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In this follow-up to her debut, Diana Norman spins a vivid new tale of two women as they begin a journey through life, love, and liberty...
In the chaos of wartime Plymouth, in the early days of the American Revolution, two women come together in their search for missing loved ones. Together they face social outrage, public scandal, and even arrest. Amidst docks and prisons, government bureaucracy and brothels, they forge an unlikely and unshakable friendship. And in freeing others, they discover their own splendid liberty.
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Not great, but not that bad either.......2007-09-11
This book continues the story of Makepeace Burke and her family as the Revolutionary War begins. Her daughter is missing off a ship headed back to England and her journey to find Phillippa ends up dragging her into treatment of the American prisoners and smuggling. I'm in agreement with another reviewer, it took at least 300 pages to get things cooking, and with a 450 page book that's way too long for me. I also felt there were too many secondary characters, I had a hard time keeping track of some of the villagers. And while I enjoyed the snappy dialogue between Makepeace and Diana, to me it felt that it sounded a bit more 20th century than 18th century.
I did finish it, but not one I'm likely to pick up again, nor search out other books by this author. If you are dead set on continuing Makepeace's story, get it from the library first. Then if you love it, buy it.
(3.5) Poor start, bleak setting, but the ending picks it up.......2006-10-15
The second book in Diana Norman's ongoing series set during the American Revolution is nowhere near as good as the first, "A catch of consequence" was. While this book does star our old heroine, Makepeace, a surly, tempestuous, tavern owner turned aristocrats wife turned coal miner millionaire, she is only part of a story that involves smuggling, another tragic aristocrat who only recently was released from a terribly abusive marriage, and the terrible conditions of the British prisons that held American and French prisoners during the revolution.
All of this sounds good, but the sad fact is that this book is boring. Not all of it, just maybe the first 300 pages. I had to force myself to slog through them. Mostly the characters are annoyingly unemotional and self contained and the setting is portrayed in a way which only seems bleak, not reminiscent of the time period or circumstance (terrible as they may have been, this book made everything seem grey.) The book does pick up and become rather good in the end, but with such a poor beginning I have to admit I have doubts about reading any of this authors other works.
In the end, three and a half stars. Mostly for the ending.
A Chance to Travel Back in Time........2006-03-18
I loved this book and cried when it was over. Makepeace and Diana are two forces to be reckoned with. I loved the idea of strong women on the brink of war in a time where women were expected to keep quiet. This book reminds me a little of Frenchman's Creek, but it was so wonderful. You must read it. It is awesome.
Didn't grab me.......2006-03-03
I finally gave up half way through the book. Didn't find the characters particularly interesting and the plot was too predictable.
Best historical fiction I've read in a while.......2006-01-18
While I like reading about times past, I've never been thoroughly sold on the way most historical genre fiction is written. Books by authors like Anya Seaton or Philippa Gregory that other people swoon over generally leave me cold. I prefer classics, like A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, or I Claudius, where the writing and the story are a level above the usual.
So I read this expecting to sigh over improbable melodrama and stilted dialog. Instead, the first page made it clear that the book was very well-written, so I kept going with interest. The story had me hooked. In some ways, and I'm not sure why, the action scenes and story twists kind of reminded me a little of Outlander. The characters are sympathetic and generally well-developed, the action scenes are exciting, and the story never flags. There were times when plot twists were a little improbable, but I was totally along for the ride and never sighed once.
My only gripe - and this is a personal one (I've complained about this before with other books) - was her use of French without translations. (If the author is reading this: I would have liked very much to know what the French characters were saying to one another.)
But like I said, that's a very personal gripe. I don't like to be kept out of things. It didn't really detract from the story much (though of course I can't be certain). And it didn't occur so often that I felt as though huge chunks of the book were missing.
As other reviewers have said, this is a ripping good yarn. That's the best way to describe it! It's about two women from vastly different backgrounds who team up and become fast friends because they share a common goal: freeing two young men from a terrible English prison during the Revolutionary War. If you're able to put it down, it will constantly bug you to pick it up again and get on with it!
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The governors have nothing to support them but opinion (D. Hume).......2006-10-24
As N. Chomsky brilliantly states, `Alex Carey draws the veil of deceit and imposed ignorance in the struggle for freedom and justice.'
Alex Carey shows how corporate propaganda protects corporate power (the few) against democracy (the many). Skilled manipulation conceals the real human nature and the needs of the common man in the interest of corporate efficiency and profit, in other words, in the interest of the privileged segments of society.
The effectiveness of propaganda depends on the availability of emotionally charged symbols and ideas. The most powerful ones are nationalist symbols. Therefore, corporate propaganda tries to identify the free-enterprise system with US national values, and strong unions, interventionist governments, communists and alleged liberal fellow travelers with threats to national security, subversion and tyranny.
A surveillance network detects early signs of ideological drifts. Corrective persuasion is immediately disseminated through the media, completely controlled by fellow megacorporations. As the social scientist H.D. Lasswell said: `propaganda is the one means of mass mobilization which is cheaper than violence, bribery or other possible control techniques.'
Another means of manipulation is the filtering of social science studies. Only those which improve the industry's image and interests are propagated.
Alex Carey shows the nonsense and fundamental hypocrisy of alleged `basic' social experiments (the Hawthorne studies, the experiments of K. Lewin and F. Herzberg), which `prove' that salary, job security and good working conditions are only of secondary importance for employees. In the meantime, corporations pocket superprofits.
Alex Carey's dissection of the Hawthorne studies is simply devastating. He unmasks social scientists as servants of power and union busters.
This book contains also excellent historical information (the McCarthy crusade, the great steel strike of 1919) and exposes rightly the link between propaganda and the pragmatism of Dewey and W. James (the promotion of false beliefs is justified if they are socially useful).
This is a very revealing book and a must read for all those wanting to understand the world we live in.
Taking the risk out of democracy.......2002-02-09
Mr. Andrew Lohrey informs us in his introduction, to this collection of essays by the late Australian psychologist Alex Carey, that Carey was prevented from going to college by his parents after he finished secondary school as they wanted him to manage their sheep farm which he did with such success that he could sell it about a decade later and enter a university.
Here and there this book is dreadfully dry, particularly towards the end. His ideas probably would have been made clearer and much better organized if he would have been able to put together a regular book instead of a book of essays put together by someone else but he died in 1988 before he could get it done. But the topics he discusses are very important especially now when business and government propaganda has never been more powerful.
The main title of this book describes what big business and their intellectual and political minions have tried to do particularly in the United States as rights to vote and to organize in this country were extended to large segments of the population of this country over the last hundred years. Carey's old friend Noam Chomsky quotes in his preface the numerous intellectual advocates (Walter Lipmann, Harold Laswell,etc.) of what Thomas Jefferson called late in his life "a single and splendid government of an aristocracy" made up of the "banking institutions and monyed incorporations" whom he feared would destroy the freedoms gained during the American revolution. Many prominent liberal intellectuals devoted loyal service to the state during World War one particularly in the government propaganda agencies putting out massive bogus atrocity stories about the Germans and turning a largely anti-war population in a short period into a bunch of maniacs looking to destroy everything remotely connected with Germany and German culture. A young German soldier named Adolf Hitler was deeply impressed with the allied propaganda effort and blamed German weakness in this field for their defeat and vowed that Germany would learn its lessons by the time the next war came around.
The best part of Carey's text, by far, is about the first five chapters. The first topic discussed is the Americanization movement begun in the few years before World War one by big busisiness associatons who were particularly worried about such events as the victory of the IWW led strike of textile workers in Lawrence Massachusetts in 1912. Big business was particularly worried about the influence of IWW-type radicalism on the U.S. immigrant population which mostly worked under very bad conditions at very low wages and set to work with a somwhat successful drive to inculate immigrants as well as the population at large with "American" values like free enterprise and the status quo and social harmony and against alien values like socialism or the welfare state or non-pliable unions. Out of this campaign came the Fourth of July holiday signed into law into 1918. This campaign culminated in the government crushing of the labor movement during 1919-21 under the cover of chasing communists and German spies.
The labor movement, says Carey, did not recover until the Great Depression which forced the U.S. government to enact very basic welfare legislation and protection of unions. This greatly alarmed important segments of big business. The National Association of Manufacturers literature in 1938 warned of the "hazard facing industrialists" of the "newly realized political power of the masses."
The end of World War two saw the beginnings of a massive attack on independent thinkers and organized labor under the cover of a red scare. After a lag in the early 1970's, the elites in this country began to steer this country towards a very markedly right wing political climate, seeing the rise of previously regarded fringe elements as represented by such think tanks as the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage foundation which featured such profound thinkers as former Nixon and Ford treasury secretary William Simon who fulminated about how the Carter administration was steering the country towards collectivist totalitarianism.
He goes into some detail examining the right wing apparatus in his native Australia. He ends with discussion of some matters dealing with industrial psychology and industrial sociology culminating in a study of the Hawthorne studies, laborious research at an Illinois assembly plant made up of female workers in the late 20's and early 30's where a group of industrial psychologists tried to secure evidence that workers don't care about money and just want to be left alone to do the wonderful jobs that the labor market has forced on them. The Hawthorne chapter is in large part almost unintelligible and very dry, probably inevitable given that it is a scientific paper.
One of the most important books you'll ever read.......2001-07-18
Alex Carey's work is absolutely some of the best. My favorite quote of his is this: "The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy." This has become a touchstone for Sheldon Rampton and me in our books Toxic Sludge Is Good for You, Trust Us, We're Experts, and our writing for PR Watch. Carey is much missed.
Explains the role of thought control in democratic societies.......2000-10-07
Carey points out that citizens living in totalitarian regimes have no choice but to tow the government line out of fear for their personal safeties. In free societies, Carey explains that more subtle means are used to keep populations under control. Specifically, propaganda is used to ensure that most people will think in a manner that is consistent with the corporate agenda (such as belief in the free market and business' right to unlimited profit). Carey documents how Americans and Australians have been subjected to corporate propaganda during most of the 20th Century, and explains how these efforts have perverted our democracy (for example, American's over willingness to fight communists, real or imagined, to protect capitalism). Indeed, while many Americans were conditioned during the Cold War to believe that propaganda existed only in the Soviet Union, China and other communist regimes, Carey persuasively argues that propaganda actually played (and continues to play) a more critical role in molding the attitudes of citizens in democracies.
a seminal analysis of corporate propaganda.......2000-05-31
"Taking the Risk Out of Democracy : Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty" is a pioneering work in the field of corporate propaganda analysis which reveals just how much of a major force corporate propaganda is in contemporary society. Alex Carey quotes the business press as stating that the public mind is the greatest "hazard facing industrialists."
"Taking the Risk Out of Democracy : Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty" points out that there are two types of propaganda, each of which have specific societal functions. The first type is aimed at the educated, articulate sectors of the population that are involved in in decision making and setting the agenda for others to adhere to. The second type of propaganda is aimed at the unwashed masses, to keep them distracted so as they don't interfere in the public arena where they have no business in being. All in all, "Taking the Risk Out of Democracy : Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty remains a seminal analysis of corporate propaganda and its uses in creating an obedient elite and a subserviant citizenry. Very enjoyable.
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The Art of Being Free: Taking Liberties With Tocqueville, Marx, and Arendt (Contestations)
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The "art of being free" is an essential part of democracy. It involves, Mark Reinhardt believes, bringing into being the multiple spaces in and practices through which individuals and groups help to constitute their lives, their selves, their worlds. Americans are presently witnessing a contraction of officially sanctioned spaces for citizen action. It is now crucial, Reinhardt argues, to identify ways of opening new spaces for the direct practice of democratic politics. Reinhardt treats the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville, Karl Marx, and Hannah Arendt as exemplary sources for an expansion of political possibility. These writers indicate where and how the new spaces can be brought into being, and they reveal acts of making space as some of the prime moments of politics. Reinhardt's extended readings of these writers, never previously treated together, are quite unlike the familiar understandings of their thought. "Taking liberties," he brings the literary and political sensibility usually associated with postmodernism to a sympathetic if critical encounter with eminently modern thinkers. The result is a strong and idiosyncratic book, accessible and stylish, that mixes acute readings of canonical thinkers with more practical applications and illustrations. Reinhardt combines attention to textual detail and nuance with concern for contemporary politics, discussing as an unusually inventive example the AIDS activist group ACT UP.
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When I was four and my daddy left, I cried, but I understood.
He became part of the Gone.
The only life Oney Judge has ever known is servitude. As part of the staff of George and Martha Washington, she isn't referred to as a slave. She is a servant -- and a house servant at that, a position of influence and respect on the plantation of Mount Vernon. When she rises to the position of personal servant to Martha Washington, her status among the household staff -- black and white -- is second to none. She is Lady Washington's closest confidante and, for all intents and purposes, a member of the family -- or so she thinks.
Slowly, Oney's perception of her life with the Washingtons begins to crack as she realizes the truth: No matter how close she becomes with Lady Washington, no matter what secrets they share, she will never be a member of the family. And regardless of what they call it, it's still slavery and she's still a slave.
Oney must make a choice: Does she stay where she is, comfortable, with this family that has loved her and nourished her and owned her since the day she was born? Or does she take liberty -- her life -- into her own hands and, like her father, become one of the Gone?
Told with immense power and compassion, Taking Liberty is the extraordinary true story of one young woman's struggle to take what is rightfully hers.
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LET FREEDOM RING.......2007-03-16
"Let Freedom Ring," a popular qoute the Americans chanted around the time of George Washington, but to the Negro slaves this qoute would mean a lot more. George Washington didn't treat his slaves cruely but he still did own plenty on his plantation during the American Revolution. One of his house servants, sweet and charming, little Oney Judge was smart but could never understand why freedom meant so much to people. She thought she was lucky because house servants got better treatment than other Negros. House servents had to be mixed with both black and white though. Oney Judges father was a white man, but worked as a servant because of crimes comitted in England, her mother was black. Her father left when she was around four to be free. As Oney grew she understood more and more what freedom was and why it was so important. Oney was Ms. Washington favorite and later became her maid. She followed her everywhere. When General Washington was elected president Ms. Washington went to live in New York and so Oney follwed her to where she would later become free, or you can call it a runaway slave. Which leads back to the beginning of the story when Oney is old and an abolitionust newspaper wants a cover story on someone close to the George Washington. I reccomend this book for any one in grades 6th -10th , especially African American. This book was book was inspirational, gives you a deeper feeling of what was actually going on during those times, and teaches you to be apreciative.
Taking Liberty is a very inspirational story. This story inspires anyone, letting them know they can do anything. During slave times Blacks were on a very tight leash. During the American Revolution all they heard the Whites talking about being free, but they all thought "what about me." To have the guts to runaway from your owner or even ask for or about freedom you were pretty brave. For anyone to actually survive and live back then in those conditions you were strong. Thats why reading this is so inspirational beacuse you realize that alot of things are possoble.
This book also teaches you to apreciative of everything you're able to do and say. Slaves were'nt even allowed to take pride in thierselve because technically they didn't belong to themslves. It teaches you to apreciate small things like being allowed to walk to where you want or sleeping on your own bed, or even allowed to use the bathroom in certain places. As you get further and further in the book you start to feel all the things that they felt and you grow sorry for them. You realize that a lot of the stuff around you is a privaledge, not a right.
Taking Liberty makes you understand things about much more than the key terms in a social studies text book. You just don't learn the meaning of the word slaves, or the dates they were brought here as slaves. In this book you find alot of things. It makes you understnad how they felt, why they did some of the things they did, and the life they lived. It tells you where they slept, how much they ate, and the relashionships they had with the whites.
This book was so intriging during the whole entire strory. When you're reading this you don't want to put the book down. Taking Liberty is inspirationl, makes you appreciate things more, and helps you understand the things going on in those times. These are the best qaulities that make this book so good. I reccomend it to mostly African Americans or people in the age group of grades 6th - 10th .
Wonderful!.......2006-12-16
Taking Liberty, by Ann Rinaldi is historical fiction taking place during the Revolutionary War. This book is about an African American girl named Oney Judge who is a slave to George and Martha Washington. In real life she was an actual slave to George Washington. This book tells the life of Oney as a young child till the day she has runaway.
Oneys life is pretty good for a slave, and is like a daughter to Mrs. Washington. When Oney hears about the runaway slaves she never once think she would ever become a runaway slave until thing start to change, she has a wonderful life and is treated well. Should she give up this life for freedom? Oney must make a choice.
I liked this book because of the history in it. This book helps me think about the choices I make in life. Would I have made the same choice as Oney? I don't know. People who like history and biographys would probably enjoy this book as much as I did.
History.......2006-12-02
I loved this book but whished it would have told a little bit more about what happened to Oney after she was free. This is a great book for a person who loves reading books about historical events. I hope others who purchase this book will enjoy this book as much as I did.
Different angle of slavery........2006-07-04
"Taking Liberty: The Story of Oney Judge, George Washington's Runaway Slave" gave an interesting look into the life of a real-life slave of the Washington's. I had no idea Oney Judge existed, and I liked reading about a personal slave companion for a change. Plenty is known about field slaves, so learning about the life of a slave who had a fair amount of freedom and good living was appealing. The only time you know she is truly a slave is when she may be "given" to someone. Author Ann Rinaldi used that scene wisely. I recommend.
Where's My Freedom.......2006-04-25
A girl named Oney Judge is a slave girl who lives with her mama in the big house. Everyone really gets along in the house until Oney's mama buys a dress from a slave who stole it. She gets kicked out of the house and has to work as a field slave. Now mama despises her. Mr. Washington was elected president and most people in the house moved with them when they move. Mama tells Oney not to come back or she will kill her. A little bit before the end when they move to a different state, a lot of people are dying because of Yellow fever. She was to run away is to what her mama told her, but she still hasn't left. She doesn't want to leave because she like the way Mrs. Washington treats her like one of her own. Until she finds out that she was going to give her to her daughter as a wedding present. Oney didn't like that because her daughter was mean and treated her like a real slave. Oney also didn't want to go because if Mr. Washington died, all his slaves would be freed.
Overall I think this book was pretty good. The only part I really liked was that Oney was treated like one of the lady Washington's own. She got to go almost everywhere she went and got to sew things just for fun and got to go for walks if she had everything done. She always did what she was told. I didn't really like that Oney's mama treated her that way after she got caught with the dress. She didn't even claim her own daughter. She said she didn't have a daughter. I really didn't like that.
I would really recommend this book to girls or people who like to read about slaves. I think girls would read this more because it is about a girl. Some boys might read this book because it does talk a little bit about boys and has boys in it. I would recommend this book to people who like to read about the hardships slaves had to take.
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Only In America: Some Unexpected Scenery
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One of America's most important contemporary photographers shares his latest installment of documents in Taking Liberties, a collection of 65 beautifully produced full-color photographs with an introduction by the prominent American architect Robert Venturi. Graham's myriad subjects include 3,000 miles of full-color roadside attractions, and a world of general oddities.
Taking his inspiration from the United States Constitution, David Graham has tirelessly traveled the entire continental United States seeking out those Americans who are serious about their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness-from the California dentist who sculpts mammoth Amazon warriors to the Dallas hamburger stand that features a life size statue of Lenin. The book is a jubilant and highly amusing celebration of the freedom of expression that is truly American, and it will appeal to photography and architecture lovers as well as fans of American kitsch.
David Graham is a noted photographer whose other books include Only in America (Alfred A. Knopf, 1991) and American Beauty"Ë™(Aperture, 1987). Taking Liberties is the third book of this trilogy. Graham teaches at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and works regularly for such magazines as Time, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, Fortune, and Forbes. His photographs are included in the collections of the New York's Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia Art Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Robert Venturi is a renowned American architect whose influence extends throughout the world. A respected theorist and artist, he is also the author of Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (Museum of Modern Art) and Learning from Las Vegas (MIT Press) with Denise Scott Brown. Among his best known projects are the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London and the Seattle Art Museum.
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David's uncommon view.......2004-12-25
Another collection of photos from David Graham that captures so well the exuberance of the American commercial landscape. I recently reviewed another of his books, 'Declaring Independence' (ISBN 0966677684) which is the fourth in what I hope is a continuing series.
'Taking Liberties' is the third book and the sixty-seven exterior photos are bursting with visual delights. To be honest they are only everyday commercial scenes to be seen anywhere but it needs a creative eye to capture the ordinary and turn it into something that just seems so right. On page forty-three there is a street scene in Livingston, Montana, a black pick-up truck, a movie house and other business premises, a couple sitting on a bench, bits of commercial signage here and there, some sky and sidewalk all blending into a seamless composition. So many of the images in the book have this kind of stop and look intensity.
One reason I like these books of David Graham's photos is the very clean presentation, the images are centred on the page, nothing angled or bleeding of the page edge. This simple, classic photobook layout enhances the work shown.
'Taking Liberties' and 'Declaring Independence' are both worth owning if you like to look at an uncommon view of American commonplace.
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Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights
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For over forty years, Aryeh Neier has stood with the vanguard in the struggle for rights. Since joining the staff of the American Civil Liberties Union in 1963, he went on to become the youngest executive director in its history; to found and direct Human Rights Watch-the world's leading rights watchdog organization; and, most recently, to serve as president of the Open Society Institute. In Taking Liberties, Neier recounts this remarkable career. With striking detail and surprising candor, he recalls the persons he has encountered, the struggles in which he has taken part, and what, given the sometimes unintended consequences of these efforts, he might have done differently along the way. The memoir of a movement as well as a life, Taking Liberties offers unparalleled insight into the history of human rights. It is essential reading for anyone interested in international law, human rights, civil liberties, and-from the Guantanamo detentions to the war crimes tribunals-the crucial issues of our day.
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Bunch of books in one.......2004-03-14
A bunch of books in one as we see the turbulent litigation of the 60s and 70s from an insider's point of view, then the growth of Human Rights Watch and the important work done in Central America and elsewhere to George Soros' occasionally transformational efforts in former Soviet countries. Refreshingly honest, such as the part where Neier admits that the ACLU's mental health litigation asking for the mentally ill to be released from institutions unwittingly contributed to the homeless crises which continues to this day. I have never heard a liberal admit this, though it is probably true (it's important to admit mistakes to avoid them in the future). The book would have been better with more about Neier's personal life and his personal feelings about triumphs and defeats, but all in all a great insider view of civil liberties litigation, NGO politics, and human rights strategy.
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Beth is just the girl to meet on a boring seminar .........2001-10-17
well, maybe she'd be good to meet during ANY seminar ...
A divorced,late 30's Beth, with the body of a girl in her 20's, just out of a torrid afair with a 16 year old boy decides to work for a small brokerage firm in London as a financial analyst. After being there for a short while she hunts and seduces her boss, Simon, a day before she is sent to a seminar in a small Northern town.
To say that Beth is a very sexual person would probably be the understatement of the millenium since there seems to be very few people, either male or female that she doesn't like to couple with. I must admit that I did find it hard to believe that her first lesbian experience happens in this book at her age! Trust me with her libido, and the fact that she has been diddling herself since she was small makes this part even harder to swallow...
The great thing about this book is that it is well written and I never lost interest even though it is jam packed with raw sex. I guess I got a kick out of our oversexed heroine that seemed to always take mental steps back to watch herself having orgiastic sex with people she just met. The fact that Beth was a liscentious slut really didn't seem to bother her and that really was the wonderfull juice of the story.
The author certainly attained the Black Lace standard of a well written, easy to read, complete and believeable story of a woman that knows what she wants and then does not, supposedly,(at least not due to self recrimination retrospection) loose any sleep over her nightime escapades....
On an aside though and for thisand other contemporary authors, puullllleeeeze ...... lets stop the dumb safe sex condom references, gimme a break, it's erotic lit after all. I'm sick and tired of the warning lables on cigarettes, alcohol, movies, music etc etc not have to deal with this during the quiet little moments that I get to read a yummie book.....considering all the things they do in erotic lit books it appears very gratuitous, and definitely not a trun on for the heroine to have to rip the foil wrapper off a condom 20 or 30 times in the book. It's a given OK the girl practices safe sex..just say it and then lets get on with the story please ..... I mean when they get into a car you do not have to be told ... every single time ...they take out the key and put it into the ignition ..... right ...
boring.......2000-07-14
this was a boring read about a manipultive and rather unimaginative heroine...dull, tame sex and nothing much going for it.... pass, I'm afraid
great reading.......2000-07-07
I like this book ..I couldn't put it down. It kept me wondering what was going to happen next.
A sexy read.......2000-06-06
Sexy and fun. A erotic story about revenge and a woman coming into her own. I like the writing style and recommend this book.
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