If you find yourself reading this book, then perhaps you already sense what is happening, already feel it inside. 250,000 first printing BOMC selection author tour. Celestine Prophecy Series 4 primary works 14 total works Book 1 The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield 3. The Celestine Prophecy James Redfield AUTHOR'S NOTE For half a century now, a new consciousness has been entering the human world, a new awareness that can only be called transcendent, spiritual. The book ends with the protagonist poised to discover the 10th Insight in a promised sequel. But several of the Insights are incredibly vacuous and politically correct, and long stretches of dialogue are banal and cliched. Redfield has a real talent for page-turning action, and his lightweight quest employs auras, energy transfers and other psychic phenomena. While dodging evil soldiers, paranoid priests and pseudoscientific researchers, our hero sequentially discovers all nine Insights during a series of chance encounters. South of the border, he encounters resistance from the Peruvian government and church authorities, who believe the document will undermine traditional family values. The saga begins when the unnamed middle-aged male narrator whimsically quits his nondescript life to track down an ancient Peruvian manuscript (pretentiously called the Manuscript) containing nine Insights that supposedly prophesy the modern emergence of New Age spirituality. Originally self-published, the book sold phenomenally, sparked by word of mouth, and may be this year's The Bridges of Madison County -with which it shares some regrettable stylistic similarities. Redfield's debut is a fast-paced adventure in New Age territory that plays like a cross between Raiders of the Lost Ark and Moses's trek up Mt.
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Twain wasted little time making his way to New York City to convince Grant that he could give him a better deal. He believed he could offer Grant a better deal. When Twain heard about the offer, he was appalled by how little money Grant would get from the sales of the book. Under this original plan, The Century Company was willing to give Grant ten percent of all sales after the book was finished. Grant was writing articles about the many battles he had fought during the Civil War and hoped to expand on these articles and form a memoir of his military career. Grant had previously agreed to allow a publishing company to print the book but had not yet signed a final contract. Twain was not even involved with the project when he began writing. The original hand-written manuscript still survives and is entirely penned with Grant’s own handwriting. My sense is that people read Grant’s writing, hear about the association with Twain and assume that explains it.” However, the claim is untrue. In a February 2012 article for The Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates explained the myth by stating that, “a lot of really intelligent people are under the impression that Grant’s lucid prose are really the result of Mark Twain’s editing hand. Grant did not entirely write his own memoirs. Rumors have persisted for many years that Ulysses S. Needless to say, the segments I did see confirmed the film’s low-budget, schlocky underpinnings. I never saw more than brief snatches of trailers of ‘Inseminoid’ when it was released back in the early 80s. Can the surviving members of Team Nova kill Sandy…or will she succeed in giving birth to the alien offspring ? The hapless Sandy rapidly devolves into a pregnant, homicidal quasi-alien, endangering the lives of the rest of the crew. However, their carelessness about securing the alien proves their undoing, as the creature succeeds in escaping, and rapes crewmember Sandy. When the alien is returned to the laboratory, it gradually comes back to life, to the astonishment of the crew. In the course of excavating some ancient ruins, the team discovers a burial crypt containing a deceased alien creature, preserved in a sealed, coffin-like chamber. Team Nova is an archeology expedition housed in an installation on a remote planet. This novelization of 'Inseminoid' (158 pp) was released in April, 1981 by UK publisher New English Library. (FWIW I think even in my early twenties when I first read the Handmaid's Tale, I missed the central point: that the off-screen old school second wave mother was in fact a feminist hero, and her patronising dismissive daughter was the fool who'd passively taken her eye off the ball wrt women's rights till it was too late and she'd lost them. Some bits went way over my head, of course. I read adult books from a very young age, if they grabbed me and I was interested. Feminist books which made an impact and stayed with me - Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch (didn't get on so well with Sex and Destiny, but I have a feeling I should re-read that with the benefit of being older and wiser), and Susan Faludi's Backlash.Īs for your daughter - depends on what she's like. I’m not ashamed of where I come from, my family, or how everyone at Marymount thinks my skirts are too short and my lipstick is too red.Ĭlay Collins and her friends have always turned up their noses at me. I cross the tracks every day for one reason-to graduate from this school and get into the Ivy League. Unfortunately, what I want I have to hide. The truth is that it’s easy for me to resist them, because what I truly want, they can never be. I own the hallways, walking tall on Monday and dropping to my knees like the good Catholic girl I am on Sunday. I’m behaved.īeautiful, smart, talented, popular, my skirt’s always pressed, and I never have a hair out of place. Not that I have anything to share anyway. We’re chaste, we’re untouched, and even if we weren’t, no one would know, because we keep our mouths shut. Plato’s Division of the Soul as a Theory of Mental Structure and Action.Kant's "A Priori Knowledge," Empiricism and Rationalism. Sartre's "Existentialism Is a Humanism" and Choosing for All Mankind.Vanity in Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil".Enter your email address to receive notifications of new posts. I can’t resist a dragon’s tale and this new installment in Dreamspinner Press’ Dreamspun Beyond series is another knockout! Dragon’s Hoard by M.A. It won’t be easy, but buried deep, there’s something between them worth safeguarding. But he’d rather cut off his tail than let his innocent mate’s light go out. Warwick knows his race’s reputation, and he even admits some of it is deserved. Warwick is fearsome, and he’s free to do as he likes with Avery. As an Omega, Avery knows he is basically useless to his pack, so he might as well agree. Warwick demands Montgomery’s son, Avery, and three businesses as compensation. Now the debt is due, and dragons don’t forget-or forgive. To be loved by a dragon is to be treasured.Ī hundred years ago, werewolf Alpha Montgomery took a risk driven by desperation-he borrowed money from the ancient dragon Warwick Ehecatl, putting up the pack lands as collateral. We also see Uthred clash with his arch-enemy, Kjartan the Cruel, and the latter’s son, Sven the One-Eyed.Īs usual Uthred keeps curious company: From Finnan whom Uthred meets in captivity (the one part of the book that didn’t engage as much as the rest (just like in the TV series!)) to Sithric up to Saint Cuthbert himself and, quite literally, parts of Saint Oswald…Įven though - to me at least - this is not the strongest book so far, I very much enjoyed it and found I simply had to start its successor, “Sword Song” despite my continued best intention to quit this addiction! This time, we accompany Uthred to the north where he meets Guthred, another king who plays Uthred almost as well as Alfred does. I had every intention to temporarily remove myself from the amazing literary maelstrom this series has proven to be for me but, alas, when I looked through the books I actually intended to read right now, I kept feeling drawn to “Lords of the North”, the third instalment in Cornwell’s “Saxon Stories”. In madness lies change, in change is opportunity, and in opportunity are riches.« For Johnnie has secrets of her own, and her worst fear is that the life she’s always wanted-the one where she gets to pursue her own dreams-will never begin. Or perhaps they never went away to begin with. Although she has conquered the bulimia that almost killed her, Johnnie can never let down her guard, lest the old demons return. But she never finished college and her only creative outlet is a journal of letters addressed to both the living and the dead. She has a handsome, hardworking husband who adores her, and they live in the historic North Texas town of Portion in a charming bungalow. Why did her mama leave? Would she ever return? How did her Uncle Johnny really die? Who was her father? Now Johnnie Kitchen is a 43-year-old woman with three beautiful children, two of them grown. Would life have been different for Johnnie if she’d been named after a woman rather than her dead uncle? Or if her mama hadn’t been quite so beautiful or flighty? The grandparents who raised her were loving, but they didn’t understand the turmoil roiling within her. I wish Schlosser had touched upon chicken as well and the ‘pink sludge’ substance that I’ve heard about in school lunches. I don’t eat beef for dietary reasons so I wasn’t as bothered by the information in this book as those who eat beef might be. I learned a lot about food production, especially beef, that I didn’t know before. While there were several facts I could tell immediately were biased, they were much farther between than many other non-fiction exposes. I thought the information would be much more biased than it was. I was more shocked that it was milder than expected. I wasn’t overly shocked by the content of this book because of the title. After ‘Super Size Me,’ it’s a welcome change. Coli disease, but his tone is more to inform than to scare. He does have to touch on the darker sides of fast food (as his title implies) such as the realities of working in a slaughter-house and the potential spread of E. Schlosser focuses on the economic impacts of the fast food industry as well as the health problems Americans face as a result of consumption. He takes us back to the McDonald brothers churning out milkshakes as fast as they could and Ray Kroc seeing a future of golden arches across the country. Rather than focus exclusively on the health benefits (or lack there of) of fast food, Schlosser looks at the history of the industry first. Fast Food Nation: The Dark side of the All American Meal by Eric Schlosser |