This Book is about a king who lives in a castle. He has a baker called Adrian.The King always eats eggs. Adrian makes the king chicken eggs,goose eggs,duck eggs.Then he shouts More More More! The Next day he read in his Newspaper that a dodos egg was spotted on an island.So he told Adrian to prepare the boat.To get to The island.

Loner, Losers, and Lovers is one of the most elegant, informative, eloquent field studies that I've read. It captures the world of those living in a residential hotel in a large midwestern city in the US. Stephens' book is based on her doctoral dissertation in sociology and she does a magnificent job. This is a great book for sociology students to read in courses in methods, urban sociology, gerontology, aging, and social psychology. I found the methodological chapter to be illuminating and the research to be top notch. The glossary of carney terms is a nice addition, icing on top of the cake of Stephens' research. The next time I teach urban sociology, I may use this book as a supplementary text.

I hope that Dr. Stephens has written more books. Her work is simply excellent.

Stephen Hero is part of the now-mostly-lost first draft of Joyce's first novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The legend goes that Joyce, in a moment of disillusionment, flung the manuscript on the fire and his sister Eileen rescued it. Odd, then, that the MS shows no apparent signs of burnmarks. Either way, the first few hundred pages are missing, so what we have here is a fragment of what would probably have been a very long and rather insufferable autobiographical novel about a clever young man realising that he's too good for the society into which he's been born.

The remarkable thing about it is that even though Joyce is basically transcribing the events of his own life, he's impressively objective. Stephen Daedalus (it became "Dedalus" in the later version) is presented as a bit of a prig, almost comically outraged when it looks like he can't read out a speech to a college debating society, and for all his erudition and genius a twit when it comes to getting his end away with the luscious Emma Clery. Joyce obviously realised this, because when he rewrote the novel he made it not more objective but less so, forcing us to see the events from Stephen's point of view, modifying his method as Stephen grows from frightened boy to disdainful young man. Stephen Hero is all told in the same cool third-person that Joyce used in his early stories. He abandoned it when he realised that it was quite inappropriate for the book he really wanted to write.

So what are the virtues of Stephen Hero? For one thing, it shows a lot more of the life around Stephen; Joyce has a lot of fun recording the inane remarks of Stephen's fellow students and the dimwitted inanity of the college president. The family is presented as less of a threat and more of a slightly baffling background hum (Joyce seldom wrote as kindly about his mother as he does here, even if he made her death one of the equivocal emotional centres of Ulysses). Stephen's artistic theories are _explained_, rather than being _demonstrated_ as they are in A Portrait (and while this is part of how much better a book A Portrait is, it's nice to see them set down, as well.) But in the end you have to admit that if Joyce had published this as his first novel, he mightn't have had the reputation he has today as being a man who published nothing but masterpieces. Dubliners is the best starting point if you've never read Joyce before and want to see what the fuss is about. Stephen Hero, on the other hand, is no masterpiece, but it's perhaps the only book by James Joyce that you could recommend to people going on a long train journey.

Stephen delves deep into the error-trapping loops of Jesuit doctrine, sounding its minatory hollows, vivisecting its repressive will-to-venom. A stately young apprentice, equipped with esthetic tools he himself has made, Daedalus spends precious little time studying for his exams, paying knee-tribute in the entropo-oedipal chambers of the chapel, nor allowing himself to be terrorized into stupidity by fiction-blind men of the Church. EXILE TEACHES ONE TO SENSE AND VALUE. Stephen's rejecting passion strives to evade the conflict-spirals of "Irish paralysis," the decades-dead mausolea of a distant Papal dispensation. For the eroded statuary of Doctrine has been subsumed by the zesty rind of the Epiphany, a crystallization of the fragmentary present into a seeing-place for the exilic soul. In a fine irony, Stephen must reconcile his aesthetico-ethical ideals with a grave intellectual debt to that greatest doctor of the church, St. Thomas Aquinas; can Stephen ever truly purge himself of the Irish Catholic gene-machine? --*Stephen Hero* is a great task but well worth it, much in the vein of Beckett's *Dream of Fair to Middling Women*, an apprentice-work with all its warts intact, a revelatory gem far beyond juvenilia. For here we are granted an unprecedented view of Joyce the youthful escape-artist, of the traumata which sustained his greater odes, the dark italics of literary Exile.

Stephen Hero, the latter half of a rejected first draft of Portrait (apocrypha: Joyce flung his manuscript into a fire only to have Nora save part of it), offers Joyce fans a glimpse of his literary style and development as a young buck of nineteen to twenty-four. Portrait, written ~7-12 years later, is a condensation of the initial thousand pages of Hero with several layers of symbolism and effects added. Portrait shines the spotlight of Stephen's intellect upon the dim world of his own perception; Hero sets an objective reality in the plain light of day in simple, effective prose. Hero's style allows Stephen's arrogance to come across much more clearly than in Portrait. His adolescent conflicts are more easily relatable to the reader, whereas in Portrait those conflicts are arranged dramatically to occasion his birth as an artist, complete with his moderately original neo-Aristotelian, applied Aquinas heuristic. This text is NOT suitable as an introduction to Joyce (Dubliners is obviously the way to go in that respect). Those who are already committed fans of Portrait should with a little patience find Hero an engaging read.

This is a great book. I love it. But there is one thing that some people may be looking for in it that isnt there. This book will not tell you everything that you want to know about making a web page. It is exactly what the title says, it is a desk reference. I would not recommend it to a person that has no experience with web pages (mainly HTML), but if you know the basics behind a web page, and want to know how to improve your web page, buy this book.

Another great collection of Sci-Fi Novels, a collection of Six stories that join into one big story... All of them have separate storylines which all coincide towards the end.

A great read for anyone on holiday and nothing much to do... Reads easily even if it is a bit on the childish side most of the time, a great read for kids getting into Sci-Fi and I certainly enjoyed it...

A bit of a change from Asimov ;Þ

Reagardless of the fact there is no real "Joyce Reardon, Ph. D" or "Rimbauer family" the book was quite entertaining! (the true identity of the author is Ridley Pearson...his next novel "The Art of Deception" appropriately titled) The publishers, Hyperion Books, did a great job of promoting the fictional diary as to go so far as creating a false university website: beaumontuniversity.net to encourage the belief of a nonexsistent mansion called Rose Red. The only resemblence of reality Rose Red shares with anything is a mansion in Tacoma (rather than Seattle) where the mini-series was filmed called Thornewood Castle. Although it too is said to be haunted, it's nothing as evil as the fictional Rose Red. True ghost story buffs would probably be more interested in Thornewood Castle opposed to the Rose Red story. (visit thornewoodcastle.com) As for the diary, it was a fun, entertaining read. I am suprised by how much sexual content was included after reading the author's decision of editing "inappropriate" entries of the diary. The missing excerpts online hardly scratch the surface of what's included in the book, then again, it's all fiction. Don't be fooled into believing any of it!

BEWARE: This is a hoax - but a clever one!

Welcome to the wacky world of psychic phenomena, aristocracy and marketing. With a beguiling introduction, the purported author, Joyce Reardon, sucks you in with her account of discovering the long lost diary of Ellen Rimbauer, a notorious Seattle socialite from the turn of the twentieth century. According to Reardon, at least 26 people died or vanished within Rimbauer's enormous estate, Rose Red, over a period of four decades.

In a masterful marketing ploy promoting his upcoming miniseries "Rose Red" on ABC, Stephen King obviously wrote this book under the pseudonym of Joyce Reardon. Regardless of authorship, it is a good weekend read - or even a day if you find it as difficult to put down as I did. It was also rather intriguing to read King's interpretation of a woman's deepest thoughts.

Well-written stories well woven into a fascinating book.
A little informal research on the Beaumont University website referred to in Reardon's introduction revealed a home page with no address and most links "under construction." The Special Programs link listed four courses in the paranormal realm - three of which are taught by the illusive Dr. Reardon. The Contact button requested, "Please submit email address and we will keep you informed of paranormal activity in your area."

Did I sign up for Beaumont University's contact list, you ask? For now, I prefer to remain in the psychic dark and deal with the real world. But I will be watching the miniseries on ABC now scheduled for late January - hoping for a solution to the puzzle and even more titillating entertainment.

OK, someone beat me to it. I haven't found a single shred of evidence that Stephen King WROTE this diary, clues maybe. Being as though I am NOT single minded, the possibility that someone else (Tabatha King? Someone associated w/ the movie?) wrote this to coincide w/ the movie is a very real one! Stephen King is being judged for something he might not have even wrote. "Stephen King cannot write women." I am waiting patiently to judge YOUR book. "Delores Claiborne", "Gerald's Game" and "Rose Matter" were not his normal style, this is true, but I couldn't put them down either. They were a little drawn out but not REALLY bad. They sold didn't they?
As for the diary, I loved it! I too wish I could've read it before watching the mini-series. It provides a solid history giving insight to the happenings during the "expedition." I don't care WHO wrote it, I couldn't put it down. I am left wanting more; I want EVERY day of the diary! I want Tina's diary too! I think it was an excellent marketing strategy! Never have I seen such an elaborate scheme: book, web site, movie! King is the master of creativity! (or maybe those who work w/ him!) Ha-Ha to those of you who are upset and fooled. Duh, since when has King written a "documentary?" Just goes to show, he's so talented he has the power to fool the public! For us that enjoyed the ride, BRAVO! And thank you Mr. King! It was very easy to climb into "Rose Red's" world.
Note: I just compled reading ALL the other reviews. I'm happy to see that I feel as MANY others do and that my suspicions are also similiar.

However... if you need help with an unruly or disorganized board, this book will NOT work for you. Joyce Stephens assumes that your board runs correctly and that you have such things as a parlimentarian on board. She even has a section on chosing the proper gavel. If your board lacks direction or does not function properly, this book will not help you run a successful meeting. But for newly elected presidents, this book can impart some very helpful information that should put anyone at ease right from the first board meeting.

The copy I received was missing pages. One page had the print running off one side, as a document might appear if it had been misfed through a photocopier. In another place, page 23 followed page 21, which was then followed by page 22. The quantity of sample language was a disappointment.