Younger Next Year: A Guide to Living Like 50 Until You're 80 and Beyond

Younger Next Year: A Guide to Living Like 50 Until You're 80 and Beyond
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Can We Live to be 150

Younger Next Year

Younger Next Year

a guide to living like 50 until your're 80 and beyound

Great Book!!
Younger Next Year: A Guide to Living Like 50 Until You're 80 and Beyond
Chris Crowley , and Henry S. Lodge
Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company
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Binding: Hardcover

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Book Description

Turn back your biological clock. A breakthrough book for men--as much fun to read as it is persuasive--Younger Next Year draws on the very latest science of aging to show how men 50 or older can become functionally younger every year for the next five to ten years, and continue to live like fifty-year-olds until well into their eighties. To enjoy life and be stronger, healthier, and more alert. To stave off 70% of the normal decay associated with aging (weakness, sore joints, apathy), and to eliminate over 50% of all illness and potential injuries. This is the real thing, a program that will work for anyone who decides to apply himself to "Harry's Rules."

Harry is Henry S. Lodge, M.D., a specialist in internal medicine and preventive healthcare. Chris Crowley is Harry's 70-year-old patient who's stronger today (and skiing better) than when he was 40. Together, in alternating chapters that are lively, sometimes outspoken, and always utterly convincing, they spell out Harry's Rules and the science behind them. The rules are deceptively simple: Exercise Six Days a Week. Eat What You Know You Should. Connect to Other People and Commit to Feeling Passionate About Something. The science, simplified and demystified, ranges from the molecular biology of growth and decay to how our bodies and minds evolved (and why they fare so poorly in our sedentary, all-feast no-famine culture). The result is nothing less than a paradigm shift in our view of aging.

Welcome to the next third of your life--train for it, and you'll have a ball.

Customer Reviews:

Can We Live to be 150 .......2007-09-18

It is a very good book for anyone concerned about aging. We get more aware of our age at the time of retirement. Switching from a daily-work routine to a totally new idea of all-time-holidays is often not as pleasurable as we expected thirty or more years before. At that difficult time, it is very helpful to focus on the Four Pillars of Longevity as suggested by the authors of the book:

1. Six-times-a-week exercising.
2. Eating for nutrition, not for any other reason. Focusing on fruits and vegetables.
3. Avoiding boredom, developing your hobbies.
4. Connecting with many other people - creating a solid circle of friends.

The book provides some good medical background for these readers that like to understand why certain things are happening.

Another book well worth reading is Can We Live 150. It is the Body Maintenance Handbook, as the subtitle states. I like the common sense approach that is prevalent throughout the pages. Some of author's ideas, for obvious reasons, are similar to the ones presented by Crovley and Lodge, but on the whole it is a totally different book.

Younger Next Year.......2007-09-17

Great information on life changes for living a quality life beyond the age of 50.

Younger Next Year.......2007-09-16

The content is to exercise hard six days a week and little more presented in a smug and slightly condescending tone.

a guide to living like 50 until your're 80 and beyound.......2007-09-16

Anyone who is concerned about the high cost of health care and insurance should read this book. Best way to stay healthy is read this book. Both man and women need to read this book.

Great Book!!.......2007-09-07

This book is great reading! It's easy and entertaining. It offers excellent insights into our aging process and how to be healthy as we age. Each time I finish reading, I feel motivated to get out, exercise and get healthy!!

You Haven't Taught Until They Have Learned: John Wooden's Teaching Principles and Practices

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Excellent study on Wooden's teaching methodology
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Swen Nater's book: You WILL learn!

You Haven't Taught Until They Have Learned: John Wooden's Teaching Principles and Practices
Swen Nater , and Ronald Gallimore
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Product Description

Not only was John Wooden a great basketball coach, he was a master teacher. In fact, he was a great coach because he was a master teacher. What Wooden has learned from others in the classroom and perfected on the practice court are fundamental principles of effective teaching, which are conveyed in You Haven't Taught Until They Have Learned: John Wooden's Teaching Principles and Practices. Co-author Swen Nater, one of Wooden's former players at UCLA, provides insightful first-hand accounts on the many life lessons he learned from Wooden that he has applied to his life since becoming a teacher himself.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent study on Wooden's teaching methodology.......2007-02-11

If you've read a lot of Coach Wooden's books, you may be familiar with his wisdom, maxims and his wonderful pyramid of success; this book studies the methodology of his teaching and how he applied his wisdom to the successful transfer of knowledge and skills. If you're a teacher, buy this book!

Timeless Insights about Teaching and Learning.......2006-05-28

Ron Gallimore and Swen Nater combine their incredible knowledge about teaching and basketball to deliver a new and insightful look at the teaching practice of John Wooden. The book is a wonderful balance of personal stories from Nater and insights about teaching and learning from Gallimore that demonstrate just how incredibly wise, intentional, and gifted The Coach was and is. This book demonstrates the hard work, preparation, courage, and commitment to continuous learning that defines quality teaching. A must read for every teacher and coach.

Swen Nater's book: You WILL learn!.......2006-03-23

Swen Nater knows John Wooden - that much is clear. Clear too, is what a great teacher John Wooden was and, continues to be. This is a book any teacher can learn from. Sure it is great for coaches, but when a teacher is looking for guidance on how to handle varying student potential within their class, is it better to treat everyone the same - or to treat each individual differently, according to their personality, talent, ability, commitment etc. as Wooden did? Swen does a great job of interjecting his own life's experience into the priniciples Wooden taught. And he uses those of "Alcindor", Wicks, Walton, Allen and others to make the stories fit the lesson. This is textbook material, or should be required reading for aspiring or experienced teachers - 5 Stars plus!

What Your Boss Doesn't Tell You Until It's Too Late: How to Correct Behavior That Is Holding You Back

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What your boss doesn't tell you book review
Excellent Guide to the Prevention of Self-Sabotage
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What Your Boss Doesn't Tell You Until It's Too Late: How to Correct Behavior That Is Holding You Back
Robert Bramson
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Customer Reviews:

Learn to Recognize How You Undermine Yourself.......2006-03-06

This short (and relatively inexpensive) book will help you recognize where your behavior is getting in the way of your success at work.

Bramson emphasizes the importance of seeking and really listening to the feedback you get from others without being defensive, since it often points to areas where you need to change or grow. He notes that many managers are not comfortable giving feedback directly, so they hint around the issues and hope the people under them will be able to read between the lines.

He also points out some additional pitfalls, such as what doing feels right in a situation may not be the best course of action, and that choosing behavior that moves us ahead does not come naturally.

An encouraging point is that we don't need to get rid of our bad habits, but we do need to modify or manage them to keep them from managing us. Bramson's model for image repair is very helpful, and for me was worth the price of the book.

If you are tired of tripping over the same old behaviors at work, try Bramson's prescriptions.

What your boss doesn't tell you book review.......2006-02-09

Not a lot new in this book. It focuses most on correcting really dysfunctional behavior, not on subtle defects.

Excellent Guide to the Prevention of Self-Sabotage.......2005-03-16

Watching several people I admire repeatedly sabotage their careers by failing to recognize and fix the same recurring personality problems caused me to take a break from German-Jewish history and read this book. I have been an employer and an employee, both boss and bossed, and believe that we all can use a good (emphasize "good") self-help book now and then. This book enables the reader to pinpoint self-defeating behaviors and correct them, or at least control them.

In my experience, there are three categories of criticism. The first one is task-related, and your boss will almost always give it to you: "This presentation should be reorganized." "We need a better argument for ...." "Next time include slides on the overhead projector." The second category is personal, but easily fixable, and your boss will give it to you (perhaps with some trepidation): "A tube top is just not 'business casual.'" "You need to start being on time for the 7:00 am meetings." The third category is what your boss will not tell you until it's too late: "you turn people off," "you are too aggressive" or "you are too indecisive." The reason she won't is that these criticisms are of difficult-to-describe personality traits and the message is always uncomfortable to deliver.

Unfortunately, the problems that your boss will not discuss with you (until after you have lost that promotion or job) are the very problems that are the most serious and can have the biggest ramifications for your career. That's where this book comes in. It contains a step-by-step process for identifying your trouble spots and addressing them. If you're not brave enough to actually engage people in discussions about your flaws (as the book suggests), it contains several chapters on common personality problems and suggested substitute behaviors. It also contains a chapter on repairing your image, if it comes to that.

The book takes a non-judgmental approach, pointing out that many personality characteristics may be hereditary. Yet, that makes it no less important to address them. (For example, if you knew that you had a gene which predisposed you to getting lung cancer, wouldn't you be even more careful not to smoke?) I learned a great deal from this book. Since none of us is perfect, I would highly recommend the book to anyone who wants to catch and fix bad behaviors early on, before they can ruin your career.

Great and Useful.......2000-03-06

I found this book to be quite useful, it gives you a different perspective on your job, and how others may be viewing what you do. It helps you to think out of your box.

Don't You Dare Get Married Until You Read This! The Book of Questions for Couples

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On The Right Track...
Don't Dare get married until you read this book - review
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Don't You Dare Get Married Until You Read This! The Book of Questions for Couples
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The Book to Read Before You Say "I Do"
If you're headed for the altar -- or you're in a serious relationship that could lead to marriage -- you probably already know that issues like love, sex, money, religion, kids, in-laws, and even who has to walk the dog can become potential landmines if you and your partner don't discuss your feelings openly before you take the plunge. Now, Corey Donaldson has put together more than 500 questions -- ranging from playful to provocative -- designed to get you and your partner talking frankly and communicating effectively before you walk down the aisle. Donaldson covers hot topics such as:
* Does it matter to you who earns most of the money?
* What does my family do that annoys you?
* What is the difference, for you, between love and romance?
* What place do you believe religion has in the world?
* How long do you want to wait before having children?
* If I wanted to move away from our families for work, would you support me?
* Who cleans the house?

Perfect for couples in the midst of planning their nuptials, a duo considering "I do," or even partners in established relationships who just want to get to know each other again, Don't You Dare Get Married Until You Read This! is a must-have for anyone who wants to make their marriage last.

Customer Reviews:

On The Right Track..........2007-08-08

I think the idea is there-- but honestly, if you haven't already asked yourself (and your partner) most of these questions, chances are you shouldn't be getting married. For my fiance and I, this book was a bit of a joke. We read through it together and were actually able to answer FOR each other. I don't think that was the point-- but I applaud Donaldson for encouraging couples to get to KNOW each other before tying the knot.

Don't Dare get married until you read this book - review.......2007-06-04

This is a great book and really helped my fiance and I get closer by going over the questions in the book.

Goo Book, Not Great.......2007-05-10

I Love the Questions in this book but There is not room for me or my boyfriend to write in it. Better if you have a extra notebook to put the question on so you and your parter or you will have plenty of room.

Donaldson's Questions for couples .......2007-02-07

Great book for all couples or single people that are looking for a meaningful relationship while taking an honest look at themselves first.

Recommended it to my college age daughter since she is dating. Wished I had read this book many, many moons ago. Will keep this book as a reference book and/or suggested reading material for my future counseling clients.

Getting to know you better.......2007-02-02

Good, fun, interesting questions to discuss with your significant other. Questions give good insight into how the other person is feeling and what their goals are. Brings better understanding to each other. Brings out those areas where you need to work things out. Asks questions that you normally wouldn't think of this early in the relationship but which are important down the road when you are building your life and family together.

Its Not Over Until You Win: How to Become the Person You Always Wanted to Be No Matter What the Obstacle

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Its Not Over Until You Win: How to Become the Person You Always Wanted to Be No Matter What the Obstacle
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Les Brown is one of the most popular motivational speakers in the world today. In It's Not Over Until You Win!, Brown offers a powerful and inspirational plan to help people overcome any obstacle in their lives.

Les Brown himself has been through countless ups and downs, suffering through personal and career crises including the cancellation of his television show and the death of his beloved mother. In this unique audio program, Brown tells you how he rose from those depths and how you can, too. It's Not Over Until You Win! will demonstrate:

How to cope with the loss of a loved one

How to recover self-esteem when you lose your job

How to keep away from self-destructive behavior

Filled with the passion and exuberance that will empower you to overcome any obstacle, It's Not Over Until You Win! captures the amazing spirit of Brown's electric speaking style in a sure-fire empowerment audiobook that will galvanize anyone to take their lives to a higher level of satisfaction and fulfillment.

Customer Reviews:

Words to live by..........2007-09-06

I have fallen in love with the energy that Les Brown delivers in his speeches. He puts heartfelt advice plain and simple without dancing around his meaning. I prefer his live talks because they demonstrate more of his personality and I think that's what I really relate to but I've listened to both of these discs several times since I've purchased them and look forward to buying more!

Quit Moaning and Groaning.......2007-05-08

I love to listen to motivational tapes and cd's. This one was a complete waste of time. All he did was moan and groan about his t.v. show getting canceled. Yes he did overcome, but this was a waste of time to me!

Unbelievably Motivating!.......2007-04-27

Mr. Brown drives home the point of overcoming obstacles! This book is truly an inspiration and his words make it plain and simple for anyone looking to take their lives to the next level. It should be required reading in Universities across the country as a rite of passage!

Wow I needed this,.......2007-01-08

Life can be so challenging, it feels great to see we are not alone and we can go for the best. This audio book will open your eyes on what is available to you. You just have to listen to it often!

Inspiring and Motivating.......2006-12-16

I just saw Les Brown live in person at a company sales meeting. He is a great speaker who deliver a dynamic and powerful message. His advice can be applied to all aspects of life. Seeing and hearing his message in person is a phenomenal experience, but if you can't do that I would recommend purchasing this product.

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Disappointed
Melancholic logorrhoea
What I found in this Irving novel.
This Man is Delusional!
Follow the yellow brick road...

Until I Find You: A Novel
John Irving
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At over 800 pages, John Irving's Until I Find You is a daunting proposition at best. Anyone who finishes it will have acquired forearm muscles, sore shoulders, and not much else. The story is self-indulgent, repetitive and, ultimately, boring, that cardinal sin that readers can't forgive. Longtime Irving readers have stayed with him through a few hits and a miss or two, but this is an all-time low. We are accustomed to Irving's work as quirky, bizarre, and off-the-wall and have forgiven all by calling such high-jinks and characters "imaginative" or "absolutely original." The only thing original about this tome is the descent into soft porn.

Jack Burns, the hero of the tale, is four years old when it all begins. He is the illegitimate son of Daughter Alice, a tattoo artist and, guess what, daughter of a tattoo artist. She takes Jack on a pilgrimage to find his womanizing father, William, a church organist and "ink addict." By seeking out church organs and tattoo parlors, she expects to find him. She doesn't, and by now we have spent more than a hundred pages in Northern European cities doing an imitation of Groundhog Day. Same story, different day: a little prostitution for Alice, a few questions asked; alas, no daddy.

Alice and Jack return to Toronto so that Jack may enter a previously all-girls school, which will admit little boys for the first time. There begins another 200 pages of the girls and the teachers abusing Jack, over and over again. By now, he is five and is, for some unfathomable reason, eminently interesting to girls and women. His "friend" Emma keeps careful track of "the little guy," as she calls Jack's penis, looking for signs of life. The worst part of all this is that none of it is funny or sad or even clever. There are wrestling vignettes, of course, and prep school tedium, but no bears. Maybe bears would have saved it. There were funny parts in The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules as well as poignant, horrific parts in both of those and other Irving novels. This story is flat. The voice never changes; it just drones on.

Jack becomes an actor. First, he is a boy in drag because he is so pretty, then he takes transvestite parts. He and Emma, now a published novelist, live together in LA, which provides endless opportunity for name-dropping. His career eventually takes off and he gets recognition and awards, but still no daddy. Irving, it turns out, never knew his father, either. Perhaps this exercise will exorcise that demon once and for all and Irving's next book will be about something more compelling than a little boy's penis and his trashy mother's antics. If you do make it through to the book's snapper of an ending, you deserve to find out what it is on your own. Call it a reward. --Valerie Ryan

Book Description

Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns – his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents.

When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a tattoo artist, to several North Sea ports in search of his father, William Burns. From Copenhagen to Amsterdam, William, a brilliant church organist and profligate womanizer, is always a step ahead – has always just departed in a wave of scandal, with a new tattoo somewhere on his body from a local master or “scratcher.”

Alice and Jack abandon their quest, and Jack is educated at schools in Canada and New England – including, tellingly, a girls’ school in Toronto. His real education consists of his relationships with older women – from Emma Oastler, who initiates him into erotic life, to the girls of St. Hilda’s, with whom he first appears on stage, to the abusive Mrs. Machado, whom he first meets when sent to learn wrestling at a local gym.

Too much happens in this expansive, eventful novel to possibly summarize it all. Emma and Jack move to Los Angeles, where Emma becomes a successful novelist and Jack a promising actor. A host of eccentric minor characters memorably come and go, including Jack’s hilariously confused teacher the Wurtz; Michelle Maher, the girlfriend he will never forget; and a precocious child Jack finds in the back of an Audi in a restaurant parking lot. We learn about tattoo addiction and movie cross-dressing, “sleeping in the needles” and the cure for cauliflower ears. And John Irving renders his protagonist’s unusual rise through Hollywood with the same vivid detail and range of emotions he gives to the organ music Jack hears as a child in European churches. This is an absorbing and moving book about obsession and loss, truth and storytelling, the signs we carry on us and inside us, the traces we can’t get rid of.

Jack has always lived in the shadow of his absent father. But as he grows older – and when his mother dies – he starts to doubt the portrait of his father’s character she painted for him when he was a child. This is the cue for a second journey around Europe in search of his father, from Edinburgh to Switzerland, towards a conclusion of great emotional force.

A melancholy tale of deception, Until I Find You is also a swaggering comic novel, a giant tapestry of life’s hopes. It is a masterpiece to compare with John Irving’s great novels, and restates the author’s claim to be considered the most glorious, comic, moving novelist at work today.

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John Irving has won an O. Henry Award, a National Book Award, and an Oscar. Until I Find You is his eleventh novel. He lives in Vermont and Toronto.

From the Hardcover edition.

Customer Reviews:

Disappointed.......2007-09-27

After having read a fair number of John Irving's earlier novels, I was disappointed with the cardboard characters in this one and the endless elaboration on pointless details. Not once did I get to feel any identification with the main characters. I literally struggled through the 500+ pages of the hardback version.
Apart from Toronto, Maine and LA, the book describes scenes in Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Edinburgh and Zurich and Mr Irving has gone through great pains to insert local insiders info, rendering the book into something of a tourist guide. The author indulges here in a writer's trick to add interestingness to the novel, which I found irritating.
The subject matter is fashionable, and only that, and as thin as the paper is was printed on.
I would not recommend this novel.

Melancholic logorrhoea.......2007-08-10

I suspect that once you've reached a certain level of fame, publishers simply stop editing you. After all, whatever you write is destined to sell. Why rock the boat? It's clear that John Irving has reached that level. He's a great storyteller, and his characters are vibrant and interesting, but boy, is his latest novel, Until I Find You, in need of a decent edit.

The book presents an absorbing story which pivots around Jack Burns, a young actor and inevitable ladies man who spends his life unraveling the memories of his childhood. Irving cleverly presents us with a story in the first half which is presented as Jack Burn's childhood. It begins in 1969 with Jack and his mother Alice searching for his runaway father, the organist and tattoo junkie William Burns. The chase is entertaining enough as Alice and Jack go on a grand adventure which takes them through the brothels of Europe, tattoo parlours, and cafes. Jack's naïve perspective on the sometimes wild goings on is both charming and indicative of his later personality as he forms his own brand of understanding of the tawdry situation his mother puts him in. Although they remain close, they don't find William, and go back to Toronto so Jack can get an education at an all girls' school. As you might expect, his education is rather more extensive than a mother might like, and as his father's reputation has preceded him, Jack follows in his footsteps as he is regularly abused, coddled, and mentored into a combination of acting genius famous for his transvestite roles, and compulsive womanizer. As Jack ages, the plot line moves forward through Jack's almost accidental stardom, his long time friend Emma's fame as a writer, and above all, Jack's desire to find his father, and discover himself. All that is good, and there is much here to applaud, from the rich settings that Jack traverses, the well researched sense of place, the funky exploration of the world of tattooing and the interesting melding of the delicate with the rough. The book is populated with interesting damaged characters from Jack's mother Daughter Alice, the delicate Miss Wurtz at Jack's school to a host of dodgy and damaged tattoo artists, porn stars, wrestlers, crazy actresses, psychiatrists, a pregnant aerobics instructor and a few famous actors.

It's a great first draft. But there is so much extraneous material here. From the start of Jack's education, there's a continuum of catalogue-like name dropping that is beyond tedious. From the entire synopsis of the play Jack puts on at St Hilda's school, the complete plotline to Blade Runner, to a catalogue of Oscars won in various years, overviews of what various film stars were wearing at a number of both fictional and real events, the films Jack saw (complete with multi-paragraphed plotlines), to the complete story (so detailed as to be a story itself) of one of each of Jack's films; Irving spares his readers nothing.

Until I Find You never really achieves its promise, partly because it is so weighed down with irrelevancy, and the reader is therefore unable to give Jack the sympathy that such a myopically presented character deserves as he moves from 1969 to 2000. Clearly John Irving is a talented writer, whose extensive research is matched by his extensive knowledge. It's just a shame he doesn't have a trusted editor willing to insist that Irving cut the ridiculous quantity of fluff out of his latest tome. Jack is "a writer, , albeit one given to melancholic logorrhoea. A storyteller, if only out loud." (699). The same could be said for this Until I find You. The book simply doesn't realise its potential, either in terms of its characters or the force of its plot. Melancholic logorrhoea is an excellent description.

Magdalena Ball is the author of Sleep Before Evening
"There is so much beautiful writing here, soaring passages."

What I found in this Irving novel........2007-08-06

John Irving has long been one of my favorite contemporary authors. Having begun reading him long ago with 'Garp', and later discovering the beautiful 'Owen Meaney', I've followed his novels for many years, without much disappointment.

Certainly, as is the case with many authors, there are some works by them you like, and some you don't. However, some of the criticism of others for this novel really surprises me, and seems underserved. No, this isn't my favorite of John Irving's books...but I didn't expect it to be.

'Until I Find You' is full of the usual themes that John Irving has explored in past novels...the only child raised by a strong-willed mother...feelings of inadequacy...loss of loved ones...etc. You cannot read a John Irving novel without seeing these recurring trends, although each of his novels are different, they do carry similar traits.

This story centers on Jack Burns, beginning at age four, holding the hand of his mother, Alice, as they search many North Sea towns and cities for Jack's decamped father, William...whom Alice seeks to make him 'own up to his responsibility to Jack.' A skilled, but fledgling, tattoo artist at the time, Alice plies her 'portable trade' around Europe to earn their keep, while she and Jack migrate from place to place on William's trail.

Years later, Jack (as an adult, and accomplished actor) finds the truth of this 'quest'...as he seeks out his own truth as to why his father was never present in his life.

Other reviews will offer more detail on the plot, and with 200+ such reviews to choose from, I'll refrain from rehashing what has already been said, and just offer my likes and dislikes:

Likes: I enjoyed the tone of this novel, as I have other Irving works. He writes in a very 'somber' way about love and loss, and typically avoids grand 'Hollywood' endings to his novels, even if this one is about a movie star. I enjoy how human John Irving can make his characters, by placing them in extraordinary AND ordinary circumstances, by making them face disappointment, regret, anger, and loss, just as we all do in life. In a day and age where 'thriller fiction' completely misses the boat of characterization, I'm happy to see John Irving will still indulge me. The story is detailed, rich in 'geography' of Amsterdam and other European cities; and full of the wit, insight, and unique visions of life that lovers of John Irving's novels have come to expect.

Dislikes: It's hard to detail my one and only real 'dislike' without giving away much of the plot. Suffice to say that Mr. Irving's protagonist, Jack, got an education far earlier than I was really comfortable reading about. C'est la vie...John Irving does not write 'Little Golden Books'....and even though what I have referred to here is a 'dislike', as a friend told me, 'Keep going, it's worth getting to the end.'

Overall, I really enjoyed this read as much as I enjoyed 'Fourth Hand', 'Widow for One Year' and many other Irving Books. I don't know that John Irving will ever captivate me as much as he did with Owen Meaney again, but...this is a fine addition to my John Irving novel collection.

This Man is Delusional!.......2007-08-01

For an author that has been publishing books for 30+ years, you'd think he'd be able to create an identity of his own by now. But after his eleventh attempt, John Irving tries to write more like Dickens than ever.

The most obvious example: the length. Jesus Christ. If this book was any longer, I think I would have had a seizure and gone blind from irritation. I've heard him say while being interviewed, that a person either has the capacity to read long novels or doesn't. This is b.s. If the book is a good one, I don't care how long it is, I don't care if it's 5000 pages, I'll finish it. If the book is boring and indulgent, into the garbage it goes.

Second: the "peripheral" characters. Dickens was known for the endless amount of characters (mostly pointless) in his novels; so what does John Irving do? He puts about a thousand, trite characters in Until I Find You that have stupid names (Daughter Alice) and stupid tattoos (Rose of Jericho)... and they keep coming, and coming, and coming, and just when you thought he was finished, he throws in about a dozen more.

Third: the tone. Irving, no matter how modern and risque the plot, seems to write in a tightass, presumptuous, Victorian style. The main character in this book is an actor, a very famous one. The way Irving writes Hollywood, especially award-ceremonies, is completely ridiculous. I guess because he wrote one screenplay, he thinks he's got that field covered, as well.

I don't know what else to say. I'm just p.o.'d that I wasted so much time over this worthless book.

Follow the yellow brick road..........2007-06-25

This was the first John Irving novel (800++ pages!) I have ever read.
Yes it is repetitive and thus boring at times, and yes the hero's mother is the queen of dysfunction and visits that dysfunction on her little boy. There were times that I wanted to just quit, but for some reason I kept going back. I love Jack, I love Emma, and I like the Wertz very much. By the end I wanted Jack, Emma (that sweet Honey Pie), Heather, and William to go on forever.

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ENJOYABLE???
3 1/2 stars.
It's an OK book to read!
Good characters, so-so love story
sensational read

Until You
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New York Times bestselling author Judith McNaught sweeps readers from the wilds of America to elegant 1820s London in this unforgettable romantic adventure.

A teacher in a school for wealthy young ladies, Sheridan, Bromleigh is hired to accompany one of her students, heiress Charise Lancaster, to England to meet her fiancé. When her charge elopes with a stranger, Sheridan wonders how she will ever explain it to Charise's intended, Lord Burleton.

Standing on the pier, Stephen Westmoreland, the Earl of Langford, assumes the young woman coming toward him is Charise Lancaster -- and informs her of his inadvertent role in a fatal accident involving Lord Burleton the night before. And just as Sheridan is about to speak, she steps into the path of a cargo net loaded with crates!

Sheridan awakens in Westmoreland's mansion with no memory of who she is; the only hint of her past is the puzzling fact that everyone calls her Miss Lancaster. All she truly knows is that she is falling in love with a handsome English earl, and that the life unfolding before her seems full of wondrous possibilities...

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ENJOYABLE???.......2007-06-03

I gave this book 4 stars because I like the parts about Whitney and Clayton. Since reading Whitney My Love I just couldn't get enough of them. Stephen was so much better in that book that I was hoping he would come out in this the same way but I never really felt that. He got mad at Whitney for doing the same things that he did in WML (like trying to get Clayton just to listen to her before he married someone else) So Whitney was going about it the same way. I notice alot of same situations in this book. She never seem to be jealous of the other women they should of had a throw down at that party. The first parts about her past I thought drag on and on. She should of meet up with her relatives in England when she ran away maybe she could of been as rich as him. All and all I enjoyed the book I guess I just think of ways that it could of been better. I really love Judith McNaughts books this is my third so I'm going to read Once and Always and Something Wonderful. Then I am going to reread this one I believe that I read them out of order. After WML I had to find out what happened to Stephen, now I know....

3 1/2 stars. .......2007-05-15

Having read almost all of JM's books, I wasn't impressed with this as much as the others. I found myself skimming through a lot of the dialogue and it just wasn't holding my attention. Some of the romance seemed forced, a lot of the time I felt JM trying to convince us about their love, instead of letting the characters reveal that to us themselves. Here's s run down of the plot...Sheridan, a governess is sailing to Englad from America with a young lady, Charise, who is to wed a Baron. Only, the young lady Charise jumps ship mid voyage to elope with another man. Sheridan is now forced to face the Baron and tell him of the news and is scared he will not believe her and fears she'll be thrown in a dungeon for letting Charise get away. Little does she know the Baron is dead, killed, accidentally by the Earl of Langford, Stephen Westmoreland. (Clayton's brother from Whitney). Stephen shows up at the dock to meet Charise and to guiltily tell her of the terrible news when off walks Sheridan and she is hit in the head and gets amnesia. Stephen, never seeing Charise before, assumes Sheridan is Charise and feels guilty, again, and decides to take her up in his home while she recovers. Only, once she wakes he tells her he is her fiance and that her name is Charise (because he doesn't know any different) so she doesn't feel alone and more scared than she already is having lost her memory. From there the story unfolds. Stephen begins to fall in love with her as does she, as she struggles to remember who she is and she thinks he's her beloved fiance. This story sounds good but there are things that bugged me. For instance, Stephen once and for all decides to put an end to the charade by finding her a suitor and possible husband so he enlists his family to come up with names and they have this elaborate scheme to see that she meets new men. Sounds like a good storyline? I thought so too, because then he'd be jealous and we'd get to see just how tormented he'll become until finally he realizes that he truly loves her and blah blah. Well, the very night of her coming out, he changes his mind and right after the party says you're marrying me and that's that. Where's the drama and the build up and all that makes a romance a romance? Sorry, I'm getting carried away. The point is this had the potential to be GREAT. It was just ok in my book, but that's just my opinion. Don't get me wrong, there are a few tender and poignant moments in the book. I just wish it were cleaned up and edited a bit for better enjoyment and suspense. I guess I'm comparing it to her others that I love so well. Please read it and see for yourself, many others have enjoyed it.

It's an OK book to read!.......2007-04-06

I liked the book but there's just part of the book that is kind of dragging. The misunderstanding between the two people in the book, as i think, can be prevented. I have not experience any temporary amnesia and or have known someone with it so I really cannot know what kind of reaction they will have when they recover their memories but I think, for the heroine instead of running away which in my point of view is a sign of being guilty or have done something wrong, she could've stayed and just deal with whatever consequences may occur. As for the hero, I do not understand why he said or thought in one part of the book that "she's dead to me" and the anger that he felt for her while he is as guilty as all of them are. He pretended, lied to her, have his family lied to her for him and he have some guts to get so angry at her to the point that he cannot stand being near someone that remind him of her - like Burleton's elderly butler so he sent him away to his brother's house to work there instead of his. Anyway, it still is a good book to read, not because I found fault with it does not mean that it is a blah book. Whitney my Love is still better and Kingdom of Dreams the best!!!

Good characters, so-so love story.......2007-02-18

I guess I just hate it when some ridiculous "misunderstanding" crops up near the end of a romance novel that forces the lovers apart, and miraculously all is forgiven and rectified somehow by magic in the end. It's uncharacteristic of human beings, and really flaws the tale. I just couldn't get past it. Plus I was terribly disappointed that all of Sherry's riding & outdoor talents were barely expressed in the experience with Langford. What a waste. It was also disappointing that Sherry's Papa & Rake show up for one little page in the wrap-up. I kind of agree with the other reviewer who said the real Charise Lancaster should have gotten her comeuppance! What a brat.

sensational read.......2007-01-14

this story holds your attention and the characters are interesting enough to want to follow through to the end in this must read novel

Cover Your Tracks Without Changing Your Identity: How to Disappear Until You WANT to Be Found

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few good ideas
This book saved my life!
This Title is Unique - Not the Average "Change Your ID" Book
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Cover Your Tracks Without Changing Your Identity: How to Disappear Until You WANT to Be Found
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Is your life on a downward spiral? Why not simply take off, cover your tracks and then return to your old life once the dust has settled? Learn where to go, how to get there, what to take, where to stay, how to live comfortably and securely in your refuge and how to return home when - and if - you decide to.

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few good ideas.......2007-07-31

this book is more like a large pamphlet. The book is mainly a lot of ideas that are somewhat common sense (at least to me). In order to make most of this book work for you, you might want to also get a book on how to extremely lower your standards. The author suggests most of his ideas to become homeless and hitchhike as opposed to actually setting up a new identity although there are a few ideas about that. All in all for the length of the read i didnt expect to much, but got a few ideas.

This book saved my life!.......2007-01-13

I am surprised at some of the past reviewers of this book. They sound like armchair secret agents that want a book like this to tell them all the secrets of 9/11, Roswell and the Kennedy assassination, all for under a dollar!

The truth is, however, that this book is a how-to manual for people who need to lay low for a while, because of financial problems, stalkers, vengeful ex-spouses, or what have you.

Do the techniques it describes work? YES. Using them I was able to disappear for several months during a time when a vengeful and psychotic ex-boyfriend wanted very much to put a bullet in me. He is now sitting in prison, and I am safe for at least 20 years. But if I hadn't found this book then I would likely be dead at this point.

I strongly recommend this book for anyone who needs to get away from things for a while - without anyone being able to track them down.

This Title is Unique - Not the Average "Change Your ID" Book.......2004-11-08

Most books on the subject of Fake ID tell you how to start over completely. You have to sever ties to your former life permanently and completely. There is no going back. But what if you aren't sure you want to change your ID completely? What if all you need is an extended vacation to collect your thoughts and prepare a plan?

"Cover Your Tracks Without Changing Your Identity" introduces the concept of a "light identity change". This interesting title explains how to leave your old identity intact but keep your problems finding you at your new location. Using Wilson's tactics in "Cover Your Tracks Without Changing Your Identity", you will be able to return to your former identity if you desire.

The information contained in this unique title will undoubtedly help many people.

Packed with good information.......2004-10-09

Anyone needing to increase their personal privacy should read this book. It has advice for people trapped in bad marriages, folks threatened by stalkers, and even those who are just desperately unhappy in their daily lives. Following Wilson's instructions you really can virtually fall off the face of the earth for several weeks up to a year, while you get your head together and figure out what to do next.

Though it's about a very serious topic, the author tosses in some of his own quirky humor and observations which make the book fun to read as well as enlightening. Recommended to anyone interested in privacy protection.

What to Do Until Love Finds You: The Bestselling Guide to Preparing Yourself for Your Perfect Mate (Hammond, Michelle Mckinney)

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Michelle McKinney Hammond
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The book that started it all—Michelle McKinney Hammond’s popular first book re–releases with a dynamic new cover and all the attitude and wisdom that made it a fabulous start to Michelle’s growing list of inspiring books.

In What to Do Until Love Finds You, Michelle offers women practical, godly advice on how to:

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The biblical truths, honest personal insights, and refreshing take on love and the single lifestyle are as relevant and remarkable today as when this book first appeared in bookstores—and on the nightstands and coffee tables of countless single women.

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Good book.......2007-09-10

Michelle Hammond puts it all on the line in this book. With her good sense of humor and close to home examples she uses, i recommend this book to anyone who wants to find love in Jesus

Insightful and Informative.......2007-08-25

I love how "down to earth" Mrs. Hammond is and she really "breaks it down" for you. I found it very useful.

Read this as a new single.......2007-01-05

I was 26 yrs old when I read this; fresh out of a hell bound relationship.
Granted that now, I need more depth in my walk, but for those of you who need a foundation and direction and have little to no one to guide you, this book is FOR YOU!
I mailed this book to another single friend after being blessed by it.
Line up everything you read with the word. All knowledge/guidance/wisdom may not speak to your particular situation but don't 'throw the baby out with the dish water'! Glean from the book what you can. This book prepared my heart not to think as if I was an old maid, missing out on something great, but how to focus on MY King, Jesus Christ.

My Testimony.......2006-05-29

The funny and amazing thing is this was the last book I read right before I met my husband. I was caught up in an emotionally draining relationship with an unGodly man and was very unhappy. However, no matter how hard I tried to get out I just couldn't. It was an emotional rollercoaster to say the least. To be honest I didn't think I would ever get the courage to leave him because like so many women I was afraid to be alone and to get back out there into what I thought was the empty, lonely single world.
I bought this book in hopes that it would both inspire and motivate me to make better choices in regards to my heart, spirit and my body. Little more than half way through this book I was totally-fully convicted and with deep prayer I finally broke up with my boyfriend. I told him I wanted to live my life for God and in order to do that I needed to be alone for a while. This unGodly man did not take it well at all, he cursed me out and told me I was just making excuses because he couldn't see how dating him had any effect on my relationship with GOD.
During this brief time alone I stayed in prayer and for whatever reason I was moved in my spirit to ask for a husband. Now believe me, I had just gotten out of a relationship and the last thing I wanted (honestly) was another man around. I just told God that I was ready to do whatever he wanted me to do. I was ready to be alone for as long as God saw fit, but if it was his will for me to have a partner I asked in Jesus name to let it be. Well the God we serve is a truly mysterious God because about two months after breaking it off with my ex my good friend introduced me to her cute cousin and we hit it off instantly. To make a long story short we are now married and God is at the center of our relationship. The thing is I prayed with a honest heart every step of the way. I asked God on several occassions to let me know if this new man was right for me and each and every time I got my answer in some form or fashion. I'm 24 years old and never once did I expect to be blessed with such a wonderful man at this point in my life, but God will give you what is for you when he decides you need it. One thing in this book that always stayed with me was a portion when she says God will send you a husband when he sees you will be able to fufill his purposes better as a wife than as a single. For me I guess God saw that I could live out his will for my life better with a mate.

Fairly Dissappointed.......2005-02-02

Perhaps because I bought into all the hyped associated with Michelle McKinney, that I was so dissappointed by this book. For me it lacked depth, and failed to say anything new to the more serious singles in Christ. It also had flowery poetry that was distracting and only drew my interest even further from the book. If you lose the poor poor poetry, the book MAY BE worthy of of two stars. Next time, I'll pass.

Dave Barry's Stay Fit and Healthy Until You're Dead

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One of his best
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One of his best

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Dave Barry tackles the fitness industry in this classic spoof of health and diet books everywhere.AUTHORBIO: DAVE BARRY is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Miami Herald journalist whose articles appear in hundreds of newspapers each week. He is the author of more than 20 books and lives in Miami, Florida.

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One of his best.......2006-09-15

Arte Johnson really brings the book to life! Not that it wasn't already funny enough, but Johnson's memorable character voices make it positively hilarious. If you are a Dave Barry fan, but haven't heard some of his older work, you definitely will want to get this one. I loved it.

Early Barry. . ........2001-11-03

Though not as good as his later works, definitely worth buying, though 'Dave Barry's Guide To Life' is also availiable... and contains this and three other works of similiar quality and length by the same author, while being slightly cheaper than this edition alone.
Recommended.

Get ready for guttural laughter.......2001-09-16

Classic Dave Barry! A short read that you will read twice (at least). Get ready for Dave Barry's usual hilarious views, this time on working out and staying fit. If you have a fitness area in your home of office, this book belongs there. Enjoy!

One of his best.......1998-11-25

"In the short space I have here, it's very difficult for me to explain all of your body's complexities and subtelties in any detail, or even get any facts right. For more information, I suggest you attend Harvard Medical School..." Along with Claw Your Way to the Top, this is my favorite Dave Barry book. Even the index is funny ("F" and "G", for example, contain the following fitness-related references: Ford, Gerald; Frequent Casual Motel Sex Diet, The; Godzilla; Gone with the Wind). Where else can you find a fitness test involving a scorpion and an elevator?

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