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The book addresses intriguing questions: How can a man work in high stakes stock trading and maintain his integrity? How far will criminal elements in our society go in order to wash their money clean? And just how much of this activity is taking place in our society right now?
Morris writes about what he knows and makes the reader know and care about the world of hedge funds and stock manipulation. If you want a pulse-pounding thriller that is thoughtful and engaging, buy stock in this book.
While the scenes are set around a hedge fund, the action involves money laudering, drug cartels, and suspenseful violence -- vivid enough to keep you reading hour after hour. The good guy in the story is an SEC investigator who tries to overcome multiple roadblocks in an effort to root out many levels of corruption.
This well written book is destined to be a hit movie.
It is a beyond amazing book, so don't delay and read it now! I stayed up all night reading it, and it was all I could think about. Don't hesitate! Read 'Sunwing' today!
Once I finished "silverwing" after not being able to put it down and vowing to buy "sunwing" right away...I didn't. These books seemed a lot more than just books, it was more like a life of Shade.
About 3 years had passed when one day I saw "sunwing" at my school library...I grabbed it right away and was done it just as fast as Silverwing. It was just as captivating and answered all the un-answered questions from "silverwing". I've never really read a book from an author that writes the same way as Oppel, his writings are full of twists and turns that leaves you guessing and best of all reading to find out!
Now if I can just get my hands on "firewing"...
Shade and Marina are on another journey, but this time, they're not alone. Frieda, Ariel, and even Chinook, are accompanying them in order to find Cassiel, Shade's father, at a mysterious Human building near Hibernaculum. Once they reach the building, however, harmonious bat voices lure them inside, where they are trapped in a man-made 'paradise' filled with other bats.
Naturally, Shade is struck with questions. Why are the Humans doing this? What was this forest made for? And, most importantly, where is his father? On a quest to find the answers, Shade and Marina encounter the vampire bat from their nightmares: Goth, a descendant of Cama Zotz. The plot deepens as Shade is 'captured' by the Humans inside the building, and sent to the worst place imaginable: Goth's homeland, where thousands of cannibal bats like Goth, the Vampyrum Spectrum, make their dwellings.
Now, Shade must strive to rescue his father, help his colony, and save the sun from an eternal night.
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The book begins by telling of the commanding rule of SMERSH. The leader of this organization is General Grubozaboyschikov. Also working is Colonel Rosa Klebb and director of planning Kronsteen, who treats real people as if they were chess pieces. The muscle of the group is a homicidal madman, who follows orders, and is in practically perfect physical shape, Donovan "Red" Grant. These evil minds have planned the perfect way to destroy the life and reputation of James Bond. Their plan is to lure 007 with the beatiful Tatiana Romanova and a Spektor cipher decoding machine as bait. Then Grant will meet up with them eventually and kill them both. However, SMERSH will take it a step further to lie to the public that Bond and Tatiana were in an affair, and that Bond commits suicide. It's a perfect plan.
Bond indeed does travel to Istanbul, believing that this girl wants to defect, and will give him the Spektor machine only if he personally helps her. 007 meets Darko Kerim, and a wonderful gypsy fight adds to the fun of the story. Bond and Tatiana travel on a train back to Europe, where he meets Red Grant and is told of the plan to kill him. An extremely bvrutal gun and fist fight breakes out between the men with 007 shooting Grant. 007 goes to Paris with Tatiana to catch Rosa Klebb in a meeting. However, Klebb releases a poison knife from her shoe and kicks 007 in the leg, before being taken away by the police. The story ends with 007 lying on the floor of the hotel room...
Perhaps the finest story of Ian Fleming, filled with the excitement and adventure to give this book it's reputation as on of the best 007 novels ever!
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This is one of the few stories that brought me to tears for reasons other then sadness.
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The Large-Print Edition of the NIV Study Bible doesn't have HUGE print - just a bit bigger than most Bibles. I still use that Bible a LOT and it's just comfortable reading. It is a bit bigger and heavier than my LAB, but not by a lot. I really like the larger type. You can get REALLY large print, but that's not what this is.
The Quest Study Bible doesn't go as deep. I think it's perfect for someone who is just beginning to study the Bible and has lots of questions like those that are answered in the Quest Study Bible. However, that's not to say that I already know all the answers to those questions! ;-o It just doesn't go much deeper than those questions.
I have in front of me the NIV Study Bible and the Life Application Bible NIV. They are both excellent - either one would go deeper into the Word than the Quest Study Bible.
The obvious differences to me are as follows:
Text The Life Application Bible (LAB) has the text straight across the page - the NIV Study Bible has the two-column layout. I think I prefer the two-columns. It is easier to get through some of those Old Testament books such as 1/2 Chronicles! ;-o However, this is very much a matter of personal preference.
Notes The notes, while excellent in both Bibles, are different in tone. The NIV Study Bible notes are very objective and purely informational. One of the downsides to the LAB, for me anyway, is that sometimes the notes in the LAB get rather preachy and sometimes go far afield of the text. I'm not saying asking personal applications is a bad thing, but if you're doing a lot of reading in that Bible, it might get to be a bit much. The tone of the notes is is the reason I gave the Life Application Bible 4 stars instead of 5! A note might ask "Do you believe that God can help you? Do you really want his help?" (note for Matt 9:27-30).
The clear, informative and objectively stated notes in this NIV Study Bible earned it 5 stars in my book!! I would, however, have appreciated lengthier personality profiles. But no study Bible has everything!
Other helps In the back of the LAB, there is an "Index to Notes" which includes the maps, charts, personality profiles, and the notes. It really isn't a concordance, but it is helpful.
The NIV Study Bible has an Index to Maps separately, an Index to Subjects, and a Concordance. The Concordance isn't exhaustive, of course, but it is much better than the one in the LAB.
The LAB wins the contest in the "Personality Profiles" category. They have quite a detailed description of all the key people you'll meet in the Bible - they often cover about 2/3 of a page!! In the NIV Study Bible, these personality notes are relegated to just a few lines in the Notes section! The LAB definitely is the winner in this category.
Both Bibles contain a Harmony of the Gospels, something I find really helpful. The LAB, however, numbers each event in the Gospels, and before the section in the text, it gives this number and then gives the passages in the other gospels that tell the same story. I found the number to be really helpful. The NIV Study Bible doesn't have such numbers.
I could go on and on, but you get the idea! Those are the main differences, I think!! Both Bibles are excellent. I haven't found any others that are better. I also have the NIV Living Insights Study Bible that has Chuck Swindolls notes, but the notes aren't as complete. Also, the "Word in Life Study Bible" is chockfull of different kinds of sidebars and articles and is just wonderful as well.
I had purchased the Large-Print Edition of the NIV Study Bible because of some temporary vision problems. I hope this is helpful! Please check out my other reviews of Bibles and other Christians books and contemporary Christian music!
The charts, timelines, maps and chapter overviews and outlines provide rich groundwork for the reading and study of the Word.
It is my first choice when re-reading and researching a passage that is not clear.
The NIV Study Bible is a must for the library of any student of the Bible, and every believer.
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During a fierce storm, Shade is blown off course and clear over the ocean to another place where he meets Marina, a Brightwing bat with a band on her forearm, Zephyr, an albino bat who can portend future events, and Goth, the main villain in this story, who is a huge cannibalistic Vampire bat. As Shade and Marine are being chased by Goth and Throbb (Goth's bumbling cannibal assistant bat), they get in mixes such as getting captured by pigeons, rats, nearly freezing to death, and almost getting eatin.
Personally, I really thought "Silverwing" was a good book, it has like 285 pages or so, but in that, Kenneth Oppel unleashes a world of characters, and uses his imagination to create Shade's surroundings, and Shade himself. And he describes the whole book how a bat would see it, he did not mention a single color. So, "Silverwing" is an excellent book for readers young and old to sit down and enjoy.
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As for Bond himself, after being a rather predictable presence in Thunderball, he's back in full form as a full realized, interesting character in this novel. On Her Majesty's Secret Service was written after the release of Dr. No (Ursula Andress even makes a cameo appearance at the time) and one can sense that, with this book, Fleming is reestablishing his claim on the character. From the intentionally ludicrous evil scheme to the frequent excursions into Bond's head (revealing him hardly to be the ruthless, unflappable killer that filmgoers though him to be), Fleming comes across as a reenergized writer in this book -- determind to let all the new Bond fans out there know who is really in charge of their favorite secret agent's destiny. The result is one of the best of the original Bond books and one of the best spy thrillers I've read in a long time.