It's probably unfortunate that I already owned "100 Ways to Motivate Others" before buying this book. I was looking for ways to help appreciate and reward my volunteers with the low budget I had...
Energy Raising Methods to Counteract Tedium and Staleness
Light Reading. This book is purely focused upon the many ways to build initiative, increase autonomy, raise morale and to design a work environment that fosters creativity, commitment and thusly...
First of all it should be mentioned that all historical facts about the time of Marie Lavaeu are successfully dissolved through the flow of the story. The atmosphere of 1800's New Orleans is well...
"Marie could be extraordinarily and ordinarily human."
Marie Laveau is perhaps one of the most recognizable figures in the lore of voodoo in New Orleans. Plying these exotic arts over her long life, the Voodoo Queen sparks fear, reverence...
Anyone can write a so called "historical novel"History means nothing to those who do so..Facts are expendable when they are counterproductive to the fictional storyline..Real people's lives can be...
I enjoyed this book--it was IMHO a fun read. As usual, DF has an indestructible hero who seems to court trouble but with impeccable morality. It's easy to root for him. The criminals are...
This book was a nightmare to complete. It is not that it's fully predictable as much as that it presents life as a muddle. While the writer knows his craft, he likes prosaic topics and meaningless,...
I have very mixed feeling about this book. It has a very exciting plot with suspense and deception in our corrupt capital, Washington. However, there are things in the book that are not according...
I loved Stonewall's Gold, and couldn't wait to read Unholy Fire, but I was sadly disappointed in the quality of this work. Stonewall's Gold was interesting and a fascinating adventure story, but...
Spider-Man 2, more action & More Wise cracks from your favorite web-slinger, but this time there is a new villian in town. Doctor Octopus, Or Dock Ock. The best and baddest villian of them all....
Spiderman 2 is a good story. It has a lot of action,but none that lasts long except his battles with Doc Ock as he is called. The story needs to be more expended to get a wider range of action...
This is one of more emotionally draining of the William Monk novels, set in London in 1861. It's also more melodramatic than most, even for Perry. The case this time concerns Dr. Kristian Beck,...
The strength of the Anne Perry books about William Monk and his nurse wife, Hester, is in describing the nitty-gritty of ordinary life in Victorian London. In Funeral in Blue, Ms. Perry extends...
The writing and atmosphere are good in this one, but the plot stinks. We are constantly told what characters are like and how they feel, but we see little direct evidence to prove it. Too many plot...
I liked some technical aspect of this book, but as for stroy it is very contrived, it is like author constantly asking himself what else can go wrong so I put it in this book. The most...
This was a good book. A little predictable and corny at times, but the overall plot was a good one. There were several small stories all happening at the same time. Nance kept you hopping from one...
While reading this I felt like I was reading "flowery" sentences that lead nowhere & were simply distractions. Although, I thought "Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff" was an excellent story.
A dual review of Straub's Magic Terror and Tessier's Ghost Music
Linked as they are by bonds of friendship, their accomplished writing and their incalculable contributions to modern horror, it seemed fitting that short story collections from Peter Straub...
When it comes to Peter Straub, I've read better. This is the first collection of his short stories that I've read, and I must say that if all his short stories are like this, I'm sticking to his...
Here's an action book in which the actors have souls. They wonder about the word, honor, just as Falstaff did in Henry IV, part I. They know they must fight our their bloody action scenes, if not...
In Fatal Honor, the Force Recon team faces the fact that they may have to split up due to half the team being dismantled for different reasons. First, you have Night Runner, the AmerIndian gunny...
Clan of the Cave Bear fans review the beginning of Ayla's life...
I absolutely love the story of the Earth's Children. I thought listening to the audio would be a nice treat to review the story line. I especially wanted to download the audio to my iPod to take it...
The basic premise for this book seems like a great idea for historical (or pre-historical?) fiction. However, it failed to deliver. The entire storyline was so predictable and hackneyed I had to...
I read this book out of sequence, after starting my 'Sharpe Experience' with 'Sharpe's Rifles.'I think I might have enjoyed it more if I'd read the chronologically earlier book in the series,...
The Richard Sharpe novels of Bernard Cornwell rank among the great works of military fiction and are all wonderful adventure stories, but 'Sharpe's Triumph' doesn't quite have the same punch as...
I don't usually "do" audio books but in this case since I was facing a 20 hour drive, I stocked up on a few. Not sure what made me pick this one up since it's not my usual fare...but I'm glad that...
I am a great fan of Poe and really enjoyed listening to this. If you love Poe you will like this. Only complaint, wish there were about three or four more cd's to this package.
I do not read reviews until I am finished reading any book. I was astonished to read the last several reviews. It is ENTERTAINMENT folks, not a book on how to stop global warming. Why are people...
I do not expect mysteries to be great literature necessarily, but I do expect the ultimate denouement to be at least somewhat comprehensible and credible. This one was neither. The denoument of...
Secret Service Agent Sean King looks away for a "Split Second" and his Presidential Candidate is shot and killed. Nine years later Agent Michelle Maxwell's Candidate is kidnapped when she has a...
The caviar of the sick and twisted short story genre
Clay has such an active imagination, and his use of language and imagery is truly masterful. There is no other in my opinion who can create metaphors as palpable and alive as this young gentleman....
A stunningly bad debut. These tales fall somewhere between short stories and rambling cracker monologues. Painfully obvious in their need to "SHOCK" and be "EDGY" they amount to little more than...
A man waits endlessly for his daughter to return from the bathroom at a rest stop. He asks all passersby if they have seen her. You'll never guess where she is....
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