book about Real Estate Investing this is the book for you. No fluff, just basic things you need to know in order to be successful. I recommend this book highly.

Basic real estate investing book, nothing special.......2005-05-20

This is a beginner book on real estate investing, it covers all the essentials, but in a very boring school textbook style. It is so generic and so ultimately forgettable, there is not one piece of information that isn't covered in any other REI book with better insights and more detail.

Buy this book before you start........2005-03-08

I purchased a duplex 18 months ago and a triplex 6 months ago. I wish I had this book then. There are several things I would have done differently and many of my questions would have been answered. It's a great book for a starter. I give it only four stars because it gives little description on closing costs of properties but besides that it is excellent for people purchasing 1 to 4 unit properties. Tip: This book is at the library for free.

The Unofficial Guide to Real Estate Investing

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The Unofficial Guide to Real Estate Investing
Martin; Strauss, Spencer Stone
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O93BTY

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