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Into Thin Air: A Toby Parkman Novel
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Author: Stan Washburn
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Gripping, suspensful, heart-wrenching, a great book
From the first page, this story will have your heart. The characters are so real you can see and hear them in your mind, as if they were in the same room. It's a coming of age story that no one should have to live, but also a story of survival and the importance of believing in yourself. Definitely read this book, but keep a box of kleenex close.


A Moral Alphabet of Vice and Folly: Embellished With Nudes and Other Exemplary Materials
Published in Hardcover by Arbor House Pub Co (1986)
Author: Stan Washburn
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This book is beautiful and charming
Whenever I enter a used book store, I always look for this book first. The little fables are charming and sometimes moving and often very, very funny, and the pictures are very charming (I wish I had some framed originals).


Intent to Harm
Published in Hardcover by Pocket Star (1994)
Authors: Stan Washburn and Jane Chelius
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Starts off good
This book started off really well, nice and spooky, I certainly didn't want to read this at night with any curtains open! However, towards the end, after the criminal was named the book sort of tapered off. The scene where they try to catch him in the act was fantastic, but after that it was all finished off too 'flaky' and without tying up all the loose ends. I don't know, maybe it was because I ended up skimming the last bits, but I was waiting for some sort of explanation or the interview scene or something. Enjoyed the bulk of it though.

Don't Read This Alone
I am an assistant prosecutor who does not scare easily. This book is so wonderfully spooky that I couldn't read it at home alone. I ended up reading it in the office and still ended up with shivers. I highly recomend this book.

A nearly perfect and riveting police procedural.
Stan Washburn's masterfully written first novel is a riveting procedural that pits cop Toby Parkman against an elusive serial rapist. Captures a feeling of night and darkness that should unsettle some readers.


The Price
Published in Hardcover by Arion Press (1999)
Authors: Arthur Miller and Stan Washburn
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A Good Work by a Great Author....
The Price is a well thought out story of human growth. It is a story of family relationships, particularly one that has collapsed over the years. When forced to come together once and for all, the brothers reunite and are able to find some common ground if any over the price of their own old furniture which is to be sold to a dealer. Far more prominent in this novel is the lesson that relationships need love and attention to flourish, and one cannot put a price on them. This book is fabulously written by the famous author, Arthur Miller who has also written such reknown plays as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible. If you didn't pass up a chance to read those classics, you won't want to pass up a chance to read this one.

I don't mind repeat performances
When talking about this play, arthur miller said "I don't write plays to conform to critical essays. I write about what interests me. That is my strength and that is my limitation." Yes, it had a very similar plot to DEATH OF A SALESMAN, but the character's, specifically the main character, were very different, which changed the theme of the play. I loved it. It made me think...got me more involved then death of a salesman did. It took serveral readings to get the full jist of it. Victor's sacrifice was for love: it didn't matter if there had been no love in his family--he brought love to it.

5 stars for theme...but 30s diction.
Miller's play surrounds the moral development of two brothers: one a dutiful policeman (Victor), the other a successful yet selfish surgeon (Walter). Their most recent encounter takes place during the sale of family furniture and heirlooms -- post a long and silent gap in their relationship catalyzed by an angry family breakup that completely separated the brothers.

During their encounter, Arthur Miller poignantly brings out each brother's personal ethics, and what moral debts each feels the other owes. The 'furniture' and it's price to be sold, which is their central concern (in addition to dealings with the only other two characters in the play - an appraiser (Solomon) and Victor's wife (Esther)) , is merely a bargaining object between the two - a prop - with which each may discover more fully the other's thoughts and ways of being, and somehow, at the end of the day, find some sort of salvation in each other.

Miller's play does have room for updating the "Say! What a swell..." type of older american-english diction for flow. This may be especially encouraging to those who may find some of the colloquialisms inappropriate.

The reader must keep in mind that this is not a novel, and really should not be read like one, word for word. This is more a basic screenplay type, where improvisation by actors who truly understand the characters - and Miller's intent - will ultimately bring the true and dramatic color to a wonderful and thought-provoking story.


The true account of the death by violence of George's dragon
Published in Unknown Binding by Godine ()
Author: Stan Washburn
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