Rascals, Varmints, & Critters 2: The Book of Curses, is an excellent supplement to any Marshal's game. The book is choked full of all sorts of monsters that the party could run into, the vast majority of which could add a distinct Cinimatic flavor. Characters such as Frankenstein and his Monster, Dracula, and dangerous mummies are detailed, as well as ghosts and haunted houses. I great buy!

What is most remarkable in this collection, is the widespread respect for Pope John Paul II, his intellectualism, and basic agreements with many of his ideas. This collection, continues his effort at ecumenism by bringing together 15 Protestant and 1 Jewish writer, and each sheds new light on the Papal volume. Perhaps due to the ecumenical goal, there is less discussion of differences of faith, which also would have proved useful, such as Phyllis Tickles discussion of Catholic beliefs of purgatory. Particularly moving for me was Rabbi's Eckstein's, Jewish response, first about the history of Church-afflicted spirit, and more recently, the positive changes led by John XXIII and this Pope. Flora Wuellners commentary of prayer, proved enlightening to me in terms of the transformative power of prayer, not as a means of begging for something, but as a means of avoiding fleeing from God. Both this book and the book by John Paul II, discuss fundamental questions of faith, evil and suffering, and may help to deepen your own understanding of Christianity, whether Catholic or Protestant.

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An unusual, rather eccentric survey of different works by Goethe, Hoffmann, Dickens, Poe, Hawthorne, Henry James, Proust, Kafka, and many many more literary greats...all within 222 pages.

This is a book to be dipped into, possibly not to be read from cover to cover (at least not by me!); the author's train of thought is hard to grasp at times. Despite the book's brevity (Paul Coates sometimes only devotes a few pages to an author's work)the insights are many and often astonishing.

This book does not read very well, and contains some misspellings and grammatical errors. However, this book has great strength in its core. Paul Kennedy is a damned serious historian. He really makes me understand history. As with in his bestseller, 'the Rise and Fall of Great Powers', he puts great emphasis on economy and its influence on policies. By the same token, he explains other factors; newspapers, party politics, labor movement, British Common Wealth, etc. His analysis on background influences on British external policy cannot be praised too much. I like this book more than 'the Rise and Fall of Great Powers.'

A compelling narrative is only part of what makes this look at the most overlooked group of thinkers in American political history so gripping. Murphy introduces the novice to the thought of the Agrarians, a group of literary theorists and historians who gathered at Vanderbilt University in the 1920s. He provides a great overview of the context under which they wrote, an America in the throws of industrialization, urbanization, and post-World War I disillusionment.

He then follows the Agrarians and their thought into the middle part of the twentieth century, demonstrating how the arguments made by John Crowe Ransom, Alan Tate, Donald Davidson, et. al. in their famous collection of essays "I'll Take My Stand" contributed to the emergence of conservatism in the 1950s.

In the most interesting portions of the book, Murphy discusses the fact that the Agrarians, clearly conservatives, actually presaged some of the themes we now associate with the left - such as the criticisms of modern society, the decline of community, etc.

Good book. Worth your time if you are in the least bit interested in the evolution of American ideological thought and Southern intellectual history.

I thoroughly enjoyed Gail Butler's book. Sometimes I felt as if I was there with here. Its an easy read and very instructional. It makes me want to go to California or Arizona and start digging, panning and nugget detecting. If you have only been coin shooting and want to know what it is like to prospect and detect for gold this book is a great one. Read it.

Having read several eyewitness accounts to the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Indian participants, several of which included paintings and drawings done by the warriors, I am rather ambivalent about "Red Hawk's Account of Custer's Last Battle." This 1969 book by Paul and Dorothy Goble is told through the eyes of a Red Hawk, a fifteen-year-old Ogala youth. However, although based on Indian accounts of the battle, the character of Red Hawk is a fictional creation. Similarly, the art work is inspired by the Plains Indians paintings of the 1860-1900 period. But, to be fair, in 1969 the legend of Custer was still going strong and the Indian accounts of the battle were not exactly seeing the light of day. Consequently, this book is of interest because it harkens back to a time when the revisionists were rethinking the entire Custer myth and cars were starting to sport the bumper sticker "Custer Died For Your Sins."

We learn on the backflap that the Gobles had visited the U.S. from London in 1959 where they were adopted into the Sioux and Yakima tribes and given the Indian names "Wakinyan Chikala" (Little Thunder) and "Minne Wiyakpawin" (Shining Water). The Gobles visited the battlefield with Crow friends and used their "long acquaintance with Indians ways and people" to try "to bring Custer into perspective a little by keeping to the facts." So, certainly the fact that this book is over thirty years old does explain why in refers to the old name of the Custer Battlefield National Monument and the term Sioux (which, I understand, means "cutthroat" and was given to the Lakota by other Plains tribes). In the end, I conclude that the intentions of the Gobles are honorable. The narrative of "Red Hawk" is broken up periodically by additional historical notes, which usually establish what Custer and the 7th Cavalry were doing at various points in the story. Ultimately, it is their attempt to set the record straight that redeems the effort, and after reading this book you can certainly turn to the authentic Indian accounts and art of the battle.

I liked this book because there was a lot of basketball in it. It was also interesting when Kelly was doing other things. The red hot hightops were very mysterious. Were they magic? Or were they just another pair of shoes? I liked the way the book ended because Kelly learned a lesson.

Yes, the very rich are different than you and I, and this entertaining memoir will prove it to you. This isn’t the type of book in which you can honestly say, “I can relate to that,” because every aspect of Mr. Mellon’s long life is so rarified, empathy is well nigh impossible.

His childhood is unenviable. His father was a very formal, reserved man; and his mother – “impossible” is a good way to describe her. She was flagrantly unfaithful and had the maternal instincts of a turtle. She caused the senior Mr. Mellon agonies of grief with her not-so-polite blackmail by threatening him with scandal if she did not get her way. They were divorced (think of it---in 1912!) when Paul was six years old. Mr. Mellon insists it didn’t have much effect upon him as he was so young, but allows his older sister, Ailysa, bore the brunt of it and grew up to be a shy and reclusive woman.

When Paul graduated from Yale and Clare College, Cambridge and put in an obligatory year in the Mellon banking institution; he announced to his father he was not cut out for banking. What he wanted to do was ---not much of anything in the way of employment. He collected art, racehorses, and became a philanthropist of the first order. The word “dilettante” never appears on these pages, but it did indeed cross my mind. This is not to say Mr. Mellon was idle or unsuccessful. He inherited his father’s business-like mind and made money with his art collections and racing stables. He spent his life doing exactly as he wished—somehow this seems vaguely un-American!

Mr. Mellon relates at some length how distant and reserved his father was. I think he was truly unaware how distant and reserved he was himself. He was kind and had a closed circle of friends with similar interests (and money), but seemed to see the rest of humanity as his worker bees. His first wife died tragically young, but he matter-of-factly states he was not so sure the marriage would have lasted anyway. He praises his second wife, Bunny, highly, but she never comes to life; it’s as if he is admiring a monument. He had four separate residences (all fully staffed, including butlers). Mr. Mellon was bemused when people asked him if going back and forth between four homes wasn't a bit wearisome. He said he couldn’t understand their question because their main home in Upperville, VA has an airstrip. When he wants to move on to Antigua, he just steps out the back door and gets on the Gulf Airstream IV. Now what trouble is that?

“Reflections In A Silver spoon” is a fascinating read, though there is a long section on his various directorships that was not of much interest to me. I was involved enough to check out what happened beyond the end of the book written in Mr. Mellon’s 85th year. He died in 1999 at the age of 91 at his home in Virginia.

Though this book is out of print, it is easy to obtain used through the Amazon Marketplace.