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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

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A Skeptic's Manual
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Not for TRUE BELIEVERS!
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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
Michael Shermer
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Few can talk with more personal authority about the range of human beliefs than Michael Shermer. At various times in the past, Shermer has believed in fundamentalist Christianity, alien abductions, Ayn Rand, megavitamin therapy, and deep-tissue massage. Now he believes in skepticism, and his motto is "Cognite tute--think for yourself." This updated edition of Why People Believe Weird Things covers Holocaust denial and creationism in considerable detail, and has chapters on abductions, Satanism, Afrocentrism, near-death experiences, Randian positivism, and psychics. Shermer has five basic answers to the implied question in his title: for consolation, for immediate gratification, for simplicity, for moral meaning, and because hope springs eternal. He shows the kinds of errors in thinking that lead people to believe weird (that is, unsubstantiated) things, especially the built-in human need to see patterns, even where there is no pattern to be seen. Throughout, Shermer emphasizes that skepticism (in his sense) does not need to be cynicism: "Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known." --Mary Ellen Curtin

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In this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, many people still believe in mind reading, past-life regression theory, New Age hokum, and alien abduction. A no-holds-barred assault on popular superstitions and prejudices, with more than 80,000 copies in print, Why People Believe Weird Things debunks these nonsensical claims and explores the very human reasons people find Dictionnaire Spiritualité T1

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ringtone88.com out of 5 stars" border="0"> Important Topics.......2007-04-26

Dr Shermer's work is well worth reading, as it addresses the highly relevant subject of public credulity. Critical thinking is becoming ever more important in this age of mass media, who concentrate on tabloid stories so much more often that presenting real info on more pressing topics. Shermer's style of writing was a little difficult for me to follow at times, as it seemed to wander a bit in places. But his message is right on target: in this technological age, mankind must rely on rational decision-making rather than emotional appeals in order to continue to progress.

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Sadistic. Not very much fun.
About what you'd expect
Great Sequel, 3rd coming?
Great Sequel, 3rd coming?
Read Jumper First both good books

Reflex (Jumper)
Steven Gould
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Davy has always been alone. He believes that he's the only person in the world who can teleport. But what if he isn't?A mysterious group of people has taken Davy captive. They don't want to hire him, and they don't have any hope of appealing to him to help them. What they want is to own him. They want to use his abilities for their own purposes, whether Davy agrees to it or not. And so they set about brainwashing him and conditioning him. They have even found a way to keep a teleport captive.But there's one thing that they don't know. No one knows it, not even Davy. And it might save his life......

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Sadistic. Not very much fun........2007-05-30

I loved Jumper, and have given copies to friends. But I don't recommend this to anybody. There is too much suffering and misery for the lead character as he is kept prisoner. I usually have no problem with the protagonists overcoming adversity. But this just seemed sick to me.

About what you'd expect.......2007-05-08

A decent followup to Jumper, though set farther in the characters' future than I'd expected. Where I think Jumper was aimed at a young adult audience, this deals with decidedly adult characters and emotions that are mature and by no means angsty. I think it's interesting to see the changes that have happened, but it also feels, at times, as though there's a lot of history that the reader somehow missed out on.
The writing is also not quite as strong and feels hurried at times. The dialog and internal thoughts especially fall prey to this. The action scenes are well done, however, and I have to admit, I was turning pages pretty quickly towards the end. The best part of the book, however, was re-watching someone learn about "jumping", discovering that again through their eyes. It made me realize how that had made the first book so much fun.
In all, Reflex could have benefited from some editing, but it's not so lengthy that it's unenjoyable. If you liked Jumper, you will enjoy parts of Reflex a great deal as well. And we may even see a third book; the edning leaves that possibility very open.

Great Sequel, 3rd coming?.......2007-02-21

This is a great sequel to Jumper which you should read first but dont have to because they catch you up with all you need. This is about Davy and how Millie (the wife) and the NSA try to Save him but with twists and turns.

I found a 3rd book Griffins Storys (Jumper) as a 3rd book but about someone totally different whose parents apparently arent Millies and Davys. I bet it'll be great like the others but wish Davy and Millie were back and taught him...

Great Sequel, 3rd coming?.......2007-02-21

Read Jumper First both good books.......2007-01-22

Reflex was good, maybe even better than jumper the first book. I hope there is a third book in the series where he uses and tries new talents. I wasnt sure what the end would be like with a sort of "twist" near the end. GREAT read. I plan to read wildside also by Steven Gould.

The New Anthology Of American Poetry: Modernisms: 1900-1950 (New Anthology of American Poetry)

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Over 600 poems by sixty- five American poets from the era of 1900 to 1950
Over 600 poems by sixty- five American poets from the era of 1900 to 1950
The New Anthlogy of American Poetry
A Broader Perspective, Calmer Knees
The expanded politically correct anthology

The New Anthology Of American Poetry: Modernisms: 1900-1950 (New Anthology of American Poetry)
Camille Roman , and Thomas Travisano
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Bringing together fifty years of exciting modernisms, The New Anthology of American Poetry includes over 600 poems by sixty-five American poets writing in the period between 1900 and 1950. The most recognized poets of the era, such as William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, H. D., Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, Hart Crane, and Langston Hughes are represented, along with many other Harlem Renaissance poets, women poets, immigrant and working-class poets, imagists, and objectivists. It is also the first modernist anthology to include poems and songs from popular culture.

The issues addressed in the selections are as varied as the styles and groups. Some poems emphasize formal matters, while others highlight psychological or linguistic concerns. Yet others focus on social issues, such as race, gender, sexuality, nationality, and economic disparity.

Complementing the rich diversity of poetry, poets, and styles, the editors provide helpful introductions, bibliographies, biographies, up-to-date footnotes and endnotes, and critical selections on the art of writing. This anthology not only provides a unique window into the breadth and diversity of modern poetry, it also offers a fresh and informative vehicle for teaching this rich, confusing, and stimulating period.

The New Anthology of American Poetry
* Demonstrates how a succession of canons of American poetry has evolved.
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ringtone88.com l not because it features the sorts of poetry Mr. Freedman describes. (I have no intention of assigning any of it.) Rather, I adopted it because it gives a much fuller representation of modern American poetry than most of the Norton knockoffs now on the market. For instance, *The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry* doesn't offer a single line by Trumbull Stickney, one of the "Harvard poets" of the genteel tradition, who was greatly admired by the likes of Conrad Aiken. This anthology prints five poems. Moreover, several other "white penis people," in Robert Hughes's phrase, appear here after having been summarily banished from ostensibly conservative anthologies. (Here, "conservative" appears to mean "too damned lazy to read much.")

Yes, this anthology has a political agenda. However, to pretend that others don't is to insult the intelligence of readers. From my perspective (a good liberal who believes, nevertheless, in Milton, Dryden, Pope), this is a genuinely democratic anthology. True, it includes poems by Native Americans, immigrants, and migrant workers. However, it also includes "The Old Rugged Cross," "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", "You're A Grand Old Flag," "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "I'm Just Wild About Harry," and "Goodnight, Irene." The anthologists' agenda, simply put, is to open the canon back up and paint a more genuinely representative portrait of American verse in the modernist era.

In sum, if Mr. Freedman fears the "The Idea of Order at Key West" can't stand the competition, all I can say is that his faith in Wallace Stevens is far weaker than mine.

The expanded politically correct anthology .......2005-05-03

This is not an anthology which aims to select and represent the finest examples of American poetry. It is an anthology which aims to ' represent' various groups, including the recognized schools of poetry, but also including ethnic and minority groups. Thus it opens with Native American verse, and closes with verse written from Japanese interred in America during the Second World War. I may be mistaken but it seems to me that it does not represent in a great way the American experience in the Second World War.
This does not mean it does not have generous selections from all the major poets. It does.
It does not mean that it does not contain tens of little known poets whose work may be interesting in one way or another. It does.
It does mean that it mixes up a vast amount of material of different levels. And that it does have a certain political agenda.
What is moving and meaningful as poetry, I would suggest, is some part of this. But the reader should certainly be able to find work here which is moving, inspiring and meaningful poetry.

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Jumper: Griffin's Story
Steven Gould
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Griffin has a secret. It’s a secret that he’s sworn to his parents to keep, and never tell. Griffin is a Jumper: a person who can teleport to any place he has ever been. The first time was when he was four, and his parents crossed an ocean to protect the secret. The most important time was when he was nine. That was the day that the men came to his house and murdered his parents. Griffin knows that the men were looking for him, and he must never let them find him.

Griffin grows up with only two goals: to survive, and to kill the people who want him dead. And a Jumper bent on revenge is not going to let anything stand in his way.

Jumper, based on Steven Gould's earlier novel of the same name, will be a major motion picture scheduled for release by 20th Century Fox starring Hayden Christensen, Jamie Bell and Samuel L. Jackson, and directed by Doug Limon. Jumper: Griffin's Story features the character played by Jamie Bell in the film.

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A really good Sci-fi book.
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In Helm, Gould spins the tale of Leland de Laal, the young son of a shrewd but minor nobleman on a world far from Earth. Leland, disobeying his father's edict, dons a helm of ancient power, an artifact brought from Earth centuries ago. Gradually, he gains access to knowledge implanted in his mind by the helm, only to find that he is no longer alone in his head. He absorbs the martial-arts discipline of aikido, but before he can come to terms with either his new powers or his growing affection for his overlord's daughter, he is submerged in betrayal and war on many fronts. His homeland's worst enemy seeks the helm, ready to use it to subjugate the world. In this, his third novel, Steven Gould has whipped up a smooth fantasy story, seasoned with science-fictional elements, romance, and a lot of high-kicking action. He continues to explore the coming-of-age theme, as he did in his previous two novels, Jumper and Wildside. --Blaise Selby

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After global devastation, the last remnants of Earth sent a handful of colonists of a distant terraformed world to give humanity one last, desperate chance. Unable to provide the technology required for an advanced civilization, the founders instilled in the colonists a strict code of conduct and gave them a few precious imprinting devices: glass helmets that contain all of Earth's scientific knowledge.Once in a generation, the heir to the province of Laal begins the arduous training required to survive the imprinting of the Glass Helm and acquire the knowledge of the lost Earth. But Leland de Laal, the youngest son of one of Agatsu's greatest leaders, has climbed the forbidden rock spire where the Helm is kept and donned it, unaware that its knowledge has a terrible price. To an unprepared mind, it brings madness, agony, and even death.

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A really good Sci-fi book........2005-11-11

This book has lots of excellent world-building, and a main character--or perhaps I should say TWO main characters--you can really get behind.

The Aikido details are great, and the growth of the main character is believable and interesting.

Pretty good. Pick it up!.......2005-11-09

Nice bit of science fantasy with medieval storyline will hook you in and give you hours of good fun read. Stephen knows how to write and this book is well constructed. Without going into detail, this book should satisfy those who are looking for little bit of science and medieval story.

Worth paperback money, not hardback.

helm.......2005-09-20

I've been on a Steve Gould binge. His work is well written with interesting premises. This book explores what happens when the Earth's people destroy the planet. They have populated the moon with the plan to send a colony into space so as to save the human race. The plan is set in motion and the reader is transported in the first chapter to 2+ centuries after the new planet becomes home to the human race. A young man named Leland changes the course of history when he dons the 'glass helm' without preparation or permission.

disappointing.......2004-10-18

After reading Gould's first two books, "Jumper" and "Wildside," I couldn't wait to read his third, "Helm." However, I was sorely disappointed with this book. Unlike his first two books, this one was quite boring and just seemed to drag on and on. More of a military strategy novel than science-fiction, the story opens strong and then just develops into a long-winded tale about a young man's "journey" into manhood Dictionnaire Spiritualité T11

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An American Library Association "Best Book for Young Adults"
An International Reading Association "Young Adults' Choice"

Deciding he has finally had enough abuse from his drunken father and is now determined to get away--any way he can--Davy discovers that he has the ability to teleport anywhere he wants. So he "jumps" to New York City. But next he finds himself desperately short on cash, so he "jumps" into a bank vault. While living the high life in the Big City and testing the limits of his power, Davey makes another startling discovery--the mother whom he thought had abandoned him.

But a new tragedy and other events plunge Davy into a dangerous and mysterious world of terrorists and government espionage. This time there may be no safe place for "the Jumper."

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Jumper.......2007-04-16

This is a great, fun book to read. Kept me interested through every page. I didn't want to put it down.

The Jumper Review.......2007-02-28

A person who loves science and superpowers would enjoy this book.It will help him or her learn that a jumping superpower is as good as a flying superpower. It will also help that person learn that superpowers can be mutated. This book is about a boy named Davy who gets the power to jump from one place to another over 1000 miles. I think this book should be read in science classes. It would amaze them. They might even read it again.

Jumper.......2006-11-09

Gould credits sf legend Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination for the inspiration about Davy the inadvertent teleport, but I've read Bester, too, and Gould has spent a lot more time sitting around thinking about what life would be like if you could teleport yourself from one place to another in the blink of an eye. It isn't all roses, believe me.

I also loved Gould's Wildside and Helm, as well as the sequel to Jumper, Reflex, amazingly just as good.

jumper.......2006-11-02

In the book jumper davy runs away from his abusive father and has many adventurs and finds love and a lost family member.Then he finds out that money dosnt money dosnt buy everything and all the good things take a turn for the worst. My faviorte part was when he robbed the bank and got $1,000,000 dollers and left the empty sacks for the jail gaurds to find.

Take another look at psi.......2006-09-23

Ignore the terrible cover art on this paperback edition. "Jumper" is one of the smartest young-adult novels I've ever read. And I'm happy to point out that a movie version is in production right now for release in 2007. With any luck they will get most of it right.

This is a book that doesn't cut corners. The mechanics and the consequences of the hero's "gift" are thorougly examined. The emotional consequences in particular are beautifully described, part of what makes this book extraordinary.

I was happy to add this and the author's other novels to my permanent collection. (They are on the shelf right beside Julian May's "Intervention" cycle.) Recommended for all readers age ten and up.

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Interesting yet boring
Fast-paced thriller
A good book for an airplane ride or overnight in a hotel
Good Book -- Read It Soon!

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Emma Tooke has devoted her life to Gulfstream, a company dedicated to harvesting clean energy from the sea. To keep her ocean project-station alive, she's risked her career fighting corporate treachery, and her life battling the fury of a killer hurricane.

But suddenly Emma faces a threat greater than she's ever encountered--a band of extremist vigilantes calling themselves "Wild Justice," who consider Gulfstream evil for the hope it raises--that an American energy corporation can be a force for environmental reform.

So Wild Justice has targeted Gulfstream, using an old flame of Emma's to get past her defenses, and the project's. As the clock ticks toward the zero hour, Emma must join forces with a man who may have betrayed her....

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Interesting yet boring.......2006-04-17

The motivation for the eco-terrorist' attack is absolutely improbable and absurd. The cardboard characters lack any depth. Read this as a fast comic book type action/adventure only. The technical& science aspects are well done, especially the diving sequences, however the predictable plot and lack of characterization makes this an unsatisfying read.

Fast-paced thriller.......2000-05-07

This is a dandy adventure story. In the center of all the action is Gulf Stream, an offshore structure dedicated to research and "green" industry. Add a group of ecoterrorists determined to destroy it, a dedicated group of employees striving to save it from all enemies including economic difficulties, undercover agents, a hurricane, a bit of romance and a wayward octopus named Louis, and you have the setting for some interesting action. It has a nice mix of male and female characters, with Emma Took (who designed Gulf Stream) taking the lead. I had some difficulty sorting out all the characters at first. And despite the drawings of the Gulf Stream, I didn't always know where the action was taking place -- but that may just be me -- I never could read a blueprint. Overall a satisfying read which kept me from opening other books, and which would probably translate nicely into a film I would like to see.

A good book for an airplane ride or overnight in a hotel.......1998-10-20

Talk about misrepresentation! Tom Clancy is probably cringing at the use of his name in conjunction with this mildly written, some-what entertaining work. Totally predictable, with a dismail cliff-hanger (perhaps "ditch-hopping" is better) ending.

Good Book -- Read It Soon!.......1998-03-19

This is a very good book. It's an eco-thriller, based on a deep-sea energy generation platform whose engineering and economics seem far more believable than, say, NASA's chances of occupying a new space station on-time and on-budget; science fiction, but set in the *very* near future. There are good good-guys, and bad bad-guys, and good bad-guys, and bad good-guys: lot's of character development motivated by ethical conflict. There's also a generous dose of Man vs. Nature, handled, I thought, fairly well. Although I don't scuba dive, the underwater sequences seemed very believable.

I've reread this book several times now, and I'm glad I got it in hardcover. If you've gotten this far in this review, I think you'll like this book, too.

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VOYA "Outstanding Books of the Year" selectionAn American Library Association "Best Books" selectionForget the lottery.Teenager Charlie Newell has just discovered something that will make him and his friends billionaires. What if a world existed in which no humans ever evolved? No cities. No pollution. No laws. A fantastic world filled with unimaginable riches in which everythingeverythingwas yours just for the taking?Charlie has found that world. And he plans to use it to make him and his friends rich.There is a problem: How do you keep something this big a secret?
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Worth every penny. A definite buy!.......2005-11-09
This book will make you think "what would I do if I had that portal?" Story itself is nice and tight, characters are well constructed and imaginative author strikes gold with this book.

This would be a great read for your vacation. Worth its money on hardback or paperback. Pick it up!
heinlein rejuvenated.......2005-10-17
Those who have read Heinlein's "juveniles" will recogonize the format immediately. Take a group of old-teen-young-adults, drop them into a very dangerous situation where they have absolutely no support system from the mainstream adult world, and let them solve their problems (technical and otherwise) through intelligence and bold action. Then reunite them with their parents so that both parents and kids recognize that the kids have "come of age" and are now successfully independent adults.

However, the book is not just an imitation. Nor is it an homage. It seems to me a reinterpretation of the same themes and concepts Heinlein used to write about, but updated for the turn of the century rather than the 1950s.

The book was well written and kept me reading it late into the night, but a couple parts of it seemed to be just a little too "angsty". Fortunately the author pulled back from that just in time to keep it from bogging down the story. The book is squarely targeted at teens, but is enjoyable for adults as well.
Wildside.......2005-09-20
The author places young people in a unique situation with complications that make them look at their world and their values. They must make decisions that could affect their world as they know it as well as their amazing discovery. Clever and well written.
Nice Read.......2004-10-20
It feels good to just sit down and read a nice simple story without having to wrap your brain around complex ideas or situations. Wildside is a nice simple story, but it is not childish or mundane. Gould builds the story around the characters, and does a good job of weaving a believable story about a doorway to another reality. Gould is a much better writer than I am, so enough with the review, read Wildside and enjoy it for yourself.
Fabulous and Fresh.......2004-08-27
I loved this book. I read it several years ago, and it's made me a permanent Steven Gould fan. Even several years later, I find myself playing "what if" based on the premise in this book.

Blind Waves
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Pretty good read

Loved it

Entertaining, but no "Jumper"

Fun story - Very engaging

Heinlein LIVES !

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ASIN: 0812571096

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Steven Gould's Blind Waves is one of those books that makes you hold your breath a lot. This SF thriller takes place along what's left of the Texas Gulf coast after melting Antarctic ice has drowned much of the world. In New Galveston, a floating city, our plucky heroine Patricia Beeman uses her submarine to do salvage and inspection work. But when she stumbles upon a sunken ship full of freshly dead immigrants, she gets tangled in a dangerous web of politics, hatred, and corruption. Enter Commander Thomas Becket of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (now an armed force bigger than the Navy). Patricia and Thomas band together to beat the bad guys, and the adventure that follows delivers on all counts. Plenty of tense underwater action and zingy plot twists will keep thriller fans turning pages, while snappy dialogue, a delightfully budding romance, and homages to Shakespeare and Dorothy L. Sayers add literary flair. --Therese Littleton
Book Description
The author of Jumper returns with a near-future SF novel, set in an America whose coastline has been drowned by melting Antarctic ice.In the world where hundreds of millions of people have been displaced from their homes by the Deluge--a hundred-foot-rise in sea level from melting ice caps--Partricia Beenan is lucky. She is still an American citizen with the right to live on the continent, unlike so many "wetfoots" whose homes lie deep under the waves or the refugees from nations now completely under water.But Patricia's father chose to live on a floating city of New Galveston, instead of following his congresswomen wife to Washington, and go into the underwater salvage business. Now, several years after his death, it's Patricia's business and her city. She's a wealthy woman, on the city council, well known to local INS commander and the New Galveston police.But none of that will help Patricia when she stumbles across a recently sunken freighter that has dozens of bodies chained up in its hold and clear evidence that it has been fired upon by an INS ship.Patricia's evidence of a rogue operation within the INS brings her together with Thomas Beckett, a government investigator assigned to the case. Romance blossoms while they pursue and are pursued by the killers, into the heart of the conspiracy.
Customer Reviews:

Pretty good read.......2007-02-28
I was afraid this was going to be a "global warming" politics book, since the premise is that the ice caps have melted and wiped out the coastal areas of the world. But in reality it is a "whodunnit" with an interesting scenario in an alternate near-future.

It is also an unlikely love story, which I felt the book dwelled on more than it needed to (for what I assume is the intended audience anyway) and also distracting was the rather gratuitous use of the Spanish language without translation. I'm cool with the usage, it adds to the book - but making me try to figure out what was said via context was distracting.

On to the good parts of the review. The book starts off at a pretty fast pace, and you are quickly drawn in to the mystery. It has a fairly large cast of characters that are easily kept up with due to the skillful writing style. The end is not predictable, and fairly interesting.

I prefer Reflex to this book, but if you like Reflex this book will probably appeal to you as well.
Loved it.......2006-04-30
Stephen Gould has written some of my favorite books, including Jumper and Wildside. Both of these are considered `young adult' fiction, of for no other reason but that their protagonists are all `young adults', and the themes revolve around growing up kinds of things.

Blind Waves deals with adults, adult themes-though nothing particularly dark or explicit-and tackles some global near-future issues, in particular the consequences of global warming and rising sea levels. It doesn't spend much time analyzing or agonizing over the things that led to this state of affairs, but just sets the story within that context and spins out a cool yarn about intrigue and dastardly machinations among those policing illegal immigration in the flooded southern US. Plus there's a love story between the two main protagonists; which is kind of at the heart of it all and provides the thread that holds it all together.

I just like Blind Waves. It's the kind of book you re-read when you're not in the mood to tackle anything new and potentially problematic, and you just want something light, and yet not shallow and definitely entertaining.

Till Noever, owlglass.com, Author: KEAEN, SELADIENNA, CONTINUITY SLIP.
Entertaining, but no "Jumper"....... Dictionnaire Spiritualité T12/2

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Release Date: 01 December, 2003
Publisher: Beauchesne/Dic.Spiritual.
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This is a "biography of the imagination, " an inner narrative of Sylvia Plath's life and work. Combining psychoanalytical, feminist, and intertextual methods, Steven Gould Axelrod traces what Roland Barthes has called "the body's journey through language." After an introductory look at the roles played by language and silence in Plath's verbal universe, Axelrod explores the ways in which the poet's father -- and father figures, including male literary precursors -- interfered with her imagination even as they helped shape it. He describes Plath's ambiguous relations with her mother and with the two literary forebears who took the mother's place -- Virginia Woolf and Emily Dickinson. And he examines Plath's doubling relationship to her husband, describing how she eventually transferred her doubling impulse to her texts. Axelrod concludes by suggesting a link between Plath's discontinuous narrative of the double and her personal fate.

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Everything you need to know.......2000-03-30

This book is a terrific combination of Axelrod's interpretations and Plath's life. It does not rest only upon facts, but instead it does a beautiful job of twisting together her life, her writing and her psychological condition. If you love Plath and her writing, this is the book for you. It is intelligent and written for people who not only want to know more about the life of a very troubled and talented woman, but those who also love her poetry.

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