If I could I would give this book the highest rank of rating out of any book that I have read. I believe that this book is emtionally and sipirtually lifting. I loved this book and I reccomened this book to any persono that is goin through alot in their lives.

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I read this book a few months a go. I haven't read many of christian writer's story about their lives, but some that i have read never really touched me the way Joni did. I was impressed and blessed from her honesty in pouring out her thoughts and feelings, even the bad ones. It did not discourage me, but instead it made me realise that we need to deal with ourselves to be able to see the real us and to be able to see what God wants to do in our lives.

I first read this book when I was 11 years old. Joni's story evokes deep feelings of despair, sorrow, anger, frustration, hope, inspiration and love. At 11 years old, this book provided a much-needed introduction to the hardships of life. I believe reading this book at such a young age prepared me for life and ministry.

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Larson is a college drop-out who has made a career of touting himself as an 'expert' in whatever happens to be in vogue at the moment, such as rock music (his only gig of any note was a one-song appearance at a Lions Club convention, arranged by the drummer's father), exorcism (he has actually 'exorcised' demons of HEARTBURN), family issues (he divorced his wife two years later), and now, abnormal psychology (his only expertise must come from the years he spent in psychotherapy). His expertise in investigating UFOs and the paranormal is notable only by its absence, and his main thesis (that UFOs are demonic manifestations) makes you wonder if he should still be under a doctor's close supervision.

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Bob Larson was a liaison officer with the U.S. Army to the local German authorities in Stuttgart, Germany. He wrote this book as a sort of guide for newly arrived Americans so that they could understand the sometimes strange behaviour of the people surrounding them, in this case the "Swabians" who live around Stuttgart. It also gives some historical background and it even teaches the occasional Swabian who reads it something about himself. The only bad thing is that the book, as well as it's "sister books" "Getting Along With The Germans" and "Schnitzel Bags, Snap Daddies and Mox Nix Sticks" are out of print.

This book is still in print because it is at least competent. I had the dubious pleasure of reading some of Dead Air in rough draft, and can say that Larson is incapable of writing a novel by himself. The book itself (and the ghostwriting controversy which ensued) precipitated two separate lawsuits, involving Muriel Olson and Lori Boespflug, who can fairly be said (especially, upon reviewing Larson's anemic later efforts) to be the substantive authors.
Protagonist Wes Bryant is Bob Larson, as he wants the world to see him. Ex-wife Polly appears to be first wife Kathy (whom Bob dumped unceremoniously after 23 years of marriage), and his new wife Laura (roughly 17 years Bob's junior) gradually became Annette. Boespflug was blunt in admitting that that was what Larson wanted, and for those in the know, it is painfully obvious.
In a 1993 World magazine expose of Larson, Boespflug told reporter Jay Grelen that she fabricated many of the colorful details of this "fiction based on fact" novel entirely from whole cloth. And given Larson's documented penchant for fabrication himself, this seems to be a veritable certainty.

Bob Larson may not have written one word in this book. But that doesn't change the fact that it's a good story. It's different. It's not one of those 'end times' thrillers, and it's not Peretti. That's a good thing. It's not afraid to take a risk. It's pure story, rarely boring, from the beginning all the way to the end. If you're a fast reader, you'll finish it in a few days. Maybe two. Backstory is kept to a minimum. Most of the characters, especially Wes Bryant, the protagonist, are easy to sympathize with. One thing I should probably warn you about is that this masterpiece is extremely graphic. So graphic, in fact, that I can't believe they were allowed to publish it to the christian market. It'd make a good movie, but I don't think that'll ever happen. The only negative thing I can say about this book is that it's a little TOO easy to read. The narration often seemed chiseled or a little too cut and dry. There's no fascinating prose here---but in this rare exception, that's a good thing, because it makes the story seem more... real. Say what you want, but a lot of the things in this book have happened in the past and are probably happening now. After reading this book, you may look at evil just a little bit differently. Just a smidge. Highly recommended... if you're not a close-minded bigot. Four stars out of five.

As many of the previous reviewers have stated, the book is very graphic . I couldn't believe I found it in a Christian bookstore.
I found the dialogue of nine year old Jennifer to be much more juvenile than the nine year olds I have met. She sounded more like a 5 year old.
The ending was unexpected. Cults of this magnitude don't just leave you alone.
Overall I still enjoyed the book being a lover of mystery and thrillers.

Radio and televangelist Bob Larson writes a handy little guide to everything Bob thinks is evil or wrong. Of course he's entitled to his opinion, and if you've ever listened to his "Talk Back" radio show, or seen him on the tube, you know what he's all about. Basically, though, the book isn't worth the paper it's printed on. It's corny, it's lame, it's totally biased. It's vintage Bob Larson.

This tiny little book by Bob Larson is very useful in defining many of the cultic movements. This book is small enough to carry around in a pocket, and useful enough to be able to defend your faith against cult groups.

Great riveting WoW you will not belive how great this book is intill you read it. One of bob larsons best

Bob Larson has really done it this time! The man who peddled Right-Wing Fundamentalist Propaganda throughout the 80s is back with a book that astounds anyone who thought this guy couldn't sink any lower! The mere fact that he actually states that Cassie Bernall (the martyr who died because she believed in God) will burn in Hell actually induced me to VOMIT! While I'm not a christian myself, I find that purely disgusting!

But this book if you're into trash. Everyone else, keep your distance.

In this book I first found the author to be very much an expert in this field. He lived very close to Columbine and was able to take a short drive there to be one of the first persons on the scene. He didn't flash around a big TV camera trying to sell advertising time, he immediately went to the kids asking them what happened, what they knew about those involved, and why it happened. He reports on the things that he found...the things the news and media would never dare say...he found the truth.

But this book isn't just about Columbine, it's a compilation of all the major and most of the other unheard of school shootings. Mr. Larson has documented in this book everything from a list of the times and places of these school shootings, to a profile of the lives of those who commited these unspeakable crimes. He then brings together all of the similarities of these incidents to find the "why's." He uses his findings to make a 'profile' of a school shooter and gives lists of warning signs that were evident in the school shootings of the past.

Does it work? Are his findings sound and true? Well, the proof of the book, is in the book. While this book was being written, Mr. Larson predicted in the book the profile of the next school shooter: everything from his background and homelife, to how and why he would act. Before he could finish his book though, it happened...another school shooting. Mr. Larson's predictions were 100% correct!

Do you have children, know children, or know someone who works with teens or young people? Buy this book for yourself and for them. I gave a copy of this book to the superintendent of our school district mainly because of the warning signs that are clearly outlined in it. I hate to read, but this book stuck in my hands until I finished it. I was absoloutely captivated by the findings in the book: the important things that no one else has reported on. I got the book for [$] and it was some of the best money I ever spent!

The reader from "anywhere but here" is lying, plain and simple. Larson does not state anything of the sort about Cassie Bernall. He DOES say many good words about her, and commends her bravery and loyalty to Jesus throughout the book. Get this book to learn about what was going on in the killer's heads that would make them do such a horrible thing.

Bob Larson, Abaddon (Nelson, 1993)

Bob Larson's Abaddon, the sequel to his novel Dead Air, is possibly the funniest book I have read in the past decade. In many ways, Larson reminds me of the kind of televangelist who's out to get ratings and nothing else; he attacks popular culture (even when it's not really popular, as in this case), does just enough research to get some glitzy facts, and then either makes up the rest or completely misunderstands what he's seeing as he goes along. And like said televangelists, Larson's work is always good for a long, loud laugh when you most need it.

This time, we find Wes Bryant (according to a few reviews and interviews, a character Larson based on himself), his new wife Annette, and her daughter Jennifer in Colorado, where Wes is the GM of an all-talk radio station. His main competition is KZOO, a rock station no one who's listened to the radio since the advent of Howard Stern won't recognize, a morass of shock DJs and awful music. With a twist: the station plays death metal. In heavy rotation. Okay, THAT'S new. (Larson does, to his credit, mention very late in the novel that most radio stations don't.) KZOO is sponsoring a Night Sacrifice show on Halloween night, and Bryant, whose stepdaughter is falling under the spell of Night Sacrifice, has singer Clint Blade come into his studio for a dust-up with his most popular talk-show host. Bryant ends up confronting Blade over the air himself, and, disturbed by what he sees (and the depths to which his stepdaughter is getting into the stuff), starts researching the phenomenon that is death metal.

Yes, there is a mystery here, although what that mystery is one isn't sure until the final few pages. Nuff said about that.

The true humor in the book comes from Larson's complete and utter misinterpretation of his readings (one hesitates to say his experiences) on both death metal and psychology. Now, to be fair, such landmark tomes as Lords of Chaos had not yet been released when Larson wrote this book. But still, one figures a guy who goes over to Boyd Rice's house for dinner on a sporadic basis is going to know a little more about underground music and the motivations behind it than the average bear. And for all I know, Bob Larson is actually an expert in the subject; it just doesn't come through here. His occult research seems a bit lacking as well (e.g., his description of a Book of Shadows, confusing a pentagram and a symbol of Baphomet, and various other hilarity-inducing niggles), but not in nearly the scope as the others.

Larson might well have been able to use this book to address the real reasons for the underground popularity of the death metal movement, but instead, he takes a rather more dangerous path-attributing a love of death metal to, of all things, multiple personality disorder, and then going on to assert that MPD is a common and easily-controlled (by the enemy, of course-the good guys will have to spend years curing it, but the enemy can make new personalities appear almost at will!) disease. Hopefully those who have read this do remember that this is fiction, and that multiple personality disorder is a rare and very difficult disease. Not something to be flippant with, one would think, when an author is trying to assert deeper truths. But there you go. I could have even bought that Larson was using MPD as a metaphor for disaffectation and apathy--wouldn't be the first time such things have happened--if not for the acknowledgements page, which should have been placed after the text so as not to mention the MPD angle the book ends up taking (I'd not have included it here had it not been spoiled on the very first page of the book, before the text even begins).

Unfortunately, my humor fades when I realize that Larson's target audience is probably taking this stuff seriously. Those who would like a better look into the phenomenon of underground music and the reasons for its existence are encouraged to look to nonfiction by and about the artists themselves. The aforementioned Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground is a landmark; American Hardcore: A Tribal History, Apocalypse Culture, and such biographies as Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and the Germs are all well worth seeking out. The soon-to-be-released England's Hidden Reverse holds much promise as well.

Abaddon, on the other hand, gets * ½ for amusement value and absolutely zilch for accuracy, writing skill, characterization, unpredictability, or anything else remotely related to writing a good novel.

I really enjoyed the book. Especially when I was able to use it to make a friend (studying to be a psychiatrist) believe that I had MPD! True this is fiction, but some are real expiriences whether or not this man has expirienced them. While it seems laughable in it's extremity, it's not too far off should you isolate the events rather than lump them together. In any event, it makes for captivating reading. I have been reading it over and over again since I was about 12 (I first read it's prequel, Dead Air, when I was 10) and am reading it even now.

I like this book. It's one of my fav. and even though I'm just 14 I've read quite a lot of books and can discribe most of them.

Useless, So many mistakes it isn't even funny.

215 pages through this text I finally abandoned it. I have a half dozen different books on the new CCNP routing and this was the third one I've read. I have enough background in cisco to recognize some of the flagrant errors in this book. I decided that it would be better to stop reading it lest there were mistakes I wasn't catching. OSPF and BGP are complicated enough with out getting bad information and disjoint writing. It also spent an inordinate amount of time in the early chapters going over basic CCNA level material.

If you need simple explanations of complex routing topics like OSPF and BGP - than this book is for you. This book is much better than attempting to learn from the official Cisco materials - with the exception of the Routing TCP/IP volumes, of course. Those books are also a must have for an NP or IE candidate.

The author's unprecedented scholarship came to fruition in this magnum opus,covering all the available knowledge from "alcohol"and "Belzebub" to Zoroaster.Virtually a non-stop page turner,this encyclopedia of knowledge will instill piety in the unaware readers,finally opening their eyes to the myriad of dangers(and demons,of course)lurking behind...anything.The merits of this compendium lie in its unwavering commitment to our general redemption and a final purging of world culture of anything that contradicts the author's Weltanschauung;it becomes evident early in the book that from the Reformation on the world has entered a period of struggle with an influx of satanic infestation now pervading every aspect of our culture,from the noetic levels to the lower,Freudian realms of the libido.If in the early middle ages the British Isles,namely Ireland and its monks became the last bastion and haven of classical culture,this herculean task has now been undertaken by the author with spectacular and life saving results;it is not an exaggeration to call this book a new "Critique of Pure Reason" that far surpasses Kant's initial and shabby attempts.ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS.

A glimpse by possibly the world's most educated 'exorcist' on demons and deliverance. Some case studies that although true read almost like something from a horror fiction novel. There are many christian ministers in the world today from all denominations who deal with demons the way Bob Larson does, but few of them in my opinion have the deep incite, revelation knowledge and sheer wealth of experience he has, he definetly GETS results! no question about it. His teaching on recognising the difference between MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder) and demons although not exhaustive (no one really knows all the answers on this subject!) is truly fascinating and definetly plausible considering many christians have been 'falsely' diagnosed as being demon possessed and suffered deep spiritual harm through it. After reading several books and witnessing exorcism's abroad, this man is right on the money! Despite his high pitched voice and at times his very frank forthrightness in delivering the Word of God on his radio show and TV appearances he is a very humble family man who has totally sold out his life to fulfilling Christ's call to preach 'deliverance to the captives' I have been personally present at a Bob Larson workshop and it was the most amazing demonstration of the supernatural power of God over the forces of darkness that I have ever witnessed. After reading this book and indeed if you are ever privelidged enough to go to one of his workshops you will NEVER EVER doubt that there is a Devil, and that the Bible truly is God's infallible Word

Bob Larson has consistantly stood out as a warrior in fighting the evil in our world that many would like to ignore. Of particular substance in this book, is the ability for parents today to educate and make themselves aware of the devices of the enemy and especially things aimed at young people today. There is plenty of evidence that bizarre multiple killings by our young and uncontrolled rage by "normal" kids is most unsettling, but to not know "why" and "how" to combat this type of terror would make things unbearable! Thanks to Bob Larson and many of his books and videos we have hope and are truly assured that God is in control and has ultimate power to conquer as demonstrated through Bob's own Christain testimony and ministry.

Bob Larson has used many pages to provide his version of Hinduism. Unluckily, many are just half truths. Bob sees Hinduism as a threat to Christian faith. That is not true at all. To begin with HINDUISM IS THE CULTURE OF INDIA and not an organized religion like Christianity or Islam. It does not believe in conversions and it does not go around converting people of other religions to Hinduism. Bob states Hinduism should be viewed as religious anarchy in action. That is not true. Since it has no governing body Hinduism is an explosion of thoughts and ideas. In it you can see FREEDOM OF THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS. Not even one Hindu is ever banished from it since it was born at least 6000 years before the birth of Christ. No Hindu author was ever burnt or crucified for writing a book, whereas in the the Christian faith, countless thinkers had been banished for their frank statement. Even the author of the first English version of The Holy Bible, William Tyndale [1525] was accused of blasphemy and later burnt on stake. Hinduism never ever had a house cleaning, where as Christianity had several house cleanings from the first Council at Nicaea in 325 AD. During that council, bishop Arius was banished from the church for stating that Christ is a created being and not a procreator. After all the word TRINITY was never mentioned in the 66 books of the Holy Bible. Bob, believes that it is a crime in Hinduism to extrend kindness to those who are less fortunate. But Bob has not written one Hindu scriptural statement to prove his point. Bob also believes that doctrines of karma and reincarnation leave men in somewhat hopeless state. That is not true at all. Karma and reincarnation theory makes man responsible every second of his life rather than waiting for final judgement. After all REINCARNATION AND RESURRECTION are just theories. Nobody can prove them or disapprove them logically or scientifically. Those are beliefs of different cultures of the world. In Hindu scriptures one can read history and culture of Aryans and Dravidians. In Holy Bible one read about the history and culture of Jews. It does not talk about Chinese or Aryans in India. Bob believes that Hindus are worshiiping many gods. That is not true. Actually Hindus are only worshiping ONE AND ONLY GOD Brahman which expresses itself in millions of forms. That is why Hindus have no problem even worshiping Jesus Christ since he is an in carnation of God. Hope every one will read books like AM I A HINDU? before making up their mind about the most tolerent religion on earth, which gave a state funeral to Mother Theresa, the Holy Mother of India, a Christian nun. I think we have to read books which will bring us together. We have to read books which are BASED ON HISTORICAL FACTS AND FIGURES. I salute Bob for all the good things he has done through his book, exposing cults that prey upon the innocent and helpless.

Amazing! This guy must have problems! WHOA! The book simply denigrates people of other faiths and says their wrong because they have things that are not supported in the bible(You know, the book that says bats are birds!)If I were a Hindu I could write a book just like this and place Christianity in it and say "YO BOB! Right back at you!" To me this book is a little biased in that looks at things in a one sided view. Further more the book takes things out of context and creates half truths about other faiths.

Okay! So maybe not all religions can be true and maybe some of these religions have a few issues and things like how Prophecies made by the Jehovas witnesses never came true, but I can easily point out problems with Christianity as well.
My Advice is if you really want this book be forwarned, it is not what it seems.

If Mr. Larson's original intent was to provide back ground information and a smapling of teachings of various religions and sects then he accomplished his goal. I was introduced to sects I never heard of before and my horizons were broaden because of it.

Granted, Bob Larson's prospective is distinctly Christian but that should not be a point of criticism. No where throughout his book does he every claim to be completely objective. He states quite clearly that the standards he measures and evaluates these sects is the teachings of Orthodox Christiainity. Nor does he attempt to defend every tenet of Christianity, that was not his intention and there are other fines book whose intentions are that.

In today's society, the word cults have a negative conotation and therefore people object when their beliefs are labeled cultic. It should be interesting to note that the standard accepted definition of cults, that Larson himself proposes as groups that teach, 1.)A centralized authority 2.) A 'we' vs 'they' complex 3.) A commitment to proselytize and 4.) A isolationism from the outside world would apply to ever major major religion including Christianity. In a more general sense, the word cult is not negative but rather refers to a sect with a smaller following then main stream religions.