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As Good As Dead
Beverly Barton
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Downhill.......2006-10-01
This is the third story of a trilogy set in Cherokee County, TN. Each involve a set of lovers and a serial killer. Three serial killers in one small county is a bit much, but okay if the stories are good. The first book was good enought to stir interest for the second, which was not quite as good. The third is the worst. All the books feature unhappy marriages between older couples although they are not the main story. Actually, they may be as by the third book, there seems to be more of them written about than the young couples. It almost makes you want to run fast from the opposite sex if things are going to turn out like this. All that misery becomes too much over time, with the love scenes, not quite enough to make up for the rest.
Barton is a good writer. I just hope she gets writes other themes with a little more joy in them.
Pretty good suspense. Really good romance........2006-09-30
After I got pass the southern accents and the fact that having a trailer trash status was accepted by the characters(this is a first), the story got ok. I was pleasantly surprised when the author stuck to the suspense/mystery story instead of trying work a mystery around lusty scenes. Instead, it was the opposite & the love scenes actually flowed smoothly. And nicely! I was very satisfied with the results of this "thriller".
As Good as Dead.......2006-08-18
Very well written.....From the first page until the last, the Author keeps you wanting to turn the next page. I've now read several of her books and find that each one seems better than the last..I will continue to look forward to the next.....
Falls short of the previous books in the series.......2006-03-10
"As Good as Dead" is the third in a series of three novels set in the small town of Cherokee Pointe, Tennessee - a town rife with serial killers, and a police force that seems to rely heavily on the clairvoyance of one of it favorite daughters to solve crime.
Billed as a romance for Sheriff Jacob Butler, the story actually is more of a continuation of the previous novel, "The Last to Die," with the relationship of Jazzy and Caleb taking more of a center stage then Jacob's reluctant love interest, snobbish Reve Talbot, who has just discovered through DNA testing that she and Jazzy are twins separated at birth. The romance is insignificant, undeveloped, and almost forced upon the reader.
The much more interesting story is how the two were separated in the first place, as well as who their parents are. There is yet another serial killer on the loose and his prey of choice is red headed women of shall we say "loose" morals. Red-head Jazzy has an undeserved reputation, and by default, Reve is also targeted by the assailant.
Once again, Barton pens a story with plenty of potential suspects, and then chooses the most improbable one of them all, as Jazzy and Reve elude the killer and solve the mystery of their parentage. It falls a little short of the first novel, and may be a little hard to follow if you have not read the rest of the series.
Don't waste your money.......2005-09-01
When I picked up this book, I had no idea that it was part of a series. Although it did seem obvious that there was more to the story than the author touched base on.
I had several problems with this book. First off, way too many characters were introduced at the start. Maybe if I would have read the other books first, I would have known who they were, but as BB started jumping around at the beginning to touch base on each family and how miserable their lives were, I found it very boring. I found it a bit much to read how almost every man in the county cheated on their wives and slept with prostitutes. Even some of the unmarried ones did. There is something really wrong with that. Sure it was supposed to create more red herrings, but it was just annoying.
Secondly, the romance part of it was lame. The two bicker and fight until near page 250 and then all of a sudden they are hot and heavy. Too much of the story focused on all the sordid details of everyone else's sex life and affairs than on Reve and Jacob. I would not call this a romantic suspense in even loose terms. Yes there was sex, but way too late in the story to create the same type of anticipation the reader looks forward to.
Lastly, either this author does not know the definition of certain words or there are a few typos that are really bad. For example, one of the funniest ones talks about how Jacob's BACK hair fell across the pillow. Okay, that is just gross if he really had so much hair it piled over the pillow. I realize the author meant to say BLACK hair, but now you see what I mean by typos. Other ones are even worse where the words used have entirely different meanings and make the reader wonder if that is what BB meant to say or what it should have read.
Other than that, the reveal of the killer is dragged out until the very end but it is pretty obvious who it is. As my first Beverly Barton book, I was not impressed in the least. Linda Howard wrote that the book was fast paced, multi-faceted and absolutely riveting. Multi-faceted, yes. Anything other than that no. Kay Hooper wrote "a powerful story that kept me up very late-with all the lights on. With a villain you won't soon forget and nail biting suspense." If this was nail biting and too scary to keep the lights on, she must be reading children's stories because there was nothing about this book that was anywhere near to that description. Sorry to lay it all out, but this one is not worth the buy.
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Tom Bryce did what any decent person would do. But within hours of picking up the CD that had been left behind on the train seat next to him, and attempting to return it to its owner, he is the sole witness to a vicious murder. Then his young family are threatened with their lives if he goes to the police. But supported by his wife, Kellie, he bravely makes a statemenet to the murder enquiry team headed by Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, a man with demons of his own to contend with. And from that moment, the killing of the Bryce family becomes a mere formality — and a grisly attraction. Kellie and Tom's deaths have already been posted on the internet; you can log on and see them on a website. They are looking good dead.
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Second in the Detective Superintendent Grace Novels.......2007-08-17
Peter James is the author of several very successful thrillers, two of which have been made into successful TV films. More are in production now. He was born in 1948 and educated at Charterhouse. He lives in Sussex near Lewes.
I had forgotten how refreshing it was to read a crime thriller by a British author with British people and British places. I am a little tired of reading about New York `cops' or small American towns that have no meaning to the average British reader.
Tom Brice was doing what he assumed any other law abiding citizen would do, trying to return someone's lost property to them. The CD had been left on the train seat next to his own and in attempting to return it to its rightful owner he becomes the sole witness to a vicious murder. Worse it yet to come his young family are threatened with violence of the worst kind if he goes to the police. But supported by his wife, Kellie, he bravely makes a statement to the murder inquiry team that is headed by Detective Superintendent Roy Grace. The police make all the right noises, but could this be the worst mistake Tom has ever made . . .
A little too violent.......2007-07-28
Tom Bryce decided to do a good deed by trying to return a CD left by a passenger on the commuter train. The CD was unmarked so Tom decides to pop it into his computer to see if he can figure out to whom to return it. Big mistake. Now Tom and his family are in danger by a group of particularly nasty people.
This is a second novel in what seems to be a series. I didn't read the first and felt no need to. All the characters are adequately explained. The main character of Detective Superintendent is an especially intriguing and sympathetic man. Nine years earlier on his thirtieth birthday, his wife Sandy disappeared. He is just now beginning to date again. The object of his affection is the beautiful Cleo Morey who is the Chief Mortician. The scenes leading up to and including his dates with Cleo are some of my favorites in the story. I felt these were particularly strong. The plot was a rather cookie cutter with a bit more graphic violence than usual. I didn't find it particularly suspenseful or thrilling, but where the plot let me down, the characterizations more than made up for it.
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Can't wait until the next book .......2007-07-10
First Sentence: The front door of the one-proud terraced house opened, and a long-legged young woman, in a short silk dress that seemed to both cling and float at the same time, stepped out into the fine June sunshine on the last morning of her life.
On his way home from work, Tom Bryce finds a CD left behind by a passenger on the train. In an effort to identify the CD's owner, Tom opens it in his computer and witnesses the brutal murder of a young woman. When he tries to open it again, he receives a threat against himself and his family. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is called to the scene where the dismembered body of a young woman, sans her head, has been found. Grace's team must first identify the body and catch the killer before more die.
This book is good; really good. I was captivated on page one and held until the very last page way too late that same night. The story is exciting, human, grisly, sexy, profane and I enjoyed every bit of it. All of the characters are very well developed; Tom's struggle to keep his business going, his wife's feeling of desperation, Roy's still coping with his wife's disappearance yet trying to move forward while trying to keep his job on track. It's a well-rounded plot with good sense of place and great dialogue, both verbal and internal. Thank heaven book three is due out very soon. Highly recommended.
"You need to watch your back.".......2007-06-03
Peter James's "Looking Good Dead" is a grisly page-turner with some creative twists. Tom Bryce is a struggling British businessman who has a beautiful but troubled wife and two adorable kids. His life takes a horrendous turn when he looks at a CD that a fellow commuter accidentally leaves behind on a train. When Tom plays the disk in his computer, he is horrified to see a beautiful woman being slashed to death. This scene couldn't possibly be real, Tom hopes. Much to his dismay, he learns that not only has he witnessed a woman's murder, but that he has also inadvertently placed himself and his family in grave danger.
Thirty-eight year old Detective Superintendant Roy Grace, the Senior Investigating Officer for the Sussex CID, has a great deal on his plate. He has still not come to terms with the mysterious disappearance of his wife, Sandy, who went missing nine years earlier. In addition, his job is on the line, since his superiors have not been satisfied with his performance of late. Another black mark on Grace's record is habit of visiting mediums in an effort to find out what happened to Sandy, and to give him tips that will help him solve difficult crimes. Now, he is in charge of investigating the homicide of a woman whose mutilated torso was found by a dog-walker. There are few promising leads, and as the days go by, Grace fears that the case will become impossible to break. The only bright spot in his life is his upcoming date with Cleo Morey, a Senior Pathology Technician who seems to reciprocate his interest. Grace has been intensely lonely for years, and he desperately wants a satisfying relationship with this desirable woman.
"Looking Good Dead" is an engrossing police procedural that explores a dark underworld populated by sadists and sociopaths. To identify and apprehend these individuals, Grace and his team face many hours of door-to-door canvassing, phone calls, viewing tapes from closed-circuit television cameras, and other time-consuming tasks that deprive them of free time to spend with their loved ones. Marriages are strained to the breaking point as the police desperately try to unmask a killer whose signature is a scarab (a beetle with arcane symbolic significance).
James presents a realistic look at how frustrating and plodding detective work can be. Grace faces pressure from his bosses, from the media (who are only too happy to crucify the police when they fail to arrest a suspect swiftly) and from himself. He fears that what happened to this young woman may have happened to Sandy. What if someone savagely butchered his wife and dumped her body somewhere, never to be seen again? For the sake of all the unfortunate victims, Grace tirelessly drives the men and women who work with him to get results, but as time passes, there is little to show for their efforts.
Let the reader beware. This book is not for the faint-hearted; it contains coarse language, graphic sexuality, and scenes of explicit violence. For those who like timely thrillers with an edge, however, "Looking Good Dead" offers sharp dialogue, a lively and varied cast of characters (including some monstrous villains), and an engrossing and suspenseful plot that focuses on the use of technology to commit heinous crimes. Although Peter James breaks little new ground in a genre already dominated by such prolific authors as Peter Robinson, Val McDermid, and Ian Rankin, his Roy Grace mysteries may soon earn him a place in their exalted ranks.
Looking Good Dead.......2007-03-16
If you can suspend disbelief and enjoy an entertaining yarn there is nothing wrong with this at all. It's well written, informed and right up-to-date. A gripping tale of ordinary people caught up, by chance, in a technological nightmare. Be careful of the websites you visit! Only the over-the-top ending prevented it earning 5 stars. Good fun.
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As Good as Dead is mystery at its best!.......2005-12-21
Patricia H. Rushford continues the "Angel Delaney" series with another fast-paced and faith-filled story!
Luke Delaney dropped out of sight six years ago. He had been implicated in a double murder, but Angel never thought he was guilty. As the family gathers for the funeral of Angel and Luke's father, one of the mourners seemed uncomfortably out of place. Although he vaguely resembled Luke, Angel held her investigative instincts in check until she could pursue things at a more appropriate time. Yet, when Angel starts asking questions, people start dying. There's more to Luke's disappearance than meets the eye.
Written with the perfect touch of mystery and mayhem, this book delivers a strong story with emotional appeal. Readers may be familiar with the Delaney family from previous novels, although this story can be read independently. The investigation into Luke's disappearance proceeds with the intricacies of police procedure and the passion of personal feelings. Danger and deceit stalk these pages, as Angel desperately searches for the truth.
The latter half of the book explodes with surprises and suspense! Readers will hold their breath as Angel gets deeper into the mystery. There will be a few gasps and groans as the fate of several characters comes into question. Yet, the Christian worldview quietly gives this book a calm assurance in the midst of some major difficulties. The author is to be commended for a subtle, yet stalwart presentation of Christianity in everyday life.
As Good as Dead is a great book from a talented writer. -- Joyce Handzo, Christian Book Previews.com
As Good as Dead.......2005-10-28
Six years ago, Luke Delaney was forced to put himself into his own form of witness protection following a hitman's moment of compassion. Yet, when his father dies, he feels the need to risk it all to come home. Though he his careful, observing at a distance, he is spotted by people who will kill him. Suddenly, all of Luke's family and friends are plunged into danger that has lain dormant for six years. Fortunately, his sister, Angel, has already proven herself as a private investigator, and she is determined to solve the case.
*** This fast paced mystery does not cut any corners. Unlike many secular books of this genre, the author does not rely on sex and cheap, gory thrills to move the story along. However, that does not mean it's a wimpy, Christian novel. It is Christian, but in no way is it wimpy, and the message is not beaten over the readers' heads. ***
Reviewed by Amanda Killgore, Freelance Reviewer.
As Good As Dead.......2005-10-08
With her father just recently passing away, former police officer and now PI, Angel Delaney has begun an investigating to search for her brother. Older brother Luke Delaney had mysteriously disappeared six years earlier and nobody had seen him since. After Luke's best friend, Nick, is injured by an unknown shooter, Angel suspects that whoever was behind her brother's disappearance has resurfaced again.
As Good As Dead, the third book in the Angel Delaney Mystery series, was not quite as interesting as Deadly Aim (book 1), although I liked it more than Dying to Kill (book 2). I've really enjoyed following this series, as I've always been liked mystery novels that focus around the female detective type. Definitely a recommended read for mystery lovers.
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Penelope Thomson is a young woman from the seventeenth century who is forced by her father into marriage with a young baron. The young couple travels from Holland to the New World almost immediately after their wedding. Penelope is shipwrecked, attacked by Indians, made a widow, left for dead, and compelled to make her own way in America in one of the most unique stories ever told. She meets Richard Stout, who is almost twice her age, and he becomes more than just her rescuer. They, along with other new settlers, are forced to battle a corrupt government and hostile enemies, all the while trying to hold on to what they have built.
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Amazing Story.......2007-09-12
I enjoyed this book mostly because Penelope and Richard Stout were my grandparents and I am curious to know their story. I gave this book 4 stars verses 5 because sometimes I felt the writing was a little corny for lack of a better word. That's just me.
All and all it is very interesting and I have to say my Grandmother (x9 or 10) was a pretty amazing woman. It is incredible that she still lived to be a hundred and ten even after all that she had been through, and had 10 kids to boot! Had Penelope not survived the Indian attack, I would not be here writing this review!
As Good as Dead:: The Penelope Stout Story.......2007-03-26
I thought the book was great. Penelope is my ancestor and I have researched her for the last thirty years. The book was entertaining, historical correct, and the author brought her to life. How often does that happen?
The book would make a excellent movie.
Romance, Adventure, Strenght and Fortitude.......2006-03-26
This is one of the rare books that has it all, adventure, romance, fortitude and attitude. I really enjoyed reading this book. It is rare that a new aurthor would have such a broad range, but this one does.
The book started a little slow, but like anything worth while it grabes you and holds you before you realize it untill the end. I really look forward to hopefully another book from this person.
I hope Hollywood reads this one, it would make a terrific movie.
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Culture Clash - Pride and Prejudice unpacked.......2007-07-22
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I was buying some books on Amazon.com with an article I had to write at the back of my mind, and a parent Guide I was editing for EMK Press (www.emkpress.com) by Terra Trevor (author of Pushing Up the Sky) at the forefront. I was ordering on automatic pilot, while thinking about the articles I was editing... suddenly my choice of books had an Amazon.com suggestion staring up at me.
It was of course Karin Finell's searing, sensitive book Good-bye to the Mermaids. It documents `a childhood lost in Hitler's Berlin'. My brain clicked into gear as I read the brief blurb. Serendipity! I was writing an article for adoptive parents of kids adopted internationally. The remit? How we adoptive parents help our adopted kids feel pride in birth cultures prejudiced by e.g. civil war, lack of human rights, family planning practices that seem draconian, societies where the ethos of `family' is lost to poverty and the baggage of substance abuse which that brings.
I bought Good-bye to the Mermaids, and devoured it in three late night sittings. And I realised as I read that this book is a must read for anyone who has survived... or helped another survive.. the onslaught of horror and terror which was imposed not sought, where the survivor has been helped to find another safe haven, an anchorage in which to grow.
But the book shows that no-one who survives can leave behind the memories. Even if they move to another country where things are meant to be better...
What a message for adopted children and their parents! EMK Press (where I am Senior Editor) publishes books and offers free Parent Guides for adoptive kids and their families. Adoption Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections, our publication for adoptive parents, has a wonderful section JOURNEY which deals with where adoptees travel as adults in making sense of adoption. To add to this chapter in our groundbreaking book, I would recommend that adoptive parents and folk now adult who were adopted internationally read Karin Finell's book on how to survive knowing you were part but NOT part of a culture that made family life impossible.
Realities of a childhood at the end of Nazi Germany and after.......2007-07-21
After reading this remarkable book I concluded it was not only informative as to historical content but also a masterpiece of writing. It is an important addition to a series of books by a variety of people, who lived through the horrors at the end of WWII in Berlin - I have read most of them, including the one by Anonymous. Their stories reflect all of the terror and awful conditions of those months and years as does Karin Finell's book. The framework Finell uses, the very detailed personal memories enriched by her reconstruction of actual verbal exchanges is unique, as is the perspective of a child growing up and experiencing the change from a privileged early childhood to the frightening reality of what followed - and then the slow and gradual recovery. And also, the special relationship with her Oma, which I thought is a centerpiece of Finell's book. Apart from the very human side, the American raised Oma also brought the U.S. close to Karin Finell as a child and prepared her for her immigration. The book is a tribute to the women who had to cope and did cope so valiantly with the conditions thrust upon them by a war which many supported, and a few loathed from the beginning, as they loathed and continued loathing the Nazi government. Finell's book also made me aware again how little we citizen can do when politicians go amok as did Hitler and all of the Nazis.
Contrasts and Subtleties: The Mundane of War.......2007-07-16
If you read all these reviews of Karin's book, you will still have many surprises as you read Goodbye to the Mermaids. The strength of Karin's narration is that she recounts the precise moments when her attitudes toward war change--and those moments shock because war mutilates reality. None of the events in this book conform to normalcy. To buy bread, for example, meant dodging bullets and bombs in occupied Berlin. Putting on a dress meant risking your life.
Karin recounts the contrasts between her family's needs and desires with the realities of war, and she does this in a subtle, detailed way. Karin wasn't just a child in the war, she was a maturing young woman whose sensibilities grow within the context of her story. She makes her reader feel the deprivation and humiliation of war. This book is one of the best I've read in a long time. It's an extraordinary work by a woman who sacrificed much of her life to war and the repercussions of it. She deserves our respect, and I feel honored to know her.
Brave, beautiful, deeply moving, and very necessary........2007-06-13
A heart-wrenching story lovingly told by Karin Finell. She relates what was for her a normal part of growing up while participating in activities of the Hitler youth, watching friends disappear, and daring to question.
Good-bye to the Mermaids is beautifully written, with gorgeously remembered details, providing a deep, rich look into life in wartime Germany that we have not seen before.
A Childhood Discovered.......2007-04-07
"Karin Finell's memoir affected me tremendously. It widened and deepened my understanding of a young child's character growing up under extraordinary (and many times extraordinarily difficult) circumstances. Finell, in her narrative, recreated so vividly the world of her youth, the places she lived in and the people she lived with, as well as her own thoughts, feelings, insights, and observations. It was as if I could hear the voice of the child Karin telling each story. Using the device of a series of "stories," by the way, seems exactly the right way to develop such ar narrative.
This is a first-rate book, beautifully written and beautifully produced by the Missouri Press. Anyone interested in the WW 2 period will be the richer for having read it, as am I. "
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Here is a hilarious code of conduct for real Alaskans as well as newcomers, visitors, would-be Alaskans, and curious Alaska-watchers.
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Alaskan Humor.......2007-04-03
This book will be a humorous introduction to the culture of Alaskans. Subtitled "A Guide to Good Manners and Social Survival in Alaska" Good manners there were never written by Emily Post or Miss Manners! If you have been there, you will be ready to go back!
Warning! Not a real guide!.......2004-03-20
When my wife and I first moved to Alaska in 1987 we wanted to find out what Alaskans were like so we could try to fit in. We looked around and found Mike Doogan's guide - plus all of his weekly articles giving advice on how to live like a real Alaskan. (The other guide we found was Jeff Lowenfells.) I took Mike's advice seriously! Now 16 years later I had a chance to listen to Mike in person and he said his newspaper column was a humor column! So now I have all this stuff in my driveway - so my house will look like a real Alaskan home - and what am I going to do with it all? So beware! Reading this book is not for those who want real advice. It is instead a book joking about some things some Alaskans do, but not how you should really try to live just to fit in. But if anyone reading this would like to buy some stuff for your driveway - please give me a call!
Best information on how folks REALLY live in rural Alaska.......1997-12-30
If you have ever gotten the chance to meet or visit with the folks from rural Alaska you will know these are facts of live. Told in a very humorous way. Good reading you can't put down. Great for folks that may never get there but want to know the facts of Alaska life!
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Homer Kelly is back...a distinguished Thoreau scholar and professor of American literature, also an ex-detective for Middlesex County. But for now he's camped out at a small New England church, trying to figure out why so many parishioners are ending up dead so soon.
Homer's job is to untangle murders from natural death. He finds the flock, so devout on Sundays, capable of breaking most commandments the other six days.
"Keeps you on edge from start to finish." (Publisher's Source)
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Alone on the Darkside: Echoes From Shadows of Horror (Darkside # 5) (Darkside)
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The Death Dreams are inspired by the classic forefathers of horror (F. Marion Crawford, William Hope Hodgson, Seabury Quinn, Sheridan Le Fanu, Lord Dunsany, M.R. James, and Lovecraft). THE SICKNESS tells of a young virgin who unwittingly becomes the only cure for a diseased man. THE DELIVERY portrays a laborer hired to deliver rats to a mansion, where he gets much more than he bargained for. INTO THE HANDS OF EVIL depicts two men lost in a snow storm, who become forced to stay at a sinister inn and dine in a precarious circumstance. THE FEAR PUZZLE tells of four friends who become locked within a labyrinth, only to sink deeper and deeper into the claustrophobic maze. DOCTOR KRAUS' GARDEN portrays a young boy living next to a botanist and plants which devour living flesh. In THE GATHERER a man searches for a missing girl within the pipes of a sewer system where he becomes part of the terrible saga. All of these horror tales are included, and many, many more.
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Many Midnights.......2007-04-20
Mr. Robertson weaves a unique and often frightening collection of fiction that places complex and interesting characters in realistic settings. "The Gatherer" taps into the fear of the unknown while "Unearthed" (the best tale in the book)paints a disturbing scenario that will stick in your mind long after you finish reading it. All in all, an excellant group of tales that will keep you up at night.
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Time Enough at Last starring Tim Kazurinsky; A Passage for Trumpet starring Mike Starr; I Shot an Arrow Into the Air starring Chelcie Ross; The Brain Center at Whipple's starring Stan Freberg; The Grave starring Michael Rooker; The Hitch-Hiker starring Kate Jackson; Mr. Denton on Doomsday starring Adam Baldwin; Sounds and Silences starring Richard Kind; The Odyssey of Flight 33 starring Daniel J. Travanti; The Changing of the Guard starring Orson Bean
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Not too bad..........2003-07-07
This set is actually pretty good.
"The Passersby" - starring Morgan Brittany (supermodel and she also appeared as Katherine Wentworth on "Dallas", as well as tons of staple shows from the sixties). Morgan does a credible job here. She gives it a good effort and it pays off. Her Southern accent is sweet and convincing. Where this one falls down is the use of a bland supporting cast. The role of The Seargent was masterfully played by James Gregory in the original but the person playing it here clearly doesn't have much.
Stacy Keach, for some reason, pops in to play Abraham Lincoln at the end before delivering the closing narration. The casting of Keach as host still remains a mystery to me...give me Rod Serling any day.
"The Rip Van Winkle Caper" - starring Tim Kazurinsky.
Kazurinsky gives the main character, Mr. Farwell, an English accent, which is a nice touch. Also laudable are some great sound effects and the addition of a train heist (which is only referred to in the original).
"Four O'Clock" - starring Stan Freberg. Freberg has a good time playing the part, much as Theodore Bikel did in the original.
However, the story itself was one of Serling's paler attempts.
In fact, it was adapted from a short story that itself is rather brief and unimaginative.
"The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" - starring Frank John Hughes. You have to listen closely for Hughes' part...there are four other male neighbors who are equally vocal in the Maple Street skurmish. The supporting cast are very good...perhaps better than the actors in the original version. Just my opinion, but I always felt that the TV version was a little too pretentious, much like "The Shelter". Good sound effects here as well, especially at the end where the 'monsters' make their appearance.
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Is the Good Corporation Dead?
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Can corporations remain socially responsible in today's fiercely competitive global economy? For several decades after World War II, companies like IBM, which exemplified what journalist Robert J. Samuelson called the "good corporation," poured forth material comforts and technological ideas while guaranteeing full employment and adequate retirement. In the 1980s all of that changed, as corporations moved to "downsize" and become lean, mean global competitors. In this collection, thirteen prominent scholars in business ethics, finance, management, and religion and six corporate leaders respond to a new essay by Samuelson that sounds the death knell of the "good corporation." They propose new approaches to corporate integrity and social responsibility in the global economy. The book will be useful in corporate workshops and will make an excellent business ethics text in philosophy departments and business schools.
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