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I liked it! No pulitzer but entertaining.......2007-06-01
Not a bad effort as sports stars biographies go. I think it was a worthy purchase. Obviously Romo had an incredible work ethic and it was quite uplifting at times to read about the lenghts he went to to maintain his peak performance. I worry about his health for the remainder of his life though. Good read and if you like contact sports, you will understand his devotion. I'm 43, still consider myself young and play madden because I can't do the real thing! Go Romo!
Romo is great.......2007-05-09
An excellent history of human fears and greatness , in the best sport of the world.
Fresh Insight.......2007-01-06
Having been addicted to football since the age of 4 when I would watch Sunday NFL with my father, this book gave me fresh insight into a sport I have loved for more than 40 years. Given the fact that most autobiographies will present the subject in a moderatively positive light, I did get a better perspective on the inside of the game and what pressures these warriors experience - whether real, perceived, or self-imposed. I often get stares from men when they see me reading this book at the gym...I guess women aren't supposed to be that "into" pro-football, but after 40 plus years of it...what can I say. Its a good read
Romo - fun book........2007-01-03
Good book. Lots of interesting focus on the fitness fads.
Love His Attitude.......2006-12-09
this guy knew what he wanted out of life. he stay working and working towards his dreams. not a lot of people like him now a days. he didn't keep none of the things to help him get better to himself. he spent his own money to even help his teammates also. he wanted to win and be the best of the best. a dirty game i love also. to survive it, he got dirtier than the next player.
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Sonny Kramer and Linda Wakeman met each other innocently enough over twenty years ago. Sonny has spent his days and nights with Linda, a woman of intellect, charm, beauty and wit. The two have aged well together over the years. For the same twenty years, however, Sonny Kramer has also lived side by side with a woman of deceit, infidelity, manipulation and madness. The two women are one and the same: Linda suffers from bipolar disorder. Sonny has stood by her through it all and today they still stand together, caring for and loving one another. More than 2 million American adults suffer from bipolar disorder. Unknown millions suffer alongside them as family members. This is one family member's story.20 years in the making.
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Roxanne Mastrantonio, Marion County, Florida.......2006-07-16
In reading this simple yet complex story of this couple, it was very easy to finish the book and come away with wanting to know more. It was sad, but yet funny. Her friend and partner, Sonny sure had a rude awakening in his life, yet was able to keep his humor, and not see this through angry eyes. I mean, making arrangements for burying him before he even died was truly humerous. Maybe he didn't think so. But this was only in her EXTREME concern of taking care of him. I am sure that there are many things we don't know in this life of Linda and Sonny, and the many others who suffer this terrible disease. I also truly believe that we all may have some of bipolar in us. The other misfortunates' have the extreme as Linda has. I had a very good friend once that I alway knew had this more serious than most and just all of a sudden I never heard from her again. Even through the help of her mother, our friendship just ended. As Sonny says they don't mean to do the things that they do, and do not mean to hurt anyone. It is just one of those strange diseases that takes over your life. I believe if it wasn't for Sonny caring and loving Linda the way he did, Linda would be in a Mental Institution, medicated and sedated living on a different type of edge. I commend Sonny and his dedication and love to Linda, and to Linda for seeing what Sonny has went through for her and trying to make right by taking medication and staying away from that most delicate edge. THAT MAKES THEM BOTH HEROS IN MY BOOK!
Great Book.......2006-07-14
I loved this book - it was well written and I enjoyed both Linda and Sonny's perspective. This is an excellent depiction of the course of the illness and how it affects the lives of those around them.I highly recommend this book, not only for those with Bipolar Disorder, but also as an educational tool to help families recognize the disorder early so more people will seek treatment.
Compelling.......2006-07-11
Once I started reading this book, it was hard to put down. Although it is quite easy to read, it offers a deep insights into the world of individuals coping with bipolar disorder. I especially liked the hope it offers for getting to a point of effectively managing the disease.
Painfully Truthful, A Real Eye Opener.......2006-06-17
If you or any one you know belives that they are dealing with bi-polor disorder in their home, then this is a must read book. Answered alot of the questions no one else could answer. This man must be a saint to be able to deal with what I read.
An eye opening read...........2006-06-17
A must read for anyone who knows or lives with somebody who is bi-polar. A great account of events that shows just how debilitating this illness can be. My hat goes off to Sonny Kramer....There should be more heros in the world like him. Thanks for sharing your extraordinary story.
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- Interesting but otherwise mediocre
- Football Played on the Razor's Edge
- A surprising first hand look into Taylor's life
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Lt: Living on the Edge
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LT: Over the Edge: Tackling Quarterbacks, Drugs, and a World Beyond Football
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Interesting but otherwise mediocre.......2006-07-06
I always appreciated how dominant LT was on the football field. I never new how screwed up he was off the field. His on-field stories, recounting his approach to the game or his mindset during a play are riveting. Everything else, like his off-field antics, are sophomoric and stupid. This book is interesting, but not particularly well written.
Football Played on the Razor's Edge.......2003-07-19
This particular memoir is a no holds barred look at life in the NFL. LT writes with reckless abandoned just the way he played the game. It was interesting that LT was not changed by his experience in the NFL. He grew up a very determined young man, stayed that way in college and carried it through to his work in the NFL.
An intriguing portion of the book goes into LT's drug problem. This book was written early on in LT's career. It's too bad but he didn't really seem to take his problem seriously. In fact it appears he never really made progress after this initial treatment. He never really said the drugs were controlling him. I believe he had the problem resurface in years following this books publication. Too bad... so much talent!
Lawrence Taylor's bio is worth the time of any football fan who would like an inside look, into one of the best linebackers of all time.
A surprising first hand look into Taylor's life.......1999-10-21
It's to bad this book was written so early on in Taylor's career, because there are many more chapters to his interesting struggle through life. Get an insightful look into Taylor's battle against drugs and how raw talent led him into the league. The league in which he invented a new position, the tomahawk chop and was the first ever to be double-teamed. A surprising read.
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When Tina S. meets April, a teenage runaway, she thinks she's found her best friend. She leaves behind her dysfunctional family to join April in the tunnels of Grand Central Station amidst the homeless and drug addicted. Soon she's bingeing on crack--just like April--and stealing, scamming and panhandling to support her habit and to survive on the streets. In her own words, she describes her descent into crack addiction, being raped in the tunnels, her several arrests and jail terms and her grief and guilt over the death of April, whom she'd come to love. Finally faced with the reality that she might not make it through one more day, Tina takes her first difficult steps towards a normal life.With the help of a homeless advocate and his wife, a gay uncle dying of AIDS, and the woman who was to become her co-author on this book, Tina turns her life around and makes her way back to the world of the living.
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They're so lonely..........2006-03-12
This book is fantastic. You can read other books on the physical stuff homeless teens go through (the drugs, the rapes, the crime, the dirty clothes, whatever) and that's all in here, too, but what really gets you is the emotional pain of everybody in the book (especially Tina, the narrator). She talks how she returned to her boyfriend who would beat her because when she came back to him, he'd be sort of happy to have her around and that was the closest she could get to love, and how she was absolutely overwhelmed when her uncle didn't kick her out after she trashed his car because now finally somebody wants her around, and many other things. It's really moving. Read the book; it's a fun read (Tina's voice gets witty and sarcastic at times, and her life on the street and in rehab is very interesting), and having your eyes opened to the way the people in the book are so desperate for love might make you more aware of the people in your life who desperately need love as well.
a real page-turner.......2003-12-15
This book was really fascinating and great. I couldn't put it down. I really liked hearing Tina's perspective on her life.
While the setting of this book has Tina being drug-addicted and homeless, that's not all this book is about. The other running them is Tina's deep devotion to her best friend April [...]. It's very touching and I'm glad it was written.
Fascinating Story.......2002-07-08
I could not put this book down either. I happened on it by chance also while looking for books on New York prior to my first trip there. The core story of addiction and the inevitability of worse things happening is not new but what makes this book fascinating is the location in which this addict goes down her trek. Grand Central Station of all places in the world has to be in the top 5 most horrible places to live out this drug induced lifestyle. Because of this location you will read about things you've never heard about before in an addicts story. Somethings I still can't even imagine. I give this story a 4 instead of 5 because I got confused on time periods. I didn't understand where in time I was sometimes because of the jumping around that the author does and that was somewhat frustrating. The story itself is extraordinary.
This is unbelievable!!.......2002-03-03
Growing up in an affluent area of Connecticut I dreamed of running away into NY City - where the lights were always on and there was always something to do and people to meet. I wouldn't have lasted one minute after reading this book and the way Tina S. survived day after day supporting one's habit amongst a miriade of homeless people. I give her great kudos for finally finding herself with the help of others and has successfully made a life of her own. I was at the edge of my seat with this book - hoping for the best..which at times was questionable that it would happen. Parents should read this book as well as their children.. It is an eyeopener!!!
Powerful and Gritty Memoir.......2001-04-19
What Tina S. first thought was a glamorous adventure -- living with another teenage runaway among the homeless in the tunnels under Grand Central Station -- turned out to be the beginning of a nightmarish four years that included crack addiction, rape, violence, and the death of her beloved friend, April. But this is also an inspiring story because it tells how Tina managed to turn her life around after April's death. The book shows the horrors of tunnel life, but it also celebrates Tina's struggle to survive. At the end, when she's finally rebuilt her life, you want to hug her and pat her on the back and tell her, 'Way to go, baby!' Tina's courage, strength and honesty are amazing, and she deserves many thanks for being brave enough to share her story. It's full of hope, and you can't put this book down at the end without thinking, wow, my problems are trivial in comparison. By sharing her story, Tina shared a little of her strength and courage, too.
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Bitterbrush Country: Living on the Edge of the Land
Diane Josephy Peavey
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
ASIN: 1555912931 |
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"My home is the vast, open landscape of south-central Idaho, at once a sanctuary, a source of strength, and a heartache," writes Diane Josephy Peavey in the introduction to Bitterbrush Country. Her words echo the paradox that many westerners feel about life in the West, the most eagerly developed landscape in America. But in place of nostalgia, polemic, or exposé as a response to this voraciousness, Peavey describes from ground level what it's like to be a rancher and an environmentalist, to love a place still shaped by generational communities and rolling hills. In a mosaic of essays, Peavey shares both her visceral joys in the land and her fears about losing a rural western way of life. From delighting in the arrival of blooming bitterbrush and cooking "gormay" on a sheep run, to mourning the loss of neighbors unable to hold on to family farms and ranches, Peavey tells a deeply personal story of her chosen home.
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Patronizing Drivel.......2006-02-18
To anyone who grew up in rural areas, this is superfluous pabulum. I bet Peavey is in fact a big city girl that never got over the "quaintness" of rural life. I find her writing phony. Peavey writes like she is the only one enlightened enough to be able to appreciate the space and quiet of the West. We really do know what a privilege it is to live here, we just don't find it necessary to think up excessive adjectives for every rock, tree, or sunrise. I read one essay, scanned a few more, and promptly returned the book back to the library thankful that I did not buy it. The cover on the book is nice though, so I gave it a star for that.
Excellent, excellent, excellent.......2005-04-21
I highly recommend this book to all - those that love the life of a Western ranch and those that are just curious. You will be entertained and enlightened by these essays. You will laugh and develop a deeper sense of compassion. Diane is a wonderful writer and brings her stories to life with powerful word pictures. You won't regret soaking up this book!
Go West, Young Woman.......2001-10-23
Although I've read many books by and about women in the West, this is a refreshing new twist on the oft-told memoir in which the author marries a sheep and cattle rancher and grows to love the wide open and arid spaces of Southern Idaho, as well as the interesting characters she meets along the process. What's new about it? Peavey is the daughter of noted western historian Alvin Josephy, and spent every summer of her childhood at the family ranch in Joseph, Oregon. the book is a collection of her commentaries on Boise's National Public Radio station, and shows that she has inherited her father's wonderful felicity with the English language, as well as his sensitivity to issues in the contemporary West. This book belongs on one's bookshelf along with those by Terry Tempest Williams, Gretel Erlich, Kim Barnes, and Terri Hein. This is the perfect gift for those who grew up on a farm or ranch, or have just visited one!
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- How do you spell Freddie
- very weak, dry, and disorganized book
- We all Live on the Edge
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Freddie Mercury Story: Living on the Edge
David Bret
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Re: How do you spell Freddie?.......2003-11-18
Freddie Mercury's name is spelled correctly in this title. Just because some people may prefer to spell it with a 'y' does not make it the correct spelling. That is how the man spelled it.
How do you spell Freddie.......2001-06-27
I didn't buy this book. I wouldn't buy a book about someone where the author couldn't make the effort to spell the subject's name correctly. Makes me wonder how accurate the rest of the book is...
very weak, dry, and disorganized book.......1999-11-14
This book is not worth paper it was printed on, pretty muchlike the rest of the books about Freddie Mercury. I guess, it isespecially difficult to write about him, because when he died, he did not leave an autobiography or, at least, some decent interviews. It seems like he rarely answered questions seriously and did not really like talking to the press. Nevertheless, everyone familar with Queen, must know that he was, indeed, "living on the edge" in all respects. So, this book does not say anything new or anything coherent. It lacks purpose, strength, and accuracy that should be present, when writing about such enormous genius like Freddie Mercury. Listening to his music, his own statements (however rare), and his jokes still beats reading lame bios about him.
We all Live on the Edge.......1999-10-30
Looking around me I see people living on the edge. But Freddie was to intelligent to understand where his limits were. When he found out that he had HIV he changed, but it was too late, He then realized life was going over the edge and there was nothing he could do to stop it. The Man was always ahead of his time in his thinking and his music. Although Freddie is gone to those who loved him he will always live on. I have bought every book I can find on him, and one of the most personal one about was written by his Lover Jim Hutton, it isnt easy to get your hands on either, i know it upset many people becasue it was more like a kiss and tell, but if you want to know what Freddie's last few years was like even up to the moment he died then find the book and read it.
dry but some new information.......1999-09-10
I found the book hard to read. Too much about Queen in general rather than Freddie. I would like to know about Him- his daily routine, what set him off, what turned Him on,what happened with Mary,any funny stories from fans/groupies that may have had the pleasure of His company-if even for an hour! Things like that! Not concert info and how the band got started-trhings that I already know from books that were meant for that! This is Freddie Mercury Living on the edge!! I was hoping for more excitement!
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Much has been written about the lives of First Nations individuals and about aboriginal cultures in British Columbia. Seldom, however, are the writings first-hand, from the people themselves. This book is a notable exception. It chronicles a lifetime of experiences, observations, and achievements of Tyee Ha'wiih Earl Maquinna George, First Hereditary Chief of Ahousaht and offers a portrait of the issues and challenges facing aboriginal people in Canada. It explains, from a First Nations perspective, their deep attachment to their lands and resources and their long-standing quest for social and environmental justice. It reflects a time and a way of life, as well as a personal story, told with humour, wisdom, and truth.
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Fleeing her dysfunctional family, Tina joined April in the tunnels of Grand Central Station. Soon she was bingeing on crack, scamming, and panhandling to support her habit and survive. Finally faced with the reality that she might not make it through one more day, Tina takes her first difficult steps back.
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Eye-opening yet Hopeful.......2002-04-20
I just finished reading Living at the Edge of the World and now I'm getting all my friends to read it. This book was unforgetable. Tina is so honest about her fears and confusions, anyone can relate to her. The book is anything but depressing. After reading it you feel as if you know Tina and her friends. Now that I've started a new novel, I miss Tina! This a book for anyone who has ever felt hopeless or lonely, and for all us who continue to remember the homeless in our thoughts and prayers.
Couldn't put it down!.......2001-11-18
A wonderful read, simply stated, but by it's subject matter ... riveting. Twice as real as "the mole people." One of the best books I've read this year.
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The Edge of Adventure
Keith Miller , and
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- A thoughtful and searching biography
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Living at the Edge: A Biography of D. H. Lawrence and Frieda von Richthofen
Michael Squires , and
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"A fresh, fair-minded, richly textured life of the English novelist and his vibrant German wife."—Keith Cushman, past president of the D. H. Lawrence Society of North America
Dashingly told and meticulously researched, this double biography of D. H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda von Richthofen is the first to draw fully on Frieda's unpublished letters and on interviews with people who knew her well. It explores their collision with an industrial world they hated and chronicles the stormy relationship between husband and wife. The strong sexual vitality that inspired Lawrence's art brought both joy and anguish to his marriage. Here, the Lawrences emerge as proud but not conceited in their unconventional lives, staunch in the face of fierce opposition from a conformist society. Living at the Edge follows the separate lives of Lawrence and Frieda up to their first meeting in 1912. Tracing their new life together, it depicts their grateful escape from the English Midlands; their discovery of exotic places where they made temporary homes—Italy, Cornwall, Australia, New Mexico, and Mexico; Lawrence's courageous battle against illness; and, after his death in 1930, Frieda's success in recreating the simple life on ranches near Taos, New Mexico, where she died in 1956. At the center of their story is Lawrence's literary career. Biographers Squires and Talbot see Lawrence's major novels—The Rainbow, Women in Love, Lady Chatterley's Lover—as a fresh way to understand his turbulent and conflicted life. They reveal the extreme care with which he rewrote his personal experience to satisfy his deepest needs, and they introduce the many influential people who entered the Lawrences' lives and work. The rich materials from Frieda's letters reveal a different Lawrence—more difficult as a man but more interesting as an artist; they also reveal a different Frieda—more vibrant as a woman, more substantial as a companion. This superb biography gives both Lawrence and Frieda striking new dimensions.
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A thoughtful and searching biography.......2002-09-06
Collaboratively researched and written by the husband and wife team of Michael Squires (Professor of English, Virginia Tech) and Lynn K. Talbot Professor of Spanish, Roanoke College), Living At The Edge: A Biography Of D. H. Lawrence & Frieda Von Richthofen is a thoughtful and searching biography of one of literature's most famous married couples. The vital relationship between D.H. Lawrence and Frieda von Richthofen, (and Frieda's influence Lawrence's writing), are revealed and documented in this exhaustive, scholarly history of both their lives, which is drawn from a wide variety of sources including Frieda's own letters. An excellent reference especially meant to complement literary collections of Lawrence's work, Living At The Edge is highly recommended reading for students of D.H. Lawrence and a superbly presented addition to academic reference collections.
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