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This one won't let you go.......2006-11-01
Another great example of the lesson I've learned when exploring thriller writers: always go back to their first books, those early works upon which their reputations were built...Hunter, Burke, Connelly,Deaver,Ross MacDonald,the list goes on. Here Mr. Deaver shows a ferociously understated intelligence in his grasp of character-especially those perversions of character which make this novel read at moments like a fictionalized psychology text from hell....ain't it great??? And, as I said, understated and believable every step of the way. Especially believable are the procedural aspects of small town law enforcement and their inexperience when confronted with atrocities beyond their ken, and the wonderfully wicked views of the dark side of academia. Also a pitch perfect characterization of a decent person of mediocre intelligence, without resort to parody or patronization...not an easy task. Very High recommendation.
An Early Jeffery Deaver Tale That Is Wonderful!.......2005-01-25
This is a fascinating and intriguing novel with more than one plot twist and surprise! If you are a Deaver fan, I'm sure you'll love this story.
Bill Corde is a deputy in a small midwestern town, New Lebanon. When the murder of a college student, Jennie Gebben, is discovered. Detective Corde is placed in charge of the investigation. Sheriff Ribbon and one of his deputies, Slocum are convinced that this is a cult killing, and that it is connected to a previous murder of another college student, Susan Biagotti. However, Bill Corde is not convinced of this, and continues to pursue the case in his own manner.
Tied in with the murder are two mysterious teenage boy's who call themselves Jano and and Phathar, characters from a science fiction movie that they are obsessed with. As the story continues, the reader wonders if these teenager's are serial killers, or perhaps just troubled youth's.
Detective Corde not only faces the puzzle of Jennie Gebbens murder, and difficulties he faces in the sheriff's department, in his family life he is dealing with a nine year old, learning disabled daughter who is a possible target of the killer, and living in a fantasy world, a teenage son who becomes a suspect in the murder, and a wife who is less than happy with their marriage.
This is an intriguing and fascinating mystery. The characters are well stuctured and believable. Everything is wrapped up and explained by the conclusion of the novel. The reason I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5 is because I would have liked to know what happened to several of the characters shortly after the mystery was solved. It's a pet-peeve of mine.
Jefferey does it again!.......2003-09-03
This was a very good book. The begining was a little slow, but when it picked up I couldn't put it down. Jeffery has you mistrusting all of the characters. Jeffery has done it again!
Early gem.......2002-07-23
I don't know how people get it into their heads that early Deaver books are not as good as his later ones. ALL of his early books are of an incredibly high class, equally as good as his more recent. They are slightly different, in tone perhaps, but the quality remains the same.
This is an idea book...there is so much of interest going on at once. It is the kind of book i adore...the kind with a central core plot, but one with many other subplots (usually to do with simple events in the lives of the characters) all orbiting around that core-plot, but never really touching it. It makes the books rather realistic, and such a feast for the reader. So much is happening, just like real life. (For another brilliant example of this, check out "Cry Wolf" by Tami Hoag, which is one of my favourite books of all time.)
Deaver's writing is very good, and his characters are great. Very human. He gets into everyones head, and shows us inside, so incredibly well that it looks remarkably easy. I have not met an author who actually can get inside his characters heads so well, and make whats in there seem so simple and ration, especially in the heads of his killers.
The plot is good...interesting, exciting, twisting. There are some nice subtle twists, although they are not quite as pronounced or as shocking as in some of his other novels. Indeed, the identity of the killer is discovered in the final 100 ish pages, and there is no real surprise about their identity from then on. (Which, having found out so early, you would expect there to be.)
If anything, this book is perhaps a bit too long. But not much...
This is not Deaver's book, but that doesnt really clarify matters at all. As all of his books are exemplary, and much better than most authors working today. (Hence the fact that it still garners a five star rating.) However, it may not be quite as good as such classics as "A Maiden's Grave" or "The Empty Chair" it is still a hig class, enjoyable read. If you are new to Deaver, this is probably good place to start and ease yourself into the water.
Very Good.......2002-01-12
This is one of Deaver's earlier works. I'll echo most of the other reviewers and say that this isn't his best. It is, however, still a very strong story. Deaver's weakest is still as good or better than most writer's best.
This is a strong plot, but there are fewer twists than Deaver has become known for. The characters are also very good. He makes you cheer for Corde and wonder how his coworkers can be so stupid.
Again, it's not his best, but you still won't be disappointed by it.
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Set of 6 Standalone Novels By Jeffery Deaver - The Lesson of Her Death, Praying for Sleep, Speaking in Tongues, A Maiden's Grave, The Devil's Teardrop, The Blue Nowhere.
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Lessons: For Where There Is Love, There Is Hope...from a Mother Who Lost Her Child to Cancer
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A great book even for kids my age(12).......2004-11-08
This is a great book, with great detail. It's very good. It sad but then it shows how you can get out of your sadness through faith. It's just so good, I recomend this to anyone and everyone! It's about be really sad. Kids who have lost a brother or sister to cancer (I have not, but it was still really good, just so deep and passionate.) should read it so they can help understand some feelings they have. A five star!
A must read for any parent who has lost a child.......1997-03-08
This is exceptionally written and makes you feel the authors pain and the growth that she experienced as a result of her loss. She has the capability to make you feel what she feels and brings you from the very depths of hopelessness and despair to hope and trust in the future through faith
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Beware the Devil in Sheep's Clothing.......2004-10-05
I recently read the Hell books by Holly Lisle (or at least the first three). The books are concerned with the presence of the hellraised on Earth and the interplay between Heaven and Hell.
In THE DEVIL AND DAN COOLEY, North Carolina is still home to the hellraised. Radio DJ Dan Cooley begins a program to help the hellraised redeem themselves. Meanwhile the Devil has assigned a new head to the Earthside operations. As the hellraised get closer to arranging to run a theme park Hell's hidden agenda works its way into the North Carolina residents.
Another fine entry in the series with some very unforseen plot-twists at the end where we find out what has really been going on.
I thought it was wonderful :).......1999-02-02
A must read!!!!
Fun, clever, and entertaining.......1998-03-24
Although not as good as "Sympathy for the Devil," Lisle's first book in this series, this second rendering of the presence of thousands of Hell's Damned Souls in North Carolina is still great fun (lover's of small dogs beware, though). The authors have already found a lot to poke fun at in these books, and, with the number of possibilities for other targets for their sharp wits, this promises to be a long and enjoyable series.
Great fantay book like the Myth (Robert Aspin) series.......1997-07-22
The Devil books are very entertaining. They are light, east to read and very humorus. Prudish people may be slightly offended, but it is really all in good fun. If you like the Myth series by Robert Aspin then you will like these and vice versa
Great fantay book like the Myth (Robert Aspin) series.......1997-07-22
The Devil books by Holly Lisle are very entertaining. They are light, east to read and very humorus. Prudish people may be slightly offendedm, but it is really all in good fun. If you like the Myth series by Robert Aspin then you will like these and vice versa
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Treadmill Training for Runners shows it's readers how to reach their running and fitness goals using the treadmill. The book includes over 50 workouts and training programs designed specifically for the treadmill. Readers will learn how to gain fitness, lose weight and train for races from a 5K to a full marathon.
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Comprehensive.......2007-08-11
Covers many different kinds of uses of a treadmill. Mostly it just freed me up to find my own way.
It a Bible for Training Indoors.......2007-05-13
Best book I've found for treadmilling. Will never be bored on a treadmill again.
The truth about treadmill training.......2007-03-28
I have coached runners for over 20 years. Several years ago I began using the treadmill as a training tool for competitive runners. I received a lot of criticism from others who did not understand how useful a treadmill can be for competitive training. Finally, there is is a book that gives the facts, both postive and negative about treadmill training. I have seen a few other books on treadmill training, but the others were either a commercial for a brand of treadmills or simple training books for walkers. I found this book to be very useful and helpful to my athletes. The one thing I wish this book had is specific recommendations about which brand of treadmills are best. There is a buyers guide, but no specific recommendations. Maybe that is nitpicking, but it would have been helpful. I would have given it five stars if it had those recommendations. But overall a very good book.
Made me a runner.......2007-03-27
This book was a great help to me in becomeing a runner. Due to my schedule I am usually unable to run outside. I must run on the treadmill, but could not motivate myself to do it. This book gave me a lot of excellent tips on the mistakes I was making when running on a treadmill and also how to correct them. And even more importantly it helped keep me motivated with several different training programs and a whole slew of workouts. I am never bored now. I have been able to improve my fitness enough that I now consider myself a runner. I even trained for a weekend 5K using the workouts here. I highly recommned this book if you must do a lot of your training on the treadmill.
Good Name, Not Helpful.......2007-03-26
I really thought this book would be a little more helpful but it is vague and not very detailed.
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Based on the acclaimed thirty-nine-part San Francisco Chronicle series, an award-winning journalist follows the making of a bottle of Ferrari-Carano Fume Blanc from its harvesting off the vine by immigrant workers in Northern California to its first tasting, capturing all that goes into the process of turning a grape into a fine vintage and selling it to today's connoisseurs.
Mike Weiss spent nearly two years with Ferrari-Carano, a California winemaker founded in Sonoma County just over twenty years ago by Don Carano, a casino and hotel mogul from Reno. The narrative in A Very Good Year follows Ferrari-Carano's Fume Blanc from barren vines in November to its first sampling by a customer at the Four Seasons in New York, and, over the course of the book, Weiss presents his unique insight into the making and marketing of wine today. BACKCOVER: “Superb. . . . Weiss tells a great story.”
—THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Finally, a wine book that explains all the ingredients. . . . You will marvel at the richness of what Mike Weiss . . . was able to capture and convey within this delicious book.”
—LOS ANGELES TIMES
“Compelling . . . A Very Good Year is both entertaining and comprehensive.”
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“A sweeping book about tourism, globalism, environmental sustainability, immigration, and glamour. . . . The bottle of Fume Blanc . . . is like a Pandora's box. Open it up and out spill all the vanity, marketing savvy, self-mythologizing, acres of land, buckets of money, precise science, alchemical blending, and feudal working conditions that make up the California dream known as the wine industry.”
—SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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A Captivating, Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Making of a Premium California Wine Situated amidst the lush soils of Sonoma County in the heart of California's wine country, the Ferrari-Carano Vineyards produce some of the best-loved wines in America. Founded by casino mogul Don Carano and his wife Rhonda just over twenty years ago, the winemaker has won praise from consumers and connoisseurs alike for its affordably priced premium bottles, particularly its Fumé Blanc. In A Very Good Year, award-winning journalist Mike Weiss goes behind the scenes at this renowned winemaker to tell the story of how a bottle of this wine is created, from the first grapes picked by the hands of Mexican migrant workers to the vintage's initial public tasting at the Four Seasons in New York. Weiss's intimate look at the 2002 Fumé Blanc reveals the delicate interaction between water, sunlight, soil, and climate that produces grapes with the precise flavors sought by its growers-as well as explaining how a winemaker's decisions during the fermenting processes can bring out subtle changes in the distinctive flavors, such as the grassy melon bouquet that is the hallmark of this vintage. Weiss also looks at how ""The Story"" of a winery drives its marketing identity, is reflected in such decisions as the shape of its bottle and the style of its label, and can often decide the crucial difference of whether it is included on the lists of the country's best white-tablecloth restaurants. Along the way, A Very Good Year brings to life the colorful characters behind Ferrari-Carano: an obsessive fourth-generation vineyard manager who can predict an early spring based on the behavior of local bass; a star winemaker who must decide the precise blending methods based on elaborate chemistry and a supposition of what reviewers want to taste; the effusive sales and marketing guru behind the powerful brand; and at the center of it all is Don Carano, a successful entrepreneur who has entered the wine business not as a millionaire dilettante but as an ambitious winemaker with an eye toward creating a vintage that will garner international acclaim. Insightful and intoxicating, A Very Good Year is a delight to be savored by the oenophile and novice alike.
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The nose is complex, but the finish is disappointing.......2007-01-01
I was looking for a change of pace in my reading selections, and thought that I was going to get it with Mike Weiss', "A Very Good Year, " a chronicle about the intricacies of the wine industry.
What I got instead was a curious kind of viticultural deja vu.
After only a few pages I found myself back in "Moneyball" mode - only this time instead of following a baseball team around for a year, Weiss treats us to a year at the Ferrari-Carano vineyards. With open access (generally speaking) to all participants in the operations, from Don and Rhonda Carano to the scores of Mexican vineyard workers and their migratory family lives, the author provides vivid descriptions of the numerous details that are required to produce a quality wine.
And, the details are many, and the decisions are numerous and critical, such as "the Story," label composition, marketing and pricing strategy, cork selection (an amazing process), type of vine selection, soil composition, sugar content, crop size, Spanish speaking requirements, vineyard hierarchical culture, weather patterns and even the politics behind scoring positive reviews by The Wine Spectator.
We are provided with (muted) insight of the relationship/infighting between the meticulous grower and the fastidious winemaker.
All of this is very interesting stuff. In fact, good and bad, Weiss makes you appreciate what it takes just to get a glass of wine to a consumer. Unfortunately, the book is confounded too often by a writing style that is a bit disjointed, often repetitive, and a little disorganized. There is too much intrigue [albeit restrained] about the operational personalities, and the field workers at Ferrari-Carano, and too little clarity regarding why some wines taste better and cost more than others.
In the end, the book becomes a metaphor for the wine it primarily covers, Ferrari-Carano's "Fume Blanc." After describing the complexities of all the tedious decisions surrounding vineyard operations, and their ultimate proclamations that the 2002 vintage is among their best, critics scored their flagship wine as a disappointment. But, I am not sure that we ever understand why, despite the perfect growing conditions, excellent fruit composition and the record crop yield.
In the same respect, I believe that wine making is such an interesting subject among wine drinkers that more clarity by the author would have yielded a better product. For instance, there is more detail regarding the lives and times of the Mexican immigrants than clarity regarding the fermenting process (too oblique). This is really what wine lovers want to know - why do the wines of one vineyard taste differently from other vineyards even when they use the same grapes, or share the same geography?
Still, even though the true-life ending of the 2002 Ferrari-Carano Fume Blanc was a disappointment, "A Very Good Year" does provide a significiant amount of information regarding the significant challenges inherent in the wine industry, and is well worth reading.
The Business Behind the Wine.......2006-09-02
Mike Weiss doesn't know much about wine. He says so himself, and if he hadn't, there are enough misstatements in the first few pages of A Very Good Year to give him away. Nevertheless, he has written an enormously successful book that will offer new insights and perspectives to even the most sophisticated student of wine. Because Weiss sets himself a task that makes extensive knowledge of wine unnecessary, he isn't tripped up by his lack of expertise: "I had proposed looking deeply into a bottle of California wine in order to find the whole epic of contemporary California in a single bottle of its symbolic product, its face to the world." [p.5]
Weiss's book supports the premise of mine: that wine books aren't necessarily about wine, and it suggests that these books may sometimes have a broader purpose. In his case, the book explores George Bursick's very successful Ferrari-Carano 2002 as thoroughly as any good biographer would explore his subject. Weiss's biography is successful on two counts. First, it details the various skills that go into getting a bottle of wine to the table. Weiss is a good reporter, so he makes those skills come to life. We meet the winemaker and the winegrower. We see the cooperation and tensions between them. We see the reality of agriculture and the demands of viticulture, all wrapped up in an accountant's balance sheet.
Weiss also has a disarmingly frank view of the nature of wine marketing. His book opens with the words: "In the beginning was The Story." [p.11] Weiss acknowledges that in order to succeed in the wine business, you need a good myth as much as you need good wine. He reveals the laborious process of building the myth, of creating the right package, of fashioning--if not fabricating--the homey image that goes along with it. He tells us about the strategy of getting the wine into restaurants and about the endless series of incentives that make that placement possible.
But Weiss does even more than that: He gives us a taste of Emile Zola, Charles Dickens, and Tom Wolfe. We also meet the Mexican workers whose hands actually tend the grapes. We ride along with the noisy machinery of harvest and tiptoe through the toxic chemicals that sanitize the winery. His is an intensely real view of the wine world, a perspective that is distinct from the romantic treatment usually found in the wine press. And for that, it's all the more refreshing and worthwhile.
--Lynn Hoffman, author of THE NEW SHORT COURSE IN WINE and the forthcoming
novel bang-BANG from Kunati Books.ISBN 9781601640005
Good Book.......2006-07-04
It's a great book in that it takes you from the start of the growing season all the way to the first bottles sold in NYC. It certainly kept my attention throughout, great book for wine lovers.
Sip 'n Read.......2005-10-03
If you haven't tasted the wine that Mike Weiss biographies in this book, go out and buy a bottle before you start reading. Otherwise you'll end up running off to the wine store in the middle of a chapter, like I did. Honestly, I tried to hold off but finally, I could only acquiesce.
Descriptions like melon and honeysuckle, apricots and whiffs of vanilla, tantalized my inner wine lover. I could not read this book without lingering over the grape and somehow I feel that Weiss challenged me to do so. To swirl and sniff, and yes, you may even find yourself chewing the 2002 Ferrari-Carano Fumé Blanc. (I did.)
If you've ever been intimidated by wine, this is a primer that eases your inferiority and sets you off on the coursework. The next time you go tasting, you will be more informed. You'll discover that making wine is a craft and selling it is an art. You'll learn some of the language of wine; the Brix and the thief, the cooper and the F. O. B. You'll read numbers too, and there are a lot of them. How much money does it take to open a viable vineyard? Why your favorite bottle might really cost what it does; the mark-ups and the middlemen, the short sells at Trader Joes. If you've ever wondered why Two Buck Chuck is so cheap, you find out and perhaps never touch the stuff again.
This book is a highly detailed account of `The Story' of an agreeable wine made from casino cash and Sonoma soil. The cycle is finalized on linen tablecloths at the Ritz Carlton. What makes this easy to digest is the fact that Weiss is not a wine `snob.' He is a thorough and engaged journalist who managed to encapsulate the trade and bits of wine making history alongside serious facts concerning the environment, economics and labor, and the finance and foolery that both big and small California vineyards are facing post 9-11.
According to Weiss, making wine is an uncomplicated enigma like any art form. An elephant can make a painting, but so could Rembrandt and Jackson Pollack. Weiss' chronicle seems fair because he is an outsider, never posing as a connoisseur. Yet, the knowledge he shares makes readers feel a little more like one. If you've never been to Sonoma, this book is an invitation to explore and imbibe. Next time you take a sip you may smell the grass and the honeysuckle of Northern CA. You might think about the calloused hands of Mexican farm workers, the fog or the sun setting on plump green rows of vines and fruit. Or, at least you'll want to try.
You'll get thirsty reading this book.......2005-08-22
I brought this book home from work and gave it to my husband to read. After finishing the book, he said that he thought I might like it. I'm very selective about the non-fiction I read, but drinking wine is one of my favorite pastimes, so I gave it a try.
The book chronicles the process of producing a California Fume Blanc wine from vine to table. The author's selection process narrowed his winery choice down to the Ferrari-Carano winery in Sonoma County. He felt that this mid-sized winery typified the process for the California wine industry.
Through interviews and observations, the author lets us get to know the people involved in the process-from the Mexican workers who tend the grapes to the top level staff and winery owners. From reading this book, I got the feeling that the final product is as much the result of the personalities involved in the process as it is the idiosyncrasies of the grapes, climate conditions and soils.
I felt that the writing was a bit uneven, but to be fair, as a fiction reader, I am used to being able to maintain speed and pace while I read. I did learn a lot about the California wine industry from Weiss's book. Wine itself carries an air of elegance and prestige that masks the work that goes into it. About ten years ago, I spent a day harvesting grapes for a local Maryland winery. That single experience changed my perception of the process. This book added more details that make me more fully appreciate the nectar of the gods.
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