From Outline to Outrage!
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Heres the outline of the book:

1. Brain Dump
2. Use these 10 tools to outline
3. Record or write your book or get a ghostwriter

The goal of the book is to teach you to write a 10,000 page book in a week, as the author obviously did.

This book serves the author, but not very well.
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This poster is the newer or "updated" version of the infamous yellow poster I'm sure you all know and love of our dear friends, the Simpsons cast. Upon unraveling this poster for the first time you'll instantly start to notice something fishy going on here. You'll start to see familiar patterns with the characters and their layout. In fact, you'll notice that some incredibly lazy person has just done a poor copy and paste job of the old poster. Then added these new characters in a circle around them. They did such a hack job they even forgot to change the background color to blue to match the rest of this poster. So while this poster is blue. You've got these patches were the background changes to yellow. Those sections of yellow background are where the copy and paste from the old poster took place. It's not difficult to correct this in photoshop. So this blatant error is highly inexcusable. It takes 5 seconds and any idiot with a laptop could do it. I can forgive the copy and paste, but I could never forgive the botched background. It's all I ever notice when I look at this poster and it angers me. So instead of enjoying my new poster I just get annoyed. Just order the yellow one if you're a fan of the show.
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Estrich has finally dared to take on whom Al Franken once called the "reigning diva of the hysterical right", and really nails it, exposing her innacuracies, hypocrisy, and general hatefulness...notice how the 1-star reviews on this page do little more than attack the author's physical appearance, deride her for making the title a parody of Coulter's latest attack piece (um, didn't you neo-cons do the same 10 years ago w/"Al Franken is a Buck-Toothed Moron"?), and regurgitate conservative talking points (the book's an attack on GOPers, Christianity, etc.)..if you actually READ the book, you'd see it's actually a debunking of someone who's distorting these values you supposedly hold dear and making your party look bad by assocation. And if you do read the book, I'm sure you'll find it to be a real eye-opener.
2580741
The intellectual bankruptcy of this latest and silliest entry in the Christian Victimization sweepstakes is revealed on its cover: The symbol that best represents this sacred holiday is ... a gaudily decorated tree?!!

Meanwhile "liberal" is purposely conflated with "secularist" to engender maximum outrage. Add in a few baseless accusations punctuated *liberally* with scare words from the Victims' Lexicon ("plot", "ban"), et voila -- instant jeremiad.

Feh.
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This episode of the Longshadows (an ADULT entertainment company specializing in kidnapping-for-hire) saga is full of contrasts: Love, hate, jealousy, selflessness, betrayal, treachery, decency, humor, fear, success and failure. Tia owner of the Longshadows enterprise is approached by her former lover and owner of the European version of Longshadows. Marcus contends that Tia stole his idea. They are in a competition to see who gets it all. OMG! This book was so full of story lines it was hard to keep up sometimes. The IRS, a tsunami and Shakespeare even make an appearance. I must say I disliked Marcus in the beginning but he later redeems himself. And Tia in the past was the b*tch to hate. Ends with an HEA and everyone gets the justice they deserve.  You must read this book to see what the fuss is about. Although I was offered an ARC to review, I bought it b/c I knew I would want it. ALL the Longshadow stories have been great. Another book included with THREE partsgood deal!
1353544
Very insightful exposing the ugly inside behavior of Planned Parenthood. It is astounding to know how much morality has trashed! Abortion is murder!!
2181564
This is a great book by a very angry man.  The world has turned horrible as we have watched, and Bywater tells us some, only some, of the ways in which this horror has been foisted on us.  Many of the essays are very funny ..... and then not so funny.  He has seen the absurdity of life and has now told us about it.  Anyone who is satisfied with the modern world and does not feel that much has been lost will hate this book.  Anyone without a sense of humor will hate this book.  Anyone incapable of feeling outrage at what "they" (and we all know who they are!) have done to us will hate this book.  Anyone lacking a soul will hate this book. Anyone who thinks that the government/the corportions/the people across the street have our best interests at heart will hate this book. Anyone who thinks he will live forever will hate this book. I love it.

At first and to a shallow mind the essays seem random and unfocused, but gradually the theme emerges:  we've been had.
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Bought this because it was a classic I'd never read.

Yuck! What a bunch of self-absorbed, whiney twits populate this book! "Me! Me! Me! I want! My desire! Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! I can't be denied ANYTHING! You don't love me enough!"

Was that the author's intent? To show the worst of the moneyed English classes? If so the book is a resounding success at showing the absurd, and decidedly repulsive, side of unlimited egos lusting for power, each other and self-aggrandizement.

The narrator Lockwood was the only (semi) sane one of the lot. (Okay, the loyal housekeeper was OK.)

But this is great literature? I would have tossed this halfway through except for being on a trans-Atlantic flight with limited alternatives for constructively (This was constructive?) spending my time.

All I can say is, yes, I read it. What a bunch of losers!
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BBC hatefest. Rabid! Anti-Israel and anti-America propaganda. Big lies.  Would have made Leni Riefenstahl (Hitler's film propagandist) proud! How does Rachel Weisz sleep at night? Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose. (imagine the accents). The more things change, the more things stay the same.  Welcome to 1938.
Read The Telegraph review (UK).  (Have to give it one star in order to review) Very very sad that this poison goes unchallenged.
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The tile of this book is titillating and misleading.  Takes comments from people, many disgruntled. When reading a book you have to be able to know the author and from what position he is writing. I have traveled extensively and my main observation is that people from all over the world want to come to America! I have seen the lines in front of embassies in India China, the Caribbean, Mexico (they don't really apply). A Norwegian point of view is nice but criticism of violence in America when they have recently had the most horrible massacre of children is quite hypocritical, don't you think?
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A stroke.  Thank you for that. Also I followed the campaign on MSNBC from the moment Trump accretive media from the escalator at Trump Tower. In another life I was a small town reporter.
In my experience the more a politician has to hide the louder he screams about how unfair the media is. This proves it.
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Read if you no longer buy into your own bs about being too busy, too blocked, too anything to write. This is a pitiless, merciless dissection of the lies we tell ourselves followed by a simple roadmap  to get the work done. If you are angry about your own inability to confront the blank page, BUY THE BOOK!!
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DISGUSTED! We rented this in order to be up to date to see the new Blade Runner. BOYCOTT BLADE RUNNER II

The sexualized abuse of women is terrible. A woman in a clear plastic jacket that highlights her body as she is sadistically, graphically, brutally murdered. You say, "That is OK, she was a replicant!" No, she was a woman! GRAPHICALLY BRUTALIZED!

In the second murder scene of a woman, her body is symbolically sexually desecrated. This is the most disgusting display of the, "fun" abuse of women. Then, and it shocks me Harrison Ford agreed to this, he traps a resistant woman and forces himself on her. Then asks if she loves him. Of course, after being forced, she is all over him! BOYCOTTING MOVIE #2
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I'm actually angry at Charlaine Harris for this "book." No, I did not expect short stories. No, I did not expect an insane amount of detail. But I sure as hell expected to know who all these people were! I have spent the past two weeks re-reading every book in this series and I have an excellent memory but let me tell you there are people given a few lines (at best) in this "coda" that I still haven't a clue as to who they are. The only people that really seemed to have a sum up of their lives are the three main characters. The rest are perhaps bullet point-esque, two to three nonsensical sentences. Some very minor characters had more written about them than, say, Quinn! "He had many more adventures," is not a sum up! I would be embarrassed to high heaven to call that a summary of the rest of someone's life.

I suppose I should have somewhat expected as much considering the writing of the past three novels, but I think my middle school students write more fascinating material.

What a horrific way to end a series. Even our principal characters don't even behave as they have for the entire series. To be clear, I am not upset by the deaths and unexpected circumstances and what-not. I am upset that the behaviour shown in "After Dead" by our beloved main characters does not align with their character traits and beliefs. Suddenly we are asked to buy into new behaviours that just don't make sense.

Shame on you, Ms Harris. This coda should have been free for your loyal fans and you should be mortified to charge for such utter crap.
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Holy crap, this is so unbelievably racist! I agree, this came out in a time where this was purportedly accepted (that is not settled), but it's not accepted anymore. This is so prejudiced, please don't buy this, please burn this.  There is no excuse to advance this story.
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This is pitch black, morally outraged satire. Nothing escapes Crumb's enraged artistry. Very few artists are willing to let their id fly loose on the page, certainly nobody with Crumb's talent (especially not fellow Baby Boomers, despite their supposed mantle of being "counter-culture"). There is one section in particular about Donald Trump, which is more relevant now than ever. And of course, even if your politics don't jibe with Crumb's (and at some point, his trampling of taboos is probably going to offend you), the heavily crosshatched, intricate artwork can be appreciated and admired as a thing of beauty in and of itself. Highly recommended.
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What is the hidden agenda in this book? The glorifying reviews don't give a clue about the direction this book is pushing.

Consider how many times these words appear in the book:
anger - 42
bleed and blood - 46
dead - 34
death - OVER 100 times
die and died - 29
hate - 31
hit - 38
idiot - 10
kill - 59
knife - 16
loser - 31
monster - 32
murder - 5
scream - 22
strangle - 5
stupid - 23
suck - 35
yank - 23
zombie/(and other phrases about emotional detachment) - 71