Outstanding book....keep going back to reread it!
931779
Excellent book. Great photos. It's an easy fun read with lots of great history and tidbits of great information. I like Jim's writing style. You can tell he is very enthusiastic about these old banjos. Leaves you wanting more.
2813126
This book is perhaps the best book of fantasy ever written. It combines timeless characters with an engaging plot to keep the reader interested at every point of the story. Many, if not all, fantasy books now published draw off of Tolkien's classic in one way or another. You will follow Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit from the Shire, and Thorin Oakenshield's band of dwarves on a journey through trolls, elves, goblins, evil wolves, giant spiders, and a dragon not to be fooled with, to regain what is rightfully theirs (treasure beyond your imagination). Tolkien's wonderful descriptions of his characters and setting will suck you into the book, and the action/adventure will help you breeze through it (of course, limited use of Tolkien's fifteen invented languages helps too) Simply put: this book is great! No... better than great, superb! outstanding! Stupendous! Buy it! Rent it! Borrow it! JUST READ IT!
2860024
I am the kind of person who finds a great book, devours it word by word and then keeps it so that I can experience it again another time...this is among my all time favorites!
1606292
I keep reading this great book, again and again. It has an old plot, but timeless. Well thought out characters, plot, and the tension is riveting. It is a keeper.
2924251
Excellent!  After reading first time, went back and read a second time.
2020706
I have read this book over and over... Love it!!! I have bought it for both my kindle & e-reader
692727
I have read this book about 5 times (for class book reports), and every time I read this book, it is still good.  This book just helps solidify Jackies roles, and hardships he went through to achieve greatnesss.  He had a pretty interesting life, and after I got started reading this book, I couldn't put it down.  I gave it to a friend and he got hooked also.  The story starts off with Jackie at an early age living with his parents in a French ambassadors home.  Then it shifts to Jackie at the Drama School, where he gets in fights with the older borthers, who one of them end up being a huge influence in his life.  I won't tell you who, you'll have to read it.  You'll thank me for this.  This book is definatly a keeper.
4204282
Excellent option for a great read. Riveting and entertaining from beginning to end. Just re read it again since I bought this book online in 2014 and remained in my 'cloud'. After 'life is a ditch' of the same author it's almost unput downable. Going to read more of him and will be starting on his next book in the series to day ! It's as if you're on the shoulder of the writer and looking with him to all he experiences.. big thumbs up !
4397596
I received this book as a Christmas present from a good friend...and tore through it in a night...great writing, great story line...I usually read a book, pass it on and forget it..not this one, it's staying on the bookshelf as I'm sure I'll read it again at least 2 or 3 more times!
3333881
I first read this book about a year ago, and I think I've read it about 5  times since! It's one of my favorite books of all time. One of the best  things about it is that you really get to know the characters. You feel  like you're right there with them.
This book is definately worth the  money. I don't think you'll be disapointed.
677448
I am on my 2nd time reading this marvelous book.  I have loved Mr. Coelho's books since the first one I read, "The Alchemist" and have several others.  They are like old friends, and I go back and re-read them.  Some I got from the library, some I have purchased, and now I am getting some old friends and some new for my tablet.  Coelho's books aren't really novels in the traditional sense, at least to me.  He is a marvelous "storyteller" and, as with any good story teller, he leads you into, through and around the twists and turns of the story, spilling out pearls of wisdom or giving a situation a different perspective; hence my comment about "thought provoking."  Too, his stories contain moral dilemmas presented to the reader, with the reader being allowed to determine or wonder what he/she might do if faced with the same or a similar dilemma.  I would highly recommend this book, particularly to anyone who is in a relationship (or ever been or wants to be) with someone who has a strong, but perhaps not obvious, spiritual bent.  It does let us draw our own conclusion as to whether what sends the seeker in this story on a quest for one dear to him and the change in his perception as he rises, and sometimes slips, in attempting to fulfill his truth.  And now that I've discovered his daily blog, my day isn't complete without reading it - not too long but just the lift I need for my spirits.  I've not done justice to the book and others have described it better, but I couldn't go by without rating it and recommending it.  Serious stuff, but not heavy!  Some have said rather autobiographical; if so, I say great, he's just telling it like it is.  I see no arrogance at all; conversely a successful man with humility enough to know there's more to life and love than "success."
1402111
I love this book and I've read it so many times, I can't count!  I have this book in a hardback and two paperbacks!  I took this book with me when I lived in Germany and it was my constant companion.  My boyfriend even read this book and liked it, he made notes in the margin that certain things have happened to him and are very true!  I would recommend reading this book more than once, everytime I read it, I felt like I was reading it for the first time!
3838307
I rarely review books on Amazon but this is one I feel deserves as much praise as possible. I return to this book again and again because it is real balm for the soul and contains a great depth of wisdom. I have read many self-help, new age, personal development and spirituality (!) books and this one is the one, after all the others have been passed on to charity shops, that stays on my shelf. The workbook at the back is capable of producing real transformation. I can't recommend it highly enough.
533665
Excellent book!  For me there was a lot there.  I'm not one to read a book more than once.  This book has been quite an exception.  I've listened to it 4 times now and will again before long (in the short time I've had it).  I get more from it each time - especially as I practice Mark's guidance.....
2828736
This book is a fabulous and worthy addition to the line of excellent Star Trek novels, even going back to the work of Diane Duane and L. A. Graf, two of my favorites.  It's not just that Mr. Robinson knows Garak through portraying him for seven years - he knows him through delving into his psyche and his motivations, and confidently giving him a past that makes perfect sense when trying to understand the character we saw in the series.

I was unable to put the book down, once I started re-reading it again recently - in fact, I found it even more riveting, now that the series has been over for so long and events in the world have moved on.  But that's sort of the point - in the book, Garak is back on Cardassia helping to rebuild, and life is different than it was ten or twenty years ago - things have moved on in his world as well as in our "real" one.  The passage of time made the emotional impact even greater for me - and it was quite an impact.  I find that the courage and, eventually, the humor that Garak was able to show toward some of the people and situations in his life was quite inspiring.  I think I would sometimes have been huddled on the ground crying!

Or maybe I wouldn't - the real beauty of this book is that Garak never loses his sense of self, and tells how he grew stronger through the events of his past life and of the desolate present on Cardassia.  Anyone who has ever heard Andrew Robinson speak knows how seriously he takes this part of his career and how much respect he has for Garak's fans - this book is an incredible legacy and offering to us, who love this whole multi-faceted Star Trek world.  I really wish the book was still available on paper, but read it anyway, even if the Kindle version is still having hiccups - you'll be thinking about scenes from it for a long, long time.
2872002
I don't typically reread books, but this one was worth it!!! #excellence!!!
2276698
I purchased this book for my Kindle when it first came out.  I loved it.  Like so many books that are well written, Ms. Blakely's book was impossible to put down.  I actually have a few lingering feelings of guilt because I put my family on hold so I could finish a chapter.  I knew it was time to make dinner, or time to take my daughter to practice or music lessons, etc ... My daughter and husband have since forgiven me =o)

I've re-read it and I've recommended it to several of my friends as well.  Mad props to the author!