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Back To Eden
Jethro Kloss
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Book Description
Jethro Kloss pioneered the ideas that led to the flourishing of the natural foods industry. This book is a complete guide and introduction to the natural lifestyle and has withstood the test of time, selling more than 4 million copies since it was first published in 1939. This new revised and enlarged second edition updates the book with much new material, many additional herbal references and reorganizes it for ease of use with an extensive index. The book includes Kloss family photographs and memories as well.
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Back to Eden a God Send.......2007-09-23
This book is amazing. It is full of knowledge, to help one take care of the body. This should be the operating manual for the human body.
Can't think of a title.......2007-04-26
I wanted to think of a clever title but it escapes me. This book has been with me through the following years of age
16- menstrual cramps
24- pregnancy and childbirth
35- obesity and weight loss
49- menopause and the ever present private summers
55- aging gracefully
There is not an ailment or malady known to man that the Creator does not have a cure for! This is a good herb book albiet a little dated as one person commmented
Awful nutrition advice.......2007-01-31
Ugh. I picked up this book in a thrift store because I'm an herbalist and all-around naturalist, so of course I'd heard of Jethro Kloss and wanted to check out this classic. Before I read anything, I came across the pictures of his grandchildren. Right off, I could tell that these were not the offspring of well-eating people; they have crooked, pinched noses and narrow faces. A great percentage of people have these facial defects, myself included. They (including crooked teeth) are the hallmarks of terrible nutrition by our forebearers. I figured that Mr. Kloss must have been heavily into veganism, or at least vegetarianism. It was no surprise that when I read the book I saw Mr. Kloss' hatred of meat and dairy products. He basically suggests that people just eat vegetables, fruit juice, and grains. He even tells pregnant women to basically avoid all animal products, fish included, and load up on juice, veggies, and grains. I wonder how many problem pregnancies Mr. Kloss contributed to because of this advice. There is NOTHING natural about juice. Even worse, Mr. Kloss was big into soy. Soy is a nutritional disaster. Along with juice, there is absolutely nothing natural about eating unfermented soy. Besides being horrendous in the nutrition department, I feel that his beliefs smack of racism and classism, as in, "Educated and upper-class whites should be smart enough to avoid animal products, but those savages and idiots are just doing themselves in." Nevermind that nowhere on earth has there been an indigenous group of peoples who were voluntarily vegetarian or vegan (even if they were just eating bugs and grubs.) For wonderful information on nutrition, read Weston A. Price's "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration," and/or Sally Fallon's "Nourishing Traditions."
Down to earth truth.......2007-01-15
If you dont have it , get it.
Use your common sense, and regain good health
The other reviews writtten are right on target.
Some concepts are dated, but overall, a good health guide.......2006-02-28
In the book, Mr. Kloss said of all diseases, "God has invented the cure and is waiting for man to discover it." The longer I practice as a pharmacist, the more I realize he was right.
Some of his ideas - especially about cancer, diabetes, and infectious disease - are now known to be erroneous (herbal tea enemas ARE NOT cure-alls!) but it's an excellent guide to herbal medicine, and does mention herbs which should not be used by certain people. It also gives details about things like salt glows and hot fomentations, which probably won't cure anything but may at least make the person feel better.
Promise Kloss Moffett died in 2003, five days before her 100th birthday.
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Backed by the resources of Independent Feature Project/West, co-authors Nicole Shay LaLoggia and Eden H. Wurmfeld have written the definitive low-budget production manual. Using examples from the Swingers and Kissing Jessica Stein, this comprehensive manual offers the independent filmmaker a single volume reference covering every aspect of making a film: script rights and rewrites, financing, breakdown, scheduling and budgeting, pre-production, production, postproduction, and distribution. A resource guide listing useful references and organizations, as well as a glossary, complete this guide. The companion CD-ROM features interviews with important figures in the independent film industry, including Billy Bob Thornton and Ang Lee. Forms that are illuminated in the text are also included on the CD for ease of use.
The new edition is updated with thorough coverage of digital and HDhow to decide which to shoot on, what the financial impact is, and the effect on preproduction. There is also a new chapter on distribution and expanded material on postproduction.
*Learn how to make and distribute your independent film from experienced producers
*Includes a CD-ROM with interviews with leading independent filmmakers such as Billy Bob Thornton and Ang Lee as well as frequently used production forms in reusable template format
*Extensive resource guide of references, organizations, and terms
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Covers every aspect of film production.......2004-06-06
Now in an updated and expanded second edition and nicely enhanced with an accompanying CD-ROM, the IFP/Los Angeles Independent Filmmaker's Manual is the collaborative work of independent film producer Eden Wurmfeld and Nicole Shay Laloggia (Professor of Production at the North Carolina School of the Arts). As "user friendly" as it is comprehensive, the Independent Filmmaker's Manual covers every aspect of film production including preparations, the script, financing, breaking down a script for shooting, scheduling, budgeting, pre-production, production, post-production, film festivals, and film distribution. With it's Resource Guide appendix, glossary, and index, the Independent Filmmaker's Manual is a complete and comprehensive "how to" instructional text and a highly recommended addition to film school reference collections and aspiring independent film producer reading lists.
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This is a superb collection of stories from Peter Hamilton, set in the same universe as his excellent, bestselling epics Reality Dysfunction (Emergence and Expansion) and The Neutronium Alchemist (Consolidation and Conflict). It's hard to pick favorites here, because every one of the stories is superbly plotted, exciting, and full of fresh ideas. The novella "A Second Chance at Eden" is a classic detective story with unpredictable twists and turns. "Escape Route," which also appeared in The Year's Best Science Fiction, marks the reappearance of the starship Lady Macbeth and her crew, who must figure out a xenoc relic before they run afoul of some heavies. Hamilton favorites like bitek, affinity genes, xenocs, and Edenists are threaded throughout the collection, weaving detail into the epic tapestry of his universe. A Second Chance at Eden is perfect for Hamilton aficionados and novices alike. --Therese Littleton
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This is a superb collection of stories from Peter Hamilton, set in the same universe as his excellent, bestselling epics Reality Dysfunction (Emergence and Expansion) and The Neutronium Alchemist (Consolidation and Conflict). It's hard to pick favorites here, because every one of the stories is superbly plotted, exciting, and full of fresh ideas. The novella "A Second Chance at Eden" is a classic detective story with unpredictable twists and turns. "Escape Route," which also appeared in The Year's Best Science Fiction, marks the reappearance of the starship Lady Macbeth and her crew, who must figure out a xenoc relic before they run afoul of some heavies. Hamilton favorites like bitek, affinity genes, xenocs, and Edenists are threaded throughout the collection, weaving detail into the epic tapestry of his universe. A Second Chance at Eden is perfect for Hamilton aficionados and novices alike. --Therese Littleton
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For new readers of Peter Hamilton, A Second Chance at Eden is a great introduction into the universe of The Reality Dysfunction. For previous readers of The Reality Dysfunction and The Neutronium Alchemist, these stories will keep them happy and eager as they await the final volume of the trilogy, The Naked God.A Second Chance at Eden contains seven stories chronicling the history of the Confederation leading up to the time of Joshua Calvert and Quinn Dexter. They include an explanation in "Escape Route" of why the ship The Lady MacBeth was so beaten up when first seen in The Reality Dysfunction, and further exploration into the affinity technology and its potential in "Sonnie's Edge." Bestselling writer Peter F. Hamilton covers a lot of ground, from challenging his readers with the whodunit novella "A Second Chance at Eden" to the thoughtful, speculative fiction in "The Lives and Loves of Tiarella Rose."
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The most hard sci-fi bang-for-the-bucks ever seen in one book.......2006-02-07
Hi,
[Please excuse my tendency to be a little "obscure" when talking about the content of Hamiltons books, this because I hate "spoilers" myself, and thus try very hard not to mention anything that might be considered as such.]
I completely fail to understand why people tend to give this book such low star-ratings, nor why it achieves such a poor sales-rank on Amazon (unless the latter has to do with the book apparantly being out of print, or at least unavailable through Amazon, for how long I don't know?)
In my humble opinion (slightly backed up by the fact that I own some 200+ sci-fi books, most of which I have read several times, and a similar sized collection of other fictional litterature), this is one of the definitive hard sci-fi works of all time, and definitly THE ultimate, single-author collection of short-stories I've ever read.
Yes, I will admit that Hamilton displays a sad tendency to dwell on the (often rather odd-matched, and always larger-than-life, litterally and otherwise) sexual relationships of his main characters. I remember finding this oddly "refreshing" at first (always interesting to hear a good sci-fi writers imaginative views on future sexual practices and "-technologies", since so many writers default to following the Hollywood tradition of leaving such things merely hinted at or often completely unmentioned), but as the same theme is repeated in so many of his works, it DOES tend to become a little boring (verging on the annoying in some titles, although personally I would not count "A Second Chance at Eden" amongst the worst). On the other hand, I'm male, and getting ever older and grimmer in my outlook, so who am I to protest about Hamilton letting me read about such characters not only being heros and such in a techno-freaks utopia, but even getting their wildest, wettest dreams realised?
However, I consider these side-comments on the sex-life of the main characters a minor inconvinience (if any) at most, after all, it's not as if he spends THAT many words on the subject, certainly not relative to the general length of his tomes of exquisite space-opera. I have certainly had to make bigger "allowances" to get well through a number of other, otherwise excellent and much acclaimed, sci-fi works. Try reading any robot-story by Asimov, for instance - Now there is an excercise in "selective reading" for you, be it due the aged (and long since disproven or surpassed) concepts of the involved technology or just Asimovs rather peculiar view on the human psyche.
I find that this, and whatever other minor "oddities" that Hamilton might exhibit in his authorship, is more than compensated for by his wonderful imagination and descriptive, yet not too technical, style (though personally I can't get enough of the tech-stuff, which is why I enjoy reading Niven and Banks just as much as Hamilton).
Specifically, I consider the title-story of this collection of short-stories, "Return to Eden", to be Hamiltons ultimate masterpiece (at least if you take into account the limited number of words in this short-story, compared to most of his other work), and possibly one of the best specimens of hard sci-fi ever written (at least in this format). Rarely have so many novel and utterly exciting and mesmerising concepts of future technology and human society been so expertly presented in a wrapping of a good oldfashioned "locked room" murder mystery.
As far as I remember, it is only in this story, that Hamilton thoroughly explains the technology behind the living, thinking bio-tech habitats that otherwise feature so prominently in many of his works, as he takes us along for a grand tour of many of the habitats facilities during the course of the storyline. It is also here that we get to learn quite a lot about the "implant technology", used and explored in various forms throughout his books, in particular how it came to be, and with a few "twists" as to how the technology is used, that are unique to (or at least introduced in) this story.
Also the first story in the book, "Sonnys Edge", is one I hold dear, for two simple reasons aside from Hamiltons never failing ability to captivate from page one and throughout: The original (and quite ammusing) main concept on which the entire story builds, and the completely unexpected "twist" at the very end (where we discover just what it is that is "Sonnys", the main characters, "Edge" over her fellow competitors in the wonderful and awsome full-contact sport called "Beastie Baiting").
Even if all the remainding short-stories in this collection were complete junk, which they aren't and far from it, I would still rate this book with 5 stars, as each of the two stories mentioned above deserves 5 stars all by themselves (effectivly making this a 10 star collection!)
I would (and have) STRONGLY recommend(ed) this book to anyone new to (or entering) either the sci-fi scene in general, or to hard sci-fi or Peter F. Hamilton specifically. Start by reading "Return to Eden", then proceed with "Sonnys Edge". If you like it so far, you will LOVE most of the larger books and trilogies he's written, even if you might find the remainder of the stories in this particular book a bit below par.
Together with Iain M. Banks and Larry Niven, and the "great old ones", Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke et.al. I place Peter F. Hamilton among the elite of the hard sci-fi scene.
Anonymous.
Good Stories With One Great Story (with one caveat).......2005-02-26
First, the good part.
This is a great collection of stories, some ok, most good, and the novella of the same title as the collection (Second Chance at Eden) being a truly great story.
As you can read from other reviews, these stories are told in the same universe as the _Night's Dawn_ trilogy, but also serve as introduction of various concepts that will be introduced in _Night's Dawn_. So it's a great way to ease yourself info the series, or to try out Peter Hamilton's writing style and see if you like him before you plunge into the massive 6 book "trilogy." If you like this collection, you'll certainly like his later series. This is somewhat different from my reaction to reading Hamilton's _Mindstar_ stories where the writing was very different, with excruciating details of every incident, plodding story line and unlikeable characters. Unlike the _Mindstar_ writing, most of the stories move at a fast pace and great concepts are introduced and explored.
Second, the ok part.
There are some weaker stories in the bunch, like the _New Days Old Times_ which struck me as a social lecture on intolerance rather than being a good story, parts of _Candy Buds_ and _Deathday_ where there was way too much emphasis on getting to the point and exploration of a character that we don't like (sort of like _Mindstar_...), but these are more than made up for the gripping stories and mind-expanding ideas shown in _Sonnie's Edge_, _The Lives and Loves of Tiarella Rose_, _Escape Route_ and finally, clearly the best of the lot, _A Second Chance at Eden_. If anything, you should get the collection just to read that one story which takes up about half the book.
You have to judge Hamilton by the _Second Chance_ story. If you don't like that, you probably won't like the rest of the Hamilton corpus. If you love it, then it's a good sign that you should try out Hamilton's other writings.
Lastly, the not-so-good part (and thus the 4 stars).
One bizarre thing I have noticed with some of his short stories and his novels is that he has a recurring pattern of portraying an oldish man who is tired, world-weary, somewhat cynical, sometimes sarcastic (imagine Humphrey Bogart), meeting a young (sometimes very young) extraordinarily (as Hamilton tells it) beautiful woman who is immediately and unexplicably drawn to him, often leading to instance sex (like in five minutes of meeting him). Sure, this may happen, but it happens concistently, often, and with the same type of characters over and over again. For example, the Greg Mandel character in _Mindstar Rising_ novel, Chief Parfitt and Hoi Yin (Wing-Tsit Chong's assistant) in _A Second Chance at Eden_, Laurus (the main villain) who has a penchant for young women in _Candy Buds_, Eason who uses the interesting plot development to woo the young woman in _The Lives and Loves of Tiarella Rosa_ since her mother is "too old".
What is up with that?
One or two times is ok, or if they're different each time that's ok too. But no, it's the same type of characters, same situation over and over and over again, ad nauseum. It's distracting and verges on disturbing. Even though these aren't major parts of the story or the plot in most cases, and it's more than made up for the rest of the great story line, I still wish I didn't have to get distracted in the middle of the story and think, "huh, this is weird - that's the 100-th time that Hamilton is writing about the old, cynical, world-weary character (or the author himself) having an interest in younger women and the younger woman just inexplicably having sex with him instantly upon meeting him, without having any explanation, motive or attraction."
I wouldn't mind if the relationships were realistic, but they're not, and just bizarre or cardboard at best. Maybe the author needs to grow up or something.
Required reading for Hamilton fans. 4.5 stars.......2003-12-29
This collection, a mix of new and reprint stories, is set in his
"Night's Dawn" universe. The stories collectively form something
of a prequel to the Reality Dysfunction, and Hamilton presents a
detailed future-history timeline as interstitial material.
The core of the book is the previously-unpublished title novella, a
twisty murder-mystery/police-procedural set in the first Edenist
bitek habitat, a He(3)-mining outfit in orbit around Jupiter. The
protagonist, a tough, competent corporate cop with a shaky
marriage, is straight out of Greg Egan or Ed McBain. The setting is
nicely-extrapolated nearish-term hard-SF -- not a dead-demonic
possession in sight, thank heavens. I found it cleaner & more
plausible than his "Greg Mandel" sf-mysteries. Highly
recommended.
The other stories range from excellent (Tiarella Rosa, Escape Route)
down to a couple Hamilton might better have left in the trunk.
All feature his trademarks: a glossy, hi-tech future, larger-than-life
characters, lots of sex & violence. It's interesting to see Hamilton
working at shorter lengths, and US readers are unlikely to have
seen these stories before, except perhaps "Escape Route", reprinted
in the Dozois Year's Best for 1997
Happy reading!
Pete Tillman
Terrific Sci Fi Collection.......2003-11-23
I'm so pleased that I came across this book. Quite by accident, I've been introduced to Peter F. Hamilton's work, and if the rest of his material is this good, I guarantee I'll be reading it all. I disagree entirely with the reviewers who claim that a reader has to know Hamilton's six volume trilogy (!) Night's Dawn to get maximum pleasure out of the stories--in the foreward Hamilton says that some of these stories predate the concept of the trilogy, and one of them (Candy Buds) even gave rise to it. I certainly had no trouble knowing where I was, thanks to the time lines provided by Hamilton, and each of the stories seemed admirably self-contained in terms of the necessary plot points.
To the stories themselves--there's an excellent mix here, some mostly snapshots, others quite long and detailed. Some deal with an individual at a time of personal crisis (Deathday, which owes much to Ray Bradbury's Mars is Heaven), others concern paradigm shifts for the entire Human civilization (A Second Chance at Eden, a truly beautifully written and plotted story). Hamilton is at the gentler side of hard sci-fi. While his stories all contain technology far beyond our current grasp, there's no necessity for a Ph.D. to understand it. He's much less demanding than Greg Bear in his most substantial works. Indeed, the technology is mostly there for the context, and the stories are primarily about human motivations rather than fun sci-fi toys. For the most part this isn't escapest space opera at all, but a keen examination of man's condition. And like the best literature, it's so well written that the reader is mostly unaware that this is the case--the sole exception being New Days Old Times, which is a bit more obvious in its message. Nevertheless, I highly recommend this collection, and I look forward to the delivery of my copy of the first volume of Night's Dawn, which I ordered even before finishing this book!
Good supplement to "Night's Dawn" trilogy.......2002-11-10
This book is basically a supplementary text to the well-known "Night's Dawn" trilogy of books. Unlike "The Confederation Handbook", this book is actually a series of stories rather than just a set of facts and figures detailing the Future History that Hamilton has established. Many of the stories here are pretty weak on their own but they do fit into the overall history and what they serve to do is provide a backdrop for the technology of the Future History at various points within it. In most cases it is very hard to get into the characters per se but rather you just come to understand the future, the technology it holds, and maybe a little of the various political undercurrents that exist. The two most fleshed out stories are probably "A Second Chance at Eden" (from which the book derives its title) and "Escape Route". Here you have longer stories with characters that you can identify with and care about to a greater extent than the other stories while also learning quite a bit about the future.
All in all, I recommend the book whether you have already read "Night's Dawn" (although do not expect the same depth and detail) or before you have read "Night's Dawn") to provide a little background and ease you into the technology concepts that Hamilton puts forth. I give it five stars simply because it really does not detract from the series itself and it certainly does add to it in terms of providing different viewpoints into the future that Hamilton has created.
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Dear Santa, please give me a puppy and stop Armageddon.......2006-01-04
This is another great and bizarre action-adventure-mystery with a touch of science fiction and horror novels, in a great series by George Chesbro. Robert "Mongo" Fredericksen is a criminologist/private investigator who has a black belt in martial arts and happens to also be a dwarf and former star acrobat in a circus. Strange? Oh, it's only begun to be strange! Mongo and his six-foot-three-inch brother, Garth (retired NYPD detective) are well-to-do, well-connected private eyes, looking to put the horrors of their past cases behind them, and enjoy the holidays. They go to the NYC Post Office to pick up five "Dear Santa" letters each, but end up picking just one, in which a little girl wants a puppy, and the end of being molested by a religious fanatic. Their mission to find the girl and save her, leads to a doomsday cult, a billionaire recluse, former professional athletes who are ex-convicts, stolen Amazon topsoil, and wayward biospheres. Can Garth and Mongo prevent Armageddon and get a puppy for the girl, plus end the molestation? They succeed at only two of those three things before the end of the book.
As with all of George Chesbro's Mongo novels, this is fast-paced, well-written, full of action, and replete with bizarre characters. This story takes place several years after "The Beasts of Valhalla," and is just as good. What a thrill ride!
The 7th Mongo book: come and see, but after New Year's.......2005-06-06
"And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.
And there went out another horse that was red, and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another; and there was given unto him a great sword."
- KJV, Revelations 6:3-4
The only guy in a red suit that Mongo and Garth Frederickson expected to be involved with this Christmas was Santa Claus, as each brother is in the habit of picking up five kids' letters to Santa from the post office every year and making their Christmas wishes come true. But this year, they've only got one letter between them, and they expect that to be all they can handle.
Young Vicky Brown, writing from "a secret place" where she isn't allowed to play with any other kids, only wants two things this year: a puppy to keep her company, and something to give to "Reverend Billy" so that he'll stop hurting her. It's clear that the girl's being abused sexually, but the Fredericksons have very few clues to trace her: an envelope with a New York postmark, smeared with dirt, and a reference to a sexually aberrant preacher.
The brothers' own memories of recent scandals put them onto Reverend "Wild Bill" Kenecky, but unfortunately he's already on the run from the IRS this Christmas. The envelope turns out to be a better bet when chemical analysis reveals that the soil is native to the Amazon rainforest, and even the New York Botanical Gardens can't ship the stuff into the US, not even for their best private financial supporter, the eccentric billionaire Henry Blaisdel and his Nuvironment biosphere project, with a goal of building rainforests under glass for eventual use in space habitat construction.
Everyone encountered in the case understandably seems anxious to help - all except Nuvironment personnel, who'll be perfectly happy to cooperate *after* New Year's.
Now what could they be hiding that won't be endanger of exposure after New Year's? Given the high proportion of people encountered in the case who seem to think that the end of the world is *very* near indeed, the question is a tad unsettling.
Drive-in totals:
- Some classic James Bond-type sudden death scenarios.
- Sexual content (the little girl's letter is very clear about what's been going on while sticking to an eight-year-old's language).
- Suicidal religious fanatics, with a lot of really disgusting bigotry.
- One wrecked VW Rabbit with dunking in the East River.
- Massive snowstorm with isolation and power failure.
The mid point of a classic series.......2001-02-08
There is not a single Mongo book that can be given a rank of less than 4 stars, and this one is no exception.In fact , it is one of the finest of the series. For those of you who have never read one of the Mongo books do not read this one first.In fact, it is unwise to read them in any manner except in the order in which they were written.This novel continues to develop the wonderful characters that Mr. Chesbro introduced with " The Shadow of a Broken Man".The pace , as always, is fast, and our heroes will go through much pain before the end of the tale is written. Do yourself a favour and get "Shadow" and read it. Whodunnit, whoizzeee,mystery,fantasy,action,adventure,and one of the most extraordinary characters introduced in modern fiction (no exaggeration).If you enjoy it, get the other books in the series and read them in order.As much as you'll enjoy this book on its own, when read after following the series through to this point it is that much better a book. I'd rank it a 4.7 stars if read on its own and a 5 star book when read as part of the series.
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- Completely unbelievable and an insult to religious men everywhere.
- I can't believe I finished this piece of ...
- Food for the Romantic Gods
- Not Tempting Enough!
- Romantic, Humorous, Entertaining,
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Completely unbelievable and an insult to religious men everywhere. .......2007-07-20
I actually liked the premise of the plot, but early on I realized this book was headed in the wrong direction. Shay acts like a spoiled child, lacking respect for other people's values, and who is completely unwilling to compromise her values - but expects a devoutly religious man to do just that. I didn't even like her very much. Ian (the minister), acts entirely out of character in many of the scenes, and continually - and casually - puts them into situations (which he would/should know better!!) that are only going to lead to "trouble". And what "trouble" there is in the book is not "loving" at all - it's just base lust, and not very well written either. (Don't get me wrong, that's why a big reason I read this genre, but don't try to pawn it off as real love or even some "spiritual" magnet that pulls them together...)
The banter is unoriginal and gives the impression of a contrived scene in a sitcom - not-so-witty cliche line. end scene.
I only finished it to see if the ending redeemed itself. It didn't.
I can't believe I finished this piece of ..........2006-04-19
Nude model Shay is up for the weekend to meet her mom's new husband and step brother. She walks in on said brother in law as he is naked emerging from the shower. Does she allow him privacy? No, she hangs out to make him even more embarrassed. Once she learns that her new brother is a man of cloth, she sets about spending the entire weekend trying to tempt him. Never mind that for all intents and purposes, he ignores her, making her more petulant and determined. And she is supposed to be 30.
When the weekend turns into a bust (a drunk and naked Shay climbs naked into Ian's bed and not realizing that he isn't dreaming, he starts fondling her), both go their separate ways. Then manage to hook up down the road when he realizes she is a temptation he cannot resist. But can a sexually unrepressed nude model find happiness with a conservative minister?
Trite dialog, an implausible love story, it has all the makings of really bad romance novel that was reissued due to the author's later popularity (the fact that it was published under a name says it all)! How Brown can be proud of such a horribly badly written story is beyond me - better to leave this one on the shelf of your local library.
Food for the Romantic Gods.......2005-11-28
Eureka!
This true Romantic has found the mother load..It's food for the Romantic Gods!
QUESTION: what's more precious than all the Gold in Fort Knoxs' ...?!
ANSWER: a True to life love story, that you can sink your teeth into & enjoy each delectable,delicious tasty morsel bite...yummieee!
Tempest in Eden by Sandra Brown is a gold mine of love you'll forever cherish.
Wow talk about SIN-suality at it's best, I like the Hero (Ian)truly his character spoke volumes oppose to the person he is and was. Especially,when you think of the old adage NEVER JUDGE A BOOK By it's Cover! Can you say HOTTIE...a lover likes to no other...pleazze to me it was even a bigger turn on that he was a man of the cloth so to speak(teehee!)Nor did it take away from the story that the setting was of a another time or age...heyyy that made it all the Better for this Romantic!
What a guy!!! I must admit the beginning of the story did throw me for a loop but this READ is a keepsake. I love how Ms. Brown handle the two lovers head on, in this love story...I'm sooo glad she didn't choke-up or shy away from telling it like it is!
Superbly &wonderful was this classy story told.
Most of all Ms. Brown was True to the feelings of how a man &woman should feel regardless of religion or back ground., with matters of true love are in the mix. I got such a FEEL GOOD feeling ,when Shay...(I love that name!) found herself and grew. You go girl...NOW...that's what I'm talking about...yesss!
I read this Love story twice,and I promise you it wont be my last !!!
THANKS Ms. Brown for the sweet & tasty lovely treat for it fed my fires,passions & desires most complete!
susieQ
Not Tempting Enough!.......2005-05-14
What do you get when you cross a nude model and a minister? If you're Sandra Brown, you turn it into a love story. I enjoyed the roller coaster ride with Shay Morrison and Ian Douglas in this book. Somewhat typical of a romance novel from the early 1980's, but as with most of Sandra Brown's books, there are a few twists and turns along the way.
TEMPEST IN EDEN is an enjoyable way to spend a few hours, but don't pick it up if you want to be captured in a story and not be able to put it down. This one definitely won't interfere with your schedule!
Romantic, Humorous, Entertaining,.......2004-04-09
I ran across this book as I was restocking my home library and remembered how good this story was so I had to read it again. Happy that I did. It was even better than I remembered!
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he year is 1880, the place Leadville, Colorado Territory-a town where lust for gold, power, and flesh intoxicates even the most prudent of souls. So finds ne'er-do-well Kit Randall who has gambled away his trust fund and drifted into the arms of the decadent Lucinda Ridenour, widow and heiress to Leadville's Eye Dazzler mine. Kit is in over his head as a rich woman's kept man. When Lucinda is found murdered, Kit is the prime suspect. He takes refuge with Bella Valentine, a prostitute who supplements her income with tarot card readings. Bella, Kit's uncle, Brad Randall, and Brad's wife-to be, Eden Murdoch, believe in his innocence and want to help him find the real killer. There are plenty of suspects-a disgruntled maid, the foreman of the Eye Dazzler mine, and the foreman's wife-but few clues. Lucinda's murder has taken place in a tinder-box atmosphere. Leadville is wracked by labor union unrest and miners going on strike on the eve of the arrival of the railroad and a visit by former President Grant. A gripping Victorian Western whodunit-filled with fascinating characters and the lore of boomtown Colorado.
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A little over-done.......2007-04-11
While the book kept me reading (I did finish it in one sitting) I have to say most of it was fairly anticlimactic. It seemed like there were a lot of social issues raised, then glossed over. I'm not sure if it was the author's intent to make a point of them, or not. The crime almost seemed to take a backseat, and the way it was "solved..." The occult actually played a part, and I prefer my detective work based in solid science (hence the reason I don't watch CSI). I didn't particularly like most of the characters - it seemed they were a little too "odd" on purpose. Character quirks are one thing, but taken to the extreme they simply overwhelm the characters and are detrimental to the storyline. Over all, not a book I would recommend, though not the worst I've read, either.
An exciting amateur sleuth tale.......2003-09-03
In 1880 Leadville, Colorado is booming thanks to the vein of silver being taken out of the Eye Dazzler Mine. Lucinda Ridenour, the owner of the mine, is keeping her young lover in luxurious style indulging in all kinds of debauched pleasures including drugs and the strong liquor absinthe. The last night Kit Randall spends in his lover's home, he has some hallucinations that scare him because he thinks they may be based in reality.
A spiteful Lucinda claims that he stole some items from her before leaving but he is able to talk the police out of arresting him. When his Uncle Brad and his fiancé come to town, they help him hide from the law when Lucinda is murdered. When Brad returns to Washington DC, Eden stays behind to find a way of clearing his name, even if that means figuring out who the real killer is.
THE SECOND GLASS OF ABSINTHE is an exciting amateur sleuth tale that will appeal to fans of romances and westerns as much and those who love historical mysteries will value the tale. Michelle Black is a gifted storyteller whose stark prose and compelling characters draw the reader into the heart of the story line. The mystery is well constructed and there is a plethora of suspects who had every reason to see the widow dead including her own son. Characters from other works of Michelle Black make an appearance giving the audience a feeling of continuity.
Harriet Klausner
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- Shocking answers to the big questions!
- A Former Classmate Is Amazed At Second Eden
- Great book!
- Could have been better - Please read this for your own sake!
- Not bad for a first effort.
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Second Eden
Carlton W. Austin
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Envy. Deceit. Murder. War. Can human nature ever change? Will mankind take a fateful evolutionary leap and become a new species? Or are we doomed by our genes to forever spin on what the Hindus term the Wheel of Life?
The crew of the space shuttle Discovery II, sent to retrieve the Mars probe Areopagus, make an indisputable UFO sighting. Back on Earth they're whisked into quarantine before they can talk by orders from CIA director Carl Snow. Soon they're all dead, victims of a mysterious fire. Peter MacKenzie, the shuttle pilot's best friend and cynical defense analyst, hears rumors that HAM radio operators picked up transmissions from the Discovery II mentioning UFOs. Suspecting a cover-up, he vows to find out why his friend had to die.
Meanwhile, Professor Miles Lavisch discovers an enigmatic book locked inside a rock brought back by the Areopagus. On stage and set to announce the shocking news at a Smithsonian Museum symposium, he is assassinated and the book disappears. Soon his daughter, gene researcher Dr. Molly Lavisch, becomes a target too.
Together in an uneasy alliance, Peter and Molly desperately race to recover the book and trade it for their lives as a secret CIA cadre and Saudi double agent and terrorist Bandar Bliss doggedly pursue them. But a chance translation of the First Martian Covenant reveals that the "Reconciliation Project," which will determine the fate of Earth and take the measure of every human soul, is well underway, fulfilling Judgment-Day prophesies from every major world religion.
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Envy. Deceit. Murder. War. Can human nature ever change? Will mankind take a fateful evolutionary leap and become a new species? Or are we doomed by our genes to forever spin on what the Hindus term the Wheel of Life?
The crew of the space shuttle Discovery II, sent to retrieve the Mars probe Areopagus, make an indisputable UFO sighting. Back on Earth they
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Shocking answers to the big questions!.......2007-08-07
I whole-heartedly recommend Second Eden because it is a smart, entertaining, and thought-provoking story. It addresses some of the "big questions" that I have pondered for much of my life. Moreover, it gave me some very satisfying answers to these questions. Even though these answers were created in the mind of the author, just the possibilty that they could be true gave me a sense of serenity and meaning. After all, most of our beliefs come from what people have told us.
Also, any pilot who has ever taken to the air in a small plane and imagined himself a fighter pilot, will thoroughly enjoy the incredible aerial sequence that Mr. Austin paints in Chapter 18 between a sport plane and a helicopter. Having flown the exact type of airplane, I scrutinized the plausibility and was amazed at the attention to detail and accuracy of the scene. I read the author's biography and sure enough, he is a flight instructor. No one could have described the "dogfight" with as much excitement unless they had that first-hand knowledge.
Second Eden brilliantly ties together the philosophies of the world's major religions into a harmonius and satisfying conclusion. In fact, the jaw-dropping realizations that begin to unfold later in the book are described in such great detail and fit together so seamlessly that I was left wondering if Mr. Austin knows something the rest of us do not.
A Former Classmate Is Amazed At Second Eden.......2006-10-24
Second Eden is an extremely engrossing and satisfying read. I had just read The DaVinci Code last year and I wouldn't hesitate to match the two. His take on the Apocalypse and his creation of the Reconciliation Project are plausible and cause for consideration. The best thing about his intelligent writing is that it makes for a really enjoyable reading experience, and I read everything I can get my hands on. I am so impressed that I knew the author some few decades ago and that he is evidently fulfilling a long-awaited dream by writing a terrific story.
Great book!.......2006-07-19
If you liked The Da Vinci Code you will love Second Eden. Austin is a great storyteller - he brings you into the story at the start and you come along for the ride. You will go around the world with this book. I found it interesting that although the book was written in 2004 it speaks of issues happening in the world today. I still get chills thinking about it! I can't wait for his next book.
Could have been better - Please read this for your own sake!.......2005-08-22
I, like most of you, read the description and some of the reviews and said, "I have to check this out!" Well, I did check it out and was very disappointed. Although it isn't 'bad' it isn't good either. I'll do this in convenient list form.
1. It was way too long. It had no reason to be so long.
2. Certain characters were pointless to the story.
3. Annoying dialogue. Why did I hate the characters I was supposed to like, and like the characters I was supposed to hate?
4. Boring. It tried to be a nonstop action fest, but all it did was confuse me on locations and characters.
The only good thing is the message of the book, I guess. You get this towards the last 1\4th of the book. Even the end was far too long. I am not a person who dislikes long books, I don't care how long a book is if it's entertaining and tells a good story, but this just didn't do it. Be cautious if you buy this.
Not bad for a first effort........2005-07-03
Austin has penned an intriguing and creative title in "Second Eden," a story of spiritual revelation told through the eyes of a scientist and a tough-guy caught in a web of deception and intrigue involving a government cover-up and a healthy bit of science-fiction involving aliens, creation, afterlife and the Apocalypse.
I recommend this be on your beach reading list as it's a pretty short read (took me barely three hours), just don't expect the end-all of thrillers. The premise was clever, but when dealing with something this far-fetched and philosophical, it helps to have at least a cursory foundation in the real world, which this book lacks. Austin would have done well to better research the inner-workings of the US Government in order to create a more plausable Clancy-esque setup. Clancy's tales are so successful because they ground the reader in such meticulous research, assuaging the reader's disbelief and letting the reader fall into the world. Austin's problem is though the turning point and ultimate conclusion of the book are very satisfying, the journey there feels a bit clumsy at times, in no small part due to this lack of realism.
Another gripe is the characterization--the characters are paper-thin and the dialogue leaves much to be desired; the reference to Bogart and Ingrid between the male and female protagonists was cute at first, but after Molly saying "My Bogie!" for the 80th time, it tends to get a little annoying.
Pay little heed to these gripes, though; the metapoints of spirituality and truth are satisfying and cleverly presented, and if you can abide the unreality in it all, it's a fun little read. Pick it up and see for yourself.
Rating: 8.5 out of 10
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The Age of Churchill and Eden, 1940-1957 (History of the Conservative Party)
John Ramsden
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Anthony Eden: A Political Biography 1931-57
Victor Rothwell
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Churchill and Eden at War
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