Beyond Tuesday Morning (911 Series #2)

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In this sequel to the best-selling One Tuesday Morning, to widow Jamie Bryan it is still September 12, 2001. What will move her from living in the past to living the life God has given her today?

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Beyond Tuesday Morning.......2007-06-15

Great. A must if you have read One Tuesday morning.

Great Christian fiction!.......2007-03-09

Karen Kingsbury did it again. Another fantastic story. Another, I can't put this book down until I finish it. I loved it! Great Christian fiction!

Guiltless Pleasure.......2006-12-15

By: Jeffrey W. Bennett author of the Christian Novel "Under the Lontar Palm".
What can I say, I love a great story that has a great ending. Okay, for a guy, this story provides great role models. Karen Kingsbury demonstrate the great things that can happen when men take the lead to keep Christ in the forefront of their families. We all can benefit from heroes and we never know where we will find them. I'd say they can be found inside the pages of Beyond Tuesday Morning within the characters of Clay, Eric and Jake.

Great Sequel, but the First Was Better.......2006-08-12

I fell in love with the characters and story of One Tuesday Morning and I was completely thrilled to find out that Karen Kingsbury was writing a sequel. I tried not to hype myself up about it to much because sequels are never as good as the originals, however I was pleasantly surprised to find out that Beyond Tuesday Morning was also a very good and touching story. Even though I have read One Tuesday Morning ummm...4? times now, I have read Beyond Tuesday Morning twice and I can't wait for a possible 3rd installment in the series!

Excellent sequel.......2006-01-15

After reading ONE TUESDAY MORNING, I was glad to see that Ms. Kingsley had finished the story with a sequel. She did a great job and I would highly recommend both books as Kingsley is one of the better Christian writers out there. I only had one question and it bothers me but not enough to give the book 4 stars. I find it very hard to believe that Clay, during his first tour of St. Paul's, wouldn't have mentioned to Jamie that his brother had been in the World Trade Center at the time of the attacks. It's a small thing but his silence doesn't seem believeable. Still, the story would have come to a grinding halt if he did, so there you go.

CSI: Miami: Harm for the Holidays: Heart Attack (CSI: Miami)

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Okay conclusion to the two-parter
Good but a little predictable

CSI: Miami: Harm for the Holidays: Heart Attack (CSI: Miami)
Donn Cortez
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ASIN: 0743499522

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As winter's hold deepens in the dark days of February, Miami's hotels fill to the bursting point. Cruise ships flock to the busiest port in the world as people desperate for warmer climates board these behemoths of the seas. People with too much time and money fill the clubs. In every other jurisdiction, as its citizens are driven indoors, there is a downturn in crime but not in Miami, as the members of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab can attest.

Stretched to the breaking point, Lieutenant Caine is called to what appears to be a failed international terrorist incident: a botched arms-for-Afghani-heroin exchange. The scene is littered with bodies and blood droplets identified as being from one Abdus Sattar Pathan. Once before, Pathan managed to escape being charged in the murder of a Federal agent. This time Caine has him. Except Pathan has an iron-clad alibi: he was miles away, on stage doing his magic act. Horatio is convinced that Pathan and the international terrorist known as the Hare are one and the same. Can Caine prove it before the Hare puts his deadly plan into motion?

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Okay conclusion to the two-parter.......2007-04-03

Cortez's two-part CSI:Miami story, concluding in "Harm for the Holidays: Heart Attack" is very true to the TV series and the characters in it. That is to say, it's an engrossing read, but strays as far from technical reality as does the TV series. If you like "good guys vs terrorists" stories, you should get both books and read them -- you won't be disappointed.

Good but a little predictable.......2007-03-21

This is yet another good CSI:Miami book. It kept my attention from beginning to end, although I figured out the "big twist" well before it was revealed. That didn't ruin the enjoyment of the book, however. It is the second book in a two-book storyline, but I think either one can be read as a stand-alone book (especially this one).

Beating Unusual Chess Openings: Dealing With the English, Reti, King's Indian Attack and Other Annoying Systems (Everyman Chess)

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Plenty of useful ideas
Against 1.c4

Beating Unusual Chess Openings: Dealing With the English, Reti, King's Indian Attack and Other Annoying Systems (Everyman Chess)
Richard Palliser
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ASIN: 1857444299

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You may be happy with your main openings – sorted with the Sicilian and content with the King’s Indian – but are you afraid of the unknown? Do you fall to pieces if your opponent plays something strange in the opening? Here’s some good news... Beating Unusual Chess Openings is a godsend to those chess players fed up with struggling against all opening moves other than White’s main two: 1 e4 and 1 d4. From the respectable (English Opening, Réti and King’s Indian Attack) through to the offbeat (Nimzo-Larsen Attack, Bird’s Opening) and the totally bizarre (Orang-utan, Grob); everything Black needs to know about facing unusual openings is covered within these pages. Richard Palliser gets to grips with all of White’s possibilities, examining their strengths and weaknesses and in turn organizing a reliable and practical repertoire for Black. He discusses the key strategies, tactics and move-order tricks for both sides, arming the reader with enough know-how to face this assortment of chess openings with renewed confidence.

*Everything you need to know about facing unusual openings
*Written by an openings expert
*Ideal for improvers, and club and tournament players

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Plenty of useful ideas.......2007-06-25

By "unusual" openings, Palliser refers here to any opening other than 1.e4 and 1.d4. That would certainly include the English Opening 1.c4, though I wouldn't really consider it unusual. Also covered are the Grob, Bird, Larsen, Sokolsky, 1.Nc3, and 1.Nf3. To meet the English, the author recommends 1...c5, heading to a Botvinnik formation if permitted. This he ties into his other repertoire recommendations for other move orders. The coverage of 1.Nf3 is special and lengthy, as he goes into particular depth to explore move order subtleties.

In general, he provides two Black responses to each featured opening: something solid, easy to play, with little to memorize; and something edgy, designed to throw White into unfamiliar waters. I really like having this choice, and play many of the lines that fit in with other systems I'm familiar with. As an example, against the Bird he recommends (A) 1...d5, followed by ...Bg4, working toward ...e5, possibly as a gambit; (B) 1...d6!?, also heading for an ...e5 thrust, a powerful and recent "anti-Dutch" idea in reverse. Note that both plans avoid the main line.

As usual Palliser has researched the material thoroughly, and it is obvious he has utilized the latest specialty books and databases. There are original ideas, too. The writing is of literary quality, and it is full of good, practical pointers. I never fail to learn something useful from his books, even if they cover systems that are outside my practice. The analysis is organized by variation and subvariation (and so on) set off in bold face, with fragments or completed games provided within the accompanying text. The back of the book contains an index of variations. Helpfully, it is coded to distinguish featured variations from in-text analysis.

In terms of value, this book would be most attractive to those willing to play the Symmetrical English as Black, as nearly half the book is devoted to it. As for the remainder of the book, nearly all players can find something useful and informative.

Against 1.c4.......2007-06-11

I think that book is very good, especially lines with 1.c4 c5 and black answer on 1.b3. It is the light to go forward through dark english woods.

A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose

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A Worthy Polemic
A fun and potentially humbling experience
Snore.
Very funny. Especially if you've read the books he analyzes.
Sadly, for most reviewers this book might as well be by George Bush or Al Gore

A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose
B. R. Myers
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"A welcome contrarian take on the state of contemporary American prose."-The Wall Street Journal

The funny and devastating debunking of high "literary" prose stylists, including Don DeLillo, Annie Proulx, and Cormac McCarthy, that caused a literary furor.

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A Worthy Polemic.......2007-08-25

Well, but where do you draw the line between good and bad, obscure and insightful? Inherent in this debate is the question of who really are - and better yet, who should rightfully be - the true arbiters of what's good and what's garbage, what's clear and lucid and freshly innovative, and what's dense, obscure, and pretentious. To most lay readers today (and even to many professional critics of the past) a great many securely ensconced canonical works were once and are, even now, considered hopelessly obscure. (Joyce's Ulysses and the writings of Samuel Beckett come immediately to mind.) How easily were these once so dismissed. Are they, too, up for reevaluation? And yet, without doubt, too many contemporary writers like to show off and are more interested in performing absurd linguistic acrobatics designed to elicit perfect "tens" from the scoring judges (the professional critics and academic scholars) than they are in writing something meaningful, something which reminds mankind, in Faulkner's words, "of the courage and honor and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of [man's] past" and of "the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about." (And this from a man who never was a part of anyone's literary establishment, who never held any kind of academic degree.)
Myers' book makes some valid arguments, but its greatest value is that it has at last opened up and legitimatized a national debate that is sorely needed for those of us who love good writing.

A fun and potentially humbling experience.......2007-07-16

By the looks of things this is a pretty polarizing book. That said, I DO think there is something in here for every reader. Rewarding on many levels and certainly smart and funny.

Snore........2007-03-20

I wonder what these people would do if they read Joyce's Ulysses, knowing that Myers lauds it as genius. No doubt they'd be lost again, not knowing what's good or not, looking for another clown to wipe their bottom, dry their tears, and say "you're not stupid, they are."

Are you bored of being ENTERTAINED yet?

Very funny. Especially if you've read the books he analyzes........2007-03-05

B.R. Myers skewers the literary establishment with good sense and humor. In doing so, he provides the explanation for why I find contemporary "literary" fiction tedious. Myers uses plenty of text examples, so even if you're not familiar with every author he dissects, you get it. A fun read for those of us who were born to be English majors. I especially enjoyed the chapter on Annie Proulx because I had the same reaction as Myers when I read The Shipping News. If you enjoyed this book, then check out Joe Queenan's take on movies in Confessions of a Cineplex Heckler.

Sadly, for most reviewers this book might as well be by George Bush or Al Gore.......2006-08-01

Which is to say, most of the reviewers here (on both sides, though more for the pro-Myers) Myers actual arugments are irrelevant, because for them this is an ideological battle. Anything that seems to be "pro-genre" fiction or "anti-literary" fiction will be hailed or decried by the ideologues on either side.

Witness how badly written reviews for this book will get a hundred zero star votes, or a hundred 5 stars.

The funny thing is that the rabid ideologues for genre fiction here who praise Myers seem not to realize that he doesn't really agree with them. Myers, the Nabokov and Balzac fanatic, is hardly pretending that Robert Jordan is the modern day Shakespeare. He is more decrying (what he sees) as the failure of modern literary fiction than promoting genre fiction as the rightful heir to the Kafkas, Tolstoys and Homers of the past.

Although what you get out of this book will mostly be what your opinions are going in (I personally think that he has a few good points, but most of his critiques are ill-thought out and wrong. His critiques of McCarthy or Delillo's prose styles does more to show his own tin-ear than anything about their skill), I think at the end of the day an objective reading of this book will show his argument to be badly formed.

The first major problem is this: Author selection.

Myers claims he is attacking a "growing pretention" in American fiction and implies this is a recent trend. He contrasts book awards from teh 60s to book awards from the 90s. However, he selects authors like McCarthy and Delillo have been writing since the 60s and 70s and whose major works were in the 1980s.

Are these really the best picks of contemporary writers? And IF they are, then why don't we talk about their contemporaries who are still writing and winnign awards such as Roth, Bellow or Updike? (Roth, after all, appears on both award lists Myers contrasts)

To use an analogy, imagine that of the top 10 selling rock bands today 5 were from the US 3 were from Canada and 2 were from England... then I went and wrote a book decrying the "growing Canadianization of rock" and about how there were no good popular US or UK bands left in American rock charts. Quite clearly a fallicious argument, equally with Myers.

The answer, of course, is that it would undermine Myers pretention that these 5 authors are representative of the entire spectrum contemporary literary fiction. Roth and Updike sell FAR more books than Guterson or Delillo, yet Myers' critiques don't really apply to them.

Lastly, Guterson is really a minnow in the world of contemporary american fiction. He has only had one acclaimed book and has pretty much disapeared since then. Thus, I think a rational conclusion is that only E Annie Proulx is a legitimate example of a 90s/00s literary writer. If Myers can't even pick out good examples (according to his own criteria), how can we take his argument seriously?

The second problem is that, again from an objective standpoint, Myers predictions don't appear to be coming true at all. He claims that Cormac McCarthy wont' be read in 20 years, for example. And yet, he has been writing for 40 years and is still widely read. His masterpiece, Blood Meridian, is over 20 years old and is only growing in reputation and acclaim (whether you or I or myers agree or disagree). To continue with Cormac, Myers claims Louise L'Amour will be more widly read than Cormac, but again... the trend has been the opposite. Cormac's readership, sales and acclaim has continued to grow while Loinse L'Amour has faded more into obscurity (which is, frankly, the general trend of genre authors, especially of genres that have fallen out of favor, such as westerns)

So, in conclusion, if you are honestly interested in the debate about art and literature, high and low, genre and literary, thsi is not the book to turn to. Myers arguments are ill-thought out, fallicious and often simply false.

Recommended instead: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.

Poetry After 9-11: An Anthology of New York Poets

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The world outside their navels comes a'knocking...

Poetry After 9-11: An Anthology of New York Poets

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ASIN: 0971865914

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This collection features the work of some of New York's preeminent poets, including Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn and National Book Award finalist Alicia Ostriker, at a pivotal moment in America's history-one year after the World Trade Center and Pentagon terrorist attacks. The poems, including many that have never been published before, cover an extraordinary variety of responses to the experience of writing and living in the aftermath of September 11. Some pieces offer eyewitness accounts of poets at the scene; others touch more indirectly upon the events and reflect the somber resonance of the tragedy's impact upon life in the city. All reflect a gravitation toward the healing powers of self-expression, which were visible everywhere in the days after the attacks: on the walls of the firehouses, in letters to the editor at local newspapers, even scrawled in the dusty ash covering lower Manhattan.

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The world outside their navels comes a'knocking..........2002-11-09

I've added one star for the benefit of modern poetry lovers, who will no doubt see more in this collection than I did.

In the introduction to this slender collection of poems, the editors plump the persistence of poetry. Immediately after the Towers came down, poems appeared everywhere. Nailed on poles, taped in windows, scrawled in dust, poetry answered a need of expression that other forms could not. In their extremity people just let their feelings pour out in verse.

Unfortunately, all the poems collected here are by professional poets. I daresay that nobody reads contemporary poetry except other poets, so this collection betrays a pretty self-absorbed mood. As the editors proudly note in the forward, few of the poems make any direct reference to the atrocity, and only two mention retaliation, and that in a negative way. Instead, these curdled by irony bards spin blank, meterless lines of...whatever comes to mind, apparently.

Poetry as therapy seems the dominant theme. The closest to a recognizably human sentiment anyone comes up with is one poem ticking off all the missing street vendors. Others just muse upon their mute shock, using descriptions of bric-a-brac in their apartments for grace notes or codas. Still others focus on a single incongruous detail out of the surrounding calamity, funny how some things catch your attention. One guy goes cruising in the gay Chelsea district, an imaginary Walt Whitman on his arm, while decrying all ickiness in life. Another types up a passable Guardian editorial, blaming America, but we know it's poetry because of all the indentations. And there's an alphabet of alliterations in another.

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Everyone loves a good thriller. Like some of the best books in that genre. Attacked! will hook you from the first page. But this is no complex tale of international intrigue or terrorist plots. Instead, it's a spellbinder with a decidedly outdoor/adventure bent, filled with gripping, real-life stories of animal attacks and human survival. Personally selected by award-winning yarn-spinner John Long, each tale of man-eating tigers, sharks, rogue elephants, bears, and other wild creatures will both terrify and amaze you.

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Only Two Stories of Heroism.......2003-08-15

Had I known that more than half of this anthology is nothing but hunters bragging about how they shot already wounded animals, I still would have bought this book for the other stories, including the hippo & croc ones but most notably Lion Attack! ("[W]ith the incredible bravery of the desperate, [Lee] threw himself on the lioness barehanded, punching and scratching to make the big cat drop his wife") and I Will Save You! ("Running toward [his wife's] Vina's screams...[Elfas] smacked the lioness over the back until the broom handle splintered."). As for (most of) the hunters, however, the braggadocio of their 'exploits' left me rooting for the animals!

Only Two Stories of Heroism.......2003-08-15

Had I known that more than half of this anthology is nothing but hunters bragging about how they shot already wounded animals, I still would have bought this book for the other excellent stories, including the hippo & croc ones but most notably Lion Attack! ("[W]ith the incredible bravery of the desperate, [Lee] threw himself on the lioness barehanded, punching and scratching to make the big cat drop his wife") and I Will Save You! ("Running toward [his wife's] Vina's screams...[Elfas] smacked the lioness over the back until the broom handle splintered."). As for (most of) the hunters, however, the braggadocio of their 'exploits' left me rooting for the animals!

An editor's collection.......2001-05-16

I'd rate this as a good introductory collection of stories. There are 17 stories, 4 of them by Peter Hathaway Capstick. The book covers the following attacks: 3 lion, 1 hippo, 1 tiger, 1 jaguar, 4 bear, 1 crocodile, 4 leopard, 1 elephant, and 1 shark stories. Having already read several of the stories, I was a little disappointed with the lack of rarer material.

A book you can sink your teeth into.......2000-06-11

This collection of true stories of animal attacks is a rip-roaring read from beginning to end. As Sherlock Holmes said (in not so many words), our fear of the wilderness is greater than our fear of the city. John Long's collected stories verify that in horrifying detail.

Imagine being on your own in the wilderness and hearing the "woof woof" of a grizzly somewhere behind you, or on an open plain in Africa, knowing there are lions are all around you.

The people in these true tales survive, which is even more horrifying. Lions gnawing on brains, crocodiles clamping down between legs, jaguars thrashing from person to person, tearing out jugulars -- all slendidly recounted.

Not a book for the faint, but a must for those in search of tales of adventure and survival.

A book you can't seem to put down!.......2000-04-25

This book is one of the better ones I have read recently. Every story was captivating and it was extremely easy to visualize the events as they happened. I recommend this book highly. You will not be disappointed.

Some Recent Attacks: Essays Cultural and Political

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an excellent book discussing British left-wing politics

Some Recent Attacks: Essays Cultural and Political
James Kelman
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an excellent book discussing British left-wing politics.......1997-12-08

Little is known about Mr. Kelman, which is a shame, considering that he won the Booker Prize in 1994. So, it is with much enthusiam that I recommend this book. Here, one can get the inside scoop of his political thinking. If you have read his books, it should be no surprise to you that he is a man of the left. Now, will someone write a biography about this man?

110 Stories: New York Writes after September 11

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A Diverse and Eloquent "Chorus"
What Literature Can Do
a reader from Washington
truth by indirection
poor taste

110 Stories: New York Writes after September 11

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ASIN: 0814799051
Release Date: 2002-09-11

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New York is a city of writers. And when the city was attacked on 9/11, its writers began to do what writers do, they began to look and feel and think and write, began to struggle to process an event unimaginable before, and even after, it happened. The work of journalists appeared immediately, in news reports, commentaries, and personal essays. But no single collection has yet recorded how New York writers of fiction, poetry, and dramatic prose have responded to 9/11.

Now, in 110 Stories, Ulrich Baer has gathered a multi-hued range of voices that convey, with vivid immediacy and heightened imagination, the shock and loss suffered in September. From a stunning lineup of 110 renowned and emerging writers-including Paul Auster, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Edwidge Danticat, Vivian Gornick, Phillip Lopate, Dennis Nurkse, Melvin Bukiet, Susan Wheeler-these stories give readers not so much an analysis of what happened as the very shape and texture of a city in crisis, what it felt like to be here, the external and internal damage that the city and its inhabitants absorbed in the space and the aftermath of a few unforgettable hours. As A.M. Homes says in one of the book's eyewitness accounts, "There is no place to put this experience, no folder in the mental hard drive that says, 'catastrophe.' It is not something that you want to remember, not something that you want to forget." This collection testifies to the power of poetry and storytelling to preserve and give meaning to what seems overwhelming. It showcases the literary imagination in its capacity to gauge the impact of 9/11 on how we view the world.

Just as the stories of the World Trade towers were filled with people from all walks of life, the stories collected here reflect New York's true diversity, its boundless complexity and polyglot energy, its regenerative imagination, and its spirit of solidarity and endurance.

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A Diverse and Eloquent "Chorus".......2002-11-28

The use of the word "stories" in the title refers to a variety and abundance of writing by different New York authors of literary fiction, poetry, and dramatic prose. They share their reactions to and perspectives on the tragic events of September 11. All of the selections have been brilliantly edited by Ulrich Baer. In his eloquent Introduction, he quotes Don DeLillo's suggestion that the task at hand was "to give memory, tenderness and meaning to all that howling space" caused by the towers' collapse. These selections are indeed what Baer characterizes as "110 passages through silence to the first stirrings of a story, to the instant when event becomes tale, when loss gives rise to words." He adds that New York "lives and feeds on its stories, creates tall tales, half-lies and mythologies about itself on which its future depends." The 110 "gripping stories" offer what he aptly characterizes an "accidental juxtaposition" of adjacent but otherwise unrelated human lives.

I presume to suggest that the book be read as an extended narrative, experienced as one would during a series of brief but lively conversations with strangers along a street in Manhattan. (Yes, yes, I know. Getting even one stranger in that bustling borough to converse is never easy. For present purposes, pretend otherwise.) Some works are more personal than others. Some are more directly responsive to the specific events than are others. Collectively, however, they serve as the literary equivalent of a CAT scan applied to the heart, mind, and soul of a battered but uniquely resilient and articulate urban culture. In a word, Manhattan.

What Literature Can Do.......2002-09-21

This is a wonderful anthology, and I'm afraid that some of the occasional negative reactions to it are because people are missing the point: there are more than enough books trying to give us a documentary account of September 11 or attempting to explain its root causes--the fact that Amazon.com has an entire "September 11" store is rather creepy testimony to the transformation of tragedy into a market phenomenon. What Ulrich Baer and the impressive line-up of 110 authors he has gathered are trying to do is something entirely different: they are assembling a set of artistic, individual responses. We all know that 9/11 was an event of incredible horror and national trauma--the last thing we need is another book about geopolitics and what it means to be an American. Instead, Baer and his contributors rescue 9/11 from its ossification into a single, monolitihic event that evokes a familiar set of responses. Some of the stories are almost defiantly trivial in their attention to everyday, seemingly irrelevant detail and events. But that is precisely the point: September 11 started out as a day like any other, and one of the greatest challenges in assimilating it is to try to figure out how it can fit into the world of the everyday. The weird juxtaposition between the mundane and the unspeakably horrific is one of the many things that made September 11 so uncannily terrible. This is precisely the advantage that literature has in addressing tragedy. By not trying to replace the two towers with a monolithic representation, 110 Stories produces a monument whose multiplicitly and individuation that helps remind us that September 11 can never be just one story.

a reader from Washington.......2002-09-04

In the flood of publications about 9/11, there is not much that will not be covered by television specials. And of those topics, many will be too painful to revisit again after 9/11 -- for the survivors and families of victims, of course, the pain will not go away even if we try to move on. 110 Stories: New York Writes After September stands out from the many books for several reasons. It offers the voices of extremely sensitive, articulate and exciting New York-based authors to give expression to the terrible events of that day, to render the experience more humanly accessible, and to allow us to approach that day in ways that will not numb our senses. In fact, literature here serves as a way to make the process of mourning and remembrance possible. I applaud the writers in this collection for taking the risks necessary to produce powerful writing. The poem by Edwidge Danticat made me cry, and the short story by Carolyn Ferrell about one of the many victims in the tower allowed me a glimpse into a lost life without ever turning maudlin or exploitative. Others might like to hear how Darren Aronofsky (one of our best film directors: check out Requiem for a Dream!) remembers the World Trade Center, or how playwright Richard Foreman tackles an event that defies the imagination. If you care about New York and if you want to read how literature can testify to the horrors of 9/11 without sensationalizing them, 110 Stories is an amazing choice.

truth by indirection.......2002-08-22

i was moved by this book. the works it contains range from poignant (i particularly loved carol gilligan's piece) to experimental to trashy (ok, i hated ames' piece), a perfect swipe of New York City talent/sensibility caught at a life changing moment. as a painter, i have a commitment to truth by indirection and that is the glory of mr. baer's concept. i treasure both the gravity and the diversity of these writers'reflections on loss and life, on their light hearted tangents and fantastic inventions; words, in de lillo's phrase, to fill the howling void. i have never much liked the short story form but this collection accumulates emotionally with surprising depth and insight. we won't know the real meaning of 110 Stories until time has passed and perspective is gained but at the moment, i applaud it as a paean to the art of writing and to the city of new york.

poor taste.......2002-08-21

I looked forward to this book! It arrived and the first story I read is about a woman wandering the street and about the sexual encounter she had had with someone in the Towers. Seemed to me the experience was more important than the person. The story contained many F words and I find it distasteful. The whole world doesn't revolve around this. I surely wouldn't buy it for anyone. That story spoiled the rest of the book for me.

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A real step toward rebuilding

A New Deal for New York
Mike Wallace
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Written with the same verve and gusto that helped win the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in History for his and Edwin G. Burrows's "Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898", "A New Deal for New York" is a stirring call-to-arms from the distinguished historian Mike Wallace. In the wake of the September 11 attacks, Wallace argues that we not just rebuild and memorialize the Trade Center site, but rethink and plan more broadly for the entire city's future. He tells the fascinating and largely unknown history of the financial center, revealing a wide variety of myths and obfuscations about the city's growth and success in recent years. He speaks candidly and convincingly about various options for rebuilding downtown, and he summarizes a wide variety of ambitious but viable projects to improve all of New York by launching what he calls the new New Deal - a multi-pronged plan that, mindful of both the grand successes and dismal disappointments of the original New Deal, would feature such longed-for improvements as a revitalized port, improved mass transit, and more affordable housing. In short, he argues, September 11 has provided us an opening, as a city, to make our own course corrections on the river of history - if we have the desire and can summon the will. It won't be the end of an era unless we decide to make it one. Happily, there are substantial grounds for believing that, under the press of hard blows and hard times, our audacious metropolis will again lead the nation in recalling our history, reimagining our future, and seizing hold of our collective destiny.

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A real step toward rebuilding.......2003-08-12

To rebuild New York City after the effects of 9/11/01 and the slugged (not sluggish, but really slugged) economy, we need the advice of someone who knows both the history and dynamics of New York City inside out. Mr. Mike Wallace is one of the few people who knows both and he has published a small book which should go a long way to save NYC from any more damage, and help it get back to the prestigious position it deserves. Mr. Wallace argues the case that the Federal Government must intervene on NY's behalf on a scale as great as FDR's WPA program. While such Federal intervention is hated by Wall Street and rural America alike, the book reasons that no other institution has the resources AND THE OBLIGATION to help America's greatest city. I am oversimplifying terribly the argument that Mr. Wallace puts forth, and there are a couple of arguments which seem to be a little too candy-coated. Still, I urge everyone to please pick up this book and decide for yourself. My only hope is that the people who can lead this charge (Mayor Bloomberg, Gov. Patkai, Senators Schumer and Clinton, President Bush) will be brave enough to do so. This is the time for courage.

History: Fiction or Science? Dating methods as offered by mathematical statistics. Eclipses and zodiacs. Chronology Vol.I

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History as Science Fiction

History: Fiction or Science? Dating methods as offered by mathematical statistics. Eclipses and zodiacs. Chronology Vol.I
Anatoly Fomenko
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ASIN: 2913621074
Release Date: 2007-03-19

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History: Fiction or Science? is the most explosive tractate on history ever written - however, every theory it contains, no matter how unorthodox, is backed by solid scientific data. The book is well-illustrated, contains over 446 graphs and illustrations, copies of ancient manuscripts, and countless facts attesting to the falsity of the chronology used nowadays, which never cease to amaze the reader. Eminent mathematician proves that: Jesus Christ was born in 1153 and crucified in 1186 The Old Testament refers to mediaeval events. Apocalypse was written after 1486. Does this sound uncanny? This version of events is substantiated by hard facts and logic - validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources - to a greater extent than everything you may have read and heard about history before. The dominating historical discourse in its current state was essentially crafted in the XVI century from a rather contradictory jumble of sources such as innumerable copies of ancient Latin and Greek manuscripts whose originals had vanished in the Dark Ages and the allegedly irrefutable proof offered by late mediaeval astronomers, resting upon the power of ecclesial authorities. Nearly all of its components are blatantly untrue! For some of us, it shall possibly be quite disturbing to see the magnificent edifice of classical history to turn into an ominous simulacrum brooding over the snake pit of mediaeval politics. Twice so, in fact: the first seeing the legendary millenarian dust on the ancient marble turn into a mere layer of dirt - one that meticulous unprejudiced research can eventually remove. The second, and greater, attack of unease comes with the awareness of just how many areas of human knowledge still trust the three elephants of the consensual chronology to support them. Nothing can remedy that except for an individual chronological revolution happening in the minds of a large enough number of people.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

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