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A Great book for the Frasier fan or occasional Chef.......2007-01-02
Something that just arrived in the mail is "Cafe' Nervosa: The Connoisseur's Cookbook," an eclectic collection of recipes ostensibly from Frasier, Daphne, and the entire crew. I love to cook and I'm always on the outlook for new recipes and this is a fine collection of some really interesting ones. The picture I've uploaded is one of my favorites, Mocha Nervosa Walnut Bread.
The book is divided into four sections, Man Can Live by Bread Alone (breads and desserts); Let's do Lunch (small, relatively simply meals); Just Bring Two Forks (ornate, you-better-think-about-it meals); and Some Like it Hot (coffees and drinks). Sprinkled throughout the book are quotes and bits from the show. The book also has an index for quick lookup. At 108 pages, it's not a huge book, but well written and just quirky enough to keep your interest. And the recipes are easy enough that almost anyone (that is, me) can do them without getting lost or having to travel to Trader Joe's for some obscure ingredient.
A thorough delight with recipes that really work!.......2005-07-10
If you are a fan of Frasier, the book alone is worth it! If you enjoy good food that anyone can make, this book is for you. I wouldn't miss the chance to own it.
Recipies That Are GREAT & Perfect For ANY Fan Of "Frasier!".......2000-09-11
You cannot go wrong with any cookbook that is published by Oxmoor House; and their cookbooks by Southern Living magazine & are EXCELLENT! I know because we have been using their books for over 21 years for ALL sorts of events, both formal and informal. I was delighted to see that they teamed up with Dr. Frasier Crane, and his brother Dr. Niles Crane to give us these GREAT receipes from the Cafe Nervosa. From the opening pages it will become VERY clear that this NOT a book to be taken lightly! The first color photograph that you see is for Prosciutto-and-Fontina Panini which is delicious! There are recipies for a number of muffins, biscuits and scones. There is a Cappuccino Biscotti that is very easy to make, a Mocha Nervosa Walnut Bread, Buttermilk Pancakes, and a Silken Sour Cream Coffee Cake. You will also find a great section that has recipes for lunch. There are several GOOD dessert Recipes, and yes, COFFEE!! All of this in just 105 pages, containing 12 full page color photographs of several finished recipes. You will also get MANY quotes from Frasier, Niles, Daphnae, Martin and Roz, which are witty and funny!
If you are as big a fan of "Frasier" as I am, and LOVE GOOD food, then this very CLEVER cookbook is bound to please!!
Real recipes that really work!.......1999-07-20
Every recipe I have tried has worked beautifully. Despite the appearances that this is just a novelty book, the ideas and combinations really create tasty foods. The dishes are fun and creative. Delicious!
Seattle has produced a winner!.......1999-06-17
Being from the same city as Frasier and Niles Crane, I must admit that this is a great cookbook with tasty recipes. I feel sorry for Niles that his relationship with Maris hasn't worked out. Still I believe this is the book for anyone who likes the show. Even if you don't watch "Frasier," you should still try their recipes. Keep the faith, Niles! You'll find somebody.
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Where are the new Casablancas coming from? Here's one possible source. Bartle Bull, a lawyer, publisher, explorer, and writer, centers his latest thriller at the Cataract Cafe, a floating version of Rick's in 1935 Cairo. The owner, Olivio, is a dwarf from Goa, and his regular customers include a stalwart British professional hunter, his unfaithful wife and her lover, an Italian aviator, American twin sisters in search of all kinds of adventure, and various rogue Germans, including a doctor who regrets not being able to use Olivio for medical research. Bull's writing is wry and deceptively simple:
The waiter set before the doctor a glass of warm boiled water and the flesh of a Nile perch, cleaned from the bone and rearranged on the plate in the shape of a smaller fish. The water was pink from the three spoonfuls of vinegar that had been stirred into it, the day's first weapon in his battle with arthritis. The German leaned forward. His high hooked nose hung over the table like a chimney over a fireplace as he widened his nostrils and smelled the fish.
Outside the cafe, larger forces are at work: Mussolini is helping to start World War II with his attacks on Abyssinia, and other countries are jockeying for power. By focusing on the lives of a few assorted cafe goers, Bull makes his book add up to much more than a hill of beans--he gives us a rich, exciting picture of a world about to disappear. --Dick Adler
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East Africa, 1935. A nation sits at the brink of war, a city is fraught with conspiracy, and at the Cataract Café in Cairo, a colorful cast of characters - professional hunter Anton Rider, his estranged wife and her Italian lover, the pampered American twins Bernadette and Harriet Mills, a German freebooter who has stolen a fortune in silver from the Italian army, the Goan dwarf and café proprietor Olivio Alevado - gathers to gamble with destiny.
"Pulses with entertainment value . . . The sort of yarn that can keep you up late at night . . . [A] spirited, sensuous, hot-blooded evocation of a rich and eventful historical world" - Richard Bernstein, New York Times
"A breathtakingly entertaining historical novel . . . packed with daring exploits and sinister intrigues, with larger-than-life characters and exotic locales" - Orlando Sentinel
"An enthralling novel" - Booklist
"[A] rattling good blockbuster yarn" - Publishers Weekly
"A Café on the Nile achieves the aim of fiction: The reader gladly suspends disbelief." - Houston Chronicle
"[Bull] is a terrific novelist." - San Jose Mercury News
Customer Reviews:
Epic Thriller Set in 1930's Abyssinia -- Wow!.......2005-07-30
Bartle Bull's "A Cafe on the Nile" is a rip-roaring adventure yarn set in 1930's Africa -- generally set in the urban jungle of Cairo and the vast plains and mountains of Abyssinia (Ethiopia). A large cast of characters breathes life into Bull's vast canvas, as the novel is part romance, part war novel, part treasure hunt, and all excitement.
Full disclosure -- I picked this novel up without knowing it is a sequel to Bull's "The White Rhino Hotel." I think this novel succeeds as a stand-alone work, although I'm pretty sure I would have enjoyed it even more knowing some of the backstory involving many of the characters -- suffice it to say that I will be jumping into "Hotel" as soon as possible!
Bull has truly created a cast for the ages. The dwarf Olivio runs the titular Cafe, and his devious mind is forever plotting his next venture (as well as how to ruin his enemies). Bull captures the psuedo-formal speech and thought of this Goan genius very well, and Olivio's brainstorms are among the most entertaining passages in the novel. Unfortunately for Olivio, he has taken on some powerful enemies as he seeks to expand his holdings in the Nile Delta, and this is a land where enemies play for keeps. But with trusty Lord Penfold at his side, as well as the muscular Nubian Tariq, Olivio has a fighting chance.
On a parallel storyline, the English gypsy Anton Rider is trying to put his marriage to the beautiful doctor-in-training Gwenn back together. Fed up with Anton's multiple infidelities and his long absences on safari, Gwenn and her two sons are shacking up with Lorenzo Grimaldi, an officer in the Italian air force. Gwenn's romance with Grimaldi comes to a sudden halt once she decides to take part in the Red Cross efforts in Abyssinia -- everyone knows that Italy is soon going to invade Abyssinia and annex it as part of Mussolini's bid to bring the Roman Empire back from the ashes of history. And soon Gwenn is in the middle of the fighting as the Italian war machine hits the Abyssinians hard with everything at its disposal . . . including the poison gas outlawed by the ineffectual League of Nations.
Anton Rider is also in Abyssinia when the war breaks out, leading a bunch of rich Americans on safari, including the beautiful (and sexually aggressive) twin Kentuckians, Harriett and Bernadette. The safari is spoiled by the outbreak of the war, particularly because the Italians see that Harriett has filmed the Italians using the poison gas. Rather than risk international outrage for this breach of the rules of war, the Italians decide it would simply be easier to kill the witnesses.
Further complicating matters, Anton Rider's ruthless friend, the German mercenary/thief/soldier Ernst von Decken, has stolen several chests of Italian silver coins which are vital to the war effort. Soon, von Decken is also engaged in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the Italian army.
"A Cafe on the Nile" is not for those looking for subtle character developments. The novel is set at a harsh time and in a harsh place, and bullets, swords, cleavers, crocodiles, and other "tools" create a pretty high body count. And Bull's characters obviously find danger to be a powerful aphrodisiac, as there is quite a bit o'sex to go along with the violence. And while the heroes are quite able to dish out the violence, the villains (generally, the Italian armed forces) are equally up to the task.
Spiced with generous amounts of action and humor, "A Cafe on the Nile" offers some genuine moments of sorrow, as not all the beloved characters who start the novel survive to its finish. Winding up with a final chapter that promises more novels to come (including, apparently, "The Devil's Oasis," already written), "A Cafe on the Nile" promises more rollicking excitement for its readers. A thrill-ride from start to finish, "A Cafe on the Nile" is virtually impossible to put down. A must-read!
Enjoyable read.......2004-10-01
I saw this book while cruising the shelves at a well known book store. This is the first Bartle Bull book I have read. The story is good with and interesting plot. The characters are very colorful but somewhat cliche. The pace of the book is pretty good so it was an easy, quick read. I am thinking about reading the other book with these characters, The White Rhino Hotel, just to see where the characters come from and how they got to the point where Cafe begins. All in all its a decent book. Good for a good, quick summer read
excellent reading!.......2004-05-18
This is the first Bartle Bull I've read but won't be the last. Thoroughly enjoyable and difficult to put down. Very fast paced and it just keeps going and going. Sort of like Tom Clancy without the techno-babble and Robert Ludlum without the gory details. I got caught up in what was going to happen next to the characters, the color of Cairo, Ethiopia and colonial empires circa 1935 and the plot. Although the characters are many, they are well developed. I got a sense of knowing them well quickly without page after page of agonizing character building. I just became a fan of BB. On to the Devil's Oasis and Shanghai Station.
A Cafe on the Nile.......2000-11-21
I read an average of two books a week. This is the best book I have read this year. This book has a fast moving plot and delightful characters and a pace I haven't seen since I read the Hardy Boys mysteries as a child. Bull has chosen a location and time that is unfamiliar to most of us. The historical setting alone is worth the time. His turn of phrase comes close to the quality of Tom Robbins with a richness of lexicon that is like rich chocolate. The predecessor novel The White Rhino Hotel is also worth your time. I only wish Bull were more prolific.
Sample the exotic treachery, intrigue, and love.......2000-07-17
A beautiful cover led me initially to this book as the Sphinx glowed from the clouds amidst palms and distant mountains. The exotic beckoned as I iimagined what interesting pleasures might issue forth from a "cafe on the Nile." I was not disappointed!. A cast of fascinating characters led me into the labyrinths of intrigue, love, and war, not to mention the treachery and calculating energy that existed in Cairo in the early days of WWII. A brilliant and wealthy dwarf, a German soldier of fortune, an English gypsy safari leader and his medical student wife, an impoverished English Lord, and energetic twin sisters from Kentucky make up the main cast of characters, but there are numerous enduring indigenous characters that round out the multi-layered ethnic mixture of Egypt and Africa. This is a novel of intrugue, of close ties of friendship and of betrayal. It focuses on the Italian campaign in Africa where the Italians violated all rules of civilized warfare when they dropped poison gas on thousands of Abyssinian warriors and bombed Red Cross hospital tents. The ensuing torture and vengeance that traveled with their forces illustrates the horror of war and what it can do do one's humanity. Another element of this novel that distinguishes it from the usual historical novel is its focus on the pleasures offered in that part of the world that might be considered decadent in other cultures but that exists hand in hand with the austerity of Islam and the hypocrisy of Chrisianity. Sexual favors and delights are there for the enjoyig, given freely as gifts, as bribes, and as favors. Here the exotic manifests itself in an enchanting and throbbing rhythm that whets the appetite without being vulgar. In addition, the actual love affairs and intimate relations thrill without repulsing. All in all, this is a novel full of energy and excitement. History is there as well as adventure, intrigue and international affairs. Descriptions of the African bush are as beautiful and poetic as the animal and plant life that charm and enchant those on safari. To read Cafe on the Nile is to enter a world of fascinating intrigue and drama that dashes from start to finish, leaving the reader breathless and wishing for more.
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Cafe on the Nile
Bartle Bull
Manufacturer: CARROLL & GRAF PUBLISHERS, INC
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OKI4PY |
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- Much more romance than I expected!
- This is SUSAN JOHNSON at her best
- Not one of Susan Johnson better books
- Not the best of Susan Johnson's
- I have been looking for this for sooo long!
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Golden Paradise
Susan Johnson
Manufacturer: Mira
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ASIN: 1551668548 |
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Much more romance than I expected!.......2005-12-15
Usually I pick up a Susan Johnson book expecting loads of sensual scenes and more hot and steamy than romance. With a setting during Russian Turkish wars and with a Kuzan involved even more so did I expect this. Not so with Golden Paradise - this was pure romance - and you truly felt the romance. Lisavitta was a naive young lady when she accidently meets Prince Stefan in the middle of a war. Stefan is on a month long furlough expecting to go back to his mountain retreat and spend days with his Gypsy lover. He is almost irritated when he comes upon and rescues Lisavitta, thinking she is annoying, educated and does not appear to be a looker. Well, is he wrong, back at his palace he finds she cleans up into a diamond of the first water and he immediately seduces her, well she was very willing so not sure who seduces who. Yes, these two start off in lust, but through the next month and fiances and gypsy lovers they spend much romantic quality time together at Stefan's mountain retreat. Lise is fighting her feelings of love since she knows Stefan is a rake and never ever falls in love - in fact since love destroyed his own personal family he fights against any feelings of love. They seperate and he goes to the battle of Kars which is to be the battle to end the war. Lise goes off to St. Petersberg and is presented to court and is a total success. She becomes the darling of court. Word of her success reaches Stefan waiting for the battle to begin. He is outraged and sets on a pace to claim Lise for himself in some manner - he takes off in a rage to St. Petersberg. This part of the book, absolutely is beautifully written, it is so heartfelt, so packed with emotion, I cannot give the last part of this book more of a higher rating! In fact the end of this book is what gives this book 5 stars. THis is a just so emotional. It reminded me of Dr. Zhigavo - the rugged weather, the emotions you can just picture the handsome Stefan. For the first time ever Stefan is allowing his feelings to run his life. There are too many wonderful details to share here as it would ruin this part of the story I believe. But certainly, this is a very romantic book for Johnson. You don't need the erotic scenes because you feel the love between Lise and Stefan. And the dialog between these too, also get very very high marks. So take this book, get your box of kleenex handy and enjoy one of Johnson's best!
This is SUSAN JOHNSON at her best.......2004-10-03
I love to know an author actually researches & knows what they are writing about. Susan Johnson is the ONLY romance historian with footnotes. I love romance, I love intelligent writing &, of course, I love great sex.
Not one of Susan Johnson better books.......2003-01-17
With the New Year, I thought that it was time to read all the books that have been piling up in my closet. In my closet I found Susan Johnson's "Golden Paradise" I have read other books by Ms. Johnson, so I thought i would enjoy it. Well, its was okay and I got to read more about the Kuzan Family, but it clearly was not one of her better books. I am glad though that I have one less book in closet
Not the best of Susan Johnson's.......2002-02-09
Susan Johnson tries way too hard with this book. In her effort
to make Prince Stefan look like a terrific catch that every
woman wants, she gets way too carried away with her descriptive
phrases and exaggerations and makes the Prince sound like a
person I wouldn't even want to meet. Her descriptions of the
Prince are downright laughable. There isn't a man on earth that
could act the way he does and still have the women like him.
But it was interesting reading, though I consider the book a
dud. I own over a dozen of this authors books and this one is
on the bottom of my list.
I have been looking for this for sooo long!.......2001-11-12
I have been a HUGE Susan Johnson fan since I picked up Sweet Love, Survive and she has never let me down. I have been looking for this for quite some time and I am delighted to have found it. It is not so highly descriptive or erotic in the love scenes but the romance was wonderful. Many times her characters are married to others and then they have to work around those stumbling blocks and they aren't willing to say they love each other until the last few pages. Not so here and it was VERY satisfying! Read and enjoy!!!
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Child of Paradise: Marcel Carne and the Golden Age of French Cinema (Harvard Film Studies)
Edward Turk
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Children of Paradise - Criterion Collection
ASIN: 0674114604 |
Book Description
The updated and expanded 2002-2003 12th edition of the New Golden Door to Retirement and Living in Costa Rica offers invaluable assistance to anyone looking for a safe, affordable place to live outside the United States. This useful book contains all the ins and outs and dos and dont's and much more indispensible secret insider information about all areas of living in Costa Rica. It guides you step by step and shows how to live on a budget; how to start a business and includes 100s of sure-fire tips for making money; how to stay busy and happy ; where to; live in Costa Rica; how to aquire residency; shortcuts for learning Spanish; how to take advantage of the many tax savings for foreign residents(make up to $80,000 a year tax free), how to find high-interest investments paying 13% or more annually; how to make the break from the rat race and start a new exciting life; and even how and where to find quality peo!ple for companionship. -
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Truly a "Golden Door" .......2007-07-31
For many years Costa Rica has attracted Americans who live there for all or part of the year. Many of the ones I've spoken with say that Christopher Howard's book made the transition much, much easier. This new edition is especially helpful. It takes readers step by step through the process of finding real estate and also explains how to have fun - sunning on beautiful beaches, swimming in the ocean, playing golf or just hanging out with the neighbors. Costa Rica has excellent but low-cost medical care, and Howard's book tells readers how to find it. The book is indeed a "Golden Door."
DON'T LEAVE HOME WITHOUT IT!.......2007-06-19
Christopher Howard is clearly the leading expert on Costa Rica retirement and living. He does all the research for you and gives you all the facts and information you need to make your trip a big success! These nuggets of wisdom can come only from someone who has lived in Costa Rica for nearly two decades and loves his work. Each new edition just keeps getting better and better. After you treat yourself to this masterpiece, you may want to take one of Mr. Howard's tours. If you do, you'll save much time and money in the process. You'll soon value him as a good friend as well as an amazing writer!
THE DOOR IS NOT SO GOLDEN.......2007-04-01
My wife and I read Christopher Howard's book (2X each), and found that it is overly commercial (with local CR advertising), poorly organized, has an over-emphasis on purchasing property and housing in Costa Rica without prioritizing renting first to see if you can, as an ex-pat, handle living in the culture of a foreign country. Howard's claim that you can "Live for less than you ever dreamed possible and enjoy all of the amenities of home." is vague and misleading, albeit repetitiously stated by most promoters of Costa Rica from authors to list-owners on CR blogs. Howard's claim that "Central Valley...Decent affordable housing ranges from $50,000 to $100,00..." is more often than not in "Gringoville" areas. American-built and developed housing is definitely emphasized. Tico neighborhoods are not. In fact, the statement that CR is such a cheap place to live is a plainly false, and unfortunately, a myth that represents most of what makes up Costa Rica today. The fact is that CR is fast losing it's luster (which it certainly once had) for being a lower cost of living country compared to the US. Americanized Housing and property developments are going up almost daily, promoted mostly by Americans and the prices are increasing all of the time. In areas like Escazu, Santa Ana, San Rafael, Tamarindo and many others, prices often exceed property values in the US. These "Gringoville" areas are promoted by Howard. Alternatively, what happened to the small 2 bedroom 1 bath or 2 bath houses in a middle class Tico neighborhood? These little homes are rich with Tico culture and are often safer crime-wise than the American, gated enclaves. Many Tico houses are well built and established with beautiful yards, plants and flowers.
Howard's book has good points. There are valuable listings in the midst of of the commercial advertising. Information about immigration and legal matters for obtaining residency is overly simplified, but certainly worth reading. The book is good, it's got a lot in it, but if you plan to live in Costa Rica, you need to read more. You need to get the skinny on the real Costa Rica which is the land of Ticos and not Americans.
Very Helpful.......2007-03-16
Not sure if we're ready to move to Costa Rica yet, but the book sure gives us lots of "food for thought." It covers lots of subjects that a person wouldn't normally think of.
Good info, but poorly written.......2007-02-22
There was a lot of great information in this book, but the grammatical and spelling errors got a little annoying. Every second or third page had an error of some sort. There were also quite a few ads in the book...didn't bother me too much, but some people may be annoyed by it.
Book Description
The Legion of Doom is hell-bent on breaking into Eden, and they've got the perfect captive to help them: Eve, mother of all humanity-and all vampires. Only Doyle and the Menagerie can stop them from turning a blessed garden into a paradise lost.
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Crashing Paradise Crushes its Dark Fantasy Competition!.......2007-09-05
This latest novel in the Menagerie series is quite easily the very best of the series thus far. Authors Christopher Golden and Thomas E. Sniegoski have penned the ultimate in dark fantasy adventures that rival the Award-winning Shadow Saga that marks Christopher Golden's very best writing.
Crashing Paradise clearly shows that co-author Thomas Sniegoski helps create this novel to be the perfect mixing of mythological creatures of the dark with Biblical mythos to create the ultimate hardcore Dark Fantasy adventure that will thrill fans of this genre, showing clearly that these two authors are at the top of their game.
Whether you've read the other 3 Menagerie novels or not, you can easily read this as a stand alone novel, capturing all the beauty and savagery that CRASHING PARADISE produces.
The new Legion of Doom the author's integrate in this novel are fully fleshed-out, believable monsters that are not your typical cardboard cut-out baddies. That's what makes this series - and this book especially! - stand out as the ultimate in the most evidently ever-growing and most popular and hot genre going now - Dark Urban fantasy.
From Earth to The Garden of Eden, authors Golden and Sniegoski create a solid storyline chock-full of interesting and ever-growing characters that fit inside this world-building juggernaut that will surely tittilate you into reading into the early hours of the morning. Yes, it is just that great!
The Menagerie battle their most dangerous foes to date here, from angels to demons in their myriad forms, all vying for domination in the beauty and savagery of the Garden of Eden. The beautiful Eve, the mother of all vampires, driven from Paradise by God after tasting the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, truly stands out here in this novel as she seeks to repent for her centuries of sin and destroy those vampires that she is the mother of - as well as those demons and bad angels that combine their powerful forces to enter the Gate of Eden.
And the other character that stands out here is Clay, the immortal shapeshifter that God created who is made and molded from everything the earth is made from. Extremely interesting character and love interest for Eve which captures the imagination of the readers. They are both on a quest to find and remember their origins, and how they do this is truly a masterpiece and a thrill ride to read about. Can't say enough great stuff about this.
If this is the prelude to come for the imminent and ultimate threat of the upcoming Demogorgon - then me and my husband await with bated breath! Fans of sci-fi/fantasy/dark fantasy are in for a gigantic adventure in this single novel, sure to please the masses. Utterly terrific!
if we could give this 10 stars - we would.
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The series of The Earthly Paradise: A Poem. 12 vols. London: Longman, 1905. A series of 24 tales, 2 for each month of the year; 12 from classical sources; the other 12 from medieval Latin, French, and Icelandic originals. This is Part X ONLY.
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The Golden Child of Slaine
Mark Paradise
Manufacturer: Diggory Press
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Binding: Paperback
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The Planet Slaine lies in the insidious grip of the Worm, a creature of ancient and sinister origin. Its only desire is to prevent the birth of the mysterious Golden Child and maintain its stranglehold on a planet that it has defiled for centuries. To live and pursue its cravings it needs a human host, but not many men have been able to endure its thirst for death and destruction until it finds Marik. Marik the pirate is the scourge of Slaine, and a wanted man across the whole planet. His name is a by-word for everything that civilization fears and hates. But Marik does not care what anyone thinks about him. He has a death wish, and he is happy to endure the misery of hosting the Worm in return for the infamy and wealth it brings him. Yet everything starts to fall apart for Marik when he promises to pay a blood-forfeit in return for the rights to sack the fabled city of Arnak. Trapped by a destiny beyond his ability to control, and pursued by a promise he does not understand, Marik fights for his life as he hurtles towards what will probably be not just his own death, but the death of the whole planet along with him.
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The Planet Slaine lies in the insidious grip of the Worm, a creature of ancient and sinister origin. Its only desire is to prevent the birth of the mysterious Golden Child and maintain its stranglehold on a planet that it has defiled for centuries. To live and pursue its cravings it needs a human host, but not many men have been able to endure its thirst for death and destruction until it finds Marik. Marik the pirate is the scourge of Slaine, and a wanted man across the whole planet. His name is a by-word for everything that civilization fears and hates. But Marik does not care what anyone thinks about him. He has a death wish, and he is happy to endure the misery of hosting the Worm in return for the infamy and wealth it brings him. Yet everything starts to fall apart for Marik when he promises to pay a blood-forfeit in return for the rights to sack the fabled city of Arnak. Trapped by a destiny beyond his ability to control, and pursued by a promise he does not understand, Marik fights for his life as he hurtles towards what will probably be not just his own death, but the death of the whole planet along with him.
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Good Book.......2005-12-10
SHould have a sequel, the end game seemed kinda rushed
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