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This book follows hot on the heels of the first two levels in the series. Written by K-3 educator Nora Gaydos, this book provides a simple color-coded, step-by-step approach to reading with the appropriate sequence of phonetic sounds and whole language necessary for the beginning reader. Humorous stories combined with zany illustrations will delight children while they learn to read. The simple repetitive text in each story builds page-by-page and more difficult skills are introduced book-by-book to reinforce a child's reading ability. The cool CD-like package contains:
* 10 removable storybooks * Parent Guide * 40 incentive stickers * Enhancement activities at the end of each book * A magnetic closure
Customer Reviews:
Good motivator for an unmotivated reader.......2006-08-11
Nora Gaydos' series 'Now I'm Reading' has really helped our unmotivated reader get going with reading.
PROS
- stickers (multiples for each of the books)
- fun stories (too often, early reader stories are dull, but I was actually flipping ahead on 3-4 of these books to see how things would resolve.)
- Good illustrations (nothing Newberry Award worth, but they really compliment the story, good colors, fun characters.)
- Your reader can't cheat by 'reading' the pictures
- MOST IMPORTANTLY, Nora does an excellent job of consistently hammering home the specific sound, letter combo, or phonic rule the book is focused on. (Usually on the first read, by the end of the book, my reader was sight reading the focused on letter combo or rule)
CONS(only because I have to list at least one to be 'fair and balanced')
- MORE STORIES!!! Keep writing Nora...your approach hits the nail on the head for early readers. We need more of your work.
Great for the beginning reader.......2005-08-04
My child will be in 1st grade this year and this is our third set of reading books by Nora Gaydos. The size of the books is very kid-friendly and the amount on each page is just what the early reader can handle. He feels like he is making progress and it is not too hard so we don't encounter too much frustration which is common with his other books.
Ease into reading the fun way!.......2004-10-09
I cannot say enough good things about the "Now I'm Reading" series by Nora Gaydos. Starting with the 2 level one books and going through to the level four pack you have 50 books that are just right for your beginning reader. Each book is 10 pages, meaning that your child has 500 pages of simple yet fun, attractive, entertaining, and educational learning at their fingertips. Each book focuses on a different sound, pattern, or skill and each level builds on the last. There is a lot of repetition of the words and sounds in the text which helps build word and sound recognition. My son learned to read with these books when he had just turned 4 and continues to love them now as he nears 5. They have given him a great base which he is easily applying to all kinds of other books. He loves these books because they are small, funny, easy to get through in one sitting, and enjoyable time after time. Sometimes he is distracted from the reading due to the very cute pictures, but one thing is certain, he will want to read them again and again. Love of reading and learning are definitely things that these books promote! What more could a parent want?
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- A Fine Accelerated Reader -- A review of "Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Leave Now"
- Not Seuss' best, but still good
- Popular wtih my under 5 year olds
- loved it and can't get enough
- One of my daycare kids favorite
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Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! (Bright & Early Books(R))
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Oh, why won't Marvin K. Mooney just please go now? In this 1972 classic for "beginning beginners," Dr. Seuss devotes his rhymes to budging the reluctant young Marvin K.: "The time has come. The time is now. Just go. Go. GO! I don't care how." But despite his impatience, our narrator certainly isn't short of ideas on how Marvin could make an exit. "You can go on stilts. You can go by fish. You can go in a Crunk-Car if you wish." Seuss's ever wacky illustrations accompany each new mode of transport, from balloon to broomstick to Bumble-Boat. And if those who are just learning find a word they don't know, chances are Seuss has simply made it up to fill out this ear-pleasing, easy-to-read text. This book is yet another fun and euphonious entry from the good doctor, a silly primer for budding rhymers and readers. (Ages 4 to 8) --Paul Hughes
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Illus. in full color. In merry verse and illustrations, Marvin is asked to leave by every conceivable means of transportation.
Customer Reviews:
A Fine Accelerated Reader -- A review of "Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Leave Now".......2007-10-09
"Marvin K. Mooney" is a cute book in the classic Seuss tradition. My son (5), my daughter (7) and I all enjoyed it. It's a good read-aloud although there are some awkward phrases here and there that you have to 'learn' how to read properly before they work.
My children didn't seem to wonder why Marvin had to go anywhere, but they thought the Zumble-Zay and other suggested methods of 'going' were hilarious.
The Accelerated Reading (AR) reading designation for this book is 1.1, which means that it's appropriate for children reading at the First Grade level. There are some challenging words, like Zumble-Zay, but after the first time through children seem to memorize them and they pose no long term difficulties.
[The AR designation is a general "guide" that rates books on a relative scale of difficulty. Children can certainly read at levels above or below their group range, so that this number should only be used as a aid to help choose books that are appropriate and not frustrating.]
Four Stars. [B-] Not Seuss' best, but very good. The Reading Level is listed as 1.1. Very enjoyable.
Not Seuss' best, but still good.......2006-10-31
I'm a big fan of Dr. Seuss, and while this isn't his best, it's still pretty good.
Marvin K. Mooney is supposed to go, and that sets the scene for 25 pages of delightfully silly pictures and fun-to-say-out-loud rhymes ("Get yourself a Ga-Zoom. You can go with a boom!").
It's never clear WHY Marvin has to go, and I wonder if some kids might speculate on the reason. "Did he do something wrong? Is he in trouble?" (A giant hand points to Marvin as the text says "GO!")
Still, this is a good read-aloud book that kids should like for the pictures and the rhymes.
Popular wtih my under 5 year olds.......2005-12-29
I am not quite sure what is most appealing to my children, the rhymes or the ridiculously whimsical illustrations - they love the Zike-bike and the zumblezay the best. My 2 year old goes around singing the word 'Zumblezay'over and over so just the sound of it is obviously appealing.
I am not sure I like the concept of it much - it is telling Marvin K Mooney to go - and in no uncertain terms ("Just go go go please do do do") for instance
HOwever the book is effective in so many ways - it really interests my kids and they enjoy browsing it on their own. It has a nice rhyme to it which changes its cadence in parts adding emphasis and interest. It has the fun and whimsical illustrations which strange contraptions so loved by Dr Seuss and generations of children.
It might not be the best 'message' but I think that is lost in the sheer good fun of the writing and illustration. My kids enjoy it and so do I.
loved it and can't get enough.......2005-10-16
I remember being very young and asking my mother to read this to me over and over. She got so tired of reading it to me, but I have never tired of the book. I purchased it for my nephew and look forward to reading it to kids of my own some day soon.
One of my daycare kids favorite.......2005-09-10
I love to read my daycare kids books with rhythm and rhyme. This book is terrific and adorable and never seems to get old no matter how many times I read it. We giggle through the whole thing. FUN FUN read.
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Fans of Guy Finley know he's a repository of "great wisdom" from philosophers, poets, and religious figures from throughout history. He thinks thinkers as diverse as Rumi, Emerson, Thoreau, Saint Augustine, and Krishnamurti all have ideas worth considering as one meanders along the path to happiness. Finley says that contentment comes when one learns how to "bridge the distance between who we are at present and what we may become." While this is certainly material he's covered in his many other titles, here he focuses on the importance of living in "the Now" (which he deems worthy of constant capitalization).
Finley's concept of the "Now" seems to borrow more than a bit from Buddhism's idea of mindfulness, as well as cognitive therapy. He claims those seeking to find internal peace must "[dare] to leave who we have been behind," consciously forgetting about unpleasant events and emotions in the past, lest they influence one's feelings--and undermine one's self-confidence and potential for happiness--in the present moment.
Finley's writing is rather rambling at times, and he relies heavily on italicizing to express his points as he covers topics ranging from heartbreak, the "False Self," self-fulfillment, and "the Light of the world." Each chapter includes an "Ask the Masters" section of hypothetical spiritual questions (example: "Why do we have so little true understanding of ourselves?"), which he answers with quotes from the likes of Plutarch and Thomas Carlyle. He also adds a "Key Lessons" summary at the end of each chapter, offering a Cliffs Notes-style translation of his often lengthy arguments. For all his lack of clarity, Finley does do a capable job of expressing one timeless truth, as he calls it: that one's inner nature determines one's experience of the outside world."--Erica Jorgensen
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That chronic, nagging sense of discontent, that sneaky feeling that something is missing from life, that secret yearning for "something more" can all be healed. In Let Go and Live in the Now, best-selling author Guy Finley brings the great Wisdom Teachings of centuries past into our lives in an intimate, accessible way.
Each chapter of Let Go and Live in the Now tackles a hurt that keeps us from experiencing inner peace and happiness. Every chapter includes a brief essay and a contemporary teaching story followed by exercises to help readers incorporate the teaching into everyday life. Each chapter ends with "Ask the Masters," a question-and-answer format with such historical and modern-day spiritual masters as Buddha, St. Augustine, G.I. Gurdjieff, Henry David Thoreau, Peter Matthiessen, and Jeanne Guyon.
"It only seems as though there's something more important for you to do than just quietly be yourself," writes Guy Finley. Imagined heavens never last, but eternal principles empower readers to live in "the now." From the first story of Katie, her broken heart, and the doctor who shows her how to heal it to the very last lesson of Paul who relocates himself from the city to the country and still can't see "the forest for the trees," readers see themselves in these eloquent retellings of ancient spiritual principles.
Customer Reviews:
Not Worth the Time to Read .......2007-07-20
Try Happiness Now; it's a much better book. Once I read Happiness Now, skimmed this one and realized it was not as well written as the others.
Truly Inspirational.......2006-07-18
I highly recommend this book Let Go and Live in the Now. All individuals walking the spiritual path and who truly seek to understand the Universal Principals that govern our daily life should read this book. This book is like nourishment for the hungry soul. As with all of Guy Finley's books I find it to be a true treasure. I have enjoyed reading this book and have read it several times, gaining a deeper understanding of truth each time. The style of Mr. Finley's writings in the form of parables allows the reader to discover for themselves these
spiritual truths.
Good try.......2006-06-26
I read this book two years ago and again this week. It actually made no difference at all to me and I read it with a open mind . It is as other reviewers have mentioned incredibly repetitive of the one idea and this was the hardest part. I kept waiting to get to the part where he gives the solution but it never came. It is however a book that is easy to read and advances Tolles book on the same idea the Power of now .
Great Wisdom.......2006-05-21
Guy Finley is one of those treasures that everyone should get to know. I gave this book 5 stars, because I think it conveys very important concepts to live a happy, fulfilling life. Guy's writing style is a bit "quirky" and repetitive, and some find it a bit off-putting. I enjoy reading him, though, because I have heard his talks both on tape and in person, and can hear his voice when I read his books. So, I have an advantage.
If you really want to get into some great material, get his tapes or CDs. Warning: they are highly addictive!! His talks are wonderful, and full of incredible metaphors, stories, and passion about what we are about, and how we can attain so much more through mastery of our selves.
Guy Finley can best be described as a self-taught master of a wisdom tradition that incorporates the work of Vernon Howard, Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, and Krishnamurti, into a contemporary blend of thought that is not New Age at all, but transcends the superficial and aims much higher. He is iconoclastic and insightful, challenging and subtle.
Anyone who has the opportunity to gainn access to his work, whether in book form or tapes of his powerful talks, should do so.
A complete handbook of the art of self-knowledge and skillful living........2005-11-19
Let Go and Live in the Now is a complete handbook of the art of self-knowledge and skillful living, practical and down-to-earth and yet lofty and spirit-filled. In this book, author Guy Finley uses original "truth tales" to convey deep spiritual teachings that concern the whole of Creation as much as the individual. These stories are thoroughly explained and elaborated upon within the chapters, most of which include practical "lists" of exercises and ideas one can work with right away. Here are some examples: "Five Ways to Raise Your Level of Spiritual Freedom" (p.60), "Seven Insights Into True Silence" (p.86), and "Seven Simple Exercises to Invite the Extraordinary Life" (p.181). For an example of the depth and the clarity of Mr Finley's thinking, I would strongly recommend that you carefully study the information contained in pages 49 to 59. There you'll find what you've been wanting to know all along.
Particularly useful is the closing section of each chapter, which includes a Q&A section entitled "Ask the Masters", in which Finley quotes famous spiritual authors and philosophers (Thoreau, Eckhart, Krishnamurti...) to answer questions likely to be in the mind of every reader, and a final summary of the chapter under the title "Key Lessons in Review". These Key Lessons make excellent working tools for those who like to meditate on higher ideas.
If you are familiar with Mr Finley's work you will recognize in Let Go and Live in the Now a different approach from his previous books; each one seems to appeal to a specific part in the reader (the mind, the heart, the emotions...), but all revolve around the same central idea: liberation from the prison of the self through true self-knowledge leads to the happy life --already awaiting you-- that your heart longs for.
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William Carey watched from the dock as the magnificent sailing ship headed for the English Channel without him. Tears filled his eyes, and deep disappointment filled his heart. What would he tell the missionary society? So much work awaited him half a world away. He must get to India--and soon!
William's amazing journey to India would prove to be just the beginning of a missionary quest filled with hardship and heartache as well as tremendous victories.
Often referred to as "the father of modern missions," William Carey displayed a single-minded determination to set his face like a flint to the task of bringing the gospel to those lost in darkness. His life of service and sacrifice is a guidpost for Christians of all generations.
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Good, Simple Primer on Carey.......2007-04-13
I was surprised when beginning this book to find it is on a mid-high reading level. As a result, it is a simple, easy read, offering a good summary of the life and ministry of William Carey. For any one wanting to get a quick overview of William Carey, this book provides it. For any one wanting a more thorough, in-depth treatment of the man, I would recommend looking elsewhere.
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An infant who wails deep into the night, a toddler who keeps popping out of bed, a young child who procrastinates long past his bedtime - does your child's behavior give you nightmares? Many kids seem programmed from birth with bedtime behavior that frustrates and frazzles parents who have difficulty ignoring a baby's cry or who feel guilty enforcing an early curfew for a child they haven't seen all day. Yet getting sufficient sleep is critical for children's health and happiness. With humor and empathy, child psychologist Dr. Patrick Friman outlines the problems related to bedtime for children from infancy through middle school and gives you advice and tips on how to handle them. In many cases, he provides several options so you can choose the approach you feel most comfortable with. His suggestions can help end those bedtime hassles and get you and your child the good night's sleep you both need!
Winner of The National Parenting Center Spring 2005 Seal of Approval
Customer Reviews:
Was helpful to us.......2007-02-12
We used this book for tips for our 17 mo. old and 31 mo. who both went from going to bed like angels to having fits about it overnight, and both decided to do it at the same time.
Most of the info for the age groups we were looking at was common sense. But it was good to hear it again from someon who was an expert and wrote in a fashion that did not talk down to you. Very helpful for weary parents to hear.
We also use "The Sleep Fairy" by Janie Peterson. We got the books separately, but Dr. Friman also recommended this book.
Not very helpful for infants.......2007-01-10
I didn't find much usable information in this book. It basically said I can let a baby cry a little or cry a lot, but didn't give me any good steps for teaching him how to get to sleep and stay asleep on his own. I've since read a much more helpful book titled, "The Baby Sleep Solution" that does give good, concrete steps to follow.
Good book - but not exactly what I needed.......2006-11-10
This book gives lots of good information - most of it is probably common knowledge - but as a parent it's always comforting to hear the experts tell you it's the right thing to do. Although for my specific circumstances this book wasn't exactly what I was looking for. But the information was worth the purchase.
Enthusiastically recommended for parents or caregivers of young children, and also an excellent baby shower gift.......2005-09-11
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics Patrick C. Friman, Ph.D. shares his wisdom with sleepless parents in Good Night, Sweet Dreams, I Love You: Now Get Into Bed and Go To Sleep!, a simple guide for anyone having problems getting their children to go to bed. Chapters cover specific issues with helping children from infants to toddlers, preschoolers, elementary schoolers, middle schoolers and beyond. Written in plain terms, Good Night, Sweet Dreams, I Love You emphasizes the importance of building good sleep habits, and warns parents that children of all ages are always learning - and therefore responding to their excessive crying, defiance, attempts to leave the bedroom, and other activities with an abundance of warmth or gentleness will create positive reinforcement for the negative behavior of resisting bedtime! Good Night, Sweet Dreams, I Love You walks the reader through time-tested procedures to help children get their sleep, including "cold turky" and graduated methods for tuning out nighttime crying, and the "robotic return" method for dealing with a child who wanders out of bed (return the child silently and emotionlessly and say nothing, so as not to associate comfort or other positive responses to a child deliberately leaving the bedroom). Above all, stresses Friman, the parent must remain in control and not negotiate, discuss or argue about bedtime with a very young child; children need rules, limits, parental authority, and sleep at an early age. A brief discussion of problems such as bedwetting, night terrors, or sleepwalking rounds out this straightforward, problem-solving guide, which points parents to a list of resources for further reading as needed. Enthusiastically recommended for parents or caregivers of young children, and also an excellent baby shower gift.
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If your child seems indecisive about college, don't read the riot act, read this landmark book instead. College is not the only alternative. A New York Times editor and concerned parent tells you why and helps you to find happy alternatives to starting college before your child is ready.
As an educated, committed parent, Linda Lee harbored the usual expectation of a prestigious college degree as the illustrious preface to a top-flight career for her child. Some fifty thousand dollars and several disastrous report cards later, Lee recognized that her seemingly rational expectations were proving far-fetched and that her son was simply not ready for college. Moreover, she was shocked to discover that his experience was not the exception but the rule; only 26 percent of students receive a bachelor's degree within five years.
Why, then, are parents led to believe that their children must go to college immediately and that it is the right choice for everyone? If not attending college worked for Bill Gates, Harry S. Truman, Thomas Edison, and William Faulkner, why can't it work for your child and what are your alternatives?
Success Without College is a groundbreaking book that reveals the surprising facts of why many bright kids are not suited for college (or at least not right after high school). Lee's accessible, knowledgeable style informs parents why this should be more a source of pride than shame by providing profiles of students and parents from around the country and their creative, positive solutions to the college dilemma. With a college education now costing an average of a hundred thousand dollars, maybe it's time for American parents to reconsider: Do you really need college to succeed?
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As an educated parent, Lee assumed her son would attend college and graduate. But several disastrous report cards later, it seemed her son wouldn't make it, and he was not alone. Why do parents believe their children must go to college and that this is the right step for everyone? Lee informs parents why this should be a source of pride, not shame, by providing profiles of students and parents around the country and their creative, positive solutions to the dilemma.
Customer Reviews:
Linda Lee is All Wrong. College benefits the Person. .......2006-05-06
These are just evil destructive tactics (by author Linda Lee) in where she wants all of America or most of America not to attend College. If her son, or daughter had problems academically then that is her problem but not Ours. College is fun and is a good learning experience for all. Colleges out there have remedial programs as well as tutorials which will help those in academic needs. I have to admit that many teachers at the institutions that exist in this great Nation of Ours (USA) are in it for the flunking of students, the flunking of pretty girls, etc., because many teachers(who teach at colleges are racist & selfish) and want to be the only ones with the degree (with the Phd diploma) and want no one else climbing the educational ladder of success. What do i mean? Of a student working hard and oof getting graded fairly by his or her teacher and achieving his or her master's degree in the field he or she chose to major in won't happen because the teacher is full of biases. Even though this happens we must strive ahead in reaching that frontier. Many student's out there right now in 2006 get flunked so bad that it forces them to leave college, in where, in the end they get the burger flipping job at McDonald's or at Burger King. Linda Lee should think about this and not encourage students and parents (about one not going to college). Even though i said this, many will not like it but it is the true state of many colleges out there. Next, for example, a youngster who graduates high school can not get a pro job just like that. They need an education(either a vocational skill or a four year degre or more)depending on what he or she likes. We can't have youngsters-boys and girls freshly out of college work at McDonalds, or at Walmart for the rest of their lives. Making minimum wage will not help them find a good mate either. (Hypothetical)For example, is the nice attractive woman who works at amazon.com (and who has a killer body that does not quit) going to marry the local hot guy janitor that works at the Seattle independent school district? The answer is no. That young man needs an education in order to find a good mate. Education helps all in the sphere or spheres of life. There has to be a balance in everything we do in life, and this to involves education. Linda Lee only sees things from her selfish point of view only.
I am an online student graduate, and i feel that all students should go to college because in the short run and the long run it benefits everyone. How? College will refine one, and will get us in the mood to think and read. College will also refine our people skills, our skills with women (in clean interaction/respect).
Like i said, Linda Lee is a fool. If she had it bad then it is her gig, but everyone else should not pay the piper for her chaotic destiny. Linda Lee also has to see the vision of outsourcing as a problem in this nation. So, kids without college degrees and out sourcing going on right now will only hurt those kids. Linda Lee is full of Hate! And that is the bottom line....I don't recommend this b.m. (bowel movement/excrement)of a book to anyone. Getting a college degree is like drinking purified water, everyone should be given a glass with purified water in it-it is everyones right to drink nice clean purified water. Because those who don't have the purified water will only hurt for now and later(relating this example to getting a college education). America wake up! Do you want to cripple your child academically? The educational system is for all not just the few who only wish to be the ones with the knowledge and the diplomas. Linda Lee is all wrong.
Parent in angst over grad must read.......2005-08-21
College is not going anywhere.
What do you do when your child graduates? You give them an ultimatum: two options, college or job, right? This book gave me peace and saved me from beating myself up over the fact that my child pursued option number two; a modeling career in California this fall.
Creme rises to the top irregardless as shown through the examples of this book. The fact of the matter is people are born with different temperaments, abilities and ambitions. This book aides the exceptance.
My daughter takes on line prerequisites with our local Florida community college from California (she feels as though she would be a total loser if she didn't due to societal programming). I'm apprehensive to pass this book along to her because I'm afraid she will not develope her innate intellectual nature at some point. That makes this book Rated Restricted to parents...first, then maybe your child, but in my case, not. Still, wonderful quick read and talented author.
A Dream Come True and Perfect for My Ex-Wife and Three Kids!.......2004-12-04
Linda Lee has done a very good thing. She's written a concise and much needed book on why it's not so important for kids to go to college anymore. She ignores the fact that colleges have gotten ridiculously simple with all the grade inflation and silly admission policies and instead focuses on how unambitious and industrious young people can thrive in today's environment without the shackles of a college diploma.
This is a very important book and one I have already gift wrapped and placed in the care of the USPS as a special "present" for my second ex-wife (the supposed mother of my first three children). I've been sending the witch too much of my meager paychecks for the past ten years and she's already started yapping about the "college expenses". Thanks to Ms. Lee, I am very hopeful that instead of the ridiculously overpriced college tuition bills I can get by with this much less expensive "guide" to life without college. Who needs frat beer bashes and sorority panty parties? Not my kids. This book will do just fine. Very Highly Recommended. HHD.
March to the beat of your own drummer........2004-02-04
Knowledge is free, power is money, the feeling of power = priceless. This is for real people who live on the real earth. College pumps out little robots to go back and forth to work every day. I see it all the time. When I am driving around at 5PM once in a blue moon, I see the suites with the cell phone that serous look on their face driving the Honda in rush hour traffic. Well if that is what you want to do when you grow up and make $50,000 a year and a few small vacations per year be my guest. If you get lucky you may not get a divorce like 50% of Americans in the rat race cycle. It's just a cattle race. Id rather grow my enterprise a big as I can because its fun, I enjoy being a leader. This was a great book more people should read it because I do not want to anyone to tell me how lucky I was to be so successful with out college, I am sick of it. Luck has nothing to do with it. With the human body and a brain you should be able to do what ever you want without college. If I wanted to be an accountant ill just walk down the hall and ask one of my employees to teach me and ill give her a raise. This was a good book.
To the point.......2003-11-04
This book has impressed me with the facts presented. I'm a vocational guidance counselor and I have a hard time recruiting students to take one of our technical/vocational programs. Parents are determined from the day a child is born that that child will graduate from college with a four year degree. As the author so well puts it, very few kids are actually suited for college. This book will help me put together a presentation to my students' parents to help them make a well informed decision about their child's education. I can't say enough about how much I have enjoyed this book and how it will help me in my work.
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any idiot knows the details in this book.......2006-03-19
Upon receipt of this item and a browse through I immediately decided to return it. The information contained within is basic info and person that has traveled more than once in their life as an adult will know. There was a lot of information about travel in general and very little about actually traveling solo. But, if you are looking for general travel info the book is quite complete.
An exceptional informative travel guide!.......1998-11-28
This is the very best informative guide to travel and all the pitfalls to avoid that I have ever read. The author sticks to the pertinent and important facts, without boring the reader with a lot of unnecessary details. I would recommend this book not only to "solo" travelers, but to everyone who wants to read a good informative guide to travel.
Truly outstanding help in its important, specialized topic........1998-11-04
If you've ever considered traveling alone, this is certainly the book you need to help you decide--- go to! Readable, specific, informative tips---and, unusual for a travel book, this one is not padded with stories of the author's travels. Still, the author has traveled alone for years, so you can be sure her tips are practical. The book is organized in three main sections: what to do before you leave, while traveling, and upon returning. Especially valuable and useful: 8 check-off lists, including documents, toiletries and health items, gifts, general, and a form to add your own personal reminders. In sum: a truly practical, useful book!
Book Description
On the road with the Blank Generation, "Go Now" takes readers on a wild trip across the country and into the head of a down-on-his-luck punk musician. ""Go Now" is a vile, scabrous, unforgivable, and deserving of the widest possible audience".--William Gibson.
Customer Reviews:
warped reality.......2004-08-10
When I first heard of this book, I had to get it... I mean Richard Hell! I love him!
From the second I opened this book I couldn't put it down. Not to say it was fantastic, but it was so real. It felt like walking into someone's brain (primal/animalistic urges). Fascinating.
Through every chapter you got to know the inner workings of this addict, what moved them and destroyed them. In short, how fragile life is, and how misdirected we can be by our intuition under the influence of anything and everything. Air included. Buy this. Read it. Be disturbed.
Not perfect but resplendent.......2004-05-10
I have read this book twice and I sometimes open it at random just to get the feeling and human excitement the writing brings to me. I grant you it's not perfect. There is some sloppiness and places where he goes too far, but this book is mesmerizing and lovely. I see that some of the reviewers seem to resent a person who is a rock and roll musician publishing a book of fiction. Well it so happens that Patti Smith IS a remarkable writer, and so is Richard Hell. (So is Jim Carroll for that matter -- it's his rock and roll that's doubtful. Same goes for Patti Smith in my opinion.) People also resent writing that deals with drug users. The lead character in this book is a drug addict -- yearning to get free of it -- but the book is about being human, in other words having animal drives that are contrary to one's ideals. It's sexy too. But even more it's about perception. The book's insights are as deep as any novel that's appeared in thirty years. You should read it.
Moonlighting?.......2004-04-19
Richard Hell (not his real name) was a Voidoid, a junkie, and an original NYC punk rocker in the early 1970s. Now he has written a novel, about--guess what?--a has-been musician who is a junkie, who lives in the Lower East Side. (Hell lives near Avenue A). The main character Billy Mud reads stuff like... Baudelaire! Wow! He has a French girlfriend who... does cocaine! Alright! But Billy is also self-effacing and is a writer on a mission. This has nothing to do with the self-reflexive metafiction of Flann O'Brien or Philippe Sollers. So much for the life of the imaginative writer. Everything now is veiled autobiography I guess.
Maybe the terrible people who think Marianne Faithful and Patti Smith are good writers will like this book? Is Henry Rollins reading this? This is a review of a book reviewer who is actually a novelist in disguise. Just checking if you are awake! (...) his Billy goes to California, to drive a car across the United States. This is an original road novel. Oh yeah, I forgot about Kerouac for a minute. Maybe Mr. Hell isn't familiar with William Burroughs or Bret Easton Ellis either? This book starts out as a sketch of a junkie, and then, falls off the track. I wonder how much this book was edited, because in New York publishing sometimes editors are heavy handed. I would like to see another unedited Richard Hell novel that is more ambitious, as I expect to see a rival novel by Tom Verlaine. Generally, I am sick and tired of rockers who think that they can write, let alone spell. It is almost as tiresome as actors now wanting to be in bands. There is hope for everyone.
This book is terrible........2003-07-18
I bought this book for cheap from an amazon seller, mostly because I am a big fan of Richard Hell the musician. His lyrics always struck me as being particularly inspired, so it was a revelation to me that his prose is lacking. Basically, the story centers on young, drug-addicted, underground rock star wannabe, Billy Mudd, who goes on a cross country trip to retrieve someone else's car from the west coast. His ex lover accompanies him on the trip, and a rather predictable string of conflicts emerges along the way. Predictable that is, until the very end, when Hell throws the reader somewhat of a curveball. Billy narrates the story in the first person the whole way through, and he has a frustrating tendency to drift off on long tangents of introspection and verbal diarrhea, much in the same way someone on drugs might do. If you were to say that the style of this novel is reminiscent of Kerouac, I'd have to respond by saying only just barely. Its like the work of a young, misguided Kerouac who hasn't quite made it past those first few ill-conceived attempts at something original and worthwhile. Or else, perhaps its more akin to the work of an old and tired Kerouac who's resorted to merely going through the motions of his once potent creative process. The only enjoyable part of this novel to me is the notion that perhaps this story is loosely based on people and events in Hell's own life, which had me trying to guess who these characters were supposed to be modelled on. For instance, my best guess is that the English band manager that sends Mudd to Los Angeles is supposed to be Malcolm McLaren, but I'm not too certain about that. In any case, I'd advise you to skip this novel unless you are an absolutely die-hard Richard Hell fan, and simply must own anything with his name on it, or you find a copy for extremely cheap and just want an easy read for your down time during the day.
Excellent........2000-05-04
I must confess I bought this book after becoming completely infatuated with Richard Hell and books about heroin. I've read both "Junkie" by William S. Burroughs and "Go Now" and I just have to admit I liked this book better that the two. The choice of words and poetic prose make this book both make you want to cry at the beauty the main character (Billy) sees and feels, and yet can also thrum up feelings of utter disgust, and I love this book for that. Thank you, Richard Hell, for such an amazing book.
Amazon.com
The premise of Vendela Vida's terrific debut novel, And Now You Can Go, seems at first a tad depressing, in a Bernard Goetz, New-York-in-the-1980s kind of way. The narrator, a young woman named Ellis, is walking in Riverside Park when she is held up at gunpoint. The man assures her he doesn't want her money, and he doesn't push her into the bushes to rape her. Ellis notices the designer name on his glasses: Giorgio Armani; she begins to obsess on this detail. Then she starts to recite poetry to him to cheer him up about life. The encounter ends as abruptly as it began, when the man simply runs away down the street. Even though no blood has been shed, Ellis's life is utterly changed.
In fast, clean, funny prose, we find Ellis slipping adrift from her routine as a Columbia grad student and falling into a series of mini-romances. When she goes home to San Francisco for winter break, her mom suggests Ellis join her on a medical mission to the Philippines. The work and the heat and the exhaustion settle her down for the first time since the attack, and she returns to New York a little refreshed. There's one more encounter with the gunman, which Vida plays more comic than tragic. In fact, the strength of this novel is in the way Vida toys with her priorities. The scenes that ought to be fraught and suspenseful have a goofy kind of oh-well voice to them; the scenes that ought to be dull--like Ellis's run-ins with her annoying roommate--exert a weirdly compelling narrative drive. Both the author and her protagonist charm us utterly. --Claire Dederer
Book Description
A sharply humorous, fast-paced debut novel about the effects—some predictable, some wildly unexpected—that an encounter at gunpoint can have on the life of a (previously) assured young woman.
The gun in question is pointed at twenty-one-year-old Ellis as she walks through a New York City park. In the end she is unrobbed and physically unharmed. But she is left psychologically reeling.
Over the next few weeks Ellis keeps everyone at bay: the police, the men who want to save her (“the ROTC boy” poet and “the red-faced representative of the world”), and the university therapist who hints that her sweaters may be too tight. But when Ellis accompanies her mother, a nurse, on a mission to the Philippines, she finds that life—even if held up—cannot be held back, and neither, finally, can she.
Customer Reviews:
Please enter a title for your review.......2007-05-24
I read the first quarter and gave up. There's a lot of banality to wade through, and beyond that most of the ideas are nonsensical. The encounter that causes her trauma doesn't seem scary. If it was supposed to be, a million things could have been done to make it more so, and there would be no fear of losing the rich internal logic of the assailant in doing so as he demonstrated none. The aftermath of the event seems to suggest that it was originally written as a rape then changed. The break-up it triggered with her boyfriend was underexplained, as was her subsequent interest in two other boys, one of which lies to her saying something he wrote was about her in order to seduce her but doesn't try to get anything more from her than a kiss, then says he can't believe she fell for it. The other she is seemingly set up with on a blind date by someone who thinks now that she's had a gun pulled on her she's a perfect match for his former drug addict friend who has requested to be introduced to her. Why she even agrees to meet this guy makes no sense, and even when she does we're given no impression that she has any interest in him, it's just to be assumed when she dresses up and goes to a party because she's heard he'll be there. Even when she ends up going home with him after their actual date you're still left wondering what she likes about him. Or if she likes him. It would almost make more sense if she ended up killing the guy in his sleep, having previously made the guy the target of her pent up rage when he decided the novelty of her suffering warranted a meeting and strung him along until the time was right. But no, nothing so comparitively logical, just an underwritten relationship with no basis and nothing to emotionally connect to.
It's an inspiring book, in an "i could write this without trying... so why don't i" kind of way.
Distant, well-written but too spare to care.......2007-02-19
This book kept me at a distance. The writing strives for Hemingway objectivity but only makes Ellis, the narrator, as baffling as the events that happen to her. I can't root for her, because I can't relate to her. Traumatized by being held at gunpoint in the park by a suicidal man, from whom she escapes by reciting poetry, she embarks on a series of seemingly random choices and adventures. She not only dumps her boyfriend but tears up his letters and literally runs away from him-- and I was as mystified as he was. She has encounters with various men that are sexual but unconsummated, she remembers her parents' separation, she goes on a mission to the Philippines with her mother, who is a nurse. All of these events are well and vividly described but I'm not sure what they mean to her, and I kept putting the book down. Her avoidance, denial, slightly manic behavior, and journey toward forgiveness are all told so bluntly I could feel close to Ellis. Her friends and acquaintances seem shallow and superficial-- even another ex-boyfriend who is suicidal. There are many convincing details of their behavior, but it felt like being trapped at someone's after-party party at four am-- really, I couldn't wait to get away from them. Some of her friends and family try to come through for her, but they lack the depth to do it consistently. The spareness in the well-written prose kept not only the events but the motivations and the emotions too objective and distant. Ellis' "just the facts" narration might be appropriate as a response to trauma but I was bored and kept putting the book down. Vida writes well and I admired her prose, but Ellis' story didn't move me.
Not Really a Novel.......2005-07-08
This book reads not as a novel but as a set of assignments written in college (I won't say in a MFA program because they are not that good). After graduation, the author evidently got the idea that "Hey, if I add a few transition sentences, the New York Mugging piece, the Home with Family piece, and the Philippines piece could be woven together into something long enough to pass off as a book."
Alas, the weaving is not very good and none of the threads are pulled together at the end. The book just expires of its own tediousness. I am heartened to see that the passing off may have worked with her publisher but not with most of my fellow Amazon reviewers.
If you want to read a great book that weaves together seemingly disparate stories and then wraps them together into a powerful ending, try McEwan's Atonement.
another fake review.......2005-05-18
Remember that time Amazon malfunctioned...and revealed Dave Eggers was the one writing all those glowing reviews of his friends? Yeah, that was pretty sweet...
More a superior longer story than a novel.......2004-09-09
If you believe some of the reviewers here, creative writing (MFA) courses at American universities either remove any innate literary imagination and originality, or many of the students who successfully complete them don't possess any in the first place. At any rate, I'm not in any way competent to comment on the subject. I have grasped though that there's a lot of antagonism against Dave Eggers and the group of writers associated with his (defunct?) McSweeney's magazine, of which Vendela Vida is a part. Ignoring that, Vida's novel And Now You Can Go was interesting enough to me mostly because of the subtle humour and main character Ellis's inscrutability, which doesn't let up throughout the story. Vida's style has been passed off by some here as merely superficial and vapid, but I actually find that she convincingly describes a thoughtful, ironic woman in her early 20s, right about now. I think the story holds up as mild satire (the jaunt to the Philippines certainly contributes to that impression) but I agree with the oft-repeated criticism as to the choice of longer narrative form: And Now You Can Go would work better as a short story than a novel, or even novella. Some of the harsher critics go so far as to relegate this book to the 'Cosmo' or 'JANE' magazine fiction scrap heap. This I think is unfair: I would say Vida is a more serious, imaginative, talented writer than that.
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