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Legal Issues in Alternative The purpose of this book is to empower you to make better decisions concerning the health care services that you, as a health care professional or health care institution, either recommend or …
A good friend had recommended this book to me a few months ago. I am very glad she did. I was drawn into the story from the very beginning. I liked the chages of perspective in the book between the different characters. The mysteries that you encounter throughout the reading slowly unveil themselves over time which kept a certain level of intrigue. I appreciated the very female point of view that this story takes and wonder how it will be seen from a male perspective. I didn’t want the story to end. I want to know what life has in store for Skeeter, Minnie and Aibileen. I also want to know what comes of Hilly and her followers. If you read The Help, you won’t be disappointed!
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I first saw this on a shelf a couple years back and was intrigued by it but hadn’t picked it up to read it until my 8 year old insisted that it was an awesome story and that I’d love it. So, with him continually asking how I liked it, I read Artemis Fowl.
When asked by my wife about the plot, my best quick answer was that it is sort of an “evil Richie Rich carrying out a dastardly scheme against the world of fairies.” (For those unfamiliar with Richie Rich, he’s the super rich kid with tons of fun gadgets and crazy adventures to save his family/friends/world). In this case, the rich kid is 12-year-old Artemis Fowl, and his motives are less altruistic.
Style
The writing was well done. It was written very simply and straightforward which was good considering the audience. It was something that a young reader could pick up and push through without getting bogged down by the language. The writing and dialog was natural and flowed well. Overall, very nice.
I have only 2 gripes about the writing itself:
1. Numerical consistency. Specifically, the phrasing “[something happened:] in as many [amount of time:].” You’ve likely heard this phrase before…along the lines of “He fell on his butt three times in as many seconds.” Which means he fell on his butt 3 times in 3 seconds. Colfer uses this phrasing enough that it got distracting to me, especially the times when he used it without a good frame of reference or without numbers. I don’t have the text with me to provide an exact example…but the memory I have is something like “he passed out again in as many minutes.” The numerical reference “again” isn’t really concrete (can be alluded to as it being 2 since it’s the second time) and the timeframe mentioned didn’t fit based on everything that happened in between.
2. Swearing. This is a book presumably for an audience of young kids. Through the first ~2/3 of the book, the author introduced a fairy swear word and used it a handful of times. The word itself is meaningless an
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Spirituality, God, Religion these are very touchy subjects for most people. This book is an amazing take on religion. Neale Donald Walsh is a truly gifted author. If you are interested in christianity with a little less guilt read this book.
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Review: The Catcher in the Rye
I can understand why “The Catcher in the Rye” has been challenged in some schools and banned in some libraries. Holden Caulfield, the protagonist, uses a lot of profanity and rough language, and gets himself into some situations, such has having a prostitute in his hotel room, that many parents would find objectionable.
But many of us know someone like Holden Caulfield, or maybe we are even a bit like him ourselves, or perhaps we used to be; someone who is like a porcupine that wonders why people don’t get close to him.
I’m not sure why I waited so long to get around to reading this book that some of my friends have called one of their favorites. It was only after reading Salinger’s “Franny and Zooey” recently that several urged me to read “Catcher.” All I can say is that I’m glad I did.
I read this book on two sittings, something that is very rare for me. I couldn’t put it down. I wanted to find out what situation Holden was going to get himself into next, all within the two-day period after getting kicked out of yet another boarding school.
Holden Caufield is a pathetic mess at 16 years old. Not only does he swear a lot, he insults the people he wants to be with, he smokes excessively, drinks excessively when he can, pretends to be something he’s not (but calls everyone else “phonies”), all while he is grieving the death of his younger brother and at the same time missing his older brother who has gone to be a screenwriter in Hollywood.
His little sister, Phoebe, describes the situation accurately when she tells him, “You don’t like anything that is happening.”
Yes, I think we all know someone like that. Which is why this book is so appealing after all these years.
While there is no conclusive resolution to Holden’s situation, there is enough wisdom near the end of the book from his little sister, as well as from a former teacher, to make the book redemptive on many levels.
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The screen is one of the best things of this device its nice and sharp. Easy to get the books in and the best of all its plug and play. Just connect the USB cable and its ready to load books or PDF files. I recomed getting the leather cover to protect this great device.
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Second time I used it (3rd tank of solution), the plastic part that locks the machine in an upright position broke off. Hard to believe such a rinky design would make it to production. Now, the machine has to be propped up against a wall if I am not holding it, to keep the arm from falling on the floor, spilling solution.
Cleaning was probably okay for this class of machine, of which this is the only example I have used. Certain not up to the cleaning of machines I used to rent from the grocery or hardware store.
UPDATE:
Got the machine back from repair (one month). They claimed that everything is new, except the two liquid containers. Well, the brushes were obviously not new, don’t know whether they were mine (only used for 3 tanks) or not.
Turned on the machine; within 5 seconds became very loud. I found, under the small black plastic panel with holes on the bottom underneath the cleaner, there was a metal clip of some sort, and 8-10 small pieces of broken grey plastic. Removed those, ran it again for 5 seconds (VERY loud), and there was then a screw visible under the panel.
I think they gave me a badly repaired steamvac from someone else, not a new unit as claimed. Another black mark for Hoover.