January 2013 | Saw Wiki

The Holy Man Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is a metaphor (in the tradition of the Canterbury Tales) for the various journeys each of us take to find wisdom. Often we feel that someone or a place will give us the results we seek in life, but eventually the realization grows on us that the answers are already programmed in ourselves....

Superman: The Black Ring (Superman Limited Gns (DC Comics R)) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Superman: The Black Ring, volume 1 collects Action Comics #890-895, all originally published in 2010. Continuity-wise, the story takes place after Blackest Night and the Superman: New Krypton saga, but overall it is fairly self-contained (in fact, it seems to ignore the events of New Krypton altogether)....

How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything...in Business (and in Life) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I was drawn to this book through various points of exposure to Seidamn's thinking. Having just completed, I admit to being disappointed more than anything else. The structure of the book and its ultimate point is lost as the book attempts to be both a contemplation on personal ethics, a case study in...

Jane Austen Ruined My Life Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Pattillo is a surprisingly fast and fun read, and I found myself unable to put it down at times. The plot revolves around wishful thinking: WHAT IF Jane Austen's sister Cassandra saved more of her letters than we know about? What if the missing correspondence is being...

The Wolf at Twilight: An Indian Elder's Journey through a Land of Ghosts and Shadows Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Dan, the Lakota Elder who we met in Kent Nerburn's nationally acclaimed book "Neither Wolf Nor Dog", reconnects with Kent via a mysterious note attached to a tobacco pouch that says, simply, "Fatback's dead." "The Wolf at Twilight", a "novelized non-fiction" account of Kent's second encounter with Dan,...

The Logical Trader Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The Logical Trader is not a "fluff" book on trading. Quite the contrary, it requires the reader to spend considerable time and effort to absorb and learn the methodology and principles provided by Mark Fisher, a master trader and teacher.Over the last 15 years, Fisher, an independent trader, has taught...

Of Wolves and Men Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Its rare that a study like this one is both entertaining and informative, but Mr. Lopez's book is precisely that. We are led through the ages peering at the strenuous relations of humanity and wolf-kind, from primal man's envy of this accomplished, loyal hunter, through his hateful denial of their ties,...

Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)'Big Dead Place' is an excellent collection of anecdotes, discussing life on the ice at McMurdo Base and the US South Pole Station. I've long been a fan of the author's website at http://www.bigdeadplace.com/ , so this book went straight on my wishlist once it was available at Amazon, and I've just...

Exit Here. Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I did. I stayed up all night to read this. I picked it up to 'start' it. Little did I know it would suck me in so fast. I won't give a report about Travis and his life or his love life or his low life friend/s. I will just say I loved this book. I was disturbed, educated, a little shocked in spots, moved,...

Dracula, Prince of Many Faces: His Life and His Times Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Florescu and McNally have done a commendable job not only at revealing the historical person of Dracula but also at providing the reader with a fascinating window into the man's world. I found this work extremely informative since I am deeply interested in the history of Eastern and Central Europe and...

The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Just got this today First opinion is that it's nearly on par with the previous edition. The book covers All 6 movies gives a general overview of the Clone Wars. Then goes up to the last Legacy book Revelation along with a general overview of the Legacy era happening in the Dark Horse Comics that's still...

The Accidental Werewolf (The Accidental Series, Book 1) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)You know when you start to read a book and you get so into it that you forget about eating and sleeping and even your children? This is one of those books. I literally could not put this book down and finished it in 2 days. (It would have been hours, not days but the children did eventually convince...

The Betrayal (Fear Street Saga Trilogy, No. 1) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Living in 1692 Massachusetts, Susannah Goode was an innocent, naive young girl. Her only mistake: loving the son of her family's bitter rivals, the Fiers. A young man whose angry father sentenced Susannah and her mother to burn at the stake. Leaving Susannah's father so devestated that he turned to the...

The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong" is actually four different works written by one woman, a circumspect, scrupulous, unfortunate 18th Century Korean aristocrat. The memoirs are, successively, a family injunction, a memorial, a biography, and a historiography. At the center of the collection sits Hong Hyegyong...

Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is surprisingly one of the best books I have read. The authors give a colorfully accurate account of the events that occured decades ago, all of which still echo into our current era. It covers the origin of LSD, as a drug the CIA funded research on for use as a tool for mind control applications...

A Sport and a Pastime: A Novel Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter. North Point Press San Fransisco 1985On the surface this is a love story. Phillip Dean, an American dropout from Yale, and Anne-Mari Costallat, a French shop girl, live and love, love, love... for several months in France. As the observer/narrator tells the story,...

When A Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save Mankind -- Or Destroy It Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I bought this book because, having lived in China for so long, I am always happy to gain new and different perspectives on China. Therefore I bought this book in a local bookshop, yearning to gain some insights into the Chinese environmental malaise. Ever since I have come to China in the 90s I have...