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Jack Reacher is Spenser before Robert Parker domesticated his Boston PI--in fact, Reacher's even tougher than Hawk. He can inhale and exhale a few times and pump up his muscles so they make a bad character think twice about tangling with him. And he's spent enough time on the right side of the law to know how to operate in the gray zone if that's what it takes to save the fair maiden, punish the bad guys, and right any other wrongs he happens to encounter in the course of his wanderings. Echo Burning is vintage Lee Child, a smartly paced, intricately plotted, and masterfully characterized thriller starring Reacher, the ex-military cop who's so concerned about commitment to anything--a woman, possessions, a permanent address--that he only owns the clothes on his back. But he's the kind of justice-seeking guy you'd want on your side, especially if you were an abused wife trapped in a marriage you can't get out of until, and unless, somebody bumps off your old man.
Reacher's sympathetic, but he's not crazy. Nonetheless, he allows himself to be drawn into beautiful Carmen Greer's orbit, which ought to teach a guy not to hitchhike. Agreeing to protect her from the husband who's about to be released from jail and, according to Carmen, who's about to pay her back for tipping off the authorities to the tax fraud that landed him in prison, Reacher moves into the bunkhouse of the Echo, Texas, ranch that's owned by the bigoted, bitter, but powerful Greer family, which despises Carmen because she's Mexican and tolerates her only because she's Sloop Greer's wife and the mother of his child. The expected bloodshed ensues, but it's Sloop, not Carmen, who ends up with a bullet in his head. Reacher's convinced that Carmen acted in self-defense, even after other evidence comes to light that suggests there's more--and less--to her unhappy tale than even her own lawyer believes. This is the best Jack Reacher yet, smart, stylish, and convincing. If it's your first encounter with Child's work, be sure to check out his backlist--Running Blind, Tripwire, etc. --Jane Adams
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Jack Reacher returns in Lee Child's new "rip-roaring thriller" (Denver Rocky Mountain News). This time, he's a hitchhiker picked up by a troubled beauty. And what happens between them has everybody talking.
"Smashingly suspenseful...Child builds tension to unbearable extremes." (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)
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"Ex-military cop Jack Reacher returns in this latest in the award-winning series critics call ""spectacular"" (The Seattle Times), ""relentless"" (Denver Post), and ""perfect"" (The New York Times Book Review). Reacher is hitching through the heat of West Texas and getting desperate for a ride. The last thing he's worried about is exactly who picks him up. She's called Carmen. She's a good-looking young woman, she has a beautiful little girl...and she has married into the wrong family. They're called the Greers. They're a bitter and miserly clan, and they've made her life a living hell. Worse, her monster of a husband is soon due out of prison. So she needs protection, and she needs it now. Lawyers can't help. Cops can't be trusted. So Reacher goes home with her to the lonely ranch where nothing is as it seems and where evil swirls around them like dust in a storm. Within days, Carmen's husband is dead-and simmering secrets send Echo, Texas, up in flames. "
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Not happy with this purchase.......2007-10-03
First I didn't realize that it was an MP3 and second,
when I played it on my portable player, it skipped so bad that
I couldn't listen to most of the disc. Would not recommend this to anyone.
Sloppy research, no mystery.......2007-09-11
I have to say S. Temerlin practically wrote my review for me (see his of 11/12/2006). Child's knowledge of firearms is not even second-hand. Also, the tactics (it pains me to apply the term) Reacher used to defeat the bad guys were sloppy, self-defeating, and would have gotten him and Alice killed except that the "professional" killers were even more stupid than Reacher. His wrap up of the major bad guy was from an old Perry Mason TV show. This was my second, and last, Child book.
Echo Burning.......2007-07-22
This a typical Jack Reacher adventure!! A lot of twists and turns! Can't wait for the next book comes out.
2 strikes, Jack Reacher, you are OUT........2007-07-18
Lee Child's Echo Burning is, as with his other "works", highly overrated. I was convinced to give the author a try and, while better than The Killing Floor, Childs continues to be all about plot with little to no character development. Fans and apologists of his will argue that his protagonist, Jack Reacher, requires little development as he is hardly "evolved". No argument here on that but no other characters warrant any serious empathy from the reader. I would add that some might simply like Reacher as the central character and are willing to accept preposterous assumptions upon which the plot is predicated. I likely do that with other mystery writers where I find the characters either fun or interesting (Myron Bolitar by Harlan Coben for one). But Reacher doesn't warrant my time as a reader. He might make it as a B movie where one can watch it for fun. Even though the book had a rapid pace, I found myself wanting to finish it, pan it both in this review and to my friend who convinced me to try again and move on to something better. Jack Reacher, two strikes, you are out.
Echo Burning.......2007-06-13
The setting of the story is West Texas and I could relate to it really well, having lived near the area. I love Jack Reacher's way of setting people straight. He's a man who knows what he's about and not afraid to stand up to anyone.
This is the second Jack Reacher novel I've read and I ate it up like it was candy. I can't get enough of this guy and will continue buying Lee Child's novels.
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Running Blind:
Women are dying. Women who have nothing in common except the fact that they once worked for the military. And they knew Jack Reacher. How and why these women are in danger completely baffles the elite FBI team working the case. There is only one certainty: there is a new kind of killer out there, one so calm, cautious, and careful that even the brilliant Reacher is left running blind.
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Jack Reacher is hitching through the heat of West Texas and getting desperate for a ride. The last thing he's worried about is exactly who picks him up. She's called Carmen. She's a good-looking young woman, she has a beautiful little girl . . .and she has married into the wrong family. Worse, her monster of a husband is soon due out of prison. So she needs protection, and she needs it now. Reacher goes home with her to the lonely ranch where nothing is as it seems, and where evil swirls around them like dust in a storm.
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Jack Reacher is approached by a Secret Service agent who needs a favor. "I want to hire you to assassinate the Vice President of the United States," she asks. She is the newly appointed head of the VP's security detail and wants Reacher to try to penetrate her team's shield. What she doesn't tell Reacher - but what he soon discovers - is that a very real and deadly team of assassins has just put the VP in their sights and will stop at nothing to realize their objective.
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ok, except for the "Texas bashing".......2006-05-27
In my opinnion this is probably worth reading if you have nothing else to do. It's not one of Child's best books and the "bashing" of Texans and all things Texas is fairly distracting to someone from the Lone Star State.
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Jack Reacher, hailed as "a wonderfully epic hero" by People, confronts Texan hatred and hidden crimes in this superb new thriller.
Ex-military cop Jack Reacher returns in this latest in the award-winning series critics call "spectacular" (The Seattle Times), "relentless" (Denver Post), and "perfect" (The New York Times Book Review).
Reacher is hitching through the heat of West Texas and getting desperate for a ride. The last thing he's worried about is exactly who picks him up.
She's called Carmen. She's a good-looking young woman, she has a beautiful little girl . . .and she has married into the wrong family. They're called the Greers. They're a bitter and miserly clan, and they've made her life a living hell. Worse, her monster of a husband is soon due out of prison. So she needs protection, and she needs it now.
Lawyers can't help. Cops can't be trusted. So Reacher goes home with her to the lonely ranch where nothing is as it seems, and where evil swirls around them like dust in a storm. Within days, Carmen's husband is dead - and simmering secrets send Echo, Texas, up in flames.
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Running Blind (Engineer: Melissa Coates): Women are dying. Women who have nothing in common except the fact that they once worked for the military. And they knew Jack Reacher. How and why these women are in danger completely baffles the elite FBI team working the case. There is only one certainty: there is a new kind of killer out there, one so calm, cautious, and careful that even the brilliant Reacher is left running blind.
Echo Burning (Engineer: Mike Council): Jack Reacher is hitching through the heat of West Texas and getting desperate for a ride. The last thing he's worried about is exactly who picks him up. She's called Carmen. She's a good-looking young woman, she has a beautiful little girl . . .and she has married into the wrong family. Worse, her monster of a husband is soon due out of prison. So she needs protection, and she needs it now. Reacher goes home with her to the lonely ranch where nothing is as it seems, and where evil swirls around them like dust in a storm.
Without Fail (Engineer: Melissa Coates): Jack Reacher is approached by a Secret Service agent who needs a favor. "I want to hire you to assassinate the Vice President of the United States," she asks. She is the newly appointed head of the VP's security detail and wants Reacher to try to penetrate her team's shield. What she doesn't tell Reacher - but what he soon discovers - is that a very real and deadly team of assassins has just put the VP in their sights and will stop at nothing to realize their objective.
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A talent for magic runs like fire through the blood of Dalamar Argent. Yet he is only a servant in the house of an elvish lord, not worthy of the High Art of Sorcery and denied all but the most grudging teaching.
As war simmers on the borders of Silvanesti, Dalamar will find a way to learn his art. His quest will take him along dark paths toward an awesome destiny.
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Well done.......2006-08-06
Having been a huge fan of the original DragonLance books back in high school, I couldn't wait to read this one, and it didn't disappoint me. I enjoyed finding out what it was that made Dalamar become the mage he was. If you're a DL fan, I think you'll like this one, too.
Too many inconsistencies with existing DL.......2004-09-30
Had Nancy Varian Berberick played D&D before or read up on Dragonlance before writing this?
One of the most painful moments in this book is reading about Dalamar taking out a Blue Dragon by himself, by casting lightning bolts!
There is also the parts about not one but many dwarven mages running around the realms.
The portion about Dalamar taking the Test at the Tower of High Sorcery was not too bad though.
The book started off well enough. After a prologue which basically recapitulated what readers of Legends already know, the first chapter set Dalamar as a lowly servant in a caste-rigid society of Silvanesti. The elven kingdom was under threat by the dragonarmy - and Dalamar suggested strategy to hit the rear of the enemy when it was clear the elves were overpowered. The strategy was carried out but the sheer might of the dragon against the elves meant it could not turn the tide after all.
The book followed with Dalamar fleeing along with the rest of refugees from Silvanesti to Ergoth where the haughty elves enslaved the wild elves inhabitants of Ergoth.
Through the process, until the elves returned to Silvanesti, the author made repeated shows of Dalamar losing faith and totally put off with the Silvanesti's obsession with the worship of Eli, or Paladine. However, the true clerics had long ago been removed from Krynn prior to the Cataclysm and elven societies were supposed to have given up on the gods as well. They may preserve the memories, but no cleric received any spells until (1) the Dark Queen granted her followers spells, and (2) Goldmoon became a cleric of Mishakal through the staff and the Platinum Discs were recovered. Clearly the author missed out an integral aspect of the settings of Dragonlance. An author may reserve her own creative license, but when writing within an established fictional setting, should either comply or set up her own.
Dalamar: the Early Years.......2003-03-30
This Dragonlance Classics book tells the story of Dalamar's youth in Silvanesti and his eventual calling to the dark arts. He is cast out of his Elven home and left on his own to pursue his fate. He goes to the Tower to be tested, and is willingly used by the leadership of the Tower to complete a task that would allow more than one person the revenge they seek. Berberick's telling is good although her characterization of Dalamar falls slightly short of his personality from what we know of him from other stories. Her perspective of the fall of Silvanost and Lorac's Nightmare is insightful and well written, and ties well into the Chronicles storyline. This is a good book for someone who has already read the core books of the Dragonlance series.
A great addition to the Dragonlance line!.......2002-12-21
This is definitely one of Nancy Berberick's best -- which, as a longtime fan of her writing, is saying a lot. The evolutionary years of one of Dragonlance's most intriguing, disturbing characters are finally revealed, taking the reader through the tortuous process of shaping the man he will become. This book is pure delight, from start to finish, and sure to please the many fans of the Dragonlance line!
Misrepresents.......2002-03-07
This story is intriquing and an interesting read if you enjoyt he character Dalamar however there are several flaws that I found to be distracting and disappointing. First of all, the portrayal of te Silvanesti elves was harsh to the point where you could hardly call them "good" at all. The author seems to make the assumption that if you fight the "bad" guys, in this case a number of evil wizards and a dragon Highlord that makes you "good," which is not true at all. The Chronicles series sets you up to realize that the Silvanesti are incredibly snooty and uptight, but not cold and unconcerned about themselves. Yes, they have avoided the outside world and show disinterest there but former authors of the series never through out the belief they walk over each other on a daily basis. It is an assumption i believe this author got wrong. Also, it describes Dalamar's path into darkness in a fairly unbelievable way. Dalamar is potrayed as in intelligent individual who suddenly turns to darkness for reasons that just come with living. Also, at times when Dalamar is portrayed at his darkest, you get the feeling you are reading about Raistlin and not him. In Legends and the Summer Flame, Dalamar has feelings, good ones. He is a dark elf mage not some power hungry warlord.
In short, this portrayal of Dalamar is only believable if you change the character we know as Dalamar from the other books and since you probably pick up this book because you liked the character in the other books, then it is probably not all that worthwhile. However it is not a bad read, just don't expect too much insight into the character in the title. As mentioned in other reviews, this has a lot more to do with events than the character Dalamar and when it does talk about Dalamar, it does so poorly.
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The Imaginarium Geographica
"What is it?" John asked.
The little man blinked and arched an eyebrow.
"It is the world, my boy," he said. "All the world, in ink and blood, vellum and parchment, leather and hide. It is the world, and it is yours to save or lose."
An unusual murder brings together three strangers, John, Jack, and Charles, on a rainy night in London during the first World War. An eccentric little man called Bert tells them that they are now the caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica -- an atlas of all the lands that have ever existed in myth and legend, fable and fairy tale. These lands, Bert claims, can be traveled to in his ship the Indigo Dragon, one of only seven vessels that is able to cross the Frontier between worlds into the Archipelago of Dreams.
Pursued by strange and terrifying creatures, the companions flee London aboard the Dragonship. Traveling to the very realm of the imagination itself, they must learn to overcome their fears and trust in one another if they are to defeat the dark forces that threaten the destiny of two worlds. And in the process, they will share a great adventure filled with clues that lead readers to the surprise revelation of the legendary storytellers these men will one day become.
An extraordinary journey of myth, magic, and mystery, Here, There Be Dragons introduces James A. Owen as a formidable new talent.
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Very imaginative and enjoyable.......2007-08-12
Do not ask about this book in Tolkien or Lewis related forums. People tend to be mean when they do not think their idols are being portrayed correctly. But in this case, their unbased crtics should not deter you from reading this book.
With a really imaginative premise, three keepers of the atlas of fantasy lands, this book proves to be quite enjoyable. If you like the fantasy genre, and literature in general, you'll find many interesting nods to many people and events in history. And if you're not all that keen or versed in the subject, you'll find that it's good quality fantasy.
A must read! I can't wait for The Search of the Red Dragon, second book in the series.
Amazing!!!.......2007-08-05
I am 10 years old and i LOVED this book!
But it is not comparable Harry Potter, Chronicles of Narnia, or Eragon.
It is a totally diffrent kind of fantasy.
I do noy know how people can say it is a childish book.It has a very good plot and scheme.
I would recomend this book to anyone!!!
Ouch here be badness........2007-07-17
Read this to my kid and found it poorly structured. It is constructed as if from lego. Block-like. It is no wonder it has been picked up by Hollywood as it is completely predictable and lacks any surprises whatsoever. Also if the "hand of God" plot device has ever been overused it be here. The characterisations are poor at best, add to this that it smacks of fandom and you have a very poor effort indeed. My child was bored so I got out The Hobbit instead. The master will always beat the fan. It will probably make a better film that a book, at least there will be special effects, at it stands there is nothing special about this book.
I even enjoyed this.......2007-05-30
I bought this book to read to my daughter and I got involved in the book. It's something I think older kids and young teens would like. The drawings in the book are great and I loved how the story combined real life and fantasy together. If your a big fantasy reader I would not suggest it because it is predictable, but someone looking for a quick read or who isn't too picky would really get some enjoyment from it.
Here, There Be Dragons.......2007-04-19
I really LOVED this book. It is about three unlikely men who are carried off to help a world they have never heard of but is all too real. They get confused and befuddled at times but they stick together (mostly). At some points the author states things a little vaguely but overall it was good. If you're looking for a good fantasy that's not too long you should try this one.
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In Here There Be Dragons, dragons appear in every guise--ghastly, ghoulish, gentle, gargantuan--always endowed with the author’s ingenious touches. Each piece is introduced with the fascinating, and often revealing, story of its making and is illustrated with the intricate, moody pencil drawings of David Wilgus.
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Here There Be Magic.......2004-08-21
Yolen is one of my favorite authors, and I find it hard not to gush while describing her work. Hence, the complete and utter lack of other Yolen reviews in my repertoire (gushers can be tiresome, after all). Here There Be Dragons is one of a series of three books (the other two being Here There Be Unicorns and Here There Be Witches). In it Yolen has collected some of her best stories and poems regarding dragons, both real and imagined, good and bad, friendly and frightful. Brief but fascinating blurbs offer insight into Yolen's inspirations and the thought processes that went on as she created each tale.
David Wilgus illustrates all three books in the series, showcasing a wit, insight, and creative genius that perfectly complements Yolens own literary style. (One of the best examples of Wilgus's work is right on the cover -- look at the eye). I hope to see more of his work.
My only regret is that the collection is so short. Yolen's works are so clearly and neatly structured, and so original and accessible, and yet so very deep and complex, that I wish the stories will go on and on and on, and I am often startled and a little shocked when I reach the end of one of her books, and the story does not continue unfolding beyond the covers (unlike the shining silver road in one of her tales, which continues unwinding as long as the hero or heroine stays on it).
Here There Be Dragons is no different.
DESTINED TO BECOME A CLASSIC.......2004-04-22
Jane Yolen's great creative gifts come to the fore in this enchanting volume, which is a marvelous companion to "Here There Be Unicorns."
Both of these collections of stories and poems are superbly illustrated by duotone pencil drawings by David Wilgus. His detailed pictures are true compliments to what are destined to become classics in children's literature.
Here there be dragons aplenty.......2002-06-28
Jane Yolen produces more great poetry and fiction in "Here There Be Dragons," part of her short story series focusing on ghosts, angels, witches, dragons, and so forth.
It starts off with "Why Dragons?", a poem about St. George, and proceeds to the highly original "Great-Grandfather Dragon's Tale," a story from the point of view of the dragons rather than the humans. There are two evocative little drabbles (stories under a hundred words), the saddening "Dragon Woke and Stretched" and the spellbinding "Sorry the Old Man Said." "Cockfight" is what later became the Pit Dragon trilogy, a story about a young boy on a poor planet which has dragons fighting for money. "Dragon Night" is a sweet little poem, a sort of dragon lullaby. "Dragonfield" is a slightly less interesting story about an unheroic young man and a healer's daughter (and a dragon, of course).
"The King's Dragon" is the story of a member of the King's Dragoons, who has a slight problem when people keep hearing "dragoon" as "dragon." "Into the Wood" is pretty, if a little hard to understand. "Dragon's Boy," which later became a short children's novel, tells the story of the adolescent King Arthur and how he learned wisdom from a "dragon." "The Making of Dragons" is a thoroughly entertaining poem about how to construct a dragon. "One Ox, Two Ox, Three Ox, and the Dragon King" is the story of three boys called One Ox, Two Ox, Three Ox (I think their father had a screw loose), in a story partly influenced by Chinese legends. The collection ends with the wistful "Here There Be Dragons," a poem which harkens back to old maps with those words on them.
As in all of these books, Yolen includes comments and insights to the beginning of each story and poem, what caused her to write them and how they were influenced. David Wilgus's pencil drawings are realistic and soft-edged, very nice to look at and very appropriate to the contents.
A nice little collection for the dragon fanciers, much better than most story collections. Fans of Yolen's "Dragon's Boy" and "Pit Dragon" trilogy will undoubtedly enjoy this.
Great Book.......2000-04-06
This is an interesting collection of short stories and peotry by Jane Yolen, who has done a lot of her work about dragons. I love the poems about St. George, types of dragons, and Here There Be Dragons (which the title comes from). The pencil drawings by the illustrator are excellent. The short stories are good, but not really masterpeices. Overall, this is a great book, as are the unicorn, witch, and angel books in this series.
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When captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise™ receive news of a human planet hidden in the center of an immense stellar cloud, they immediately investigate.
Penetrating the cloud, the Starship crew is shocked to discover a world of knights and serfs lifted right out of Earth's Middle Ages. Ruthlessly exploiting the planet is a ring of intersellar trophy hunters preying on the immense, native dragon-lizards twentey-feet tall and armored like tanks.
Beaming down, an away team soon becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder. Taken prisoner, Picard, Riker, Data and Ro must somehow escape and stop the hunters or face destruction from the hunters' weapon, based on an advanced technoloy capable of utterly annihilating the Starship Enterprise™.
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When Captain Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise investigate a human-inhabited planet hidden in the center of an immense stellar cloud, they discover a world lifted right out of the Earth's Middle Ages. Embroiled in intrigue and murder, the away team faces destruction at the hands of dragon-hunters.
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Quite good........2004-12-14
This is a story that does quite a good job of including most of the elements that go into making Star Trek: The Next Generation interesting: good action, interesting ideas, excellent characterizations. It's not a particularly deep novel, even by the standard of Star Trek novels, but as a good, fast-paced story, it is excellent. It would have made a good episode.
Light Entertainment.......2004-01-16
This book is written in a B-grade movie style. The characters are depicted in exaggerated fashion. The author never goes over the top in his depictions, but Worf comes rather close. The way it is done is still quite entertaining. The general writing is good. The descriptions are quite vivid and the combat scenes detailed and clear. The setting is epic: Enterprise goes inside of a stellar cloud, a feat made possible by Preserver technology. The action, in contrast, is swords and sorcery style. Riker and Troi investigate a medieval town and accompanying castle, while Picard and Data face off against a dragon. Then the Preserver element comes in for the sorcery section. It's definitely an unusual style of story, but interesting and fun reading.
STNG #28 Here There Be Dragons - A superb novel!.......2003-10-10
Being as nearly as much a fan of fantasy fiction as I am of Star Trek fiction, I found the premise of this novel to be quite an interesting and appealing one. "Here There Be Dragons" is the first of only three Star Trek titles for author John Peel which is too bad in a way as I found all three of them to be quite well written stories. It would be nice to see this author make another visit to the genre.
This author has a great writing style that is very fluidic and the story is very fast paced, full of action, intrigue and adventure. This story also possesses something that many Star Trek novels either never attempt to do or attempt and fall flat on which is carrying more than a couple subplots into an extraordinary and surprising conclusion.
The cover art for this novel is a bit better than the standard fare; two of the main characters and a medieval castle with "dragons" flying over it.
The premise:
The Enterprise is investigating an interstellar cluster and suddenly receives news that a planet with a human colony on it is inside the cluster. Here is where the Preservers come into play considering at this point that humans hadn't made it "this" far into deep space and when these humans came to this planet they did not possess the technology to penetrate the tachyon field of the interstellar cluster.
What is more shocking than the human presence here on this extraordinary planet is that the humans are living is a world of knights and serfs lifted right out of medieval times, dragons included. Captain Picard and crew soon learn that interstellar trophy hunters have been raiding this planet as well. Soon after beaming down to the planet, Picard, Riker, Data and Ro become embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder and are taken prisoner. They must escape their captors and stop these interstellar hunters before they use their ancient weapon to destroy the Enterprise.
What follows from there is, as stated above, one of the best written and intriguing numbered Star Trek titles to date. I highly recommend this novel to any and all fans of the genre! {ssintrepid}
ST-TNG: Here There Be Dragons.......2003-06-22
Star Trek - The Next Generations: Here There Be Dragons written by John Peel is a well-written action-adventure novel written about a Preserver developing world that is hidden inside a tachyon cloud, where the only access is through a tunnel generated by Preserver technology, that is being exploited by a group of interplanetary trophy hunters. The events in this story take place before the sixth-season episode "Rascals."
This planet is right out of Earth's 13th-century Germany where they believe in the force of arms, ritual combat, honor, and glory. And because of the Prime Directive, now, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise have to set things right. This book takes you on an adventurous read where Captain Picard, Data, Ro and a member of a security detail beam to the surface of the planet and investigate. Of course things do NOT go as planned and this adds to the mystery and intrigue of the story. After a while, William Riker and Deanna Troi also beam down to the planet's surface where they follow-up leads as to the whereabouts of the smugglers.
The book goes back and forth between two main storylines with the addmixture of some minor storylines until you get all the main characters involved into the story proper. When reading this book you'll tend to think ahead of the story, but be careful the Enterprise and her crew experience some major roadblocks and impediments along the way making this story a complete adventure.
There is only one fight seen with the indiginous dragon species on the planet involving Captain Picard and it is well-written. These beasties are huge, eighteen feet tall and sixty feet long, with long talons equiped with claws that can cut prey in half with one pass and... if that isn't enough these dragon-lizards have armored hide with large sharp saw-edged teeth.
The story has an ending that has a few surprises and the reader will be engrosed in the story till the ending. All in all, the story is a solid 5 stars and this book is a keeper that you'll want to read again at a later time.
Decent Trek.......2002-07-08
Here There Be Dragons is, like most good Trek novels, a quick and painless read with some memorable moments. The plot is in some ways reminiscent of A Call to Darkness, with Enterprise crewmembers enslaved in a medieval setting. There's simply not much more to say about the book than that . . . .
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Here There Be Dragons
B.A., Bosaiya
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We have come to see the world as devoid of mystery, and with these images I hope to restore some sense of wonder about the world around us. There was once a greater sense of mystery in the world, sailors of long ago would tell tales of mysterious beasts in uncharted areas of the flat Earth. Hand-drawn maps had vast areas marked as "Unknown" and the darkest corners were inscribed with the wondrous phrase, "Here there be Dragons."
Those days are gone now and the deep, dark secret places exist for us only inside our minds and in our imaginations. These photographs ask viewers to examine their interior lives, the secrets within themselves. My photos can act as a mirror into the viewer's unconscious mind. One thing that can be said for certain is that my photographs provide an instantaneous visceral reaction in almost every viewer. I want to images to do this, to encourage people to look into their interior lives, and to become aware of the mystery and beauty of the world around them.
B.A. Bosaiya
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Here there be dragons
Roger Zelazny
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Here There Be Dragons
Marianne Clark
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Here There Be Dragons and Way Up High
Roger Zelazny
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Pryderi Terra Book One: Awakening
James A. Owen
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The very first published work by James A. Owen, who recently released the first of his fantasy books, Here, There Be Dragons from Simon & Schuster. This is a magazine sized comic that was a precursor to his Starchild comics series. This is extremely rare.
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Delicious recipes for the indispensable food processor.
Although millions of food processors are bought each year, they are seldom used to their full potential. With
125 Best Food Processor Recipes, the prep time to create delicious dishes is just a few minutes. These foolproof recipes are specifically created for food processors:
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Appetizers: Crab Feta Mushrooms, Herbed Chicken Puffs, Roasted Red Pepper Guacamole Dip
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Salads and Salad Dressings: Pepper Pasta Salad, Blue Cheese Peanut Coleslaw, Chipotle Mayonnaise
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Salsas, Sauces, Marinades and Rubs: Peach Mango Salsa, Jerk Chicken Marinade, Homemade Ketchup, Hot and Spicy BBQ Rub
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Soups: Roasted Pumpkin Pecan Soup, French Onion Soup, New England Clam Chowder
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Main Dishes: Fast and Easy Meatloaf, Stuffed Chicken Breasts, Red Hot Chili
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Vegetables: Tomato Basil Tart, Pecan Yams, Potatoes Au Gratin
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Breads and Rolls: Crusty French Rolls, Honey Whole Wheat Sunflower Bread, Fast and Easy Pizza Dough
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Cookies: Lemon Citrus Cookies, Quadruple Chocolate Chunk Cookies, Cinnamon Apple Shortbread
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Pies, Tarts and Pastries: All-Butter Pie Crust, Three Berry Pie, Caramel Chocolate Tart, Pear Pandowdy
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Cakes and Quick Breads: Deep Dark Rich Chocolate Fudge Cheesecake, Blueberry Pecan Muffins, Fresh Savory Herb Scones
For cooks using a food processor, this book will become the ultimate resource for its outstanding recipes. The wealth of timesaving tips and techniques will appeal to cooks at all skill levels.
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Delightful surprise.......2007-08-10
This books is a complete surprise. Unassuming it delivers with a huge punch. The pizza dough is a complete surprise, salad dressings, homemade mayo,Roast Chicken salad, dips, and cookies are easy, quick and have amazing flavor. With a little experience, you can make anything in this book and you won't be disappointed ever. George Geary is amazing with these recipes and I look forward to each of his books. The Cheesecake book has incredible savory cheesecakes and his new baking book is going to delight his many fans and cooking class students. Pick this one up and use it. You will wonder why you would make cookies in a mixer ever again. If you are making a lot cookies for school or an exchange in one baking session, make them in order and you won't have to wash the processor bowl between recipes. You fall in love with the processor all over again. Thanks George.
My Half Cup Runeth Over........2007-02-16
Although there are some excellent recipes, the problem is translating the quantities of the ingredients in to commonly used units in the UK. For instance: how do you measure 80mls of butter? You will need to spend sometime converting the measures in to ones with which you are familiary prior to starting.
Try the Pear Almond Tart!.......2005-09-11
I loved George's Cheesecake book, so I got this one even though I am an experienced user of the food processor. He always has great recipes that are easy and delicious. Try the Pear Almond Tart and the Roasted Corn and Pepper Salsa -- and you too will be a believer.
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