McInerny makes the compelling argument that what has gone wrong with the Catholic Church since Vatican II cannot be blamed on Vatican II itself, but on liberal theologians' subsequent refusals to submit to papal teaching, notably in the case of the encyclical Humanae Vitae. What appears to secular-based thinking as Vatican totalitarianism is the result of the feeling that the Church ought to be run as a representative democracy. McInerny makes it clear that such has never been, and should never be, the case; that to be an anti-papal Catholic makes about as much sense as being a carnivorous vegetarian. He correctly observes that the liberals' calls to disregard the pope's authority amount to a demand that Catholics submit to the liberals' authority instead.

Unfortunately, McInerny falls into much of the same behavior as that which he deplores in the dissenters: overt hostility and lack of charity. Too much of this short book is given over to venting. The same points are made over and over, resulting in an unpleasantly hectoring tone. One very revealing passage shows the author's frustration with what he perceives as the Vatican's excessive patience and restraint in dealing with the mounting protest. (Apparently, the papacy's supporters have as much trouble submitting to it as do its detractors!) The effect of this tone is such that his closing recommendations for Church restoration and healing through "prayer and fasting" seem tacked on and perfunctory. Bearing this in mind, the book's main points are well made, and I look forward to delving into the actual Vatican II documents to see just how much the public perception of the changes in that council's wake are justified by the writings themselves.

The nature of the Church is such that issues can be freely discussed throughout the hierarchy, between laity, clergy and bishops, and, when necessary, the pope will determine what is binding. One can be an American and disregard presidential statements; one cannot truly be a Catholic without willing submission to the pope's teachings. To refuse this obedience is to define oneself, quite simply, as a Protestant. Any charge of totalitarianism is invalid; one is not free to act as one wishes in, or flee, a country with a totalitarian government, whereas no one is compelled to be a Catholic against one's will. Catholics believe that the Church hierarchy is inspired by the Holy Spirit, whether or not its teachings coincide with their own desires, and that consistent efforts to align oneself with these teachings will deepen one's love of God and humanity and thus lead to full acceptance of the salvation won for us by Christ. If such submission seems sheeplike to the secular mentality, it should be remembered that the Lord did not use the word "sheep" as an insult.

WWWWVT is not true to its title. It devotes perhaps two chapters to the Second Vatican Council, and spends the rest giving a background and the public reaction to Paul VI's encyclical, Humanae Vitae. However, I feel that the issues that arise from HV are the same as those due to Vatican II. The problem with authority in the Church is at the frontline of today's liberal Catholic controversy. The dissenting theologians, priests, and bishops turning their backs on Rome is discussed at length in this book. I believe this is a truly orthodox work, and worthy of study by ALL Catholics. This is the first step to reunion within Church and a reconciling between conservative and liberal Roman Catholics.

. . .about the crisis of authority in the Catholic Church today. Like a previous reviewer, I also note that this book discusses Humanae Vitae far more than Vatican II -- but agree that the fundamental issue IS one of authority in the Church and that the same clerics who wished to deliberately mis-represent the Council are also the ones who protested so vehemently against Humanae Vitae.

From the perspective of this non-Roman Catholic reviewer, it is the authority structure available in the Catholic Church which makes it so attractive and Dr. McInerny's strong call to the Church to exert the authority God has given them is refreshing.

History has demonstrated time and time again that Christianity cannot function either by democracy or by kowtowing to the lowest common denominator. Kudos to Dr. McInerny for bringing to the fore the REAL problem in the Catholic Church over the last 40 years.

In my view trading is NOT about fancy mathematics any more than running a business is about knowing tax laws (of course, I am assuming that a basic knowledge of statistics and probability concepts is not considered 'fancy' here). Trading is about trading, you have to have a basic concept of math but you don't have to be a quant, unless you are trying your hand at some high powered form of arbitrage. Ralph Vince's theory is off in its assumptions because it overlooks the fact that controlling risk is the absolute number one priority, NOT optimization. This very topic is discussed and wrapped up nicely in a few paragraphs in Jack Schwager's interview with scientist/money manager William Eckhardt in 'New Market Wizards' (Eckhardt has a few hundred million under management; I don't know how much Vince does, if any).

I am not a math superstar, I was a literature and philosophy major in college. But even a liberal arts joker like me can see that the math element is way overdone here. The idea that money management is a mysterious and complex issue is proliferated by books like this. I can sum up effective money management in two steps: First take your worst case loss scenario, which will be based on a run of lossses with a less than one percent probability of occurring, as calculated by your expected win/loss ratio. For example, if you reasonably expect to win 40% of the time and lose 60% of the time, there is a less than 1% or "worst case" probability, that you will see ten losses in a row at some point in your trading (this may look like hard math but the calculations are actually grade school level). Next, determine your max desired drawdown. What's the biggest hit you could possibly stand? Ten percent down? Twenty five? Fifty? Let's say you are moderately aggressive and able to deal with a twenty percent drawdown without losing your nerve. Divide twenty percent by ten, and you see that your max allowable risk is 2% of your account balance, including calculated slippage and commissions per trade. If you can stomach a 40% drawdown you don't risk more than 4%, and so forth. Simple, straightforward, no hidden gimmicks, gizmos or geekspeak. The only other bogey you have to deal with is the once in a blue moon nasty price shock that blows your stop to kingdom come (a simple and emphatic argument for less risk per trade, not more).

Most CTA's could double their returns very easily, simply by doubling the amount of risk they take. Why don't they do it? Because the reward is not worth the risk. If you get a huge win, it will help your profits but it will not change your world. A string of fat losses or a single huge loss, however, can kill you, take you out for years, maybe for good, leave you wandering the streets muttering 'if only I had taken a smaller risk on that trade with my name on it, I would have survived'.... Not to mention that bigger ups and downs throw your sharpe ratio all out of wack, which few investors like. If you double your money in eleven months and then take a 50% loss in December, where have you gotten? Nowhere. I recall an anecdote a while back about how George Soros' fired one of his currency traders after a huge score because the trader took on way too much risk with the trade. Even though he won, he got canned for being reckless. If I had someone trading for me and he wasn't thinking defense first, I would can him too. So you've had a reliable win/loss ratio in the past, so what. How do you know a string of losses or a price shock isn't going to bite you when you least expect it? You don't know, and no one is completely immune to a streak of misfortune. Optimization is for gamblers, not professionals. The 'F' in Optimal F should stand for a word that rhymes with 'sucked.'

I just read the "not for the innumerate" review on this book, and I agree. But I would like to clarify why the book disappoints. It's not that there are too many equations, but that there are too few equations and way too much jargon-laden hand waving. The hand waving, unfortunately, does not compensate for the clarity sacrificed by omitting the math. Vince's thesis that optimal f will maximize geometric returns is a valuable one, as is the concept of trading at dynamic fractional f to control risk. Unfortunately, he does not get specific enough to show us how to define and use optimal f in real life stock trading. I have an extensive math background, but I cannot get convincing quantitative results in Excel using his presentation, even after re-deriving for myself all the equations he deigns to show us. Perhaps if I had a futures trading background I would find his prose easier to follow, but I would have been much better off with the equations, in an appendix at least.

... I must have close to a 100 trading books and this one is a gem. As Elder points out in one of his books there are three legs that support successful trading: Trading Strategy, Psychology and Money Management. Optimal F which is well explained in this book is the best measure of your Risk/Reward. Knowing the optimal f of a trade allows you to compare apples and oranges. I can tell if trading a stock option with a potential return of 1000% is better than trading a stock with a potential return of 20%.

It takes a big man to admit that he was wrong, especially when such an admission will cost him "friends", supporters, and financial remuneration.
Mr. Woodrow is a big man for writing this book and admitting that he was unknowingly deceived by the pseudo-scholarship silliness put forward by Alexander Hislop. He is also a big man for withdrawing his previous book from print -- at enormous financial cost.
No, Mr. Woodrow is not a Roman Catholic. Those that now accuse him of "selling out to Rome", etc., seem to be more interested in spreading their polemic than researching the actual facts of the matter.
Anyhow, this theologian congratulates Mr. Woodrow for his courage, his integrity, and his Christian witness -- even if there are details on which we would (sharply) disagree.

Many years ago, Ralph Woodrow made a serious mistake. In his earnest desire to root out paganism in the Body of Christ, he took extremely seriously the work of the late Alexander Hislop "The Two Babylons". Mr. Woodrow took this work so seriously that he wrote his own work "Babylon Mystery Religion". Being that Mr. Woodrow is a 20th century American, rather than a 19th century Englishman, many American readers found his work more accessible than Rev. Hislop's.

Then, something happened. Mr. Woodrow discovered, through a long process of prayer and historical research, that Rev. Hislop's book was inaccurate -- inaccurate to the point of being fraudulant. Mr. Woodrow COULD have taken the easy way out. After all, anti-Catholic books sell like hotcakes in certain sectors.

But Mr. Woodrow has the true integrity of a Christian gentleman. When he discovered -- beyond a shadow of a doubt -- that the information in his earlier work was incorrect, he withdrew that book from publication (at some personal expense) and wrote this volume to explain the whys and wherefores.

The result was predictable. Many of Mr. Woodrow's "friends" turned on him. (Just take a look at the tenor of some of the other reviews, and you'll see what I mean!) But other Christians, recognizing integrity in a man (whom they still disagree with on other issues -- like myself) choose to give credit where credit is due.

Now I am not a Roman Catholic -- and never have been. But as a trained historian, I have been shocked and saddened at much of what purports to be research directed against the Catholic Church. I'm glad to see one man willing to say "I was wrong".

God bless you, Mr. Woodrow. May you increase in faith and godly wisdom.

Mr. Woodrow is not a Catholic, but at least he is sincere and has a conscience. He realized that his book "Babylon Mystery Religion" is based on lies, slander, and detraction, on fiction and incorrect or incomplete data. This new book, "The Babylon Connection?", repudiates his old work and lays the truth on a platter for everyone to see. God bless him!

This book had great potential to be a real blockbuster, but because of Epperson lack of scholorship this book missed the mark. On one hand I will have to give Mr. Epperson credit because he obtain a lot of sources for this book, but because he use so many I began to question if any of these quotes were taken out of context. This is a issue that really needs to be seriously look at, but it has to be studied very carefully. The facts need to come via first person or second person. The most groud breaking books about masons or satanist have come from people that were actually involved with either of the two. Epperson is a outsider and the depth of this book proves it.
Now I am not saying that what Epperson is trying to bring out is not good because it is. Base on what Epperson attemped to bring out in this book, the Freemasons and those that pratice witch craft need to be taken more seriously.

A. Ralph Epperson is more responsible than some other New World Order authors in his writing of this book. All sources are documented well and quoted directly in the text of his book. Epperson's research of his subject matter is thorough and leaves few questions as to the validity of the information. However, in this can't-put-it-down reading treasure, there is much Christian bias which limits the universal acceptance of the author's point of view. He also makes some assertions based on the quoted material that are difficult for the reader to agree with based on his(reader's) own assessment of the quote.

Still, an excellent introduction to the harsh realities of the New World Order, who is involved and the nature of its participants. I highly recommend it to "Wake Up" the minds of the ignorant masses or "goyim" of America.

A. Ralph Epperson, brilliant author of "The Unseen Hand", has now outdone himself with "The New World Order". Frightening and provocative at the same time, this novel will cause the reader to spend many sleepless nights wondering "what is it all about?". Packed with details and undaunted research that only a true historian can accomplish, Epperson challenges the reader to turn the page only to reveal another startling revelation. From cover to cover, this is a book that will invoke controversy, debate, and unfortunately, FEAR. To quote the character of Fox Mulder from the "X-Files": "The TRUTH is out there...for those who have the time to read." "The New World Order" is one of the best books I've come across this decade which I highly recommend!!

Microsoft require you a score of 705 to pass the 70-73 exam, and this book cover 80% -- 90% material of the test. Which means if you read this book very thoughtfully, you will pass, however, if you want to get a score higer than 900, you'd better have more real world experience or to read other related books.

This book is very good organized and well written. Chap 4(connectivity), chap 5(Running Applications), and Chap 6(Monitoring and Optimization) are the most beautiful part of the book. Chap5 can truly help you understand how to run applications on NT, this chapter does a better job than the MOC(Microsoft Official Curriculum). This book also does a good job on explaining the ' File delete Child' conception(page 189).

This book has very little typos which are inevitable and acceptable. For example, in page 203, table 3.15, if you want to change permissions of a printer, you must have Full control permissions, however, table 3.15 shows that you only need have Mana! ge documents permission, not Full control permission.

Another example, in page 397, table 6.12, the stop icon and information icon are misplaced.

Very few questions offered in this book are not designed well(most of them are designed carefully). For example, in page 142, question no.1 and no.2 need to be re-designed more carefully.

In page 230, the answer to question 12 should be B, not A, be careful.

After all, this is a very good training guide, and it did help me to prepare for the 70-73 exam(passed with 980).

I'd like to recommend this book to you.

Rui-Di Chu (FREDDY)

PS: This is not the only book I use to prepare for the 70-73 exam. I attended the class, read MOC, and an Exam Guide from QUE.

This book offers an excellent review of the material you will need to know to pass the NT Workstation exam. However, it will not stand on it's own as a comprehensive study guide. Use it to reinforce what you have already learned through other books or classes. Then take the test.

The CD that comes with this book is very helpful if you don't have a lot of access to monkey with the actual operating system. Besides the usual test engine (which lets you review by specifying as few or many objective catagories as you care) it also has a "flash card" program that is very unique. I know opinions vary easily in certification book circles but I am finding the content and layout to be very accessable.

Do not waste your time reading Ralph J. Acampora's book. It is another way Mr. Acampora is trying to make money is today's world. When will he have enough?

I read a lot of investment material and this is the first time I have heard of the concept of a "mega-market". Mr. Acampora provides interesting comparisons to prior mega-markets with very brief lessons in technical analysis. He has made a boring subject interesting and uses a lot of personal examples. I think it takes guts to go out on a limb to highlight a phenomenon and to have in print that you predict that this bull market will run through 2011. This is even more corageous considering he finished this book during the present market turmoil. I don't find this to be vanity but more of a desire to share his knowledge with others. You are not going to learn all the details of technical analysis, but reading his book gave me the confidence to contiue investing in this bear market.

Unlike several current books about the stock market that I've read, Mr. Acampora chooses not to make incredible Dow predictions but rather presents an excellent historical and technical argument for investor optimism. He explains the social and technology backdrop of prior robust market eras and shows the reader why everything is in place for a grand future. Bear markets and the periodic deflation of speculation are a natural occurence in the course of a bull mega-market. If anything, this book will build your confidence as a long term investor and support a committment to stay in the market during the current severe stock correction. Mr. Acampora addresses the current market and puts it in a historical context and that I found very informative. The book is very well written and I have no doubt this is due to the collaboration with Michael D'Antonio who put his Pulitzer Prize winning writing skills to work here. You don't have to learn much technical analysis to enjoy this book. Mr. Acampora makes a solid and easily understood case for it but, in my mind, his inate integrity, sense of history, and long experience find an intuitive expression through that venue. At first I was going to rate this book a 4 but after some thought upgraded to a 5 because the book's understated style truely provides a thoughtful and informative experience that will benefit the investor. Highly recommended.

... I found the book to be a rather clumsy piece of nonsense that was morally grotesque. Schoenman couldn't even get his facts straight or bother to look for more up to date material to confirm the information he presents. For instance, when discussing the Kanster affair Schoenman quotes from the book "Perfidy", by Ben Hecht which was written in 1961. The book "Perfidy" [was] written in the early 60's to smear the Israeli left by a right-wing Zionist. Yet, the book itself has been proven to be inaccurate as historians such as Yoav Gelber, whom spent years in Israeli and German archives, present facts that Ben Hecht didn't even know.

Furthermore, Schoenman recounts the story of Rabbi Weissmandel who accused the Zionist of not giving him funds to save the Jewish people while the Nazis were slaughtering them. However, what Schoenman fails to mention is that the Zionist did in fact try to funnel money to Rabbi Weissmandel; however, the deal was doomed to fail from conception. One reason being that the Jewish people just didn't have the money that the Nazi officer who was making the deal demanded. And more importantly the Nazi officer himself was a swindler who had no intention (or real power for that matter) to save any Jews (Yoav Gelber, "Jews For Sale?").

In addition, Schoenman states that "No Zionist leader supported his [Rabbi Weissmandel's] request, nor did the Western capitalist regimes bomb a single concentration camp." Beside the fact that there were Zionist leaders who did support the Rabbi, Auschwitz was bombed at least once. It is true that the Allied powers could have done more to save Jews; however, it is extremely debatable whether or not bombing the camps would have saved millions. Especially since bombing the camps would have meant killing the Jews inside of them. There is also at least one piece of irony and hypocrisy when Schoenman titles Chapter 8 "Blitzkrieg and Slaughter". In the chapter Schoenman blasts Israel for bombing Lebanon and inflicting high civilian casualties (another bogus claim). The truth is that Israel would drop leaflets on warning the civilian populations and other non-combatants when and where they would commence bombing. The Syrian/Lebanese government told the civilians not to touch the papers because they were poisonous. One should note that apparently Schoenman is in favor of collateral damage when the victims are Jews but apposes it when they are not.

Schoenman seems more content on proving his ignorance when he discusses what he likes to call "Ben Gurion and the final Aim". Though this section should more aptly be titled "Schoenman and his lack of Brains". He quotes Ben Gurion saying a couple of things and links them to a supposed expulsion of Palestinians. The quotes are taken way out of context and show Schoenman's total lack of intellectual integrity...

The book makes many more statements that are of equal stupidity and are far to numerous to recount here...

This is an excellent book which outlines the creation of Israel at the expense of the native population, the wars, the occupation and it's treatment of the Palestinian population, which includes toruture, home destruction, and murder. And unlike what a previous writer said, Ralph Schoenman is a Marxist, but NOT a Stalinist. Even though this book is old, it will help explain WHY the first Intifada started, WHY the Arab community distrusts Israel, WHY Palestinians must have their own independent state. This is the book that Pro-Israeli individuals don't want you to read, which explains the negative reviews which don't back up any of their claims with facts, just a wave of the hand. If you want to find out the truth about Israel, not fairy tale stories about Zionist morality, then read this book.

Shocking is the only way I can describe what I felt as I read this book. Schoenman trots out the well-cited facts that cannot help but convince the reader that Israel is colonial power set up by Great Britain to protect its oil interests, that has methodically resorted to the most heinous atrocities to cleanse Palestine of Arabs. Further, since the end of WWII, the U. S. has for the same motives as G.B. financed the slaughter and expulsion of Arabs by Israeli forces, in addition to playing one Arab nation off against another. Like most Americans, I have been too busy to look beyond the headlines. As Noam Chomsky has written, however, the American news media is the world's most powerful propaganda machine with a pro-American business bias. Schoenman makes it clear that that bias was recently used to allow Israel and the U.S. to do terrorize the world under the cover of eliminating "terrorism" elsewhere. The 9-11 attacks were shocking, but nothing like as shocking as the truth about America's support of a monster nation like Israel. ... Shocked.

This book is meant to be read by the novice programmer interested in learning Java. The author covers the basics of the language and object oriented principles. The author also does a good job of whetting the reader's appetite to learn by introducing some of the features that made Java so popular, i.e. Applets, Client/Server and GUI development. I found it quite original to start with "object first" approach followed by programming fundamentals and topped up by more advanced topics. It is only natural that the author starts with easy introductory overview of objects, methods and applets to progressively builds up to more complex and advanced concepts such as exceptions,threads and recursions. The breadth of details given to exercises, examples, case studies, self-study, laboratory guide bears witnesses to the years of experience and amount of research works required to produce such a comprehensive masterpiece. I thoroughly recommend this book for all students or professionals who want to take a quick grasp of the fundamentals of Object Oriented Concepts

This was the first book on programming I purchased, when I decided to teach myself Java as my first language. I understand a lot of the other reader's gripes with the writing style; I often felt my eyes glazing over as I read, and often found myself going over and over the same material when I realized that I had missed an important point. I also wished that the solutions were available somewhere, and there are exercises in the book that I don't think I will ever solve. Some of the traits that distinguish this book from the others I have amassed in my collection of "beginning programming" books are as follows: 1) I have yet to find a book that devotes this much detail to strings and some common methods for processing them. After that chapter I felt that I could do most anything. 2) This book truly is aimed at the complete beginner. The author does not dive right into a bunch of topics at once. The book is well organized into basic programming concepts, and then increases in complexity at a comfortable speed. 3)The exercises (even when there is no solution available for the non-instructor) are decent and vary in complexity. I know that there are probably better, more comprehensive tutorials for the complete beginner, and anyone who happens to read this book first will want to move on to other books for newbies. This is a gentle, patient introduction to programming, and to Java, and it is a good springboard into more advanced topics. One final word, I found that it was helpful to ignore all of the examples and exercises related to AWT and SWING until I was comfortable with the basic techniques of programming.

Despite the other reviews, it's apparent others have not seen the learning light when they passed this book off as low rate. Critics who may brand this author with lengthy eloquence just don't want to know more than a nutshell of java.

I am a web developer and a wanna be java programmer. In the last year I have looked at many a books, taken several intro courses from Sun, and others; they all have prepared me for where i am now, but I will have to say much of the journey has not been pleasurable learning. Many teach Java who are not well trained themselves. From the parts I have read in this book, it is an essential learning primer.

Let me say, this book is pleasurable learning, from the couch to the Desktop. I recommend it to all levels of programmers. Even for just cognitive review...which we all need sometime in life.

Cheers to Ralph Morelli.

After reading the first few pages of this book, it seemed like it was going to be an inspirational story of Burt Ward's struggle to success in one of the most beloved TV comedies of all time. Instead, I was brought into a somewhat funny (if not exaggerated) tell-all. At times it was charming, funny, and clever (for example, the stories about his first wife, apperances at schools, and one heck of a chapter on Julie Newmar) ...but in other moments it would go into sleazy, trashy, and VERY over-exaggerated nonsense (referring to yourself as a mock 'Super Stud Porn King' leaves a bad taste in anyones mouth).

Buy it if you are a die hard Batman fan, or if you didn't grow up on the show...but if your only memories are of good natured fun on a clever TV show...read Adam West's "Back To The Batcave".

When I first ran across snippets about Burt Ward's sexual exploits, I took them with a grain of salt (okay, a POUND of salt). After reading the book, I don't doubt any of the stories because of the honesty one can see throughout the tome. Ward tells a convincing story of what it was like to work on a hit 1960's TV show with all of the highs and pitfalls. This book goes a long way in explaining why Adam West still doesn't want to relinquish the bathood. (Anyone who had that many groupies wouldn't likely give up the hood willingly either.)

Anyway, it's a funny book, but only for those who can stand the detailed descriptions of Ward's nocturnal escapades. You'll never see "Batman" in the same light again.

I must disagree with Miss Taylors review. I think she missed the whole point of the book. This was an entertaining book about a young Hollywood TV star who was one of the main draws for the classic Batman and Robin series. I found the book to be very honest and pretty well written as tell alls go. Lets face it: Adam West could have lost a few pounds. He seemed to be seriously testing his Bat Belt. On the other hand, Burt Ward was the young, virile hunk who no doubt caught the eye of many a teenager.If there were "sex-capades" behind the scenes, why not write about them? He would have been dishonest NOT to include such details. Also, if he had problems with West or West's acting, he would have been wrong to leave that out, as well. The fact is: Burt Ward was a star, if not thee star of a cute, entertaining children's show. He was younger and I believe more young people connected with him. He wrote a pretty decent, honest portrayal of his Batman days and he should be applauded for not white washing anything. Any classic Batman and Robin fan should read this book. I think most will enjoy the book and laugh out loud as often as I did

The Golden Orange was a vivacious book that dealt with human emotion in both positive and negative ways. The toll that money takes on human spirit is very evident in this compilation. The use of symbolism is mysterious and links the book together all the more. The characters are described in such a way that you develope feelings for them. The Golden Orange is a well thought out book and the twist in the plot adds even more corruption to the pages. The book fools you in a way that you find amazing after the last page is read. Greed and luxary is the main focus for some characrters while for others it is excitement and a new start on life. The setting and description of the Golden Orange give you a real sense of the rich and the bad blood attitude. All in all the book is worth the time to sit and relax with.

The Golden Orange was a vivacious book that dealt with human emotion in both positive and negative ways. The toll that money takes on human spirit is very evident in this compilation. The use of symbolism is mysterious and links the book together all the more. The characters are described in such a way that you develope feelings for them. The Golden Orange is a well thought out book and the twist in the plot adds even more corruption to the pages. The book fools you in a way that you find amazing after the last page is read. Greed and luxary is the main focus for some characrters while for others it is excitement and a new start on life. The setting and description of the Golden Orange give you a real sense of the rich and the bad blood attitude. All in all the book is worth the time to sit and relax with.

The Golden Orange was a vivacious book that dealt with human emotion in both positive and negative ways. The toll that money takes on human spirit is very evident in this compilation. The use of symbolism is mysterious and links the book together all the more. The characters are described in such a way that you develope feelings for them. The Golden Orange is a well thought out book and the twist in the plot adds even more corruption to the pages. The book fools you in a way that you find amazing after the last page is read. Greed and luxary is the main focus for some characrters while for others it is excitement and a new start on life. The setting and description of the Golden Orange give you a real sense of the rich and the bad blood attitude. All in all the book is worth the time to sit and relax with.