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Fodor's Pocket Guides are designed for people who just want the highlights. They contain full, rich descriptions of major cities around the globe including the most worthy sights, the best restaurants and lodging, plus shopping, nightlife, and outdoors highlights - all in a new trim, petit package.

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Sufficient, but not great.......2000-01-03

The guide is small and conveniently sized, but the information is sparse and not entirely accurate. 5* for size, 2* for content.

Sufficient, but not great.......2000-01-03

The guide is small and conveniently sized, but the information is sparse and not entirely accurate. 5* for size, 2* for content.

Good on sites, out of date on hotels and restaurants.......1999-04-02

Compact and easy to use. Historical sites are well done but reviews of art collections are overly generous for mediocre quality. Forget the restaurant reviews, the scene is changing fast and our most inedible meal was at U Tri Zlatych Hvesd, a restaurant they recommended. The hotel U Tri Pstrosu was a major disappointment. When they showed us to our room, a tiny fourth floor walk up attic garret for $200 a night, we checked out and went next door to Hotel Pod Vezi. There we found a large, comfortable suite three times the size for $150. Overall a handy book but out of date on hotels, restaurants and some travel information.

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Garden Details.......2001-12-12

I got so many great design ideas from this wonderful book. Lots of pictures to inspire anyone looking for ideas. I will use this book a lot.

Garden Details: Accents, Ornaments, and Finishing Touches for Your Garden

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Garden Details: Accents, Ornaments, and Finishing Touches for Your Garden
Warren Schultz , and Carol Spier
Manufacturer: Friedman/Fairfax Publishing
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Reeling from a terrifying assault that has left him physically injured and psychologically shattered, nineteen-year-old Brad Land must also contend with unsympathetic local police, parents who can barely discuss “the incident” (as they call it), a brother riddled with guilt but unable to slow down enough for Brad to keep up, and the feeling that he’ll never be normal again. When Brad’s brother enrolls at Clemson University and pledges a fraternity, Brad believes he’s being left behind once and for all. Desperate to belong, he follows. What happens there—in the name of “brotherhood,” and with the supposed goal of forging a scholar and a gentleman from the raw materials of boyhood—involves torturous late-night hazing, heartbreaking estrangement from his brother, and, finally, the death of a fellow pledge. Ultimately, Brad must weigh total alienation from his newfound community against accepting a form of brutality he already knows too well.

A searing memoir of masculinity, violence, and brotherhood, Goat provides an unprecedented window into the emotional landscape of young men and introduces a writer of uncommon grace and power.

From the Hardcover edition.

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Heartbreaking and, perhaps, inevitable.......2007-10-17

Goat is the story of a college Junior who, kidnapped, terrorized and humiliated a year and a half before, is now faced with the daunting prospect of pledging a fraternity in order to feel a part of the lives of others. Written as a memoir, it reads more like a novel, and provides an interesting perspective on what it means to feel like an outcast, a victim, in a community to which you're supposed to belong, a community of "brothers" whose souls are as lifeless as the debris the protagonist collects to prove he exists. Touching, if chilling, and steadfastly non-redeptive.

i hate fratboys and i still hated this book.......2007-06-20

i grew up in the south and went to the university of georgia, where i learned to hate fratboys. bought this book and was sorely disappointed. you eventually start wondering who the hell this guy is and why he's such an idiot that he would pledge a clemson frat, in the first place? no small point, believe me. maybe he's just actually kind of a dumb guy. as you read, he really starts seeming that way. his 'style' is thoroughly annoying, and yes, it is 'faux hipster.' but eventually, i started thinking he did this on purpose so he would have something to write about. i think he joined the frat so he could write about the brutality of frats, juxtaposed with his assault--another first-hand thing he could write about. patch those two subjects together and voila, you've impressed all the kids in your creative writing class. bottom line is it's impossible to enjoy a memoir when you discover 50 pages in that you really dont much like the narrator.

Annoyed by the criticism... but not surprised........2007-01-24

I am deeply familiar with the concepts of isolation in this book. Small towns in the south have a particular tendency to make anyone who is a little different feel like bottom-feeders. Thinkers, feelers, and liberal personality types are completely looked down upon and ultimately pushed aside.

To these critics: I am from the exact town that Brad is from and have met him a few times. I wasn't expecting to like this book, mainly because I get annoyed with stories that ask for pity and don't really reveal anything that wasn't for purely dramatic purposes. This novel wasn't like that. He is sincere and sweet and exactly the same character he is in the novel, perhaps less hopeless and slightly more assured.

I just find it interesting that many of you criticize Land about being a little overly sensitive, or writing with too heavy of a heart, or even making decisions that you would not have made. All I have to say to that is that you obviously haven't lived in his shoes. Being from the Northeast or Northwest(where I live now), its pretty ridiculous to think you have any ability to relate to this kind of society. I've lived all over the place and will never forget the complete isolation I felt trying to just get along with people in the area, let alone in an older siblings shadow. And I am just about the most stubborn, self-assured person I know, i don't usually have self-consciousness issues.

SO.. This book was fantastic. The tone and so-called over wording was perfectly implemented. His expressions weren't careful or bold, they were sincere. The courage it takes to write this type of memoir by far surpasses anything I've read before. Cheers Brad. You represent Florence well.

Better Not Cry, I'm Telling You Why.......2006-10-12

There are two levels of amazement with Brad Land's memoir, Goat. In a cautionary tale about peer pressure and the violence between men, Land offers up a bird's eye view of the brutal world of the male culture, specifically within fraternities. The story details a period in Land's life immediately following his savage kidnaping and torture in the back woods of South Carolina. Beaten nearly to death for no reason at all, a teenage Land must piece together his life bit by bit by first overcoming the notoriety of his attack, the apathy of the police, the shunning of the discussion of "the incident" by his parents, and most hurtful: the distancing of his beloved brother Brett. Still, the worst is yet to come for Land. In an effort to "belong," he follows his brother to Clemson University, where he pledges at a fraternity. His brother is member, and with a desire to bridge the gap between them, he suffers an explicit, heart-pounding hazing, bringing him face to face with a violence he knows all to well. A violence that ultimately leads to death. Land's incredibly memorable debut should be required reading for parents and young men alike (particularly in light of a growing number of alcohol related deaths at fraternities). The author's distinct and powerful narrative is sensitive, captivating, urgent, and direct, and revealing of the psychology of isolated and vulnerable teen boys seeking refuge in all-male organizations pumped with testosterone, power, and rage.

Vapid and Annoying.......2006-08-28

I suspect this book is the product of a mind trained mainly on IM. It is shallow beyond belief. I can't recall a single moment of feeling the author was sharing any observation of importance or even one when an insubstantial moment or observation was conveyed cleverly.

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christian maverick's memoir
The first Hippy I ever knew
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Forty Acres and a Goat: A Memoir
Will D. Campbell
Manufacturer: Jefferson Press
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ASIN: 0971897409

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Describing himself as a “steeple dropout” and a “bootleg preacher” who also works as a “freelance civil rights activist,” Will D. Campbell has earned a notable place among America's favorite storytellers. Detailing his harrowing exploits during the racially charged 1960s as a liberal white man of God, this memoir brilliantly describes Campbell's attempt to live a spiritual life in a time of mistrust, racial intolerance, and violence. Despite such a dire backdrop, Campbell serves as a guide through the events with his patented humor and poignancy. In one instance he notes that black Muslims protected the grand dragon of the KKK in an upstate New York prison, demonstrating the contradictions and strange circumstances that bring people together.

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christian maverick's memoir.......2007-01-18

When he was seven years old Will Campbell (b. 1924) decided that he would be a preacher. Ten years later he was ordained, then took a pastorate at a small church in Louisiana. "It just didn't work out," he writes. Nor did his stint as Director of Religious Life at the University of Mississippi, where his views on civil rights were far too radical, nor after that his assignment with the National Council of Churches. He thus found himself with "a call but no steeple," a sense of failure, doubt about himself (but not about his call), and "a penchant for self-destruction." What to do?

In this memoir Campbell tells how he regrouped on a rundown two-hundred year old farmhouse with forty acres and a goat named Jackson. There in rural Tennessee he has flourished as a Christian anarchist and rabble rouser. He's farmed, wrote nearly twenty books, hosted a steady stream of troubled people both famous and unknown, wrote country music, visited the sick and the imprisoned, and continued his curmudgeonly protest against the principalities and powers. If you were raised in the south as I was, have an interest in the civil rights movement, or want to enjoy one of the most irreverent Christians ever to irritate the church, then read Will Campbell. He was born and raised in the rural and very poor deep south of Amite, Mississippi, "ordained" by family members at a local Baptist church when he was seventeen, and, in a delightfully improbable life, played a central role as an activist and agitator on behalf of African Americans. In 1957, Campbell was one of four people who escorted the nine black students who integrated Little Rock's Central High School; and he was the only white person to attend the founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. But he also made nice and sipped whiskey with the KKK Grand Dragon of North Carolina, believing that God's indiscriminate love embraces all of us without exception or conditions.

Will Campbell loves a good chew of tobacco and will strike many as enigmatic. Not everyone will appreciate his rapier wit. But PBS profiled him in their documentary "God's Will," in 2000 President Clinton honored him with a National Endowment for the Humanities medal, and his book Brother to a Dragonfly won numerous literary awards.

The first Hippy I ever knew.......2006-06-30

There are vague memories of Will Campbell, from my childhood days at St. Phillips Episcopal Church. I always knew that he was the Salman Rushdie of the Southern Babtist Convention but I never new why he was associated with the Episcopal Church until reading 40 Acres and a Goat. I recently hooked up with the Phil Rice the son of Father Charles Rice.
My interest in 40 Acres and a Goat got rekindled during my search for Convention: A Parable, which I still have not found a copy of. Convention: A Parable was referenced in American Theocracy : The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21stCentury, and I have been on the search for a copy since.
Will Campbell is probably the most effective activist I have ever known in my life. 40 Acres and a Goat made me aware just how effective he was.
I would stack him right up with Micheal Moore.
I have a twenty year old activist living in my home who I hope reads this book and it would be extraordinary if he could get an opportunity to meet Mr. Campbell to put his radicallism into a much larger perspective.
There is almost a melancholy conclusion to the memoir with a lack of assurance to the effectiveness of his efforts. But I believe that if you bang the drum your whole life and all you have to show for it is someone to bang the drum for you when you are gone, your life is golden.
I do not know if I would ever have met Kerry Majors, Donald Cockrill, Bonita Hayes, Sammy and Loretta Tally, Douglas Palmer who were transfered from Hopewell Elementary to Andrew Jackson Elementary as a result of Brown vs. the Board of Education and the efforts of Mr. Campbell so I consider his contribution phenomenal.
And I think that it is ironic that it took place Andrew Jackson Elementary, whereas Jackson A' Goat was the name of the goat who witnessed all these events.

spread the word.......2002-05-25

I've owned this book for fourteen years...a real treasure. Have told many friends about it...this was done first by a Southern publisher; then in paperback, I think, by HarperCollins.

Now, it looks like a new Southern publisher is bringing it back out in paperback. It's funky, Southern, religious, racial...abosolutely Southern and a must read. I recommend it to anyone who asks big questions about themselves and world and people around them.

Out of Print.......2002-05-22

This book is out of print. It is being reissued by Jefferson Press (see above.) It's a great buy.
DM

New Release Worth Buying.......2002-05-22

Will Campbell is one of the South's great writers and this re-issue of Forty Acres and A Goat is perhaps his best. This book, still in high demand, has an exciting new cover and should be read by all who love the South, goats and God.

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A fascinating chronicle of affection for animals
Goat Song
A story of gentle strength
Goats and Life
Goats and Life

Goat Song : My Island Angora Goat Farm
Susan Clark Basquin , and Susan Basquin
Manufacturer: J.N. Townsend Publishing
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ASIN: 1880158280

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Starting with one billy goat, 20 does, and a book about goats, author Susan Basquin began her foray into goat farming on Washington Island in Lake Michigan. Her herd grew to 100, and she found reserves of strength and determination to pull her through all sorts of dilemmas and near-disasters.

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A fascinating chronicle of affection for animals.......2001-02-10

When Susan Basquin's brother suggested they join forces and develop an Angora goat farm on Lake Michigan's remote Washington Island, she jumped at the offer. The isolation and rural environment would offer her free time for writing and contemplation -- or so she thought. What Susan found out first hand is the sheer physical and mental effort that goes into raising a herd of temperamental goats. For the next six years she struggled, growing founder of her animals, and discovering unknown reserves of strength and energy within herself. Goat Song: My Island Angora Goat Farm is the riveting memoir of Susan's life on Washington Island, a fascinating chronicle of her affection for her animals, her determination to overcome feelings of insecurity, and her reflections on island life. Goat Song is ardently recommended reading for anyone who has ever felt the urge to get away from it all and take the rural life in some isolated Eden.

Goat Song.......2001-01-25

I am/was interested in raising angora goats. This book provided valuable and informative information on that topic in a wonderful, well written story. I haven't decided if it talked me out of the dream or further embedded the dream but the story was great.

A story of gentle strength.......2000-12-30

A poetic narrative, this book reflects life on a large scale as it tells Susan's story of raising angora goats on a small Lake Michigan island. I was touched by the depth of feeling Susan expressed in vividly describing everything from learning to know and care for the goats to living in an isolated community which generously offered friendship and support to a new resident and her risky venture.

Goats and Life.......2000-11-28

This is a marvelous first time out for an author who took to heart the adage "Write about what you know." Yet what Susan Basquin came to know was something few women learn. Late in her 40s, after several years as a writer for a weekly newspaper in Santa Fe, New Mexico, she accepted an invitation from her brother to start a goat farm on an island in Lake michigan, off the tip of a peninsula in northeastern Wisconsin. She wanted to do something different--and different this book is.

It is full of life and death and the natural order of things--which, of course, is life and death. Knowing nothing about goats or farming or island life, or anything else that she had chosen, Basquin just did it. Starting with 21 angora goats, whose wool someday was supposed to bring a profit, she set about keeping them alive and growing the flock, which ultimately numbered 100. The emphasis soon centered on keeping them alive.

Disease, accident and injury were her companions, and she learned how to cope with each of them. With the help of the tight-knit island community, she became a farmer equal to anyone. But isolation--and sometimes loneliness--also became familiar to her. For six years she ran the farm. But then her brother decided to shut it down.

Goats and Life.......2000-11-28

Basquin returned to Santa Fe, and now has written this memoir. it sings with a commitment to life, and the new life she found for herself, surrounded by goats on an island. This is not a life that most women, or men, would choose. But for anyone with an imagination, it is a compelling read. It will make you wish you had been there--and glad you were not. It will expand your concept of the possible. What is still waiting for us all?

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After the Bridge - After the Goat - After the Myth
Michael Marvin Rawley
Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
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Forty Acres & a Goat: A Memoir
Will D. Campbell
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Goat A Memoir
Land Brad
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Goat: A Memoir

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Goats in the Kitchen: A True Story of Adventures Unlike Any Other
Dorie' Mactino
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Forty Acres And A Goat: A Memoir
Will D. Campbell
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
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Forty Acres and a Goat: A Memoir by Will D. Campbell.
Will D. Campbell
Manufacturer: Peachtree Pub.
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The Contrasting Worlds of Collins and De Valera.......2001-08-30

T. Ryle Dwyer's joint biography on Michael Collins and Eamon De Valera is a striking comparison and contrast of the two most important figures in twentieth-century Irish history. Dwyer's examination of the influence of Collins and De Valera on the events leading to the recognition of the Irish Free State, and subsequently the Irish Republic, highlights the dramatically different leadership styles, personalities, and crisis strategies of the Big Fellow and Long Fellow.
This book is well researched, well written, and well organized. Many joint biographies fail in their efforts to flawlessly intertwine the lives of two radically different individuals. Dwyer moves back and forth from Collins to De Valera with skill and grace, and in a manner that demarcates their differences clearly to the reader. Dwyer's work also gives ample background of Irish and global events that led to the treaty with Britain, providing a context for readers unfamiliar with Irish history.
The chapters on the early childhood of both De Valera and Collins are particularly well researched and effectively presented. Dwyer draws lines between several influential childhood events and the leadership style and personality that both leaders assumed later in life. Additionally, Dwyer's examination of Collins' role in the partitioning of Northern Ireland is exceptional. Overall, this book serves as a definitive study of the two most prominent figures in modern Irish history.

Two Very Different Fellows.......2000-10-26

An informative and interesting account of the lives and times of the two most famous leaders of the Irish fight for independence from Britain. While not as detailed or as exhaustively researched as other books on the two men, it is of particular interest because it presents them together and explores the contrasts between them which ultimately led to their split and the devastating civil war in Ireland, which was more tragic by far than the war against Britain. The theory of the book is that the difference in the background and upbringing of the two accounts for the eventual animosity between them--DeValera, the cold, reserved, patriotic and manipulative product of a dislocated and not very secure childhood, and Collins, the much-loved youngest child in a large, cohesive family, whose volatile, intelligent, charismatic personality created both enemies and almost fanatically loyal adherents. The contrasts are engrossing and illuminating, and the book is well worth reading to understand the dynamics behind the Irish War of Independence.

Big Fellow, Long Fellow.......2000-08-27

Picking this up by cahnce I was surprised by the details T. Ryle Dwyer went into. Such intimate looks into the personality's and the main hops, skips and jumps that went along with these two great men's lives. Highly enjoyable and hard to leave at home! Easy to read and sometimes fairly amusing.

Big Fellow, Long Fellow: A Joint Biography Of Collins & De Valera

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Big Fellow, Long Fellow: A Joint Biography Of Collins & De Valera
T RYLE. DWYER
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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ASIN: B000OT8NII

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