Serious Breaking Point To Madness
594506
This book is actually the 9th book in Brockmann's Trouble Shooters series. When I started reading the book I had no idea that it was #9. Needless to say it was pretty easy to follow along. However, it was drawn out and I think it could have been done better.

The story starts out like the movie "Pulp Fiction." It jumps from the present to the past to form one unique storyline. That was pretty cool but here are the flaws. The only part of this book that was decent was the characterization and the romance between Max and Gina, and even that leaves a lot to be desired, but it was the only redeeming quality of the book.

For the rest of this review please follow this link:
[..]
4466717
This edition is an excellent translation of one of the most evil books ever printed. In it, Hitler dictates his mad vision for Europe to his fellow prisoner during his incarceration following the Munich Beer Hall Putsch. Utter madness, should only be read, in my opinion, by someone studying this book in context, Actually made me physically sick reading this absolute maniacs plans for the Jews, other minorities, Europe and the rest of the world.
4897291
SERIOUSLY  SERIOUSLY  SERIOUSLY  SERIOUSLY  SERIOUSLY  SERIOUSLY  SERIOUSLY  SERIOUSLY  SERIOUSLY  SERIOUSLY  SERIOUSLY  SERIOUSLY  SERIOUSLY  SERIOUSLY  SERIOUSLY  SERIOUSLY FANTASTIC AMAZING GOOD GREAT AWESOME HEARTBREAKING SAD HAPPYISH

FREAKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
1363152
A peak into a very scary world.  My brother is manic depressive and my heart breaks for him.  This was an eye opener.  This was a peak into to his scary world, but he is not alone.  Thank you Georgie
3577190
To anyone but those already steeped in conservative myths, this could only pass as satire of right-wing thinking, or an example of spurious reasoning.

There are quite a few logical flaws in this at work -- for example the author's idiosyncratic determinations about who is and is not liberal minded, and totally unique definitions of what constitutes sanity and madness. No mental health professional, nor any other well-reasoning person, would take it seriously. That is probably why the author wrote it as a book, rather than to press the case in any reputable peer-reviewed publications.

More importantly, if applied more generally, the same standards and approaches could be used to show that NO ONE is sane. One would have a better chance of making that case (that no one is sane), scientifically, than to support the idea that there is any logical value or consistency to this kind of vacuous ridiculous rubbish.
1198180
I was often disturbed by this book. It presents the wife as a mindless slave who can not ever express her thouhgts or beliefs. On page 260, Micheal Pearl states "But first, know that a husband has the authority to tell his wife what to wear, where to go, whom to talk to, how to spend her time, when to speak and when not to, even if he is unreasonable and insenstive... on page 263, he further states that the "chain of authority must remain intact, even to the point of allowing soem abuse". He does, however, state the husband should not cross the "bright red line of criminal acts". On pages 132-133 an example is given of a lady who endured extreme abuse for ever 7 yesrs, including being attacked with a buthcher knife. She was advised by Debi Pearl to either leave or REVERENCE this man who all but murdered her!!!! She should have been told to press charges to the fullest extent of the law. But this abused lady was counseled to win over her abusive man by never speaking ill of him (reporting abuse). On page 270, women who threaten to repeort him to the law are called rebellious.

I can not recommend this book. It degrades women far to much!!
876819
Warning! Reading this book could lead to a severe loss of brain cells. The author is an imbecile who loves himself a lot and essentially treads over old territory covered by hundreds (or thousands) of other huckster prophets looking to sell books. Jesus said the end would be seen during the life time of the people who followed him. Well, over 2000 years later we're still kicking. Only buy this rubbish if you want to laugh out loud. There may be an economic depression brought on by government/corporate idiocy, but that's economics, not religion. Nothing but nonsense is contained in this book.
3060639
This is insanity in the best possible way.  It's like witnessing a fever dream that has developed slowly over years.
4936472
I'm only 25% into this book and I can already tell you that Kate is a very mentally ill woman. She shouldn't even be around 8 children, much less be the mother of 8 children. You are an angel Mr Hoffman for sacrificing time away from your own family to expose her abuse and her stealing from good hearted people. May God bless you and your family.  Also, if anyone reads this book or watches her show and still supports her actions, they need to be institutionalized right along with her.
2480747
i wish I could have some serious words, more than 3 magical ones, with the author of this book. Because it was one motivating factor into my son's slow, but steady, fall into schizophrenia he can't hold down a job, his family is ostracizing him and he's 100% certain He Is God. He even spells pronouns referring to himself in capital letters like Me and My. I'm having to bear the brunt of his actions from all sides: aunts he's wronged, cousins he's personally insulted or insulted his aunts by way of his cousins. Before you recommend this piece of garbage to anyone, please PLEASE make sure they have the moral fortitude to deal with it, m'kay? (I have read it by the way.)
4110453
This hillarious lecture can cause headaches, seizures and gained notoriety for turning sane people into paranoidal schizophrenics. Trilogy intended to be pentalogy. Full of obscene humor, shameless erotics, rampant violence, illigal drugs, blasphemies and heresies blends together science-fiction, mystery novels, conspiracy theories and much more. Frankly - Bible of Counterculture :)
4592847
Very distressing novel. Don't think I could read anything else by Mr. McDermid. Torture is not something I can read about. Thank goodness the book ends the way it does. The criminally insane do not belong to be kept alive. Better they should be euthanized.
4636705
A story about a place where being more than a little crazy, will keep you relatively sane, and being sane will lead to madness.
3391415
A thriller beyond belief. Kafka and The Inquisition rolled into a Twilight Zone episode. Those bozos in Italy call to mind Hoover and McCarthy. Injustice is frightening. Irrational people are scary. Warped egos/minds are creepy. Put them together and this is a nightmare. Thank you so much for this fantastic reminder of what can and should not happen. Terrific writing, too. Page turner and important. Can't wait to search the internet for an update.

Poor Amanda Knox and her boyfriend. This is beyond fathoming and infuriating. Mignini is out of his ever loving mind. He's worse than that bizarre woman with the website (must read book to understand) - he has the power to destroy lives and knowingly abuses it purely to satisfy his warped ego. He is the one who needs to be in jail. Insanity is prevailing in the Italian courts.
1507685
This book is insane.  In the first chapter it tells you EVERYONE fights for power, and the most deceptive people are the ones that say they don't fight for power... So, the author claims everyone does what he thinks they do, even the ones that don't claim to, and ESPECIALLY the ones that claim not to.

Then, he literally says you should practice luring people into traps, and doing so is an "exquisite pleasure".

Then, he claims doing this, which all people do, even the ones that claim they don't, is amoral and unnatural.

Then he says "never waste time on the affairs of others", that caring about others is the ultimate waste of time, and only a bumbling fool would do this.

So in other words, this person wrote this book as a load of bull crap, to lure you into a trap, to give him power, and he enjoyed it more than anything else.

You are all suckers.
1635883
Stunned, shocked, horrified, disgusted, and enraged. Period.

It is a testament to the truly broken state of our society that a book written by lunatics with no credentials in child development, advocating various forms of demented child abuse in the name of Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, is being sold legally, and that apparently it has many thousands of brain dead adherents who are beating the next generations of helpless children into a broken future.

These authors should be imprisoned many times over.
4869426
Many of us professionals have forgotton that some of the pioneers in this field-- in the sixties particularly--had some
very different approaches to treating this Mental "Madness". Esp different from just Meds and restrictions.
While I agree that some of them were amazingly successful---I think it requires a very exact set of conditions and paradigms for those approaches to work.

IF you are interested in this subject, read the Bibliography first, and it will be pretty obvious where the author is coming from.