Where There's a Will

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A stylish mystery from days gone by

Where Ther's a Will

Competent

Where There's A Will...there's a death...

For Wolfe Junkies

Where There's a Will
Rex Stout
Manufacturer: Bantam
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Binding: Paperback

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Release Date: 1995-03-01

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This mystery from one of America's best-loved writers features Nero Wolfe, the arrogant, orchid-loving, gourmandizing sleuth, and his invaluable legman, Archie Goodwin, who narrates with his usual wry wit. When the esteemed and wealthy Mr. Noel Hawthorne dies at the age of 49, his sisters are furious that he left his mistress seven million dollars - and nothing for each of them but a piece of fruit! When the investigator discovers that Hawthorne's death was not an accident, Nero and Archie stumble into what appears to be a legacy of murder. Complete and unabridged, this is the ninth Nero Wolfe mystery in the audio series, and it features Michael Prichard's gripping and humorous performance. 6 cassettes.

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A stylish mystery from days gone by.......2007-10-07

There's a famous family, an old fortune, a sudden death and a mysterious will. All the ingredients for a good whodunnit, and Rex Stout makes the most of them. Nero Wolfe behaves like the temperamental genius he knows he is, while his assistant Archie cracks wise and resigns every few pages. Their interplay is delightful. Even more than a mystery, this is an evocative tale of New York during the Depression. Heiresses were celebrities. The common folk took cabs everywhere, ate meals in drugstores and used payphones. Everyone complains about the heat because no one has air conditioning.

Where Ther's a Will .......2007-02-08

Another in the fine collection of Nero Wolfe mysteries> I have enjoyed them all.

Competent.......2005-01-01

I had really hoped that A&E would "do" this one. I would have loved to see how the female repertory cast members would have handled the brilliant spring sisters in this book.

It's a good, vigorous read. I'm hoping to get a copy of Michael Pritchard's reading of it, based on how well he's handled the other Wolfe books. They're coming out on CD audio now, which is great for clarity and ease of use.

Not the best, I suppose, but this book belongs on the shelves of any mystery fan.

Where There's A Will...there's a death..........2004-07-28

Nero Wolfe and Archi Goodwin are asked to help break a will. It seems a very rich man, name of Noel Hawthorne, died and left most of his money to the 'OTHER WOMAN' and the wife is going to fight over it. His sisters DON'T want her to do so, as they all have good names they don't wish to be splashed through the mud of a very public, and very ugly, court battle. They want him to either stop the wife, break this will, find another will or maybe even get the 'OTHER WOMAN' to cough up some of the millions she will get.
Right when it looks like Wolfe will just dismiss it all with a 'Pfui!' the police show up. It seems Mr. Hawthrone was murdered.
Now Nero, with help from Archie, will have to get to the bottom of the murder if he wants any peace (or any money).

For Wolfe Junkies.......2002-11-25

If you have read three or four Nero Wolfe books, and liked them, you will like this book. What's not to like about three sisters named April, May and June?
This is somewhat of an "inside baseball" of Wolfe -- lots of characters, constant action. Not a long book, but alot of content.
Wolfe leaves his home, which is always an interesting twist, given how much he hates it.
Wold almost gets arrested and taken to Police HQ. He dictates a letter before he is to be taken, and staves it off. The letter is vintage Rex Stout.

Turn on the Human Calculator in You! : 4 Audios & Workbook

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Turn on the Human Calculator in You! : 4 Audios & Workbook

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Where There's a Will : Thoughts on the Good Life

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Stick to Rumpole
Elegant, wise, and humorously self-effacing
Rational Thoughts
...There's A Way, British Style.
Did not meet my expectations

Where There's a Will : Thoughts on the Good Life
John Mortimer
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John Mortimer is best known for his stories about the lovable and disheveled barrister Horace Rumpole, the “great defender of muddled and sinful humanity.” But he is also an accomplished memoirist, screenwriter, librettist, playwright, and former barrister. Now, at the age of eighty-one, he wonders what he should pass on to the next generation. In Where There's a Will, Mortimer ponders this question and writes about the (nonmaterial) things he believes enrich our experience of life. From the pleasures of drink and outdoor sex (though not necessarily together) to the justification of the odd lie and a vision of God as the Grand Perhaps, Where There's a Will is Mortimer's witty and wise, occasionally outrageous, and always thought-provoking examination of what it means to truly live and live well.

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Stick to Rumpole .......2007-10-04

Mortimer writes Rumpole, who is a delight. This is the third (I think) in Mortimer's memoirs, and I missed its predecessors so this review may do Mr. Mortimer a disservice. There is a big of bragging, some interesting notes, but it a fairly forgettable series of life lessons, barely disguised as things of leave behind one that do not fit in a Will. It is a sad truth that there are a number of writers whose characters are more interesting, and charming, than their authors.

Elegant, wise, and humorously self-effacing.......2006-08-08

I should first confess my bias--I have often been tickled and sometimes awed by Mortimer's way with English prose for 20 years. So, in picking up this book I had the high expectations one might have before meeting an old friend or beloved teacher. No disappointment. Even if some of these essays are slightly less effervescent than others, all are at least wonderful, and several are both brilliant and touching.

Mortimer has given us a collection of short essays, conversational and often wryly funny, which he intends as a kind of spiritual bequeathal to his family and other heirs. The chapters range across a broad range of subjects, some perhaps outwardly frivolous, like the cooking of eggs. But in the main, Mortimer touches on matters of great substance--the nature of beauty, how to be happy, surprising ways in which our world has managed to be unjust, places and times for sex, how to dine sociably, the love of children, faith and reason, the terrors of the writer facing blank paper, and many more. I found these essays to be wise and absolutely delicious. I suspect that readers who have enjoyed Rumpole, or Mortimer's other biographical essays like Summer of a Doormouse, or Clinging to the Wreckage, will be quite pleased with these sketches.

Mortimer may, sadly, be nearing the end of his life, but at present he seems to be on a literary tear. I, for one, wish him many more prolific years.

Rational Thoughts.......2006-04-12

Sir John Mortimer is an extremely literate and honestly open-minded person who writes with a flowing exquisiteness of the English language. This small book of his thoughts on a good life is a reminiscence of the life he has led and is still leading. He mentions a lot of classical literary authors and their characters that would further enrich a person's knowledge. Also, the various types of people he met working at the Old Bailey has surely enhanced his art of observing and putting their perspectives onto paper. Together with wild imaginations of his, no wonder his many writings are keenly absorbed by the public. The last ten chapters are my favorite but in each I find something to laugh out loud about. This is his own story and the way he tells it is invigorating. In not so many words in each section, he still succeeds in relaying his message that is predominantly deliberate.

...There's A Way, British Style........2006-01-13

These are the random musings of an old man contemplating his mortality. After a writing career in which he had twenty novels published, in addition to fourteen stories featuring the fictional barrister, Horace Rumpole, and twelve plays as listed in this small book of ramblings about his life, I learned that he was actually a barrister himself at the Old Bailey. He was born five years after the end of the 1914-18 war, he says, and enjoyed and endured a 'public school' education where one of his school mates was Lord Byron. He calls Byron's DON JUAN one of the great masterpieces of European literature.

Sir John Mortimer (knighted in 1998) led a privileged life from the very beginning. Now, at age 81, he looks round at his children and grandchildren whose ages range from 53 to twelve, he contemplates: "Their words will echo out into the future, with their children and their children's children." What to leave them as his paternal legacy? That is what he ponders as he tells about life as it was for him at the various stages.

He wonders what to pass on to the next generation. So, he gives some ancient history concerning the birthplace of out civilization, in olden times called Mesopotamia in the Persian Empire. He talks about the times he spent enjoying one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Hanging Gardens. Then he goes on to tell about the city of peace (back then) in the time of Charlemagne, in the Ottoman Empire. "When Turkey was defeated in the 1914-18 war, the Allies carved up its possessions with quite arbitrary boundaries and placed an arbitrary king, Feisal, on the throne of Iraq. These kings ruled until a revolution led by the Baath party finally produced Saddam Hussein who was, of course, backed by America. Algebra was invented there at the center of civilization which conquered the whole of Spain."

His opinions on lots of things included this remark about democracy: "I suppose democracy was most nearly achieved in ancient Greece, when everyone except women and slaves took part in the government. The result was usually disastrous and led to the death of Socrates just as the introduction of democracy in England was started." Utopia, information technology as the cause of deterioration and decline of the English language "at least as its's spoken by the governing classes", family values and vulgarity, telling lies (the bigger, the better), Shakespeare, and old movies are just some of the topics he knows so much about. This is his postscript (P.S.) to his autobiographies, as he reflects on his good and prosperous life.

Did not meet my expectations.......2005-08-04

I am afraid I was quite disappointed in this book. The review in the Times that I had read made it sound like a much more profound and important book - one I would like to own rather than just take out of the library. I had previously enjoyed other books by John Mortimer, but this book was just a collection of random musings which did not hold together at all.

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Elkins at his best
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Enjoyable, traditional mystery
Still a few new twists left in this series!
Not the best of the series, but still a pleasant read

Where There's a Will
Aaron Elkins
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Alex Torkelsson has just gotten word: after going missing ten years ago, Alex's late uncle Magnus's plane has been found south of Hawaii's Big Island. So too have Magnus's few skeletal remains, now handed over to the only man who can fit together the pieces of this mystery. But what forensic detective Gideon Oliver discovers could shake the Torkelsson family tree.

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Elkins at his best.......2007-07-25

Aaron Elkins is one of the few mystery writers I buy in hardbound rather than waiting a year for the paper back version. My five stars means this novel is consistent with his best.

Wherever Gideon Oliver, forensic anthropologist at the Universiry of Washington at Port Angeles travels, it seems inevitable that bones long detached from their original owner will appear.

In Where There's A Will, Oliver is vacationing with a friend from the FBI after the two of them have lectured at a conference on Oahu. They spend their time at a ranch inherited not too many years ago by one of four siblings, the inheritance only becoming final after their uncle had been missing long enough to be declared dead. Shortly after his arrival, the uncle's crashed plane is located at an uninhabited atoll in the South pacific. Oliver agrees to help with the recovery, although warning his hosts that recovery of identifiable bones after so many years' immersion in the ocean is unlikely.

In the event, they do discover a man's boot which had sheltered and protected ankle and foot bones, from which Oliver is able to make a positive identification. Difficulties arise, however, when his positive identification seems to match, not the missing man, but another uncle murdered at the time of the disappearance and whose autoposy report clearly confirms the same identifying characterstic of missing toes.

Since the identity of the last uncle to die will determine whether the valuable estate passes to the current generation or to a nonprofit organization, tensions rise as Elkins' well-meaning willingness to help has now thrown the economic well-being of four individuals into jeopardy.

From there, forensic anthopology blend with the ballistics expertise of Oliver's FBI friend to lead to new theories of the two deaths, sibling tensions increase, and Oliver finally uncovers an overlooked clue that brings everyting together.

Elkins uses science to produce convincing explanations without becoming too technical for the lay reader like me. He writes lucidly and his myseteries alway entertain

Falling quality.......2006-06-24

This book has the air of having been written by someone told "Do 130,000 words with something about bones." The style is not that of early Elkins books - the first half padded with extraneous irrelevant descriptions and the end in a few rushed pages. There is a ridiculous improbability in the story which can only be hinted at without giving the plot away. Just note that any pilot knows with accuracy the compass alignment of a familiar runway.

Enjoyable, traditional mystery.......2006-03-16

One of the things I like best about Elkins, is the things I learn from his books and this was no exception. The Torkelsson family dynamics added richness to the story but there was very little dimension to the other characters and some were stereotypical. Beyond that, I found this an enjoyable story, with plenty of twists and turns. It is definitely a traditional mystery that is interesting, light reading but not a "wow" book.

Still a few new twists left in this series!.......2006-02-09

It's always fun to have another Gideon Oliver novel to read, and this one is no exception. While it's not a great book, it's a good book: a fun read, with the snappy dialogue one expects from Elkins. I personally like the Gideon Oliver series better than Elkins' other series.

Since much of the plot has been discussed in other reviews, I'll just point out a few things I particularly liked about this volume:
*the details of the family ranching business in Hawaii - including the reference to using Japanese quarter horses. (I'll let you discover that breed :D)
*the resemblance of the family of Swedish sailors-turned-ranchers to the "Norwegian bachelor farmers" that Garrison Keillor talks about on his radio show
*the running jokes about the terrible coffee one gets in police stations

One of the things that people look for, in mystery series, is whether there is continuity in the background lives of the characters. This is one of the series where there is such continuity; however, it's not real-time. Our protagonist and his family and friends have aged about a decade, in the nearly 25 years that the series has been running. This is a reasonable pace, that allows us to follow their lives. Even though this is a series, though, this particular book could be read and enjoyed without having read other books in the series - there are no points here where a reader would be bewildered because they didn't have some background knowledge. It's more fun, though, if you do read the whole series, so you can get more enjoyment out of the exchanges between Oliver and Lau, and you know more about Oliver's wife, and so on. So go ahead and get this one and read it, but get a couple of the older books, too - I promise you'll enjoy them. Probably "Old Bones" and "Twenty Blue Devils" would be the two that would provide you with the most background for the buck, especially since "Twenty" takes place in Tahiti, thus giving the reader some additional background for the South Pacific setting of "Where There's a Will."

Family reading alert: this is a great series for kids who are reading at adult levels but don't need to be exposed to too much in the way of adult themes - there's no explicit sex, very little that anyone would consider bad language, and no excessive gore or violence. I was reading books from the grown-up area of the library by the time I was 12 (which was considerably before this series started) so I know it can be difficult for the parents of gifted kids to find stuff that is safe yet not childishly boring. Elkins' books fit the bill.

Not the best of the series, but still a pleasant read.......2006-02-04

I thought Aaron Elkins kind of dialed this one in. There just wasn't the depth of character or plot development that characterized earlier books in the Gideon Oliver series. In fact, the scenario regarding how Gideon Oliver got involved with the case (bones found in the remains of a plane crash--can he confirm they are the missing family members from ten years before) was remarkably like the device used in a previous book.

Nevertheless, it was a diverting and pleasant read. Just not particularly riveting, and not up to the early novels in the series.

Where There's A Will There's A Way: Or, All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Shakespeare

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Well reasoned though a bit preachy
Wam, witty, and great scholarship
Maiming The Bard
Laurie Maquire argues that Shakespeare helps us "see better."

Where There's A Will There's A Way: Or, All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Shakespeare
Laurie Maguire
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When life becomes one big drama let history's greatest life coach help you rewrite it.

Bard expert Laurie Maguire brings her knowledge and love of Shakespeare to bear on the great-and small-challenges that all readers face today. As she illustrates in this witty, accessible, and unique self-help book, all one really needs is Shakespeare when it comes to understanding life.

Covering such universal subjects as identity, the battle of the sexes, family relationships, love, loss and death, Maguire shows how the dilemmas illustrated in Shakespeare's plays can help readers explore their own emotions and judgments. Together, Maguire and Shakespeare offer suggestions, comfort, empathy, and encouragement as they set out a timeless principle for living. To read Shakespeare is to understand what it means to be human. To read Where There's a Will There's a Way is to better understand how to deal with it.

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Well reasoned though a bit preachy.......2007-09-12

I am not a self-help reader, but I do love other people's interpretations of Shakespeare. Ms. Maguire writes soulfully, humorously, and intelligently about an application of text that I had never thought of before (I particularly enjoyed the comments on Lear and "seeing better"). I would have loved to give her a perfect 5, but there were just enough digressions and slightly off-the-topic (or overly long) anecdotes that I felt a bit distracted from the course, namely, how Shakespeare helps people understand themselves better.

This, though, is not a sharp criticism, and perhaps makes the actual score closer to 4.75. Her explanations, examinations, and insights are great almost all the way through. It is an accessible yet complex text, making it something worth returning to.

A great book--just a little pious at parts. I know that the argument is, It's a self help book. Of COURSE it's preachy. Yeah, but...it feels a little overwhelming sometimes. Still thoroughly recommended, however.

Wam, witty, and great scholarship.......2007-01-15

What's so great about this book is that it uses the model of self-help with such grace and insight to write a book of literary criticism. There's no condescension here, rather an innovative guide to nuancing our understanding of Shakespeare's characterisation in the round. This is wonderfully readable - I sat up all night reading my copy - without being reductive - highly recommended to all. However much you know about Shakespeare, or about yourself, you'll get something from it.

Maiming The Bard.......2006-12-17

Laurie Maguire's is the latest in an apparently unending series of books seeking to make the Bard more palatable to undergrads by fitting him into borrowed clothing, in this case the straightjacket of the contemporary self-help movement. The shortcoming of this approach is that it judges the genius Shakespeare by the bromides of self-help writers, rather than vice versa, and thus is, at best, vulgarly reductive. As unnecessarily candid as any tell-all guest on Oprah's show, Mcguire speaks first of some sort of nervous breakdown she had after a failed "relationship," whereupon she read a whole shelf of self-help books. The unfortunate result is this mostly awful book of her own. Its basic premise is that of Polonius, "to thine own self be true." Despite the posting of this cliche in numerous dentist offices I've visited through the years, surely nobody else besides Maguire believes Shakespeare in these words is offering us his own hard-won wisdom as a "life coach." The characters who take this "I've gotta be me" philosophy most to heart, after all, are Iago and Edmund [....] an embarrassing complication Maguire does not directly address. Shakespeare's view on "the individual," to the extent it's discernable, seems more accurately one encouraging the characters to be true to the demands of a larger than personal genuine nobility, one of objective truth, goodness and beauty, whatever their social station.
One test case I use to chart further the presence of contemporary misreadings of Shakespeare is that of responses to the character of Lear's daughter, Cordelia. Here, sorry to say, Maguire once again shoots wide of the mark. Her self help books have taught her that a second principal piece of Shakespearean wisdom is that one should walk on eggshells to avoid hurting the feelings of others. Therefore, Cordelia should have spoken more diplomatically to her father in the opening scene. Maguire even quotes the noble Kent to this effect, singling out his admonition, "See better." Here though she is clearly stacking the cards, for Kent's words are not "See better, Cordelia." They're "See better, Lear!" It's Kent after all who says Cordelia has spoken justly, that anyone is obligated to speak truth to power if "majesty falls to folly." Moreover, the play ends with the observation that "we should speak what we feel, not what we ought to say." The more diplomatic Cordelia of Mcguire, I'd say, is concocted from the "why can't we all get along" banalities of self help books, where tragedy is always avoidable, rather than from an unblinking attentiveness to the details of the more tough-minded, almost unbearable Shakespearean vision.

Laurie Maquire argues that Shakespeare helps us "see better.".......2006-12-11

In "Where There's a Will There's a Way: or, All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Shakespeare, Laurie Maguire sees Shakespeare as a great psychologist.

Maguire is a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, where she teaches English literature. She has written numerous articles on Elizabethean drama, women's studies, and theater, and has lectured throughout the United States.

"Shakespeare's plays," writes Maguire, "show us human lives in all their perplexing and unpredictable variety. They show us choices, good and bad; they show us predicaments, tragic and comic; they show us characters, complex and shallow. They show us ourselves."

Indeed, argues Maguire, Shakespeare can be read as a self-help guru and life coach who places at our fingertips strategies for survival and success: "The entire Shakespeare canon," she says, "is a course in Finding Oneself 101."

Her repeated imperative if for us to learn to "see better," to quote a phrase from "The Tragedy of King Lear"--to strive to see things from another's point of view. When Lear says to Kent, "Out of my sight!" Kent replies, "See better, Lear!"

To illustrate this desideratum, Maguire examines Shakespeare's plays in relationship to themes such as identity, family, friends, the battle of the sexes, unrequited love, acceptance, anger, jealousy, positive thinking, forgiveness, taking risks, maturity, and loss.

"So what kind of book is this?" she writes. "Is it a self-help book that draws its illustrative material from Shakespeare? Or is it an introduction to Shakespeare in the guise of a genre we all understand: self-help? The answer is: it's both.

"We read self-help books for the same reason we read literature. To find solace and inspiration. To find guidance and advice. To find comfort; comfort that we are not alone, that others have shared our experience. Shakespeare and self-help will always overlap. . . . Ultimately, Shakespeare helps us take control of the plot in our own life; he helps us discover our self. . . . 'A Complete Works of Shakespeare' is the only guide to life you'll ever need."

Robert Graves once said, "The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good."

While reading books about Shakespeare is no substitute for reading Shakespeare himself, Maguire helps "see better" his deep wisdom, and thereby "see better" other people and ourselves.

(See also my review of Colin McGinn's "Shakespeare's Philosophy.")

Where There's a Will There's an A / Middle School /DVD set

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Where There's a Will There's an A / Middle School /DVD set

Manufacturer: Better Grades Seminars, LLC 2003
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Set of 6 DVD's in clamshell.

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Where There's A Will
Rex Stout
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Where There's a Will There's an "A": How to Get Better Grades in College

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Watch / learn this or equivalent
My GPA went from 2.8 to 3.7
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Watch / learn this or equivalent.......2007-06-25

This was the first self help product I ever bought. It was way back in 1991. My life changed. My grades went from around 3.0 to 3.7 and I graduated in top 10% of my high school class. I went to Ga Tech (one of the top engineering schools in the country) and graduated w/ honors. More importantly, I continue to improve all areas of my life because this particular area was so effective

My GPA went from 2.8 to 3.7.......2005-11-11

I read the book and listened to the tapes when I was in high school over 10 years ago. It helped me in my high school and college studies. My GPA went from a 2.8 to 3.7 my sophmore year in high school. I graduated high school and college with honors.
The steps are simple and can only help a student. I later taught school in Chicago and shared many of the techniques with my students. I highly recommend this book.

new way to learn.......2003-11-11

teaches you to divide the time up, change the topic and get more out of the time you spend, don't study hard, study smart - went through all 3 sets with my children, and had awesome results - oldest thrived - second child was a self starter, third changed study habits with outstanding physics/math jumps in understanding, the fourth also a self starter made dramatic improvements.

Where There's a Will Theres An A.......2003-08-10

My niece and I barely made it thru the entire tape and book, without falling asleep. Prof Olney is not a great speaker. Although he had good information to impart, the extended format was 2 hours too long. Even the young people in his so called seminar were obviously fighting boredom. He gets an F for presentation and a good B for content. Staying awake for the content was the hard part.

Getting good grades is not a joking matter...........1999-12-15

5-stars for the essential, unusual, underlying material. Read the book. I haven't heard the tapes.

This is just one man's opinion but with this information age upon us and your GPA now "pursuing you" through your life, this might be the best career investment you'll ever make.

It's not just lifting your GPA. Far more important, it's focusing yourself: Focusing your own intellect/thinking on being recognized for your own competence by the recognition of good grades. Working and getting well-earned good grades as a result of good work well done.

Getting good grades may be a reward for conforming to others expectations but I wish I had read "Where there's a will..." wayyyyyy back then!

Read it. --Bill Hackett

Where There's a Will
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