I orginally picked up this book because of the castle on the front, and I was in that kind of mood. Castle is a relatively good book that at times relies on puns and sarcastic humor more than a plot line. It is best to read the Xanth novels in sequence so don't read this one until you have read the ones set chronically before it

He has been very successful over the years with all the science fiction novels he has written. He first stated off in 1967 with his first book, it was the first of many. Over the years he has become the well writer. Writing many series on novels such as the Xanth Series. He got his first real break into getting a lot of attention. Then the book Spell of a Chameleon came out that was the book to jump-start the Xanth series and his career. The book Castle Roogna was a very interesting book in the Xanth series. This book is a fantasy where magic is everywhere and everyone has some. The main character Dor is now 12 years of age and he has the magic power to talk to nonliving things. He has a crush on Millie his maid, Millie is an ex-ghost and she is in love with the zombie Jonathon. Just a little love triangle to spark off an adventure. So Dor goes off to get a restoration elixir to bring Jonathon back for Millie. The adventure starts when he goes to the magician castle to find where the elixir is. He gets into the castle and the magician told him he has to travel eight hundred years in the past to where the zombie master lives to get it from him. He goes back in time eight hundred years to find the zombie master, but first he goes back to the castle and tells King Trent was is happening and he is fine with it so he enters the tapestry which makes them go back in time eight hundred years. More to come if your read the rest of the book Castle Roonga by Piers Anthony and see all the trouble Dor goes though trying to get the restoration elixir for Jonathon the Zombie. He has been very successful over the years with all the science fiction novels he has written. He first stated off in 1967 with his first book, it was the first of many. Over the years he has become the well writer. Writing many series on novels such as the Xanth Series. He got his first real break into getting a lot of attention. Then the book Spell of a Chameleon came out that was the book to jump-start the Xanth series and his career. The book Castle Roogna was a very interesting book in the Xanth series. This book is a fantasy where magic is everywhere and everyone has some. The main character Dor is now 12 years of age and he has the magic power to talk to nonliving things. He has a crush on Millie his maid, Millie is an ex-ghost and she is in love with the zombie Jonathon. Just a little love triangle to spark off an adventure. So Dor goes off to get a restoration elixir to bring Jonathon back for Millie. The adventure starts when he goes to the magician castle to find where the elixir is. He gets into the castle and the magician told him he has to travel eight hundred years in the past to where the zombie master lives to get it from him. He goes back in time eight hundred years to find the zombie master, but first he goes back to the castle and tells King Trent was is happening and he is fine with it so he enters the tapestry which makes them go back in time eight hundred years. More to come if your read the rest of the book Castle Roonga by Piers Anthony and see all the trouble Dor goes though trying to get the restoration elixir for Jonathon the Zombie.

The main character of this book is Dor, Bink's son. He is very similar to his father, in that he has good moral sense and humility. His talent of communicating with inanimate objects is good but subtle like his father's immunity to magic, rather than blatantly awesome like King Trent's power of transformation. So, like his father, Dor has trouble with his identity. He goes back in time on a quest to un-zombie a zombie, and this action-packed adventure relates his learning process. He has to make some tough decisions for a twelve-year-old boy. This book is also humorous, thanks to Anthony's interesting personification of the inanimate objects that talk to Dor. He doesn't just talk to them; they can talk to others in his presence, and he can tell them what to do. This book is significant in the series; it makes the character transition without sacrificing the quality, and opens the floodgates for the rest of the series. You also learn a lot about how present Xanth was similar and different from Fourth Wave Xanth. This is one I was able to put myself in, and such an adventure would work wonders on my drear Mundane life. Never gets boring; this is one of the best Xanths.

When any medical student is studying, they usually end up with a copy of this book.

It's BIG - over 1200 pages of the tiniest possible readable writing, and covers vitually every disease in clincal medicine.

You'll find yourself referring to this one a lot, as it's the de facto medical bible, it's a wonderful reference text.

However, I'm not sure you'll want to learn from it directly, as the writing is disjointed from chapter to chapter (it was written by many authors), and it just doesn't "read" well. I certainly find an entire chapter at a time too much to bear in one sitting.

That said, you'll still want this book - the breadth of chapters is amazing, and it's hard to argue with its authority!

This book is the Bible of Internal Medicine. Anyone considering a career in medicine should have this book in their library. Comprehensive and well written, it is the gold standard of medical textbooks.

This book is the Bible of Internal Medicine. Anyone considering a career in medicine should have this book in their library. Comprehensive and well written, it is the gold standard of medical textbooks.

I'll admit that Anthony Ryder's drawings are beautiful. They're a fine example of what years of practice in the art of figure drawing can accomplish. However, as a reference for those looking for practical techniques to improve their own figurative skills, this book is useless. It's more of a catalog of the artist's work than a guide to drawing the figure. Ryder reveals through his text that he has his own, EXTREMELY particular technique, one that demands inhuman amounts of patience and stamina (he said himself that he can spend weeks working on one figure) and eyeball-splitting attention to detail with millions of tiny pencil marks. This is fine for Ryder, but not necessarily for everyone else. Follow his techniques, and you end up producing drawings that look like they were done by Anthony Ryder, not yourself. Think of an art professor who posts one of his or her drawings on the wall, explains to the class exactly how it was produced (whether with stippling, smudge sticks, etc), and tells everyone to draw the exact same thing in the exact same manner. What do you get? Well, duh, you get a couple dozen drawings that are pretty much the same.

Ryder's technique ain't easy to follow, either. His method of boxing in the thin air around the figure and layering inward, somehow coming up with a finished, correct drawing, is difficult, if not impossible to follow. Again, the author himself states that the technique is hard to learn. By the time I got through tearing my hair out trying to copy it, I just set the book aside and went back to the way I was drawing figures before. I followed my own methods, and the only thing I got was better.

And I guess that's the key to learning how to draw the figure. There ARE no set, generic, step-by-step formulas to follow that could be published in some book. The best you can do is pick up a good anatomy book (Simblet's 'Anatomy for the Artist' is a wonderful resource). As an artist, you have to PRACTICE to find the method that's right for you; hence, no figurative work by any two artists is exactly the same. The only way to find that method is to start with the basics and work your way up, finding your own style and comfort zone in the process. Ryder's book is not going to help. Spend in practice what you'll save in money by not buying this book.

If you're looking for anatomy lessons and short cuts (the eyes are one eye apart, the head five eyes wide sort of thing) then this is not the book for you. If you want to learn how to draw from life, to develop the basic techniques in tandem with a loving patience and relaxed attention, then this book will be hard to beat. Ryder demonstrates his method - starting with the "envelope" moving on to the "block in" then finished contour, and ending with the delicate shading that give life and mass to the drawings - with painstaking (but painless) care and wonderfully helpful illustrations from his own work.

I would strongly recommend this book with the warning that there are no shortcuts to drawing as brilliantly as Ryder - one thing that makes this book great is that Ryder doesn't pretend that there are any shortcuts. He admits up front that it takes hours of careful attention and work to get to the finished contour - which is the outline of the figure without the shading. But what he does give you is a very helpful technique. He helps with tips on judging distances, widths, proportions, angles; he helps with shading, seeing light and dark, building up tones.

Ryder is scrapping the scales of our eyes with this book, helping us to see - ultimately the most important aspect of drawing from life - and then showing you the best ways to get what you see on the page. It seems assumed that you will be working from a model or at the very least a superbly lit photograph. I think this book, coupled with Drawing on The Right Side of The Brain, would make an at-home-art-course that would be hard to beat.

As a practicing artist I have to say that this is the finest book of its kind I've come across. If you are serious about taking a traditional approach to figure drawing and want to produce artwork of the finest quality, this is the book to look at. If you just want to learn to do quick sketches then you might look elsewhere, since the approach discussed is time-consuming and painstaking. But it is THE way to go if you are serious about fine art. If I was only allowed to have one book on my shelf this would be it.

It was touted as "the war to end all wars"! Young Texan Travis Lee Stanhope has volunteered to join a British regiment in the spring of 1916 for "a piece of adventure," he says. He soon re-defines his own idealism and discovers that instead of "acts of nobility" that "war is hell." Patricia Anthony in her novel "Flanders" vividly recounts this tragedy with a poetic sense of style--and justice. The storyline depends upon a series of letters that Travis Lee writes to his younger brother, still at home in Harper, Texas. A crack sharpshooter, Travis tries to be assimilated into the ranks of his British comrades (despite the differences in the common language!) who have found themselves in the trenches in Flanders. He soon recognizes the sheer horror, depravity, uselessness, and stupidity of this war and experiences booze, unleashed sexual appetite, and even ritual violence. As the war is a tragedy (isn't there tragedy is all wars!), Anthony seems to have captured the essence of this one, from the muddy, bloody trenches themselves to the relationships between the soldiers, who seem to come in every shape and form. As war itself is disquieting, so in "Flanders." It is not an easy book to read, nor to digest; it is a book that is not easy to forget. Anthony's poetry loving (and reciting) Texan-among-the-Brits in far off Flanders fields is also one character that's memorable.(Billyjhobbs@tyler.net)

This novel is powerfully moving, illustrating clearly the utter madness and dehumanising effects of total war. Men are torn to pieces by shell fire, laced with rifle and machine gun bullets, gassed or are ravaged by disease in a novel that calmly records these horrors. The effects of such an environment on one young man fighting the Great War is played out in this novel through the letters home of a young Texan fighting in the British army in 1916. Through the hellish landscape of Flanders, Patricia Anthony has produced one of the most powerful war novels of all time. Bleak and emotionally scarring, like the conflict it portrays, this is certain to become a classic of the genre. Despite the horrors, this novel is profoundly spiritual in content and reflects the twisted and shifting social and moral mores of young men in a conflict they barely understood. Without a doubt the best novel I read in 1999.

Flanders is an excellent novel about an American soldier in World War I. Travis Lee Stanhope, a Texas farmboy and Harvard pre-med graduate, volunteered for duty on the British side because he wanted to see the world and have some adventures before settling down back in Texas. He thought the war would be exciting, something he could brag about to friends and family. His experiences in the trenched soon changed his mind. He began to see war as a nightmare, where his friends died without warning and without reason, and where his survival depended on ignoring his own humanity.

The living conditions at the front were execrable. The trenches they lived in were filled with mud and sewage. Rats thrived in the death-filled environment, eating dead bodies and nibbling on the living ones, too. The soldiers slept in niches carved into the sides of the trenches and sometimes these caves collapsed under artillery fire, burying the soldier alive. The food was bad and so was the water. The survivors learned to ignore the conditions, making jokes about the rats and food and shaking the hand of a corpse buried in the wall for good luck. Reading about these conditions makes the reader very grateful not to have to live like that.

Anthony describes the trench warfare as mostly anxious waiting as artillery fire pounded all around. At night, the officers would lead their troops over the top, into a No Man's Land filled with shell crates and bodies, trying to get into the enemies trenches. Even when the soldiers did get into the other side's trenches, hand-to-hand combat against seasoned German troops was difficult, and mostly deadly. Stanhope became a sniper, and his experience was even more intense as he stayed out in No Man's Land throughout the days, picking off Germans who became visible. This type of fighting was not effective, as no land changed hands permanently throughout Stanhope's career.

The author really did an excellent job of portraying the horrors of World War I. Her descriptions match up with material in history books, but are much more vivid. While you should not depend on this book to learn all there is about the Great War, it is very good at letting the reader know what it was like for the soldiers in the trenches.

This book is almost impossible to stop reading. Anthony gets you hooked early and never lets go. The hero, Travis Lee, reveals more and more of himself and his past in his letters to his brother, and he transforms through his experiences. The best part of the book is the plotline of Travis Lee's past being revealed, and the worst part are the too-true depictions of violence and life in the trenches. You need a strong stomach for parts of this book, but you never want to put it down. The ending will take your breath away.

This book asked the question "What Would Jesus Do," a full century before it was fashionable to wear such phrase on bracelets, necklaces, t-shirts, etc.

Set in the late 1800's, a pastor challenges his church to take a pledge: to make no decisions before first asking "what would Jesus do." As a result, many lives were changed. Many who took that pledge suffered for it.

The book itself I suppose isn't the highest quality writing, nor the plot that intriguing. However, in the case of this book, that's not what's most important. The author really challenged me to ponder what true "sacrifice" is.

I think most any modern American reader of this book would have to admit that very few today have any idea what it means to truly suffer for Christ, and to give up all to follow him. America has been so blessed that we've forgotten what sacrifice means. It is a sad indictment on the True Church that some of the fastest growing "churches" in America and across the world today thrive because of a "health and wealth" gospel.

It makes me wonder how many in modern "churches" would take the pledge to first ask "What Would Jesus Do?" and to follow through with it. I'm afraid there wouldn't be many.

I really enjoyed the simple message of "What would Jesus Do" that is the centerpiece of this classic Christian book. I have heard this saying many times in the many different Christian circles that I have traveled, but never knew its original source. Now that I have finished the book (the original version which I recommend), I think I have a much better understanding of what it means to a Christian to ask the question "What would Jesus do" in any situation we face.

I really enjoyed this book because it tells a compelling story, and prompts you to take a tough look at your own life. It brings all kinds of deep, thought provoking questions to mind. Questions like: What would I be willing to do to follow Jesus? Am I willing to make sacrifices in my own life to further his Kingdom? I bought this book because it looked very interesting, and I really glad that I did. I think that it will have a huge impact on my life, and my Christian faith.

I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in finding out more about the "What would Jesus do" concept. Also, anyone looking for a book that will challenge them to live a more meaningful life for God will benefit from this story. The book is not very long, and a pretty easy read. Hopefully, it will have a profound impact on you as it dit me.

I will be honest. I have had this book for sometime and I have neglected to read it. I have recently decided that it was time I started reading more Christian literature. I do not read much at all, but this book was so touching to me that I felt I would add my "two cents."

This book hit me deep. God's Spirit has been tugging at my heart since I first laid hands on this book. My thinking has changed and I am just beginning to learn what true discipleship is. I have been a Christian for some years now, but I have never fully understood what "taking up ones cross" truly means.

Matthew 16:24 says, "then Jesus said to his disciples, 'If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.'"

I must admit, this book has truly challenged me. I have already changed things in my life and I couldn't be happier. I look forward to the blessings God will bring to me in my life and also the blessings that God will allow me to provide to others through His Spirit.

If anyone one should read this and want to do me a favor, please pray that I too can "take up my cross." For myself and those in this book, it can be a very hard choice to make. I want to grow closer to God. I want to truly follow Him. This book gives the perfect example of what following Jesus truly means.

I am not a nominal Christian, but I tell you the truth, this book shows you what a first century Christian was like. I want that. I hope you want it also.

- Esteban [bakura82]
www.bakura.org

I found this book a real page-turner, although Klavan is much better plotter than writer. I love books like this for the same reason I like movies like "The Fugitive": the pace of the narrative carries me along. It's interesting to have a novel with a protagonist who's so unlikable (the person who wrote that Everett can't help the things that happen to him makes me mad; a man CAN keep his pants on, after all). And for depth on the death penalty issue, it's far outclassed by "In Cold Blood" or "Dead Man Walking." But it's a good read, especially for the beach, the plane, or the sickbed. Despite the flaws I found in this book, I just had my local library get "The Animal Hour" for me on inter-library loan.

I give this a 10 because I gave Steve Thayer's "The Weatherman" a 10 also. Each deals with a man awaiting execution. Each does it brilliantly! I can't help but refer to John Grisham's preachy attempt at the same subject matter. I guess that some authors are just lucky enough to become fashionable. "True Crime" has a hero, nay anti-hero, who embodies many of our frailties and is not afraid to admit it. He has few redeeming traits. He is however, an honest to goodness from-the-gut reporter whose life behind the byline will never be anything but misery. His personal life is in self-destruct mode. The first half of the book is a setup for a frenetic conlusion. Once there, I honestly could not put it down until I reached its end. Read this and give kudos where they are due. Great job, Andrew Klavan.

This book had me riveted from moment one...I have insisted all my friends and family members read it. I am looking forward to the movie but am going crazy that they are not setting it in St. Louis as the book is written. I am a local St. Louisan and that was the original reason I bought the book. It's disappointing that Hollywood doesn't realize other parts of the world exist besides New York and California. Oh well...at least they cast Eastwood. I definitely recommend the book...just be sure to have plenty of spare time to read it...it will be hard to put down.

You need to read the first two books if you want to understand the third book. If you don't read the first two books you will be lost, and won't even understand the story's plot. You could read it through for about five chapters, and you will start understanding what is going on. It would be better if you read the first two books because it would make more sense to you. This book is about a thrilling science fictional story of people living in the parallel worlds. In the third book three old friends unite. Their names are: Colene, a young girl from earth who is dealing with terrible suicidal depressions, Darius, from a planet who also won Colene's love, and Seqiro a telepathic horse. Some parts of this book drags on. But it's worth reading through because the action parts are so unbelievable it will blow away your mind! The author, Piers Anthony, writes every chapter with such suspense that it tempts you to read the next chapter. Once you start reading this book you can't put it down till you finish it.

Hey, I love the Mode series books, if you haven't read this book yet you might not want to read further-- I'm going to mention things you might not want to know. First off, congrats to Darian and Colene, but also, I give my regards (trying to not spoil here). Although I like these books, I'm kinda wishing Anthony would get them to Darian's world already, but between that they sure do have hectic tavelings! Okay, listen up, anyone who knows when the 4 Mode book is coming out, and possibly what it's about, can you please write to me? Thanks!! --Jessica

I am person who finds it difficult to read books. It takes me months to read a book, even though I am glued to the story-line. The "Mode Series Books" have been the most amazing books I have ever read. I love the research that Piers does to bring his books alive. I really felt sorry in a way for Coline but I was happy to see her find a love, and excitement in her life. I also loved Marsey Doats and Seqiro who were true friends for Coline. Can't wait for the next book in the series, hurry up Piers Anthony.

In this instance..quantity does not equal quality. The book is ponderous, repetitive, poorly edited and not even very descriptive. With so many Antarctic exploration reading choices available...there are much better books available..unless you're into reading day-by-day expedition logs. For Scott fans..read A First Rate Tragedy or even Scott's Last Voyage-(with those superb Ponting photos). For Shackleton fans..Endurance or South. Cherry-Garrard should have used an editor as Sir Ernest did to scope the story down. Your story doesn't have to be long to be dramatic or effective. Lastly...to see how an Antarctic tale should be done..read Douglas Mawson's hugely underrated The Home Of The Blizzard. The Worst Journey In The World should be read..just after you've finished better crafted pieces first and when you have the time to plow through its' almost 600 pages.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard, the author of this book, was the youngest member of the british expedition, lead by Robert Scott, that would try to reach the geographical South Pole for the first time, in the summer of 1911/1912. Cherry-Garrard wrote "The worst journey in the world" after the first world war, ten years after he returned from Antarctica, so he took his time to write a book based on reason and not based on the recent emotions he lived while on the frozen continent.

We have to remember that this book is almost 100 years old, so the text sometimes reads like something from Jules Verne... only it's true. His experience in loco aside, Garrard uses many passages from the crew's personal diaries (everybody had a diary going on) to better illustrate what happened on the expedition.

The book starts very slow, with more than a hundred pages of logistics, arrangements and such. What makes this part interesting is Garrard's personal views of other members of the expedition. But thes first 100 pages will prove difficult for the reader who only wants to know what happened to Scott and his four partners in the South Pole Expedition.

"Worst journey" really comes to life in Chapter 5, when the author starts to describe and explain all the expeditions and processes that would make possible Scott's going all the way south. I, for one, didn't think the whole thing was so complex. The final chapters, when Garrard narrates what really happened to Scott's party, and how the rescue team discovered their tent only 11 miles from salvation, are touching, and kept me reading way after bedtime.

Of course, as most of others reviewers stated, Cherry-Garrard's style is dry and his narration is partial, after all he personaly knew the people he was writing about, and he writes about things that really happened (that's why he says only a few words about Amundsen's expedition). "The worst journey in the world" is mandatory reading for everybody interested about South Pole exploration, no doubt about that. It's interesting to notice that, while Amundsen was the first to reach the pole, Scott, because of his tragedy, is more known to the general public. I would also recommend Roland Huntford's "Last place on Earth", a very good analysis of the differences between Scott's expedition and Amundsen's - Amundsen reached the pole 34 days before Scott and return alive and well

Grade 9.0/10

Apsley Cherry-Garrard has truely given us an epic for exploration and adventure. This book conveys the horror, tragedy, and even ironic humor of Scott's ill-fated last expedition in an extremely eloquent manner.

Cherry-Garrard could not more fairly credit his companions. From the beginning, he is modest and places huge credit on his fellow explorers. In particular, he talks about Bowers, Wilson, and Scott with a sense of awe and immense respect.

The countless horrors of Scott's journey are described graphically, and it was easy to imagine anything from leaping from ice-flow to ice-flow for ours on the depot journey to stumbling upon the dead bodies of his friends. I enjoyed every minute of it.

The Worst Journey was incredibly inspiring. After reading the book, I felt like I could do anything, take on any challenge. The troubles they endured, the lifestyle they adapted to, is mind-numbing. It is difficult to imagine surviving such things.

In the "Winter Journey," one of the most difficult Journey's ever experienced by man, Cherry-Garrard and two other men struggle through the Antarctic Winter to Cape Crozier to obtain Penguin Eggs. They travel in pitch black, around giant crevasses, in frozen clothing, in -70 degree temperatures, and with sleeping bags that take hours to get into. This was the most intense, gripping reading I have ever done.

No matter who you are, you will like The Worst Journey In The World. Fantastic writing, gripping plot, and visual descriptions will keep you glued to the book. And when it's done, you will not want to stop reading.

Thanks to the many requests of Star Wars fans and radio enthusiasts alike, the team that brought us the radio adaptations of A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back, reunited to conclude the original saga. Made exclusively by Highbridge, Return Of The Jedi, once again uses the film's score by John Williams and sound effects by Ben Burtt, to make for a top notch production. By using the actual soundtrack from the film, it gives the audio production crediability, as opposed to being made without it.

Once again, directed by John Madden, Jedi reunites most of the actors from the previous adaptions, with a couple of notable exceptions. Mark Hamill, who reprised his role as Luke Skywalker, for the first 2 productions, is replaced by Joshua Fardon. While, Billy Dee Williams, as rogue Lando Calrissian, is replaced by Arye Gross. As hard as these gentlemen try, because of the original actors previous involvment with the other two radio dramas, its difficult to imagine anyone else in those parts. Fardon's portrayal lacks the maturity of Hamill's character in the film version, Gross comes off, not quite as smooth, in playing Lando. The rest of the main radio cast, from the other two adaptations is thankfully intact. Actors Anthony Daniels, once again as C-3PO, (who has appeard in all 3 radio dramas as well as all of the films in the series) Brock Peters as Vader, Perry King, as Han Solo, Anne Sachs as Princess Leia, all complete their character arcs in the seies with style. Actor Edward Asner as the gangster Jabba The Hutt and John Lithgow as Master Yoda, (as he did in the Empire radio drama) use vocal talent, like no others, to bring these 2 unique characters to life.

Sci-fi author, Brian Daley, once again. wrote the radioplay for Jedi. As before, there are a few additional "scenes" presented, not in the film version. The end result is very good, but thanks to its shorter length, and the casting changes, I mentioned, Jedi doesn't seem quite as epic, as the other radio dramas in the series. Sadly, Daley passed away soon after the dialogue was recorded, and the production is dedicated to his memory. His script is very faithful to the film and the added scenes remain true to the characters and story.

If you own the other two radio dramas in the series, Jedi is a must have, minor problems and all. The story has six episodes, presented on three compact discs with a total running time of nearly 3 hours. Recommended

Return of the Jedi has always been my favorite Star Wars movie, both because I like how all the characters matured, (especially Luke) and because it finally delt face to face with the dark side, possibly the best force of evil ever thought of in the realms of fiction. This book exheeded not only my expectations for the book itself (which were very high) but even surpassed the movie in some ways. The author has a deep, highly emotional writing syle which apealed to me greatly, and was so profound that all through the book I truly felt as if was there, a part of the story. Every Star Wars fan should read this at some point, especially those who didn't like Return of the Jedi because they thought it was weaker than the others. I could almost garantee this book would change their minds. Also, the author did a tremendous job on the characters. Just they way they were presented made me truly feel for them, even characters who were previously not my favorites. At times this book had me sitting on the edge of my seat actually wondering if maybe this time it would turn out differently, and the part where Anakin Skywalker dies almost had me in tears. Anyway, I don't think think this book belongs in any particular age range, though probably some of it (in fact a lot of it) would most likely go over the heads of people younger then twelve or so.

You'll never see me cite one Star Wars movie being better than all the others (at least until Episode III comes out, which I'm convinced has the potential to be the best movie of all time), but as far as the novelizations go, Return of the Jedi is by far my favorite.

If you didn't already know it, there are a handful of important details included within this book that didn't make it into the movie. These details alone are reason enough for all Star Wars fans to read this book. When Episode III finally comes around, you will be able to appreciate it much more having read this book.

However, the true strength of this book is the wonderful portrayal of the characters. So much depth was given to them that it just strengthened all of the reasons why I love Star Wars. And the reason I do love Star Wars is because of the characters. While all the sci-fi stuff is really great, it is the story of these characters that has drawn me into this universe. Reading about Luke flaunting with the Dark Side as he faces against Vader and the Emperor is gut wrenchingly incredible.

This is the third part of a three part story. I recommend reading the first two parts first respectively - the third part is a treat you won't regret.

This is an easy to read paperback that's only about 200 pages long. An hour or two per day will help you get to the end of the book in about a week. It then takes 21 days to break your old habits and reinforce the new ones that you desire.

Dr. Anthony's premise is that most of our problems with self-confidence, self-esteem and success can be traced back to our belief systems, habit patterns and level of awareness. He says that unless you accept that your current level of awareness totally dictates what you get out of life, you cannot change anything. According to the book, one's awareness is a result of one's belief systems. So, our belief systems are what limit us from achieving our potential.

We are trapped by our belief systems because of strong habit patterns. These habit patterns are a survival mechanism so we don't have to spend too much time figuring out how to respond in different situations. But, they also keep us on the same path in life. So, in order to get on the success path (if you are not on it already), it is necessary to start changing our belief systems. It isn't enough to realize that we are wrong about some of our beliefs, but we actually have to change our old habits and form some new ones to replace these old habits. The author believes that it takes about 21 days to break an old habit and form a new one.

It is a very simple theory but it has worked for a lot of people who have faith in this theory. I have myself utilized it at various points in my life when I felt that I wasn't going anywhere in life. A lot of people that I recommendeded this book to have found it useful too. The title sounds a little corny, but I guess the publishers used it to get people's attention. But this book is really about changing your life and the tools that help you do it quickly and effectively.

There is a lot more meat to the book than I have described here but it is definitely a pleasurable journey that the author helps you take. This book is one of my top 10 favorite books ever. I have bought several copies of this inexpensive book and given them out as gifts to my friends and family. Ignore the title and enjoy this gem of a book. Have fun improving the quality of your life!

After reading this book my whole life changed from dramatic view
to an open view of changing my behavior to positive thinking.
Since reading the book I have written a journal that contributes to the success of Dr. Anthony toward making my life change. I love this man and he is an inspiraton to guidance to live an fullfilling life of happiness and success.
Wither your problems are self-esteem or love or maybe your job. READ THIS BOOK.

There is no need to buy this book unless you are ready to change your life and you are ready to read it with an open mind. If you are ready, then it can change your life. The book can be the only tool you need. The book does not spend much time speaking to the results of low self-confidence and how to solve those problems. The book teaches the reader why they have low self-esteem and how to solve it in a very cause and effect type manner. I haven't read any other self-help books, but I have flipped through them. Unlike seemingly all the others, pages are not wasted in this book on praising the reader, but instead informing the reader about how they can take control of their life and love themselves.