This book will allow you to get the right conceptions for producing a good golf swing. And as Percy says, it is the swing rather than hitting the ball that is the thing. It is not a technical book but he does make technical points in it. Its key virtue is that it gets rid of several common misconceptions about how to swing a golf club. Percy's tone is absolutely wonderful and he has a nice sense of humor. It would have been a joy to experience his teachings in person. Buy the book, read it and then practice its concepts and you will find yourself capable of nailing every shot. Of course, the result is that golf becomes a very fun game again, as it should be. Best golf instruction book I have ever read and I have read a bunch, including Penick, Hogan, Armour, Leadbetter, Haney, Harmon, etc.

I first read the book 10 years ago when I was learning the game. Got to a 14 handicap. Reread it this spring and just shot my first 79 today!

Of all the golf books I have read, and I have read over a hundred, this pearl has done the most to improve my game. I learned why standing on the practice mat trying to think through the swing did not improve my game. And I learned what had to be done to improve my game. My score, which had languished around 110, started dropping soon after I adopted Boomer's concepts. After three months, I am now in the low 90s to mid 80s and am still improving. Don't pass this gem by! Boomer was the Harvey Penick of an earlier generation and his ideas are still true.

I thought that it lacked a lot! Could have used a little tweaking here and there!

This is a useful survey of Shelley's philosophical thought. There are few poets whose philosophical thought is so central to their work, or so important in its own right.

_Destroyer and Preserver_ is a high-water mark in one strand of Shelley criticism, and a necessary and valuable one. It emphasises, rightly, that Shelley was a tough-minded and realistic thinker, in many respects firmly in the Humean tradition.

And it is a corrective to the mid-20th century picture of Shelley the Platonist, a portrayal that is in a direct line of descent from the "harmless" de-sexed and de-politicised Shelley of the Victorian imagination.

I might have given the book four stars rather than five, were it not for the empty one-line, one-star review that I'm following: "needs tweaking" indeed! I could dock the book a notch for what it doesn't do: the hard but necessary task (not yet accomplished) of re-integrating Shelley's Platonic thought with the sceptical Shelley.

That's a project which has importance not only for Shelley studies, but it may even have some contemporary philosophical use and application. I'm not sure that Shelley managed to marry Platonic and Humean thought into a coherent philosophy. That's an extremely hard question to answer. He doesn't in the prose; but the late poetry has depths I certainly haven't plumbed yet, and nor does this book. There are still things to be learned from Shelley; and he had a knack for asking the right questions.

This book is a fine examination of one of the two major parts (the most important part, in my view, but not the _only_ part) of Shelley's thought.

Laon