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A smart, funny junior novelization of Despicable Me, an animated movie about "world's greatest villain" Gru, coming from Universal Studios in Summer 2010!

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Great movie, and great book
Nice color pictures from the movie, and the kids enjoyed reading it after they saw the movie.Nice story.Bad guy turned good.

Despicable Me is Awesome
The book is just as good as the movie.I loved the movie and the book was a good car trip read.

I liked it better than the movie
This is a charming audio story that is told in an entertaining way. The voice is pleasant and animated enough to keep a kids' attention. It is the story of Gru, an unsavory character, who lives in a suburban house in the middle of a suburban neighborhood. Unlike his neighbors, Gru lives in a black house with a dead lawn. He has, under his command, a million yellow minions who do his every wish.

One day he needs to rob a ray gun from another thief, Victor, and has a hard time achieving his goal. He needs the ray gun to shrink the moon and steal it. He tries many times and finds different ways to attempt to get it. One time he adopts three little girls and has them deliver cookies to the man who has the gun.

Now he has a problem, he has to get rid of the girls. The girls, however, have their own agenda and after wanting to be adopted for a long time, they are going to make it happen. The girls want a father so they see him in a different way than others do. The super-villain has a full plate trying to keep the girls distanced from himself.

When Gru is laid-off, and passed over for a younger agent, he gives up until the girls and his minion step up to help him. Gru is very touched by their loyalty.

The bad doctor, Nefarious, who is Gru's accomplice, doesn't like the girls because they are changing the despicable man into a softy. He calls the orphanage and the girls are taken back.

Gru, trying to forget the girls, returns to his goal, stealing the moon. On his trip to the moon,he finds more than the vastness of space, when he remembers the three little girls who have touched his life and are waiting for him on Earth. Meanwhile, the girls are kidnapped by Victor in an attempt to have the shrunken moon for himself.

I recommend this story for children older than six. I liked it better than the movie. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Timothy James "Tim" Curry (born 19 April 1946) is an English actor, singer, composer and voice actor, known for his work in a diverse range of theatre, film and television productions. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Curry first became known to audiences with his breakthrough role as Frank N. Furter in the 1975 cult movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show, then later for his roles as Rooster in the film adaption of Annie, Lord of Darkness in the film Legend (1985), Wadsworth in the movie Clue, and as Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the horror film Stephen King's It. He played Nigel, the father in the Nickelodeon children's TV show The Wild Thornberrys. He has performed the role of King Arthur in the Broadway hit Monty Python's Spamalot. ... Read more

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The thirteenth mystery for Richard Jury finds the detective investigating the murder of two women in the Lincolnshire fens. Both victims are connected to the wealthy owner of the Fengate estate: one a kitchen maid, and the other, the owner's ex-wife. But Jury has more at stake than just catching a killer, as the prime suspect is a woman who's presence in his life is becoming meaningful in a way he can't explain....Amazon.com Review
Richard Jury, the brooding Scotland Yard detective-hero ofmany of Martha Grimes's mysteries, is back in The Case HasAltered, but--as usual--his sidekick Melrose Plant steals theshow. Set in the fens of Lincolnshire, Jury must investigate twomurders in which his true love, Jenny Kennington, is a suspect. Butwhile Jury deals with the evidence, Melrose uncovers the local color,interviewing everyone from uncommunicative pub owners to chattycooks. Even murder seems a little less grim with Melrose Plant around. ... Read more

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There's a good book in here....somewhere.
The Case Has Altered was the first Richard Jury mystery I've read. I found myself flailing about throughout the book: characters constantly referenced things that had happened in previous books, other characters popped up without any explanation as to who they were, and there were entire scenes that made absolutely no sense to me because I had not read any of the other books in the series. I found this all to be rather unacceptable: a reader should not have to have read every previous book in order to understand the current one in a series like this.

There really is a very good little mystery hidden in these pages, although finding it can be tough. In addition to the complaints above, there is a really annoying B plot involving Melrose Plant that has absolutely nothing to do with the major mystery. I found myself skipping entire chapters because I really didn't care about what his aunt was doing. Grimes also tends to go off on tangents in relation to the actual murder mystery at hand; she will spend endless pages on "witty" banter between characters that does not advance the story at all. Having said that, when she gets back to business and focuses on the mystery, she can tell a lovely story, although the denouement at the end is rather unsatisfying (not to mention brief) and leaves the reader with a lot of unanswered questions.

I would probably read another Richard Jury novel, because when you edit out the fat in The Case Has Altered, you're left with a small gem of a story.

Nonsensical Pieces Dropped like Confetti
Oy vey!This is my first--and last--Martha Grimes.No respect for forensics.Tedious characters (the Scotland Yard guy hires an illiterate numbskull with illegible handwriting for his sectretary!).A whole chapter on arcane antiques that does nothing for what bits and flotsam of plot there may be.

And that's the main trouble with this book.Instead of a straight forward telling of a story, we have tiny bread crumbs of story scattered all over the place.Key information for solving the crime (was the victim killed where she was found or elsewhere?) is withheld and amiable chitchat substituted.What's worse, if you soldier thru to the end (I didn't; my husband told me the ending), the method of the first murder is truly impossible.

UGH!

Compelling characters
I hadn't read a Martha Grimes Richard Jury mystery in some time, but I found her even better than I had remembered.All the characters seemed compelling, interestingly developed, and except for one, likeable.Jury and Plant were especially sympathetic in dealing with the Jennifer Kenniston issues/past experiences/ question of her guilt.The child character, Zel, was one of my all-time favorites.And while the mystery had considerable interest, it was the interplay among the characters that was the most enjoyable element--even Marshall Trueblood outdid himself in this effort.A rattlingly good read!

Kathryn LePage, Cincinnati, OH

Melrose takes the case!
I missed Jury a bit during this read but Melrose is fabulous.This is a wonderful story, taking place out in the fens, filled with a fascinating cast including Jury's true love, Jenny, who's a suspect for murder, a little girl who lives in a barn with posters of old rock starts, the little girl's Aunt, a woman who has a mystery held over from many years previous, disappeared children... and of course Melronse, the urbane best friend of Jury's.And through it all is Martha Grimes artful, beautiful use of language.Her words leave me spellbound with their melody and color.I've read this one three times...be sure you read it at least once!

We get set on an answer, nearly impossible to dislodge.
The writing is smooth, competent.The location is the fens.Two women from the same area are murdered by different means.Richard Jury arrives, even though Scotland Yard has not received a summons for help.

The scene is set in an interesting fashion by this experienced author.A friend of Jury's, Jennifer Kennington, is a suspect.She was a house guest at Fengate. Fengate is a problem since another guest there, Max Owen's first wife, Verna, and a maid servant are the victims in question.Since Jury wants to have a police plant in the house, Melrose Plant, (interesting play on the name), pretends to be an antiques specialist.Jury knows which pieces Max Owen wants to have valued and so Marshall Trueblood teaches Melrose about these specific pieces.

The title is, surely not surprising to readers of this series, the name of a pub.In a scene where Melrose Plant is drinking Old Peculiar one wonders whether there really is such a thing.Max Owen has an eclectic collection, Matisse next to Landseer, and that sort of thing.Grace Owen calls her husband's sculpture hall the cold ladies.Melrose finds it difficult to impersonate an antiques dealer.Max Owen thinks that most dealers have a talent for the past.Max is enthralled with his possessions.He admits that he really wants someone to talk to about them.

Any prospective reader will find this enjoyable.It is possible to obtain stray information.For example, I did not know that Limehouse had been gentrified. ... Read more

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The long-buried secrets of the Old Kingdom and the Ninth Gate are revealed in the sequel to Sabriel and Lirael. Orannis, the Destroyer, has been freed from its subterranean prison and now seeks to unleash its terrible powers. Only Lirael, Abhorsen-in-Waiting, has any chance of stopping this enemy of all Life. As she and her companions -- Sameth, the Disreputable Dog and Mogget -- set out on their fated journey, Lirael has no idea of what lies ahead. Only days earlier, Lirael was merely a Second Assistant Librarian. Now, with only a vision from the Clayr to guide her and without the experience of Abhorsen Sabriel and King Touchstone, she must search both Life and Death for some means to defeat the Destroyer. Before it is too late... ... Read more

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Excellent
'Abhorsen' by Garth Nix picks right where 'Lirael' leaves off -it is really part two of the same story, so be sure to read 'Lirael' first. It is an excellent conclusion to the story. It also answers a number of questions about the history of the old kingdom,including the nature of Moggett and the Disreputable Dog. Just an excellent series.

Great Book!
Great fantasy novel and epic in nature. Much better ending than the Lord of the Rings!

One of Nix's Finest Works
Abhorsen wraps everything together in an intricate and intelligent weave.Questions and problems you may have encountered in Lirael, are resolved warmly throughout this novel.I was extremely impressed by the amount of creativity it took Garth Nix to pour into this series.He is a very underrated author of our time, and Old Kingdom series is among my favorite.I won't reveal much about this book, but I will say it was better and shorter than Lirael.And you will be satisfied at the end of it.The book is really character-driven, which I love and you will love.

If you enjoyed this series I would reccomend his other books.Shade's children is a great one-shot novel that no Garth Nix reader shouldn't read.Also the Seventh tower still remains my favorite work of him.Trust me it may be toned down for a younger audience, but I enjoyed the 7 books fully as an adult.

A wonderful book
I loved this book, it was less complex than Sabriel and less of a story, more action than Lirael, so it was more of a completion of the trilogy, which was what it was supposed to be.
The author did it perfectly.

Satisfying conclusion to the Abhorsen trilogy
"Abhorsen" is the final novel in Garth Nix's award-winning Abhorsen trilogy.The first book is "Sabriel," and the second in the series is "Lirael."This third novel follows closely on the heels of the second, picking up immediately where "Lirael" left off.Though the first book stands on its own, the second and third in the series should really be read in conjunction with one another, as together they do combine to make one complete story time-line.

"Abhorsen" is the continuation of the quest of Lirael.Though new to her inherited roles as as the Abhorsen-in-Waiting and as a Rembrancer, she is able to deftly walk the veil between life and death.As with many science fiction and fantasy tales, she and her cohorts, Prince Sameth, the Disreputable Dog, and the sometimes dangerous Free Magic cat Mogget, must strive to save the world from impending doom.In this case, they must stop the Destroyer Orannis, along with his necromancer, Dead, and Free Magic minions, before all life is swept from the face of the planet.

"In a very unsettling way, it reminded her of the river of Death.But she did not feel they were in Death, and apart from the growing cold and the peripheral view of the river, all her senses told her that she was firmly in Life, though in a very strange tunnel, far underground."

Nix's descriptions of the land of death are consistent throughout the series, creating a realm of magical realism that is believable and interesting, particularly as the final gateway is faced.He manages to create characters that draw in the reader.This skill holds true even for peripheral characters.I found myself wishing to learn more about each person, while discovering enough to identify with each in some way and be personally invested in their outcome.

The trilogy is deftly wrapped up with "Abhorsen," yet I still found myself wishing that the adventures could continue.I look forward to reading more of Garth Nix's young adult fantasy novels in the future.
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Incredibly Fantabulous!

My students and I read this as a "just for fun" class novel. WE ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT!The multiple voices really made the story come alive.It felt like we were actually in a theatre. I have this entire series on audio; this one is tremendously superior.While all have voice performers, the others are merely "read" in comparison; this one is "acted."We read along with a lot of audio books in my classroom; it is very effective for accommodating multiple learning styles.I received the greatest student response and more positive feedback regarding this audio book than any other (and we have read some phenomenal books).The only problem I had was that it was SO FUNNY that I had to repeatedly remind my students that we had to "laugh respectfully" so we did not disturb our neighboring classroom; that's actually a compliment to the awesomeness to this recording.I utterly captivated a classroom of co-ed fifth graders.I wish the other book in this series were equally as superbly, fantabulously terrific.

So Fun!
This recording is so fun! It has sound effects and different voices for each character.It makes it seem like you are watching a movie in your mind.I think kids would really enjoy this version, I sure did!

"Scream and Run Away"
This is a review mainly of the unabridged recording of "The Bad Beginning"read by Tim Curry, with an interview of Lemony Snicket by Leonard C. Marcus. And the song "Scream and Run Away preformed by the Gothic Archies. This is also a review of the hardback book .

Initial listening of this book brought horror and disgust (which in this case means repugnance.) Determined to finish the story despite the author's constant warnings, I must say that I became enamored of his style.

There are several pluses to listening to the recording. The pace of the recording helps keep you going when you would have set the book aside. The absence of the books illustrations by Bret Helquist allowed you to imagine a more sinister Count Olaf and a cuter, yet with a tad of tomboy, Violet. Now the significant plus is the unmistakable voice of Tim Curry of "Rocky Horror Picture Show" and "Oscar" (1991 as Dr. Poole) fame. His interpretation of the voices gave just as much panache to the characters as Lemony's writing.

Not in the book, but as additions to the recording are two significant items that help with the understanding of the story, where it came from and where it is going. First is an interview with the author. It covers many of the standard questions asked in an interview; the answers and the communication style is some what unique and a little over the top. Also there is a recording of a song that Mr. Snicket says is played by the Baudelaire memorial orchestra; I have since found that it was realy preformed by the Gothic Archies, written by Gay and Loud.

I do not want to give away the plot however I can tell you that at one point they are forced to eat "boiled chicken, boiled, potatoes and `blanched'- here means `boiled'- string beans"

Actually, a great beginning!
I downloaded this book from Audible. My sons and I listened to it in the car and finished the whole thing in one day. When we went on errands, they even asked if they could stay in the car and listen while I did what I had to do.

We loved it!! It was silly, educational, and entertaining all at once, with suspense thrown in. The boys' favorite character is Sunny, while I rather like Violet.

Especially engaging was the multicast recording.We have since missed this in the subsequent Lemony Snicket audiobooks.

I want to warn those who have seen the SOUE film:Expect something different in the books.The film combined three books, and not very well.The books have much more substance.
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Chapters: John Cleese, Audrey Hepburn, Tim Curry, Julie Andrews, Judi Dench, Mel Smith, Davy Jones, Norman Wisdom, Emma Thompson, John Mills, Angela Lansbury, Jeremy Brett, Michael Crawford, Ron Moody, Julie Walters, Steve Marriott, Elaine Paige, Sarah Brightman, Sally Ann Howes, Petula Clark, Gertrude Lawrence, Michael Ball, Anna Neagle, Imelda Staunton, Natasha Richardson, Jean Simmons, Lee Mead, Anthony Newley, Michelle Gayle, Denise Van Outen, Dani Harmer, Andy Serkis, Martine Mccutcheon, Celia Imrie, Brian Blessed, Nellie Farren, Marti Webb, Pixie Lott, Alfred Molina, Ruthie Henshall, David Essex, Kerry Ellis, Hayley Mills, Douglas Hodge, Tommy Steele, Marie Studholme, Jennifer Ellison, Siobhan Dillon, Simon Russell Beale, George Formby, Sr., Samantha Spiro, Hermione Gingold, Richard Short, Alistair Mcgowan, Jessie Matthews, Darren Day, Lee Evans, Tom Hollander, Jessie Wallace, Daniel Boys, Honor Blackman, Meera Syal, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Joseph Mcmanners, Michael Praed, Gertie Millar, Sheridan Smith, Jill Halfpenny, Tamsin Egerton, Nick Moran, Hannah Spearritt, Frances Ruffelle, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Frances Barber, Bobby Howes, Kate Cutler, Steven Webb, Hollie Robertson, John Partridge, James Bolam, Patricia Routledge, Tracie Bennett, Guy James, Abi Finley, Dan Leno, Pauline Rita, Adrian Lester, Gary Wilmot, Laura Michelle Kelly, Sarah-Jane Honeywell, Sophie Thompson, Sarah Lancashire, Tamzin Outhwaite, Cicely Courtneidge, Roger Allam, Sally Lindsay, George Robey, Murray Head, Paul Nicholls, Gina Beck, Kevin Bishop, Maxwell Caulfield, David Bamber, Summer Strallen, Julian Bleach, David Oakes, Mike Holoway, C. Hayden Coffin, Evie Greene, Leanne Rowe, Helena Blackman, Emily Fowler, Claire Sweeney, Jack Hulbert, Janie Dee, Amy Nuttall, Stephanie Lawrence, Jan Graveson, Alex Jennings, James Dreyfus, Sian Brooke, Sybil Evers, Gavin Lee, Maria Jane Hyde, Preeya Kalidas, Des Coleman, Perry Millward, Lisa O'hare, Tom Goodman-Hill, Reb...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=52139 ... Read more

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Chapters: Tim Curry, Arthur Aikin, Lucy Aikin, Chris Evans, B. H. Roberts, George Sampson, Kerry Katona, Bob Fulton, Ossie Clark, Liam Byrne, Miles Tredinnick, Steven Mullaney, Ian Brown, Pete Postlethwaite, Donald Adamson, Jon Newby, Joseph Williamson, Stephen Jordan, James Chester, Harry Worley, John Green, Edwin Astley, Sue Johnston, Gary Bannister, Matt Cook, Edna Savage, Stan Woodhouse, John Richards, Stephen Foster, Ray Peacock, Joan Ryan, Polly Walker, Joe Worrall, Chris Lightfoot, Harold Keenan, Simon Finnigan, Wainwright, John Bramhall, Phillip Archer, Reginald Essenhigh, Tony Bullock, George Duckworth, David Wright, William Kirtley, Peter Rylands, Matt Doughty, Ady Spencer, Robin Jarvis, Paul Cullen, Mike Worsley, Nick Brown, Richard Green, John Drinkwater Bethune, Chris Riley, Andy Coley, Alex Macdonald, Walter Jones, Peter Brimelow, William Mortimer, Neil Fairbrother, Steven Arnold, John Molyneux, Mike Bennett, Mark Carrington, William Norman, Steve Donoghue, James Stelfox, Steve Kindon, Wade Dooley, John Kay, Frances Broomfield, Edward Borron, David Banks, Alfred Edward Sephton, Joe Warham, Andy Bird, Tyrone Mccarthy, Geoff Molyneux, Barry Westhead, Tim Hartley, John Bramwell, Fred Worrall, Arthur James Waugh, John Webster, Michael Driscoll, Martin Roberts, Dominic Walker, Darren Heesom, Richard Egington, Ernest Whitty, Glenn Walker, Stephen Titchard, Dean Mcgonagle, Hugh de Prez, Helen Walsh, Peter Litherland, Percy Francis Phillips. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 328. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Christopher James "Chris" Evans (born 1 April 1966) is an English presenter and producer for radio and television. Evans was born in Warrington, England, and is the youngest child of bookmaker Martin Joseph Evans (12 November 1921 - 25 April 1979, died of colon cancer)...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=271829 ... Read more

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Utilizing the proven Pimsleur Language Method, a beginner's guide to the French language furnishes eight daily audio lessons designed to help listeners learn how to communicate in French. ... Read more

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Getting New Mexico SO wrong
I went to the reviews of this book to see if her depictions of England were so irritatingly wrong as her descriptions of New Mexico.An earlier reviewer commented on that.This writer supposedly lives in Santa Fe, and yet has her characters walking to places a good 40 miles from where they started, seeing the Sandia Mountains from a part of town where they are not to be seen, the cop Onante describing Mary's caretaker as Hopi or Cochise, describing a "Santa Fe platter" on the menu at La Fonda as having red AND green chili (I know tourists are clueless about Chili in New Mexico, but even for a touristy place like La Fonda, this is a little much), posole with green chili, a Canyon Road that hasn't existed for 40 years, and a Durango, CO that hasn't existed for 50 years.Either this woman does not live in Santa Fe, or never leaves her house and gets all her information about the state from her psychic.And that just adds to the annoyance with the sloppy plotting, pointless twists (or rather, weak wiggles), and characters who add nothing to the story.
I seldom put down a book unfinished unless its total trash.I like to think that occasionally even a bad book can be saved by a skillful ending.But just one more glaringly wrong piece of information and I will toss this one.
(and don't even get me started on "Biting the Moon")

One Star for the Cripse Kiddies.
They were the only interesting characters in this entire mess, and the only reasons I even bothered with this book were because I liked the audio narrator, Donada Peters, and to find out what happened to Mary Dark Hope's sister Angela after reading Biting the Moon--a much better and surprisingly loathed book than this one--first.This boring, outdated British storyline only goes to show that you can't judge an author solely on one project.I loved its aforementioned successor and totally despised this boring slop.Oh, well, at least the Cripse kiddies made me laugh.

Really poor, and symptomatic of the whole series.
Having read several of the Richard Jury novels years ago, I remembered why I stopped reading them when I started this one - chosen solely because I'm an English reader travelling to Santa Fe for the first time soon.

The chronological background of the book is ridiculous. It was written in the 1990's and is meant to be a contemporary setting, yet doesn't even remotely resemble the England I've lived in for the past 50 years. For example, there haven't been sweet shops such as the one she describes since the 1930's.

Richard Jury was supposedly a schoolboy during World War II, a fact made much of during the story. Even in the mid-1990's he'd be knocking on towards 60. The English part of the story is people with aristos and the gentility who mock the `ways' of the common folk,views which the reader seems to be expected to share. If it's meant as parody, it singularly fails to convince. If the book had been set in the 1920's the attitudes towards class of its characters might be more believable. Indeed, many of the 'characters' are merely ludicrous caricatures - e.g. the 'loveable'(read *very* sub-Dickensian, & wouldn't be out of place in a poor Dicken's knock-off 150 years ago) cockney-rogue family with a baby named Robespierre are deeply irritating, and their antics farcical. Perhaps the book - and this is true of the other Grimes crime I have read - is aiming for the surreal, but all it arouses in this reader is perplexity and irritation. Frankly, to portray England as like this in the 1990's is insulting. I don't read mysteries for the realism or the social analysis, I read to escape, but if the writer wants me to suspend disbelief she had better make a *bit* more of an effort not to get her setting so wildly incorrect.

The book also features two child-characters, one carried over from a previous book, both annoying rather than endearing or intriguing, which was apparently the intention.

I couldn't wait to finish it, and I mean that in the worst possible way.

Oh - the plot. The solution to the crime was obvious well before the end - and well before Richard Jury eventually tumbled to it - and it wasn't very original or clever, either, despite all the attempts at befuzzlement and mystification.

This book and series, though purportedly set in the UK, is certainly not meant for anyone who knows anything about us!

not her best
I discovered Martha Grimes and her Richard Jury series about three years ago and have been slowly working my way through.Generally speaking, they are terrific, interesting reads, with a lovable, eccentric cast of recurring characters that makes you look forward to picking up the next one in the series.But this one is a disappointment, the first time in the series I've felt that.Jury heads off to New Mexico, of all places, to solve a trio of tenuously related murders.Usually when you finish a well-written mystery, you can look back and see how all the disparate elements fit together to solve the murder, but in this one, you get done, and you think back to this scene or that scene and you think, "Huh??What was that doing in there?"And worst of all, I figured out who the murderer was about halfway through without even really trying-- which makes you think that Grimes wasn't really trying.:-)

If you're new to Martha Grimes definitely don't start with this one.In fact, I might even recommend that you skip it.She seems bored with her formula in this one.She should have taken a break and written a novel about New Mexico that had nothing to do with Jury instead of this lame effort.I still have half a dozen or so to read to catch up with the ones that she's publishing now, I sincerely hope this isn't a trend.

13th Grimes mystery read with panache by Curry
This is the 13th Jury and Plant mystery penned by the brilliant Grimes.Once again read by the amazing Tim Curry, Rainbow's End takes up just a "few weeks" after The Horse You Came In On ended.The newest case for Scotland Yard Chief superintendent Richard Jury, sees Jury again on the wrong side of the Pond.He is there to dismiss or confirm similarities among three mysterious deaths, two are British women - one dies in Exeter Catherdral and the second in the Tate Gallery.The Third was an American, one Angela Hope, a Santa Fe silversmith, while visiting the ancient hill fortress Old Sarum.He is not able to dismiss the threads that tie the three deaths together, but becomes convinced, since all three had recently been in New Mexico, USA, they are be connected.While Jury does the foot work in the US, he has set Melrose Plant to tracking down Lady Jenny Kennington.She vanished -literally - while at Straford-on-Avon.

Once again Grimes gives you a bang-on murder mystery with sleuth Jury hot on the trail of clues, and Melrose showing, as an amateur, his is a nifty investigator, too.Grimes humor shines, and is brought to life by Curry's wonderful reading.Sheer perfection from start to finish. ... Read more

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After any harrowing struggle, it is nice to consider checking into a hotel for a rest. In fact, this might be just the break Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire could use after their wearying deep-sea adventure.

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This introduction to sociology helps individuals explore how they learn and how to use learning strategies for more effective study. Its four-part organization covers specific topics under the headings of: perspective and method, social inequality, social institutions, and working for change. A focus on deviance and crime includes an extensive discussion of crime, crime rates, and the criminal justice system. For those pondering some of the many issues facing society today. ... Read more

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Soured me on the social 'sciences'
Three sociologists studied the same male-female interactions and got different fuel for blaming men.One studying Native american tribes said that the men protecting the women was how they maintained a "protection racket", the second said that they were as usual leaving all the work to women, and the last said that it was a patriarchal system where men had all the power.That above quote is from a book by Jack Kammer where he discusses sociology breifly as being an arm of feminism that being said in this book they do everything to blame whatever they can on men like me.Me and my white male privelege of working 40hrs a week and going to school.I understand in Chapter 9 Inequalities of gender it would mostly be written with feminist asides but if sociology is a science as our teacher insisted they could at least be objective or at the very least check their facts.For example in discussing the wage gap they never once mention that women tend to take majors in careers that pay less and stay away from most hard science classes like engineering ie the careers that pay well, of course, they dont mention having kids will interrupr your career either, which is something that many women do.The usual culprits reads like its out of a Faludi book: Sexism, exclusion from the old boys network, glass cieling.They even attempt to use the idea of a glass cliff when discussing two women who lost their ceo positions, Fuller was fired when Mirant went bankrupt something that happens to male ceos as well, but the second example they cited was just too ludicrious.Carly Fiorina of HP who dumped a profitable printing section and the company was bleeding money left and right until finally she was fired due to her lack of any business sense.Of course they do not mention that they just say it happened to her after she attempted to merge with Compaq thereby subtly blaming the invisible hand of patriarchy.Then they talk about gender equality and the law, all that I can say to that is women have more than equality under the law they have free liscense to murder their husbands and get away with it rather easily.Under inclusive feminism they attempt to say that men are threatened by feminism and dont want to lost their priveleged position, again aside from the top ten percent of men who are filthy rich......I dont feel that priveleged.
At least at the end of the chapter on gender inequality they make mention of the fact that men are more likely to kill themselves at least society isnt exactly friendly to men either, so at least there was some hope of a balanced chapter at the end.
But it doesnt end there in Chapter 12 RIGHT before they discuss Domestic Violence, They say, "The loosening of economic dependency has had consequences for men as well," you would think that maybe its going to swing a bit to the fair side but your disappointed, "a divorced man whose former wife has a job can more easily escape the need to make custody payments...the gender gap in pay means that women suffer more than men."Of course they dont mention the stat that says women dont make payments more often, when compared to men.Also I would like to mention they also have the feminist stat that a man standard of living goes up 10% after a divorce.....tell me what kind of financial planner would tell you to get married and divorced so your standard of living would go up?The only thing I am going to mention about the Domestic violence section is that they dont mention that studies have found that women and men are equally likey to use violence in a relationship, which again means if you werent well versed on the issue before you would assume a man is guilty of domestic violence in all cases when the cops are called.The reality is a lot different do a search for Erin Pizzey.
In closing I would like to say that I hated Intro To Sociology, not only due to the horrible research that was done on the issues contained therein, because I was forced to take it as part of my psychology degree path I didnt have a choice.Many people failed or got Ds in the class because they couldnt read the book itself, not much of an edorsement there.Please if you are a professor reading this use a better book.
I myself have changed my major to Biology since this class essentailly soured me on social sciences as a whole (I still cant figure out how sociology is a science aside from the fact that they do historical studies but the interpretation is up to the researcher and his/her biases) and secondly because they dont earn much with a four year degree *hint* *hint*.

Excellent in terms and study material
This book is so easy to read and everything is organized the same way in each chapter, making note-taking a breeze. Each chapter ends with quizzes and the answers are in the back to check. Also, the website offers an additional quiz in terminology and multiple choice. To prepare for my exams, I simply studied the quizzes at the end of each chapter as well as online and I got an A on every test. I learned a lot about the different sociological viewpoints of each subject studied in each chapter. This textbook is great for students.

The worst...
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