this book is marvelously written, great story line, Chip Hilton is a great character and a role model, he is kind and giving and he doesn't let be a sports hero and fantastic go to his head. Great book for any sports fan. Definatly worth the money.

mavrlously written, great story line, Chip is kind and helping, and being a star never goes to his head

This collection of three plays is such an amazing example of McNally's work. "The Libson Traviata" is an emotional play, dealt with such tenderness and wit. "Frankie and Johnnie" is a wonderful play full of compassion and humor, making light of a situation. "It's Only A Play" is a very funny, yet touching play that is a must-read for fans of McNally. Terrence McNally, you are amazing!

This collection is worth getting simply for the second play 'Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune'. Yes, I'm sure you have all seen the film with Al Pacino, but the play version is much more detailed. The relationship between Frankie and Johnny, as seen from dusk till dawn, is one of the most intense, moving and powerful ever written.

i bought this book at a local store and found it to be incredibly helpful to me as a survivor of ritual abuse. my partner has been reading it aloud and we have gained a new closeness through the experience of sharing this work. moriah st clair is a powerful writer, and has obviously worked very hard to heal.

I really enjoyed spending time visiting the homes of so many famous people. Marie-Claire's tour of Cambridge, Key West, Cape Cod, and other literary dens was given with such a simple and candid freshness. She is a master of her craft & has an artistic eye, so her portraits of people are deft & sensitive. A really good read! I enjoyed it immensely...

I always knew that the early christian church, before the Romans took control, believed in the spiritual and psychic "realms." This book is for anyone who believes the same as I do, or anyone looking for a 'controversial' topic to discuss with their fundie friend. This book is very well written and is intriging. I dare you to put the book down for more then 3 minutes, it cant be done. Sure there will be skeptics, but who cares about them! Buy this book if you are interested in the gnostic and true aspect of christianity.

I really enjoyed this book -- especially how Chip helps Bobby Bollinger with basketball skills and in getting along with his older brother.I recommend this book to everyone.

This book without a doubt got me through my childhood crafting years. Random weirdness was no stranger to me, and having grown up outdoors it was natural for me to put my love of random nature and of books to hard work. I'm 18 now and looking for the books of my childhood, the books which I routinely borrowed from the local free library, and this one was the first to come to mind. I remember best making a cockroach out of my dukes of hazzard matchbox car, because it was orange and so was my crayon. Kids deserve a chance to make their own toys. Sometimes all you need is some straws and string to keep them amused.

This book was given to me when I was 12. It helped form a strong base of gun safety for me when I was young. A must have for beginning marksmen and hunters.
Over 200 pages of information on use, safety, cleaning, different styles of guns, and much more.

Margaret St. Clair has long been an anomoly in the world of science fiction, and almost impossible to categorize. Under her own name and the nom de plume of Idris Seabright, she has produced some of the edgiest and darkly fascinating fiction of any writer from the 1940s to the 1950s, her most productive period. The reason why St. Clair is hard to define is simple: her stories usually take place in the science fictional realm of other planets, but at the same time the plots closely resemble the best horror fiction of Robert Bloch, with its own distinctly adult twist.

It's easy to say that "The Gardener" is simply the story of how a self-important bureaucrat gets his comeuppance when he displeases an otherworldly arboreal protector, but it's more than that. St. Clair's power of description creates an almost clautophobic atmosphere and by the story's end, the reader is gasping for air. Few of the stories in this book end happily; the protagonists don't seem to deserve happy endings, or that's just the way it goes in an indifferent galaxy beyond their comprehension. St. Clair's best known story is probably "An Egg a Month From All Over" which chronicles a rather sordid man's hobby of hatching exotic eggs and what happens when his latest acquistion responds to his darkest desires. Do we really want to know what we secretly yearn for? St. Clair forces us to explore this thought in a science fictional context. In "Hathor's Pets," she takes the frequent science fiction theme of humans kept as pets by aliens of higher intelligence; however St. Clair sidesteps the common ending of these humans outwitting their seemingly superior "masters," and give us an a chillingly logical ending that will stay with you for days.

St. Clair's power as a writer doesn't come from providing an unexpected twist to her stories. No, that would be too easy. Her power comes from providing the logical finish to what she started, even though that might be even harder to accept and handle. St. Clair is truly a hard writer to define. She used fanciful setting to make us take a hard, unflinching look at the darkest corners of our souls.

Black Bootee is highly entertaining.

It is populated by mostly nefarious types who hop, skip and jump around the world in an often quixotic, always funny, quest to topple their rivals and seize control of an international drug cartel.

Norman's novel is fast paced ... just don't read it too fast since you might miss one of plot's many hairpin turns.

Let's hope he writes a sequel.