Great Book. It certainly helps one to understand if someone who has suffered can learn to forgive and still believe in God. Very moving, hard to put down, great scripture relations.

This book was very good. I felt that I was going throught his problems with him. As a friend of the Young family, I could relate to some of the things that Evangelist Young wrote about. I now live in Michigan and I plan to put his books on the shelves at my Church. This book is very much worth reading, and I recommend it for people of religion or non-religion backgrounds. Thank you Evangelist J.L. Young for the book and keep up the good work. God Bless You,

This was a book that kept your interest, and made you think about the way we treat others and the way others treat us. I believe that only through God, Mr Young was able to endure, and forgive in the face of such an ordeal. I would recommend this book to anyone who may be going through similar problems..

I just received a hardcopy of the original book from a used bookseller...Over the years I've read and reread this book and purchased every copy that I've happened to come across. I usually end up giving my copies away to others. This is the coming of age story of a young boy named Conroy and his discovery of what life really is, and what life really means or should mean. Conroy questions his Catholic teachers and nuns (and no, you don't have to be Catholic to understand or even be interested in his story). Luckily, along the way Conroy finds someone who really understands what life is all about. It's through Conroy's life and his relationship with "Caepan" through which we laugh, think, and cry. This book gets to me every time. If you ever own only one book, trust me, this is the book.

I first read this book when I was about seventeen. Conroy reminded me of myself in many ways. I could easily identify with many of the situations he faced. John Powers is an amazing author. As I read, I would find myself laughing my head off in one instance, and crying my eyes out a half dozen pages later...especially the last page of the book. I have looked for this book at flea markets and yard sales for many years.I am going to purchase a copy, and highly recommend it. I agree it should be required reading. I have read hundreds of books of all types. Never has a book touched me as this one did. I love it !

I stumbled on this book in my HS library, read it til the cover fell off and the pages fell out, then went and tried, for almost 2 years, to find another copy. I love it. The satire. The wit, or lack thereof. Everytime i get to the last page, i bawl like a git. I found this book 900% better than "black patent.." I've made all my friends read it. Even being female, I can identify with Conroy. Read it, then read it again, then go back and hilight your favorite parts... I did

I Purchased this book after hearing Dr. Demartini in a lecture, and it was more than I expected. While I'm not a typical new ager (with granola & Birkenstocks, etc.), I found the messages quite uplifting. I would highly recommend it and I came here to purchase some as gifts.

A beautiful book that has many insightful stories. It opens the mind and the heart. I also like the Refelections, Realizations and Affirmations sections after each chapter. John Demartini is a true genius to have developed the "Collapse Process". Get it! I also recommend "12 Secrets for Manifesting your Vision, Inspiration and Purpose" by Richard Bellamy, an associate of John Demartini. It introduces you to " The Collapse Process" that was developed by Dr. Demartini.

This book is the most practical book for deepening spiritual awareness I've come upon. In short chapters, very powerful teachings are shared. In each chapter nsightful questions are asked for the reader to introspect and journal. Affirmations and suggestions for practicing each lesson is given. I teach at a seminary and use this book in all of my classes and workshops. I have used this book for small home study groups. Without exception, my students, counselees, and others to whom I've recommended this book have found it very powerful. Regardless of one's faith background, this book is a consciousness awakener. I have used the "collapse process" and have attended some of Dr. Demartini's workshops. I am profoundly influenced by this powerful work. If we all lived by the awarenesses and practices delineated in this book, we would be so filled with gratitude moment to moment that we would establish peace on earth.

This novel is extremely funny and well written. It is easy to read and does an excellent job at holding one's interest. The book does not follow one main plot, but is instead a collection of anecdotes, each chapter being a new story. However, this format does not detract from the overall quality of the book. Several of the characters are repeated throughout different chapters, therefore, they are still well developed. Also, although some characters are only present in one chapter, they are described in enough depth to take on their own personality.
The author, John Powers, has a great sense of humor and enjoyable use of sarcasm. I found myself literally laughing out loud several times throughout the book. Every anecdote is full of humorous descriptions and mocking comments. Each chapter ends with a hilarious punch line; I could hardly resist sneaking a premature look at the last sentence.
Powers also does a great job at creating characters with whom teenagers can identify. The stories are told through the eyes of the narrator, a teenage male in high school. Although the book was written over twenty-five years ago, I still found that I could relate to the narrator and that we share many of the same thoughts. Powers does an excellent job at getting into the psyche of a teenager and describing the world through the cynical, self-conscious eyes of an adolescent.
Overall, this is one of the funniest books I have ever read. It flows nicely and I did not want to stop reading it. It is a great book to read to make one laugh and improve one's mood.

Like all Powers' books, this is so funny, it's easy to forget how well-written it is. Wonderful stuff I'll return to again and again. By the way, what ever happened to "The Unoriginal Sinner and the Ice Cream God"? I loved that one, too, and it's not on the list of Powers' books. Someone out there is missing out!

In the Catholic High School I attended in the late 70's and early 80's, my class was given this book to read as an assignment. I still have my original paperback copy and try to read it at least once a year. Anyone who grew up attending Catholic schools will find it hilarious and nostalgic.

The Healing Journey is wonderful, uplifting and I highly recommend it. The author offers solutions to living life succesfully with the day-to-day realities of our life by introducing simple and powerful tools for transformation, leading you to stop judging (mainly yourself) and to start practicing another way of life. John Prieskorns personal stories and lesson will heal your heart. This inspiring book is a must read.

That wondrous something that dwells within us all, is revealed through John's book. He has captured the essence of discovery of "self" and the path it takes to achieve enlightnment. John has taken his experience and put into a format that frees the reader to obtain a workable principle for mastery. This is a book not only for my students, but for students of life. Thank you John for being a leader among lifes confusion.

Dr. Prieskorn offers up a beautiful story about his ongoing conversations with God. The story is told in simple, every-day language with examples that everyone can relate to. A great book for the holiday season!

I first discovered John R. Powers when a co-worker gave me the Unoriginal Sinner and the Ice God to read. It was so good I wanted to own that book and other books by Mr. Power. I was diappointed to find that all of his books are out of print. My local library had three of his tiles but have found it difficult to locate his works to purchase. I recommed all of John R. Powers books espesially to baby boomers his books will bring back wonderful memories. I would like to know more about the author.

Architechts and Urban Design folks who consider themselves New Urbanists will love this novel. Powers understands that our missing of the "old neighborhood" is about the sense of place and belonging that was left behind in the search for the suburban dream. Powers tells all the stories: the one mom on the block who worked, the garage which is behind the house, off the alley "where it belongs". Powers lets us recall the calm and orderliness of life in a neighborhood of diverse population, mixed uses(corner stores and front porches) and care for neighbors. The book is a delightful reminder of the days and places that defined middle class not in terms of income or profession but of an ethic shared with the families next door and across the alley.

I think this book is an excellent book and I just love everything that John R. Powers writes. He has a way of being funny and poignant at the same time. He writes about growing up in Chicago as if you are actually doing it yourself. His way of writing draws you in because it is very funny and touching and really makes you think about life. The fact of the matter is that I loaned this book to a friend and now I can't find it in print again. It is truly a good book!

Susanne has enabled us to be an audience to a true story of healing, recovery and hope. "When Spirit Speaks" shows us that the life of miracles and peace are here for all of us.... if we only reach out and believe. As one of the characters in this book I know first hand that a Spirit-filled life is available to us all......

This is one of those books that I started reading years ago, and set aside - not because I didn't like it, but because I got distracted. It surfaced recently and I finished it in only a few days. The story in this book pulls no punches. The author portrays herself as a real, fallable woman on a path of connection with Spirit. The experiences and wisdom shared in this book came to me just at the time I most needed to read them. Spirit spoke to me through this book.

I honor the author Susanne Blake in her sharing her story of her paths beginning. She graciously allows the reader to travel with her down her path and share her experiences. I highly recommend this enlightened book to anyone who is awakening to thier path, who realizes coincendences are more then mere chance. I for one am waiting anxiously for her next book ! Love and Light Susanne..... hugs !

The Power takes its reader on an intense journey delving into the clandestine underbelly of the nation's pharmaceutical industry. Author John Adams succeeds in joining together a host of relatable characters in a refreshingly enigmatic storyline. Truly promises gutwrenching action with repeated uppercuts to the emotions.

Give us more! Better than Chrichton..This is "Real Fiction".
On scale of 10 it's a 10. You write it, I'll read it!

I loved it. After the first 100 pages or so, I could no longer put it down! For years I've wanted Robin Cook or Michael Palmer to write this story, and I'm so glad that John Adams finally did...and I must say, did as good a job with it as they would have. It may be a work of fiction, but there is more truth to it than I want to think about. Vaccine injuries are certainly NOT FICTION, I know, I have cared for my vaccine injured daughter for the past nine years. I highly recommend this book. If you like medical mysteries, you'll love this one.

Along with Herbert Parmet's "Jack: The Struggles of John F. Kennedy", Richard Reeve's "President Kennedy" are the best two books ever written about a legendary (and much-romanticized) American President. Unlike Thomas Reeve's hatchet-job "A Question of Character", which basically could be called a job in "character assassination"; or books such as Arthur Schlesinger's "A Thousand Days", which idolize Kennedy and ignore his flaws and failures as President, Richard Reeve's book maintains an admirably objective and balanced view of our 35th President. Reeve's Kennedy is neither a liberal saint nor a debauched devil, but is instead a complicated and often frustrating man who is woefully unprepared for the Oval Office when he moves in in January 1961, but does possess a great many gifts that save him when he gets into trouble. Reeve's Kennedy makes many mistakes early on in his Administration - the Bay of Pigs, his disastrous summit with the Soviet Union's Nikita Krushchev in Vienna, and his reckless womanizing in private, which as Reeves notes might well have become public knowledge if some enterprising reporter had ever followed JFK's movements very closely. Yet Kennedy does learn from at least some of his mistakes, and his handling of the Berlin Wall Crisis and the Cuban Missile Crisis was excellent. Whether Kennedy would ever have grown into a great President is a matter of debate among historians, and after reading this book I had my answer - JFK was a good President in many ways, but he probably would never have become a great one, due to his overly cautious nature on civil rights and the other great issues of the sixties. In short, this is a very well-written, impressively researched, and very fair-minded look at one of our most difficult Presidents to study and write about...this should be required reading for anyone who's interested in the 1960's, the Kennedys, or American politics.

Richard Reeves' book is a welcome addition to the "CamelotYears" genre. Written from the President's perspective,i.e. "a day in the life" type format, this excellent readneither fawns, nor muckrakes, but rather a balanced account of aPresidency that, until this point, has not been examined in anobjective light. Reeves first person perspective shows a president whohad more profile than courage. Inspite of his many gifts, JFK wasdiffident, at best, as President. Reeves book reveals a JFK that wasdriven, almost maniacally, to get to the White House, but once he gotthere was pretty much out of his league. The portrait of a neophytestatesman is obvious when Kennedy makes his first trip to Europe,receives a lukewarm reception from DeGaulle, and is taken to thewoodshed by Nikita Khrushev who, upon seeing the youthful presidentexclaimed "he's younger than my own son." Reeves accountbeautifully illustrates how the rich playboy-president miscalculatesKhrushev; one gets the impression that Kennedy felt that his Sovietcounterpart could be rolled like a Boston Pol. Kennedy came away fromhis first overseas trip as president much chastened. Richard Reeves'book is excellent; well written, well researched, and balanced. Ihighly recommend it. (I've read it twice!!)

Richard Reeves has crafted an exceedingly insightful, well-written, you-are-there look at the Presidency of John F. Kennedy. As someone born the year Kennedy was assasinated, and having been inculcated over the years with the Kennedy Myth, Reeves took me almost day-by-day, minute-by-minute through the events starting from Kennedy's election through the day 33 years ago when he was killed in Dallas.
Reeves' looks at the Berlin Wall and Cuban Missile Crises take advantage of recent disclosures from US, Soviet and other sources to show how close we came to World War III in both of those situations.
The book's description of the start of the US commitment in Vietnam under JFK allowed me to gain a better understanding of how Kennedy's prior failure to stand up to the Soviet Union and Krushchev in Laos and Cuba "forced" JFK to stand firmly behind the unsupportable South Vietnamese government.
Other topics addressed by the book include JFK's tepid support of civil rights and his rampant promiscuity.
I had to rate this book a 9 (I've yet to read a 10), but this book has to be one of the best out of the almost unlimited supply of JFK biographies

This book brings to life the hard, gritty and dangerous life of working on the railroad. While there's a ton of romaniticized railroad books, this one give the reader insights of what the working stiff had to endure. It does it, however, with an obvious love of railroading, and of the man the book is about.

"Set Up Running" is not a book of dry statistics of Pennsy RR trackage, assets, debits, or passenger-miles served. Neither is it a sensational narrative of harrowing accidents, up-set locomotives, or exploded boilers (although O.P. does have a few close scrapes, and the line of rail jacks exploding one after another as his massive 2-10-0 freight locomotive thunders down a track under repair sets the reader on the edge of his chair). No, this book is better than those sorts of books because it brings a man--actually two men--to life. We come to know O. P. Orr very well indeed through the eyes of his son, the author, John W. Orr, and we end up knowing John as well.

This book shows American history as it should be written--giant machines moving the citizens and the commerce of the land, a huge railroad corporation with all the bureaucratic "snafus" of any multi-layered business as those snafus are seen by and sometimes affect the career of an engineman, the impact of the Great Depression on one family as typical of America as any could be. Historical facts are all here, but they are facts as seen by two very real, very human people, a father and a son. Were all history books written so well, we would all understand history far better and read it far more willingly.

My own grandfather was an engineman, through his road was the Frisco rather than the Pennsy, and my own father was a great lover of trains, though his career paths took him in a different direction. I came along late in my father's life, and, by the time I had the ability and the leisure to write about him, he was gone and his history with him. "Set Up Running" is the type of book I wish someone could have written about my own father, and I know of no higher praise than that. This is a book for railroaders, historians, Americans, and every father's child. At the end, I hated to have to say good-bye to O.P.--and to his son John--but I left knowing much more about the first half of 20th Century America, and I really enjoyed the telling.

This is what too many railroad histories lack -- the human element. This is the story of a man and how he ran locomotives across Pennsylvania. It is also the story of his son, who loved trains and loved to listen to his father's stories. If you are frustrated by railroad histories that are nothing but an endless series of stock transactions, then this is your book.