I'm a pretty picky reader and this book not only held my attention but left me craving more. The action is intense, the emotion is incredible and the story is ingenious. This story makes you happy, sad, scared, excited, and all of these feelings within seconds of each other. It's absolutely the best Christian Novel I've ever read, plus how cool is it that all proceeds go to charity?

If you want to read a truly unique and stimulating book, YOU GOTTA GET IT!

I bought 'The Bottom Never Ends' because I wanted to support charity, but I began reading the book and became very intrigued.

I always read the book while I was working out on the machines at the gym. Well, the book is so suspenseful and exciting that I repeatedly found myself working out much longer than usual so that I could continue reading!

It's a great book - the message hits home. I honestly believe that it will play a role in turning around lives for Christ. It allows you to peak inside the characters' minds and see the spiritual battles that go on. It also keeps you guessing . . . in fact, I'm still kept guessing as I wait for the sequel - plus, I have no motivation to go to the gym!

I bought this book just because the proceeds were going to a charity, thinking that I wouldn't be that good...but I could at least support a good cause. But to my suprise, this is without a doubt one of the best novels I've ever read. The suspense will kill you, the characters will leave you relating to each and everyone of them, and at the end you won't even know who to root for and who to hate. But as the dust clears, you know there is a lesson to take away that's better then the story itself.

I loved how the author described what it means- the bottom never ends. I found so much truth to my own life in this book. It's the first time I've seen Christianity described without the over cheesy context of other Christian books. This was not only on the edge, but showed how Christianity can be such a dangerous threat to all of the evil enterprises out there if we're willing to roll up our sleves and just simply fight back.

But with all the machoism of the book, the sole purpose is to show the power of having unconditional motives and to love others first, no strings attached. I love the point he made of that idea through many key relationships in the book. I don't know how many people have read this book, but if it's not many, what a shame that is.

It's an excellent book that has great words to describe the story. It's good for visualization. The book makes you want to read more and more. I read five cahpters in one hour because it was so interesting.

This comments on the previous review. The title character whose name this reader has forgotten is unforgettable. Excuse me, did I miss something?

The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Process has grown in 12 years to be one of the most positive and influential prgrams to come out of Washington D.C. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) uses a measure of performance of the publicly traded Baldrige Award winners that compares these companies' stock price appreciation with the S&P 500 Index. In the most recent year, the "Baldrige Fund" outperformed the S&P Index by a margin of almost 5 to 1. Most companies will never apply for a Baldrige Award. However, many companies have used a Baldrige-based assessment criteria to evaluate their business and to focus their improvement efforts. The author has written a very useful guide for managers to use in deploying a Baldrige-based assessment system. As a senior Baldrige examiner I know that most companies need guidance to gain maximum benefit from an internal assessment process. Mr. Hutton's book is a must read for any manager or consultant before undertaking Baldrige-based assessment. It will also be useful to managers seeking ideas to improve an existing approach. In Baldrige-based assessments, the "how" question is looking for systematic approaches to the management systems in an organization. In this book, the author describes a systematic approach to assessment and provides illustrations through case studies of a variety of companies and how they use the process to get better at getting better.

If leaders of any service business expect to achieve and sustain an outstanding level of service quality, they must sooner or later turn their attention to the organization itself as the means of achieving customer/ citizen focus..The culture, the vision and direction, the leadership, the alignment of resources and functions, and the motivation and commitment of the workers are all essential ingredients for service excellence. Therefore, if you hope to get things right on the outside, you first have to get things right on the inside. David Hutton takes us through the steps needed for an organization to undertake an organizational assessment His road map provides guidance and examples for users and acquirers of assessment instruments to develop a quality management system. There are at least 5 important elements that you need for conducting an assessment to drive organizational change: a genuine commitment by the leadership, an assessment model, an assessment method, competent assessors, and the prerequisite of reading David Hutton's book.

In this world leadership hyper-hype comes a book of solid, actionable, no-nonsense, research and action-based material. The basic message of book is that intangibles are becoming a bigger portion of the formal and informal valuation of organizations. The book is a how-to primer on making "intangibles tangible."

Full of down-to-earth advice, a number of assessments & worksheets, lots of how-tos (and some not-tos), most chapters in this book end with "Here are some steps you can take to..." or "Here are some questions..." As a bonus, Why the Bottom Line Isn't integrates much of the current thinking in leadership and organizational effectiveness into a whole.

Those of us who have been around the field have come to expect this kind of book from David Ulrich and his many author friends-in this case, Norm Smallwood. The price of the book is easily recouped from an entertaining section on organizational "viruses" and a suggested antivirus program.

Great insights and practical tools and ideas to improve organizations. I especially like the thinking behind how to make the intangible tangible. The book discusses several Organizational Capabilities such as speed, accountability, collaboration, learning, shared mindset, and the power of Leadership Brand. The chapter on Shared Mindset is very powerful and provides prescriptive ways to create a common focus and direction that will directly impact a customers experience as well as the employees that make it happen. I think it is a must read for all leaders who want to build lasting value within their organizations.

Hard to believe no one has reviewed this yet. For those seriously interested in the poetry scene in this country, the Morrow Anthology is essential. Some of the poets--Rita Dove, Tess Gallagher, Jon Anderson, Stephen Dobyns, Carolyn Forche, etc--have gone on to bright careers, while others have faded in the decade or more since the anthology was first published. But what a monumental task Dave Smith and David Bottoms---excellent poets themselves---took on by putting together this book. Incredible book, hands down.

What a superb book about interesting subjects. If you want to do global business then you should read how these areas will and can impact upon your business and life. At the same time, if you are looking for a place to start to read how foreign policy is developed, this is the book.

When I teach plate tectonics to my high school students, I ask them to consider the difficulty of building a comprehensive theory of the surface of the Earth when you don't know what three quarters of that surface looks like. I also mention how amazing it is that Alfred Wegener got as far as he did with continental drift without the detailed knowledge of the sea-floor that led to the modern theory of plate tectonics. David Lawrence has done a supremely good job at telling the adventurous and exciting history of plate tectonics in his book Upheaval From The Abyss. This book has got it all: ships, submarines, sonar, scientific [and emotional] arguments, sea-floor spreading, subduction, explosives and so much more. I highly recommend this book for anyone wanting to go deeper into the history of plate tectonics than does the standard cardboard cutout version found in most textbooks, and especially for those interested laypeople not ready to dive into Naomi Oreskes' excellent, but highly detailed The Rejection Of Continental Drift. I really enjoyed Upheaval From The Abyss and feel that others will, too.

A Studs Terkel-like verbal history of the role of the talent agency in Hollywood; with a particular focus on the Mailroom where the movers and shakers get their start. The book is a never ending compilation of interviews with the men who made it after paying their dues in the servitude of the Mail Room. For those in the industry it is probably fascinating lore. For me, it was one big bore.

Anyone that wants to be in the agent or management business should read this book. David Rensin provides a compulation of agents starting from the ground up (in the mailroom).

This book truly inspired me to work harder, never give up and provides great ideas for anyone trying to run a successful agency.

The downside is that there is alot of nepotism here.
Find out how certian stars became stars because Uncle so and so was an agent or a lawyer for, etc.

I love entertainment business books and this one does not disappoint. Unless you're in the biz, which I'm not, almost all of the names will be unfamiliar. This book has no story. It's a known fact that a way into the entertainment industry is to work in an agency's mailroom, eat sh*t, and hope for your break. This book is a series of interviews with the former mailroom attendees on the good, the bad, and the mental make-up of the wannabes struggling to get out of "mailroom jail". It's funny, informative, and one of those books you can't put down.

Many industries have a proving ground. In investment banking we put them on as a trading or sales assistant hoping they will pick up the lingo and learn on the fly. But the agency mailroom seems to be about feeding egos of senior agent's with much more screaming, yelling and attention paid to personal chores. They do mention many of the nice agents as well as the agents who were best at teaching the mailroom guys. My favorite stories are about CAA because it is next door to my favorite hotel the Peninsula and because of the Mike Ovitz aura. Mike doesn't come off particularly well in the book but partner Ron Meyer does come off as a particularly sharp and nice guy.

The positives and negatives of the mailroom run from taking your bosses stool sample in the doctor to having nude actresses answer the door. I also enjoyed the stories of the CAA mailroom which had a particularly high level of paranoia. I had met media mogul and former agent, Mike Medavoy so it was interesting seeing his son's quotes who was eventually fired due to information leaked to his father.

If you have any interest in the business side of Hollywood, you'll like this book. Other books of interest would be "Wannabe" about an MBA's attempt to succeed at the low levels of Hollywood, and Lynda Obst's book "Hello, He Lied" about her journey from journalist to producer.

although i like the subject matter here, i've got to say i'm not sure why this writer chose to write poems, other than the fact that each piece is short. one could write these as prose poems and it wouldn't really change the reading of the pieces. and too many poems begin like this: 'alone on a hill above the festival, I listen past field noise' . . . I listen, I hear, I see. I.I. I.I. too much of the romantic bluster that I suppose is supposed to be a sort of Whitmanesque/ deep-image conflation but feels self-conscious. I love some of the poems, don't get me wrong, some wonderful images swirl up as the imagination confronts nature in this book. But I wish the poet played with perspective more. and I wish I got more of a feeling of music from the line breaks, which seem awfully arbitrary to me.

This books was recently chosen by Georgia Center for the Book as one of the top 25 books by Georgians. Indeed, it's a fine book of poems by one of the South's most powerful voices. Super poems from Bottoms' first four books.

Armored Hearts is a selection of poems from David Bottoms' first three books, plus a new book-length addition. Bottoms came on the poetry scene in 1979 when his first book, Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump, was selected by Robert Penn Warren as winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. His early poems are strongly narrative and very accessible, but still work wonderfully on the figurative level. Very frequently they show us how myth touches us in our everyday lives. Two of my favorites are "Under the Boathouse" and "Under the Vulture-Tree." At their best, which is frequently, Bottoms poems are stunning. Some of the finest work to come out of the south in the last 20 years.