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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
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For would-be entrepreneurs, innovation managers or just anyone fascinated by the special chemistry and drive that created some of the best technology companies in the world, this book offers both wisdom and engaging insights—straight from the source.
— Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, and author of The Long Tail
"All the best things that I did at Apple came from (a) not having money and (b) not having done it before, ever." —Steve Wozniak, Apple
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were just a couple friends with an idea? Founders like Steve Wozniak (Apple), Caterina Fake (Flickr), Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Max Levchin (PayPal), and Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail) tell you in their own words about their surprising and often very funny discoveries as they learned how to build a company.
Where did they get the ideas that made them rich? How did they convince investors to back them? What went wrong, and how did they recover?
Nearly all technical people have thought of one day starting or working for a startup. For them, this book is the closest you can come to being a fly on the wall at a successful startup, to learn how it's done.
But ultimately these interviews are required reading for anyone who wants to understand business, because startups are business reduced to its essence. The reason their founders become rich is that startups do what businessesdo—create value—more intensively than almost any other part of the economy. How? What are the secrets that make successful startups so insanely productive? Read this book, and let the founders themselves tell you.
Customer Reviews:
Great content, awful format.......2007-09-20
There's plenty of great information here, as all the other reviews said. But this interview format is really excruciating to read. Casual speech is very hard to transcribe in such a way that it becomes readable. This is why journalists and other writers are trained in how to reduce a long, tangential speech into something meaningful and clear. These interviews tend to run on and on and on, with the subjects jumping around, sometimes contradicting themselves, or misspeaking; all the stuff we do when talking, but which doesn't really matter in conversation, where other cues like body language make up for it. It really takes a lot of work to read this stuff, you're constantly having to hear the subject "out loud" in your head for it to make sense.
This book's easily twice as long as it could be if these interviews were edited down to a few really useful pages each. Or better: rewritten as short essays.
Interesting Read.......2007-09-19
Founders at Work is a fairly interesting read but lacks some depth. I'm the founder of a startup at the moment and am always keen to learn more about other founder's stories. The structure of this book is more like an interview with the interviewer rarely delving into the deeper human emotions, problems, issues, feelings etc of the founders. This really gives a basic "guided story" approach about each of the founders without any "pearls of wisdom" or "lessons learned".
Good for a single read or the average person who has an interest in technology startups from a founder's perspective, not worth being made into a hardcover.
As Good as Everyone is Saying...Just Buy It!.......2007-09-16
Loved this book. The interviewer asked a similar set of questions for all participants yet improvised when needed to follow an interesting train of thought to it's natural conclusion. All of the participants were refreshingly candid. Almost as if they were unloading on a therapist. Each interview is just long enough to feel complete but not so long as to feel redundant. On another note, I'm pretty anal when it comes to the physical presentation of a book and this one passes all my criteria: Decent margins, pleasant type face, good line space and font sizes, flexible spine stays open easily without trying to close itself, and easy to browse logical organization. If you're an entrepreneur working on tech start up this is one of the few "must read" books.
Better than the 7 Harry Potter books together.......2007-08-12
Better than the 7 Harry Potter books together (wich is a bad comparison as I didn't like them that much). The book is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days and later. Within each interviews, you'll catch dozen of interesting infos. Believe me , when you start it, you'll finish it within the week.
A Mars Bar for your Soul.......2007-08-02
Hey, maybe I'm just an old-fashioned chocaholic but books like this are what I turn to to get a lift.
In the same way a quick snack on a Mars Bar gives me a physical energy boost, I get a spiritual boost from reading about other people's struggles. An author needs a special style to pull off this kind of book and Jessica Livingston deftly steers the reminiscing. Maybe the book is just well-edited but there were many times when I think she asked just the perfect next question to keep the stories flowing.
I wish I'd been in the room.
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“My parents suck ass. Banning me from the phone and restricting my computer privileges are the most tyrannical parental gestures I can think of. Don’t they realize that Hope’s the only one who keeps me sane? . . . I don’t see how things could get any worse.”
When her best friend, Hope Weaver, moves away from Pineville, New Jersey, hyperobservant sixteen-year-old Jessica Darling is devastated. A fish out of water at school and a stranger at home, Jessica feels more lost than ever now that the only person with whom she could really communicate has gone. How is she supposed to deal with the boy- and shopping-crazy girls at school, her dad’s obsession with her track meets, her mother salivating over big sister Bethany’s lavish wedding, and her nonexistent love life?
A fresh, funny, utterly compelling fiction debut by first-time novelist Megan McCafferty,
Sloppy Firsts is an insightful, true-to-life look at Jessica’s predicament as she embarks on another year of teenage torment--from the dark days of Hope’s departure through her months as a type-A personality turned insomniac to her completely mixed-up feelings about Marcus Flutie, the intelligent and mysterious “Dreg” who works his way into her heart. Like a John Hughes for the twenty-first century, Megan McCafferty taps into the inherent humor and drama of the teen experience. This poignant, hilarious novel is sure to appeal to readers who are still going through it, as well as those who are grateful that they don’t have to go back and grow up all over again.
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When her best friend, Hope, moves away from Pineville, New Jersey, 16-year-old Jessica Darling is devastated. Jessica is a fish out of water at school, a stranger at home, and now -- with the only person with whom she could really communicate gone -- more lost than ever. How is she supposed to deal with the boy-and-shopping-crazy girls at school, her dad's obsession with her track meets, and her nonexistent love life? Sloppy Firsts is an insightful, true-to-life look at Jessica's predicament, from the dark days following Hope's departure to her hopelessly mixed-up feelings about the intelligent and mysterious bad-boy who works his way into her life. Sloppy Firsts is right in line with some of the great teen crossover works of popular culture, like The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and is sure to appeal to readers of all ages who appreciate the inherent humor of high school angst.
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Light, funny, and somewhat cliche.......2007-10-17
Though we've seen countless novels like this one before, and countless characters resembling Jessica Darling, this book will make for a fun read. If you're in the mood for some teen-angst, high-school drama, this book hits the spot. There's nothing really unique about this novel, but Megan McCafferty still finds a way to make it so good, that you'll be eager for more.
Light, Fluffy, And Entirely Unmemorable.......2007-09-06
After reading all the praise this book has gotten from the legions of readers who seem to find it absorbing, humorous, and realistic, I was disappointed to find both the plot and the characters extremely clichéd and formulaic.
I'm not saying that I found the book horrible. It was very quick and light, written in a straightforward journal format, making it a fluffy, effortless read. If you're looking for a lightly humorous chick lit novel, this book will fill those requirements.
However, if you're looking for a smart, unique novel that you're going to remember in years to come, I wouldn't recommend this. Most of the characters are either stereotypical or one-dimensional, with the exception of Marcus, who was quite unusual. Jessica was the traditional "smart, misunderstood runner girl". You can find her type in all sorts of teenaged novels. She irritated me. She was incredibly intelligent, a gifted runner, and great at writing, and yet her attitude toward life was generally pretty negative.
With all of her talent, you'd think Jessica would be confident, not pessimistic, which is why she struck me as fake. As for her friends, they were like characters from a soap opera. The plot was monotonous and unsurprising, with no truly exciting twists, right up to the end, which was neither final enough to provide closure nor enough of a cliffhanger to have you eagerly awaiting the sequel.
Instead of this novel, read Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen, or Just Listen, also by Sarah Dessen. I found all these novels to be much more realistic depictions of high school.
Sloppy Firsts.......2007-08-27
I read this book a few years ago when I saw it in the book store. I'm a rather picky reader and thought this might be fun to pass some time. I was attached to the character Jessica Darling by the end of this book and even more thrilled to find out that there was a second out at the time. Even more so I bought the third one just as it had been released and the same thing now with the Fourth Comings. Megan has created a character that simply comes to life in the reading. I would suggest to most who like coming of age stories to read this. Its quiet heart warming.
Chuckle, Chuckle, Ha Ha, Hee Hee, Tear.......2007-08-16
The first time I read this book, I was in 8th grade and I still love it to this day! I have read it at least 15 times and have never grown tired of it. Jessica Darling is me in a nutshell...if I were a female track star. Everything else is me...yes, I graduated salutatorian of my class and am currently going to Columbia University. I LOVE this series and you should too...especially if you are an angst-filled teenager.
Welcome Back.......2007-08-10
As Charles Dickens once very aptly obsevered: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." Of course Dickens wasn't referring to high school, but the French Revolution. But today, in our current American society his words can be no closer to the truth when discussing the legally mandated ritual called high school.
Everyone has his or her story. From the glory days full of football games, after-hour parties, and social ruling to the lesser exuberant memories our being an outsider, not understanding anything going on around you, and the unfortunately bullyness. Yet despite the pangs of High School and the sometimes harsh memories that come along with it, it is a time in our lives that years removed somehow becomes glorified as "the best time of your life," wither that statement is true or not.
McCafferty has constructed an unlikely heroine who reminds us exactly why we hated high school so much... and exactly why we will probably always look back on it with fond memories of times pass. Jessica Darling is you. Jessica Darling is me. Jessica Darling is everyone. Whither you can relate to everything she says, or just a few of the experiences she goes through during these novels, there is a little bit of everything within our heroine.
Unlike the heroines of classic literature that defeat the sociality structures (Dicken's "A Tale of Two Cities"), learn the true meaning of love (a la Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice"), Jessica Darling's one true clam to fame is not only surviving high school, but figuring it out before she leaves the hallowed halls. Most people figure it out sooner or later, but usually when they are removed from the experience.
What McCafferty is trying to say to the audience at large is that life matters. Everything that has happened to you, is happing to you, and will happen you have an effect that you can never dream off. The point of life isn't just sitting back and waiting for the next step. But it is embracing the here and now.
McCafferty is able to do these through a narrative that reads more like a self-aware John Hughes script, rather than 95% of book one would find in their local "young adult fiction" section. And the true genius and charm of the book doesn't from Jessica's stories of high school. But through your own memories, that while reading this book you are able to relive again vicariously through the eyes of Jessica. This book was not written for the tween set as a way to drool over what those "magical four years" will be like (a la "Dawson's Creek"), but as a way for people past that experience to look back and realize just how much their high school years truly means.
I cannot recommend this book enough, especially to fans of the budding new genre of self-aware coming-of-age stories such as "Prep," "Boy meets Boy," and the "Rules of Attraction." In all honestly I must request that everyone in their post high-school years, but still young enough to remember the impact John Hughes has on society to order a copy of this book. You will not be disappointed in the least!
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Second Helpings: A Novel
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“Knowing that I’ve just done something that will take decades off my parents’ lives with worry, you’ll excuse me for not getting into the fa-la-la-la-la Yuletide spirit this year. . . . The only difference between Christmas 2001 and Christmas 2000 is that I don’t have a visit from Hope to look forward to. And Bethany has already packed on some major fetal flab. Oh, and now Gladdie doesn’t need to ask a bizillion questions about my boyfriend, because she’s already gotten the dirt from you know who.”
Jessica Darling is up in arms again in this much-anticipated, hilarious sequel to
Sloppy Firsts. This time, the hyperobservant, angst-ridden teenager is going through the social and emotional ordeal of her senior year at Pineville High. Not only does the mysterious and oh-so-compelling Marcus Flutie continue to distract Jessica, but her best friend, Hope, still lives in another state, and she can’t seem to escape the clutches of the Clueless Crew, her annoying so-called friends. To top it off, Jessica’s parents won’t get off her butt about choosing a college, and her sister Bethany’s pregnancy is causing a big stir in the Darling household.
With keen intelligence, sardonic wit, and ingenious comedic timing, Megan McCafferty again re-creates the tumultuous world of today’s fast-moving and sophisticated teens. Fans of
Sloppy Firsts will be reunited with their favorite characters and also introduced to the fresh new faces that have entered Jess’s life, including the hot creative writing teacher at her summer college prep program and her feisty, tell-it-like-it-is grandmother Gladdie. But most of all, readers will finally have the answers to all of their burgeoning questions, and then some: Will Jessica crack under the pressure of senioritis? Will her unresolved feelings for Marcus wreak havoc on her love life? Will Hope ever come back to Pineville? Fall in love with saucy, irreverent Jessica all over again in this wonderful sequel to a book that critics and readers alike hailed as the best high school novel in years.
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Second Helpings? Yes Please. .......2007-07-29
After a cliff hanger of an ending that we experienced with "Sloppy Firsts", "Second Helpings" is a welcomed read.
Jessica and Marcus's relationship is much different in this novel, than in the previous. Mostly due to the fact that Marcus had confessed he originally was interested in Jessica as a sexual conquest. I, once again, was thoroughly entertained by the character of Marcus Flutie. He has this inane ability to understand people and their motivations. And by people, I mostly mean Jessica.
Compared to "Sloppy Firsts", I think that "Second Helpings" has improved. We now are quite familiar with all of the characters, and yet McCafferty continues to surprise us with revelations about everyone.
While "Sloppy Firsts" ended in heartbreak, "Second Helpings" ends in a very different manner. I think that readers will be entertained to learn how Jessica deals with the changes in her life, and the discovery of different aspects of the lives of her friends. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who is looking for a quick, and entertaining read.
Loved it!!.......2007-06-05
I do not know if I liked "Second Helpings" better than "Sloppy Firsts" but I know I am awaiting to read the third (which I just ordered).
"Second Helpings," was LOL funny and very interesting. The protagonist has an awesome outlook and personality that keeps you glued to the book. This book is good for young adults, as well as adults (I am 22).
One of my favorite books!
Great Read!.......2007-01-09
I bought this book for my younger sister. She loved it so much she had me read it, although I am out of my teen years this book was entertaining in reminding you how "dramatic" teen life was. I recommend this book to anyone that loves a good laugh.
Fabulous.......2006-10-28
I absolutely adore the Jessica Darling books. I love that these books are amusing yet not totally trivial. Pick it up, and you won't be able to put it down. I rated the book 4/5 stars because, let's face it, nobody actually talks like Jessica and her friends.
Second Helpings.......2006-07-06
The book came in with in 2 days and in perfect condition as the seller had promised
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Jessica Mitford, the great muckraking journalist, was part of a legendary English aristocratic family. Her sisters included Nancy, doyenne of the 1920s London smart set and a noted novelist and biographer; Diana, wife to the English fascist chief Sir Oswald Mosley; Unity, who fell head over in heels in love with Hitler; and Deborah, later the Duchess of Devonshire. Jessica swung left and moved to America, where she took part in the civil rights movement and wrote her classic exposé of the undertaking business, The American Way of Death.
Hons and Rebels is the hugely entertaining tale of Mitford's upbringing, which was, as she dryly remarks, “not exactly conventional. . . Debo spent silent hours in the chicken house learning to do an exact imitation of the look of pained concentration that comes over a hen's face when it is laying an egg. . . . Unity and I made up a complete language called Boudledidge, unintelligible to any but ourselves, in which we translated various dirty songs (for safe singing in front of the grown-ups).” But Mitford found her family's world as smothering as it was singular and, determined to escape it, she eloped with Esmond Romilly, Churchill's nephew, to go fight in the Spanish Civil War. The ensuing scandal, in which a British destroyer was dispatched to recover the two truants, inspires some of Mitford's funniest, and most pointed, pages.
A family portrait, a tale of youthful folly and high-spirited adventure, a study in social history, a love story, Hons and Rebels is a delightful contribution to the autobiographer's art.
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Hons and Daughters and Rebels.......2007-04-23
I was looking for a Jessica Mitford autobiography and discovered "Hons & Rebels". The original title of this (1960) book is Daughters & Rebels". Is anything other than the title revised/updated? I'm such a fan of Mitford, I'd rather read her memoirs than Mary S. Lovell's "The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family", which is supposedly more detailed.
They don't make royals like this any more.......2007-02-07
A view into the always fascinating Mitford family written by family member, and best-selling author, Jessica Mitford.
The personal observations about the totally diverse life choices made made by the sisters boggles the mind and confounds the senses.
Coming of age as a "ballroom pink".......2006-03-19
The Mitfords, the six daughters of Baron Redesdale, were inescapable fixtures of England's cultural life in the Thirties; as their mother noted, she needed only pick up a newspaper to see invariably a headline about "Peer's daughter" and she'd know one of them was in trouble. Eccentric, funny, intelligent and lively, one became a one became a novelist (Nancy), one became a fascist (Diana), one became a countrywoman (Pamela), one became a Nazi (Unity), and one became a duchess (Deborah). The second to youngest, Jessica, became a communist and then a famous muckraking journalist, and wrote THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH as well as this very funny memoir of growing up Mitford. Given almost no education while being raised in Gloucestershire and London, she eloped with Churchill's nephew Esmond Romilly to Spain, and then found work with him in America as the war began across the Atlantic. The memoir gives a fascinating account of what it was like to live as what her sisters dismissingly term "a ballroom pink" in the Thirties, but is most memorable, of course, for its detailing of her sisters' hilarious observations about class, snobbery, sex and one another: when it is announced their King is going to marry an American with the unprepossesing name of Wallis Simpson, for example, the sisters refuse to believe it ("That cannot be her real Christian name!").
Surprisingly interesting.......2005-10-14
Several things about this book were interesting. How alien to our current sensibilites for someone to want to go to school so badly, but have their parents consider it an unnecessary frivolity. Mitford also gives a real sense of what the lead-up to WWII was like. Again, I was fascinated that up until the Nazis invaded France, it wasn't clear if England would fight the Nazis or the Soviets. How strange sounding. And that some in the Engligh upper classes admired Hitler ("We could do with Hitler in this country"). Wow, I didn't expect that.
There were some problems with Mitfords biography. I really wanted more information on what happened to Boud and the rest of the British fascists once the war started. Secondly, Esmonds death is literally nothing more than a footnote, near the end of the story, which I thought was rather quickly brought to a close. No information as to what Mitford was up to during and after the war? I almost expected a sequel to cover the period from 1940 to the 60's.
Poignant memoir of happier days.......2005-03-04
One of my favourite books of all time, Jessica Mitford's Hons and Rebels is her personal account of her childhood as a member of the eccentric, aristocratic family of Lord and Lady Redesdale, and of what happened after that - when she ran away from home to fight in the Spanish Civil War, eloping with a distant cousin. The family were a constant presence in the British press in the first half of the twentieth century, and this book gives the story of their lives from the other side. Impossibly impractical, the author was entirely unprepared for any semblance of independent living - she writes amusingly of her early attempts at housekeeping, including doing the washing-up by washing, drying and putting away each dish before tackling the next one, and sweeping the staircase from the bottom to the top. Personal tragedies, however, are glossed over - the sudden deaths of two of her children are barely mentioned, overshadowed by the family's associations with such famous historical figures as Churchill and Hitler.
As another reviewer mentioned, 'Decca', as she was known, wasn't one to let the truth get in the way of a good story, so don't take every word as gospel - just enjoy this book for what it is, a highly original and amusing memoir.
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This book offers a case-based, problem-solving approach to Microsoft FrontPage 2003 and now includes a free, tear-off FrontPage 2003 CourseCard reference tool on the back cover! Students will learn how to create and enhance Web pages with links, graphics, tables, frames, and form applications using FrontPage.
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Author and illustrator Brian Froud offers believers a chance to consult with the magical wee folks. Using a deck of 66 "oracle cards," believers conduct readings as if interpreting Tarot cards. Each of the cards features Froud's signature faery pictures. Some of the cards have specific faeries, like the naked leaping "Spirit Lancer"--a feminine card that represents "self-expression, freedom, and exploration," according to the accompanying text written by Jessica Macbeth. Others are more abstract, like the "Guardian of the Gate," a blue- tinted card with splaying silver-white streaks that look like tendrils of faery hair.
This fascinating deck will keep Froud fans delighted for hours. Once seekers are ready to actually start communicating with faeries, they will also be delighted with Macbeth's whimsical, yet highly informative, guidebook. She is quick to sympathize with the self-consciousness that comes with talking to faeries, yet she also has the ability to jolly people out of their embarrassment. Macbeth is at her wisest when discussing how to ask for guidance and interpret specific layouts of oracle cards. But if you find yourself succumbing to giggles in the midst of all this faery woo-woo, take heart. Writes Macbeth, "Giggles are the grace notes of faery music." --Gail Hudson
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BRING THE INSIGHT, WISDOM, AND JOY OF THE FAERIES INTO YOUR LIFE
Using the enchanted art of Brian Froud as your guide, enter into the wise and wonderful world of the faeries. The Faeries' Oracle calls on sylphs, pans, gnomes -- and, of course, faeries -- to lead you on a delightful journey of adventure, discovery, and enlightenment that will illuminate the future and heal the heart and soul. This beautifully designed divination set contains everything you will need to explore this mysterious realm, including:
A complete deck of 66 radiant cards by Brian Froud featuring goblins, moon dancers, pixies, boggarts, and other faery folk we first met in Good Faeries/Bad Faeries
208-page illustrated book with text by Jessica Macbeth, which will show you how to read the cards of The Faeries' Oracle, with particular instruction on personally connecting to and communicating with the faeries
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You'll become adicted!.......2007-08-12
I bought this FaeryOracle card set simply because of my love of Faeries. Little did I know that it would become my inseparable companion.
The cards themselves are stunning, featuring Brian Froud's outstanding Faery artworks. But they are not your everyday pretty Faeries, they are serious and sometimes a bit scary, following in his 'Good Faery/Bad Faery' book's footsteps.
However, what really makes this set of cards incredible and addicting is Jessica MacBeth's book that comes with it. She is absolutely inspiring, bringing these cards to life with an insight into their meaning that will astonish you.
Unless you already have some psychic or clairvoyant type experience, read the book before you start using the cards. And even then, when you analyze them as suggested, follow this by reading Jesa's interpretation of each card. You will find that even the cards that seem dark and scary have a brighter and hopeful side to them.
But be warned, if you are a believer and get into them, you will get completely hooked!
I never even had a card reading before, or seen an Oracle Card set of any kind, and I had many doubts that I could follow or interpret them. I joined Jesa's online FaeryOracle Group, and I have found it a great help in getting over my doubts.
Today, only several months since buying this set, my life has completely changed, and my ability to work with the cards is incredible. I use it together with Doreen Virtue's "Healing with the Fairies" oracle cards in `multiple deck readings', and they complement each other brilliantly.
Wouldn't be without it.
My favorite deck .......2007-08-06
I'm a huge fan of Brian Froud. This deck is amazing. The artwork on both the front and back is just incredible. I read with this deck more than any other. It's always very accurate. The book is extremely helpful in many ways. There's so much magic in this deck.
An exquisite deck that is both beautiful and insightful.......2007-07-07
I am a collector of oracle decks, and I enjoy doing readings from the different decks. This is one of my favorites, and one of the most lovely. The illustrations by Brian Froud are simply amazing, there are those that are depicted as beatiful, some are 'darker', and others plain whimsical. The companion book provides lots of useful and handy information for those keen on doing readings, both for themselves, and for others. There is extensive explanation on the different faerie folk cards, each explained in meticulous detail. Simply put, this is a wonderful oracle deck that will delight, enthrall & enlighten.
a personal oracle deck.......2007-05-11
This oracle deck is consistantly accurate for readings involving one's personal psyche, and personal situations. It will also give you accurate information about the physical ramifications of your life decisions and will hint at what corrections need to be made to improve your situation. the more you use it the more accurate it will be.
It is a deck for personal use and does not mix well with readings for other people, in my opinion.
Mixed feelings, but optimistic.......2007-04-17
I just got this deck, and went through the exercises in the beginning of the book. The book is fun, interesting, well-written, and point-on about the use of the cards, and communicating with the fae in general. However, I am still having mixed feelings about a couple of the cards. Let me say, I'm a huge Froud fan, everything from Good/Bad Fairies to Labrynth, etc. But a couple of these cards really bother me, since (as I noted in an earlier comment to a review), I feel that the females are over-sexualized, and none of the males are sexualized at all. Nudity or their own interesting ecletic choice of clothes make sense for the fae, but when it isn't shared equally, it feels voyeuristic and odd. In particular, the Lady of the Harvest and the Earth Mother cards, I feel like the male sprites, fairies, etc are leering and strange. The Lady of the Harvest seems strangely passive and blank-faced, even slow. Anyway, it seems like at least a couple of others felt something akin to that. I never really noticed that in any of Brian's work before.
Other than that, I really like the cards, and love the book. I am going to stay open to the message that the fae will bring as they will.
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Astrology and geopolitics may seem strange bedfellows, but Soul-Sick Nation puts the two together to provide a perspective as extraordinary as the times we are living in. Using the principles of ancient wisdom to make sense of the current global situation, this book invites us to look at the USA from the biggest possible picture: that of cosmic meaning. With a rare blend of compassion, humor and fearless taboo-busting, Soul-Sick Nation reveals America's noble potential without sentiment and diagnoses its neuroses without delusion, shedding new light on troubling issues that the pundits and culture wars inflame but leave painfully unresolved: the WTC bombings, the war in Iraq, Islamic jihad, media propaganda, consumerism and the American Dream. In her interpretation of the birth chart of the entity born July 4, 1776, Murray offers an in-depth analysis of America's essential destiny--uncovering, chapter by chapter, the greater purpose motivating this group soul. She shows how this purpose has been distorted, and how it can be re-embraced in the decades to come. She decodes current astrological transits that express the key themes the USA must learn in this period of millennial crisis-including that of the responsibility of power-spelling out the profound lessons the nation will face in the next few years. Combining the rigor of a political theorist with the vision of a master astrologer, this keenly intelligent book elucidates the meaning of an epoch in distress, and proposes a path towards healing-of the country and of its individual citizens. Murray explains how each of us can come to terms with this moment in history and arrive at a response that is unique and creative. This book will leave you revitalized, shorn of illusions and full of hope.
Customer Reviews:
Geopolitics and Ancient Symbolism .......2007-10-01
The terrifying events of September 11th 2001 coincided with the opposition of Saturn and Pluto, an astronomical pattern that occurs every twenty-nine years and has been observed by astrologers to coincide with periods of tension and conflict. This time around the opposition was particularly noteworthy, as the two planets faced off across the ascendant/descendant axis of the US chart, signifying a challenging and transformative period for the USA in terms of self-image and relationships abroad.
In Soul-Sick Nation, Jessica Murray examines the meaning of the astrological events that occurred around 9/11 and that continue to overshadow this era of suffering, produced by the grim aftermath of that day of terror. She analyzes the natal US chart in depth, and with insight and precision applies her many years of astrological study to a masterly delineation of the strengths and weaknesses of the most powerful country in the world.
With great clarity, she excoriates the addictions and follies of contemporary American society. Murray takes no prisoners in her searing analysis of the flabby indulgences of a facsimile of culture propagated through the media, manipulated by corporate greed, and infected by corrupt government.
But there is light at the end of this sad and sorry tunnel: Murray uses her astrological lens to uncover and describe the inherent nobility and vision of the American spirit, and to point the way for recovery from the current miasma of materialism gone mad.
I recommend this book for all astrologers and for all students of culture interested in the meeting point of geopolitics and ancient symbolism. The wisdom of the past can be used to illuminate the errors and confusion of the present, if we know where, and how, to look. In Soul-Sick Nation, Murray writes as a way-shower and visionary offering a perspective that can help to set us free.
TOO Much Personal Bias.......2007-07-12
Any astrologer of a true caliber ~ within their writings will fairly exhibit their own chart in order that readers can contrast the author's statements with personal planetary placements. But those authors who wish only to present a jaundiced view will not do so.
This flaw was the first major one I noted. Then, the "facts" delineated as true were scary in their prejudice. Oh, well, I guess we can call this a lesson in learning to judge and study more astutely, and in that way we will be able to do some serious delving on our own, knowing we have received a good lesson in doing such by a writer in the most liberal city in the most liberal state in the Union. She did have some friends write some great reviews, didn't she? I would say "buyer beware" regarding this book.
Soul-Sick Nation.......2007-07-09
Finally a book that speaks to the truth about an "amazing country" spiraling dangerously into the very things that once made it great. Written with outstanding astuteness, wisdom and insightfulness, Jessica Murray has taken me on a literary journey into America's fragile soul. Full of wonderful astrological insights i began to piece togther many of the significant parts of this great country's recent events. It's multinational corporate strangle hold on the country, the self serving politicians married to the unethiical corporations, the flawed media involvement partnered with skewed political agenda, and of course the confused and paralyzed collective unable to move beyond the fogs of conditioned response and much more.
The analysis of America's birth chart provided me with a strong understanding of the ebb and flow of "Soul-Sick Nation", however an astrological background is not necessary to access or understand the powerful messages this book delivers. It is clear and succinct in its' writing and affords quality information at many levels. It becomes clear that a country numb to fundamental "global" trgedy is on the doorstep of a new level of consciousness.
Jessica provides us with the insights we need to challenge our complacency and to begin with the "right questions". This book "Soul-Sick Nation" is an unparalleled tribute to our individual and collective unconscious dilemmas.
Steven Williams
A great read for anybody interested in politics or astrology........2007-06-21
Soul-Sick Nation is a passionate and well-written book that brings an astrologer's skills to an assessment of the current status of the United States of America. The book is tightly organized and easy to read. Approaching the U.S. as if it were an individual seeking astrological consultation, the author moves through a careful and fascinating analysis of its birth chart, given the country's birth date of 1776 and place of birth Philadelphia. In this sense, Soul-Sick Nation is also a primer on astrology, and the author is a patient and clear teacher for the uninitiated, adding to the enjoyment of the reading. My favorite part was the astrological sketches of famous personalities, such as John McCain, Clint Eastwood, and Walter Cronkite. However, the portrait of the country was equally riveting. Given the contemporary situation in world politics, the author's analysis is sobering. The reader is grateful for the concluding section, in which she offers some ways in which we can work towards a better future. One of her suggestions is to challenge taboos, blind spots that we all have, particularly to appreciate the dangers of reductionism and challenge our beliefs about our government. This is a good admonition, since - as the author points out - complexity is the enemy of greed and stupidity.
- Alex Harrison M.D.
An Astrologer's Politically Biased Book.......2007-04-10
I am an astrologer, therefore I ordered this book from another astrologers web-site recommendation.I am extremely un-nerved to read a book that should be astrolocally un-bias. There are both light and dark sides to all signs, planets, houses and interrupratations of same. This writer only tells the very dark side of what is happening in our nation today. She is obviously a very liberal Democrat...to the Socialist side of world view. (Of course, only in America could she write such a diatribe!)
I don't expect writers to not show their view-point. But I do expect an astrologer-writer to give both sides, other viewpoints and and well-rounded explanation for what the planets are doing today.
Of course, this is what's happening all around us...hysteria, waiting for the "End Times",negative thinking/conspiracy thinking, fortune seeking souls out for their 15-minutes of fame.
This book was a waste of my money.
Book Description
Based on the best-selling series, Can You Find It? , this edition focuses on art set outside, providing a fun way for young readers to learn about classic art by bringing the museum to them.
Can You Find It Outside? makes discovering art fun! After reading this book, young readers will be saying, "I spy great art!" Here's a seek-and-find book that invites youngsters to look at art in a special way: very closely! Whether it's a garden by Vincent van Gogh, a boat race by Thomas Eakins, or a peaceable kingdom by Edward Hicks, in this book each of the thirteen paintings, reproduced in full color, invites young children to explore works of art depicting a variety of outdoor scenes.
Written in simple rhyme with major works form The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, this book asks children to take a close, closer and closest look at classic fine art at an early age.
Customer Reviews:
Can You Find It Outside?.......2007-01-10
An excellent book for teaching children that there is more to see in the world and starting them apperciating real art. Trips to the musuem could follow a reading of this book. Also a good book to read with the younger child to have a closer parental relationship.
Book Description
Based on the best-selling series, Can You Find It? , this edition focuses on art set inside, providing a fun way for young readers to learn about classic art by bringing the museum to them.
Can You Find It Inside? makes discovering art fun! After reading this book, young readers will be saying, "I spy great art!" Here's a seek-and-find book that invites youngsters to look at art in a special way: very closely! Whether it's a restaurant by Edward Hopper, a breakfast table by Fairfield Porter, or a game of keep-away by Seymour Joseph Guy, in this book each of the thirteen paintings, reproduced in full color, invites young children to explore works of art depicting a variety of indoor scenes.
Written in simple rhyme with major works form The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, this book asks children to take a close, closer and closest look at classic fine art at an early age.
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