Napolean Hill talks about attitude, outlook and how they influence a person's destiny. He's right and communicates this message to anyone who will listen. This book also has updated material more relevant to our time. If anyone is serious about changing their circumstance then this book is a good place to start.

This is a wonderful book. What you are supposed to do is read a chapter a week. I had to plow right through the whole thing.

What Mr. Hill teaches, among other things is that you have to decide Exactly what you want, make a plan and go for it. He teaches about 40 other things too, but that is the main point.

Mr. Hill uses excellent examples from personal experience how to accomplish great things.

I'm sure you will love this book if you love success/self help type books.

If you want success in any aspect of your life, you must read this timeless classic by Napolean Hill. He walks you through a 52 week roadmap to success.

I really enjoyed reading Blink. It was not only full of excitement but also extremely interesting concerning the relationships that develop between law enforcement and the community. The characters came across as real people with real situations and as usual Samuel E. Stone seems to just naturally pull the reader right into the story. You find yourself not just reading the story but experiencing it!!! I found the storyline to be fullfilling as well as educational. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a great read.

Blink is a very enteraining and exciting story. I captures your imagination and pulls you right into the storyline. I enjoyed the experience as well as the insight it gave me to the law enforcement community at work. I recommend this book to anyone who loves excitement and intrigue. It covers everything from romance to murder. It was great.

"Crush" kept me on the edge of my seat. It was exciting from the very start right up to the end with a lot of surprises along the way. I really enjoyed the book and would recommend it to anyone who wants to experience the emotions and excitement of true crime. Samuel E. Stone's ability to pull you into the story line is beyond belief...it's great... I could not put it down...Thank You, Samuel E. Stone keep the stories coming...

Wow, what an action grabbed. Crush seems to just pull you into the lives of the undercover cops revealing all the human emotions they experience. It's down to earth, with realistic overtones of political corruption, mistakes, coverups, life, and death situations. I couldn't put it down and when I was done it left me wanting more. A Great novel by Samuel E. Stone

The Fiction Writer's Bible is a very enlighting book involving fresh ideas and concepts on writing. I found it to be written in a down to earth approach which was not only educational but likewise entertaining and extremely interesting. It contains many useful tools to help one develop their own writing style. I recommend this books to all writers and readers as well.

The Fiction Writer's Bible is just full of useful hints in developing your writing skills. I was impressed. I've read a lot of books on writing tools but this one actually helped to improve my thinking and blending process. I think it is a "must read" for beginners as well as experienced writers. It will give anyone who reads it a fresh approch on writing and enhance their writing creativity.

I have had the pleasure of reading "Shades" a novel of undercover police work at its finest. The novel has many twists and turns that keep you involved. The author is clearly writing on a topic of which he is thouroughly aware. As a retired police officer I found the book completely compeling and factually accurate as to police proceedure and intellectually stimulating.

I found myself in the story and hated to put it down for any reason. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes action, adventure, and excitement. It's a great read. I suspect this author is a new Joseph Wambaugh his style and compeling story line is sure to be a best seller.

I found 'Shades" to be a harrowing tale of deep undercover work where deceit and betrayal lurked around every corner. The characters were real, the delivery sharp, and it was hard to put the book down. I felt as if I was part of the action and the characters were right there with me. It was suspenseful, exciting, yet touching. A Great Read!

Charles Dickens wrote a detailed log of his trip to America--from the boat in England to his travels on early American trains. His style is very light and entertaining. If you are familiar with his novels about the dark side of London and the social problems that Dickens himself grew up with, this book is quite a contrast. He is writing the book as an Englishman for other Englishmen.

I was expecting to find a lot of satire against Americans. (His comic piece "Martin Chuzzelwit" had this). However, Dickens was very positive toward the social reforms that he saw in America. He also makes some interesting comments on seeing black slaves for the first time.

Unfortunately, he wasn't able to travel far, so his impressions of America are limited. Nonetheless, this is a book that I enjoy reading and re-reading.

Downfall is one of those stories which needed to be told. It had me on the edge of my seat! Sam Stone has a unique way of making you feel as if your part of the action and you just can't put it down. So real, and yet touching, as you become involved in the events as they unfold before your eyes. I've now read the entire "Sarge Triology," "Shade," "Crush," and "Downfall,"...all I can say is their great...but leave me wanting more!

Stone's book is full of completely relevant detail, documenting with his knowledge of personality and history, those revolutionary and disturbing times in Naples. Exploring book reading habits, printing, attitudes on the ground toward the Inquisition, local thinkers and their place in the larger intellectual world of the times, it makes captivating reading. He is doing what Vico might have directed him to do: get under the skins of the people of the time. His presentation of Vico as a seminal political thinker also opened my eyes to other aspects of the philosopher - my focus has been too "one-sided" - since I am focussing on a Jungian analysis of Vico (Mr Stone may cringe when he hears someone is attempting that). In any case, Mr Stone has helped me in my quest to discover what "type" Vico was. He makes tantalising hints at possible Masonic research Vico was involved with - I am based in London and is has proven hard to read it here; but I did locate it in the New York Public Library - I have not been able to complete reading as yet, but it was a thrilling experience to read the 80% I did manage sitting in that hot room in New York.

This growing rich stuff really appeals to AMWAY and all the other multi-level people. All the Leadership rallies stated that it was Hill who was going to get us where we were going, but unfortunately it doesn't work for everyone. It is a persuasion-oriented book, though, and interesting reading

Master the art of persuasion from the master himself. I also recommend the tape series-Selling You by Napolean Hill.

I bought this book back in the early 70's and sincerely feel that Succeed and Grow Rich is still one of the very best books ever written on salesmanship. In fact, if you were to buy, read and apply everything from this book and Og Mandino's "The Greatest Salesaman in the World", you couldn't go wrong.The 700 epigrams are powerful mind conditioners. Mt personal testomony is that they brought out a burning desire, self discipline, positive attitude and alove for other people like nothing else I have ever used.A philosophy that I live by is " God who giveth us richly for all things to enjoy" (I Timothy 6:17) and "I am come so they might have life and have it more abundantly" (John 10:10)Succeed and Grow Rich. Godspeed.

The Spirit of Laws is a passionate and eloquent statement of liberalism. But it is only that: a statement. It is not a defence. Montesquieu rails against despotism and carefully spells out the separation of government powers. But, unlike Locke or Mill, he gives little argument for why liberalism should be accepted. And those few sketchy comments he does give (e.g. despotism is bad even for the despot) are unconvincing.

Montesquieu doesn't really put forward a unified philosophically based political system here, so don't read it expecting something like The Republic, Leviathan or the Two Treatises. Stylistically this is very like Machiavelli; that is, no overiding system, rather just a long series of pithy pieces of advice for people actually in (or intending to make their own) government. If you've read Machiavelli's Discourses, you'll know what to expect.

I recommend you read at least Locke's Two Treatises and Machiavelli's Discourses before this, and then you'll get the theorectical background behind many of Montesquieu's points. Like Locke he thinks of liberty and republics being fine things, but like Machiavelli he cautions that circumstances should always be taken into consideration, and there is no one form of government that is always the right one for every people at all times, even republics. Because of this most of the book is spend enumerating various circumstances that might come up and appropriate reactions. For example, an early section is spend discussing the effect of climate on the people of that area, and given this, what form of government suits them best.

What this means is that while his work may not stand at a level with The Republic or Leviathan in terms of philosophical merit, if you are looking for knowledge that will be useful in the real world, this book is probably superior to those.

I definitely recommend you check this book out. It's imposing length is split into much easier to digest mini-chapters, so it doesn't seem as long as it is, and the use of examples makes it more interesting than many of the other drier works of political philosophy you might come across.

an understanding of Montesquieu is critical for today's emerging democracies, in that he was one of the first to recognize the importance of securing the liberty of the governed with the aid of reason, such as by constitutional design and by the rule of law. The probelm is that there is a caveat to his theory: democracy may not be the best form of government for every country.