Rubbish, rubbish, rubbish...
594035
Rubbish, rubbish, rubbish.

This book is a disgrace: no Contents table, no Index, no bibliography. No maps even though they are referred to throughout the book. The reprint is, as another reviewer points out, amateurish. But come on, book dealers should at least take some care of the quality of the products they are selling. It is a bad thing happening nowadays, when basically anyone with a printer and internet connection can start selling print-on-demand books.

Please, do not waste your cash.
3006265
Really.....trash,trash,trash,trash,.....wait for it....trash written with so many misspelled words,run on sentences,......did I mention...worthless trash with an attempt at urban dialogue......the end.
3655579
The author calls herself a grammarian; but some of her descriptions in the book are pure gutter trash! In our family we make an effort to finish every book we open - like it or not.  I stuck to that edict; but I regret giving the book that much time.  I always am happy to pass my hardcover books on to my friends; however, this time I ripped the pages out and tossed it into the recycle bin  so that no other person has to read this kind of tripe.

The author has the credentials that would make one think "this will be a good read".  Not so.  I expect people who sell themselves as educators and grammarians to use the language to uplift and inspire others. This offering did neither.

I've wondered if this literal piece of trash wasn't just one more way for a grown woman to rebel against the principles and moral values in which she was
raised.  Either way, I exhort people who love good fiction to save your money to spend on real literature.
3913093
I am amazed at how awful this book is.  Another reviewer stated that Dawkins should not have to memorize Scripture to be a critic of it.  I agree that he should not memorize it, but he should at least familiarize himself with concepts of original sin, and then seek to disprove the theology!  I read the book to see what all the hubub was about, and left disappointed that anyone so brilliant could write like this.

Dawkins shows not even the slightest knowledge of faith and presents every type of poor argument.  This book is pure rubbish.
1582376
Don't be fooled by the apparently genuine rave reviews of this book - it is utter and complete garbage.

Purchased the book hoping for a good read. I already operate a small business and was basically just hoping for a few insights, case reviews etc. What I got was poorly written drivel by a bloke who goes to great lengths to portray himself as an acclaimed business evangelist.

He appears to be nothing but a fraud, much like positive reviews of this book I would suspect.

Do yourself a huge favour and don't buy this crap. If you're kicking around the idea of starting your own business et al, this won't be any help.

Can I get back the hour of my life I wasted reading this junk please?
4821440
This book is an self-indulgent rant. It's telling that it was published by the Human Givens publishing house (i.e. presumably the authors self financing) because no decent editor would accept such rot. The 'Human Givens' concept is repeatedly bandied about, but the whole concept is really a mishmash of psychological concepts that fits the authors pet views. This book has nothing to add to knowledge. It references the absurd, and leaves giant statements hanging.... like 'givens'.  Avoid this book, unless you need source material about how not to write about something. Truly dreadful stuff.....
1832398
Wow, where do I start. What a load of rubbish. I have read all the positive reviews and truly believe they must be paid reviews because they sound nothing like this book, they obviously haven't read it. This book has nothing in it. You would get the same information from google for free so don't waste your money.

The idea's are not original and I somehow doubt the story is even true.

How Amazon can allow this rubbish to be published is beyond me. It does nothing for their credibility.

Shame to the writer and shame to amazon.
1475370
I am a lover of the fantasy genre and books in general.  This piece of utter rubbish had a weak plot, hard to follow descriptions, shallow characters and an abrupt anti-climactic cliff-hanger ending.  Nothing was resolved.  It was a shameless attempt to cash in on the Harry Potter witch/wizard craze, and I am horrified to think that I spent money for this drivel. I will definitely NOT be purchasing the sequel.
367752
Simply a terrible book showing page after page of grungy clutter. Oh sure, they all were given different names, but that doesn't matter - it is just endless grungy clutter.
4120134
Avoid this book at all costs.  It is far from Maguire's witty, sharp fairy-tale spin-offs.  He took Jack the Ripper, Scrooge, phony clairvoyants, mysterious symbols, possession or ghosts or whatever, and a dozen other obscure plot devices, put them in a blender, and dumped it into this book.  Maguire is terribly inconsistent, the writing is choppy, the characters are extremely shallow, the dialogue tries too desperately to be smart, and story fails as a whole.
4018575
This album neither rocks nor has any action.  It's largely nothing but a collection of aimless, 5-10 minute meditations on a single theme (with the exception two tracks, one of which is essentially nothing more than an abbreviated version of the track that precedes it, and the other of which is a blast of white noise).

Furthermore, only several of the tracks on this disc even have VOCALS.  How any group can get away with something like vocal-less music in this day and age is beyond me.  Do people actually ENJOY garbage like this?

I've been told the "frontman" for Mogwai (kind of ironic that a band that rarely even sings can be said to have a frontman) has said in the past that the prime inspiration for Rock Action came from being awestricken by Radiohead's Kid A album.  It figures that only such pretentious, intentionally alienating dreck could begat an album as self-conciously pretentious and aimless as Rock Action.  Do yourself a favor and save your money.
3444975
Don't waste your time or money, people. This book is pure drivel. There is not one original concept set forth here. Everything contained within it can be found in dozens of other, much better written books.

The whole design and layout reminds me of Halloween-edition candy; same contents and ingredients of all the other candies, but with eye-pleasing, spooky packaging. That's all this is; re-printed and widely available information, with a "gothic" spin on its presentation.

Not only are there countless pages of prepatory exercises (which you can find on almost any occult-oriented website), the work itself is constipated with tired, self conscious post-Catholic dogmas. There are constant pleas to the reader that "magick" is not "evil", etc., etc.,. This tone is very condescending, annoying, and even sickening. A good three fourths of this book is absolute filler. One can't shake the fact that this book was made for pure profit. I'd be willing to bet that most of the crap printed here can be found in entirety in Konstantinos' other silly books.

Avoid. If a copy of this book does somehow fall into your hands, flip through it, take notes on how NOT to write an "occult text", burn it, then defecate on it.
2428561
I can't imagine why a publisher would issue this appalling mess of a book, still less why any reader would give it a positive review. The only good thing I can say about it is that its basic premise is interesting. Unfortunately, the germ of a good idea is buried in clumsy, pedestrian prose and sentences so poorly constructed as to be laughable. "The screeching horn of a passing car reeled past narrowly missing the side of his car." (Nearly sideswiped by a horn?)

In my opinion, it takes amazing arrogance for Ms. Schilling to consider herself a writer when she has obviously never bothered to learn the most basic principles of the craft -- those boring little details like spelling, grammar and punctuation. Still more confounding is her constant and ludicrous misuse of words: a light "blares" in someone's eyes; a person's head "lulls" backward; a baby cries "in pitiful whelps." Does this woman not own a dictionary?

Buyers beware! I picked this up from a clearance rack for a dollar and still consider it overpriced.
4412889
In these postings I have occasionally stated that I want my money back for a bad book, but this is the first time I want triple the cost of this formless glob of warmed-over mush to compensate me for my wasted time.  Punitive damages should also be imposed on the publisher for printing this, this -- misshapen thing? -- too kind a description. Pastiches can be fascinating but this one is just lazy.  There is not an original thought -- not one -- in this entire waste of trees, and what is contained therein is poorly expressed.  The author would not dare disagree with any position taken by the New York Times or NPR and can make even potentially interesting subjects suicide-inducingly tedious.  This is a poor fifth-rate imitation of Alain de Botton, whose books you should buy instead.  Avoid like the plague.
4665753
Absolutely unreadable garbage! Worse than that, because nobody wants to buy it, I've been finding this book all over town in the bushes, presumably a marketing stunt of giving it away and then people tossing it, because, see above, it is unreadable. The hope I seek is that no more trees are wasted on this rubbish...
2953817
While fliiping through cds I found this peice of junk. The cover is catchy, but catchy doesn't cut it. I to read the front of the cd and was interested by the advertisement saying that this was Jim Suptic from the Get Up Kids new project. Although the last few albums tguk put out were junk I knew that they had put out some really good stuff before.(four minute mile,woodson e.p., and something to write home about)So, back to this new album by Blackpool Lights. Aside from only having two halfway decent songs(#5,#11)you can pretty much count on the rest of them sucking. Lyrically this has to be the most lame album ever. Reggie and the full effect lyrics are a masterpeice next to this. You would think that someone would progress as a musician but not in this case. Why do I spend so much time on this review? Because I have the time to tell people not to support such a horrible album. This album is to music as what A History of violence is to movies. Don't buy it!
2186346
Utter ! Utter ! Garbage.
I read this book because of all the 5 star reviews thinking this would "be different".  No sir I'm afraid it's not. Same old stuff. You can't get rich working in a job, you have to start a business. (Well thanks for telling me),  That without ALLLLLLLL the waffle in the book is pretty much the summation. Yes I know, why do we keep thinking someone is going to enlighten us when all they do is tell us the same thing and dress it up different. Oh well, guess some fools (myself included) never learn and keeping hoping to find that book that will give us a map to find the holy grail. When all these books do is tell you that the author is rich and you can do it to...........(rolling my eyes).......ok mr big, you're so rich the book is free right ??