5 comments about Chasing the Dream: My Lifelong Journey.

1. While I am a Yankee hater I admire Joe Torre.
   I enjoyed the book and learned a lot more about a great person and manager



2. As an avid Yankee fan, I was looking forward to reading this book, and I was not disappointed. With the help of Tom Verducci, the book was put together very well and kept me interested the entire time.
   
   Many people see Joe Torre as only a great manager, however, he was a very good ball player as well. As you read the book and learn about his experiences while growing up in the Major Leagues you learn why he does certain things as a manager, which I found to be possibly the most interesting part of the book. It was great the way he explained how he dealt with certain situations, based on his past experiences. It was interesting to see exactly how he thinks during a game and how he bounces ideas off the great Don Zimmer. The 96 Yanks were a special team, and he definitely helped them win with this managerial techniques and philosophies. This would only be the first championship for what would soon be a dynasty.
   
   The book covers his entire life, from childhood to the time he wrote the book. You see exactly how certain aspects of his childhood stayed with him and influenced his personal life for years. Torre is a great man, with a very interesting past, and this book will teach you a lot about the game and the way things are behind the scenes of the game. You will also notice how baseball goes through changes during his time in the game. If your a Yankee fan, this is a must read. If you aren't, you will still find it to be enjoyable if you are a fan of baseball.



3. This is a good book about an exemplary player, manager and overall good person from the game of baseball. The book puts forth his philosophy of working hard to achieve your goals. I was impressed even more than I already was with Joe Torre after reading this. How he got to manage the Yankees and to successfully perform with quiet restraint and insightful reason once he made it that prestigious position makes for very fine and captivating reading.



4. Great guy, great story. Read this book and see how it came about that Joe Torre is one of the classiest things that has happened to Major League Baseball-



5. Unlike most of you reviewing I grew up as a southern girl and fell in love with the New York Yankees in the late fifties.
   
   I too think Torre has been one of their best managers although there have been others. The book was too much about Torre himself and not enough about my team.
   
   A little too much ego involved but would have to have it to be a Yankee manager or probably even a player.
   
   I have, over the years, read much about my team, and would not rate this as one of the best nor the worst. Just hope we win this year.

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5 comments about Men of Iron: Library Edition.

1. I probably read this book one hundred times throughout my preteen & teenage years. It resonates primarily within the imagination of young men.
   
   My adoration of this book may explain why I travel the modern streets of Detroit on horseback carrying a lance. Insanity is a another explanation.
   
   You early teens son/brother/nephew/etc will love this book. It ignites imagination.



2. This book was a great read! Acceptable for all ages, it's interesting, and very detailed giving the reader a clear perspective of what life was like in the early 1400's. I highly recommend this book to anyone. My only regret is that it wasn't longer.



3. This is a book I first read in the ninth grade but is easily read by any good reader 5th grade up. An Adventure about a young boy taken from his family at a young age who learns to do what is right , to stand up against bullies , to organise others in a right cause. We follow him to young manhood and the righting of a terrible injustice. Boys will love it. Makes you want to make a shield and sword and be courageous and right wrongs your self. This book was written expressly for boys. My sons have read it and I hope my grandsons will too.



4. It's a story about a young man named Myles Falworth. His father is blind and outlawed for a reason Myles finds out later in the book. It's about his growing up (he hates to be ordered about by his superiors) and becoming a knight and restoring his fathers honor. It's an interesting read, but sort of hard to understand as the characters speak in old English. (for sooth, thee, thou, methinks, ect.)



5. Howard Pyle's Men of Iron is a lesser-known classic, originally published in 1891. The style is reflective of both the time it was written in and the time the story takes place in, and so takes a bit of getting used to, but it flows well and soon you're immersed well into both periods: the later age of chivalry of the 14th century as well as the late 1800's when books for boys centering on rags-to-riches tales and offering moral examples to live up to were popular. Basically, think Horatio Alger and Mallory blended together in a single novel.
   
   I liked the fact that Pyle gives shading to most of the characters in the book, making them believable in their motivations and not mere sterotypes cast in black and white. Myles Falworth, the young hero-to-be, has his noble side but is also quick-tempered and stubborn to a fault. The Earl of Mackworth, who takes him in and sees to his training, is something of a schemer and has his own agenda in which Myles is to play a part. And even the great wrong Myles' family suffered is cast in such a light that Myles can see that the King may have had good reason for acting as he did. Even the outright villain, the Earl of Alben, is shown as not being entirely without reason for his actions.
   
   The best thing though about the novel is the way it immerses the reader in the life and training of a knight in a noble household in the late medieval era. The language used by the characters, their attitudes and their roles in society are all true to the time, and Pyle works in an enormous amount of factual detail into the descriptions of how they lived, what they wore, the rules by which they lived, and so on. The details on the ceremony in which Myles is knighted, the first tournament joust he participates in, and the final trial by combat in which he vindicates his father are truly worth the read for anyone who wants to know what these were like and for anyone who cherishes historical accuracy. As an example, this description of the field where the trial by combat was to take place:
   
   "The lists were laid out in the usual form. The true or principal list in which the combatants were to engage was sixty yards long and forty yards wide; this rectangular space being surrounded by a fence about six feet high, painted vermilion. Between the fence and the stan where the King and the spectators sat, and surrounding the central space, was the outer or false list, also surrounded by a fence. In the false list the Constable and the Marshal and their followers and attendants were to be stationed at the time of battle to preserve the general peace during the contest between the principals."
   
   Even a hundred-plus years after its original publication, Men of Iron still has much to offer to readers who enjoy tales of knights and the age of chivalry, and to readers who want to know what it was like for a boy of the time whose coming of age was to become one of those knights. Recommended.

1 comments about Colin Powell (Black Americans of Achievement).

1. THIS IS A GOOD BOOK I think anyone would love to read it.
   It's about Colin Powell. He was a good man and son.Many people loved him. Colin Powell was a very hard worker even when he was at school.He was a good friend and dad. At frist I didn't likeit because I don't like to read.But as I started to read it, I became to like itand so I finished the whole book!

   I'm sure you will like the book too.

4 comments about Appointment at the Ends of the World.

1. I listened to this book on audio tape, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I didn't realize a vet could enjoy his life so much. Each illness was an adventure, and some were quite dangerous. He obviously loves his work, and won't let anything stand in his way. His stories were humorous and interesting, and just technical enough to appreciate his vast medical knowledge. This book was a pleasure to listen to, and I recommend it highly.



2. Simply put - this is my most favorite book of all time! If you love wild animals, adventure, and a great read - this well-written, heart felt book is for you!



3. Books by vets are usually very interesting and concern more common animals. This book is different as Dr. Karesh only works with wild animals and puts his life on the line many times during the year.

   It is always interesting to discover how a person got into his line of work and this story is no exception. Though he loved animals from birth (almost), being a vet was furtherest from his mind.

   This is a good read and highly recommended.




4. This book tells the story of Dr. William Karesh, a wildlife veterinarian. Karesh tells us about his early interest in wild animals, and how he came to study veterinary science in graduate school. Following his studies, he used his skills working for zoos and the Wildlife Conservation Society. Now he spends much of his time traveling around the world studying the habits and health of various wild creatures. Highlights of Karesh's stories include nursing an injured okapi back to health, and chasing peccaries through the Peruvian forests. The best tale of all, however, has to be that of the time he was high in a tree, attempting to stare down a jaguar who thought he smelled like a nice hunk of meat. The point of the book is not all light-hearted stories, however. Karesh provides us with some important points to ponder about wildlife conservation and the future of the planet.

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