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Perfect manual.This book/pamphlet is a great summary of points Michael Pollan makes in his previous books. For the most part it has one piece of advice per page, sometimes with a an explanation of the reasoning when necessary. It's perfect for people who need dietary advice, and who don't have time to read an entire book--or for people who need quick clarifications, or reminders, of the advice Pollan gives in his previous books. I changed my diet about a year and a half ago to comply with Michael Pollan's advice, and I have lost exactly 40lbs--and I'm still losing!
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Take a deep breath, Hippies....I love reading the reviews from both sides. There seems to be an either/or mindset. To be honest, I started the book last night (Sunday) and have enjoyed it so far. It is well written, fast paced and interesting. Yes, I said it, Rove's book interests me.
Sure, I voted for Gore, Kerry and Obama. I'm a centrist with liberal tendencies. That said, as I grow older, I become more conservative. What strikes be about Rove (and by extension, true conservatives) they have a belief system they wholly endorse and believe in. Insofar as my liberal colleagues, I fear it is what they DON'T believe in.
Insofar as the book, Rove refers to himself as a nerd several times. That endears himself to me. He's honest. He's a political wonk and a smart man. Whether you agree with his politics, at least learn from the man.
Indeed, as a CR (look it up, hippie) Rove and his cohorts used the Yippie manifesto to help THEM in recruiting and with their "radical" politics. Very interesting.
We learn about Rove as a kid, his family (good dad/dysfunctional mother) and his first marriage (yikes). In addition, we get a glimpse of how politics used to be played. It is interesting, nostalgic and a tad sad that we no longer do things as simply as we once did.
As I closed the book last night, Rove was in 1980 (a 30 year old man) and about to start a direct mail political company. The Regan Revolution had not yet started.
Me? I'm interested to see what happens next.
Is it revisionist? Well, duh. What memoir WOULDN'T want to set the record in the favor of the author.
I'll pass final judgement after I finish the book.
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Vengeance is hersThe first book in Stieg Larsson's Millenium Trilogy is many things: a murder case, a financial intrigue, a family saga, and an (ersatz) feminist revenge fantasy. Its extraordinary popularity is almost certainly due to its partaking of the last category. Larsson's tale dwells uncomfortably on the horrible things that can be accomplished by "Men Who Hate Women" (the transliteration of the work's original Swedish title), and then tries to balance the score by offering elaborate retaliations visited upon the misogynists by the novel's avenging angel, an antisocial young woman named Lisbeth Salander who works as a researcher for a security firm. The novel tries to have it both ways: it offers Old Testament-style atrocities committed against women for us (and the novel's soft hero, Mikhael Blomkvist) to cluck over, and also to titillate us; then it offers Salander's vengeance schemes ostensibly to balance the injustices committed against women but really to titillate us even further. It's like "Inglourious Basterds," but imagined in terms of gender politics. Unfortunately, Salander is not as imaginative a creation as many fans of the book have proposed, and seems all too reminiscent of the many fabulous femmes fatales with attitude and technological know-how who have become archetypes of postmodern espionage stories, from Modesty Blaise to Sydney Bristow to La Femme Nikita; moreover, her willingness to sexually please her partner and only friend Blomkvist without him ever asking complicates any claims some have made that this novel truly champions feminism.
The novel works best in its central section, a complex mystery involving the disappearance of an industrial heiress on her family's private island more than thirty years previous to the main events of the novel: the sinister secrets of the Vanger family make the novel work here as a very gripping and dark family saga. Unfortunately, this plot is book-ended by a subplot involving financial intrigue that almost bored me into giving up the novel initially, and that I couldn't wait to get through in its final one hundred or so pages. The international success of the novel is undeniable, and at the very least the work is worth picking up just to see how Larsson can strike so many chords that resonate with a contemporary readership.
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I wanted to love this book but... just not happening.I've liked Alicia for a long time because of her obvious love for animals. In fact, I've often thought that Alicia and I could be BFFs if time and geography were different. But, I'm pretty frank with my IRL BFF so I will be frank with you too, Alicia.
This book... I wanted to like this book. I really did. I pined for it for a long time until I finally bit the bullet and bought it, sure I would just be enamoured with it. I was sure that it would be the answer to all my food-related prayers.
Yeah... not so much.
I'm glad I have it; I'm glad I read it. There are a few good tips scattered here, yonder and there in it. A couple of good recipes too. As a result of reading about "daikon" in your book, I have it growing in my garden now. So, some positives there.
But, all in all, this diet is not for the average joe (or jane). What all do you limit in this book? A LOT! Tomatoes, potatoes, soy milk, bread, this list goes on. Basically, you eat greens. A lot of them. I love greens but I love them alongside a nice, juicy, heirloom tomato! And I don't want greens for each and every meal.
Now, I realize that there are many kinds of greens and many ways to "shake this up" but I live in a small town and there aren't that many kinds of greens here. Besides, I don't have the time to go out in search of a hundred different kinds of greens just so I'll have something to eat.
Really.
I kind of got the feeling that Alicia was a bit disapproving if you didn't go all out "superhero". That is her ideal, of course. But, that is pretty darn unrealistic for a lot of us. Or, at least it is for me.
And, my last point and perhaps the biggest turn-off for me in this book... Alicia has her DOGS on a vegan diet. It says it right there in the book. This to me is taking it a bit far. I don't want to eat meat but I know that my dogs and cats are instinctually programmed to eat meat. That is how their bodies and digestive systems are made. To deny them their instinct is just wrong, in my opinion.
All in all, I was disappointed. I wanted to love this book and looked so forward to it but... nah, it was a letdown.
Sorry, Alicia... I do still love you though.
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A Valuable, Well-Written BookIn "Change Your Brain, Change Your Body" Dr. Amen explains how he has used SPECT imaging to study the blood flow and activity patterns in the brain. SPECT is an acronym for single photon emission computed tomography.
He offers many examples of how he has used SPECT to obtain critical information about the brain function of his patients, and determine the best treatment to help those individuals to overcome a wide variety of problems, from depression to obesity to colds and headaches. The book makes use of illustrations of brain scans taken before and after treatment at Amen's clinics. He clearly explains how he interprets these scans, and how he determines the appropriate treatment for an individual.
Dr. Amen presents 15 solutions to assist you in boosting your brain to enable you to attain and maintain the kind of body and sense of well-being you have always wanted. Among the many benefits that can be derived by learning to love your brain and apply the easy-to-follow solutions are increased energy, sharper memory function, and relief from unwanted stress.
Sounds to good to be true? Not really. I can attest to many of the strategies and techniques this book offers because I have used them and taught them with amazing results for four decades. What's really new and different about Dr.Amen's approach is that he is employing some recently discovered scientific diagnostic equipment such as SPECT along with his unique treatments.
Back in the 1980's, I presented health conferences at the University of Minnesota and other colleges featuring "pioneers" in using the brain/mind for healing, and maintaining good health. Participants in those conferences included Norman Cousins, O.Carl Simonton, Bernie Siegel, Deloris Krieger, Norman Shealy, Raymond Moody, Gerald Jampolsky Karl Menninger, etal. Dr. Amen is to be congratulated for building on their work and currently being on the cutting edge of discoveries and treatment in this field. The world could use more like him.
This is a valuable, well-written book, and deserves five stars.
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| Beware: you may lose days of your life. . .The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest is the last of the series. Because of the author's death, we will not see any more books, and it is impossible to read this novel and not feel that there was more left to say about these characters, and this spectacular heroine. However, I will say that he wraps up all the major plot threads. I was less than compelled by a couple of the subplots in this book, and I became a little weary of how sexually irresistible the male protagonist supposedly is. However, the courtroom climax is tremendous. While my least favorite of the three, I read this conclusion as compulsively as I read the other two. Truly, a compelling series. And, atypically for most thrillers of this type, quite feminist!
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Wish the ending wouldn't have been so predictable!!I have loved all but a couple of Jodi Picoult's book. If this book wouldn't have had such a predictable ending, I would have rated it MUCH higher. The storyline and characters were very easy to get into and most of the time I didn't want to put this book down. The whole time, however, I kept hoping the ending wouldn't be what I had predicted it to be within the first 50-100 pages!! Sadly, it did end exactly as I predicted. It was an interesting book with a lot of insight into the autism spectrum and a lot of interesting facts about Asberger's. This book definitely doesn't rank up there with The Pact, My Sister's Keeper or Nineteen Minutes. I would probably rank it a little lower than Plain Truth or Salem Falls, but better than Handle with Care or the Tenth Circle.
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