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    Barns of Kentucky

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    Arizona Highways, October 1954 (Sky Harbor Airport) (Vol. 30, No. 10)
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      Arizona Highways, October 1954 (Sky Harbor Airport) (Vol. 30, No. 10)

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      Consensus and Dissent: Teaching English Past, Present, and Future
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        Consensus and Dissent: Teaching English Past, Present, and Future

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        The Dark Design (Riverworld Saga)
        Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
        • Motives Revealed
        • Good Series Hits a Low Point
        • A Fairly Decent But Annoying Read
        • overwritten, careless
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        The Dark Design (Riverworld Saga)
        Philip Jose Farmer
        Manufacturer: Ace Books
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        ASIN: 0441138179

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        The Dark Design is the third book in the epic Riverworld saga, in which almost all of humanity has been resurrected on a strange planet along the shores of a river 22 million miles long. But why have humans been given another chance at life, and who is behind it all? That's what Sir Richard Francis Burton and Sam Clemens set out to discover in two earlier novels, one by riding the "suicide express" (if you die on Riverworld, you're resurrected again at a random point along the river) and the other steaming on the greatest riverboat ever seen. Now Milton Firebrass, Clemens's former enemy and now his No. 1 lieutenant, is planning to use the dwindling iron supply on the Riverworld to create a great airship, which can fly to the North Polar Sea far more quickly than any boat can travel. There he hopes to learn the secret of the mysterious tower thought to house the beings who created this planet.

        Jill Gulbirra does not care as much about the mission as she wants the chance to captain the great airship, which in all likelihood will be the last airship ever constructed by humankind. But in landing the coveted role, she faces stiff competition--especially from the greatest swordsman of all time, Cyrano de Bergerac, who turns out to be a natural pilot. But even if Jill can win the command of the airship and even if the ship can reach the river's headwaters, there is no guarantee it can get through the mountain wall that surrounds the tower. And it's likely that one or more agents of the Ethicals--the creators of Riverworld--are on board the airship, plotting its downfall. Worse still, somewhere along the way the airship is sure to encounter the Rex Grandissimus, the steamboat stolen by Sam's archnemesis, King John Lackland. --Craig E. Engler

        Book Description

        Years have passed on Riverworld. Entire nations have risen, and savage wars have been fought--all since the dead of Earth found themselves resurrected in their magnificent new homeworld. Yet the truth about the Ethicals, the powerful engineers of this mysterious "afterlife," remains unknown. But a curious cross-section of humanity is determined to change that situation . . . at any cost.

        Intrepid explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton leads the most remarkable voyage of discovery he has ever undertaken. Hot on his heels are Samuel Clemens, King John of England, and Cyrano de Bergerac. Spurred by the promise of ultimate answers, they chart a course across the vast polar sea--and toward the awesome tower that looms above it. But getting there will be more than half the battle. For death on Riverworld has become chillingly final . . .

        Customer Reviews:

        3 out of 5 stars Motives Revealed.......2006-01-19

        In the third installment of the Riverworld series, it is finally learned why people were resurrected on this strange planet by unknown beings; for some colossal galactic sociology experiment. The major characters from the first two series are all converging on the northernmost part of the river, and a few new characters are introduced, such as Jill Gulbirra, the dirigible pilot. Farmer put much more work into the character development (this book is easily thicker than the first two put together), but unfortunately puts just as many words into describing the engineering and building of the dirigible, etc. The reveal of THE DARK DESIGN of the aliens is a letdown and mostly anti-climactic.

        3 out of 5 stars Good Series Hits a Low Point.......2004-09-15

        This is the middle volume of Farmer's ambitious five-book saga of Riverworld, a fantastic planet reworked by a mysterious super race to be one long river valley along a ten million-mile long river, which snakes around the planet. Into this artificially formed world, all humanity who ever lived is resurrected, given perpetual youth, and provided with all their needs through a mind boggling technology. What they are not given is a clue as to who did this, how, or most importantly, why. This book is the weakest of the series so far.
        The action of the story follows several groups who are now racing toward the headwaters of the river hoping to discover the mysteries of their after-life and strange, new world, which are rumored to be found there. In addition to Sir Richard Burton and Sam Clemens, who we have met in previous books, we are introduced to Akhenaten, heretic pharaoh of Egypt, who hopes to discover his one true Sun god at river's end, and writer Jack London traveling together with film cowboy Tom Mix, all headed toward the same shadowy goal. The bulk of the book, however, focuses on the building of a huge dirigible that can gain in a few days of flight what would take many years of travel on the river. An exciting account of this airship's mission to river's end provides the cliff hanging ending of this volume.
        Part of the charm of the first two books was their protagonists; Sir Richard Burton in the first, Sam Clemens in the second. In 'The Dark Design', the majority of the action is viewed through characters of the author's creation rather than through historical protagonists, and this does not come off as well. Both Burton and Clemens make brief appearances here, but we don't see either of them enough.
        The book suffers from two other major flaws. First, it is overlong - nearly as long as the first two books put together. Farmer's writing style is at best competent, and begins to become taxing after 200 pages or so. There are whole chapters here that have no real relationship to the plot and are little more than the author indulging himself. Secondly, there are major plot and character shifts away from what was established in the first two books. These shifts and reversals are awkward, and don't seem to have been thought out well. At times, the author's sloppiness makes it hard to suspend disbelief.
        The power of the story, and the possibilities of the concept should keep you reading through this poorly edited mess of a book, but if the first two volumes have not thoroughly captured you, you may bog down and never reach river's end.

        Theo Logos

        1 out of 5 stars A Fairly Decent But Annoying Read.......2004-06-19

        The part 3 of the Riverwold series. It's nowhere near as good as either of the first 2 books of the series were (To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat).

        One of the main faults of the book is that an excessively large number of chapters deal with science fiction writer Peter Jairus Frigate who by chance remarkably resembles the author Philip Jose Farmer.

        The main purpose of this character seems to be to serve as something of a mouthpice for Farmer to vent his views on humanity, the nature of people, religion and Riverworld....And all the subtly of a seal clubbing.

        This is worsened by the fact that every time the book really starts to get the reader involved it breaks to a chapter or 4 filled with the musings and incessant ramblings of PJF (you decide which) or filling in the backstory of Frigate WHICH GOES NO WHERE!

        I dread to think of what this book would have been like BEFORE it was edited.

        3 out of 5 stars overwritten, careless.......2004-06-16

        severe and brutal editing would have greatly improved flow and quality. Frankly the Frigate character should have been left out of books 3 and 4- reducing page count, pretentiousness, and improving flow

        3 out of 5 stars Sloppy novel would benefit from heavy editing.......2004-02-07

        The Riverworld saga continues as various characters attempt the journey to the mysterious tower at the source of the river on whose shores all of humanity has been resurrected. Although this essential quest and the puzzle at the heart of the series still interests, this sprawling, messy novel often tested my patience. Burton and his crew make an appearance at the beginning, but then disappear from the novel altogether. There are numerous unnecessary digressions, including several dull chapters of backstory on Farmer's alterego, the science-fiction writer Peter Jairus Frigate (check out the initials), who is actually a relatively minor character.

        When Farmer is developing the quest for the truth and the rivalries between characters, the book is fun. However, it really needed quite a bit of editing to whittle out the extraneous material and some shockingly bad writing. I have to admit that the cliffhanger ending does leave me wanting to know what comes next.
        Diversity in America: Visions of the Future
        Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
        • Enlightening and Thought Provoking
        Diversity in America: Visions of the Future
        Edgar Farmer , Barbara Farmer , and Jay Rojewski
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        5 out of 5 stars Enlightening and Thought Provoking.......2003-06-22

        Diversity in America is one of the most inclusive and innovating compilation of diversity topics that I've seen to date. There are over two dozen chapters written by authors from around the country covering topics that range from traditonal discussions on multicultural diversity to topics on diversity of service delivery of college student services. Each chapter is researched based and concludes with end of the chapter questions which allows for class or group discussion around the thematic chapter topic. This book can be used in training, as a textbook for classroom instruction, and to impact policy development.
        The Fabulous Riverboat (Riverworld Series) (Riverworld series / Philip JoseÌ Farmer)
        Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
        • suck fest
        • Mark Twain in Space
        • Series gaining strength as it continues
        • fairly enjoyable pulp
        • To journey up the great River
        The Fabulous Riverboat (Riverworld Series) (Riverworld series / Philip JoseÌ Farmer)
        Philip Jose Farmer
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        In To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip José Farmer introduces readers to the awesome Riverworld, a planet that had been carved into one large river on whose shores all of humanity throughout the ages has seemingly been resurrected. In The Fabulous Riverboat, Farmer tells the tale of one person whose is uniquely suited to find the river's headwaters, riverboat captain and famous Earthly author Sam Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain). Clemens has been visited by "X," a mysterious being who claims to be a rebel among the group that created Riverworld. X tells Clemens where he can find a large deposit of iron and other materials that Clemens can use to build the greatest riverboat ever seen. Since there is virtually no metal on the planet, it will also give Clemens an unbeatable edge when it comes to battling the various warlike societies that dominate the Riverworld.

        But Clemens is not alone in his quest for the iron, which arrives on the planet in the form of a giant meteorite. In fact, Clemens is besieged on all sides by forces determined to seize the precious ore, leading him to make a deadly pact with one of history's most notorious villains, John Lackland. Lackland's crimes during his reign as king of England were so hideous that no other English monarch will ever carry his name, and he's up to equally nefarious tricks on Riverworld. However, Clemens has a guardian angel in the form of Joe Miller, a giant subhuman with a big nose, a serious lisp, and a cutting wit. Miller has also been to the very headwaters of the river, where he saw a mysterious tower in the middle of the North Sea and where the creators of Riverworld are thought to reside. He will be an invaluable ally in completing the riverboat and sailing to the headwaters, but even an 800-pound giant may not be enough to help Clemens fulfill X's mission. --Craig E. Engler

        Book Description

        Resurrected on the lush, mysterious banks of Riverworld, along with the rest of humanity, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain) has a dream: to build a riverboat that will rival the most magnificent paddle-wheelers ever navigated on the mighty Mississippi. Then, to steer it up the endless waterway that dominates his new home planet--and at last discover its hidden source.

        But before he can carry out his plan, he first must undertake a dangerous voyage to unearth a fallen meteor. This mission would require striking an uneasy alliance with the bloodthirsty Viking Erik Bloodaxe, treacherous King John of England, legendary French swordsman Cyrano de Bergerac, Greek adventurer Odysseus, and the infamous Nazi Hermann Göring. All for the purpose of storming the ominous stone tower at the mouth of the river, where the all-powerful overseers of Riverworld--and their secrets--lie in wait . . .

        Customer Reviews:

        1 out of 5 stars suck fest.......2007-05-19

        after the first book I was suspecting a lot more. It got to the point where I was just skipping pages to finish. The 3rd book was a little better but not much.

        4 out of 5 stars Mark Twain in Space.......2006-01-19

        This second installation in the Riverworld series stars the real-life historical figure of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, aka Mark Twain. He, too, has been resurrected on this strange planet. With the aid of a "Mysterious Stranger", who claims to be a renegade member of the species who built the planet and resurrected the humans, he struggles to build an enormous paddle-wheeler and search out the tower said to be found at the river's source. Unfortunately he is tied to the most notorious traitor in English history, John Lackland. As I said about the first book in the series, this book is entertaining but ultimately dissatisfying because of little character development and no solution to the mystery of the planet.

        4 out of 5 stars Series gaining strength as it continues.......2004-09-08

        This is Farmer's second offering in his outstanding Riverworld series, five books that must be read together in sequence for the whole story. He continues to develop this fabulous world of a millions mile long river, snaking around and around a planet, hemmed in on each side by unscaleable mountains which force all to live in the river valley. Into this artificially formed world, all humanity who ever lived and died has been resurrected, with no clue as to the how or why, or by whom. The books in the series tell the stories of those who are driven to find answers to those mysteries.
        In 'The Fabulous Riverboat', Farmer leaves for a while the quest of his protagonist from the first book, Sir Richard Burton, and focuses on another fascinating 19th century personality - Samuel Clemens, AKA Mark Twain. Clemens is driven by a dream of finding iron on this mineral-poor planet from which he can build a riverboat such as he piloted on Earth, to take him to the headwaters of the river where emerging clues seem to indicate answers can be found to this confounding after-life. The Clemens we meet here is bitter, angry, and filled with guilt, and his ultimate motivation is to find those responsible for the mass resurrection of humanity, and to strike whatever blow he can against them in retaliation for bringing him back from the peace of the grave. With the help of a powerful "Mysterious Stranger", who may be a renegade member of the race responsible for this resurrection and Riverworld, Clemens is able to find the minerals he needs, and to form a colony dedicated to the project of building his fabulous riverboat.
        Complications abound, however. The first and greatest is a partnership of necessity that Clemens must form with the deceitful and despicable King John Lackland, the most notorious of all the old kings of England. Then there is the need to concentrate on developing the military might to hold and defend this unique area of the river that contains the minerals necessary to fulfilling his dream. And finally, there is Sam's personal, guilt-ridden agony over making the hard, amoral choices that have to be made if he is going to succeed in his quest.
        The strength of these books lie in the opportunities that the premise provides for having historical persons from widely different periods interact with each other. In 'The Fabulous Riverboat', we meet Lothar von Richthofen, brother and flying comrade of the Red Baron, Erik Bloodaxe, 10th century Viking leader, Odysseus, Cyrano de Bergerac, Hitler's toady Herman Goring, mountain man "Liver Eating" Johnson and more. Together with some well-drawn original characters, these make for a fascinating story.
        This book does not suffer as much from stilted writing as did the first book of the series, but I still would describe the writing style as merely competent. The characters and story are the strength of the book, and more than sufficient to provide both the thrills and intellectual stimulation to make reading it worthwhile.
        After taking you on a thrill-ride of battles, assassinations, double crosses, and assorted intrigue, 'The Fabulous Riverboat' will leave you with a cliff-hanging ending that should send you scrambling to read the next book in the series (The Dark Design).

        4 out of 5 stars fairly enjoyable pulp.......2004-06-16

        not much more to say. It's pulp, but good enjoyable stuff.

        Books 1 and 2 are vastly superior because, not despite this. Their origins in the serial magazine world show and are delightful.

        Books 3,4,5 suffer because PJF tends to believe he is a far far better writer than he is, and overwrite if not severely edited

        3 out of 5 stars To journey up the great River.......2004-04-20

        In this, the second of The Riverworld series, Samuel Clemens, joined by Viking, Erik Bloodaxe undertake to find a source of iron great enough to build a Riverboat by which to navigate to the headwaters of the Riverworld and there to asertain the purpose for which they were all resurected.

        The Stranger who has helped various individuals along with information in the first book continues to help, and lends his assistance in delivering an enormous supply of iron in reach of Clemens's team. Undertaking thier great project, the newfounded city faces trials from within and without. Neighboring city-states want to take over the source of iron for themselves, and Samuel Clemens must think quick to avoid trechery, even comiting trechery of his own to achive his goals.

        Not as great as the first book, and it draggs a bit, but still enjoyable.
        FANTASTIC UNIVERSE - Volume 1, number 4 - January 1954: Beyond the Door; The Sensitive Man; Jimsy and the Monsters; Never on Mars; They Twinkled Like Jewels; The Gambling Ghost; Lost in the Future; The Record of Currupira; The Odyssey of Sam Meecham
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          FANTASTIC UNIVERSE - Volume 1, number 4 - January 1954: Beyond the Door; The Sensitive Man; Jimsy and the Monsters; Never on Mars; They Twinkled Like Jewels; The Gambling Ghost; Lost in the Future; The Record of Currupira; The Odyssey of Sam Meecham
          Beatrice (editor) (Philip K. Dick; Poul Anderson; Walt Sheldon; John Wyndham; Philip Jose Farmer; Dal Stivens; John Victor Peterson; Robert Abernathy; Charles E. Fritch; Albert Hernuter; Frank Belknap Long; Robert Moore Williams) Jones
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          ASIN: B000N5JU2G
          Farmers for the Future
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            Farmers for the Future
            Dan Looker
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            Farmers for the Future
            Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
            • Must reading for wannabe farmers.
            Farmers for the Future
            Dan Looker
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            5 out of 5 stars Must reading for wannabe farmers........1996-05-17

            This book has great practical examples of people who started with nothing but the desire to be a farmer, and made it. It is a good read for anyone who grew up on a farm or still has farm connections, and especially valuable for those who think they are ready to launch a farming career, or those who are ready to retire from the farm and would like to find a younger successor (related or unrelated) to take over. G. Johnsto
            A Farmers' Jury: The Zimbabwean Poor's Verdict on the Future of Agriculture (ITDG Working Papers)
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              A Farmers' Jury: The Zimbabwean Poor's Verdict on the Future of Agriculture (ITDG Working Papers)
              Stuart Coupe , Jon Hellin , and Tom Wakeford
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              This ITDG Working Paper analyzes the experience of a farmers' jury in Zimbabwe. Representatives of poor farmers mapped out their vision for the future of agriculture in their country after hearing from policymakers and technical experts of every shade of opinion.

              The ITDG Working Papers are designed to make available to the wider development community the knowledge and insights that the Intermediate Technology Development Group is generating about technology and development. The papers are selected for their contribution to debate, with the hope of stimulating further research or contributing to similar work in progress. The series is edited by Andrew Scott, International Programmes and Policy Director of ITDG.

              Listen, Little Man! (Noonday, 271)
              Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
              • A Wake Up Call For Anyone Ready to Hear It
              • Emotional plague
              • Great introduction to a brilliant and tortured mind
              • The depressing end of a great man crushed by Stalinism, Fascism, and Americanism
              • Reality Check
              Listen, Little Man! (Noonday, 271)
              Wilhelm Reich
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              Book Description

              Listen, Little Man! is a great physician's quiet talk to each one of us, the average human being, the Little Man. Written in 1946 in answer to the gossip and defamation that plagued his remarkable career, it tells how Reich watched, at first naively, then with amazement, and finally with horror, at what the Little Man does to himself; how he suffers and rebels; how he esteems his enemies and murders his friends; how, wherever he gains power as a "representative of the people," he misuses this power and makes it crueler than the power it has supplanted.

              Reich has us to look honestly at ourselves and to assume responsibility for our lives and for the great untapped potential that lies in the depth of human nature.

              Customer Reviews:

              5 out of 5 stars A Wake Up Call For Anyone Ready to Hear It.......2006-07-17

              The story of Wilhelm Reich is sad. He led a life of scientific inquiry that included very radical views on sexuality and life, and, in the end, was arrested for it. Reich always seemed to believe that he would be crucified, and, for all intents and purposes, he was. I don't mean to make him out to be the messiah he seems to half believe himself to be because Reich never learned to live peacefully in a world that wasn't ready to hear him. In my opinion, he let his (justified) fury interfere with his ability to change the world more than he ended up doing.

              That being said, Listen, Little Man!, which is the only work I've read of Reich's, reveals enough about his insight into the human condition to make it obvious that this was a very brilliant man. I don't know if his orgone research is legitimate or if it is the ravings of a lunatic, but, to my knowledge, no one has done enough research of their own to really determine the answer to that question. That is our issue: Reich's insights scare us so much by their sheer truth, that we refuse to even listen to anything else he might have to say. This is precisely the plight of the little man that this book is about. The way we all consistently choose to lead lives of unhappiness and unfulfillment out of fear, and then kill those who would lead us to that happiness out of the same fear. When I began to really think about these ideas, it became impossible for me to disagree with Reich. The ONLY reason any of us are any less fulfilled than we could be is because we CHOOSE to be because we are afraid to have what we really want. Not because of any unchangeable circumstances. This is a very difficult idea to wrap your mind around, but I think it is essential to attaining happiness.

              I know that Reich isn't normally associated with these authors, but you will find similar ideas in Neale Donald Walsh's Conversations With God and any of the Ayn Rand where her self-righteousness hasn't overtaken her ability to be rational, and I would reccomend them too.

              Listen, Little Man! is exactly the kind of book anyone searching for fulfillment should read. It'll take you probably 2-3 hours at most. Give it a chance. If you don't get it at first, put it down for a few weeks or months, but let the ideas sit, evaluate them for yourself, and see if they make sense for you. But for a book that was never intended for publication, this is a remarkably impressive work from an impressive man.

              5 out of 5 stars Emotional plague.......2005-11-13

              It is a sad commentary that good people like the previous reviewers can be so passionate about their views and continue
              with a tone of sincerety that one would almost believe that Reich was paranoid etc. in his later years. Such mistaken sincerety is sobering. God the illusions that we all live under
              in criticizing the greatest person probally forever. Not one mention from any of these people that they had experienced Reich's therapy. If you have not been in Orgone therapy you do
              not have a clue what Reich is talking about.

              4 out of 5 stars Great introduction to a brilliant and tortured mind.......2005-09-28

              This short, potent, megalomaniacal rant is probably the best introduction to the thinking of Freud's most brilliant and mercurial disciple.

              At 120 pages, copiously and vividly illustrated by William Steig, it can be read in a brief sitting.

              Though it was written after Reich's fateful turn down the dead-end hall of orgone research, it contains the most important insights of his earlier psychotherapeutic work, and is a compelling critique of the mass-psychology of life under mature capitalism.

              Those whose interest is piqued by this salvo would do well to investigate Reich's more measured and focused contributions such as his early writings in "Character Analysis" and "Sex-Pol".

              1 out of 5 stars The depressing end of a great man crushed by Stalinism, Fascism, and Americanism.......2005-06-22

              This is a profoundly depressing book, along with its companion the Murder of Christ. In fact when I first read this book seriously in the mid-1970s when I devoured everything Reich wrote, reading those two books cast me into a near-suicidal depression. They are sad commentary on how Reich was destroyed, and many others of his generation was destroyed by the collapse of revolutionary communism and the imposition of STalinism.

              I actually remember one night in what most have been the spring of 1974, reading this book in my apartment on East Tenth St. in Mahattan, coming to the most complete despair I have ever had in my life, and starting on a course that led to an attempt at suicide!

              Put simply, this book is autobiographical. Reich posits that the problem of the world is that great epoch making prophets and leaders come into the world at each major stage of history. These men--and in Reich's telling of this tale they are all men with no thought of women at all--are somehow possessed of greater vision because somehow they are not orgone deprived--orgone being the basic natural energy released in healthy sex among other places according to the Wilhelm Reich from the late 1930s until his death in the 1950s--like the normal neurotic weaklings, but they suffer and are killed and ignored by the normal neurotic weaklings.

              In this book, Reich who sees himself as a great man, castigates the average person as a neurotic weakling, a little man, in tones not much different from those that the Nazis used to denounce the untermenchen. One may agree with many of Reich's dissections of pathological capitalist and stalinist culture. Reich's problem is that he blames the average person for what he himself had shown in a shelf of books was the product of big-business inspired culture, politics, and religion and Stalinist imitations of them. Reich's failure was not to realize that in history women and men have always been able to rise above such ideological and cultural crap and embrace broader visions in movements for great cultural and political change.

              Reich's paranoia and his belief in Orgone theory--including his final insanity that he was not "a little man" because his mother had birthed him after an affair with an orgone-enriched extra terrestial,--prevents him from understanding that others minds can be opened by both political movements and big historic events as his was by the First World War, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the struggles he witnessed and participated in Hungary, Austria, and Germany in the 1920s and early 1930s.

              After the victory of Hitler, after the Moscow trials in the Soviet Union, Reich's belief in political change began to disappear, while his faith in orgone energy became more and more dominant to his pyschological and sociological outlook and became a personal crusade. There seemed no way to resolve the conflict between the great visionaries like Reich and the sad "little men" he decries in this book. The level of his insanity is measured by a book of the same period "The Murder of Christ" where Reich compares himself as one of history's great prophets like Christ, who is doomed to death by the oprgone deprived little men.


              Oh well, if you want to see the grandeur of a revolutionary vision of how the neurotic problems of capitalist mental health can be overcome read his early writings pre-orgone-mania books like the Sexual Struggle of the Youth and The Sexual Revolution. If you want to read an outstanding analysis of why conservative "family values" politics are essential to capitalist society and how they can be defeated by a struggle for women's rights, sexual freedom, and true liberation, read The Mass Pyschology of Fascism.

              If you read this one, make sure to keep the number of the suicide hotline handy!

              5 out of 5 stars Reality Check.......2004-07-20

              Although it's been awhile, I love this book. I am looking for another copy, as the one I read was borrowed. Yes, many negative comments are true in that Reich does lambast an imaginary little man and it seems like an endless relentless diatribe.. However he does not do this for fun and recreation or because he is full of hate for peoplekind. I think this is a genuine recognition of his own ability to be an automated human. No one can engage in such an intimate critique without having "been there" himself. It really is a call to liberation of self, not in the tradition of spiritual monasticism and such, but rather the liberation of "Prisons We Choose to Live In" quoting Doris Lessing's book title, for the average person.

              The cartoons are great, especially the one with the broken ball and chain and angst-ridden prisoner, who is finally free. Reich gets to the point, without writing some long winded academic treatise. Brief and unapologetic.
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