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What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life?Noted outdoor writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer tackles that question in his reporting on Chris McCandless, whose emaciated body was found in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness in 1992. Read more

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Only read if you can relate to the protagonist
I recently read Under the Banner of Heaven and loved Krakauer's writing, so I picked up Into the Wild.Krakauer didn't disappoint.His writing was honest, personal and to the point.He doesn't mince words, and while his bias is obvious, he presents evidence that reveals many sides of Chris McCandless.
But why?
This is defiantly not my typical read, but once I started I found it compelling, hard to put down, but that does not mean I did not have some problems with it.It seemed like the author tried too hard to make McCandless a sympathetic figure, almost a hero in an odd way.Everything Chris does though leads to his own destruction, he has no one to blame but himself.I don't have much experience in the wilderness so maybe I am just ignorant, but it sure seemed like he could have saved himself.Going off into the woods to die does not seem heroic to me.That being said , the author has done his research and is talented writer.He convinced me not to head off into the Alaskan wilderness alone!Speaking of tales of the wilderness I highly recommend "Across the High Lonesome!"

Jon's Quest
Jon tried to help us understand the unexpainable actions of a misguided youth.Only through Jon's vivid description of his own journey into the the Alaskan wilderness, did we come close to feeling Chris McCandless' intentions. ... Read more

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Engrossing, detailed .... but not totally satisfying
I found the book to be well written and engaging in that typical British anecdotal style that breathes life into historical characters. It offers a detailed account of the sometimes bizarre history of this magnificent city during more than two millennia, all in one book, up until the middle of the 20th century.
Just the Facts, Please
In Self-Reliance, Emerson says, "In history our imagination plays us false.Kingdom and lordship, power and estate are gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a small house and common day's work; but the things of life are the same to both; the sum total of both is the same," (130).This is a good place to begin articulating my discomfort with Hibbert's Rome: The Biography of a City.Halfway through the book one still has not seen any of Emerson's view that history is more than a succession of popes and kings.On the contrary, Hibbert seems to think that history is only that.It is an older book, and so we spare it some of our modern politics, but thus far, I've read nothing of women, nothing even of artists or architects in a city renowned for these, only that this king fought with this pope etc. through the centuries. I thought historians somehow knew better.One possible explanation for Hibbert's lack of attention to the actual soul of Rome is that he casts a broad net, writing so many histories he can hardly have time to do anything like justice to a place.He's written about France, Britain, America, and India, about their revolutions and separate books about their major figures, lending the impression that he may approach theses "biographies" like assembly-line machinery.One last neglect which seems to me not only in bad taste, but odd:Hibbert's Rome has been pretty overt in its dismissal of the Catholic Church.Nothing has been said about its many acts of charity, nor of its social/art educational status in the community, nor about the individual faiths of the saints and pilgrims, whose devotion, in the face of such obvious abuses, I find heartening.

A bird's eye view of an incredible uninterrupted history
With a book that covers over 2,500 years of history, don't expect in-depth coverage here.That's not what this book is about.It provides a very good, bird's-eye view of the city and its history, however, and does a good job of impressing on the reader the incredible continuity of the city's history.I think there's a tendency to concentrate on ancient Rome and then to jump a thousand years to the Renaissance and the Baroque, without focusing on the incredible medieval history of the city.I found the chapters of the book devoted to the medieval period to be some of the more interesting. ... Read more

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Life with an eccentric acquaintance
More than thirty years ago, lovable British playwright Alan Bennett encountered an eccentric and difficult old woman, Miss Shepherd,living contentedly, eccentrically, and not without troubles,in her van - in his London neighborhood.Bennett, intrigued by her andconcerned for her safety (which was not always assured)subtly befriended her.Within a few months she had moved the van to a parking spot across from his house. She stayed for yearsand this slim book, first published in 1989 as a long piece in "The London Review of Books," is the story of their gently and sometimes humorously intersecting lives.Read more

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Boring...
A great portion of the book is very boring. I really felt like rushing through the book. I don't recommend this book to others

If you love baseball...
and even if you know nothing about baseball like me, Kearns Goodwin has hit a home run with "Wait till Next Year."You will learn all about the rivalry between the Mets and the Yankees and the history of Goodwin's beloved Brooklyn Dodgers. She tells all about her heroes Jackie Robinson, Gil Hodges and Roy Campanella. All of these great baseball nuggets are woven into her story of growing up in Brooklyn in the '50s, and is so evocative of a time and place that was quintessentially American. This book will make you long for a town like Rockville Centre, sometime between 1949 and 1957.

Sweet Nostalgia
I, too, grew up on Long Island in the 50s and early 60s (two years in Queens and ten years out on "duh oyland".)I'm a few years younger; the Dodgers were already in Hollywood and I rooted for the hated Jankees.But the images of this beautiful memoir were so resonant with my childhood, from soothing sound of Red Barber's voice coming from the tinny transistor radio to the edicts from the diocese of Rockville Centre, read periodically in lieu of a Sunday sermon, mostly asking for more money.
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An Egotist's Mid-Life Crisis, Part One?
Here is this book in a nutshell: Shirley Maclaine, one-time Hollywood A-lister, finds herself in her early forties (during the mid-1970's) and as many people do upon reaching this hypothetical mid-point in life, Shirley Maclaine feels an inner motivation to seek out answers to humanity's heftiest questions. Does life have meaning? What happens when we die? Has she been on the right path? Is there a God? Is there anything beyond or outside the visible world? While all these are normal, natural, respectable inquiries that anyone with any substance surely makes at some point, the unfortunate fact is Maclaine asked these questions in the time and place she did---California in the '70's---and like the proverbial P.T. Barnum maxim about a you-know-what and his money, this financially-secure starlet soon fell into the clutches of a number of cons and frauds and fake "channelers" who filled her head with non-sense, even as they emptied her bank account. Toss into this retro-New Age tale a trek into the wilds of Peru, some asides about UFO's, an affair with a married British MP (later revealed to be a disguise for Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palma) a friendship with what was surely an emotionally-scarred young man whose mental issues Maclaine confused with "depth" and you got it all. Maclaine is perhaps to be commended for her courage in presenting her experiences and newfound convictions before the public, and for clinging to her beliefs while being made fun of by those who do not hail the legitimacy of spirit channelers who charge mega-bucks for their services, but what it all comes down to is this: she asked good questions and got (expensive) bad answers in return

Shirley Charlemaign
Adam and Eve is at it again.Great movie that summarizes all that we know to be real and doesn't pull any punches or spon the insanity of reality.

poor demon-possessed Shirley
How sad that so many people have been fooled by a troubled woman who herself is being fooled by the demon spirits of the so-called New Age movement.
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Dolly And Friends...
Dolly had a hard life growing up in the wilds of East Tennessee; she started out poor and indeed did have a 'coat of many colors' as her children's book explained.She wore hand-me-downs in the backwoods of Sevier County where my paternal grandfather's people lived.She's funny.Coming from the country, it took some doing and lots of help to get where she is today.She has re-invented her personality through the years from the young lovesick girl who write 'I Will Always Love You' to Porter Wagoner.After all, she was a young country bumpkin from the Knoxville area, and we inexperienced girls fall hard for the first person we can admire.He gave her the first 'big' break, singing on his show in Nashville.
*****A Country Superstar!*****
Put simply, I LOVE this book! I've just finished reading it for the second time and it's even better than it was the first time.
A Real Life Country Song
Five minutes of fame has now become enough to justify penning one's self-serving autobiography. Fortunately, Dolly Parton's 30+year career is suitable for book-length, and she avoids the standard celebrity tell-all fare in favor of interesting vignettes.Read more

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FOCUS ON HELPING PEOPLE DECIDE WHAT TO DO FOR BETTER RESULTS
Jack Welch was a late adopter of almost every major management trend in the last 25 years, yet he got better results from using these ideas than most other companies did. His secret is revealed in this good overview of the Welch years: He spent 90% of his time communicating with people about what they must do in order to take advantage of these ideas. Most people spend almost no time on this critical area. You should think of this book as a great primer then on corporate communications. ... Read more

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Peter Manseau's deeply personal memoir is a meditation on family, church, faith and self.Oh, and God too.The story of rejecting the faith you are given, only to embrace it again in some form (or at least make peace with it) may seem familiar, but lost within the loving detail of Manseau's writing the reader discovers it anew.A spirit of tenderness and generosity permeates the pages of this story, but always leavened by unflinching honesty, the salt that keeps the flavor from the first page to the last.Manseau brings us into his sense of wonder as he traces the journey of his priest-father and his nun-mother who, if they had stayed true to their initial calling into the Catholic church, would have ensured he and his siblings never came to exist.Vows also brings us into the strong Boston Catholic culture of half a century ago, and near its end we find an unexpected left turn into the very heart of the sexual abuse scandal that has rocked the Roman church in 2005.But however intrinsic to the book these elements are, they only inform the story, and never overwhelm it.Primarily, as he traces the journey first of his parents, and then himself, we are left with a sense of joy over seeing how life itself tends unruly and writes its own story while we are busy making our plans.And though religion itself is on every page of the book, in forms both personal and institutional, the heart of the book is its humanity.--Read more

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A holy family
A friend of mine is the daughter of a former priest and a former nun. Her family history is what attracted me to this book...however, "Vows" is very different from what I thought it would be. As its title states, this book is a true story about the author's parents. It isn't a romantic tale of a man and woman who fall in love despite their deep religious beliefs. Actually, there's nothing particularly romantic about the story of Bill Manseau and Mary Doherty, two young people who became disenchanted with the Catholic church long before their paths eventually crossed. "Vows" details what life in the Boston Archdiocese was like a half-century ago. The book explains how Bill and Mary were both inspired to give themselves to the church, but eventually ended up wanting more out of their own lives. Neither of them abandoned the church altogether: in fact, after their marriage, the Manseaus continued to campaign for the Vatican to lift the celibacy requirement that is imposed on all priests and nuns.
By an outsider
Like many who are outsiders to Roman Catholicism, the idea of celibacy and leaving vows for family life is a fascinating subject.Some of the details of Catholic doctrine and practice had me rapidly skimming to the pages ahead.But the book is well documented and very well written.Getting to the parts that interested me, the vows, the marriage, the abuse scandals and the children's ultimate confusion on their places in Catholic world are stories made more fascinating by their "foreignness" to my experiences.

A Bittersweet Account
It was a fitting choice that this student of archaeology decided to become a writer instead; he has the gift of detailing incidents for the laymen. Peter Manseau recounts his parents' early and current lives with amazing clarity and knowledge. Whoever deserves anonymity, the names are appropriately disregarded but the ones who require citation are properly and strongly quoted. In some parts the language evokes the bitterness felt by the parents and the writer himself. The book is so thoroughly arranged that the love story between the priest and the nun doesn't occur until approximately the middle of the book. As the title hints, the son's own experiences are contained in the writing therefore the later chapters are filled with the information. Peter Manseau is a wonderful narrator. Many times he would capture the reader's attention to the funny side of a happening no matter how subtle it is. It all arrives to a simple conclusion that the "people" of the Catholic Church are ordinary human beings just like everybody else. They have needs and wants as any other living person. Each of them possesses characteristics not different from their parishioners. Peter Manseau relates the struggle of two individuals close to him who truly believe in their religion but also fighting the law and order influenced by humans that are being imposed on their way of life. They see it as their right to do so. Since the two have a family, the children are also involved in their quandary. This is a viewpoint of the youngest son and it is an interesting perspective. ... Read more

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Unique and superbly presented
The Naxos production of Great Historical Shakespeare Recordings offers the listener a unique and superbly presented compilation of some of the greatest recordings of Shakespearean material dating from the very beginnings of the recording era. Here you will find Shakespeare being recited by such legends of the stage as Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, John Barrymore, John Gielgud, Sybil Thorndike, Hugh Cassohn, Laurence Olivier, and many more. Also included are performances by such unlikely but gifted Shakespearean performers as Charles Laughton, Edith Evans, Laurel and Hardy, Bransby Williams, Dylan Thomas, Sarah Bernhardt, and others. In addition to Shakespeare enthusiasts and scholars, Great Historical Shakespeare Recordings is highly recommended to students and the non-specialist general listener who would enjoy sampling the variety of impressive performances over the past several decades.

The Shakespeare is pricessless
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Legacy--4.5 stars
This autobiography is unusual to say the least.It is replete with deep, profound, mystifying, eye-opening, tantalizing personal experiences rather than mundane happenings.It reads, at times, like a fantasy novel.I'd call this powerful book an impressionistic painting of Jung's life and work.It's very personal and very revealing.It's no wonder he left it to the very end of his life.Fortunately for us, he did provide the data & it was posthumously published.It provides a depth of context for his work that is available nowhere else.It is, however, expurgated--presumably by his family who didn't want all his dirty laundry (e.g. affairs with clients etc.) made public.After all, it was published not long after his death.There is much to learn from this book--even by those offended by it.As Jung says, p.247 "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."George MacDonald said "Those don't know England who only England know."Jung asks, p. 246 "How, for example, can we become conscious of national peculiarities if we have never had the opportunity to regard our own nation from outside?Regarding it from outside means regarding it from the standpoint of another nation."Similar to his more scientific works, this one contains innovative thinking & timeless observations.
You gotta be crazy to analyze crazy people
If a regular person described the things that Jung describes in this biography, you'd say "this person is completely insane".
"But Who Manipulates The Apparatus?"
More than any other work in his oeuvre, Carl Jung's biography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1961) takes the reader inside the mind of the eminent Swiss psychologist.Jung was both a self-admitted gnostic and an introvert, and this very personal account of his life, which he was completing at the time of his death, is correspondingly subjective in tone.
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"Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time," writes Rachel Naomi Remen in her introduction to Read more

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An easy-to-read prescription..
...from a very wise doctor.Gathering readers around her kitchen table, Dr. Remen takes an indirect but inspiring approach to those of us who sometimes prefer to avoid the doctor's office.
Very Inspirational
I read this book shortly after my daughter was born 14 weeks (approx. 100 days) premature last April. The stories Dr. Remen recounts in her books were very inspirational and helped my husband and me to be there for our daughter during her 3 month stay in the NICU. I found it hard, on some days, to cope with my daughter's condition as it rollercoastered from not so bad to absolutely horrifying and reading the stories really helped put perspective in what we were going through. I honestly don't think I would've survived being a NICU mom without having read this book.

Great Book For Those Searching for Something
I really enjoyed this book and first read it in 1999 when I was having my "quarter life" crisis. After having two babies back to back and mourning my loss of identity, I found myself re-reading the book.The stories still comforted me and were still relevant 6 years later. ... Read more

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The Education of Little Tree By: Forrest Carter
This book is about a boy orphaned very young who is adopted by his Cherokee Grandmother and half Cherokee Grandfather in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennesse during the Great Depression. He Grandparents named him Little Tree. He is taught how to hunt and survive the mountains the Cherokee way, taking only what is needed by his Grandfather. He is taught the joys of reading and education by his Grandmother. He also learns the way of white businessmen and tax collectors and how Grandfather scared the away. Little Tree is sent off to an indian boarding school run by whites. We learn of the cruelty of indian children. Little Tree learns how the world differs from the Cherokee way.
The WORST book I ever recorded...
When I was first chosen to narrate this book, I knew nothing of the racist past of it's author -- I knew only that it was the single worst book I'd ever been assigned.The negative AudioFile Magazine review of my recording (quoted here on Amazon) is completely fair.Reading the book to myself in order to prepare to record it, I found it annoying in the extreme -- the so-called prose is precious and poorly written, and the allegedly authentic colloquialisms are grating.When it came time to say it all aloud, for the first time ever (and I've narrated upwards of 200 audiobooks) I found it impossible to invest this piece literary flotsam with any emotional content whatsoever.As declining the job was no longer an option, I merely tried to stay out of the way and give it as simple and logical a performance as I could, but I was unable to compensate for the God awful writing, and unable to disguise my contempt for the entire enterprise.It remains the worst recording I have ever done, and I was, for a time, quite ashamed of it.Now that I discover more about it's hate mongering author, I'm actually pleased that the recording stinks.I now believe I gave this garbage exactly the reading it deserved.(I must add that I learned a valuable lesson: never record a book you loathe.I was subsequently offered the execrable "Left Behind" series for young adults, but having suffered through "Little Tree," knew better than to lend my voice to the spewing of "Christian" hate.)

Disappointing
This book was assigned school reading.I found it rather boring and the language used in the story became annoying after a while.Not recommended. ... Read more

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Thank you Sheila
I just want to thank Sheila for writing this book. For exposing her inner life to the world. The stuff which plagues us as christians, all of the facades, masks and "Shoulds" of christians.
Powerful Testimony & Book
A few years ago I found a new copy of this book at a used book store for a decent price. I gave it to my dad for Christmas because he's an avid reader of non-fiction, especially biographies & autobiographies. I wish I'd read it first before I gave it away. I eventually bought a copy from Amazon & read it recently (4/04). I'm glad I finally read it myself. WONDERFUL -- speaks to theheart
I have struggled with, at times winning and at times losseing, depression since I was a small child.I am a strong full-faith Christian.Believe it or not, and a lot of people don't -- you can be both.Sheila breaks that ground and opens her heart and her soul for the good of us reading.She has hurt sooooo much; and come soooo close to the edge of darkness.This book speaks to the heart and damaged maind of every depressed reader; I have cried on each page; for her and for me.It is a great read for the non-depressed to illustrate that a real and active Christan can still be attacked.The support the book offers for fellow depression suffers is excellent.It is not a total explanation of depression, nor of "seeking help" but it is a personal journy that empowers other to walk the path.It is not all you need to read; but it is a read support. ... Read more

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Accurate
As a life long resident of the SW side of Chicago I was able to corroborate many of the accounts Mr. Corbitt gives in Double Deal. Many of the "baby boomers" who were "in the Know" from my area stated that Mr. Corbitt was a very influential gangster associate on the SW side. The man was heavy and dangerous. He killed people,but many were in the line of duty. He also made it very clear in the book that he wasn't an angel.The man gives some very accurate accounts of his life and experiences

If you like "true" gangster stories. . .
. . .you may wish to spend some time with this book. Sleazy Loser Tries to Cash In
They might have a great sense of humor, or love their mother or support various charities, but in the end, most are cold-blooded murderers.Read more

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ends up really turning you on to the books in this anthology
I'll echo the first reviewer's sentiments about the general quality of the selections: mostly excellent, some even masterful (especially Hynes'"Flights of Passage"). I would like to read the full-lengthversions of at least five of the 12 or so selections Willis excerpted. Ifyou especially like oral history, or first-person accounts, this is a goodsampling to whet your appetite for other, complete works.

just saying its great
This book is stunning! almost all my friend s have read it and they think it was great! STUNNING! ... Read more

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nothing new, but still ok
i read Rocket Boys, which i loved, and then moved on to the Coalwood Way.i was rather disappointed when i started it. it wasn't that it was about a period of time covered in rocket boys - i knew that already.but what i loved about rocket boys was the portrayal of a small town, and the coalwood way basically repeats that subject, which i think was pretty well covered already in Rocket boys.
Interesting Memoir
Homer Hickman "Sonny" has had an amazing senior year in high school. With a mixture of friendship, love, and death the story is amazing.

Very Good.
I'm more of a World War 2 fan and read alot of WW2 stuff, but even so this book was excellent.Homer is da bomb.I saw "Rocket Boys" 10 years ago and this book was very similar to that movie, even though they are of different periods.I didn't know how good these books were, but should have after watching rocket boys.This book is great. ... Read more

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