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"Lead generation and conversion is the heart of any marketing enterprise, and Michael Port's ingenious and practical system is among the best I've seen. Read this book and transform your business!"
—Michael E. Gerber, founder and Chairman, E-Myth Worldwide, author of The E-Myth Revisited
"Do your homework! This is not a conceptual, theoretical look at how to succeed as a service professional. Instead, it's just what you need if you're stuck and you'd rather invest in your future (by doing the right kind of work) than complain about it later."
—Seth Godin, author of All Marketers Are Liars and Permission Marketing
"Going out on your own can be scary. But this book is a welcome antidote to that fear. It brims with savvy advice and nearly overflows with practical, hands-on exercises. Once you absorb the wisdom in these pages, you'll be ready, willing, and eager to fashion a more rewarding work life. Michael Port is the guy to call if you're tired of thinking small."
—Daniel H. Pink, author of A Whole New Mind and Free Agent Nation
"If you're even slightly uncomfortable with the idea of networking, marketing, or selling, this is the book for you. Book Yourself Solid gives you everything you need to fill your business with ideal clients. Before you're even finished reading the book, you'll be inspired to take action!"
—Ivan R. Misner, PhD, founder and CEO, BNI, coauthor of Masters of Networking
"Wow! I never expected this book to be so good. I love how it focuses on getting your ideal clients-and more than you can imagine possible. An excellent, inspiring, practical guide to outrageous success!"
—Joe Vitale, author of There's a Customer Born Every Minute
Customer Reviews:
Solid marketing book!.......2007-10-05
This book provides a great marketing overview. It leads the reader through finding a target market, branding, being selective in choosing clients (some fresh insights for many readers here!), presenting yourself and business to prospective clients, web marketing, networking, publicity and more. Your marketing structure and systems will NOT look the same - and thus your results will not be the same - if you read this book and put its numerous tips and advice to work for you.
Beyond sales and marketing professionals, this is a great resource for any business person who markets their service or products themselves - including small business owners, consultants and trainers, and small professional firms (financial planners, lawyers, dentists, etc.). This is especially true for those who are just starting out and those who do not like to market themselves (you know who you are!).
Michael's emphasis on personal integrity really appealed to me (if you don't like a client, you will sacrifice your integrity by putting yourself in a position of not being able to give your full effort). His process is about building a steady pipeline of highly-qualified prospects that you will ENJOY working with and to whom you can provide full value.
All in all, a solid book. Highly recommended!
Mollie Marti, Ph.D., J.D.
Author, Selling: Powerful New Strategies for Sales Success
Great Book - The one to Buy!!!!.......2007-09-22
Excellent Book ... packed full of all the right information for the Consultant/Trainer/Coach/Business Person/Marketing. He will show you step by step how to get Booked Solid - It works!
Michael's website is also full of free goodies ... I download his teleseminars and listen to them in my car each week (www.thinkbigrevolution.com) - Great stuff - awesome guests!
So glad I bought this book!
marketing made easy.......2007-09-01
Michael Port gets it. His plan is practical and visionary. He has created a way for any service business to get results. I have been telling everyone I know about this book!
A Essential Book For Serious Business People.......2007-08-28
Marketing is without question a essential skill set for business success and the ability to market oneself effectively is paramount. Michael has a genuine passion for this work and really cares about the success of his clients.
I feel this book is an essential addition to any business person's library. It will cut years off your learning curve and may very well make the difference between your success - or failure.
Great Resource and Business Philosophies.......2007-07-25
The ideas and resources in this book are worth quite a bit.. but it's the underlying philosophy that's most motivating. Whether you work for yourself or for someone else, you work for yourself. Port gets it, and he shows you how to expand your business by paying attention to the things business owners care about deeply. He encourages you to be bold, authentic and original. To not try to appeal to everyone. To consult and advise more. And to learn while doing. You can't afford to wait until everything's perfect -- money loves speed.
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- Getting Even = Hilarious
- Woody Allen. Chess By Mail. need i say more? also, mafia
- Getting Even
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After three decades of prodigious film work (and some unfortunate tabloid adventures as well), it's easy to forget that Woody Allen began his career as one heck of a great comedy writer. Getting Even, a collection of his late '60s magazine pieces, offers a look into Allen's bag of shtick, back when it was new. From the supposed memoirs of Hitler's barber: "Then, in January of 1945, a plot by several generals to shave Hitler's moustache in his sleep failed when von Stauffenberg, in the darkness of Hitler's bedroom, shaved off one of the Führer's eyebrows instead..."
Even though the idea of writing jokes about old Adolf--or addled rabbis, or Maatjes herring--isn't nearly as fresh as it used to be, Getting Even still delivers plenty of laughs. At his best, Woody can achieve a level of transcendent craziness that no other writer can match. If you're looking for a book to dip into at random, or a gift for someone who's seen Sleeper 13 times, Getting Even is a dead lock.
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The classic, with 316,000 copies sold to date.
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Getting Even = Hilarious.......2007-08-14
Getting Even, by Woody Allen, is the comedic genious at his ludicrous best. The reparte between the two chess playing opponents, via e-mail, is worth the price of the book alone. Very funny.
A 5 star delight.
Woody Allen. Chess By Mail. need i say more? also, mafia.......2006-08-20
accounting [of the office supplies] ~
these two ALONE are worth the price of admission, especially used in the z shops...
i can STILL laugh over the Gossage-Vardebedian papers [the chess by mail] 30+ years after i first bought this for a friend in the hospital [i wasn't thinking ~ he'd had a hernia operation... and couldn't get past the first line]
timelessly funny ~
Getting Even.......2006-01-04
If your a fan of Allen's work than you'll enjoy this book. Otherwise you may not like it. If you're not familiar with his work than I highly recommend his prose for their witty, bizzare, and humorus content.
In, "The Gossage-Vardebedian Papers," you'll find humor in the trials and tribulations of chess, via letter writing.
In, "Mr. Big," I question if the beautiful existentialist really killed God. Yeah, she probably did. (GOD that's too bad.)
awkward, funny, weird, smart, read...
Bad taste, boring stupidity with an occasional funny line.......2005-12-04
I had hoped upon rereading this work to cancel the original impression I had of many of these pieces when I read them some years ago in 'The New Yorker'. Unfortunately, my taste seems not to have changed and I found most of these pieces stupid, and in bad taste.
Allen can write the occasional very funny line but much of this is low- level predictable parody.
As funny as as dated as the early Woody Allen comedies.......2005-10-19
Getting Even is one of three early collections of Woody Allen's short humorous articles. The others are Without Feathers and Side Effects. Many of the pieces in Getting Even appeared in magazines, mostly The New Yorker, but also Playboy, and Evergreen Review. While others first appeared in this anthology. In total, there are 17 articles in the collection. Considering that they were written over 35 years ago, there are some references that do not come across well today. Yet as a group they are still quite funny.
The Metterling Lists is a piece of satirical literary criticism of
The Collected Laundry Lists of Hans Metterling Vol. 1, a supposedly scholarly work of 437 pages that analyzes the first six laundry lists. Fortunately Mr. Allen only takes seven pages to mock this fictional piece of scholarship.
A Look At Organized Crime provides a very brief history of organized crime in America including the murder of Kid Lipsky by Albert (The Logical Positivist) Corillo who locked Lipsky in a closet and "sucked all the air out through a straw." It also provides a description of a Mafia initiation ceremony and ends with some tips on fighting mobsters.
The Schmeed Memoirs are represented as the recollections of Hitler's barber. Yet they can't be taken too seriously because he claims he didn't know Hitler was a Nazi and thought he worked for the phone company. There is a funny where Hitler fears that Chruchill will grow sideburns before he can. It is humorous to view World War II from the perspective of Hitler's hair.
My Philosophy consists of the Critique of Pure Dread, the Eschatological Dialectics As a Means of Coping with Shingles, and The Cosmos on Five Dollars a Day. It ends with two Parables and a short list of Aphorisms.
Yes, But Can The Steam Engine Do This? provides a humorous take on the scientific research saga with a history of the Earl of Sandwich's research into developing the sandwich. Starting with his birth in 1718, the tale is filled with bread experiments, research into cold cuts and cheeses, and years of failures followed by his final success and lasting fame.
Death Knocks is a short play in which an inexperienced angel of death, who comes to claim Nat Ackerman's soul, is lured into a losing game of gin rummy and returns empty-handed.
Spring Bulletin is Woody Allen's satirical take on college course descriptions. It includes a course called Introduction to God which is described as "Confrontation with the Creator of the universe through informal lectures and field trips."
The next piece, a guide to the interpretation of Hassidic tales, includes tales like the following and Mr. Allen's interpretations of them.
A man journeyed to Chelm to seek the advice of Rabbi Ben Kaddish.
"Rabbi " the man asked, "where can I find peace?"
The Hassid surveyed him and said, "Quick, look behind you!"
The man turned around, and Rabbi Ben Kaddish smashed him in the back of the head with a candlestick. "Is that peaceful enough for you?" he chuckled.
There are six other tales and their interpretations in this piece.
The Gossage-Varbedian Papers tells the sad story of a chess game played at a distance via letters. The correspondence starts out with a missive from Gossage stating that one of his letters must have gotten lost in the mail since his chess board is set up differently than Verbedian's. The insults and the confusion worsen as the letters go back and forth. A must for any chess fan.
Notes From The Overfed, Mr. Allen claims, was inspired by reading Dostoyevski and a Weight Watchers magazine on an airplane trip. In it an Atheist is converted when he decides that, if God is everywhere, He must be in food. Then consuming everything in sight, he achieves sanctity and obesity through compulsive eating.
A Twenties Memory mocks the name-dropping memoirs of the post-war lost generation. Filled with references to Gertrude Stein, Picasso, Earnest Hemingway, Alice B. Toklas, and many others, a non-entity tries to gain fame by the shared light of his famous contemporaries.
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Conversations With Helmholtz consists of notes taken by the student of a famous elderly psychoanalyst of their conversations together. Senility has certainly gotten the better of the older man, but his reputation and fame keep the younger man from realizing this with humorous results.
Viva Vargas is subtitled Excepts From The Diary of A Revolutionary, and reveals much of the same humor that the author later used in the movie Bananas.
The Discovery And Use of The Fake Ink Blot provides a humorous social history of a device used in practical jokes.
The last story in the volume,
Mr. Big, is my favorite. It is narrated by a Philip Marlowesque detective who is hired by a lovely woman claiming to be a Vassar student. She wants him to find a missing person, God. The mixture of Raymond Chandler's format with the existential search for the meaning of life is extremely funny even after the passage of many years.
All in all, if you like the early Woody Allen movies, you will love this book - even though some of the material is no longer as fresh.
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- Trademark humor but lacking some sense... *SOME SPOILERS*
- Courtesy of Teens Read Too
- Enjoyable read
- Vampy fun!
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The bestselling author of Carpe Demon takes a bite out of high school in this bloodsucking blast.
Elizabeth Frasier's ticked off. Her junior year of high school was going just fine. But thanks to a bunch of jerkwad vampire jocks, she ended up undead, and with a thirst that a thousand Diet Cokes couldn't quench. Now she's out for blood-and revenge. And she knows exactly what to do...Elizabeth's read Salem's Lot. Separate the good vamps from the bad and wipe out the crowd that did her in. On top of that, she's got to figure out how to be mortal again-unless universities start accepting dead girls.
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Trademark humor but lacking some sense... *SOME SPOILERS*.......2007-07-30
Julie Kenner's brand of humor is clear throughout the book, and she's got teenage angst and dialogue down pat (which is true of her soccer mom demon hunter series as well). Which would seem to make this a shoo-in for at least 4 stars. On the other, though many parts of this book made me laugh, others didn't make sense to me.
**SOME SPOILERS BELOW**
For example, even though the teen protagonist, Beth, herself admits she wasn't quite thinking when she got suckered by Stephen Mills and his pals, there are many instances when she seemed incredibly stupid. All the signs were there that things weren't what they seemed to be when the Queen Bitches invited her to join their squad, but those were discarded. And what bad guy (or good guy for that matter) wouldn't have a product tested before use, esp if it meant a gruesome death if the product didn't work? That is, blind faith probably wouldn't happen. That should have occurred to Beth early on... why would she think that Stephen would use the cream without having someone else test it... which would have been bad news for Beth. Then, when Nelson was unconscious in the gym, that would've been a good time to take care of him, but the thought never occurred to her and she was left with a witness who disappeared. There are several instances of commonsensical things like that that just slipped.
Someone also needs to do some fact-checking. Regardless of whether Beth's dad is a doctor or not, and whether or not Beth has a part-time job in a hospital lab, all blood products in a hospital blood bank are tightly regulated. There's a chronic blood shortage in the USA and elsewhere, each unit of blood is labeled and entered into a database, and whenever the units are removed from the blood bank, they have to be signed out with various forms. Maybe 1 unit of blood (unlikely, but let's be generous; maybe the blood is unusable for whatever reason) could be given out for a student project but several? A dozen?
A "routine" operation can require 6 units of blood or more. Think of how many units would be needed for a trauma patient or a major surgery. No hospital can spare so many units for non-patient care, much less a purported project. Questions would definitely be asked.
Regarding vampires and college. NYU was mentioned. Well, like so many universities, NYU does offer night classes. While it's not the way many students would like to attend college, the opportunity is there. I admit I don't know what reasonable excuse a student like Beth who's going to graduate high school (as opposed to a working adult or one with family) could give for wanting to attend night class rather than regular day classes, but I'm surprised that that option isn't even raised.
There were also loose ends that may have been deliberately left out and might be addressed in the sequel, one of which involved college boys Kevin and his brother. Who are they really and how did they know what was going on at Beth's school and the club where Beth first meets him? The same with Clayton and his grandfather. How did they know about vampires, etc?
**SOME SPOILERS ABOVE**
Things such as the above made what should have been an easy, fun read less smooth than they could have been. I'll be checking out the sequel, Good Ghouls Do, from the library.
See MaryJanice Davidson and Anthony Alongi's Jennifer Scales series as an example of humorous young adult books that work (Jennifer Scales and the Ancient Furnace (A Jennifer Scales Novel, Book 1), Jennifer Scales and the Messenger of Light, and The Silver Moon Elm).
My recommendations for other great young adult books (albeit they're darker tales) are Holly Black's A Modern Faerie Tale series (Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale, Ironside, and Valiant), Herbie Brennan's The Faerie Wars Chronicles (Faerie Wars, The Purple Emperor, Ruler of the Realm, and the upcoming Faerie Lord), Rachel Caine's Morganville Vampires series (Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires, Book 1), The Dead Girls' Dance, and the forthcoming Midnight Alley), and Gena Showalter's Teen Alien Huntress series (Red Handed (Teen Alien Huntress), Blacklisted).
Courtesy of Teens Read Too.......2007-07-03
Beth Fasier should have noticed all the signs that were around her. She should have trusted her gut that something was wrong, but instead she just ignored it.
Beginning her junior year, Beth had everything she had worked for. From the possibility of being valedictorian of her class to getting closer to being able to go to school at NYU. But if only Beth hadn't worked so hard, then maybe, just maybe, she wouldn't be where she is today.
It all began when Beth decided to try out for the drill team, only to make her activities seem well-rounded. Unfortunately, Beth didn't make it since Tamara, a very popular cheerleader, told the coach to not let Beth on the team. Tamara had a different motive -- she wanted Beth to be on the cheerleader squad. Right then Beth should have known that something was wrong, but instead, when hearing that hottie Stephen Wills was going to be at one of the cheer practices, Beth knew she had to go. After all, it is Stephen Wills.
Turns out Stephen had asked Tamara to put Beth on the team, since he's had his eye on her for awhile. Of course, Beth was flattered, and when Stephen asked her out on a date Beth just couldn't say no. But when the most popular guy asks someone like Beth out on a date, she should have known that something was just not right.
It was too late for Beth, though, since on her date, Stephen bites Beth -- making her a fellow member of the undead.
Beth's life is over as she knows it, until her academic enemy, Clayton, tell hers that there is a possible chance for her to turn back into her usual self. But can Beth muster up the strength to actually do it?
Known for her books on the paranormal, Julie Kenner puts her own twist on what seems to be a hot topic in most teen novels, vampires. THE GOOD GHOULS' GUIDE TO GETTING EVEN may seem like another typical vampire story, but as the book gets going, readers will begin to notice that this novel is different from the rest of the pack. Fans of the undead will not be disappointed in Julie Kenner's new novel. Be sure to watch out for the sequel, Good Ghouls Do, which releases in October.
Reviewed by: Randstostipher "tallnlankyrn" Nguyen
Enjoyable read.......2007-05-13
I would have given this a 5 for entertainment value alone, but I actually bought it thinking my pre-teen could read it, and I was wrong. Aside from a few 4 letter words (probably less than her 5th grade classmates say in the course of a day) there was sexual content. Not much, but it was there, in the form of fondling and some saucey dialogue.
Now, I enjoyed it and I am 32, but - it will sit on the shelf for like 7 years before I let my 10 year old read it. I don't want her thinking of how good it might feel to have a guy fondle her breast just yet...
Aside from not being clear on the actual age group it is recommended for, my only complaint it I can't stand to see the word schlep which finds its way into every Julie Kenner book I read. However, that is just a personal thing, doesn't affect the quality of the book.
It's good, just read it before you decide to let your child read it.
Vampy fun!.......2007-04-14
I'm a fan of Julie Kenner's books, so I was happy when I saw she wrote a teen book.
I wasn't the least bit disappointed in this book, considering it's target is the teen audience and I'm an adult. I think all teens and even adults will enjoy reading this fun and cute tale of a geeky and unpopular girl named Beth turning into a vampire on her 16th birthday. I cant wait for the sequel!
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Stellar!.......2007-04-03
Elizabeth "Beth" Frasier has a totally dysfunctional family. Her mother is a lawyer. Her father is a doctor. You would think having successful, well-to-do parents is a GOOD thing. On the contrary, it means they have ZERO time for her. Before they got divorced six months ago, all Beth's parents did was fight and their grumpiness was hard to deal with. Now, the parents are still the exact same way. The only difference is that they live in separate places. However, their indifference toward Beth comes in handy on her sixteenth birthday though. (Yes, Beth's dad forgot all about her Sweet Sixteenth birthday! As for Beth's mom, she simply had her secretary order a gift certificate to a book store and then ending up giving it to Beth a day late!) But this means that neither parent even noticed that Beth never came home that night ... or that Beth had become a vampire!
Beth has a major crush on Stephen Wills, the high school's star football player. So Beth is thrilled when Stephen suddenly seems to take interest in her. Beth never expects Stephen to kill her or turn her into a vampire! But Stephen has a task that only Beth can do. After all, Beth is smart! She's valedictorian. But all Beth wants is revenge against Stephen and the "popular girls" who lured her into Stephen's clutches.
Beth's best friend, Jenny, is on her side. So is Clayton, after he failed to stake her. According to Clayton, Beth can get her life back if she kills her "Creator" (A.K.A. her Master). Problem is that a vampire cant' stake their Master. And once Beth drinks from a living person, she `s doomed for eternity. Should that happen, Clayton and his grandpa would be gunning for her again. Worse, college aged vampire hunters are in the immediate area. What's an undead girl supposed to do?
***** I have not had this much fun with a teen book in a looong time! Beth is not only smart, but she is witty and filled with sass! Her friends are the same, but Beth just has it all in spades! The story is go great that I did not want it to end. So I am thrilled to find that there will be a second novel in this series. Don't worry, this book will NOT leave you hanging. It is fun watching Beth and her friends get even with Stephen and the cheerleaders, as well as, against the various other popular kids who got her turned into a vampire. But the author, Julie Kenner, is a Master at story telling! Again, the ending does not leave you hanging, but it does set up a problem that will obviously have to be handled in a part two. "Buffy" and "Firefly", move over! There is a new show in town. STELLAR! *****
Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.
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Good reading but not so practical.......2007-03-31
The book I would say is more for laughs than revenge. A lot of these practical jokes are not so practical and even if they were you would probably get jail time if caught.
If you are willing to take some risks to get revenge then this book probably is for you. Keep this one in the bathroom and anyone on the potty should get a kick out of it.
The Big Book Of Revenge: 200 Dirty Tricks for Those Who Are Serious About Getting Even.......2007-02-08
Great Book...!!!
Nice !.......2007-01-11
If you really get in their and dig, you can find some really clever stuff..
Impractical to say the least........2004-01-26
I was disappointed to find that most of these tactics were either impractical or outdated or both.Some examples described in the book:A man who puts on a gasmask, knocks on a door in the middle of the night with a large toolbox in his hand while wearing a gas company uniform and yelling out warnings that the whole block is getting ready to explode. After the home's occupants dissipate he goes through the house placing cement mix in their toilets and scattering rotten meat throughout the house. Huh? In a day and age where you could spend a few years in the slammer if you mailed somebody an envelope full of baby powder?One example suggests that you should buy a chemical made by "Aquatect" which leaves a bright red cloud around anyone who pees in your pool. One small problem- no such chemical has ever existed in the history of the Earth. This has been outed as an urban legend over and over again, even on TV. (A chemical that in concentrations of less than 1:5000 would cause a bright red cloud when it comes into contact with small amounts of urea, despite the fact that it is in a gigantic vat of bleach water? Ummhmm.)On the good side however, you will find that the book is a very quick read and may offer some laughs, as well as possibly a handful of ideas on elaborate pranks. The guy actually has a decent writing style, he reminds me a little bit of Hunter S. Thompson. But the long and short of it is that there is no "Oh, now I've got 'em!" within the pages of this book. (Unless perhaps you are irked at a UPS driver who runs over dead dogs, and you wish to wire explosives in the carcass of a dead dog to blow out his tire as in one example.)
A most competent sabotage manual.......2002-10-19
Some of the physical sabotage techniques in this book would do justice to a CIA or OSS black ops manual. The author has an impressive knowlege of practical mechanics and chemistry- at least enough to do profound damage to vehicles, machinery, structures and lawns. He is also the competent little amateur pharmicist with his poisoning tips (nothing fatal- just very, very unpleasant.) In addition, he is quite the practical psychiatrist with his effective knowlege of what it takes to destroy another's peace of mind, or even sanity. As for character and reputation assassination, well, he is a pure artist....
I'm not going to make a value judgement on the contents of this book. In an unjust world there are justifications for actions like these. Just be careful, there is a fundamental law to the universe that stuff like this comes back to you three fold if it isn't justified....
If you are primarily in to computer mischief, then try his _Byte Me_.
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We have all been victims of wrongdoing. Forgiving that wrongdoing is one of the staples of current pop psychology dogma; it is seen as a universal prescription for moral and mental health in the self-help and recovery section of bookstores. At the same time, personal vindictiveness as a rule is seen as irrational and immoral. In many ways, our thinking on these issues is deeply inconsistent; we value forgiveness yet at the same time now use victim-impact statements to argue for harsher penalties for criminals. Do we have a right to hate others for what they have done to us? The distinguished philosopher and law professor Jeffrie Murphy is a skeptic when it comes to our views on both emotions. In this short and accessible book, he proposes that vindictive emotions (anger, resentment, and the desire for revenge) actually deserve a more legitimate place in our emotional, social, and legal lives than we currently recognize, while forgiveness deserves to be more selectively granted. Murphy grounds his views on careful analysis of the nature of forgiveness, a subtle understanding of the psychology of anger and resentment, and a fine appreciation of the ethical issues of self-respect and self-defense. He also uses accessible examples from law, literature, and religion to make his points. Providing a nuanced approach to a proper understanding of the place of our strongest emotions in moral, political, and personal life, and using lucid, easily understood prose, this volume is a classic example of philosophical thinking applied to a thorny, everyday problem.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent academic and philosophic view of violence.......2004-10-07
This book was required reading for me for a Master's course on violence. Being a person trained in the physical sciences, I must say I had a difficult time reading this book. I like equations and concepts that are right or wrong or a question I can calculate an answer that is either correct or incorrect. This book is a highly academic and philosophic view of violence, forgiveness, repentance, and vengeance.
In the authors own words (or at least paraphrased), the book sets out to show that it is possible vindictiveness and vengeance possess some positive value, the relationship between repentance and legitimate forgiveness, explore self-forgiveness, how these issues play out in criminal law and psychotherapy, and the role of Christianity in the previously mentioned topics.
Personally, I found parts of the book to drag on (Remember, I studied Engineering. Philosophy is a new concept to me), but overall I found the book to be unique and intriguing. The author conveys the point that forgiveness is great, but the victim has every right to be vindictive. The vindictive side of the victim is just as legitimate as feelings of forgiveness. I was also very intrigued at the author examination of the topic of Christianity and forgiveness. In a nutshell, for every story of forgiveness Christianity preaches, there is a story of raw rage and vengeance.
The book is a well thought out view of violence, forgiveness, and vengeance. The author does not pretend to have all the answers, just offer his personal view. I believe that anyone who is trained in the physical sciences will have a difficult time reading this book (at least I did). I would recommend this book as an advanced reference on the topic of forgiveness and vengeance. I would also recommend the book to someone who enjoys reading philosophic views of today's issues in society.
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- The Best!!!!!!!
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Getting Even
Kayla Perrin
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They've all been screwed over -- done wrong in a very big way . . .
For the past year, self-proclaimed Black American Princess
Claudia has been planning her perfect wedding, destined to be the event in Atlanta's black society. But when her prince gets cold feet, she's stunned and humiliated. She's done things in the bedroom with this man that her mother would disown her for!
Annelise is frustrated. How long can a woman go without getting some from her husband? The man she supported through law school, who she signed a prenup for. But it seems the man who used to want it all the time is still getting it . . . from another woman.
Thank goodness their devotedly single friend
Lishelle has a couch to spare. But when The Guy Who Got Away in college reappears in her life, she starts envisioning a walk down the aisle. Ignoring her friends' advice, she agrees to guarantee his bank loans for a new business. A girl's got to invest in her future husband, right? But once he gets his hands on her money, he disappears.
Then Claudia discovers that her commitment-shy ex is engaged to a rival debutante -- one whose parents could advance his career. Annelise starts to suspect that her husband's bankruptcy claims are just a smoke screen so she won't challenge the measly prenup payment. And after a little digging, Lishelle learns that the jerk who left her broke is already married. As the scorned friends bitch over a bottle of wine, an idea takes shape -- letting these weasels sink quietly out of their lives is too good for them.
These women want revenge.
Customer Reviews:
The Best!!!!!!!.......2007-03-10
This book is excellent. She knows how to capture the character as if you are right there with them. If this were a movie who knows how many times I would have seen it by now. I usually dont like to read books that has nore than one character because you usually get confused because they dont know how to seperate them but KAYLA didnt confuse me at all. She seperated them all well. Not one time did I get confused. I read Getting Sme first and at the end of that book I found this one and ordered it off Amazon, local bookstores didnt carry the book. When I started reading this book everything started making sense in Getting Some because they would speak about how they were treated as well as mention names. The way all their men did them was down right wrong. I truly despised men while reading this book. But the way the girls set them up, each and everyone of them deserved it. They couldnt have done it better. I will be reading more of Miss. Perrin's books and I will keep you posted....
A Woman Scorned is No Joke..........2006-09-30
This fun, exciting read is based in the city of Atlanta, where three attractive girlfriends since college all find themselves in their own unique love trials. Claudia is an Atlanta socialite, weeks away from marrying her boyfriend of four years, Adam. He is a successful lawyer, who decided to leave his practice to open a non-profit that serves children that are ill. Lisette is a popular local news anchorman whom after a bitter divorce, finds love with her old college flame, Glen, a pilot for a major airline who occasionally finds himself in Atlanta which is the hub for his airline. Lastly, Annalise is a passionate photographer and is married to Charles, an attorney. Immediately, the reader is made privy to Annalise's frustration with her and Charles' sex life or lack thereof.
As it seems simultaneously - Claudia's wedding is called off, Glen ends up being a fraud, and Annalise catches her husband in an affair - the girls are all able to provide for each other an available ear and a shoulder to cry on. In the same instance, plotting a revenge that is sure to offer them payback for all of the stress, pain, money, and grief caused by their significant others.
This reader enjoyed being a part of the lives of these young women and empathized with each of them; thus, reveling in the ensued consequences by each of the men in their lives for attempting, but not succeeding, in ruining theirs. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys an entertaining read that speaks to heartache, overcoming it, and getting good, old-fashioned revenge.
Lena Willis
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Loved it!!!!.......2006-09-10
I really, really, really enjoyed this book. It was such a good read that I hated to put it down. I adored all of the women and was so happy for them. Those men got what they deserved!!!! Keep up the good work.
Revenge: It is a dish best served cold.......2006-09-07
Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderios de LaClos is credited with writing REVENGE IS A DISH BEST SERVED COLD in 1782. That phrase is definitely applicable today. Read Kayla Perrin's May 2006 release, GETTING EVEN. Three unlikely best friends prove their ability to fight back when scorned by the men in their lives.
Claudia, Annelise and Lishelle met in college and have been best friends since. Their personal worlds are about to come apart. There's nothing anyone can do about it, but should they take it and get on with their lives. Just read and see.
Claudia, the undisputed Black American Princess, has been planning the ultimate wedding that will set Atlanta on its ear. The day of the wedding draws near and Adam, her intended, begins to ask her to participate in strange sexual behavior. Is this the darker side of Adam or is there something truly wrong and he's trying to scare her off?
Annelise is the married friend. She and her husband haven't been intimate in a very long time. She's tried everything she knows to entice him and he turns on her, telling her that she puts too much pressure on him. She's an amateur photographer. At a scheduled shoot, a client brings along his brother who begins to show a lot of interest in her. Why?
Lishelle is the unmarried one of the group. Suddenly, the man she loved in college shows up, courts her heavily and asks her to marry him. The whirlwind events leave her little time to really think things through. She agrees to help him with a bank loan so that he can get his new business up and running.
Kayla Perrin has written a story that will keep you alternately laughing, crying and wanting to punch something. What is it the three men have in common? When the women are dumped, they muddle through, even have a pity party. Then it gets serious and they begin to plot their revenge. The ending will make you want to shout and high five all three of these ladies.
The mini-stories in this book are gut wrenching at times. GETTING EVEN is a must read. Kayla Perrin has made her way to my TBB list. She's an awesome storyteller whose characters are real. It isn't often that one can find a book with simultaneous stories going on and still be able to keep up and not have to go back to re-read.
Reprinted with permission of Romance Junkies.
And even they got!.......2006-07-23
This book was absolutely amazing. Kayla Perrin pens a tale that is believable and that we all at some point can relate to. These men got exactly what they deserved and nothing less.
Customer Reviews:
What a wonderful diabolical mind!!!.......2003-09-06
The book is so wonderful, you will laugh until you cry over some of the ideas presented. You will wonder what kind of mind came up with these great ideas. I am purchasing another copy for a friend of mine who has borrowed mine and wants a copy of her own. It gives a person great satisfaction to read the book and "dream" of getting even with the tedious people in their lives that are giving them such a bad time. It's a great read for a day that you are having the blues. I can't praise it enough!!!
Hilariously Funny.......2003-03-24
This book is filled with some of the most diabolical tricks I've heard of. People who are serious about getting even have a lot to choose from. Some of them can land you in jail if you get caught. Thisbook is intended for entertainmentpurposes only.
The COMPLETE Guide to getting Even.......1999-08-10
Anyone every pull a prank on you? Steal your girlfriend? Need to be punished? This is a dictionary of pranks and stunts to pull on those people that you really don't like. Or just want to read and dream of revenge? Either way, a hillarious read.
Fantastic - plenty of evil thought provoking material!.......1997-10-28
This book should be in the reference section for anyone who's ever wanted to get even with someone! The scary thing is the number of variations on a theme your mind comes up with as you read it.
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"How to parry not just the worst blows life can hurl at you, but the little pinpricks, too; how to survive humiliation and keep your dignity; how to love and never lose are all here, and Barreca's wit and warmth as well."--Fay Weldon.
Customer Reviews:
Do you want to know the best use of Revenge?.......1999-08-30
What are waiting for? the last two pages should be the introduction... that's just me. It shows the proper use and worth of revenge. Is it worth your time? Looking for healthy justice? Look no further.
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- One of the BEST books I have ever read!!!!
- really liked it
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- Watch out for my sister!
- Self-Help With a Healthy Dose of Humor!
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Smart Girls Guide to Getting Even
Alison Grambs
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If you...
Spend too much time saying yes when you want to say no Do things you don't want to do just to please your friends Feel like a total pushover
...then you need this book!
If you feel like a doormat, you don't have to take it anymore! The Smart Girl's Guide to Getting Even gives you the 411 on how to stop being a pushover and start being fabulous:
- The Are You a Pushover? Quiz: A smart assessment to get you started
- The Three Levels of Revenge: The Subtle Approach, the Not-So-Subtle Approach, and the You're Going to Hell Approach
- Gifts That Keep On Giving: Great "gift" ideas for the pesky people in your life
- Smart Girl Tricks of the Trade: Tips for getting even by getting over
- The Smart Girl Commandments: Advice every woman knows for keeping her sanity at work, in love, and everywhere else
From awful office experiences to backstabbing BFF's to first dates from hell, this hip little handbook will show you how to come out on top and have a damn good time doing it. Because anyone can get even, but it takes a smart girl to get it right!
Customer Reviews:
One of the BEST books I have ever read!!!!.......2007-06-09
This is one of the funniest books that I have ever read in my life. I think that Alison should have a TV show based on the situations described in this book. It would be a huge hit. I wish her all the luck in the world and I'm waiting for her next book.
really liked it.......2007-05-30
Really liked this book. Full disclosure: I'm a 26 year old guy who, um, has some experience with back-stabbing friends, awful office experiences (i.e. I have a girlfriend). But reading this book actually made some sense of it all. It was funny, sharp, all in all a great read. It also gave me some more constructive things to say and suggest to my girlfriend instead of "I told you that girl was crazy" and "Just pee on her desk." Great book (but man, I'm glad I haven't been the recipient of these techniques ... uh oh, I already lent it to my lady).
Don't get mad, get even! .......2007-05-22
I think it was RFK who uttered those infamous words. But I know this book can teach you how to live them. This book is hilarious! Five Stars! A must read for any girl looking to inject a little perspective into life's ups and downs. So don't get mad, get this book!
Watch out for my sister!.......2007-05-03
I bought this book for my sister thinking she could use it. She totally loved it and recommended that I also read it. This book is hilarious and every woman should own it. So don't mess with my sister, she knows how to get even!
Self-Help With a Healthy Dose of Humor!.......2007-04-26
A must read for women of all ages, you'll find yourself nodding in agreement the whole way through. It's one Eureka! moment after the next.
A witty, hilarious and fun approach to the all too real issues facing women, from self-image to self-guilt, this book covers it all. In between the laughter, Alison Grambs skillfully offers up real-life lessons and tips on how to be a better you -- without feeling preached too.
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"Are you (or a woman you love) being cheated out of 33 percent of your earnings? If you're a woman, over your working lifetime you will lose between $700,000 and $2 million -- simply because of your sex. Is that fair? No. Can it be stopped? Absolutely. The wage gap is a steady drain on the daily lives of women and our families. Rarely do we step back and add up what's missing -- better medical treatment, child care, housing, food, or retirement savings that women could have afforded if they were paid as well as men. Getting Even exposes the discrepancy between what women and men make -- and how it affects us all. It reveals that the wage gap is not going away on its own. And it explains how to close the wage gap -- and, finally, get women even. In this intelligently argued and startling book, Evelyn Murphy, Ph.D., humanizes the numbers through real-life stories and a wealth of data that has never before been examined. She shows how the wage gap pinches the daily lives of families throughout the country, at every economic level and in every industry. And she explains why, even though women have more opportunities than their mothers did, the wage gap persists: The American workplace still harbors an astonishing amount of discrimination, including blatant as well as complex hidden barriers, unspoken assumptions, unexamined attitudes, and habitual ways of behaving. But Murphy also brings good news: The wage gap can be closed. Having served as an economist, politician, public official, and corporate officer, she has a 360-degree view of the problem -- and of the solution. In a book that will explode into public debate, Murphy issues the indictment, rouses us to action -- and tells us exactly how to get even. "
Customer Reviews:
Very good treatment of a complex issue. A bit too peppy........2006-12-12
As a jumping off point I want to say that the comments by previous reviewer William Wentworth suggest to me that he stopped reading the book very early. Wentworth explains away the wage gap as being tied to women working shorter hours and (incorrectly) says that Murphy missed this. In chapters other than the first one, Murphy goes on to analyze that women are paid less because they work fewer hours, but that women work fewer hour because of having more housework and childcare responsibilities. She goes through case studies of women who after having children were pushed toward shorter hours by their employers. We have different expectations for men and women as a society and we tend to push men into roles that are entirely compensated while we push women into roles that are uncompensated. That means men have more money than women. Also as Murphy points out, even at the same number of hours women get paid less, and a partial cause for that is that loosing a bit of experience early on in a career by taking time off or on part-time has repurcussions later. The wage gap is a complex issue, and Murphy is describing it in such a way that an average person without so much background in this area can grasp the situation. She does a good job at hitting many many facets of the problem without oversimplifying.
For me the biggest flaw here was that Murphy relies heavily on case studies of the women she interviewed. These demonstrate discrimination that was sometimes subtle and sometimes suprisingly blatant. At the same time, one can always find a case study to prove anything. Murphy has statistics too, but that isn't what she tends to rely on. Another flaw was that Murphy is really pushing her solution to the wage gap. The solution is basically advice to women in the workforce on what each can do. These are geared towards different positions in the company. I'm not saying it's a bad solution. I'm a pessimist and she's really peppy about that solution. It's good advice, but I roll my eyes at the suggestion of a three chapter panacea.
This is a very good intuitive approach to the subject. Likely many women should read it (men too, although the subject isn't so close to home). It deals with complex issues, and describes them in an understandable way. These issues are carefully chosen to make a big picture. This is probably the easiest read on this topic that I have found which still had me surprised and thinking.
An Important Book.......2006-09-13
Smart, provocative, well-researched and wonderfully written, this book is completely persuasive. Anyone interested in fairness in the workplace (something we should all be interested in) will want to read it.
Stunning revelations, thoughtful analysis.......2006-08-25
Getting Even exposes the shocking realities behind America's male-female wage gap. The authors prove their case not just with jaw-dropping facts and figures, but with fascinating accounts of how women are shortchanged -- literally and figuratively -- every day on the job. The book also offers a savvy remedy for this entrenched, and often invisible, form of gender bias. The writing is clear and persuasive. Getting Even's lucid argument deserves national debate.
Shocking and Necessary.......2006-08-23
It's hard to believe that companies and individuals can still get away with this extraordinarily misogynist behavior, but Murphy and Graff have done the legwork and the math to prove not only that they do, but how they do it and how we can begin to put an end to it. This book should be mandatory reading for anyone who is or loves a woman or girl and believes that women should be treated with basic human decency (and paid that way, too).
A must read.......2006-05-08
"Getting Even" is a provocative book and a must read. Evelyn Murphy has clearly done her homework as evidenced by the abundant data she provides, detailing the many ways in which women in the workplace are losing money. But more important, she provides solutions. (The case study of the State of Minnesota is a great example.) This book belongs on the desk of CEOs and HR managers everywhere.
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