Recessional
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • A wonderful read
  • God's Waiting Room!
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Recessional
James A. Michener
Manufacturer: Fawcett
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ASIN: 0449223450
Release Date: 1995-10-30

Book Description

"MICHENER IS AMERICA'S BEST WRITER."
--The Pittsburgh Press
In his stunning new novel, bestselling novelist James A. Michener draws on his unparalleled gift for storytelling, his deep understanding of American society, and his own life experiences to illuminate the challenges of aging and the folly of youth in a Florida retirement home known as the Palms.
As the new, young director of the Palms, Andy Zorn suffers no shortage of loving support and wise advice from his "elders," a group of five passionate, outspoken residents who refuse to accept the passive roles that both society and family have handed them. Yet past scandal has driven Zorn to despondency, until he meets an extraordinary young woman in the rehab wing, who has been forced to rebuild her life in the face of crippling injuries. Now Zorn finds himself falling in love--and with the help and gentle jabs from his more mature friends, he discovers a wonderful new purpose in life....
"Michener hooks you with wonderfully humorous scenes. These are then interwoven between the moments of pain and heartache brought about by life choices we all must make."
--Tulsa World
"Engaging...One will be drawn into the novelist's world....The lush natural setting provides James Michener plenty to show and tell."
--The Washington Times

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A wonderful read.......2005-11-08

While I have read a great number of his other books and enjoyed most of them thoroughly, this book touched me like no others. I have two grandmothers living in similar retirement communities to that in the story and this gave me some great insight and understanding to their lives in there. It felt like a true story based on their lives and those of their friends, one thing I will always remember is dont mess with the Ice Cream machine!!!

4 out of 5 stars God's Waiting Room!.......2004-12-18

A very good description of the options faced by those in the twilight of their life. The plot was really secondary to what I considered the main point of the story, which is the lives of the residents, and the activities of the caretakers. In all, it is a depressing story, but I guess that's the point.

4 out of 5 stars A Good Read.......2004-09-30

I was assigned to read this book for one of my college courses and I really ended up liking it. It's my understanding that Michener himself actually lived at the retirement center he based the book on and that many of the characters were based very closely on residents there. My teacher describes it as more of an ethnography than a novel, which made it that much more interesting to me.

4 out of 5 stars Michener's Retirement Book.......2004-01-02

James A. Michener must be anticipating his own retirement in this book as he writes a compelling and interesting novel about a retirement facility in Florida. What to most might be a very boring subject, Michener once again enlivens his characters and makes them so interesting that the book is a real page-turner. In our contemporary society, the aged are packed away into retirement homes and forgotten. In Michener's view, the elderly live interesting lives, have meaning and purpose, and are thinking, feeling people. Particularly facinating is the attempt of four of the elderly men who attempt to build and fly an experimental aircraft!

Michener invites the reader to ponder the intricate problem of medical science extending human life, and when life ceases to be meaningful. In 2003, the media was buzzing with the attempt by a husband to end the life of his brain damaged wife in a nursing home. Michener has stong opinions on this subject and appears to be a prophet in dealing with a topic that only recently came to the american public's attention.

This is perhaps Michener's last great novel. I believe the reader will find it engaging and worthwhile. Although it is not as superb as "Texas", "Centennial", or "The Source", Michener will not disappoint you in "Recessional".

Jim Koenig

4 out of 5 stars A true Michener again.......2003-12-30

If you enjoy Michener's style at all, you'll find this a good read too. It is true, as others have noticed, that the author may be getting old. Where before, when my first impulse was "nobody talks that way" I could remind myself that English is not my native language and America not my home, in this book many dialogs are clearly contrived. Nevertheless, the thing that matters is how much Michener managed to put into them, and believe me, he still does.
A point noone else commented on: The whole book, from beginning to end, is a royal slagging off of the one profession I despise most. So if you happen to be a lawyer, it may be you will not enjoy the book as much as I did - but especially then I recommend you to read it and try to take it to heart.
The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Overlooked Today, But a Towering Figure in His Time
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  • Brilliant study of a brilliant man
  • Examines not only his writing, but his world
  • Imperialist and chauvinist - yes, misogynist - no
The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling
David Gilmour
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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ASIN: 0374528969

Book Description

“Readable and reliable . . . [Gilmour’s] assessment of the political background of Kipling’s writings is exemplary.” —Earl L. Dachslager, Houston Chronicle

David Gilmour’s superbly nuanced biography of Rudyard Kipling, now available in paperback, is the first to show how the great writer’s life and work mirrored the trajectory of the British Empire, from its zenith to its final decades. His great poem “Recessional” celebrated Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897 and his last poems warned of the dangers of Nazism, while Kipling himself, an icon of the empire, was transformed from an apostle of success to a prophet of national decline. As Gilmour makes clear, Kipling’s mysterious and enduring works deeply influenced the way his readers saw both themselves and the British Empire, and they continue to challenge our own generation.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Overlooked Today, But a Towering Figure in His Time.......2007-07-16

Rudyard Kipling, according to David Gilmour's authoritative 'The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling' was a first-class political hater and author of children's books, as well as the virtual embodiment of the British Empire. Kipling was considered the Imperial Laureate, although he would have refused the post had it existed as he did all government posts - not in his line at all.

Kipling lived much of the first half of his life in the Empire - he spent his early years in India, except for a horrid stretch when he was boarded back in England by his parents who stayed in British India, and later lived off-and-on in South Africa. Kipling loved the Empire and its civilizing mission (up to a point - he did not favor Christian religious proselytizing), but oddly was not that fond of England or the English.

Gilmour paints a portrait of Kipling as a thorough-going reactionary, a pessimist, a virulent opponent of women's suffrage, Irish Home Rule, nearly all politicians (he especially hated Liberals, but also accused Winston Churchill of `political whoring'), trade unions, and imperial wavering of any kind.

'The Long Recessional' (the title refers both to his poem written for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 and the decline of the Empire) is not so much a history of Kipling's literary works as it is his leading role in promoting the Empire through his literature. Readers seeking detailed literary analyses had best look elsewhere, but should read this book first to understand what it was that Kipling was so all-fired angry about most of the time. Kipling was something of a negative "prophet"; he saw the coming decline of the Empire and viewed as willful surrender, he saw the coming Great War and watched his countrymen fail to prepare or take a firm stand against 'the Hun', and he saw the coming Second World War and the repeated lack of preparation (he died before that war actually occurred).

Kipling suffered great personal unhappiness from the death of his first daughter at age 6, to a seemingly unhappy marriage with Kipling as the henpecked husband and the death of his son in one of those insane headlong infantry assaults on the German trenches at the Battle of Loos. Kipling's dour personality in most of his last quarter-century of life may to some extent be attributed to a misdiagnosed (and thus mistreated) duodenal ulcer that caused him great pain - once it was correctly diagnosed in 1933, Kipling's pain departed and his personality revived.

Kipling's writings were enormously influential in his time, probably to an extent difficult for the modern reader to grasp given over as we are to the visual and the aural. After the Boer War he turned his pen more and more toward political ends and a bitter-tipped pen it was. Today Kipling is more remembered for his children's classics such asThe Jungle Books (Signet Classics). His Plain Tales from the Hills explores India's impact on the British who lived there and in particular the soldiers who sometimes fought and died there.

Salmon Rushdie has summarized it best when he stated, "There will always be plenty in Kipling that I will find difficult to forgive; but there is also enough truth in these stories to make them impossible to ignore."

Gilmour brings Kipling back to life for some 300 pages; 'The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling' is a rewarding reading experience about a man mostly overlooked today, but of towering importance in his time.

2 out of 5 stars could be much better.......2006-09-07

I've always enjoyed Kipling's poetry, and have long known that a close reading and an adequate understanding of his writings belie the less pleasant things that habitual hand-wringers and apostles of political correctness have to say about him. Hence my willingness to read this book.

This biography enumerates the stations of Kipling's life: he grew up in India, a country he never stopped loving, indeed it was Hindi and not English that was his mother tongue. After a childhood in India came boarding school in England, life as a journalist in India, becoming the unofficial poet laureate of the soldier and Empire, friendships with leading politicians, marriage to an American, and disillusionment with politics and politicians after the First World War, in which his son died in his first "battle." In this book Kipling does not come across as the ogre that some make him out to be, but he does come across as very close-minded, as a man who understood the art of poetry very well, but things such as the Irish and their grievances not at all.

All the same, I found this book to be a disappointment. Ideas were rarely fully developed; when poems are discussed, only short passages are quoted. Kipling's belief that war with the hated Germans was inevitable is uncritically seen as a sign of prophecy; perhaps a self-fulfilling prophecy of his times and class would me more accurate. Nor are Ireland and Kipling's fire and brimstone solutions for Ireland's troubles described with any nuance. I don't think that the author more than scrapes the surface of the topics he described. Before I draw my conclusions on Kipling, I intend to read at least another book.

Unless you're a high-school student who has to write a report on Kipling, I wouldn't recommend this book to you.

5 out of 5 stars Brilliant study of a brilliant man.......2002-07-12

Few have doubted Kipling's literary genius but for much of the 20th century progressive opinion has caricatured him as the bard of racism, the poet of savagery, the versifier of militarism. Gilmour focuses on Kipling's complex relationship with the British Empire, and shows that these caricatures do not do justice to the poet's nuanced views. To take only one example, Kipling was perfectly aware of the foibles of his fellow Anglo-Indians, and he often paid tribute to the nobility of ordinary Indians. But he was also aware that British rule over the Subcontinent was a great force for peace and stability. The Bloomsbury set jeered his views but he was proven tragically right after Indian independence, which resulted in a bloodbath. Let us hope that Kipling is not proven even more correct in the event of a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan.

5 out of 5 stars Examines not only his writing, but his world.......2002-06-04

Rudyard Kipling was both a great writer and a representative figure of the British Empire, dabbling in both politics and exploration and winning the Nobel Prize in literature. This biography is the first to examine not only his writing, but his world: The Long Recessional considers the history of his times and provides a lively, revealing probe of the man's changes.

5 out of 5 stars Imperialist and chauvinist - yes, misogynist - no.......2002-04-18

The fact that Gilmour explores Kipling's writing in terms of these themes and how they reflected aspects of his character is a clear indication that this book is no hagiography. The focus here is on the subject of empire and as the subtitle says it is all about: "The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling". Gilmour quotes Kipling as saying that empire was "the fabric of my mental and physical existence." Kipling seemed to see empire as some divine right of England:

GOD of our fathers, known of old,
Lord of our far-flung battle-line,
Beneath whose awful Hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine
Lord god of Hosts be with us yet,
Lest we forget - lest we forget!
(Recessional)

It's this thinking that Gilmour focuses on and thus Kipling's life and works can't be seen as anything but a study in THE LONG RECESSIONAL. That's one emphasis; another is what Gilmour identifies as the "two sides to [Kipling's] head". With this he's looking at writings that were chauvinistic, ultra-nationalistic and even racist. Poems such as "The Female of the Species" and "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" being cases in point. Gilmour then shows the other side of the man's head with writings depicting his compassion and humanity - "If" for instance. Kipling's life can't be completely studied outside the context of family and the sadness of losing children and an unhappy marriage. The times and circumstances through which he lived also influenced him. Being born in colonial India and living through the Boer war and WWI all served to paint the lens through which Kipling saw and wrote about life in a rosy imperial tint.
The G. Schirmer Piano Album of Wedding Classics: 45 Processionals, Recessionals, Interludes and Other Service Music
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Worth the money
The G. Schirmer Piano Album of Wedding Classics: 45 Processionals, Recessionals, Interludes and Other Service Music

Manufacturer: G. Schirmer, Inc.
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ASIN: 0793564034

Book Description

Studies show that there is still a preference among a significant percentage of brides and grooms for a "classical wedding." This extraordinarily diverse collection covers 400 years of music, specifically chosen as appropriate for wedding ceremonies. Many of the choices are traditional; others are fresh suggestions. There are five indexes of the contents sorted by specific musical service functions: Processional and Recessional, Pre- and Post-Service Assembly, Interludes and Underscoring, Devotional, and Personal. Music by Bach, Barber, Boccherini, Brahms, Chopin, Clarke, Corigliano, Debussy, Faure, Foster, Franck, Gounod, Grieg, Handel, Liszt, Malotte, Mendelssohn, Mouret, Mozart, Pachelbel, Puccini, Ravel, Satie, Schubert, Schumann, Stolzel, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Wagner.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Worth the money.......2006-08-25

I play the piano for several weddings a year, so I'm always on the lookout for a useful volume of wedding music. I bought this book sight-unseen from Amazon.com, and was generally pleased with the result. The G. Schirmer Piano Album of Classical Wedding Favorites contains most of the classical repertoire of wedding music. Twenty-one of the 45 songs are new arrangements by Lawrence Rosen. Rosen writes in a simple style, not too difficult but technically challenging enough to be interesting. He has a fresh take on perennial favorites, and I especially like his versions of Panis Angelicus and Clarke's Trumpet Voluntary. Rosen chose a very effective timpani-inspired baseline for Trumpet Voluntary, and Panis Angelicus contains beautifully understated dissonances while still managing to sound... well, angelic. Most of the remaining arrangements are the original arrangements (Clair de Lune, Traumerei) or are reprinted arrangements from other G. Schirmer collections (there are two examples of Rafael Joseffy's familiar highly-edited-and-fingered arrangements of Chopin). I was slightly disappointed that Handel's Royal Fireworks and most of his Water Music was omitted (only one Hornpipe is included), as well as the Entrance of the Queen of Sheba, but that is a minor quibble. Overall I am happy with my purchase and I'm sure it will be used in many weddings to come.

Finally, since a table of contents is not provided on this page, here is the list for those who are interested:

Simple Gifts
Air on the G String (Bach)
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (J.S. Bach)
Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
Panis Angelicus (C. Franck)
Arioso (Bach)
Sheep and Lambs May Safely Graze (Bach)
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Bach)
Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May (Ball/Walker)
Adagio (Adagio for Strings) (Samuel Barber)
Minuet (Boccherini)
Variations on a Theme by Haydn (Brahms)
Nocturne, Op. 9, No. 2 (Chopin)
Prelude, Op. 28, No. 15 (Chopin)
Trumpet Anthem (Clarke)
Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke)
Alternate Statements (Corigliano)
Clair De Lune (Debussy)
Pavane (Faure)
Beautiful Dreamer (Foster)
Wedding Day at Troldhauen (Grieg)
Hornpipe (from Water Music) (Handel)
Largo (from Xerxes) (Handel)
Pastoral Symphony (from Messiah) (Handel)
Where'er You Walk (from Semele) (Handel)
Liebestraum (Liszt)
The Lord's Prayer (Malotte)
Duet from Songs Without Words, Op. 38, No. 6 (Mendelssohn)
Wedding March (A Midsummer Night's Dream) (Mendelssohn)
Rondeau in D Major (Mouret)
A Little Night Music (Second Movement) (Mozart)
Concerto No. 21 in C (Second Movement) (Mozart)
Canon (Pachelbel)
Musetta's Waltz from La boheme (Puccini)
Pavane (Ravel)
Gymnopedie No. 1 (Satie)
Ave Maria (Schubert)
Du bist die Ruh (Schubert)
Traumerei (Reverie) (Schumann)
Be Thou With Me (Bist Du bei Mir) (Stoelzel)
None but the Lonely Heart (Tchaikovsky)
Concerto for Guitar (Vivaldi)
Autumn from The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
Spring from The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
Bridal Song from Lohengrin (Bridal March) (Wagner)
THE BEST OF FREDRIC BROWN: Arena; Imagine; It Didn't Happen; Recessional; Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (with Carl Onspaugh;) Puppet Show; Nightmare in Yellow; Earthmen Bearing Gifts; Jaycee; Pi in the Sky; Answer; The Geezenstacks; Hall of Mirrors; Knock
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THE BEST OF FREDRIC BROWN: Arena; Imagine; It Didn't Happen; Recessional; Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (with Carl Onspaugh;) Puppet Show; Nightmare in Yellow; Earthmen Bearing Gifts; Jaycee; Pi in the Sky; Answer; The Geezenstacks; Hall of Mirrors; Knock
Fredric (edited by Robert Bloch) Brown
Manufacturer: Del Rey - Ballantine Books
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ASIN: 0345257006

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5 out of 5 stars Very nice mix of humor, irony and the macabre.......1999-06-29

This is an excellent way to be introduced to the work of pulp writer and mystery/science fiction author Fredric Brown. The collection here -- introduced by Robert Bloch -- nicely spans Brown's career and while heavy on the science fiction elements, still presents a fine selection of Brown's output. Mostly short stories and not a dog in the bunch!
ESSENTIAL WEDDING COLLECTION PRELUDES PROCESSIONALS &     RECESSIONALS PIANO SOLO
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • A Nice Book of Classics
ESSENTIAL WEDDING COLLECTION PRELUDES PROCESSIONALS & RECESSIONALS PIANO SOLO

Manufacturer: HAL LEONARD CORPORATION
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0634005189

Book Description

Piano solo arrangements of 25 classical favorites for weddings. Includes: Air on the G String - Bridal Chorus - Canon in D - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Ode to Joy - Rondeau - Sheep May Safely Graze - Trumpet Voluntary - Wedding March - more.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars A Nice Book of Classics.......2005-10-16

I purchased this book several years ago, and it remains a challenge and a good resource to this day. The pieces are advanced (although some are far easier than others)and need rehearsal, but none are impossible. Some are arrangements (although never poppy or jazzy), and others are printed exactly as the composer intended.

Here you will find works by Beethoven, Handel, and Mozart, as you would expect, but you also find Debussy, Edward Elgar, and Gustav Holst. The Essential Wedding Collection contains both the Wedding March by Mendelssohn and the Bridal Chorus by Richard Wagnar.

I've always been proud to include a piece from this book at my performances at churches, weddings, or memorial services. These pieces are dignified and beautiful, and very playable. If you're a high level pianist, you'll find this book to be very useful.
Legacy / Recessional
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    James Michener
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    100 Processionals and Recessionals
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      John Straley
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      3 Titles By James Michener : Recessional Poland The Covenant
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        James Michener
        Manufacturer: Fawcett
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        98. The Essential Wedding Collection: Preludes, Processionals and Recessionals (E-Z Play Today)
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          98. The Essential Wedding Collection: Preludes, Processionals and Recessionals (E-Z Play Today)

          Manufacturer: Hal Leonard Corporation
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          ASIN: 0634050346

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          This 22-song collection features the most beloved classical wedding music - preludes, processionals and recessionals - all in our world-famous, easy-to-play notation. Includes: Air on the G String (Bach) * Alleluia (Mozart) * Canon in D (Pachelbel) * Ode to Joy (Beethoven) * Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke) * Wedding March (Mendelssohn) * and more.
          Barrack-Room Ballads, Recessional, Etc.
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            Barrack-Room Ballads, Recessional, Etc.
            Rudyard Kipling
            Manufacturer: San Francisco: William Doxey at the Sign of the Lark
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            The Devil's Necklace
            Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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            • The Devil's Grammar is more like it...
            • Grace tries to help her father but get kidnapped by Captain Sharpe in act of revenge!
            • Not as good as the first in the series
            • Excellent reading if you like romance and excitement!
            The Devil's Necklace
            Kit Martin
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            ASIN: 0778321991

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            The necklace promised great happiness or great tragedy -- and nobody could elude its power . . .

            To British privateer Ethan Sharpe, Grace Chastain was nothing but a pawn for vengeance against Harmon Jeffries, the traitor responsible for his brutal years in prison. Believing Grace to be Jeffries' mistress, he plans to humiliate his enemy by seducing her.

            Grace fears her priceless heirloom necklace has begun to live up to its curse when Captain Sharpe makes her his prisoner aboard his schooner. Defiantly she resists his coarse advances, and suspects there is more to this complex sea captain than his brooding anger and silent accusations.

            But Ethan quickly realizes that she is not the wicked woman he imagined her to be. Grace is as headstrong as she is lovely, and the battle of wills that ensues weakens his resolve. Now Ethan must decide: can he settle the demons of his past and follow the destiny his heart commands?

            Customer Reviews:

            1 out of 5 stars Amazon Wrong listing.......2007-07-05

            I'm sorry but I bought this book by mistake. Amazon had it listed under Fr. Malachi Martin's name and not the corect name of the person who wrote the book. Therefore I had to send it back. Due to me is full payment plus shipping and handeling.
            Thank you for your time. I will still shop Amazon Books, this was just a simple error.

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            Jennifer Schroth

            2 out of 5 stars The Devil's Grammar is more like it..........2007-01-13

            The story was so-so. At first Ethan irked me and I just wanted him to get over it (his revenge). Then toward the end Ethan was more understanding and responsible toward his family, and he grew on me. Then it was Grace that needed a good slap! She was too impulsive and ALWAYS running off and getting into the most absurd situations . . .

            Now, I like Kat Martin because she is simplistic (overly so, at times) and basically gives her readers plenty of sex (honesty from this reviewer). But, the woman needs a new editor! The writing contained tons of errors, the most glaring being that she does not capitalize titles for nobility. It should be the Earl of blah, blah! At one point Grace is called Lady Sharpe (her husband's last name, not his title), names are often mixed up and countless other errors occur that just added to my annoyance and made this novel unenjoyable.

            Not that it was completely horrible, but it seemed like a rough draft instead of the finished product.

            5 out of 5 stars Grace tries to help her father but get kidnapped by Captain Sharpe in act of revenge!.......2006-05-22

            The Devil's Necklace by Kat Martin is fun historical mystery romance novel. This is the second book of the Necklace triology. Grace helps her biological father escape jail and Captain Sharpe arrests/kidnapps Grace because she helped with the escape. This book has some great twist and has some amazing heartache. Enjoy! Check out The necklace trilogy:The Bride's Necklace (1), The Devil's Necklace (2) and The Handmaiden's Necklace (3).

            3 out of 5 stars Not as good as the first in the series.......2006-05-14

            This book is the opposite of the first in the series. In THE BRIDE'S NECKLACE I had a hard time getting into the book but it got better as it progressed. THE DEVIL'S NECKLACE started out very interesting but I lost interest in it in the second half.

            THE DEVIL'S NECKLACE began strong. Ethan is out to seek revenge on the man who killed his crew and betrayed him. Grace is that man's daughter. Ethan kidnaps Grace off a boat and takes her hostage. They eventually fall in love.

            My problems with this book began with Grace herself. She starts the book out very strong and the author constantly tells us how strong she is. By the end of the book she is practically crawling around begging forgiveness. Maybe if she had started weak it would be okay, but the dramatic change in her character didn't work for me. My second issue with the book is that you just want to yell at him to get over it already. Yes, he is upset, but he needs to leave or get over it. My goodness. His brooding and her begging are enough to drive the reader crazy.

            If you are a fan of Kat Martin, you might like this book. I have only read the Necklace series (so this is my second book by her). I have the final book in this series, but am hesitant to read it. I am sure I will eventually, but don't think I will ever read another Kat Martin book after that. I like books with a bit more wit and humor.

            5 out of 5 stars Excellent reading if you like romance and excitement!.......2006-01-18

            Exciting characters and a heroine with spunk throughout the entire book. Nothing like a woman to keep things interesting and exciting in 1800s England. It didn't hurt to have a handsome hunk after her either. This book was the second in the trilogy, so if you haven't read The Bride's Necklace, read it first, then The Devil's Necklace. I am waiting to read the third now which is The Handmaiden's Necklace. Kat Martin is an excellent writer and I've found all the books I've read of hers to be really exciting.
            The Devil's Necklace
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              The Devil's Necklace
              Juliette Benzoni
              Manufacturer: Putnam Pub Group (T)
              ProductGroup: Book
              Binding: Hardcover

              FrenchFrench | World Literature | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
              ASIN: 0399125159
              The Necklace Trilogy: The Bride's Necklace, The Devil's Necklace, The Handmaiden's Necklace (Set of 3 Historical Romance Novels)
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                The Necklace Trilogy: The Bride's Necklace, The Devil's Necklace, The Handmaiden's Necklace (Set of 3 Historical Romance Novels)
                Kat Martin
                Manufacturer: Mira
                ProductGroup: Book
                Binding: Mass Market Paperback
                ASIN: B000W0ZBXE
                DEVIL'S NECKLACE
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                  DEVIL'S NECKLACE
                  KAT MARTIN
                  Manufacturer: MIRA Books
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                  Binding: Paperback
                  ASIN: B000M52JCA
                  The Devil's Necklace
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                    The Devil's Necklace
                    Kat Martin
                    Manufacturer: Mira Books
                    ProductGroup: Book
                    Binding: Mass Market Paperback
                    ASIN: B000OEDET6
                    Necklace Trilogy - The Bride's Necklace - The Devil's Necklace - The Handmaiden's Necklace
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                      Necklace Trilogy - The Bride's Necklace - The Devil's Necklace - The Handmaiden's Necklace

                      Manufacturer: mira
                      ProductGroup: Book
                      Binding: Mass Market Paperback
                      ASIN: B000IAIVP8

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                      Three (3) massmarket Paperbacks.
                      Necklace Trilogy - The Bride's Necklace - The Devil's Necklace - The Handmaiden's Necklace
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                        Necklace Trilogy - The Bride's Necklace - The Devil's Necklace - The Handmaiden's Necklace

                        Manufacturer: Mira
                        ProductGroup: Book
                        Binding: Mass Market Paperback
                        ASIN: B000IAH366
                        WINTER'S TALES (4) FOUR: Above the Bright Blue Sky; I'll Fight You; A Wee Bit Crude; Mrs Dixon's Devil; A Moral Choice; The Anniversay; The Necklace; Bang Bang You're Dead
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                          WINTER'S TALES (4) FOUR: Above the Bright Blue Sky; I'll Fight You; A Wee Bit Crude; Mrs Dixon's Devil; A Moral Choice; The Anniversay; The Necklace; Bang Bang You're Dead

                          Manufacturer: Macmillan
                          ProductGroup: Book
                          Binding: Hardcover
                          ASIN: B000GW2AEQ

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                          1. Revenge Of The Middle-aged Woman
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