Rewind (Replica: The Plague Trilogy I)

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No one can identify the cause of the mysterious disease. There’s evidence that the bacteria infected human genes as much as a million years ago. Back in the prehistoric age. Back when dinosaurs roamed the land. Back when cavepeople communicated in grunts and gestures. And the bacteria has been dormant—until now.
Amy’s refined genes make her immune to this terrible plague. But when someone close to her shows symptoms of the disease, Amy will do anything to help find a cure. The only way: traveling back to the time when it all began . . .

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Pretty good, not the best.......2004-01-11

I think this book is okay, but NOT the best in the series. The books in the beginning of the series are really good, up until the the Plague Trilogy ones and the last one. Those ones get more and more rediculis. This book is still good if you are into far out stuff, like time traveling. Some of my favorite ones are the *special editions* like #6 And the two shall meet, and #18 Return of the Perfect girls. Overall I would REALLY recomend this series because they have a little bit of everything for everyone, romance, action, and alot of times mystery. Start at the begining of the series.

Replica a review by Jessica.......2003-12-31

Have you ever seen or heard of a human clone in your life? Well, if you have, you should read Replica by Marilyn Kaye who writes great books. Amy Candler is not a normal girl. She can do everything better than everyone else. Why is Amy's mom, Nancy, so worried about anyone finding out her secret? Read Replica to find out.
Amy Candler and Nancy live down in Southern California has a very tricky life she has a big secret no one can know. How does she deal with this secret? Does anyone find out her big secret? What happens to Amy?
"What is the big secret?" asked Amy's friend, Tasha. What is the big secret about Amy? Amy, the protagonist, has a big secret and no one can find out not even her best friend. Only her mom can know. To Amy, it is very hard keeping such a big secret away from everyone.
Amy and Nancy can't tell anyone anything that has to do with Amy not being. If anything gets out, Amy, Nancy, and anyone who know will be in serious danger. Amy does not want to put any of her friends in danger but, her secret is too big for everyone except Nancy. What will Amy do?
"Let's go to the park for a picnic!" Nancy's boyfriend, Brad mentions.
"What a great idea," Nancy replies. They go to the park and see a guy wearing ski masks and dressed in black. Who is moving to town? Nancy knows this person, but does Amy get to know this person? Is he here to help Amy, or is he here to find out more about Project Crescent?
Doesn't just reading this make you wonder where Amy and Nancy came from? Did Amy and her mom come from another planet, or are they plain old people. Read Replica and then you can read all about it.

pretty good book.......2002-11-17

A plague is striking mankind, but Amy and Andy and their fellow clones are immune. When they learn of a group of people that can send them back in time, Amy and Andy agree to it, and find themselves going back to the prehistoric era. Amy loses track of Andy but meets up with a group of neanderthals, and befriends a girl named Lucy. Lucy and her friends direct Amy to another camp, one that has aliens and a spaceship. I won't spoil the ending, but this book is fairly good, and you should read it.

Awesome Book!.......2002-08-06

This was such a great book! I finished it in about 3 hours I was just so hooked. In the 21st installment of the Replica series, Amy goes back to the prehostric era to try to find a cure for a deadly plague that is preading throuhgout the world. While there she meets alot of new friends and learns alot about what it was like to live in that time. Highly recommended and dont forget to read all the other Replica books along with Play: The Plague Trilogy Book Two and Fast Forward: The Plague Trilogy Book 3 that comes out in sometime this month I think.

One Of The Best.......2002-04-27

I think this is one of the best of the Replica series. It's cool how Marilyn Kaye introduces new concepts and ideas (aliens, time travel, dinosaurs...) in every book she writes, and it makes you wonder what she's going to come up with next.

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I don't know how someone who could write as racist a book
Funny, poignant and observant
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A funny look at a serious situation.
A Personal Reflection

The Plague and I
Betty MacDonald
Manufacturer: George Mann Books
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ASIN: 0704102544

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You know how sometimes friendship blossoms in the Þrst few moments of meeting? “Something clicked,” we say. Well, that's what discovering Betty MacDonald was like for me: I happened to read a couple of pages of one of her books and — click — knew right away that here was a vivacious writer whose friendly, funny, and Þery company I was really going to enjoy. Although MacDonald's Þrst and most popular book, The Egg and I, has remained in print since its original publication, her three other volumes have been unavailable for decades. The Plague and I recounts MacDonald's experiences in a Seattle sanitarium, where the author spent almost a year (1938-39) battling tuberculosis. The White Plague was no laughing matter, but MacDonald nonetheless makes a sprightly tale of her brush with something deadly. Anybody Can Do Anything is a high-spirited, hilarious celebration of how “the warmth and loyalty and laughter of a big family” brightened their weathering of The Great Depression. In Onions in the Stew, MacDonald is in unbuttonedly frolicsome form as she describes how, with husband and daughters, she set to work making a life on a rough-and-tumble island in Puget Sound, a ferry-ride from Seattle.

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I don't know how someone who could write as racist a book.......2006-04-01

as "The Egg and I"--her statement in that book that "I do not like Indians and I think we did a good thing in coming over and taking this beautiful country away from them." made my part-Cherokee blood boil--could write another that was so UNracist. While the author does use terms like 'colored' and 'Negro', those were (one can understand) the accepted terms in the 1930s, and while she records the racist attudes of some of the patients and staff, she apparently does not agree with them. She formed a close attachment with a Japanese patient--whom she later urges to go to college--and when an African-American (to use the accepted term of today) patient tells her that she doesn't mind being in isolation because the white patients don't want her as a roommate anyway, she thinks this absurd.

It is difficult for us today to understand how very scary TB was back then. While TB is not unknown today, if caught early it is easily treated with appropriate medications; not so, then. The only treatment was a rest-cure with pallitive measures; many people recovered, but many did not. There were some surgical treatments (collapsed lung), but they were painful and not terribly effective. It was known to be contageous, although not nearly as contageous as many people thought it was. The nearest modern equivalent might be HIV/AIDS, except that the latter is always fatal.

As other authors have mentioned, one hardly thinks that such a story would be funny, but BMacD is able to find humor in any situation. I've read all four of her books for adults and enjoyed them very much--even 'Egg'. That she was able to be discharged from the sanitarium after only about a year shows that laughter is, indeed, the best medicine.

Funny, poignant and observant.......2006-01-17

If there's anything good about a disiplinarian TB institution in the 30s (not 40s), it's the opportunity to meet so many different kinds of people. Macdonald is an observer and nailer of people's quirks on a level with Dickens (both of them, Charles and Monica). I love this book. There's one thing I would like explained, though. American readers talk as if Macdonald's "racism" was an understood and obvious thing. I see no racism in this book. OK, she calls somebody "coloured" and another girl "black". She also mentions that her roommate is Japanese and her workmate an Eskimo. Is she racist for not using today's PC terminology? She praises the institution for accepting everybody and mixing them together. She quotes some racist comments from other patients, but doesn't say she condones them, in fact "Betty" in the book answers back and disagrees. Please, please, somebody tell me why it is currently PC to say Macdonald is racist?

Christmas celebrations in the San.......2003-12-14

I read this book long ago, have forgotten a lot of it, but just about every December I find myself singing "Deck the Halls in Old Crepe Paper, fa la la" etc. Used to confuse my kids no end. For those who haven't read it yet, look for the scenes of holiday celebrations in the old TB sanitaruims-- sad & funny.

A funny look at a serious situation........2001-10-27

This book is filled with an off beat sence of humor. It isn't the slap you in the face kind of humor but rather the kind of humor that hits you later. For example, I found myself smilingat something I read earlier in the day while cooking dinner. At the end of this book you feel like you know each of the people personally. I wanted a follow up to find out what happened to each person. It's that good.

Basically this book is about Betty MacDonalds stay in a sanitorium while she had TB. She can take such a serious topic that could be pretty morose and turn it into something interesting and funny.

A Personal Reflection.......2001-10-20

Betty McDonald was my husbands's aunt - her sister DeDe mentioned in this book was my beloved mother-in-law. Although I never knew Betty, I had the priviledge of knowing my mother-in-law for 20 some years. The entire Bard family was a strong group with character like none other. My children had the priviledge of growing up listening to so many other "Bard Family stories" told by DeDe, their grandmother. It's too bad we don't have that grit, humor and determination that Betty and the rest of her family had. Those characteristics would help so many of us get through the tough times we face today. She was a great author and a classy lady. So glad these books have come back into print.

1603: The Death of Queen Elizabeth I, the Return of the Black Plague, the Rise of Shakespeare, Piracy, Witchcraft, and the Birth of the Stuart Era

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More confusing than interesting

1603: The Death of Queen Elizabeth I, the Return of the Black Plague, the Rise of Shakespeare, Piracy, Witchcraft, and the Birth of the Stuart Era
Christopher Lee
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ASIN: 0312321392

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1603 was the year that Queen Elizabeth I, the last of the Tudors, died. Her cousin, Robert Carey, immediately rode like a demon to Scotland to take the news to James VI. The cataclysmic time of the Stuarts had come and the son of Mary Queen of Scots left Edinburgh for London to claim his throne as James I of England.

Diaries and notes written in 1603 describe how a resurgence of the plague killed nearly 40,000 people. Priests blamed the sins of the people for the pestilence, witches were strangled and burned and plotters strung up on gate tops. But not all was gloom and violence. From a ship's log we learn of the first precious cargoes of pepper arriving from the East Indies after the establishment of a new spice route; Sharkespeare was finishing Othello and Ben Jonson wrote furiously to please a nation thirsting for entertainment.

1603 was one of the most important and interesting years in British history. Christopher Lee, acclaimed author of This Sceptred Isle, unfolds its story from first-hand accounts and original documents to mirror the seminal year in which Britain moved from Tudor medievalism towards the wars, republicanism and regicide that lay ahead.

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Interesting but misguided.......2006-04-16

I found Christopher Lee's 1603 to be a somewhat of an interesting if not misguided effort to present what life and events were like back in 1603. There's a lot of information in this book which proves to be interesting but they are poorly organized and presented. The author appears to throw them in without much explanations as if he wishes to showed off his primary sources.

As the previous reviewer mentioned, there were also many childish errors in this book. Errors that a book published in 2003 should not be making because of new information that came out during the past 40 years. But what strike me the most was Chapter 17 when the author - who for some strange reason, switched over to Japanese history of 1603 and started to write about the struggles there. I don't see the relationship but what I read were host of errors and misunderstanding of Japanese history that was almost insulting to read. (For example: "Shogun Hideyoshi"?? What Japanese child of 10 would make such an error? That is like some one writing "President Elizabeth I"!!) Its pretty clear that neither the author or the editor of this book knows little about Japanese history. But that chapter alone proves to be the reflection of the book itself, sloppy, ill-written and poorly researched.

I would recommended the book After Elizabeth by Leanda de Lisle which covers the same period and does it with a more professional flair.

As irritating as it is fascinating.......2005-01-03

This is what the title says: A book about the year 1603. A reader who expects an in-depth explanation of the machinations surrounding the succession of Elizabeth I by James I will be disappointed. Any discussion of this interesting subject remains extremely superficial.

The strength of Lee's work is his attempt to convey to his public what it must have been to live in 1603. This is supported by long quotations from publications of the period, and these are both enlightening and amusing. His rather rambling style of writing is well suited to conveying a period atmosphere.

The big weakness is in the careless way in which the author swims through the surrounding history. At times he throws in references to people and events without bothering to explain who and what to the reader, as if he wants to show off his erudition by being impenetrable. At other times he demonstrates rather crass ignorance for a historian of the period, by messing up the titles of the Cecil family, uncritically repeating gratuitous slander about the Earl of Bothwell, or echoing tyhe schoolboy's book version of the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. In a book like this, such errors cannot be excused.

The result is the written equivalent of a custome drama with an unitelligible plot. It is a series of scenes, each conveying a certain atmosphere, but not integrated together in a story. The book fails to convince the reader that is a coherent unit, and in fact it also fails to convince the reader that the author has a good understanding of his own chosen subject.

Incoherent, garbled and convoluted.......2004-08-09

Lee scatters material across the pages with little regard for the book he's writing and its title, and no thought whatsoever for the supposed structure of the book. At any point, he is likely to digress into a confused and confusing family history of a minor player in the saga for no detectable reason. Not the slightest attempt has been made to edit his rambling style or apply rules of grammar, punctuation, or consistency. The result is a book that is actually unreadable, with its only saving grace being the generous quoting of contemporary sources.

At times, Lee patronizes his readers: carefully explaining to us that mobile telephones didn't exist in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, for example, and repeatedly emphasising this sort of nonsense. At other times, he breezily assumes we possess arcane knowledge about the tangled family histories of English political dynasties that no lay reader of any nationality or background would be casually acquainted with.

Despite the powerful simplicity of its title and the seeming clarity of its purported subject, "1603" has no raison d'etre, no sense of itself or what Lee is trying to achieve. "This is not the place for a biography of James I", Lee tells us a quarter-way through, after discussing James's childhood, education and upbringing at some discursive length and before continuing through his young adulthood, marriage and accession to the English throne. What the book *is* the place for, Lee has no idea.

Rating Based On My Limited Background.......2004-07-27

The year 1603 was a busy year in England, and author Christopher Lee has provided us with a rather in-depth account of the happenings that took place. Beginning with the death of Queen Elizabeth I which brought the rise of James VI of Scotland who became King James I of England, Lee brings the reader through other events that were taking place during this time, namely the return of the plague which reared its ugly head periodically to wipe out thousands of people, piracy on the seas, William Shakespeare and his plays, and witchcraft which already at that time was an old superstition. Almost half of the book's 356 pages deal with the death of Queen Elizabeth and the rise of King James. My background in this subject matter is negligible, so I base my rating on the interest this book had for me. I found difficulty with the diaries and notes that the author uses to quote from due to the way the people expressed themselves. If you have a better background in this subject matter than I do, you probably will enjoy the book more than I did. If your background is like mine, you may want to read it, but not purchase it.

More confusing than interesting.......2004-06-11

Popular history dedicated to a single year often proves a very successful approach. It allows the author to make complementary explorations of developments in various areas, be those geographies, cultures, and/or ideas. (John Wills' "1688: A Global History" was a particularly successful example of the genre.) Christopher Lee's book about 1603 - limited mostly to Great Britain - is not so successful.

The audience for this book will be largely those already familiar with British history, geography, and current idiom. I thought I had a reasonably good grasp of the genealogy of the British kings and queens leading up to 1603; my grasp loosened considerably after reading Lee's attempt to clarify the lineages. My alienation was reinforced by the frequency of phrases such as "as we know" and "of course" when the author deals with facts that non-British readers are unlikely to know or to treat as a matter of course. ("Lady Jane Grey ... was, of course, Warwick's own daughter-in-law.") And isn't the author overly fond of the rhetorical question? (Examples abound, such as: "The Jesuits?" and "What of James in all this?")

Lee's main organizing principle is that of proving that 1603 was an important year in history. Although he cites one historian with an opposing view, the question strikes me as neither controversial nor deep. And without that, the text, like the subtitle, proves to be just a stringing together of topics. Some of these topics are compelling, but too many aren't. A chapter on piracy works. One on King James' coronation is interminably dull.

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A richly told story of the collision between nature's smallest organism and history's mightiest empire

The Emperor Justinian reunified Rome's fractured empire by defeating the Goths and Vandals who had separated Italy, Spain, and North Africa from imperial rule. In his capital at Constantinople he built the world's most beautiful building, married its most powerful empress, and wrote its most enduring legal code, seemingly restoring Rome's fortunes for the next five hundred years. Then, in the summer of 542, he encountered a flea. The ensuing outbreak of bubonic plague killed five thousand people a day in Constantinople and nearly killed Justinian himself.

In Justinian's Flea, William Rosen tells the story of history's first pandemic—a plague seven centuries before the Black Death that killed tens of millions, devastated the empires of Persia and Rome, left a path of victims from Ireland to Iraq, and opened the way for the armies of Islam. Weaving together evolutionary microbiology, economics, military strategy, ecology, and ancient and modern medicine, Rosen offers a sweeping narrative of one of the great hinge moments in history, one that will appeal to readers of John Kelly's The Great Mortality, John Barry's The Great Influenza, and Jared Diamond's Collapse.

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Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe .......2007-09-22

My wife purchased this book because it had Justinian (my patron saint and baptismal name) so that I could read it and add it to my collection of books about Justinian and his reign and impact.

This book is actually several narratives combined together to make a broad point. The author operates on the premise that Justinian was the last of the Roman Emperors. This basic premise is highly debatable as for some Rome and Roman is limited to the geographic city of Rome. What we now call the Byzantines were self-identified and identified by their many opponents as Romans, so that it can be argued that the Roman Empire did not really pass until 29MAY1453. However styling Justinian as the last true Roman Emperor is not as much a stretch as many believe. The author neglected to argue his point on this, suffice to say that Justinian was the last of the East Roman Emperors to use Latin in his official correspondence (his use of Greek was limited to private letters) his successors were all exclusively Greek users. He was perhaps also the last Emperor to think of himself as a Roman in its fullness rather then limiting himself to protecting and enlarging from Constantinople.

The book follows the life of Justinian as frame work for a large chunk of the text. We see him doing something (usually from the writing of Procopius though there are some snippets from Justinian's own hand. Granted most of that which survives from the Justinian's hand is theological in content) and then a parallel development or history of Roman society. This can be a little jerky to the reader but the parallels make for an interesting methodology.

Besides the life of Justinian the book uses three major world powers of the time to show choices, results, interaction, and parallels. These three are Rome, Persia, and China. This is a very excellent way to show the interactions and that history is not limited to one area or people. It should spark interest in these other arenas and it shows the ancient world in a greater complexity then many people might realize.

For me the text bogged down in the history, evolution, and mechanics of bacteria. I did find it interesting though I am no specialist in the world of disease and its causes. It will certainly make for good cocktail conversation. However it does have an interesting twist in it as he postulates that the bacteria in question was able to spread due to a five year period of global cooling due to a dust veil. It certainly makes you wonder about dust veils as a method of halting global warming and the results or consequences of global cooling.

His thesis that it was really the flea born plague which ended the Roman Empire, allowed for the rise and rapid expansion of Islam and the rise to dominance of agrarian western Europe is interesting and will be challenging for many readers. Most people are taught that a power rises out of some inherent genus or greatness. That the rise is because the idea or group has superior merit or ability. That the rise has more to do with what arose rather then when and where. The authors approach is that circumstance created a vacuum which was filled. That it was not some inherent greatness of the risers but rather the collapse or weakness of what stood before.

What this thesis means for western Europe and what it means for Islam is a challenge to the very root of myth and identity. A challenge which may be correct.

An excellent introduction into Late Antiquity .......2007-09-14

The tenor of this wide-ranging book is that the plague was the instrument that caused a change in history and Rome to fall, as outlined in the Introduction and Prologue. The reasoning for this particular version of the fall of Rome and the "birth of Europe" is rather attractive but not wholly convincing. Despite the enormous loss of life, the eastern empire still went on, even expanded for a while with Belisarius' victories on the west.

The book, written for "members of the educated public," (to use a phrase I saw recently from Bowersock) by an even more educated member, is an excellent introduction into Late Antiquity and could also be titled "The Life and Times of the Emperor Justinian."

In Part III, "Bacterium," the author's thirst for knowledge and his compulsion to share it gets a bit carried away. Here is all you wanted to know and much more about the evolution of rats and fleas and their eventual interaction, pandemics in general and this one in particular, and the history of bacteriology and evolutionary biology up to its most current status. In this reader's opinion, all this could have been presented in less detail and still remain comprehensible.

The story is presented in a vivid, easy to read style. The book is very well researched and documented and invites further exploration of the writers in Late Antiquity, and on the whole, I can recommend it.

Good Popular History.......2007-09-10

This is a good introduction to Justinian's rule and a good introduction to the Byzantine Empire. It is popular history and synthesizes a lot of previously known information. Don't expect anything new or groundbreaking. The information on the spread of disease was interesting althoug Laurie Garrett has written extensively on this material in a similarly journalistic approach. This book is a little too journalistic for my tastes, though.

Great Expectations Unevenly Met.......2007-09-03

I won't repeat the history that many reviewers cover so well. And I would recommend the book with some reservations. You're not educated without more understanding of this time period. My husand and I both read and discussed it at legth, so it did provoke thinking and conversation.

Now for the downside. The author is a pedant who needed an aggressive editor. To be fair, he's trying to lay the groundwork to cover a lot of disparate pieces that come together eventually. It might have been more successful had he summarized the story upfront to give the reader a roadmap through the book.

He also gets bogged down in minutae. While his premise about the arrival of the plague requires some detail to appreciate the subleties, he goes overboard with information that will be of interest to few readers.

This gave me the impression the author wants the reader to see his erudition more than the story. Too bad. It's a good piece of history. Seems to be well researched. He uncovered a lot of sources I was not familiar with. It fills a gap - a missing link in this part of history. And it does have a lot of interesting pieces of information. But I kept thinking there must be better works on this.

5 stars for excellent research; 3 for organization; 2 for continuity.

Great History -- and (perhaps) a great historical writer in the making.......2007-09-03

The end of the Western Roman Empire is a topic that has attracted much attention from historians ever since Edward Gibbon -- rightly so, because it is truly a "hinge" moment in historical time, when paths diverge and outcomes are up for grabs.

William Rosen has managed to take this fascinating moment and recast it in a new, fresh light -- bringing in more recent information about the Bubonic Plague and its impact on this period, drawing on modern historical information about subsequent waves of the pandemic. I won't provide an outline of the book (the coverage by Rob Hardy above is excellent); but one can see that Mr. Rosen has a lifetime of editing behind him, so his style is fresh and engaging and the book is eminently readable. Perhaps we are in the process of seeing a new non-professional historical writer emerge, another Barbara Tuchman ("The Guns of August") -- I hope so. In any case reading Mr. Rosen's book got me going back to my books on Bas Empire and re-reading them with a fresh eye.

Why, in this case, didn't I give the book five stars? Well, I think some of the sections on microbiology were too lengthy, not really pertinent to the storyline. Still, this is a small quibble, in a book that brings back to life -- and how! -- such an important and interesting period of our history. I can strongly recommend this book.

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"Camazotz Plaque"
Vampire Plagues
Great Book to Sink Your Teeth Into! (Ryan's Review)
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London, 1850 (The Vampire Plagues I)
Sebastian Rooke
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ASIN: 0439633923

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London, 1850. An enormous ship has just reached port. From its hull, a flock of bats ascends and disappears into the streets. Jack Harkett intends to board the ship, in search of food or money. Instead, he encounters a boy his own age -- running for his life! The boy recounts horrific tales about a vampire plague that's killed the entire crew. With no one to turn to but each other, the two boys vow to stop these horrors from continuing. Their pledge will take them on dangerous adventures from London to Paris and finally to Mexico, to confront the beast who started all this destruction....

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Cornwall 6th grader.......2007-03-08

Vampire Plagues London 1850
I am a cornwall sixth grader. Vampire Plagues is a good book, that I would rate a 7 out of 10. The main character of the book is a sailor Tom Harkett. Like I said he is a sailor, he is a twelve year old boy who owns a boat, but he does not have the most money and he lives on the docks. There are other sailors that trie to help him out a bit. Sometimes to get money he would do people favors. Tom Harkett was on the dock and he saw two people that he never saw before, they looked lost so he thought maybe he could direct them for some money. When he walked over he saw it was a man and a woman, he asked if they needed help the woman glared and the man paused then in a rough voice said ," does it look like we need help!" They walked away and he started to follow them. He thought there was something wrong. He didn't like them to well. As he followed he sees a ship... an unusual looking ship. It had bats flying above it and the sails were ripped. To get a closer look he tried to hop on with out anyone seeing. when he gets on, there were no sounds no voices. He went in the ship and heard a voice yelling help, he started to try hearing where it was coming from. It was coming through a door, he opened and there was a young man sitting there frightened. Tom asked him why he was here and he said "them." The other people were coming so they quickly got off the boat. Tom asked who he was the man replied as"Benedict Cole." Tom Harkett asked about the people who own the boat. Benedict Cole said they were not normal.And please call me Ben.Days went by and research added up. Then Ben remembered they went out at night only.He also saw one man turn from human to bat...a vampire bat.
Tom thought about vampires, he told Ben they were vampires. Days were getting wasted, the next day the vampires came back this time they were hungry. Tom and Ben ran the vampires chased them. They ran into a deadend,and the captain jumped on Tom, Ben tried to help the other vampires smacked him away. Tom was struggling to get him off but he was being over powered, and the vampires mouth was getting closer then before you know it........ YOU HAVE TO READ THE BOOK ON YOUR OWN! I would recommend this book to someone who likes mystery and suspense.

"Camazotz Plaque".......2007-03-03

I think to like the Book Series of Vampire Plagues, you have to enjoy mystery books. I think the protagonist in the book is different from his friends. He is not very involved compared to his friends. The antagonist is very sinister. I also think that the people who enjoy fantasy will like this book. I thought the book was exciting.

Vampire Plagues.......2007-01-16

Vampire Plagues by: Sebastian Rook is about these three kids Jack, Ben, and Emily and how they defeat vampires. Well first they all go on a long journey including Ben and Emily's dad. Then he died, the vampires killed him. Ben and Emily came back to try to figure out their dad's code to the whole mystery.
I think that the theme of the book is people should all get along. Life is to short to be fighting. Because the Aztecs and the vampires were always fighting. So don't fight with other people is the theme.
I think the book was written well. It was very interesting to learn about the
Aztecs and vampires. I think that this is a great book for somebody who likes vampires. If you do maybe you should try this book out.

Great Book to Sink Your Teeth Into! (Ryan's Review).......2006-12-16

I always thought I had a great imagination but this book taught me you could always imagine new things. For example, everyone has imagined vampires as being afraid of the sun, christian crosses, and wooden stakes pointed at their heart. However, in Vampire Plagues the vampires move around in daylight as long as they stay in the shadows and wear heavy cloaks. The method for killing vampires is by scratching them with the thorn of a blood rose. Instead of Dracula there is the Mayan Vampire God call Camazotz. The book also had some cool rituals and potions made from blood roses.

vampire plagues.......2006-11-30

Vampire Plagues is about an Aztec god of the underworld named Camazotz. He was released by accident during an expedition. Unknowin to the captin, he gets abord a ship and travels to London while picking off the crew members one by one. So now three kids band together to stop Camazotz and his minions before London is compleatly infested with vampires. The plot is pretty straight forward except for the fact that almost half the book is taken up by the story of the doomed expedition. Like any other book on vampires they can't get in the sun's rays, can't be shot, driving a stake in to their heart will kill them ect, ect, ect... But some new facts are introduced as well. for example, if you are bitten 3-4 times you become a vampire and if the vampires get pricked by these very sweet smelling rose thornes they will die. This is a good change from using garlic. My reveiw in a nut-shell, this is a good book for a 3-6 grade summer reading book because its plot is easy to follow. The book has a 760 lextile range.

The Plagues of Egypt: Archaeology, History and Science Loot at the Bible

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Fantastic book
Love bibical mysteries? This book is for you ...

The Plagues of Egypt: Archaeology, History and Science Loot at the Bible
S., I. Trevisanato
Manufacturer: Gorgias Press LLC
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ASIN: 1593332343

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In The Plagues of Egypt, molecular biologist Siro Trevisanato assembles data gleaned from a variety of ancient texts and a wide range of scientific disciplines to assist in a reconsideration of the ten biblical plagues recorded in the Biblical book of Exodus. Trevisanato's reconstruction presents a view of these events that argues for their historical reality, identifying the series of disasters which befell Egypt as a chain reaction traceable to a single cataclysmic event which for the first time can be dated with certainty.

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Fantastic book.......2006-03-27

The book gets caught in that small place between fundamentalists and "Bible deniers" (as the author calls them). Neither will like the book because it shows what neither wants to see. I liked it, though.

So, what does the book tell? One, the Bible got it right, and its account of the plagues that crippled Egypt is a list of historical facts. However, it places the plagues at a time when fundamentalists are uncomfortable with. Two, the book shows the Hebrews did live in Egypt, and at least parts of the Bible are historical; this ought to
p.o. a few people, including academics who made a career by using the Bible as toilet paper. If one wants to prove the author wrong he/she must now dismantle the author's reconstruction of the plagues (and the parallels in texts from Egypt, Greece, Anatolia and Canaan!). My guess is that fundamentalists, academics etc. will bypass the book to nestle in their fantasies, though.

I guess, I liked the book because I was just interested hearing/reading about the issue, and I got more than I had bargained for.

Love bibical mysteries? This book is for you ..........2006-02-21

Terrific reading!
Anyone interested in the plagues of Egypt, or the historical basis for the biblical texts must consider this book. It's logical, convincing and clear. The complexity of the question also explains why it took so long, and a multidisciplinary person as the author, in order to crack the mystery of the plagues. The complexity of the question may send off some readers to start reading from the conclusion chapter, and then read the book from the beginning. Or you can read it as a mystery novel (keeping in mind this is not fiction), and enjoy it that way, too.

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The Plague and I
Betty MacDonald
Manufacturer: J. B. Lippincott Co.
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Islamic view of East/West crisis

Occidentosis: A Plague From the West
Jala Al-i Ahmad
Manufacturer: Mizan Press
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ASIN: 0933782136

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Suppressed in Iran during the reign of the Shah, this book for the first time in a careful, annotated translation was published after the Islamic Revolution. It is a strong and emotional statement by an Iranian intellectual deeply concerned with what he saw as his country's succumbing to "A plague from the West" or "occidentosis." Offering observations, insights, reasons for pride in Iran's past and culture, and critical analyses of the Western role in th world. Jalal Al-i Ahmad expresses many of the concerns that agitated the intelligentsia during the two decades before the Islamic Revolution.

The author begins by explaining his term "occidentosis: and describing how he sees the world: as divided between the poles of East and West. The division is not so much a geographical or an ideological schism, as a division between the produces and the consumers of machines. A brief review of history helps explain how and why Iran grew occidentotic. He cannot and does not ignore the role of oil.

The many contradictions that result from the forced consumption of Western machines and goods in Iran are the subject of the longest and most carefully considered chapters in the book. Westerners, who industrailized step by step over hundreds of years, never saw such sharp contrasts as "a man grading Kharg Island with a monstrous bulldozer with blue bead hanging from the steering wheel."

Breaking the spell of occidentosis is the subject of another chapter. The author rejects both the options of remaining passive consumers of the machine and eschewing the machine and reverting to pre-industrial modes of existence. Rather, he advocates gaining control of the machine so Iranians can use it as a means, not an end, "to abolish poverty and put material and spiritual welfare with the reach of all."

As an educator Jalal Al-i Ahmad was particularly concerned with ow Iran's schools preserve its occidentotic society. He points out in this book how leaders whose first interest was not the welfare of the Iranian people or the preservation of its cultural traditions were turned out year after year by Iranian universities or returned to their country from American and European educational institutions.

The book closes with a plea for everyone not just Iranians or Easterners, to awaken to the dangers of mechanosis, the ultimate end of which will be destruction of the world with a nuclear bomb.

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Islamic view of East/West crisis.......2003-10-18

Written by an Iranian intellectual who has strong feelings for Islamic culture and his country, this book serves as an interesting and enlightening counterpoint to Bernard Lewis' two most recent works, WHAT WENT WRONG? and THE CRISIS OF ISLAM. Al-i Ahmad decries the current influence of the West at the expense of his own culture, in particular the economic and technological forces of global corporations which inevitably bring with it Western values and ideals. Like Lewis, he is even-handed and level-headed in assigning blame. That this book was suppressed during the Shah of Iran's reign is unfortunate indeed.

Though his history is a bit shaky (numerous footnotes correct various statements in the text), they are not fatal to his argument, and one cannot help but be swept up in his impassioned and eloquent defense of his culture. Not only does he define the problem, but he offers practical non-violent solutions which, if they had been heeded when this book was first written (early 1960s), would have gone a long way toward preventing many of the problems the area faces today.

It should be noted taht a good background in Islam and Islamic history is necessary to fully grasp some of the finer points of his arguments. But even without this background, it is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand why the U.S. is held with such low regard in the Arabic world.

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The Plague And I

Manufacturer: Hammond
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GL9LFS

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Conquering a modern plague: A.I.D.S. : causes, prevention, alternative natural treatment : a self-help manual
Scott J Gregory , and Scott J. Gregory
Manufacturer: Tree of Life Publications
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