April 2013 | Saw Wiki

The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Helen Hunt Jackson's "A Century of Dishonor," [1881] initiated a string of books by white writers attempting to impart the disaster imposed on North America's native peoples by invaders from Europe. James Wilson has taken a place in that queue with this sweeping study of how native peoples were displaced,...

13, rue Thérèse: A Novel Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This beautifully written and illustrated book is a magical tale woven around a box of artifacts owned by the author. They tell the story of Louise Brunet, a woman who lived in the early part of the 20th century, as imagined by Trevor Stratton, an American academic working in present day Paris.Trevor...

The Maffetone Method: The Holistic, Low-Stress, No-Pain Way to Exceptional Fitness Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I am 48 years old and have exercised since I was 14. I have read this book three times. It is a godsend. Every concept, every suggestion, every analysis given has proven to be accurate for me. I first changed my training shoes per instructions with amazing results. Second, I purchased a Heart Rate Monitor...

The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)`The Wikipedia Revolution` (2009) is probably the first serious attempt at a book-length history of Wikipedia. Unfortunately Andrew Lih is not a trained historian, it is a journalistic account with more reporting and synthesis than original interpretation. However it is still a quick and interesting...

Incident at Hawk's Hill Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book was one of my alltime favorites as a child (in the late 60's). I grew up on the prairies, so badger holes and fields of waving grasses, as well as neighbors with rifles, were part of everyday life to me. I loved the quiet child who fit in with animals more than humans, and the relationship...

Don't Tell Mom I Work on the Rigs: She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I don't ever write reviews about books, this one being my first on here but I just had to on this book. I bought this at an airport on a return trip from Australia and I'm not really sure why I got it, or what stuck out that compelled me to purchase it. I don't read fiction and to be honest it was the...

Pandemonium Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Pandemonium is fricking brilliant. Here's the plot summary version: As a child, Del was possessed by a demon, the Hellion, known for targeting young blond haired boys. There are many demons in this version of the US, archetypes from classic stories, comic books, etc. Del got better.Except now he's an...

13 to Life Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I'm gonna be brief because i don't particularly enjoy reading long reviews. All I'll say is I was sadly disappointed. I was looking forward to reading this, intrigued by the caption, and bought it as soon as I could. It took me a month to get through, and I'm surprised I even finished it. And I read...

Split Infinity (Apprentice Adept) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I was not much of a book reader. I found a copy of Split Infinity at the bus I was on and started reading it. I was wondering why the book cover had a picture of a unicorn and the first few chapters clearly depicted a science fiction (future world) scenario. By the end of the book, I had to get my hands...

The Last Summer Of The Death Warriors Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)At seventeen, Pancho has decided the last thing he needs to do with his life: kill the man he thinks responsible for the death of his sister. It's not so simple, though...first he has to figure out who exactly the man is, how to find him, and how to get past the annoying, aggravatingly happy D.Q., another...

The Thirteen Books of the Elements, Vol. 1: Books 1-2 Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)At the time of this writing, the sales summary points out "Vol. 1", but it does not point out that it is "Volume 1 of 3". Volume 1 provides a historical summary of work that followed _Elements_, along with a detailed translation of Book I and Book II. Heath includes bracketed references to justify each...

Lonely Werewolf Girl Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is one of the best books I've read this year. It's also the book with the worst editing I have ever seen. The plot is wild and funny. The daughter of a werewolf Thane is being hunted by both her family (she tried to kill her father and quite nearly succeeded) and a guild of werewolf hunters. Worse,...

Twilight of the Dead Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)As a fan of all-things-zombie for over twenty years I had never experienced "zombie fiction" before, and eagerly scoured the Amazon reviews of probably the exact same books you have already looked at. After reading the glowing reviews of this book I discounted the amateurish cover art and immediately...

Lullaby And Goodnight Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I really enjoyed Donna Anders' thrillers, and was looking for another author who wrote suspenseful, scary books I could curl up on the couch with on a cold rainy evening. Most of the thrillers written from a female point of view seem to be thinly disguised romance novels and the heroines are helpless...

The Great New Wilderness Debate Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I've always considered myself an environmentalist and supporter of wilderness, based on my many wonderful personal experiences with wilderness and nature. Shamefully, however, I never did much reading on the topic of wilderness. Nor, for that matter, did I do much THINKING about the whole CONCEPT of...

Zazen Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)When I saw video from the Japanese tsunami, it struck me how badly Hollywood gets it wrong when it comes to depicting disasters. Hollywood always shows bystanders standing in awe or running away hysterical, while the Japanese video showed people looking so sad at the sight of ocean waves flowing through...

Three Case Histories Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book should be required reading in all high schools. For me it was an epiphany. Especially the Wolf Man case history. The book was written in clear language with no psychobabble or medical jargon. Here are some interesting things to be found in the book:1: OCD symptoms actually represent repressed...