2 comments about The Flower and the Nettle: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1936-1939.

1. History and biography readers will enjoy this, there's even something for the gardener.This collection of diaries covers the few years before World War II when the Lindberghs moved to a home called Longbarn in England (and then to a home in France). She writes about their flying travels to Germany, Italy, France and India while based in England. She describes the plants and flowers at their home along with the landscapes of their travels. The personal political views and conversations of the time include a trip to Germany so Charles Lingbergh can evaluate Germany's aviation capability to "social events" with the King and Queen of England, Lord and Lady Astor and the Kennedy's.



2. History and biography readers will enjoy this, there's even something for the gardener.This collection of diaries covers the few years before World War II when the Lindberghs moved to a home called Longbarn in England (and then to a home in France). She writes about their flying travels to Germany, Italy, France and India while based in England. She describes the plants and flowers at their home along with the landscapes of their travels. The personal political views and conversations of the time include a trip to Germany so Charles Lingbergh can evaluate Germany's aviation capability to "social events" with the King and Queen of England, Lord and Lady Astor and the Kennedy's.

No comments about The Dog in the Diamond Collar (Tigers).

No comments about Red Tide.

No comments about The Lottery Kidnapping (Forensic Files).

No comments about The Terrors of Rock & Roll (Samantha Slade, No 4).

No comments about Things That Go Bark in the Park (Fifth Grade Monsters, No 7).

5 comments about Ghetto Girls.

1. It does start a little slow, but by page 18 I was hooked and curious to see how it was gonna go down! Don't judge a book by it's cover! This is generally not my type of book, but it is now and I can't wait to read Ghetto Girls Too! This book has a lot of different things going on and a lot to keep you interested!



2. I'm sorry but this book was just not worth buying. It was cool in some points but by Ch.5 I was ready to call it a wrap cause it was not good. I took my time with this one. It almost took me a month to read it and usually it takes me less than a week to read a book. So yeah don't waste your money if you want it go to a library and rent it.



3. This book was horrible the thing that made me get this book was the picture on the cover. It looked like it was going to be real good but I was let down big down.
   There was too many stuff going on in too many different directions.Nothing was completed everything was just jumping from next drama to the next. It was so confusing that after the fifth chapter I just put the book to rest.
   I even let two of my cousins read the book and they also struggled with it.



4. Good stuff. Anthony Whyte blesses a fairly large group of girls all distinct, and the supportitng cats is serious as well. Thy're all so real. Ha ha-Ant's my peeps-got copies of the whole series signed from him-Keep our eyes peeled for Survivalist by Blaine Martin. You gotta love creative folk.
   
   For some reason, I always picture Eric Ascot to be played by Ced the Entertainer if Ghetto Girls was adapted for a film.I gave it three stars because Parts II and III really step it up.



5. I am suprised that I actually read this novel. Ghetto Girls was a book I had no clue existed, and while looking for Kashamba Williams, I saw the book, Ghetto Girls right above. So I decided to pick the book up and I thought to myself, well this doesnt sound too bad, lol.
   
   Well I was wrong. This particular novel was a little off in my opinion. There were editing mistakes that I know could have been avoided, and I was not impressed by the writing style of this author. This is the first book I've read by Anthony Whyte and I think he needs a bit more practice. He would extend the thoughts of the character or the setting of a particular act when he could have just ended the situation. I found that a bit annoying in this novel. Other than that, I think the plot was different and kept me interested.
   
   The novel "Ghetto Girls" written by author Anthony Whyte was based on the main characters, "Coco", "Danielle", "Josephine" and "Deedee". Coco, Danielle & Josephine had been friends for awhile and had dreams of becoming enterainers in the music biz. One night on the prowl for fun, they ran into Deedee, the niece of well known producer "Eric Ascot". After hitting the club, two out of four of the ladies leave and things take a drastic turn for the worst. While walking to the car, Coco and Deedee were attacked. The attacker or attackers took Deedee and the car. While on the road the attacker or attackers raped and beaten Deedee and left her alone on the side of the road.
   
   After police found her, it was all over and done with. Uncle Eric has a problem with police trying to help out after not doing anything when his brother was shot and killed and the file going into the back of the filing drawer. Eric takes the problem into his own hands and puts a hit out for the attacker or attackers. However dont let that fool you. There are many twists and turns in this novel that will have your head spinning going back a page to find out if you missed something. Take a ride with these characters as they show you that not all people can be trusted...not even those closest to you.
   
   I read this book in two days, but I wouldnt recommend buying it. I would do what I did and just borrowed it from the library. Its a pretty exciting story if you dont mind the errors and prolonged dialouge, then you'll be satisfied.

No comments about Deadly Betrayal: The Kidnapping and Murder of Mckay Everett.

5 comments about Buddha's Money.

1. I really, really like Martin Limon's series and his irrascible protagonists George Sueno and Ernie Bascom. Limon is an extremely talented writer who has not received the attention and acclaim he deserves; he can transport you to a time and place (in this instance, 1970's Korea) and make you feel instantly at home. George and Ernie are military investigators nominally tasked with keeping an eye on the free-wheeling black-market and barter economy outside Korean army bases and insuring US servicemen neither get in too much trouble nor cause too much trouble. Their intrepretation of their role is a lot less rigid than probably what their supervisors had in mind and so they often turn a blind eye to much of what they are supposed to police, nor are they are not above having a good time in the adult wonderland themselves. Their attitude to policing vice outside the army bases is simply a very realistic assessment on their part because there is only so much you can do when a country is flooded with 19 year old soldiers with big paychecks and the local populace is only too accomodating in finding compelling and interesting means to separate them from their money. George and Ernie, two fun rogues if there ever were any, do take their job seriously though. They may not try to fight human nature if a seviceman wants to barter cigarettes for sex, but they do take violent exception to kidnapping the daughters of US servicemen and beating, torturing, and raping the local Koreans.
   
   Our villains in this outing are evil Mongol Buddhists (isn't an evil Buddhist an oxymoron somehow?) and George and Ernie blow out all the stops in this action-packed adventure as they track down and come to grips with their adversaries. I really enjoyed this book and adventuring again with the boys but..........this book is also fairly dark, much darker than the previous two novels. There are some scenes in this book that are very disturbing involving torture and rape of women and children that I found very hard to deal with. George and Ernie also find it hard to deal with these events and very naturally lose much of their light-hearted banter and sense of fun in the face of events. This is actually a grim and disturbing book and while I would recommend the first two novels whole-heartedly I am not sure I would recommend this one to anyone, not because it is a bad book; it definitely is not, it is actually an excellent book. But there should be a big red sticker on this one though that warns of some very disturbing scenes. Granted, half of what is published now is chock full of serial killers and brutal, violent, senseless tortures and gratuitous, gore-spattered homicide of minors. It's not really my cup of tea though and I didn't expect it when picking up this book. I didn't even expect it even while I was reading this book until it actually happened. The acts I am talking about are not gratuitous here, they do propel the plot forward but even so I was deeply bothered. So I give this one four stars. I enjoyed the novel, but am still troubled by events in it, leaving me conflicted. If you love George and Ernie, or are not bothered by violence to women and children, you'll enjoy this novel. Otherwise just be aware that I am putting a danger sticker on what is otherwise a very good book.



2. First of all I love Martin Limon's books. I think this is a great series and I buy them as soon as they come out. Having said that, Buddha's Money was a bit disappointing. The story was the usual but there was some horrible torture of a little girl. To the point of being repulsive. This just turned me off an otherwise pretty interesting book.



3. If you pick up wierd off the wall stuff every so often just so you can leave home a long way behind, this is one of those. I cannot figure out any good reason I picked it up except that it was a wierd shape, a wierd color, and about a wierd place to me --- South Korea in the 1970's....a place and a time I admit I truly just don't care about....which made for perfect escapist reading. A whole new place and I admit, I had never contemplated what being an MP in SoKo in 70's might be like. Funny, fast, although the misogynist attacks and torture of women was over the top and unnecessary.....



4. This is the first book I read by Limon. The book has a schizophrenic feel to it.
   
   Most of the book is really an over-the-top caper novel, like an early Ross Thomas or Len Deighton novel set in Asia instead of Europe. It reads great if you don't think about it too much and simply kick back and enjoy the ride. The protagonists are appealing, there is a lot of entertaining local color that is richly drawn, detailed, and seems reasonably authentic. There are a host of entertaining secondary characters who like their counterparts in a Ross Thomas novel are completely duplicitous, and much of the plot consists of the protagonists responding to their plots and double-crosses. If that were all the novel was, I would have given it four stars, and recommended it as a well-written and very entertaining read.
   
   BUT interspersed among the antics of the protagonists and the other characters, there are some really gruesome and completely gratuitous passages involving the kidnap victim. I am pretty thick-skinned, but these were horrifying, so much so that I almost quit and pitched the book into the trash. In the end, I simply skipped them and continued reading. I say gratuitous because as horrifying as they were, they contributed almost nothing to the development of the plot, in the sense that the remainder of the story developed as if they hadn't happened. Bizarrely, even after the protagonists were aware of these unspeakable horrors and had caught up with the perpetrators, they treated them with a certain amount of humorous but wary indulgence, like some of Ross Thomas' protagonists treated the grifters and con-men they came across. These passages are such non sequiturs that they come across like something that might have been inserted by a demented hacker who had gained access to the author's computer just before the manuscript was sent to the press.
   
   Another grating aspect of the plot was that the villains, who according to every single description of them in the book were clearly recognizable as non-Korean, seemed to be able to move as a group around Seoul and indeed Korea without attracting any attention to themselves. Moreover, they dressed distinctly, especially their leader. It wasn't even clear that they spoke Korean. A number of developments that required the villains to operate as a group either in Seoul or in more remote areas where they would probably have come to the attention of law enforcement just didn't seem plausible.
   
   That said, there was enough that I liked about the remainder of the novel, in particular the protagonists, the rich detail and local color, the deftly sketched minor characters, that I have decided to read the remaining novels in the series. From looking at some of the other reviews, it sounds like the consensus is that they are stronger novels than this one, and it was my misfortune to start this series by reading this one. So if you are browsing through Limon's books, and looking for one to start with, don't start with this one.



5. I love this series, but this particular book is just unspeakable. There is an ongoing plot line of the torture, dismemberment (ongoing) and sexual violation of a small girl that is just unbelievable. There is an ethical dimension to writing, as in all things, which in my opinion, this author has violated. I don't think it should ever have been written and I question why it was ever published.

4 comments about In Leo's Lair (Zodiac Chillers , No 3).

1. This books pretty cool if your into the 'zodiac' stuff, like taurus and leo and etc.. but since I'm not this book was kind of corny. It had to much of this," Never trust a Leo" stuff and bla bla bla in it. BUT, nevertheless.. if you are into that stuff then this is your book



2. When I got this book from the libary, I was excited to read it, but when I was on about the second chapter, I kinda got bored. It had a good plot, but it kinda dragged on. I reccomend it for at the cottage type book. Because when you pick it up you won't forget the story. Chow...



3. those other people are strange, I think the book was great and kept me guessing. It was a zodiac mystery/adventure. It was a definite thriller.



4. Trust me on this i HATE books!! H-A-T-E books. book are my enemy. But some how this book became my favorite by coincidence im a gemini. This book go to worse to really worse. and freaky to really freaky. This is my favorite book of all times, i also love every other zodiac chiller. i also recomend my 2nd favorite book Pices Drowning. I read this book in 2 days thats a record for me! My last record before this was 1 month. Please read this book if youre into freaky book. If your into gory books like me try stephen King!