30 Days to Successful Fundraising (Psi Research Success Library)

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Don't ask for money without reading this book

Information, Ideas, and Inspiration--all in one little book!

Goldstein knows how to go for the gold!

Dr. Goldstein is brilliant!

FINALLY, AN ANSWER TO THE FRUSTRATION OF FUNDRAISING!

30 Days to Successful Fundraising (Psi Research Success Library)
Stephen L. Goldstein
Manufacturer: PSI Research
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Fundraisers are not born; more often than not they come to the profession gradually or by accident. If you are new to the business of fundraising, you may be discovering just how difficult and befuddling the process can be. And if you've been in it for a while, you might be in need of some new information and inspiration to help you achieve your goals.

30 Days to Successful Fundraising is a comprehensive, step-by-step program designed to show you how to get the money you ask for. Whether a newcomer or an experienced fundraiser, you'll learn how to: Cultivate donors Motivate volunteers Develop a "qualitative" budget Create compelling visual materials Implement workable fundraising strategies Integrate public relations with your fundraising efforts Speak "fundraising" by becoming familiar with important terms And much more

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Don't ask for money without reading this book.......2004-12-30

Stephen Goldstein helps anyone involved in fundraising, either as a staff person or volunteer board member, to get back to the fundamentals. He takes the mystery out of asking for money by delivering practical advice on how to be an effective fundraiser. I've purchased copies for all of my favorite charitable organizations and have my own within easy reach. I won't get involved in fundraising efforts again without following the valuable steps outlined in this book.

Information, Ideas, and Inspiration--all in one little book!.......2004-08-04

I'm not a fundraiser--I'm a donor, and I stumbled on this book while looking for advice on how to choose worthy charities to support. What an eye-opener it is. Now I'm going to offer this book to fundraisers who approach me with tired old pitches.

What an eye-opening pleasure to find a book so direct and plain-talking and generous with its genuinely practical advice. If you're raising money, you'll learn here how to make targeted, carefully crafted appeals that produce results. If you're giving money or time, this book works in reverse to help you choose intelligently how to help others do their good works.

Goldstein knows how to go for the gold!.......2004-06-30

Dr. Stephen Goldstein's book, 30 Days to Successful Fundraising is a Gem. However, taking the workshop with him is even more dazzling. Having already chaired a fundraising campaign for my alma mater, I'm just sorry I didn't have the benefit of Dr. Goldstein's knowledge before I took on this task. Next time I'm called on to help raise some moola, I'll be better prepared.
Read the book. Take the workshop if you have the opportunity. You won't regret it. You'll be empowered.

Dr. Goldstein is brilliant!.......2004-02-12

If only this book were available when I started working in the non-for-profit world. Dr. Goldstein is brilliant. Once you've used this unique, interactive program, you'll never need another one.

FINALLY, AN ANSWER TO THE FRUSTRATION OF FUNDRAISING!.......2004-02-12

DR. GOLDSTEIN HAS TAKEN THE MYSTERY OUT OF FUND RAISING IN 30 FASCINATING DAYS. AS A PROFESSIONAL FUNDRAISER FOR A NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION, I WAS MISSING THE MOST OBVIOUS TECHNIQUES THAT WOULD INCREASE MY FUND RAISING DOLLARS.I COULDN'T WAIT TO READ THE NEXT DAY,USE THE EXERCISES WHICH BY THE 30TH DAY HAD CREATED MY NEW FUND-RAISING CAMPAIGN.

BY UNDERSTANDING THAT EACH DAY OF THE 30 DAYS YOU READ BRINGS YOU CLOSER TO WHY YOU MAY HAVE FAILED BEFORE.

I CAN'T BELIEVE WHAT I'VE CLEARLY BEEN UNAWARE OF. A MUST READ ARE DAYS 12.18 & 25 WHICH WILL HAVE YOU SCRATCHING YOUR HEAD & SAYING "YES,OF COURSE'HOW COULD I HAVE MISSED THAT STEP?
THIS IS TRUELY THE BIBLE WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR.

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If this meticulously documented and compellingly narrated chronicle of the gay-related cases before the nation's highest court over the past fifty-odd years were even half as good as it is--or, ideally, half as long--it would still be terrific. Lending heft to the notion that the couple that investigates together domesticates together, veteran D.C. journalists Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price, life partners since 1985, have composed the gay bookend to Bob Woodward's The Brethren--with all the epic sweep, painstaking research and intimate storytelling of such nonfiction classics as And the Band Played On and Common Ground. Two cases here provide the book's anchors: 1986's Bowers v. Hardwick, which upheld Georgia's law against homosexual sodomy and provided an astonishingly hostile climax to two decades of high-court homophobia, and 1992's ruling that found unconstitutional Colorado's ban on equal protection of any sort for gays--the Court's greatest and most respectful affirmation of gay rights, if not much of a promise that the court would rule with equal sensitivity on future gay-related cases.

Beyond those two seminal rulings, Murdoch and Price cover what seems like, and may well be, every gay-oriented case to so much as petition the Court since the Eisenhower years. That comprehensiveness can become a little exhausting, amounting as it does largely to a dispiriting archive of the myriad ways the Court has found of blithely dismissing or even scoffing at the basic rights of gay Americans. Drawing on everything from scrawled notes in the justices' personal archives to in-depth interviews with the justices' former clerks, Murdoch and Price provide a fascinating window into how each justice's individual experience and temperament--not to mention the intricate, ever shifting power plays among them--influenced his or her decisions. The most heart-wrenching, haunting portrait is of Justice Lewis Powell, by the 1980s an frail, aging Southern gentleman who had an uncanny knack for hiring gay clerks yet claimed he'd never met a homosexual. He made a valiant but failed effort to understand gays, and ultimately changed his mind at the last minute to cast the damning, deciding vote in Bowers--an about-face he fretted over up until his death. Rehnquist and Scalia clearly emerge here as the homophobic bullies, with Thomas as their silent yes man, O'Connor as spinelessly concerned with voting in the majority, and Ginsburg, Stevens, Souter and sometimes Kennedy as the usual pro-gay "count-on" votes. Undeniably, Brennan, Marshall, and Blackmun (who wrote Bowers's stirring dissent) are portrayed as the heroes on the bench.

But the real heroes here are in the pageant of gay men and lesbians who took their demands for justice to the nation's highest court, many in an era when it was considered absurd to think they had any rights at all in an America that saw them as child molesters, psychopaths, or--at best--pitifully "afflicted with homosexuality." Very few of them were vindicated, and many more lost nearly everything--their jobs, homes, income, privacy, reputation, and sometimes children--for the fight they waged. Their diversely fascinating stories are told here, in a volume whose ultimate triumph is the emotional punch it packs. I kept thinking of Dorothy and her friends petitioning the Wizard: Their firm belief that he would do right by them, their fear and awe before his mysterious majesty, their rage and grief when he welshed on his promise, and, finally, their astonishment to learn that the great and mighty Oz, who had the last say in the highest tribunal in the land, was really just a man, with the same capacity for both ignorance and enlightenment as the rest of us. --Timothy Murphy

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Since 1958, twenty-five men and two women have forced the Supreme Court to consider whether the Constitution's promises of equal protection apply to gay Americans. Here Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price reveal how the nation's highest court has reacted to these cases--from the surprising 1958 victory of a tiny homosexual magazine to the 2000 defeat of a gay Eagle Scout. A triumph of investigative reporting, Courting Justice gives us an inspiring new perspective on the struggle for civil rights in America.

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First rate and well worth your time.......2006-07-28

I must admit that the amazon review above by Timothy Murphy is so on point that I won't attempt to write a general description, except to say that I agree in the main with the reviews below. A few points do bear making.

I find this book much superior to "The Brethren" That book was almost entirely unsourced gossip. While Murdoch and Price do engage in a certain amount of speculation, "Courting Justice" is grounded in the facts and law of its cases, making it a much more reliable book.

In fact, this is one of the best books I have read about the evolution of case law in a particular area, and as such I recommend even to people who have little interest in the law and homosexuals. It is also written in a style so readable as to make the pages practically turn themselves. Most legal writing is not so compelling. Do not be discouraged by its length.

There are two things missing in this book: 1, regretted I am sure by Murdoch and Price, is the absence of "Lawrence et al. v. Texas", which would have made the perfect capstone for this book. I hope they prepare a new edition with that added material.
2. In a few cases, notably "Dale v. Boy Scouts" they reported the factual background extensively, but were deficient in analysing the law. "Dale" was a departure for the Court, but you wouldn't know that reading this book. As a result, I think they were, if anything, too kind to the majority. They also did not spend enough time, in my opinion, on the legal doctrine of the "gay exception" where normal analysis goes by the boards when homosexuality steps in (Drohnenberg, Dale, and the recent law school recruiting cases).
All this means is that they act at times like reporters rather than law review editors, probably a sensible choice.

So please give this book a try if you are interested in queer rights, civil rights, or the operation of the Supreme Court.

Fascinating and comprehensive.......2004-01-10

I picked up this book, and as an attorney I expected a dry legal analysis, instead I was happy to discover a more lively look at the history of gay rights. The authors have taken the time to track down many of the individuals who were involved in these cases going all the way back to the 1950s. It is fascinating to read about gay men and lesbians who stood up for themselves when there was really no hope, yet persisted at the cost of their jobs, personal freedom, and relationships. I was taken aback by some of the heroism and am inspired by the courage and unwillingness to compromise.

The book covers all the major cases that those familiar with gay rights law are familiar with and many others you have probably never heard of. The chapter on the Bowers v. Hardwick case is terrific. The authors tracked down a semi-closeted (at the time) gay clerk from Justice Powell's chambers. Justice Powell cornered this young man and asked him a series of questions about gays that make it clear the man had not the simplest idea of what he was dealing with. Ultimately Powell provided the deciding vote with the majority (in favor of upholding sodomy laws) and late in life stated that it was his major regret.

This is a fascinating read and I recommend it to anyone interested in gay rights, gay history, and the Supreme Court.

In search of "Equal Justice Under Law".......2002-06-28

"Courting Justice" is an authoritative account of gay men and lesbians who have petitioned the court for their civil rights.

Through interviews with clerks, excerpts from transcripts and audiotapes of oral arguments, justices' notes of meetings and rough drafts of decisions, and the journalist authors' clear explanations of legal jargon and procedure, we watch the court at work. The mysterious, incontrovertable third arm of our government is revealed to be simply nine men and women, as subject to prejudice as the rest of us. But we also see a few justices wrestle with their prejudices and write forceful dissents and eventually a majority opinion (Romer v. Evans) that wrapped queer Americans in the constitutional guarantee of Equal Protection.

Because Murdoch and Price's book covers such a broad timespan, they're able to dissect the court's (often achingly) slow evolution from viewing gays as perverted criminals to citizens.

If you want to understand the key legal questions facing gay, lesbian, transgender, and bi-affectional Americans, and their search for equal justice in a country that promises so much, I would highly recommend this book. But don't read it before bedtime; Scalia's a pretty scary boogyman.

excellent research, but not totally law-oriented.......2002-06-11

I can't put this book down. Murdoch and Price have done an unebelievable amount of research into the inner workings of the Supreme Court. By interviewing former clerks for Court justices, scrutinizing transcripts of oral arguments, and dissecting the Court's notoriously difficult opinions, they have presented a refreshing picture of the people behind such (in)famous cases as Bowers v. Hardwick and less well-known cases which preceded and followed it. As a soon-to-be-second-year law student, the human face on the litigants and decision-makers is striking.

However, as someone whose main literary diet consists of academic literature and judicial opinions, I have noticed some flaws. First, there are more than a few typographical errors, which I assume will be corrected when the book comes out in paperback. More importantly, since the authors aren't lawyers, they miss the implications of the legal language the Court uses. The authors enclose terms of art like strict scrutiny and Court language like "dismissed as improvidently granted" in quotation marks as if to emphasize the peculiarity of the Court's language. Also, the authors' (understandable) bias is sometimes distracting, taking away from an otherwise even-handed assessment of the Court's motives.

All in all, this book is a worthwhile read (as my fellow reviewers have noticed).

Putting it all in perspective.......2002-02-07

Courting Justice immediately strikes one as a gay version of the Brethren, Bob Woodward's classic book probing the inner workings of the U.S. Supreme Court. In some respect it is. Murdoch and Price, who also have ties to the Washington Post, have gained access to private papers and interviewed a network of usually close-mouthed law clerks to attempt to piece together the Court's hidden deliberations in gay rights cases over the past three decades. Given the Court's staunch commitment to preserving a thick shroud of secrecy around those deliberations - for reasons not unlike those of the Wizard of Oz - this investigative journalism has always been extraordinarily difficult. Nevertheless, through obvious persevering determination, Murdock and Price have managed in Courting Justice to cast some fascinatingly revealing light on the Court's decisionmaking in each gay rights case it has considered (or refused to consider). The book is valuable for these insights alone.

But Murdock and Price and have done far more than Woodward, perhaps because their focus was more precise. They offer a compelling thesis about the Court's evolving disposition toward lesbians and gay men, one that, in some respects, mirrors the disposition of mainstream American society toward the same community. The book shows the Court as what it undoubtedly really is: a collection of individual men and women who come to work in the morning with predefined notions and biases about lesbians and gay men. The book credibly describes an evolving Court that, through persistent confrontation and education, has grown in its understanding of the gay community and objectivity toward gay people.

Beyond that, the book ends up simultaneously offering a grand historical narrative of the modern gay rights movement. Just about every gay rights controversy has ended up knocking on the doors of the Supreme Court at one time or another, and telling the stories of those cases and the people involved in them necessarily educates readers about the history of the gay rights movement - and in langauge that is always wonderfully written and at times deeply moving. This book demonstrates exactly why journalists are often so much better at writing accessible and fulfilling social-legal history than legal academics are.

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Focusing on the Clark’s Fort Bottom, a twenty-five-mile stretch between present-day Park City and Billings, Montana, this pathbreaking study examines the successive stages of capitalist development in Billings and the Yellowstone Valley during the nineteenth century. From the subsistence and barter economy of the Native Americans, through the fur trade era and the settlers’ introduction of a market economy, the introduction of industrial capitalism by the Northern Pacific Railroad, and the increasing influence of corporate capitalism in the latter part of the century, Carroll Van West shows how each stage affected the relationships and choices shared by the local inhabitants.

By setting local events in a broader context, West not only illuminates the circumstances unique to the Yellowstone Valley but sheds new light on a central issue of western history: the interaction of local, regional, and national economies and the influence of corporate decisions made in the east on western settlement and urban development.

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Useful warning: how to avoid 10 sales pitfalls

Rings true ...

Killing the Sale : The 10 Fatal Mistakes Salespeople Make & How To Avoid Them
Todd Duncan
Manufacturer: Nelson Business
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Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: Nelson Books (February 19, 2004) ISBN: 0785263225 Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches There are approximately 12.2 million salespeople in the United States?that?s about 1 out of every 23 people! Salespeople are everywhere, selling everything imaginable. Some are making a killing, but a greater percentage end up victims of the sales industry?and their own mistakes. Some are normal bumps in the road toward success. Others are more damaging. But many are fatal to a career. Duncan addresses these catastrophic mistakes with clarity and directness. Whether you?re a seasoned sales professional or someone considering sales as a career, Duncan?s wisdom can help you avoid errors in perception, practice, and performance that could not only kill a sale but also your career.

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Useful warning: how to avoid 10 sales pitfalls.......2007-02-09

Instead of writing a sales how-to book, sales guru Todd Duncan has taken a slightly different tack and written a what-not-to-do book. He identifies the 10 most common fatal mistakes salespeople make every day in every business. These oft-overlooked errors in approach and strategy can chase away sales and, in the worst cases, destroy careers. Duncan explains how common blunders such as asking for the sale before establishing a connection ("begging") or failing to ask questions to ascertain your client's needs ("arguing") often kill the sale. If you've read even a few books about sales techniques in the last decade, you are familiar with much of what Duncan preaches. In fact, he has addressed the topic in other ways in his previous books, but his sales advice is solid. We believe it will be helpful to the sales neophyte, and can serve as a handy refresher for experienced salespeople.

Rings true ... .......2005-02-16

This book is as funny as it is true. If you've spent any time selling, you'll find yourself giggling in one moment and slapping yourself on the forehead in the next. Duncan's anecdotes and admonitions ring true and his advice is generally simple to implement. Worth the read.

Marketing Myths That Are Killing Business: The Cure for Death Wish Marketing

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Brilliant, a rare masterpiece
Useless D'uh type points...
A straight forward and useful marketing resource
One of the best books written about marketing. A gem!

Marketing Myths That Are Killing Business: The Cure for Death Wish Marketing
Kevin J. Clancy
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Most businesses blithely cling to common marketing "wisdom"-and many pay the price by failing. That's the tough premise of this spirited book, packed with unconventional solutions and counter-intuitive answers adaptable to almost any business situation. Drawing on years of experience in the marketing trenches and corporate boardrooms as two of the most renowned marketing consultants in America, Kevin J. Clancy and Robert S. Shulman show marketers how to eliminate the myths and death wish practices that are killing brands, products, services, and companies throughout the world. Readers will learn to self-correct more than 100 prevalent death wish marketing fallacies.

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Brilliant, a rare masterpiece.......2006-07-05

This book set me on fire when I first read it. Along with that other masterwork "Marketing Mistakes" this gem of a book is a great antidote to the hype and testosterone that marketing generates. A breath of common sense.

Another great book from Clancy et al. I'd recommend a full set of their books to anyone, not a dud among them. For more of a similar vein try:
- Marketing and the Bottom Line (ISBN: 0273661949)
- Marketing Payback (ISBN: 0273688847)

Useless D'uh type points..........2005-11-23

Perhaps this book was good 10 years ago but not in 2005. I read the first few chapters and after several hours of going through the so-called "myths" I just had enough...
Most points they call "myths" are common knowledge to anyone in business or marketing fields (At least NOW).
Again, I am not sure how the situation was 10 years ago but now it is not worth the paper it is printed on.
Many better books are out there so don't waste your time.

A straight forward and useful marketing resource.......1999-09-16

As a business consultant, one of the most important things I can do for my clients is to help them overcome their "time honored traditions". While you might think that the need to call in outside consultants is indicative of management's recognition that the current way of doing things isn't working any more, quite often the opposite is true. Organizational inertia, especially in the area of marketing, is often difficult to overcome. This book has helped me countless times in assisting organizations in overcoming "old thinking" and in moving their marketing strategies forward. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me - adamleft@webspan.net.

One of the best books written about marketing. A gem!.......1997-05-08

Not only is it easy to read, but it's shocking in its ability to zero in on what's wrong with the marketing business. A must read! For those who want more detail, try reading their first collaborative effort, The Marketing Revolution. Bottom line--if you buy no other marketing book, buy one of these two books. They are Marketing Bibles with enormous power. Why? Because they lay out in excrutiating detail how marketeers have been relying on well-worn mths to conduct business--myths that have no basis in fact. Thus, is it any wonder that so many marketing efforts either don't work or when they do work can't be explained. I should know. Prior to reading these books, I fell for the same myths. Not any more, thanks to authors Clancy and Shulman. Gene Pinder Director of Marketing U.S. SPACE CAMP

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Average
Good entry in a steady series
Average Hammer.

The Killing Man
Mickey Spillane
Manufacturer: Random House Value Publishing
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I Love the Pulp Fiction Detective.......2005-06-23

The Killing Man is a typical Mike Hammer murder mystery, only in this story, the tables are turned and bad things are happening to Hammer himself. The tale begins as Hammer walks into his office and finds his darling secretary, Velda, knocked unconscious and a strange man, brutally murdered, occupying the office chair. From there, things only get worse for the detective, and the reader finds himself in a fast-paced, sexy and interestingly plotted adventure. Reader beware, however, this is Mike Hammer, a guy who doesn't know the meaning of, `a feminine side.'
Here's a quick example of what I mean: (The story is written in the fist person. Hammer is speaking.)
"I cocked the .45, took real deliberate aim and touched the trigger. The gun blasted into a roaring yellowish light and for that one second I saw the leg jerk and twitch with a grotesque motion, and even before he could scream, I did it again to the other leg...
The pain really hit him...He glanced down and was ripping at his clothes again and screamed, `You killed me!'
`Not yet,' I told him... Then he found the small-caliber pistol his hands had really been groping for and brought it up in a sweeping, deadly arc, one finger tightening around the trigger.
There was one smashing roar of the .45. His blood went all over the place. Fresh specks of crimson were on the back of my hand. I stood up slowly and gave him a hard grin he couldn't see any more.
I said, `Now I killed you.'
If you like Pulp Fiction, you'll like this one.
Gerard Bianco, author of the mystery novel, Dying For Deception (www.dyingfordeception.com)

Average.......2004-09-28

The first and only (so far) that I've read from this author. To be honest I found it a little boring and predictable. It was ok to pass time by the pool his summer.

Good entry in a steady series.......2002-08-02

This was the second Mike Hammer book I picked up (the first being "Kiss Me, Deadly"), and it got me hooked into the series. Spillane's classic descriptions of New York and great lines are all present. Like most Hammer books, the ending seems to come too abruptly, but that is my only complaint. A lesser book than "I, the Jury" and "My Gun is Quick", it is still a strong entry.

Average Hammer........2000-04-06

I'm not sure if this book was written before or after Spillane became a Jehovah's Witness, but this book seems a bit toned down. Violence is still here, but the sex is all but gone. This book is pretty good though. There were various bits I liked about this book. Very hard-boiled. The mystery is still intriguing, but it's the cheap way that our detective solves the mystery in the last chapter that flaws this book.

7 Titles in V. I. Warshawski Series - Windy City Blues - Tunnel Vision - Killing Orders - Fire Sale - Blacklist - Indemnity Only - Bitter Medicine

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7 Titles in V. I. Warshawski Series - Windy City Blues - Tunnel Vision - Killing Orders - Fire Sale - Blacklist - Indemnity Only - Bitter Medicine
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7 massmarket paperbacks Titles in V. I. Warshawski Series - Windy City Blues - Tunnel Vision - Killing Orders - Fire Sale - Blacklist - Indemnity Only - Bitter Medicine

Big gains without pains: Norwalk firm predicts $1 billion sales from pain-killing device.(Biowave Corp.): An article from: Fairfield County Business Journal

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Big gains without pains: Norwalk firm predicts $1 billion sales from pain-killing device.(Biowave Corp.): An article from: Fairfield County Business Journal
Harold F. Cobin
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This digital document is an article from Fairfield County Business Journal, published by Westfair Communications, Inc. on June 7, 2004. The length of the article is 888 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Brilliance Audio.(Cape Perdido)(Chill of Fear)(Fire Sale)(Killing Time)(One Shot)(Breaking Point)(Case of Lies)(Bloody Mary)(Audiobook Review): An article from: Library Bookwatch

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Brilliance Audio.(Cape Perdido)(Chill of Fear)(Fire Sale)(Killing Time)(One Shot)(Breaking Point)(Case of Lies)(Bloody Mary)(Audiobook Review): An article from: Library Bookwatch
Gale Reference Team
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This digital document is an article from Library Bookwatch, published by Thomson Gale on October 1, 2005. The length of the article is 429 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Greenwich Killing Time
Rh Value Publishing
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Release Date: 1988-11-14

International Management: Text and Cases (International Business and Economics)

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International Management: Text and Cases (International Business and Economics)
Donald J. Lecraw , Paul W. Beamish , and J. Peter Killing
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A mystery? I think not.
Pure Class
Ruth Rendell is truly amazing
Another thriller
Ruth Rendell Rules!

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ASIN: 0517629909
Release Date: 1986-09-20

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In a shabby London suburb, sixteen-year-old Pup Yearman dabbles in magic. But for Pup's older sister Dolly, the magic is more than dabbling. Deformed by a facial birthmark, Dolly desperately wants to be cured, and her obsession with Pup's magic sends her on a dangerous downward spiral into confusion, madness, and possibly murder. And meanwhile, in a squalid boardinghouse not far away, a young Irishman sharpens a set of butcher knives . . .

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A mystery? I think not........2004-11-15

I read this book because I was under the mistaken impression that it was a mystery novel. This book, however, is miles away from the traditional mystery novel: there are no whodunnit aspects whatsover, no clues, no "bad guys", and no detective. This book is called a mystery mainly because they needed to call it *something*, and mystery was closest. So, don't read this if you're in the mood for a classic mystery experience.

That being said, this book is worth reading. Imagine, if you will, a master baker making a cake with batter mixed with broken glass: The cake would be beautiful, masterfully formed, delicious, and painful to consume. Reading this book is a similar delicious but painful experience.

The characters in this book, aside from one (Pup), all become trapped in their own personalities and psychoses, leading them all in an inevitably downward spiral. Each character is represented faithfully and personally, so much so that you come to sympathize with every character in the book -- including a murderer. Dolly, who receives much of the focus in this book, is especially difficult to watch. As her life inevitably become more and more like living death, I became more and more distraught until reading the story became almost uncomfortable for me. If this book is anything, ultimately it is how one small disfigurement (a nevus on Dolly's face) in turn disfigures her entire life.

In order to make this novel feel more like a mystery, the blurb on the back of the book promises a surprise ending, but I saw it coming from a mile away, as will most people reading the book. This predictable ending makes it no less of great book, but does emphasize this book's sense of fatalism.

Although well written, I'm giving it 4 stars because it really is uncomfortable to read and so won't be as fun of an experience to the traditional mystery reader.

Pure Class.......2004-08-22

I read this book as part of my holiday reading and I was not disappointed. The novel was chilling, disturbing and all too realistic. Everything was right on target - the plot, the characters, the fantastic ending...

The main characters are a motley crew. Pup is a young man who wants to be a geomancer (like a magician) and whose belief in magic is the catalyst of all the terrible things to follow. Dolly is Pup's sister who is reclusive due to a birthmark on her cheek which has left her confidence in shreds. Diarmit is a man who has never been the same mentally since a bomb exploded near him when he was a boy in Ireland, and who finds comfort only by carrying around a dangerous set of knives. It is scarcely necessary to mention that these characters end up embroiled in a diabolical plot that is psychologically fascinating.

I would recommend this to dedicated Rendell readers because this book is really, really great. To first time Rendell readers I would suggest starting with some of her newer books (such as Sight for Sore Eyes) and working back to this one because the book is a bit old fashioned in its language and clothes the characters wear etc, but this is not a big problem.

JoAnne

Ruth Rendell is truly amazing.......2003-12-01

Ruth Rendell has written so many novels that publishers have a job keeping them all in print, all readily available, and normally they fail dismally, meaning that only the most recent novels are available, and older, equally brilliant little gems, are only eclectically available to readers, and thus people frequently miss out on the author's entire marvellous cannon. The problem is that if even one novel by Rendell remains out of print, readers are missing a unique and unequalable reading experience. The Killing Doll is just such a case - an absolutely unique book among her body of work, yet it retains all the factors which conspire to make each novel brilliant. Psychology, irony, chill, skin-crawling reality, brilliant characters, brilliant plots and shocking twists, etc etc etc.

The Killing Doll is a relatively hard novel to pin down. Most of Rendell's novels outside the Wexford series tend to be. This one is, on the one hand, a book about the Faustian pact of young Peter Yearman who sells his soul to grow taller, and soon becomes drawn, along with his adoring older sister Dolly, into the world of the occult. However, as Peter grows up he turns away from the magick he once believed in, and goes out into the real world. Unfortunately, Dolly - shy and friendless, nervous of going outside of the house due to a large birthmark on her cheek - cannot separate herself from it - she still believes his seeming powers are genuine. As events conspire to tip her further over the edge - from very early on it is clear that isolated Dolly, who talks to her dead mother and comes to make dolls representative of those she hopes Peter's magic will harm, is a little Schizophrenic - the novel from then on dwells in the very dark places of madness, as all the characters move along happily with their dangerous delusions, until the final catastrophic chapters in which all the events are brought to a shattering climax.

I adore her books. I have a passion and thirst for them which will not be slaked, and I defy anyone to deny that she is not one of the best novelists writing today. Fine, I have no problem with people disliking her books (after all, some people of course won't like keeping company with strange, slightly warped characters who tang with a disturbing, uncomfortable reality) if they find the things they cover slightly disturbing, but anyone should at least be able to admit the incredible quality which lies at the core, whether they like the subject matter or not. It is quality that sings to me, sings to me of damaged people and twisted things, terrible worlds of Shakespearean irony (the tradition of the great Tragedy is alive and well in Rendell's novels) , and lives lived at risk from those around us who need just a subtle trigger to send them to madness. She is an insightful, clever and diabolically vicious writer who never shies away from showing us a different side of life, and The Killing Doll is another work of genius.

Another thriller.......2001-07-31

Like another reviewer, I am on a Ruth Rendell reading binge this summer. Am going thru the shelf of her books that my library has.

I like the Inspector Wexford books best, but have read all of them so have started on her other books.

She writes about the strangest characters, but what is scary is that they get away with seeming quite normal or the people around them mostly ignore them. Just when you think it may turn out well for them something unexpected happens! What a wonderful imagination she has.

Ruth Rendell Rules!.......2001-07-08

I have been on a Ruth Rendell kick lately, the last five novels read have been hers. The first, and still favorite was "A Sight for Sore Eyes", but "The Killing Doll comes in a close 2nd. This book centers around a young woman named Dolly who is quite an introvert due to the huge disfiguring birthmark on her face. She stays in her house for the most part and does sewing for the neighbors to make money. After her mother dies, Dolly becomes the mother figure to her younger brother, Pup who, as a teenager, sells his soul to the devil in order to grow taller. This leads to a fascination with the occult and Dolly is soon his biggest supporter, urging him to conjure up spirits and get rid of the people she feels are ruining her life, such as her new stepmother. Pup humors her and after performing some rituals, the stepmother does indeed die. Dolly begins to lose touch with reality and plunges deeper into the occult, while Pup is losing interest in it. The story shows how disturbed Dolly becomes and how her fate entwines with another disturbed young man. As usual, Ruth Rendell writes a real page turner with a style all her own.

Average customer rating:

Fascinating and horrifying

Killing for Company
Brian Masters
Manufacturer: Random House Value Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0517164396
Release Date: 1995-11-26

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Fascinating and horrifying.......2003-09-30

This book is a fascinating look at Dennis Nilson, a British man convicted of killing more than a dozen men and of attempting to kill many more. He strangled them and hid them under his floorboards until he dismembered and destroyed their bodies by fire or by flushing them down the toilet. The latter method was his final undoing as a problem in the sewage system alerted the police. The author attempts to understand WHY people like Nilson kill - he traces his childhood and adulthood in an attempt to understand his motivations. This book is hard reading at times, pretty academic, with lots of detailed psychological analysis, but it is a fascinating read, and I highly recommend it to true crime fans who want to go beyond just the story of the crimes, to the deep psychology of serial killers.

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