Yes i've been waiting for a long time for Eve Locke and the sensual way she portrays love making among females, it is definitly a classic and i'm looking forward to her next book. I've already read this book twice and it's made the rounds of my very close knit group of perverted lovers,both men and women and Eve turns a person on from start to finish. Thank you Eve Locke, i'll be your fan forever.
Thomas P.

This is the book i've been waiting for for my entire life, (41)and now i'm so pleased for having someone (Eve Locke)as my newest love and mentor. She's the best author for my style of sexual fantasies and I hope the world appriciates her talent. I've just bought her second book The lesbian, her virgin and Ocracoke Island and it's just as good. I can now live my wildest obscenities without feeling degraded she's my kind of girl.Her descriptions are exactually what I needed for a 100% better sexlife, never mind having to have a man anymore.
Grace

It is by far my kind of language and it's very racy and graphic descriptions of every detail mesmerizes my own obscene mind. And when I open the book nothing else matters (...), i'm in a different world thanks to Eve Locke. (...)But the third lifestyle that she introduces almost drove me crazy with desires, i'm going to try it too, it seems perfect, read it and you'll be addicted like I am. Hooray for Eve Locke, I love her she's my kind of author.
Sandy

I'm in love with this Eve Locke and her bewitching style of writing the best described sexual affairs i've ever read. She does a wonderful job of telling every detail, her descriptions are so real that I feel as though i'm the person enjoying her raunchy lifestyle, i'd love to be able to live her stories, my little boy toy gets a workout everytime I open the book.
Karen

This is the first really good erotic book that i've read, it makes the others sad in comparison. I love her discriptive talents, and the more the better. This Eve Locke is a sexual goddess as far as I'm concerned and I'd give anything to be able to live my love life the way she writes it. Her lewd language is very acceptable and i've started to try to duplicate her way of communicating, just with my closest of friends, and they seem to agree,we may start a lewd language club maybe it'll be catching, my copy has made the rounds quite a few times. I'm ready for more of Eve Locke, the raunchier the better.

This story perfectly desribes the island and it's alluring powers, i've been there but without having such great and happy times' not that mine weren't but they were far from what Eve describes, she does a wonderful story and her very graphic descriptions are almost like being there, I took her advise and changed places with a charecter or two and found it to be so exhillerating and so delightful. I am now a changed and happier person knowing that i'm not the only one fantasizing to these extremes, especially the girl with her boy toy. I'm going to read everything she writes, God bless her.
Billy

I only have one thing to say about this: "The Solution is Poetry". Excellent reading. Warning, you may not get it if you consider yourself too smart and significant.

There are people who will swear by this book, there are people who will hate the book. There is no middle ground, i have checked and tried it out. Either you love it or you hate it. Poetic Nonsense in finesse and the finest form.

This will cure your longing of the cluetrain manifisto stuffs. Beautifully written and meaningless at some point, but you goona love it i guess, you gonna crave for more, and then subscribe the newsletter.

GO buy the book, and immerse yourself. I have read some part of the book more than 3 times. Amen.

I just finished Bombastic Transcripts, so if you have bothered to read this at all you're probably wondering so what did this monkeyboy think? Good question, honestly I am still pondering it mulling it over in my head and probably will for a bit. It is a quick read, it's an interesting read, but fundamentally it's not a light read. It takes a little time for digestion and pondering... I suspect I will read it again in the next month or two and reconsider, hell maybe throw this whole review out.

So here's my advice go buy the book, RageBoy needs the cash. If you like Tom Robbins, Hunter S Thompson, and the Gonzo style read away, you'll enjoy it. Perhaps you will find some stuff to digest, even without ingesting any substances on the Schedule I drug list.

If you didn't like Cluetrain Manifesto, Gonzo Marketing, or any Gonzo writing buy the book anyways, for the reasons stated above. Then hide the book in your bookshelf and wait until a really dark night, one in which your soul is screaming for mercy while the night rages in a Category 5 Hurricane and your only fresh reading material is a copy of Reader's Digest you have flipped through already 15 times. Your mind goes hungry, for something unanswered and unknown, and you will recall this book hiding in some dark corner of the bookshelf covered in dust and a three month old edition of Fast Company magazine. You will pull it off the shelf and find yourself drawn to the words expressed inside and the walls of illusion come crashing down inside your mind. Either that or you'll take a gun and pull a Hemmingway. Doesn't much matter to me, if you survive reading it you might even find yourself signing up for Entropy Gradient Reversals, but let me warn you the shotgun is alot quicker and painless, but it's not nearly as much fun.

As raunchy and steamy as the Hooker and the Nun, I love it.

Yes this new book is definetly another work of art, she has done an inredible favor to not only me but to many folks who love her type of sexual entertainment. I love the way she describes each lover and the way and style that is most rewarding and I love the (...) methods that she does so well. Keep them coming we here at the hospital are anxious for more, we've passed out only copy around for the second time, the poor thing is getting worn out but her entertainment never will.

true to her past novels Eve Locke has done it again, this novel is filled with lesbian and transgendered excitement I'm a lover of this style of lovemaking and Eve knows how to entertain every gender, every turn of the page brings sexual excitement and pleasures I'd love to enjoy in real time.

Back in 1994, my brother was very much into comic books. Not wanting to buy my brother something wihtout buying me something, and knowing my flare for the dramatic and mythological, my father bought me one of the installments of Sandman: Brief Lives...and it changed my life forever. I hungrily started to read anything I could get my hands on by Neil Gaiman...but the haunting images and statements that I received from that book are still with me. It was the episode in which Dream comes face to face with his son after many many years...and agrees to a deadly boon. There are not enough adjectives dealing with "wonder" to describe Gaiman's work. He redefines the mythologies we are all familiar with and creates some new ones. But this is the catalyst installment...Brief Lives is when Dream truly cannot go back...when he passes the cusp of fate into the inevitable. Up until this point, Dream has a choice, but following his decisions in this book, he can no longer retreat to safety. He had become a part of my personal pantheon, as his brothers and sisters have. He's with me for the rest of my life.

I have a soft spot of the Kindly Ones because that was my introduction to Neil Gaiman (I had read about him in Wizard, the monthly bible of the comic book world, but I was young, and stupid, and my ignorance kept me away from revelation), and for The Wake because Micheal Zulli's pencils are exquisite - but whenever I _need_ exactly what it is the Sandman has to offer I turn to Brief Lives.

It's the distilliation - the essence - of what Sandman is about. Some might argue that Fables and Reflections or even Dream Country would be a better representative, a series of stunning vignettes whose swirling, mythic and dream like quality (I'm thinking of the fabulous Ramadan story) are about horror, fate, the depths of humanity and all that good stuff in the great traditions of fire-side story tellers.

But Brief Lives is something even better.

As Mikal Gilmore noted in his introduction to the graphic novel edition of The Wake, one of the seminal joys of the Sandman is hearing Gaiman's voice grow clearer with each passing issue. The progression from "The Sleep of the Just" to "The Tempest" is an astounding one; watching him grow makes any burgeoning and would-be writer both jealous and elated. The entire idea of the Sandman was revolutionary and different and pregnant with greatness (yes, a dangerous term, but applicable) - but it wasn't until Brief Lives that we _really_ saw what this thing could be capable of. Some argue that point occurred in "The Sound of Her Wings" in the first story arc, or perhaps Seasons of Mists, but _anyone_ who has read Brief Lives understands the truth....

This story is breathtaking. It's a romp. It's a ride. It blows you away, grabs you, throws you down forever into the endless sky with a wild rush of words and images (the matching of Jill Thompson to this story is once more pure genius), it picks up a fatal and final inertia that doesn't slow down until the final page is turned - that is, the final page of the last issue of the series. It's from this point that the story picks up speed and urgency. Everything revolves around the central act of kindness that concludes Brief Lives, and all the tragedy and death and destruction and redemption that occur later on are merely a reflection of that single act.

This is _the_ story. Everything before was technically brilliant, possessed of a fresh and blindingly new verve that the comic books medium hadn't seen in quite some time - but it was somehow _distant_. Brief Lives is full of a passionate proximity, a feeling of the here and now, a sense of both the confusion of every day life and miraculously together with that, the grand rush of scope. This is where Gaiman gets his chops.

I can't recommend this book enough. It's got a winding, willowy wisdom (how's that for alliteration?) that stays with you beyond the waking realms, the kind of gift you return to as the years pass by, something that grows with you as oppossed to on you. Each time I read it I read something new and fresh, and each time I read it I never fail to be moved and inspired.

Brief Lives is what it's all about. Peter Straub couldn't have said it any better when he wrote in his afterword....

"If this isn't literature, nothing is."

Oh, yes! Change is indeed the topic debated throughout Neil Gaimans masterpiece volume in the highly thought-stimulating saga of the Dreamlord. It is the book that sees Gaiman making his main character emotionally vulnerable (whereas "Preludes & Nocturnes" portrayed his "physical" weakness), thus more human in action, thought and word. By doing this Gaiman's genious sends this fascinating, somewhat inexplicable dark and mute, "human" incarnation of dreams from the rather easily awoken sense of a "sympathetic" prothagonist in action, to the empathetic core of our hearts. His clumsy approach at establishing a dialogue with the elf-housemaid Nuala on his return to the dreamcastle, stands out as proof of change - actions and reactions within this brief conversation bear witness to the Dreamlords waking will to take other beings welfare into consideration, within the limits of all realms.

The turning points are, due to the non-linear narrative, generally spread out through most of the volumes of the Sandman story, but to me the ultimate change of the storyline occurs as Morpheus initiates a final rendez-vous with his human son, as described in this wonderful, and not least powerful, collection of beautiful stories. In short a powerful set of thoughts on the nature of "the word for things not being the same always".

The presence of the Almighty is felt briefly through actions, beyond the control of even the Endless Seven, and dialogues reflecting an inevitable masterplan that will seal the fate of Morpheus as we have come to know him.

Dr. Locke's latest book, "The Prime Movers", is the most inspiring non-fiction book I have ever read. With his in-depth discussions of the virtues and hallmarks of the world's Prime Movers, Dr. Locke shows us the value of unflinching rationality, vision, courage, and persistence. The examples also show that large-scale wealth creation is a result of following the morality of Ayn Rand's philosophy, Objectivism, regardless if the person is conscious that he or she is following her philosophy or not.

Chapter 9 helps distill the essence of the Prime Mover into how one would use their abilities to make a billion dollars. Luckily, for those of us who will not use the same amount of drive and tenacity, we are shown that we can get by making a mere 2-100 million dollars.

Concluding the book are appendices showing the monetary figure of Prime Mover generated wealth and essays by Dr. Locke and Dr. Peikoff. Readers not familiar with Dr. Peikoff's essay style are in for a great treat.

If you've ever listened to Dr. Locke's taped lecture series on the traits of American Business Heroes, you'll fall in love with this more essentialized, internationally-scope tome. It is remarkable.

During the recent SR Conference in Richmond, Va., I bought at random in the SR store a copy of Dr. Edwin Locke's book:

"The Prime Movers"

Traits of the Great Wealth Creators

However, I must confess, that the moment I started to read this book, I got hooked. It reads almost like a detective story, and I couldn't let it down.

For businessmen, this is a revelation.For non- businessmen or women it is a fascinating book, explaining and summerizing what is not only important for business, but how it concerns also your own well being.Objectivists will highly enjoy the clarity and logic of the ideas presented.This is a spirit uplifting book.

From the foreword by John Allison, CEO,, BB&T, Inc., making emphasize on the progress of the last 250 years compared to the previous 25.000 ones, to the basic ideas which made this development possible, to the article "Hatred of the Good", by E. Locke and appendix B by L. Peikoff "Why Business Need Philosophy", this is a a unique and outstanding book. Dr.Locke keeps the reader highly motivated to rush from one chapter to the next one.

This delightful book, based solely on Objectivist premises, is a wonderful reading experience.

I wonder, if Dr. Locke considers this book his masterpiece.

Horst Jepsen, businessman (a proud one)

We've all heard about the alleged "robber barons." For decades the world's successful wealth creators - from Rockefeller to Gates - have been brushed with that smear. But Dr. Locke shows that the smear just can't stick. The wealth creators aren't the dishonest, short-range, conniving bullies we've long been told. Instead, they're both productive AND moral.

To his credit, Dr. Locke doesn't accept the prevailing view that rational self-interest is evil - or that humble self-sacrifice is noble. That's what makes this book special - in addition to Locke's ability to cut to the essential aspects of creativity in business.

I found Dr. Locke's survey of the great wealth-creators to be as unique as the subjects he studies. Guided by an objective standard for gauging productive prowess, Locke identifies a handful of the most crucial personality traits held in common by history's great business creators and leaders. One of my favorites is "love of ability in others." Successful employees at every level of business will be familiar with the envy and resentment they often get from their bosses. Locke shows that those aren't the successful bosses, that it takes an enormous ego (and self-confidence) to seek out and promote the best employees one can find.

In Dr. Locke's book we learn what's never yet been taught about the productive giants of yesterday and today. Better still, we're given a reality-based, time-tested, and objective yardstick for identifying the giants of tomorrow.

Want to make a bundle in business? Locke says you must develop an independent vision, an active mind, competence and confidence. You must be an activist (not a mere "idea man") and be passionate about your work. You must practice the virtues of rationality, honesty, integrity, independence, justice and self-interest (self-preservation). You must buck conventional opinion, which holds that rational greed is practical, but morally suspect. Locke shows us that rational greed is practical precisely because it's moral. Immoral approaches to business tend, in contrast, to dissipate wealth.

Locke doesn't just advise us. In bringing alive the achievements of the wealth creators, in citing their successes and quoting their own philosophies, he lets the creators speak to and inspire us. Here, Locke AND Rockefeller advise.

This book deserves the rapt attention of entrepreneurs, business leaders, board members, venture capital firms, executive recruiters and business students. It's not just a history lesson. It's a principled "how-to" book with a moral-philosophic base that permits the user to feel he can create ever more wealth and - equally important - feel proud of the wealth he's created.

This book gives lots of information that I thought was peculiar to my case. It gives cases and concrete examples of intervention. For me, it broke the isolation of feeling I was the only one. It gives ideas for writing in a journal at the end of each chapter, which is very useful. People who have epilepsy have choices. It's enlightening and hopeful. I showed it to my neurologist and he wants to read it!

This landmark publication allowed me to look at epilepsy as a challenge instead of a tragedy. Using its philosophy, the techniques outlined in it have helped me to change from a victim to someone who has taken control of her life. I have learned to observe myself inside and out and have changed the patterns which trigger seizures in me. After all, as the book points out, "the disorder that causes epilepsy is there all the time, but the seizures are not". This approach treats the whole person, not merely the symptoms of this malady and the book is written simply although the message is profound. I highly recommend this to patients and professionals.

I found this book extremely informative with a non conventional twist. The combination of the Dr and the patient teaming up to give us a "new approach" to this age old disease is enlightening for those who suffer the challenges of epilepsy. It is certainly worth reading as I feel it will be a great benefit to many. Their suggestions and ideas are very helpful and allow us yet another hopeful aspect to dealing with epilepsy.

While this book was extremely simple and easy to understand Locke did an excellenct job of "weaving" an exciting story with an awesome faith message. There were parts of the book that I wished had been more detailed, less brief, but all in all the story was interesting and fun to read. I also thought it was awesome how Locke managed to put a moving faith message in his story, while so many fantasy books these days focus on nothing but pagean and made up gods, Locke proves that it is possible to write an interesting story and put the true God into it.

Much like Katherine Paterson's books, "Light Weaver" is written in a simple format, with not a whole bunch of mumbo-jumbo about "intrigue" and "suspense." But Locke is an unmistakable professional at what he writes, and his character sketches are flawless as he tells the story of Dan and his transformation into Daniel, a knight who's going out into a magical country with no name, on a quest for something he knows nothing about. Excellent dialogue, nice plot, although the ending could have been played up a little more. Wonderful reading.

I wish this could happen to me! A guy gets in a car wreck and ends up in a fantasy world where all the skills he needs to survive are supplied by God. He meets a pretty girl who helps him with his quest and has a bunch of adventures with a talking rabbit. Then he wakes up and finds out that the girl is real! This book is great for kids and older folks too, and I'd also reccomend the sequels

The importance of this book, first published in 1690, cannot be denied. The book's most famous and controversial idea is that the people have a right to overthrow their government if the government fails consistently in its responsibilities and duties.

The book, which lacks an introduction or conclusion, may be challenging for modern readers. Locke's writing covers a wide range of topics; conquest, paternal power (i.e. the power that fathers have over their children), despotical power and his over-arching central concern, property.

The main ideas of the book are that government exists by the consent of the governed who found government for the purpose of securing their lives, rights and property. Locke frequently contrasts people who live in a state of nature (i.e. no government; people enjoy considerable personal freedom) and those that live under government. Under Locke's view of the social contract, men give up give up the unlimited freedom they enjoyed in the state of nature so as to secure their life, limb and property more securely under government. There is also some discussion of the idea of separation of powers; what is interesting here is that Locke does not use the traditional formulation (i.e. executive, legislative, and judicial), rather he discusses executive, legislative and "federative" (by which he means the conduct of self-defense and foreign policy) powers.

The type of government that Locke describes more closely resembles the system employed by Britain and Canada, more than the United States. He conceives of a monarch or prince at the top of the government (as in Britain and Canada; the Monarch is the Head of State), with the legislature representing the people (Parliament) and so on. This is not to deny that this book still holds value for Americans, as other reviewers have pointed out.

All that said, I would not recommend this particular edition of the book. The lack of introduction to put Locke in his historical context can make the book difficult to understand and some of Locke's 17th century references will simply be skipped over by most readers. However, if you simply want a copy of the book that is plain and plan to quote from it, this edition is quite useful. Each paragraph of the book is numbered allowing a researcher to precisely footnote information.

I could not believe how different this book was from what I expected it to be based on professors in politics classes describing Locke. I think they never read this book or were confusing him with someone else. This book is short and sweet, and at the same time a cornerstone for what the world has become in most developed countries. Many ideas in this book were revolutionary in his time (in fact Locke would not let it be known he was the author) but are now so commonplace as to be things observed in any developed country without explaining why. At least the economic ideas could be classified as such; but the ideas of the people overthrowing a tyrant due to horrible ruling is equally revolutionary in monarchies and dictatorships today, and even in poorly governed "democracies" today. A must read.

The Second Treatise on Civil Govenment by John Locke is the foundation of the philosophy with which Jefferson, Madison, Franklin and Hamilton read and determined to make a cornerstone of our government. This is a most influential essay in the history of political philosophy.

John Locke was an early enlightened thinker and philosopher in England and sought to bring reason and intelligent discussion into civil society. His endeavor to reconstruct the nature and purpose of government, a social contract is proposed. Locke sets out with a purpose, a detailed discussion of how society came to be and the nature of its inception. Locke was associated with powerful scientific minds of the time, one in particular was Robert Boyle.

Locke used Natural Law to define his thoughts. The sociopolitical climate of the seventeenth-century England, at that time was in violent civil war, counter-revolution, restoration, deposition of the monarchy and the subsequent Parliamentry rule with the eventual restoration of the monarchy.

Locke matured as a social philosopher and wrote "Two Treatises of Government" (1690) of which the second is most widely read. Locke's dedication to individual liberty, government by consent, the social contract and the right to revolt against governments that endanger the rights of citizens, has made the legacy of Locke. Later read by the Founding Fathers of the United States, Locke's ideas made an important impression and the fight for freedom began.

This is an important treatise and should be read by all as the foundation of a government by its citizens consent.

If you like the skit that is on nickelodeon you will surely love this story about an odd friendship growing between Dexter and Ed. Also the show down of good vs. evil with Goodburger facing off with the evil Mondoburger! Will Goodburger triumph? Read it to find out!

The book "Good Burger" is a very funny book, even though it was the same as the movie. I thought the book was very interesting to read. The book was about a burger joint that has been going down in buisness seince the new burger joint has came in town but they were saved by ED's sauce.

You will love this book. Even though it is the same as the movie, you'll find that reading the story is funnier.