The Retirement Savings Time Bomb...and How to Defuse It

The Retirement Savings Time Bomb...and How to Defuse It
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The Retirement Savings Time Bomb...and How to Defuse It
Ed Slott
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Release Date: 2003-12-30

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For baby boomers reaching retirement age and the millions of other Americans who keep most of their assets invested in IRAs, 401(k)s, and similar retirement plans, financial expert Ed Slott's eye-opening guide is a must-have resource to help protect those savings from the IRS. Through his simple 5-Step Action Plan, Ed Slott's down-to-earth, clear-cut, and often humorous approach shows everyday investors how to distribute, roll over, withdraw, and secure their retirement savings (and their inherited nest eggs) against Uncle Sam.

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Little known retirement bombshells.......2007-08-16

This book outlines what boomers (and others) should know about their retirement finances. Few know what the problems might be when they transfer or start accessing retirement money. Fewer still will bother to find out and even fewer will act on the information. What "The Retirement Savings Time Bomb.." discusses is how to prevent unneccessary taxable acts when accessing the money and even how to access funds early (before 59 1/2). Finally, he talks over reasons for converting a regular IRA to a Roth IRA if it makes economic sense and how to minimize taxation in the long run. If I have one critical comment about the book, I feel the information is directed toward individuals who have more retirement savings than I. Regardless, I still will benefit from the information provided.

Complicated Laws Made Accessible.......2007-03-11

Who would have thought that something as simple-sounding as an IRA would require care and feeding and attention to avoid a huge tax consequence down the road. Ed Slott holds your hand through an extremely detailed explanation of the complicated and changing maze of our IRS Code that can cost you much of your investment's earnings if you don't know how to navigate. And just when you thought you were beginning to understand the beast, he unveils yet another aspect of the law that's waiting to reach out and grab you. You'll refer to his richly loaded chapters again and again as you plan and construct your financial defenses.

IRAs Explained in Plain English.......2007-02-02

As a financial planner I know that IRAs are perhaps the most complicated area of finance. I also understand that mistakes in IRA planning can cost your family hundreds of thousands of dollars or more. Ed Slott is THE IRA expert and is able to explain IRA issues in plain english.

Matthew Tuttle, author of "Financial Secrets of my Wealthy Grandparents"

Retirement Savings Time Bomb.......2007-01-09

I am in the financial service business and really found this book to be of great help to me. There were many of the rules about IRAs that were werer unfamiliar to me. It has helped me professionally. I recommend it to anyone that has an IRA or is going to roll over a pension plan or 401(k)plan. It will save you from making some mistakes that could be costly in taxes.

Good information.......2007-01-06

It's not the kind of book you like to read but it was one we needed to read. It did the job well, every one our age, mid 70's, need to think about the end times and be sure you have mad sound decisions, it helped with our piece of mind.

History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

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History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

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Edgar Award winner Jonathan Kellerman once more explores the corruption of California's golden coast and produces a novel of complex characterizations and nonstop suspense. By the time psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware reached the school the damage was done: A sniper had opened fire on a crowded playground, but was gunned down before any children were hurt. While the TV news crews feasted on the scene an Alex began his therapy sessions with the traumatized children, he couldn't escape the image of a slight teenager clutching an oversized rifle. What was the identity behind the name and face: a would-be assassin, or just another victim beneath an indifferent California sky?

Intrigued by a request from the sniper's father to conduct a "psychological autopsy" of his child, Alex begins to uncover a strange pattern of innocence, neglect, and loss. Then suddenly it is more than a pattern -- it is a trail of blood. In the dead sniper's past was a dark and vicious plot. And in Alex Delaware's future is the stuff of grown-up nightmares: the face of real human evil.

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Edgar Award winner Jonathan Kellerman once more explores the corruption of California's golden coast and produces a novel of complex characterizations and nonstop suspense.

By the time psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware reached the school the damage was done: A sniper had opened fire on a crowded playground, but was gunned down before any children were hurt. While the TV news crews feasted on the scene an Alex began his therapy sessions with the traumatized children, he couldn't escape the image of a slight teenager clutching an oversized rifle. What was the identity behind the name and face: a would-be assassin, or just another victim beneath an indifferent California sky?

Intrigued by a request from the sniper's father to conduct a "psychological autopsy" of his child, Alex begins to uncover a strange pattern of innocence, neglect, and loss. Then suddenly it is more than a pattern -- it is a trail of blood. In the dead sniper's past was a dark and vicious plot. And in Alex Delaware's future is the stuff of grown-up nightmares: the face of real human evil.

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Delaware Takes On The Far Right.......2007-06-23

"Time Bomb" is Jonathon Kellerman's fifth Alex Delaware novel wnd was first published in 1990. Delaware is a psychologist based in LA who earns his living as a consultant - largely working with the courts and the police.

Alex is contacted at the book's beginning by Milo Sturgis, his trusty pet detective from the LAPD. There's been a shooting at the Nathan Hale Elementary School, in Ocean Heights - thankfully none of the children have been hurt. However, Milo feels that it would be a good idea for Alex to come down and help the kids work through the aftermath. The school had been in the news relatively recently : suffering from a siginificant drop in pupil numbers, it had started admitting inner city kids. This has caused a problem for for certain people, as the majority of these kids are Latino - broken windows, racist graffiti on the school walls...even pickets at the school gates. This `problem' has brought two local politicians to the school - State Assemblyman Samuel Massengil and City Councilman Gordon Latch - who had opposing views on the presence of the kids. It's believed that Massengil - who was far from happy about the kids attending the school - may have been the target.

The would-be assassin, a young woman called Holly Lynn Burden, was killed by one of Latch's men. The police can only guess as to who she intended to hurt, though the most ovious target would have been Massengil. This leap has also been made by LAPD's anti-terrorist department, which means that Milo's time on the case is going to be very limited). However, Alex is subsequently given an alternative line of inquiry when he is approached by Holly's father - who is convinced she wouldn't have been capable of acting in this manner. When he accepts, Alex discovers there's more to the race angle than he may have thought...

The book started out from an interesting - and not an entirely implausible - angle, and was pretty enjoyable for quite a while. I've only read two others by Kellerman, and thought - maybe, just maybe - I'd found one of his books that didn't rely on a certain amount of daftness. (Well, as further I got into the book, I realised that wasn't going to happen). The writing is pretty lame at times, too : Kellerman tends to get overdescriptive and labours on what a room looks like, or what somebody is wearing. (In the case of Dr. Linda Overstreet, the school's principal, Alex tends to focus on her long white legs). There's even a fair number of typos and spelling mistakes in the book - well, at least in this edition I have. (Given that the edition I have was printed in 2002 - 12 years after the book was first published - I'd doubt that I'm alone). It's therefore a little funny that Alex criticises a book written by another character - Terry Crevolin - for being 'typos and grammatical errors'. Easily enough read, but no classic.

the new German American Bund.......2007-01-21

All hell brakes loose, when during a visit of two politicians, a sniper opens fire in a school. None of the children get hurt, but the sniper, a young woman, is killed by the bodyguard of one of the politicians. Alex Delaware is asked to help the children to overcome the stress and trauma. But when his work is being questioned by the two politicians, Alex and Milo are sure that there is a lot more going on then they originally thought.

As always Kellermans book is well constructed with a lot of action and an exciting plot. Friendship, broken relationships and corrupt politicians play a big part in this book. Fascism and rascism give this book a more dark side, with sometimes horrible descriptions and thoughts. You will really start thinking about these themes when you finished this book.

When does it kick in?.......2006-06-25

If a story doesn't hook by the middle of Chapter 3, there are other books to open, books that kick in by PAGE 3, thank heaven. I bought TIME BOMB because the reviews on the jacket made it look fast and thrilling. I could not even finish chapter 3. I'd read something once by Jonathan Kellerman that made me remember him as a reliable author of great escapist fiction. I can't remember what it was.

*sigh* I don't see where these rave reviews are coming from. The book is so boring.

Also, the racist meanies I saw lurching up over the horizon, as well as being hackneyed and ho-hum, were unrealistic. Even the meanest harshest republican white adult male doesn't picket a school in a high income neighborhood shouting "wetback" and "greaser". Not even in wacky California, I shouldn't think.

LOVED IT!.......2006-06-14

I really need to read these in order. When I said Alex comes close to death in Survival of the Fittest I hadn't read this yet - he comes sooooo much closer in this one. And Milo is right there with him. In fact, the poor detective takes quite a beating.

Okay, it all begins with a sniper incident at a grade school. The kids are traumatized and Detective Milo Sturgis calls in his friend Dr. Alex Delaware to help the little ones cope. When politics get involved, everything goes downhill. Kinky politicos, fugitive left wing radicals, neo nazis - it's all here. Add one demented little father on the war path and we have the makings of one dangerous situation. Into which, poor Milo and Alex walk blind.

Alex and Robin are still separated in this one and she really irritates me. She dumped him and now she keeps calling him, wanting to be friends and just picking at old wounds. Alex has a great new love interest now - Linda, the school principal. I really like her. I wish she would stick around.

And, yes, another sleepless night reading this - lots of tension, lots of angst - lots of frantic page turning to find out what happens next.

Typical Kellerman.......2005-10-24

After a sniper opens fire at an elementary school in an L.A. suburb, LAPD Detective Milo Sturgis calls in his friend, child psychologist Alex Delaware (seen last in Silent Partner ). None of the children is hurt, but the shooter, a young woman named Holly Burden, is killed by the bodyguard of one of two politicos visiting the school. While helping the kids overcome the trauma of the shooting, Delaware becomes involved with the edgy, dedicated principal, Linda Overstreet. He also agrees to Holly's father's request to do a "psychological autopsy" to clear his daughter's name. As racist-motivated vandalism at the school accelerates, Milo discovers that a black friend of Holly's was recently killed by police; then one of the politicians is gunned down. Alex's life is threatened as he traces events to a revival of the German American Bund and an unexpected political alliance with roots in an explosion of 20 years earlier, echoed in the fiery resolution here. Kellerman's meticulously constructed thriller, while leaning hard on the anti-Semitic component of its plot, again demonstrates how well the role of sleuth fits that of therapist; Alex, a little lost without former girlfriend Robin, speaks with a a unique, convincing voice.

Johnny and the Bomb (Johnny Maxwell Trilogy, 3.)

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Time travel for smart people
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Johnny and the Bomb (Johnny Maxwell Trilogy, 3.)
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Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell has a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. This has never been more true than when he finds himself in his hometown on May 21, 1941, over forty years before his birth!

An accidental time traveler, Johnny knows his history. He knows England is at war, and he knows that on this day German bombs will fall on the town. It happened. It's history. And as Johnny and his friends quickly discover, tampering with history can have unpredictable—and drastic—effects on the future.

But letting history take its course means letting people die. What if Johnny warns someone and changes history? What will happen to the future? If Johnny uses his knowledge to save innocent lives by being in the right place at the right time, is he doing the right thing?

Mixing nail-biting suspense with outrageous humor, Terry Pratchett explores a classic time-travel paradox in Johnny Maxwell's third adventure.

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In a frequently side-splitting and thrilling yet deeply thought-provoking manner.......2007-06-05

Johnny Maxwell worries about many things, such as money, AIDS and his father (who has left the family), but that doesn't explain the dreams he has --- day and night --- of war planes and bombs. Fortunately, he can vent all he wants to his four buddies: Yo-less, Bigmac, Wobbler and Kirsty.

If only he had a time machine like the one they just saw at the movie theater, then all of his problems would be solved. He could set his life up to be perfect. On the way home from the time-travel film, they find a shopping cart belonging to homeless, crazy Mrs. Tachyon, who is passed out beside it. After the ambulance hauls the woman off, he puts her cart in his grandfather's garage for safekeeping.

Johnny doesn't look through the cart, though he can't help but notice some weird things in it, like fish and chips wrapped in newspaper, which no one does anymore. Even stranger, the paper looks new but is dated from World War II. Kirsty believes that the cart is a time machine. Johnny disagrees --- until he is hurtled back in time for a few moments.

Back in the present, an ominous black car chases Johnny and his friends. They time-travel, landing in their very own British hometown, on May 21, 1941. Johnny knows that the town was bombed on that day, killing many innocent people. Can Johnny and the gang do anything to change that fact without destroying the future? In the meantime, his pals are accused of being war spies --- and one is in danger of actually being erased by their trip into the past.

JOHNNY AND THE BOMB touches on heavy topics, including war, the nature of time, history (Can it be changed? And can change be a good thing?), gender and racial prejudice, and more --- in a frequently side-splitting and thrilling yet deeply thought-provoking manner. It also continues the Johnny Maxwell tradition of portraying distant "others" (such as people from the depths of history books) as alive and real.

In short, this book is amazing. And highly recommended. (By the way, if you haven't read the first two books in this trilogy, ONLY YOU CAN SAVE MANKIND and JOHNNY AND THE DEAD, you're missing out on some fantastic reading.)

--- Reviewed by Terry Miller Shannon

Another adult hooked on this supposed kids' series.......2006-11-01

For the Terry Pratchett fans out there, nothing more need be said. It's Pratchett, you want to read it, the only reason you've been hesitating is because it's marked as a kids book (juvenile, young adult...) But this one isn't just for kids. As with any Pratchett book, there are layers and layers, and some of them wouldn't be obvious to kids at all.

For example, kids who have only seen the Batman movies, and not the original TV show, will miss it entirely when Mrs. Tachyon is saying "dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner..." and continues a few more times between interruptions, finally ending with "dinner, dinner, Batman!" which is where adults (at least my generation) will realize she's not saying dinner, she's humming the theme song. Also, kids the age of our protagonists, 13 or so, may not recognize the "red shift" when they get to it; that's usually covered a bit later in the science curriculum, such as college physics.

The protagonists are Johnny, and his friends Wobbler (who wobbles), Bigmac (who is large), and Yo-less, who is apparently the only black in Blackbury who doesn't say yo. They are joined in this book by Kirsty/Kasandra (she changes her name each week), who is hyper-intelligent and socially even more inept than the others. Each of this team has his own strange store of skills or knowledge. These talents turn out to have entirely different implications when travelling in time than they do in their own time. Bigmac's car-stealing abilities (which some parents may object to in a kids' book) turn out to be impaired when trying to steal a car that doesn't have power steering and power brakes. On the other hand, Yo-less's lack of cool is suddenly changed when he puts on period clothing and suddenly looks, as Johnny says, as though he plays the saxophone in a band. Yo-less does, though get exposed to the more primitive social prejudices of 1941, as does Kasandra. And Bigmac finds out that the skinhead symbols and attitudes that he wears only as a social item suddenly have real meaning, and it's not pleasant. OK, there's a bit of a moral or two snuck in here, about thinking about what things mean. There is also at least one moral that readers one and all will ignore, just as the characters do, about following advice (and about giving it).

Johnny has been working on his World War II project for school since the previous book, "Johnny and the Dead." One of the funny bits in the book is how, whenever a kid claims he's doing "a project," he winds up with all sorts of information that is unsuitable for kids, and/or hitherto classified or secret; the remembered horror of school projects makes all the adults give in so that they don't have to think about it any more!

Other reviewers have described much of the plot, so I won't repeat it here. One thing that some readers may wish to note about this plot is that it isn't just time travel, it's alternate history as well, and for kids this may serve as an introduction to the whole sub-genre of alternate history. Meanwhile, some of the high points:
* Mrs. Tachyon's cat, Guilty - and his tastes in food.
* The ice that forms on the characters during their last-minute rush for the air-raid siren.
* The importance of pickles.

The series has no noticeable sexual content, and no real bad language; the most dangerous things in it for young readers are the ideas, which may make them *gasp* think! It may also make them lifelong Pratchett addicts. In the opinion of an existing Pratchett addict, there's nothing at all wrong with that!

LIKE A PAIR OF TROUSERS.......2005-10-11

On page 160 of Hawking's Brief History of Time, where the author is discussing string theory, he remarks `in the case of closed strings it is like the two legs joining on a pair of trousers'. This remark, I am in no doubt at all, was the basic inspiration, such as it is, of this book from Pratchett.

This is the first thing of Pratchett's that I have ever read, and I learn from the dust-jacket that it is one of a series of children's books. My own childhood is a long way behind me, but on the other hand I can remember - or I think I can - quite a lot about it, and I have some idea how this book might have seemed to me at the age of, say, 12. At that age I was devouring science fiction - where, I wonder, is Vargo Statten these days, and what has become of the works of Jon J Deegan? I had probably read all the Just William books by Richmal Crompton by then, and I would certainly have noticed just how strongly Pratchett's formula derives from them, although whether I would have been bothered by that I don't know. The derivative feel of this book certainly bothers me now. Johnny Maxwell's little gang is blatantly based on William's, with Ginger and the rest of them and in particular the alpha-female Violet Elizabeth Bott here replicated in the polyonymous Kassandra/Kirsty/Klytemnestra. There is even an explicit reference to Just William at one point, in case I had been in the slightest doubt. I am also old enough to spot what looks like a rather feeble attempt at imitating Chandler - `men in suits who listened to little radios a lot and wouldn't even trust their mothers'. Back at the juvenile science-fiction level, the mention of golden-haired Atlanteans recalls very specifically the Eagle comic and its series Dan Dare Pilot of the Future - does Pratchett think that we have all died off or are suffering from dementia?

Hawking's abstruse theories are very sensibly reduced to a vague level suitable for the starting point of such a tale. When time is `changed' (know what I mean - changed?) there is not one future from there on but two alternative futures, like a pair of trousers. The catalyst for the change is an elderly female vagrant wheeling around a Tesco supermarket trolley containing bags that somehow do the changing. She seems to be all over the place mentally, but that's because she is everywhen. She dots in and out of different eras, and through their interaction with her Johnny's gang from 1996 are transported back to the blitz in 1941. There is no enormous ingenuity in the way Pratchett handles the theme, perhaps wisely not in a children's story. He is addressing an audience familiar with Dr Who. However one trouser-touch that struck me as odd was that his 1996 kids saw something unusual in the 1941 schoolboy clad in shorts reaching below his knees. Those dressed to the height of casual fashion wear just such apparel in 2005, and so far as I remember were already doing so in 1996.

If I were 12 years old in 2005 or in 1996 my guess is that I would have enjoyed the switching between epochs, and I might or might not have picked up the innuendoes regarding changes in racial and gender attitudes. I think I would certainly have felt there was something a little second-hand about too much of the story, and I think I would have awarded it 3 stars.

Time travel for smart people.......2003-07-02

If you read the Johnny Maxwell trilogy, you can actually see Pratchett's undeniable talent blooming. In the third book, Pratchett gives us a smart person's time travel fantasy, full of hilarious situations and interesting info on the trouser legs of time. (Don't ask)

Old bag lady Mrs. Tachyon is considered nuts but harmless, pushing around an enormous trolley full of bags and a mangy cat. One day she's found unconscious and beaten in a street; after Johnny and his pals have her taken to a hospital, they put her trolley in Johnny's garage for safekeeping. But Johnny soon finds that the trolley has more than garbage -- there's a new newspaper dated from decades ago.

Before you can say "what the disc!", Johnny and his friends (dignified Yo-less, wannabe-nerd Bigmac, abrasive Kristy, and not-so-dignified Wobbler) are whisked back in time to 1941. At first they're intrigued by the weirdness of the old place, but things take a nasty turn: Bigmac is arrested, while Wobbler is first harassed by a bratty kid and then accidently left behind. When Johnny and his pals reappear, they soon discover that their brief trip back in time has completely messed up the timeline...

This book is more complex than "Johnny and the Dead" and better-written than "Only You Can Save Mankind." Pratchett's quirky characters, occasional social commentary and funny speculation (the trouser-legs-of-time description is the best time description you can find). The appearance of the elderly Wobbler is a stroke of genius, as is the "... I'm a Muslim" joke that serves an important part of the plot.

Pratchett's writing is clearer and quirkier here than before. The storyline is far smoother and more detailed, and he puts in extra scenes that add to the characters (such as Yo-less dealing with a '40s woman's racism) without distracting us from the story. And the funnier scenes (like the police interrogaton, or the "spy!" harrassment) are absolutely hysterical.

As before, Johnny is the one really normal person as well as the smartest. Yo-less makes less of an impact unless dealing with stereotypes, and Bigmac makes very little unless being interrogated. The rather self-satisfied Kristy barges undiplomatically at Johnny's side (though she does deal with '40s sexism in a very amusing way), and Wobbler has the subtlest and perhaps most interesting role.

"Johnny and the Bomb" incorporates the strengths of the previous two books, finishing it off with a flourish (and lots of explosions). Funny, cute, a time travel story for the thinking reader.

The best book in Pratchett's Johnny Maxwell series.......2003-03-25

In my opinion, Johnny and the Bomb is the best book in Terry Pratchett's Johnny Maxwell trilogy. While classified as juvenile fiction, this book bears the strongest resemblance of the three to Pratchett's Discworld ideas and characterizations, containing much more social commentary, satire, and sidesplitting comedy than Only You Can Save Mankind and Johnny and the Dead. For such a normal twelve-year-old kid, Johnny Maxwell has some amazing adventures. This time around, he becomes a time traveler. Old Mrs. Tachyon, whom we have met briefly earlier in the series, is now revealed to be something more than a crazy bag lady; she is a time-traveling crazy bag lady. When she turns up injured, Johnny and his friends summon an ambulance for her and take her trolley cart (complete with her ornery cat Guilty) to Johnny's garage for safe keeping. Johnny notices that some of her bags seem to move of their own accord at times, and this discovery quickly leads to an episode of quite unexpected time travel. Eventually, the gang (Johnny, Wobbler, Bigmac, Yo-less, and Kirsty) go back in time to 1941, the very day preceding an unexpected and accidental bombing of one section of town by German bombers. They try to be careful not to mess the future up, but Bigmac finds himself in trouble with the police, Wobbler is assailed by a brat who keeps calling him a spy, and somehow the future gets mucked up a little bit in the process. Finding their way back home to the future is a difficult task; arriving back home without Wobbler and having to figure out a way to go back and retrieve him is even harder, especially since it involves convincing the 1941 authorities that the town is going to be bombed at a specific time.

The characters of Johnny's remarkable friends are fleshed out in this novel to a much greater extent than they were in the previous two novels. Yo-less, a black kid, is less than pleased to find himself dubbed Sambo by the folks living in 1941, and the extremely forceful young Kirsten is almost as upset about being treated like a "little lady." Johnny, for his part, often finds himself putting his sanity at risk by contemplating the ways and whims of time travel. I found this book to be hilarious; the time travel part of the tale is a little wild and crazy, but hypotheses about the different legs of the Trousers of Time is vintage Pratchett material. Old Mrs. Tachyon is a wonderful character, seemingly rather insane based on her thought processes and tendency to spout gibberish all the time, she is perhaps more sane than anyone else around her; time traveling is enough to warp anyone's mind, Johnny reasons. I was rather delighted to hear Mrs. Tachyon mumble the words "Millennium hand and shrimp" at one point because these are the very same words often spoken by Foul Ole Ron on the Discworld. This adventure really is the type of thing you might expect to find on Pratchett's famous planetary creation, and I daresay any Discworld fan should enjoy this book immensely. I find myself wishing for more Johnny Maxwell stories; I feel as if I know these characters now, and they are a fascinating, increasingly funny bunch of guys to hang around with.

Buy-Sell Agreements: Ticking Time Bombs or Reasonable Resolutions?
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Highly informative for both lawyers and business people

Buy-Sell Agreements: Ticking Time Bombs or Reasonable Resolutions?
Z. Christopher Mercer
Manufacturer: Peabody Publishing, LP
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Release Date: 2007-01-05

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Buy-sell agreements are legal contracts. What is not clearly understood, however, is that they are also business and valuation documents. As important as buy-sell agreements are, many are created almost as an afterthought, particularly from the viewpoint of shareholders/investors in private businesses. The parties to the agreement often do not take sufficient time to understand the exact nature of the agreement, how it will work in the future, and the implications for them (whether they will be a buyer or seller in future transactions) - despite the best efforts of a corporation s counsel. This book about buy-sell agreements, written by a business appraiser and businessman, helps both the corporation and its shareholders understand their buy-sell agreements by helping the reader ask and answer: Will the existing design and operation of your buy-sell agreement accomplish your business objectives? If a trigger event occurs, will the valuation mechanism in your buy-sell agreement accomplish the objective of providing a then-current price for the company s stock at the level (the kind of value) you and your partners/shareholders/investors agree to be reasonable? Buy-Sell Agreements: Ticking Time Bombs or Reasonable Resolutions? discusses the advantages and disadvantages of formula and fixed price agreements, single appraiser and multiple appraiser process agreements. The book also details the six defining elements of a buy-sell agreement. If your buy-sell agreement is absent (or unclear on) any of these defining elements, upon a trigger event, the result might be expensive and prolonged negotiation or litigation to get to a resolution. In addition, the book contains a Buy-Sell Audit Checklist to assist shareholders, corporate officers and their advisors in negotiating business and valuation issues relating to buy-sell agreements. This book is written to help business owners, attorneys, insurance professionals, business appraisers, and other profession

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Highly informative for both lawyers and business people.......2007-03-08

In the teacher's manual to our Business Associations case book, my friend, colleague and coauthor Bill Klein posits that "any lawyer who advises people entering into a business venture and who fails to urge the adoption of a buy sell agreement is guilty of malpractice." Z. Christopher Mercer's new book Buy-Sell Agreements: Ticking Time Bombs or Reasonable Resolutions offers a tremendously useful guide to these remarkably important contracts. In it, he provides guidance for business people and their financial advisors to use in assessing the need for a buy-sell agreement and, if one is appropriate, deciding on key terms. It will also be very useful to counsel drafting buy-sell provisions, as it offers drafting checklists and samples of how various issues can be treated. I recommend it very highly.

Wrong Place! Wrong Time !: The 305th Bomb Group & the 2nd Schweinfurt Raid October 14, 1943 (Schiffer Military Aviation History)

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A devastating day recounted in great detail
On a wing and a prayer.
Impressive

Wrong Place! Wrong Time !: The 305th Bomb Group & the 2nd Schweinfurt Raid October 14, 1943 (Schiffer Military Aviation History)
George C. Kuhl
Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
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ASIN: 0887404456

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This is true story of the second raid on Schweinfurt, Germany by the Eighth Air Force 1st and 3rd Bombardment Divisions on 14 October 1943. On this day, the Eighth Air Force lost air superiority to the German Luftwaffe in a continuous air battle that lasted over three hours. Many refer to it as the greatest one-day air battle of World War II. Wrong Place, Wrong Time is a study of the 1st Bombardment Division and specifically the 305th Bomb Group on that fateful day. Record numbers of German fighters swarmed over the unescorted B-17s and their crews. Compelling new evidence never before published indicates that mistakes and poor leadership by several air commanders within the 1st Division caused unnecessary losses for a number of bombers and their crews. This, together with major new revelations by crew members of the 305th who flew the mission, shed light on why the 1st Division lost 45 out of 60 B-17s that day. Information for this book comes from the National Archives, the US Air Force Historical Research Center, overseas sources, and 53 surviving 305th crew members who flew this mission. George C. Kuhl was a pilot in the 305th Bomb Group during World War II. He lives in Augusta, Georgia.

, photo section, 6" x 9"

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A devastating day recounted in great detail.......2005-08-31

The story of "Second Schweinfurt" was already somewhat familiar to my family. This was the raid in which my grandfather barely managed to escape his B-17 as it fell from the sky. As a child I remember him talking about that experience and his time as a POW, but I never understood the larger picture until I read this book.

The research that went into this book was based both on official military records and numerous interviews with flight crews, and obviously was performed with great care and attention. Although my grandfather was not interviewed for the book, I was amazed at how closely the book matched the stories he had told, sometimes word for word.

The leadership failures on this day lead to devastating losses for the 305th Bomb Group, and this very valuable book does an excellent job of explaining exactly what went wrong.

On a wing and a prayer........2000-04-06

There could be no better title for this book. The 8th Air Force flew into a meat grinder on this October 1943 mission. Mr. Kuhl gives a hair raising description of flying over the Reich without the benefit of long range fighter escort (Little friends). There were several raids on Schweinfurt and Reginsburg(sp?) to knockout ballbearing and aircraft factories. On the particular day of the mission described in this book every factor fell in the favor of the defender, the early warning worked, fighters were ready and anti-aircraft (flak) emplacements were prepared all the way from the coast of Europe to the target and back. There are excellent first hand accounts of battling it out with Luftwaffe aircraft, getting hit with 88mm flak and of one B-17 making a mad dash in and out of Alpine valleys trying to outrun the pursuing fighters to neutral Switzerland. Sadly there was a trail of parachutes all acoss Europe as the doomed mission went into and came out of the target area. Good photos. Good description of weapons and tactics used by both side. I highly recomend this book to WW2 aviation buffs.

Impressive.......1999-07-24

Only the WWII airwar novel "The Triumph and the Glory" can rival Kuhl's classic book on the Schweinfurt raid. His recounting of the experience of the 305th BG on this horrific October day is spellbinding, I am very impressed and highly recommend Wrong Place Wrong Time to everyone interested in WWII.

Liturgical Time Bombs in Vatican 2: Destruction of the Faith Through Changes in Catholic Worship

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Davies pulls no punches
ANOTHER ANGLO WHO BELIEVES HIMSELF MORE CATHOLIC THAN THE POPE, HOLIER THAN ROME
one of the most heartbreaking books i've ever read

Liturgical Time Bombs in Vatican 2: Destruction of the Faith Through Changes in Catholic Worship
Michael Davies
Manufacturer: Tan Books & Pub
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ASIN: 0895557738

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Michael Davies shows how Fr. Annibale Bugnini--before his dismissal by Pope Paul VI under suspicion of being a Freemason--was able to "reform" the Catholic Mass into the constantly evolving liturgy. Quoting Bishops and Cardinals as well as liberal "experts" and Protestant observers, he exposes the "time bombs" which were built into the Second Vatican Council's document on the liturgy by a few revolutionaries in order to be exploited later--and which have been detonating ever since.

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Davies pulls no punches.......2007-06-21

The liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council is very much a live issue. Michael Davies, for whom this issue was a cause, is a straight-shooter. His numerous works on the liturgical reform that followed it are relentless in their exposition of the nature and causes dissolution that the Roman rite experienced since 1964.

This book is timely for the "question" of the Liturgy is very much under consideration at the present. The fundamental message of the book is contained in its title: the Conciliar Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy contained elements that would later explode and wreak havoc; or, in the words of Aidan Nichols, it "carried within it, encased in the innocuous language of pastoral welfare, some seeds of its own destruction."

In demonstrating how such a grave state of affairs could come to be, Davies looks briefly at the twentieth century Liturgical Movement. Rightly, Davies states that the it sought "liturgical renewal within the Roman rite, but a renewal within the correct sense of the term, using the existing Liturgy to its fullest potential." And Davies correctly asserts that the ground for erroneous liturgical reform was laid by the didacticism of some later Movement enthusiasts, and by the consequent reformism which they espoused, which had far too much in common with the Enlightenment liturgical reforms condemned by Pius VI in 1794 and deprecated by Pius XII in 1947 in Mediator Dei.

Archbishop Bugnini looms large early in the ascendancy of the reformists. Davies clashed personally with Bugnini over the question of the prelate's alleged masonic affiliation, and here Davies' presents clear arguments in support of his claim. I have to confess to always having wondered whether the question of who was or was not a mason amongst the curia is not a distraction from the critical assessment of the liturgical reforms? Surely the reforms themselves are what must be judged, not the moral probity of their advocates?

But Davies is right to point the finger at Bugnini, for he pushed for ritual reforms that served his view that a didactic and radically simplified Liturgy was what modern man required well before the Second Vatican Council. And, given Bugnini's appointment as Secretary to the Council's Preparatory Commission, there is no doubt that he was ideally placed to see to the preference of his ideas. However, as Davies makes clear, Bugnini was not named Secretary of the Liturgical Commission during the Council itself, and was sacked from his Roman teaching post at the same time. Under the new Pope Paul VI, however, he was named Secretary of the post-conciliar Consilium and resumed his `interrupted' work.

It is important to note that the Fathers of the Council did not draft the schema on the Sacred Liturgy which they were called upon to debate; this was done under Bugnini's co-ordination, who for more than a decade prior to the Council had been pushing for a reform along the lines of questionable principles. Thus, Davies asserts, some proposals, moderate enough when read with a traditional mindset, were inserted which were later to prove capable of exploitation in a most radical manner. It is also important to note that hardly any of the Council Fathers, for whom radical liturgical reform cannot be said to have been a burning issue, could have been expected to foresee such consequences.

For the "time bombs" which Davies identifies were considered by the more than 2,000 bishops as merely proposals for a moderate reform--indeed an organic development--of the traditional Liturgy. Paragraph 23 itself honours this principle and declares that "there must be no innovations unless the good of the Church genuinely and certainly requires them." And the call for active participation was merely repeating that of Pius X made in 1903. Archbishop Lefebvre, who would later write "let us then admit without hesitation that some liturgical reforms were necessary," himself signed Sacrosanctum Concilium. The Fathers of the Council did not suspect the presence of such time bombs.

One question Davies does not discuss merits some examination: were these time bombs maliciously planted with a view to the destruction of the Liturgy, or were they proposals for moderate reforms which were later exploited well beyond the bounds of their original intent and meaning? There is not enough hard evidence to gain a conviction on a conspiracy charge, however much suspicion abounds. On the available evidence, it seems that we can only say that the death of some key personages, the election of a new Pope and his rehabilitation of Bugnini--with whom Paul VI maintained extraordinarily frequent contact--and the spirit of the age, all combined to give to Bugnini and his allies the opportunity to explode the time bombs even if they had not originally been placed in the schema with conspiratorial intent.

And explode them he did, rapidly. To take but one by way of example, Sacrosanctum Concilium's permission for the introduction of some vernacular into the Liturgy was, within six months, being interpreted as a licence for the progressive application of the vernacular into the Liturgy. Of course, we know that this is precisely what has happened. In the words of Bugnini; "It cannot be denied that the principle, approved by the Council, of using the vernaculars was given a broad interpretation." And the same may be said about the other principles or permissions for moderate reform.

Davies catalogues various aspects of the consequent downward spiral of the Roman rite, not hesitating to attribute to it the pastoral disaster and massive loss of faith that first world countries have experienced since the Council. There is much by way of qualification and discussion one may wish to introduce into such an assessment, but again, this is a brief book, and one cannot escape the fact that the Liturgy and attitudes to it are utterly central to the practice of the Faith. Tampering with it is risky. To revolutionise it is to court disaster.

In an appendix "The Fruits of the Liturgical Reforms," Davies cites some pretty hard and up-to-date statistical evidence--if evidence be needed--that we are suffering from such a disaster. Those who speak of the unfettered "renewal" supposedly experienced since the Council must face these facts. They also need to appreciate the causal link between the state of the Church today and the liturgical reforms enacted in the name of the Council. Other appendices provide some significant material demonstrating the protestant influence in the preparation of the new liturgical rites, and evidence that no formal permission is necessary for the celebration of the traditional rites.

Davies' claims are as striking as they are serious. He pulls no punches, and for that we may be thankful, for the crisis in the Church does not permit of ostrich-like obfuscation. Whilst there is much more study and discussion to be done, there is perhaps an even greater need for concerted and immediate action to stop the haemorrhaging of the very fountain of life-blood of the Church that is her Sacred Liturgy. For stating this clearly and succinctly we remain grateful to the late Michael Davies.

ANOTHER ANGLO WHO BELIEVES HIMSELF MORE CATHOLIC THAN THE POPE, HOLIER THAN ROME.......2007-05-29

and wishes to dictate to the throne of Saint Peter how he thinks the one universal and Catholic Church of Jesus Christ ought to act in his neighborhood.

If this book is true, why was it Archbishop Lebevre who was declared the schismatic for rejecting the aggionamiento of the Blessed Pope John XXIII and the Vatican Pastoral Constitutions, arrogantly preserving for himself the exclusive Tridentine Mass and the right to ordain without authorization from Rome? And yet this same author nearly alone in the world writes in defense of this schismatic: Apologia Pro Marcel Lefebvre.

Too many disgruntled and marginal Catholics, particularly in the USA, believe they know more than Rome about what it means to be CAtholic and act and think viciously accordingly, despite the clear teachings of Jesus Christ, the center of our Faith, who commands us to Love, and in the face of clear directives from the Seat of Saint Peter, the steady living Rock upon which Jesus Christ founded His Church.

This book is intended only to cause division and disbelief, discord and deviation from our Pope, and ultimately the destruction of our one universal Catholic Church. This is the project of the legendary and much feared Freemasons, etc. and seeks to accomplish their goals far more than any minor liturgical and ritualistic updatings which are here labelled so evil. Let us leave liturgy alone; humbly and submissively let us leave liturgy to the experts in the Vatican, and renew ourselves in commitment to Jesus Christ and His Teachings and His Life and Resurrection, who will not judge us upon what responses we give at Mass in what order and with what gestures, but rather on how well we practiced his commandments, the greatest of these to Love God above all and our neighbor as ourselves: moreover to love our enemies, to love those who most offend us, to do good to those who harm us, to pray for those who do us wrong, to help widows and orphans in their distress. Not all who call Lord Lord will be welcomed into the Kingdom but only those who do the will of His Father, who art in Heaven and calls us to repent and to forgive.

This book performs the very destructive act it claims to decry. Spend instead your hard earned cash on the original Vatican Documents in order to understand them and practice them. Especially helpful are THE CONSTITUTION ON THE SACRED LITURGY OF THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL AND THE MOTU PROPRIO OF POPE PAUL VI., A Pope and a Council on the Sacred Liturgy: Pope Pius Xii's Mediator Dei and the Second Vatican Council's Sacrosanctum Concilium With a Comparative Study a Tale of Two Documents, and the venerable Dom Reid Alcuin's The Organic Development of the Liturgy: The Principles of Liturgical Reform and Their Relation to the 20th Century Liturgical Movement Prior to the Second Vatican Council. Also interesting in this regard is Dom Alcuin's Looking Again at the Question of the Liturgy With Cardinal Ratzinger: Proceedings of the July 2001 Fontgombault Liturgical Conference.

For a quarter century the Holy Roman and Catholic Church has been its own worst enemy, with members condemning other members until now we see a house divided by books such as these which do not perceive the true message of our Church is compassion in Christ but condemnation one of the other, ignoring the PLANK within our own eye to condemn the speck in another's, and cutting off our nose to spite our face, inspired by the penultimate Pope's fingerwagging denial of Christian blessing to the great and very Reverend Father Ernesto Cardenal, former Treappist monk of Gethsemane, upon the tarmac in Managua. Thus we now see dwindling membership as members feel unwelcomed and invalid within their own Church (despite the very clear Letter of Saint James, etc.), but we still do not learn to embace our own in Christian charity as advised in the Rule of Saint Benedict for the formation of a viable Faith community but rather we wallow in a violent and very unCHristian condemnation while we ourselves fall deeper into the pit.

Time to get back to the Holy Spirit Christ gives us, and leave behind such supercilious and comfortingly condemnatory books as these.

Love thy enemy.

one of the most heartbreaking books i've ever read.......2006-10-15

If you are interested in how Vatican II came about and how things went to far from what the church fathers seemingly intended you owe it to yourself to sit down and read this book. Michael Davies was a terrific writer and a careful one. He has credible sources and is very calm in his approach to the book.

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Exceptional!

Time Bomb
Nigel Hinton
Manufacturer: Tricycle Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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Exceptional!.......2007-09-13

Time Bomb is, simply, a superb book that I unreservedly recommend. Great characters - schoolboys during a long hot second world war summer - in a riveting situation: they find an unexploded bomb in the piece of land they treat as a playground. The bomb is the catalyst for everything; but around the schoolboys spins the rest of the world - their arguing secretive parents, their teachers and choirmasters, and best (or worst) of all, the engimatic Cap, who works his way into their friendship and enlists their support. While the plot works perfectly, the period details are just as good. Though ultimately meant for teenagers, I'd recommend this book to anyone. In a world of adults who read Harry Potter without shame, there surely must be a small space on large bookshelves for Time Bomb. Bravo!

The Atomic Times: My H-Bomb Year at the Pacific Proving Ground

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Somebody's been watching MASH
A Taste Of What I Never Experienced In Life
I couldn't put it down
The Atomic Times Revisited
a great read about an important subject...

The Atomic Times: My H-Bomb Year at the Pacific Proving Ground
Michael Harris
Manufacturer: Presidio Press
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If You Poison Us: Uranium and Native Americans

ASIN: 0345481542
Release Date: 2005-09-27

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A real-life version of Catch-22–the searing and subversively funny memoir of a young army draftee’s experiences during the H-Bomb tests of the 1950s

In late 1955, twenty-two-year-old army private Michael Harris “earned” an assignment to Eniwetok Atoll, ground zero of U.S. Joint Task Force Seven’s Pacific Proving Ground. There, on a desolate stretch of the South Pacific, Harris was part of a grand experiment called Operation Redwing. The biggest and baddest of America’s atmospheric nuclear weapons test regimes, Redwing was one of those strange Cold War phenomena that mixed saber rattling with mad science–while overlooking the cataclysmic human, geopolitical, and ecological effects. But mostly, it just messed with guys’ heads. . . .
Meet the members of Harris’s new nuclear family:

·Major Maxwell, who put safety first, second and third–except when he didn't
·Berko, the wisecracking Brooklyn Dodgers fan who was forced to cope with the H-bomb and his mother’s cookies
·Tony, who thought military spit and polish plus uncompromising willpower made him an exception
·Carl Duncan, who clung to his girlfriend's photos and a dangerous secret
·Major Vanish who did just that

With The Atomic Times, Harris welcomes readers into the company of the brave men of Operation Redwing, where the local lexicon of f-words included such gems as “fallout” and “fireball.” As Harris tells it, daily life at ground zero could have been scripted by a committee comprising Franz Kafka, Sergeant Bilko, Hubert Selby, and Joseph Heller–all working within the constraints of the peacetime army’s unofficial modus operandi, “Hurry up and wait.”

When not playing radioactive guinea pig, Harris’s jobs included editing the base’s daily newspaper, cheekily named The Atomic Times, whose logo was a mushroom cloud and whose motto was “All the News That Fits, We Print.” In a distinctive narrative voice, Harris describes his h-bomb year with unforgettable imagery and insight into how isolation and isotopes change men for better and for worse.

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Somebody's been watching MASH.......2006-06-02

This book appears to be written by someone who has watched too many MASH episodes. With a good deal of Catch 22 thrown in. Claims to be fact but appears to be fiction.

A Taste Of What I Never Experienced In Life.......2005-12-15

This is an excellent book that in non-technical language gives the reader some insight into the relationships that existed on this sparse island, Eniwetok, among the members of joint task force 7 during operation red-wing. Since this reader has never served in the armed forces and had an absentee father from the age of nine, I never was able to experience life in the armed forces. This book clearly explains what living would have been like, what having friends would have meant both in a positive and negative sense, and some of the everyday challenges and obstacles that were faced by the military men in the Marshall Islands. In addition to these very valuable insights, the book provides a humor and optimistic point of view that makes light of some of the very difficult circumstances encountered. Besides having strong political implications for the future as to what can happen to all of us, as well as the system under which the armed forces continues to operate, the book gives us a insight into human behavior under these circumstances that is clearly profound. The book was read in two sittings and has not only been talked about in some of my psychology classes, as I try to convey real-life situations of psychological dilemmas, but has also been recommended to colleagues, peers, and friends. It is a must-read book that will have you internally racing!

I couldn't put it down.......2005-12-09

I stayed up all night reading this book . It was a great job of putting characters with different personalities together with a story of our countrys Atomic research. It is hard to believe what our military master minds did to the day to day enlisted man. The whole testing of the bombs was unbelievable. It was unbelievable what the men on the island had to do.

The Atomic Times Revisited.......2005-12-08

Riveting! I read it in one sitting. The memoir of a man with a troubled childhood who finds himself while stationed at the Atomic proving grounds on Eniwetok Island during the mid-fifties. It is a story of men at their best and worst during a hairraising period in the development and testing of the US atomic bomb This book is funny, sad and scary at the same time. It is as timely today as it was in the period that the author describes. I recommend it to anyone who is interested in people and politics and who appreciates good writing.

a great read about an important subject..........2005-12-06

Midwestern Booklover, Columbus, Ohio

*****
I read about a book a week, and this is one of the best I've read this year.
I went straight through in one night, which I rarely do, and I didn't mind
being tired the next day. I was absorbed by the story of the author's childhood
(he was the victim of sexual abuse) and the way he surprised even himself by
coming to terms with a difficult past during the H-bomb tests. I understood
the power and the dangers of hydrogen bombs in a way I never did before and the importance of halting nuclear proliferation. I can
recommend this to anyone looking for "a good read" and a book about a really important subject that matters to us all.

Caribbean Time Bomb: The United States' Complicity in the Corruption of Antigua

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Caribbean Time Bomb: The United States' Complicity in the Corruption of Antigua
Robert Coram
Manufacturer: William Morrow & Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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