William Faulkner's the Wild Palms: A Study (The Mississippi quarterly series in Southern literature)

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If it doesn't have punctuation in the title, it's not really Faulkner.......2006-12-11

I supposed this was not a major work because I hadn't heard about it before. Nope, it's major. The most popular form of this book is to rip it in half and such that Old Man is by itself as a short novel. That's really a shame. Old Man, is a rollicking story of a man swept away on the Mississippi during the flooding of New Orleans in 1927 (Hoover's deft handling of the crisis is a large part of the reason that he became president). However, the story doubles its power when it is juxtaposed with the story of two lovers flooded out of civilization by their aching need for each other. You get two uncontrollable forces of nature, both horrifiying to encounter, and both demolishing the prisons within which the protagonists of each story are previously held (let's say the medical career path of one, and actual prison for the other). A primary question in each is whether it's better to be back in the prison or not, and there's a strong case for yes in each.

Both stories are good, but what makes this spectacular is simply the fact that the experiment is attempted. Who does things like this? There's a thematic link between the stories, but it's fairly loose. However, the back and forth interspersion paces the stories perfectly. In non-stop presentation, I think the tone of either of these would be too much to take. As it is, though, this is actually a page turner. More impressively, these aren't two stories that were slapped together (a la the Golden Slumbers medley (God forgive me) or Scenes from an Italian Restaurant) but were written at the same time after a major heartbreak. There's also the greatest two word last line of any novel that I'm aware of. I won't spoil it.

This isn't a great introduction to Faulkner, but it's a fantastic example of why people who love him love him. Milan Kundera singled this one out, maybe not as a favorite, but as a book that should be more highly recognized. I couldn't agree more. Faulkner has the problem of too many masterpieces. At this stage of his career, it's hard to ignore any of them.

Modernist Faulkner.......2006-10-08

Wild Palms

This is a Faulkner must-read, but not without some problems. "Wild Palms" is as modernist a novel as anything by Virginia Woolf. The alternating stories - which seem to have no surface relationship whatsoever, is daring and artsy stuff. But does it work? The "Wild Palms" portion tells the story of two lovers, one who is married, who cast everything to the wind in order to live a bohemian life devoted to Love. I noticed one reviewer commented that theirs was a selfless love. Quite the contrary. Oh, within their bubble, Charlotte and Harry are as devoted to each other as Dante's Paolo and Francesca. And like those two, Harry and Charlotte are immolated within their own choices, their own lusts. The impact on others is never a real consideration, as they act out, with heroic resolve, their devotion - to Love. There are passages within the Wild Palms portion that are simply soaring in their beauty. It will have you recalling, A Farewell to Arms, especially the part that takes place in the Western mountains.

Old Man, which is much anthologized and thus regrettably removed from the context of this novel, in contrast to the tragic Wild Palms, is almost like low comedy - Faulkner style. There is of course powerful writing - especially the great descriptions of the Flood, that sounds like a King James appendix from Genesis. What's interesting is how the characters of Old Man are never really revealed as they are in Wild Palms. The poor convict, who shepherds the woman and her infant child along, is always having bad stuff happen to him. And he deals with it. And the woman herself, you hardly even know. She's a presence, a responsibility, a reminder if you will, of perhaps a higher order that we as humans should respond to. The two operate as archetypes more than multi-faceted characters, but archetypes have great power, as any reader of the Bible knows. On the other hand, Charlotte and Harry serve only themselves, and we are intensely aware of every shift in emotion -- and its cause. Faulkner clearly was aware of this contrast, and how you chew on it will determine what you think of the novel - and it is a novel, not just two separate stories. Faulkner links the two with Hope, as Harry makes a choice while looking through the prison bars at the end: Grief is better than nothing, which is a no-brainer for the convict of Old Man. What is also interesting is how Faulkner timed the portions. Wild Palms, which starts the book, takes place in 1937. Old Man takes place in 1927. Only ten years separates the two, but the time of Old Man is already nearly a mythic one, much like the Old Testament. The 1937 portion is hardly New Testament, and more likely an indictment from Faulkner. The modern world, with all its dehumanizing aspects, presses down and around Harry and Charlotte. There is No Exit - except the one they've sworn to as a couple. And there is something in that, however charged with Right and Wrong such a choice may be. At least Harry and Charlotte are still human. Read it.

"The Wild Palms"--used as a meditation by Thomas Merton.......2006-01-26

This book was recommended to me a few months ago by Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk who died in 1968. How this happened is as follows: I was looking through some book cases in the back of a local Catholic church, when I found some audiotapes of lectures given by Thomas Merton to monks in training during the early 60's. I had read his biography, "The Seven Storey Mountain," and wanted to hear his voice and get an idea of what he was like. I listened to many of his tapes--some were good, some not so good--but one of the tapes, titled "The Deluge," was particularly interesting to me. It discussed how the monks could use the writings of William Faulkner as inspiration for meditation on the eternal Truths of the human condition. Most of Merton's discussion was about Faulkner's book "The Wild Palms." I recommend Merton's tape "The Deluge" for those who want an interesting perspective about this book.

As for my comments about this book, I believe it is one of the most pro-life books I have ever read, particularly with its theme of abortion in "Wild Palms" contrasted with the theme of the birth of a thriving infant during the flood in "The Old Man." Also, this book shows that you never know where you will encounter virtue. The convict displays great virtue in "The Old Man" while the modern, educated people in "Wild Palms" show an obvious lack of it.

In summary, if you liked "The Wild Palms," you should listen to Merton's tape, "The Deluge." You can probably still get this through the Merton Society.

Buy it, read it.......2004-10-08

This is the 4th or 5th Faulkner novel I've read. I think it should be better known. The tile of the novel is important, The Wild Palms: [If I FORGET Thee, Jerusalem]. Memory is an important theme of the novel. Pay attention to it. "The Wild Palms" is a New Testament parable, of sorts. The other novella, "Old Man," is an Old Testament parable. Escape is an important theme. Wilbourne (=Will Born, Still Born) and Charlotte travel to New Orleans, San Antonio, Chicago, etc. trying to escape. From what? From whom? On the flip side, the convict can't escape, he's a convict. But he gets an opportunity to escape in the big flood (Noah) but doesn't. Why doesn't he try to escape? Charlotte should be compared to the woman with child the convict "saves" in the flood. Abortion is a theme. Mysogony may also be a theme. Is it? Willbourne is weak, Charlotte is strong. The convict is stupid--his girlfriend, is she smart, in a calculating way? In the end, is Faulkner obliquely saying the wrong people "hooked up," that Willbourne should have ideally met the woman who has the baby, and the convict should have met Charlotte, who in the beginning of the novel just want to "escape" with Willbourne?

If you keep the above points in mind as you read the novel, perhaps it will draw you in, then you too can drown in the flood of myriad meanings and multiplicity of inferences. Overall, a good, if not great novel. Dark, brooding, nihilistic--very tasty, though! Enjoy!!

A Great Introduction to Faulkner.......2002-07-08

I love this guy Faulkner. I read another half chapter of The Wild Palms on the train.
Never read anything by him before.

Faulkner's characters don't sit around and examine their navel. They just Do. Yes act on their passions they Do. His characters are not beautiful people. They have scars, injuries, poverty, depraved morals, injustices, suffering upon suffering. What makes the Wild Palms beautiful is the passion of people living life right on the bone.

A married woman is planning on abandoning her husband and two kids and running away with another man. The other man asks her what about her two kids. On page 41, she answers, "I know the answer to that and I know that I cant change that answer and I dont think I can change me because the second time I ever saw you I learned what I had read in books but I never had actually believed: that love and suffering are the same thing and that the value of love is the sum of what you have to pay for it and anytime you get it cheap you have cheated yourself." No Catholic saint-mystic ever said it better. Pretty good for a crazy Protestant drunk.

You hear talk about stream-of consciousness with James Joyce and Jack Kerouac and so on. This guy Faulkner captures the way our minds think and our mouths talk more realistically than anybody.

Of Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor said, "Nobody wants his mule and wagon stalled on the same track when the Dixie Limited is roaring down."

Something about this book reminds me of the Stephen King material set in the south, the Southern-ness of it and the same kind of characters.

The omniscient author technique is frowned on in serious, modern literature. I don't knw if this aesthetic rule post-dates Faulkner, but he uses it to no ill effect. There's very little difference between when a character is speaking and Faulkner is speaking. It gives the effect of us reading the characters thoughts rather than Faulkner telling us what they are. It works perfectly.

Few to none of the characters in any of the standard, best-seller type books have any inner life. When most of the authors try it, they are quite pathetic at it. I suppose that's because the authors have no inner life themselves. Faulkner does not show us the inner life of any of his characters either. However, as Faulker presents his characters, the reader induces their inner drives from their actions. It works very, very well. Stephen King's characters are like this also.

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Amid all that has been published about William Faulkner, one subject—the nature of his thought—remains largely unexplored. But, as Daniel Singal's new intellectual biography reveals, we can learn much about Faulkner's art by relating it to the cultural and intellectual discourse of his era, and much about that era by coming to terms with his art. Through detailed analyses of individual texts, from the earliest poetry through Go Down, Moses, Singal traces Faulkner's attempt to liberate himself from the repressive Victorian culture in which he was raised by embracing the Modernist culture of the artistic avant-garde. To accommodate the conflicting demands of these two cultures, Singal shows, Faulkner created a complex and fluid structure of selfhood based on a set of dual identities—one, that of a Modernist author writing on the most daring and subversive issues of his day, and the other, that of a southern country gentleman loyal to the conservative mores of his community. Indeed, it is in the clash between these two selves, Singal argues, that one finds the key to making sense of Faulkner.

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Disappointing and meandering.......1998-04-28

Prof. Singal has an interesting thesis here, one well worth exploring, but his book needs more focus. Singal wanders from psychobiography (including some ill-fitting speculation into Faulkner's neurological problems!) to literary analysis to critiques of other Faulkner critics. Singal ends his study when it reaches the midpoint of Faulkner's career, essentially saying that Faulkner did not write anything interesting after 1942 or so--and while this well may be a valid opinion, asserting it without substantiating it is a cop-out. At times I felt I was reading the work of a talented undergrad rather than that of a tenured professor.

Readers interested in more rigorous studies of Faulkner's life and works should stick with Blotner's *Faulkner: A Biography*, Brooks's *WF: The Yoknapatawpha Country*, and Frederick Karl's relatively recent *WF: American Writer*.

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The Moving Picture Girls Under the Palms (Large Print Edition): Or Lost in the Wilds of Florida
Laura Lee Hope
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Half a score of actors and actresses moved quickly to their appointed places while overhead and at the sides of them hissed powerful electric lights- and in front of them stood a moving picture camera- ready to be operated by a pleasant-faced young man.\' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)

The Moving Picture Girls Under The Palms (Lost in the Wilds of Florida)

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The Moving Picture Girls Under The Palms (Lost in the Wilds of Florida)
Laura Lee Hope
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Welcome to God's Palm (Wild Abandon) (Wild Abandon)

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Wild Abandon
An Excellent Teaching Tool
Top of my list!
An Amazing Adventure

Welcome to God's Palm (Wild Abandon) (Wild Abandon)
Kinsley Foster
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In this, the first book in the Wild Abandon series, the mysterious world of Abandon, Oregon is introduced through the eyes of Thayer Abbott. Uprooted from her typically midwestern dwellings in Chicago, Thayer Abbott must start a new life in the minisclule town on the Oregon coast with her father. Once in the pristine, little town of Abandon, nestled quietly between the majestic, green mountains and blue Pacific, Thayer discovers that the only thing she can't run from is herself.

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Wild Abandon.......2001-05-31

Wild Abandon, Welcome To God's Palm begins with Thayer Abbott and her father moving from their old home in Chicago to the strangely "perfect" town of Abandon, Oregon. Thayer is still getting over her mother's death, so she doesn't like the idea of moving at all. Soon after Thayer moves in, she meets Park, a girl her age who shows her the ropes of the new town. Things get interesting when Thayer meets Amslyn, the "leader" of the popular group in Abandon-you know, there is one at every high school. Through the people, places, and strange happenings in the town of Abandon, Thayer comes to terms with herself and her new life. I ordered this book by accident, but decided to give it a try. As it turns out, this was one of my favorites! Also, it keeps you interested and is very exciting, but it's age appropriate, too. Anyone over the age of eleven would understand and enjoy this book. It is different from most books, but it hits a sweet place as you're reading it. In fact, I'm getting ready to order the next book in the series....

An Excellent Teaching Tool.......2000-04-15

As a teacher of the seventh grade, I have found that the story's subtle emphasis of honoring oneself verses conformity to be an exceptionally effective theme for discussion with my students. This book entices the imagination in ways that I had forgotten even existed. My students and I were sorry for the story to end, and wanted to stay in Abandon to see what would happen next! I will definitely use the whole series in my classroom curriculum.

Top of my list!.......2000-02-27

The characters in Wild Abandon are totally cool, I really liked Park. I'm a fan for life!

An Amazing Adventure.......2000-02-23

This book is full of imagination, magical moments, and the most interesting details. Extremely well written and very fun to read. I really enjoyed Wild Abandon and think of it often!

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Another enjoyable military romance from Amy J Fetzer!.......2005-05-25

Rick Wyatt is a Marine dedicated to the Corps. When he is wounded in combat and returns home to recuperate, he is annoyed to find that his commanding officer has engaged a nurse to stay with him until he's recovered. Having a nursemaid is bad enough, but when she's your estranged wife, it's almost unbearable. Kate moved out a year ago and all the feelings Rick has been suppressing for the past twelve months have all come surging back to the surface. God, how he's missed her, but she's the one who left, so he'll be damned if he lets her know it. Will he ever understand why she left or maybe find a way to convince her to stay?

Kate never stopped loving Rick and didn't want to leave, but she couldn't continue to live with a man who couldn't or wouldn't confide in her. She knows he feels things deeply - just not with her. He never really needed her and now he only needs her around until he recovers. But can she really walk away from him a second time?

This was a poignant and sexy read about how tough it must be to keep a marriage together in the military - especially when all those tough guys think they shouldn't feel anything! And if they do, they sure as heck shouldn't share them with the women they love. Would sharing those feelings and experiences cause those women to see them in a different, negative light? How silly men can be . . .

Another good one.......2005-02-09

Another good one by Fetzer.

A couple who's divorce is impending, Rick and Kate find themselves tossed together for 2 months. Can they talk through the problems that separated them?

Fetzer's ability to translate emotions on to the page is unparalleled. Her characters act like real people would, thinking what you would think and doing what you would do. Don't miss Fetzer's best works "Rebel Heart" and "Dangerous Waters".

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Just sexy... or maybe not
Blistering.
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Big Guns Out of Uniform
Nicole Camden , Liz Carlyle , and Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Mysterious and untamable, they hold honor, strength, and courage close to their well-guarded hearts. But no matter how much their jobs require them to lay aside their personal lives, they can't deny that they have burning needs like any other man...

In Sherrilyn Kenyon's "BAD to the Bone," teacher Marianne Webernec wins the "Hideaway Heroine Sweepstakes." Whisked away to a remote tropical island, Marianne's fantasies become real when Bureau of American Defense agent Kyle Foster kidnaps her and uncovers her every desire.

In Liz Carlyle's "Let's Talk About Sex," Dr. Delia Sydney dishes out perfectly sound sex advice on the radio but is easily seduced by her bad-boy neighbor. Just what is it about Nick Woodruff, a smooth-talking sergeant, that makes Delia do anything when she's with him?

Things get even hotter in Nicole Camden's "The Nekkid Truth" when crime scene photographer Debbie Valley loses the ability to recognize faces and must identify people by their bodies. Soon she finds that the wonders of Detective Marshall Scott'

s body never cease...and that he needs her to help catch a killer.

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"They are the intriguing strangers we pass on the street -- men who do whatever it takes to keep us safe from the evils of the world. Mysterious and untamable, they hold honor, strength, and courage close to their well-guarded hearts. But no matter how much their jobs require them to lay aside their personal lives, they can't deny that when their facades and clothes are stripped off, they have burning needs like any other man.... In Sherrilyn Kenyon's ""BAD to the Bone,"" teacher Marianne Webernec wins the ""Hideaway Heroine Sweepstakes"" and a chance to pretend to be the heroine in her favorite romance novel. Whisked away to a remote tropical island, Marianne's fantasies become real when BAD (Bureau of American Defense) agent Kyle Foster kidnaps her. Together they uncover Marianne's every desire, and Kyle's secret fantasy, too. In Liz Carlyle's ""Let's Talk About Sex,"" Dr. Delia Sydney dishes out perfectly sound sex advice on the radio. So how is it that this slightly repressed divorc�e is so easily seduced by her bad-boy neighbor? And just what is it about Nick Woodruff, a smooth-talking sergeant on a forced ""vacation,"" that makes Delia feel she'll do anything -- anything -- when she's with him? Things get even hotter in Nicole Camden's ""The Nekkid Truth"" when crime scene photographer Debbie Valley works more closely than ever with the detective who has fascinated her for years. After a harrowing accident Debbie finds her life forever changed when she loses the ability to recognize faces. She is forced to identify people by their bodies and soon finds that the wonders of Detective Marshall Scott's body never cease...and that he needs her unique gift to help catch a killer. "

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Just sexy... or maybe not.......2006-07-18

The three stories are alike. The writers tried to mix a sexy story into a thriller or maybe a thriller into a sexy story. The problem was that the thrilling part of each story won't thrill you and you'd get nothing of the sexy part of each story. So if you want to read this book just for the fun of it is ok, but don't expect much of the reading.

Blistering........2006-06-28

Whether they are in uniform or not, these men have burning needs just like any other . . . men . . . and BIG GUNS OUT OF UNIFORM's men burn hot and spicy!

Book 1 -
Sherrilyn Kenyon: "BAD To The Bone." - Grade: B
Marianne Webernec viewed herself as painfully average and her mother's words "about acceptance and it could be worse" did little to console. So, today . . . eagerly . . . Marianne would walk on the wild side! As the grand prize winner in the Hideaway Heroine Sweepstakes Contest, Marianne Webernec would experience her ultimate fantasy. She would become her all-time favorite romance heroine and finally live life savagely!
Highly trained as a special covert agent, Kyle Foster was everything Marianne deemed perfect. Kyle Foster was the ultimate pipe dream. He had electric blue eyes, and he was handsome, rugged, and blessed with a hunky hero body. Too bad, he was not part of the Hideaway Sweepstakes winner's package!

Suddenly, six boring weeks of R&R were starting to revitalize Kyle Foster! Normally, Marianne Webernec was not the type who drew his attention, yet the little schoolteacher from Peoria, Illinois was everything he wanted! And he would savor the challenge she offered!

*** Comments: Normally, stories found in an anthology format suffer from the "lack of room" quandary. Not here! Sherrilyn Kenyon successfully maneuvers around this dilemma. BAD TO THE BONE is cute, sexy, and adventitiously humorous; unfortunately, the ending is a bit much . . . corny!

Book 2 -
Liz Carlyle: "Let's Talk About Sex." - Grade: A-
Sex is what people loved to talk about and radio talk host Dr. Delia Sydney successfully gave it to them. Yet, this mild-mannered, recently divorced college professor found herself trapped in a very ordinary lifestyle. Ordinary as in "hellish!" Her car was junk, she had "big-time" financial woes, and her ex-husband was a real jerk. Ok . . . Delia Sydney's life needed a little jumpstart and who better to "jump" than her neighbor - Sergeant Nick Woodruff?

Virile-looking, Nick Woodruff was uncomplicated and straightforward. His working, warrior type hands screamed manly and primitive! What a pleasing change from the stuffed shirts that normally surrounded Delia! Still, she was afraid. Once-bitten, twice shy kind of afraid! She was afraid she was going to get her heart broken.

Nick Woodruff wanted pleasure and satisfaction and Delia Sydney was a natural. She was special and he wanted her! Still, something else was happening! His feelings for the little psychology professor were becoming very serious. A deadly, scary type of serious! Could Delia Sydney be THE woman?

*** Comments: Having recently "re-discovered" Liz Carlyle, LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX is the reason I bought this anthology. And again, Ms. Carlyle did not disappoint me! LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX is fun, sexy as hell, and it has Sergeant Nick Woodruff! Despite the fact, the ending seemed rushed; Liz Carlyle still puts out a winner!

Book 3 -
Nicole Camden: "The Nekkid Truth." - Grade: B-
Five years ago, a police patrol car knocked Debbie Valley to the pavement. The complication? The violent event left Debbie's brain traumatized and took away her ability to recognize human faces.
As a passenger in the patrol car, Detective Marshall Scott suffered lasting guilt. So, when they released Miss Debbie Valley from the hospital, the detective got Debbie her job. She was the departmental crime scene photographer.

For four long years, Debbie Valley lusted after Detective Marshall Scott. Then one night the man finally responded and Debbie's wait was extraordinarily answered. Detective Marshall Scott was one hot man!

*** Comments: Written in the first person, Nicole Camden's THE NEKKID TRUTH is definitely modish and unique. However, the sex flows too raw and too bawdy, causing the romance to break down.

MaryGrace Meloche.

A sensual feast for readers.......2005-09-02

In Sherrilyn Kenyon's BAD TO THE BONE, high school teacher Marianne Webernec wins a publisher's contest and gets to act out her favorite romance novel for a month on an exclusive private island. Playing a femme fatale secret agent and acting out scenes with a gorgeous actor playing her favorite hero should have been a dream come true. Halfway through her stay, however, Marianne is bored silly and sneaks off into an off-limits part of the island. In the midst of blowing up sand castles to amuse himself while on a forced leave of advance, BAD (short for the Bureau of American Defense, a secret government agency) agent Kyle Foster spots and rescues a woman on the beach just as the explosives are about to go off. Instant attraction springs between Kyle and Marianne, but she is quickly whisked away by her contest sponsors. Determined to see her again, Kyle decides to add a wildcard (namely himself) into her scripted fantasy. Soon the two are on the run and falling in love -- but is it the real thing or just a product of their imagination?

Loving thy neighbor reaches new heights in Liz Carlyle's LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX. While her new talk show may be gathering momentum, Dr. Delia Sydney's real life is a shambles. Recently divorced, Delia has been left with a huge monstrosity of a house she can't afford, a barely working car, and -- after all her trees are cut down by the power company -- an unobstructed view of her maddeningly sexy neighbor's house. Nick Woodruff isn't looking to get involved, but he can't get the very sexy Delia out of his mind. He's hooked either listening to her dole out sexual advice on her radio program or watching her climb out of her car wearing what has to be the world's sexiest pair of heels. Determined to act like mature, horny adults, Nick and Delia decide to have a discreet, commitment-free, no holds barred, spanking optional sexual liaison. But when their hot, secret affair shows no signs of cooling off months later, a panicking Delia is set to do something that will change the stakes.

Nicole Camden's THE NEKKID TRUTH introduces us to a heroine with a very unusual condition. Years earlier, photographer Debbie Valley was struck by a patrol car and ended up in a weeks-long coma. When she awoke, Debbie no longer had the ability to recognize and remember faces, including her own. Today a successful photographer specializing in nudes, Debbie also continues to work for the San Diego police department on crime scenes -- a job originally arranged for her by the enigmatic Detective Marshall Scott, her nemesis and long the object of her desires. For years, Marshall has felt guilty for being unable to stop the accident that caused Debbie's injury. Standing aside as she dated his fellow officers, Marshall has long thought of her as off limits. That all changes when a new murder investigation forces them to work together and long suppressed feelings are finally released. As they hunt a murderer on the loose, it's up to Marshall to convince the woman he loves that her malady doesn't matter to him.

Passion in all its toe-curling, shiver-inducing diversity is explored in BIG GUNS OUT OF UNIFORM and the result is a sensual feast for readers. Sherrilyn Kenyon starts her new BAD series off with a bang (literally) with this fun frolic in the sun. Although not as emotionally satisfying as her longer titles, Ms. Kenyon's tale is full of the wacky humor and larger than life characters that have become her trademark. Meanwhile, historical author Liz Carlyle's first contemporary tale is a sizzling treat that should leave readers hot, bothered, and raring to go shoe shopping, while Nicole Camden makes a remarkable debut with a strong story featuring a truly unique heroine.

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Coarse.......2005-02-05

I'm borrowing the word "coarse" from another reviewer's text because it is so apt. With the exception of the Liz Carlyle story, this is one tacky anthology. Even the Liz Carlyle story was not up to her usually high standard of storytelling. I bought this book because I was interested to read a Liz Carlyle contemporary. And, to be frank, her story wasn't that contemporary. Both characters were pretty old-fashioned and the setting seemed to be early 1960's.

Sherrilyn Kenyon's story did not keep my interest past the first chapter. I knew where it was headed and the setting of "sex camp" could have been funny if the lighter hand of a grownup had written it, but the writing for this was pre-pubescent.

I didn't make it past the first chapter of Nicole Camden's story either. The writing was leaden and the premise of a woman who could remember a guy's body parts but not his face was just plain silly, or a better word for it, would be - coarse.

Totally worth the price.......2004-10-18

I would have to agree with one of the review that said that Sherrilyn Kenyon's "BAD to the Bone" was pretty terrible. I just couldn't get involved with the story it was so far fetched. In addition to which, neither of the characters were particularly engaging.

However, Nicole Camden's "The Nekkid Truth" was really interesting and unusual. I liked both of the characters in this story and really got the attraction between them.

The middle story, Liz Caryle's "Lets Talk About Sex", was good enough to sell the whole book to me. I adored Nick Woodruff, the absolutely ultimate charming and sincere hero. I wish this man was real and that he was mine! I can't say enough great things about him. Dr. Delia Sydney was also really great. They were completely wonderful together and the love scenes positively burned the pages; not, however, in an unnatural or forced way. As soon as I finished it I read it again, it was that good.

So, despite the bad beginning I LOVED this book. Totally worth the price.

Sleeper Cars and Flannel Uniforms: A Lifetime of Memories from Striking Out the Babe to Teeing It Up With the President

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Sleeper Cars and Flannel Uniforms
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Sleeper Cars and Flannel Uniforms: A Lifetime of Memories from Striking Out the Babe to Teeing It Up With the President
Elden Auker , and Tom Keegan
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Sleeper Cars and Flannel Uniforms brings baseball legends to life through the eyes of Elden Auker, a submarine-style pitcher in the American League from 1933-1942.

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If you love baseball stories............2007-06-01

Ive read many a baseball themed book and this is one of the better ones! Elden Auker, a pitcher with the Tigers/Red Sox/and Browns circa 1935-42 shares his memories of baseball back in the old days before the days of high salaries and player agents. The book is full of interesting short stories about players and other people that Mr. Auker knew during the course of his life (he died last August at the age of 96).
Highly recommended to anyone who enjoys reading about old time baseball.

Sleeper Cars and Flannel Uniforms.......2007-05-13

An excellent look into the personal and professional life of someone who experienced the "glory days" of professional baseball. Elden Auker is the "Forrest Gump" of MLB. It was like listening in on his private conversations with a close friend, recounting the many and improbable encounters of the greatest player you never heard of.

One of the Best.......2005-04-14

This is a great baseball book. Elden Auker is honest to a fault in his opinions and his rememberances are a treasure. You just don't expect a retired athlete to have such skill as an author. Auker is a gem. I wish he wrote more books. Elden Auker was not a hall of famer on the field but he was a hall of famer in life.

A gem!.......2004-07-26

Inside baseball through the intelligent and unassuming eyes of a little-known, but great, athlete of the 1930's and 40's, and a successful businessman thereafter.

A storied life.......2002-04-15

Elden Auker, with the aid of celebrated New York sportswriter Tom Keegan crafts an autobiographical piece spanning his 90+ years. Auker was born in rural Kansas and graduated as a three sports star from Kansas State university. Deciding that his quickest road to success was through baseball, he signed a professional contract to pitch for the Detroit Tigers.

Auker developed an unorthodox submarine delivery which allowed him to enjoy a creditable 10 year major league career. Along the way he befriended some of the greats of the game such as Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth and countless others. Auker was wise enough to create a life for himself outside the game. He evolved into a highly thought of executive in the abrasives industry. As such he rubbed elbows and played golf with some of the paragons of both politics and industry.

The book is essentially an array of amusing stories which formulate the backbone of Mr. Auker's long and fruitful life. This was one of the better sports type books I've read in that Auker feels no compulsion to be politically correct on many issues.

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Manufacturer: Pocket
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0739439634

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Playgirl Magazine: January 1989 -- Man of the Year, the Chicago Bears Out of Uniform!

Manufacturer: Playgirl, Inc.
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000Q7WUDM

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This issue of Playgirl features Playgirl's Man for January Michael Bannon, a pictorial of discovery Paul Deale, the Men of the Chicago Bears, Man of the Year Michael Shane, and other pictorials, plus features on Hall & Oates, Hart Bochner, and much more!

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