A Blessing on the Moon

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Chaim Skibelski rises from a pit of slaughter, leaving his dead townsmen and family behind, and returns to his home--now occupied by non-Jews. "In front of every house were piles of vows and promises, all in broken pieces. How I could see such things," he wonders, "I cannot tell you." So begins this magic-realist fiction, which is also a keen allegory of European Jews' war and postwar experience. "You think they can't kill us as often as they wish?" the narrator cries, and his distrust seems right. Though Chaim and the Rebbe are the only ones to have escaped the sudden roundup, they too, it soon becomes clear, are dead. The Rebbe has been transformed into a crow while Chaim's body seeps with blood and half of his face is missing. But if he's dead, why isn't he in the World to Come and why can some Poles and one German soldier see and hear him?

In his first novel, Joseph Skibell has created a fantasia both hideous and beautiful, a combination of mysticism, nightmare, and even humor. After Chaim and the Rebbe dig up other putrefied victims, the sorry, brave group moves painfully away from the village. Freezing days pass, perhaps years. "If you were the Rebbe, floating high above us, what you would see would be a great river of blood cutting a swath through the frozen winter hills." The author anatomizes the pilgrims' differences, cultural and religious, with love and wit. They are disputatious even in death--their debates threatening to overwhelm what holds them together. Though the phrase tour de force has been much abused, A Blessing on the Moon is exactly that: a daring fiction that shouldn't succeed on any level yet works on many.

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When Chaim Skibelski is killed along with the other Jewish citizens of a small Polish town, his story is just beginning. Now a ghost, Chaim wanders the countryside, often accompanied by his rabbi, who has turned into a crow. He visits his home, now occupied by a Polish family whose dying daughter is the only one who can see him. He meets a talkative head that belongs to the soldier who may have shot him. He visits a grand hotel that caters to the dead with mysterious comforts--and helps two eccentric holy men search for the fallen moon. This afterlife is a remarkable journey, a long way from a peaceful eternity...and this stunning novel is one of the most highly praised and honored literary efforts of the year.

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Beautiful Book.......2005-03-23

Those who didn't "get" parts of the plot or some of the metaphors should wonder at how they so easily focused on the details of plot and forgot all about the enormity of the murdered people at the beginning of the story. Did they "get" the Holocaust? Do they "understand" it? Surely, not understanding why the rebbe turned into a crow or why Ola was attracted to Ola as she was, etc, etc, shouldn't be more vexing than our inability to "get" the enormity of the Holocaust and so many people so easily slaughtered.

Genocide is a singularity. In the width and breadth of its design and its reality, in the evil manifested in it, in the way it challenges both man and God for their passivity and complicity. It lays bare the worst in us. The Nazi Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide and the Armenian genocide are different events. They had different causes, different timelines and evolutions. They are not the same events. Each has its own horror. But the evil laid bare is the same ineffable singular reality.

We are creative creatures, though, and even though we cannot possibly understand and explain the Holocaust or the abiding reality of Genocide and evil that lurks beneath the surface of things, we have to try. We're built that way. And we succeed most when we look at bits and pieces of the whole. It's like looking at the sun. You can't do it directly. So things like filters and lenses come into play.

Skibell has found a wonderful way of doing this, telling us the story of Chaim and his journey through the filter of Hasidic stories. I hesitate to call them folktales or legends, because that would be to misunderstand the role of such stories in Hasidic life. The fantastical stories one reads involving miracles and magic are part of Jewish religious ideas and practice, not fiction. And I read this story as one of those Hasidic tales, rather than as a novel. There are deep truths in it, and some of the most concrete and beautiful images I can remember in fiction.

A blast and mostly satisfying.......2005-01-05

I thought this book was very engaging and superb at the emotional play. There's a scene where, after encountering the horrors of his fellow Jews beginning to rot, Chaim meets a soldier (now beheaded and carrying his head around) and in a fury starts kicking the head down the hill. And yet later, he carries the soldier's head for him. To me, that combination (horror, hilarity and unowed kindness) somehow characterizes the experience of the Jewish people in an intimate, gut-level way that is hard to capture.

Though other readers may be disconcerted by a certain lack of connection between the pieces, I enjoyed it quite thoroughly.

The Truth Was Disturbing Enough.......2003-03-07

Magical Fiction about the Holocaust, how will this instruct us when the truth was more unsettling than anything that can be imagined? This novel was well-written, yes, disturbing and painful to read, as any fiction with such subject matter must be, but I found myself wondering why I went on this journey and what the young American author felt he could tell me that survivor fiction and non-fiction had not already. I felt the Holocaust exploited and regretted having read this book. I'm going back to my Primo Levi, my Paul Celan.

Reminded me of a book you had to read for school.......2001-07-27

You know I felt like I was reading a book back in highschool. Lots of things that must have been meaningful but I sure didn't get the symbolisms. I felt like if I went into class tomorrow my wise professor would tell me that black crows always symbolize death, or something to that effect. I do think there were some very creative aspects to this book. It reminded me of a giant dream sequence, at last it was the way my dreams seem to go, people appearing suddenly and things not always being logical but that's the way dreams are. I've studied a lot of the Holocaust, this was an interesting twist, but left me kind of empty toward the end. It was interesting early on but I wasn't on the edge of my seat waiting for the ending. Probably would make a good book for a reading club or a Torah study group.

A Real Turn Off.......2001-04-16

The book begins with a mass execution of Jews in a Polish village during World War II. Immediately you enter a world of bizarre fantasy that depicts the experience of the book's dead hero Chaim. His spirit returns to his former home only to find it occupied by a greedy and cold hearted Catholic family. The members of this Polish family are so self occupied that they pay little notice of their daughter/sister dying from TB in an upstairs bedroom. Chaim pities the child and befriends her. Then the book takes a sick turn and our hero, who is the ghost of an old man has sex with this young girl. After that I could no longer read this book, into the trash it went. Reading about a Pedophile's sexual encounter with a child is not my idea of entertainment.

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Fantastic Book Highly recommended to all
Fire up the cauldron!

Let the Cauldron Bubble
Lynn Riggs Palfi
Manufacturer: Red Lead Press
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ASIN: 0805983678
Release Date: 2007-01-01

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This book represents a selection of spells and potions using only your cauldron. This is a 35-year collection that has been worked by me, gleaned from working in various covens, or given to me by friends.

There are spells, potions, various magical recipes, and the like. You will find a list of items in the back of this book to help you in creating your own spells. No matter what your belief - Pagan, Wiccan, Kitchen Witch, etc. - there is something here for you. Locate a spell that best suits your present needs, and let the cauldron bubble!

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Fantastic Book Highly recommended to all.......2007-03-05

Truly a wonderful and needful book for every Pagan. Tons of fantastic Cauldron receipes, which desperately needed to be written. I am so thrilled to finally have a Cauldron spell book that is jammed packed with lots of spells, potions and more. This book is now one of my favorites and would recommend every Pagan, Wiccan and Druid to get this. Written from the heart and so easy to read and understand as well. Thank you.

Fire up the cauldron!.......2007-03-05

This is a wonderful book - packed with spells and potions for every situation, and the first book I've seen devoted to using a cauldron. Whatever you may need to do, be it blessing, healing, protecting, or banishing, you can find a spell in here. Spiritual bath recipes are included. There is even the occasional soup recipe! This is a must-have reference book for every kitchen witch's library! I'm looking forward to more works from this author.

The Book of Blessings: A New Prayer Book for the Weekdays, the Sabbath, and the New Moon Festival

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What a rip-off! Do NOT waste your money!
Inspirational Prayer Book
Blessed be...
in addtion to the other reviews . . .
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The Book of Blessings: A New Prayer Book for the Weekdays, the Sabbath, and the New Moon Festival
Marcia Falk
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ASIN: 0060623403

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Through the act of blessing, we awaken our appreciation of the world's abiding gifts. In The Book of Blessings, Marcia Falk re-creates Jewish prayer by offering new blessings, poems and meditations that focus on the sacred potential of each moment. Evoking the diversity of human experience, The Book of Blessings provides a collage of poetic form that invites us to celebrate "the dynamic, alive and unifying wholeness within creation." Steeped in dialogue within rabbinical tradition, it calls into question the tradition's patriarchal assumptions and challenges hierarchical structures of power.

A groundbreaking work in the literature of spirituality, The Book of Blessings offers, for the first time, a complete new liturgy, in Hebrew as well as English, for use in both house and the community on weekdays, Sabbaths and the festival of the New Moon. The liturgy is enhanced by a Commentary that illuminates its meanings for scholars and general readers alike.

The Book of Blessings is for those who are in the habit of praying and for those who are not. It is for those dissatisfied with the traditional liturgy and for those who wish to supplement it. The Book of Blessings is a part of an ongoing conversation that seeks to keep Judaism vital and responsive to our spiritual needs and moral concerns.

Poet and translator Marcia Falk received a B.A. in philosophy from Brandeis University and a Ph.D. in English and comparative literature from Stanford. She was a Fulbright Scholar and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she studied Bible and Hebrew literature. A university professor for many years, she now lectures widely. Her other books include The Song of Songs: A New Translation and Interpretation and With Teeth in the Earth: Selected Poems of Malka Heifetz Tussman. She is currently at work on further volumes of blessings for the major and minor festivals, the High Holidays, the Passover Haggadah and the ordinary and extraordinary events of the life cycle.

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What a rip-off! Do NOT waste your money!.......2007-08-20

I'm most sorry I wasted my dollars on this book. "The Book of Blessings" is advertised as a "book of prayers for daily life, the Sabbath, and the New Moon." It is not. It is an overpriced, collection of poems, that do not even come close to the flavor of the more traditional prayers associated with the rituals these poems attempt to cover. I understand that Miss Falk has written a non-Theistic work. Yet, it is misleading to call her poems "prayers," when they do not offer a user the means to pray, or even to appreciate the values behind the prayers and rituals.

Moreover, there are no more than one or two lines on most pages, which makes this book a colossal waste of natural resources. Most of each page is just blank. In a book which seeks to praise nature and bring us back to more ecological roots, this is an unforgivable travesty!

Reconstructionist Jews, and others who desire a non-Theistic base in their devotions, should consult Kol Haneshamah, the official Reconstructionist prayer book. It provides the choice of reciting traditional or alternative versions of prayers, as well as insightful commentaries on the (non-Theistic) meanings of the prayers. The "Book of Blessings" is anything but and a waste of money and space.

Inspirational Prayer Book.......2007-01-16

This is a wonderful book for finding alternative prayers. My son and I have been putting together a prayer book for his bar mitzvah and we used several of Marcia Falk's English readings. The Hebrew takes some getting used to because it is not traditional. I like that though -- I like that Ms. Falk put lots of thought and work into making a prayer egalitarian in both Hebrew and English and not by just adding the names of the mothers.

Blessed be..........2003-06-14

Marcia Falk has done a remarkable job, demonstrating a lot of chutzpah (self-confessedly so) by doing a single-handed job at producing a new prayerbook, a siddur, with a guide, order of service, liturgy and commentary for daily, weekly, and monthly rituals. However, Falk is quick to acknowledge her debt to poets, artists, scholars and friends, past and present, who informed her work. No one produces ritual, prayer and liturgy out of nothingness. Falk's subtle and profound understanding of the rhythms of life, in a particularly Jewish manner, shines forth on every page of this book. No one was more surprised than Falk at the direction of the development of the book into a siddur, as Falk had planned a more simple and less structured format.

`If human language is, in large measure, what gives us our humanity--allowing me to communicate with you, distinguishing us from other parts of creation--then Hebrew is sign and symbol of my particular human identity, giving me my home as a Jew.' Falk presents her blessings and prayers in dual language, both Hebrew and English, with transliterated Hebrew as a pronunciation guide for those who wish to experiment with hearing and saying the prayers in Hebrew but have not studied the language. And the heart of all these prayers is blessing.

`If you are looking for the heart and soul and bones of Hebrew prayer, you will find them all in the blessing.' Blessing (b'rakhah) is a special kind of prayer, a particular invocation of God's power, a way of creating new power and new life, a way of enriching our awareness of what we have, who we are, and who we may become, while reconnecting us with the past.

Falk admits to originally beginning to write her own blessings to get a more inclusive language and more diverse imagery in her personal prayers, as the traditional forms were heavily weighted in hierarchical and patriarchal terms. However, in her continuing spiritual and theological development, she came back around to re-embrace the old compositions which now held new validity -- thus, this collection is one of variety of style and form.

The daily cycle includes blessings upon awakening, blessings for meals, blessings at the end of the day, and daily psalms. The weekly cycle includes Sabbath Eve and Sabbath Day blessings, as well as a form for welcome the new week as the Sabbath departs. The monthly cycle takes place around the Rosh Hodesh festival, awaiting and then celebrating the arrival of the New Moon. Falk then provides an interesting commentary, with historical and contemporary voices incorporated, into the meanings of these cycles, and the use of prayer rituals in conjunction with them.

Falk found that, after making presentations and periodical publications of her blessings, they began to be incorporated informally and communally by different groups. `Reconstructionist, Reform, Conservative, havurah-style, feminist, progressive, and unaffiliated Jews. It wasn't long before people were extrapolating from them to write new blessings of their own.' Each of these prayers and blessings tends to be very short. This adds to the intensity of lyric and spiritual power. They are useful for study and for practice. Beautiful in language and meaning, these blessings will be a blessing to you, too.

`May the blessings of peace and kindness,
graciousness, goodness and compassion
flow among us
and all the communities of Israel,
all the peoples of the world.

As we bless the source of life
so we are blessed.'

in addtion to the other reviews . . ........2003-02-03

I want to cover a major problem with this book. Granted, the poems in it are often beautifully honoring of the feminine, and along this same line, environmentally respectful. The words depict the created world as something sacred. This is appreciated for those of us who struggle with the typically male-dominant God language, and the disregard for the natural world that can often accompany this.
HOWEVER - these feminine, creation-centered words are almost always placed right in the center of pages far larger than the poems themselves. At the beginning of each section, there can be 3, 4, or 5 pages with nothing but a single sentence, or even a single word on one side of a page, and NOTHING at all on the other. This book measures approximately 7.5" X 9". The average prayer is less than 2 inches wide, and sometimes as little as one or two lines long. The amount of paper used for this book is probably three times as much as it needed to be to still maintain an artful presentation. It is heartbreaking to think of how much paper was utterly wasted (how many living trees were cut) in the printing of this book. At 529 pages, it is ridiculously huge, and completely disrespectful of the natural world in deed, even if not in word.

Raising the average rating.......2001-01-24

This book breathed new life into my religious practice. We use some of the blessings in our Shabbat dinner now. It's beautiful and inspiring.

The Authorised Kinot for the Ninth of Av Inc. The Prayers for the Evening, Morning, and Afternoon Services, Reading of the Law and Blessing of the New Moon, According to Ashkenazic Rite.

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The Authorised Kinot for the Ninth of Av Inc. The Prayers for the Evening, Morning, and Afternoon Services, Reading of the Law and Blessing of the New Moon, According to Ashkenazic Rite.
Abraham Rosenfeld
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Blessing and ideal family (Gathering for reading and learning series)

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Blessing and ideal family (Gathering for reading and learning series)
Sun Myung Moon
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Kiddush levono =: The monthly blessing of the moon

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Kiddush levono =: The monthly blessing of the moon
Chaim U Lipschitz
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Moon Blessings Pack:Drawing Inspiration And Power From The M

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Nothing New Here

Moon Blessings Pack:Drawing Inspiration And Power From The M
Lori Reid
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Containing practical rituals that will help people change their lives, Moon Blessings includes a full explanation of what "magic" is.

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Nothing New Here.......2003-01-31

I am always attracted to books and divination/insight decks based on the moon, its phases, and moon lore. While the information contained here is okay, there's really nothing new for students of astrology. It seems to be directed toward a general audience. As a divination or insight tool, it doesn't offer much of anything at all. Most of my negative response to the book/pack is with the publisher. There are lots of typos in the book, pages pulled away from the binding the first time I opend the book, the info on the backs of the cards is hard to read, and the list price (...) is way out of line for the quality. I don't feel I got much bang for my buck.

Moon Blessings: Drawing Inspiration and Power From the Moon

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Moon Blessings: Drawing Inspiration and Power From the Moon
Lori Reid
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From the tribal forces animating our oceans to the unearthly beauty of a clear winter night, the moon exerts a powerful influence over all of us. Moon Blessings reveals some of the ways that the moon's influence works with us, in love, business, health and much, much more. It also shows us inspirational techniques for harnessing this power in our own lives. Discover how to bless your life with the power of the moon. Learn about your astrological moon sign and what it says about you. Explore the mysteries of the moon's influence on all our lives.

THE AUTHORISED KINOT FOR THE NINTH OF AV: INC PRAYERS FOR THE EVENING, MORNING AND AFTERNOON SERVICES, READING OF THE LAW AND THE BLESSING OF THE NEW MOON ACCORDING TO ASHKENAZIC RITE.

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THE AUTHORISED KINOT FOR THE NINTH OF AV: INC PRAYERS FOR THE EVENING, MORNING AND AFTERNOON SERVICES, READING OF THE LAW AND THE BLESSING OF THE NEW MOON ACCORDING TO ASHKENAZIC RITE.
Rev. Abraham (Translated & Annotated). Rosenfield
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Frame with Snowman Tree and Moon: Country Blessings 7x8 Inches

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Frame with Snowman Tree and Moon: Country Blessings 7x8 Inches

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ASIN: 5835102240

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The Tales of Alvin Maker series continues in volume three, Prentice Alvin. Young Alvin returns to the town of his birth, and begins his apprenticeship with Makepeace Smith, committing seven years of his life in exchange for the skills and knowledge of a blacksmith. But Alvin must also learn to control and use his own talent, that of a Maker, else his destiny will be unfulfilled.

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Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03

Yet more boring mormon wish-fulfillment fantasy. In this arena, David Gemmell he is not. If that is what you are after, then by all means get it, otherwise something like The Jerusalem Man will be much more appealing. You could, however, use them as a cure for insomnia, or sever lack of schmaltz.

The story continues.........2004-08-08

After the interruption andAlvin's kidnapping in the Red Prophet, this book picks up with Alvin learning his trade and turning into the man he is destined to be. We follow Alvin as he grows up and befriends the people of Hatrock.

Again he battles the Unmaker and fights to build the world that he saw in with the Red Prophet. Peggy continues to watch Alvin from a far and she herself grows into the woman that Alvin will turn to in and love.

This book starts the story of Alvin the Maker. This is where the boy turns into the man he will be and brushes the soot from his face to see the future he will be creating.

Great characters, good continuing story of Alvin Maker.......2004-01-26

I originally read this several years ago, but decided to re-read this when I got the new book in the series. This book was very good, both as the continuing story of Alvin Maker as well as the new story in this book with Arthur Staurt.

I really enjoyed the new depth to some of the characters that were introduced in previous books, but were more central to the story in this book. Also, the new characters, such as Arthur Stuart and Mock Berry were very good as well. The only thing I didn't like about this book was there is a point where Alvin has to do something very difficult, and while it is a very clever solution to the problem at hand, it seems like there was a much easier solution available that was not even mentioned. But that was just a minor problem, and didn't detract much from a great story.

If you've read Seventh Son and Red Prophet, you should definitely continue the story with this book.

The series continues with solid levels of quality.......2004-01-11

Alvin has begun his "prenticeship" and though he comes to Hattrack river mostly to speak to the girl, Peggy, who, as a torch, had the ability to show him his futures and is likely the only person who can help him figure out how to be a real Maker, she flees before he even arrives.

This is a split story for most of the duration, flickering from Alvin on one side, to Peggy on the other, and converging near the end. Alvin's apprenticeship is very interesting, but it is Peggy's story I'm really starting to enjoy more. Peggy is a torch - someone with the knack to see futures in the heartfires of folk, and her own future is intertwined with Alvin's. But when she sees that her own future is a loveless one if she waits for Alvin to arrive, she does the unthinkable - she runs away, to find a way to at least have love for Alvin, if not love from him. Her determination to thwart her own gifts of futuresight is a joy to read, and her strength of character - somewhat rare for female characters in a lot of fantasy works - is a nice change. Very enjoyable.

So is where the tale ends, with a bit more magic than usual, and a set-up for the next story that I'm glad I didn't have to wait years for - like all the other folk who've been reading this series since book one.

'Nathan

The Weakest of the Alvin Maker books (so far).......2003-01-09

Enjoying the first two Alvin Maker books I was disappointed in the third. It's not a bad book, it just lacks the energy and thoughtfulness that pervaded the first two. In Prentice Alvin, Card seems at a loss how to further the character of Alvin. The first book introduced us not only to Alvin but also to his world, an alternate America where hexes work and everyone possesses a "knack," or paranormal ability. In the second book, we're told the story of the Prophet, a variation of Tecumseh's brother, and his effort to form a Native American safe haven. Here, Alvin apprentices as a blacksmith and his hopeful wife (introduced in the first book as a young girl when Alvin is born and fully aware of Alvin's abilities) learns how to be a lady only to return disguised as a teacher. When and where she "learns" Alvin is a maker and "decides" to teach him is surprisingly bypassed in the storyline. One minute Alvin is learning geometry, the next he's getting maker advice.

Hopefully the next two books will much like the first but for now this one ranks lowest of the first three at least.

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One of the best book I have ever read in Auditing

Too thorough and it's clumpsy

I recommend the book

It is not a text book, it is a study guide

Extremely thorough and comprehensive
Auditing, an Integrated Approach (Prentice Hall Series in Accounting)
Alvin A. Arens , and James Loebbecke
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One of the best book I have ever read in Auditing.......2002-02-01

The authors did a great job in putting together all the essential elements in a logical order. Some ppl have difficulties in understanding the later part of this book because they don't have hands on experience in auditing. I used this book too when I was doing my undergrad degree in HK, this book was extremely terse to me at that time. But after spending few years in one of the Big 5 I find this book makes perfect sense to me right now. I am currently doing a PhD in accounting in the States, and I decide to buy this book (again) as a reference on my desktop.

Too thorough and it's clumpsy.......2001-12-17

In short, it's too thorough which makes studying this textbook a tough task. You don't know what's important and what's not. Though the general layout of the text is systemetic and unconfusing (definitely you won't find following the author's path difficult), the problem of this books comes from the author's ambition to include a lot in one book and failure to do so by dividing the content into more chapters/sub-chapters. This problem is particularly apparent in the later parts of the book, where different cycles of financial statements are analysed.
This is the comment I also heard among many of my fellows at the university. They all agree this is not a good textbook afterall.

I recommend the book.......1999-06-12

To survive my tough auditing class, I used two different book of which the Loebbecke is truely the better choice. Thorough and understandable. However, the structure of the book is not in a logical order.

It is not a text book, it is a study guide.......1999-04-15

Well, I have ordered the book and found that it is a study guide. I wonder where can I find the text book.

Extremely thorough and comprehensive.......1998-10-24

Strong systems manual;written as well as "Operational Profitability"

Group Communication (Prentice-Hall series in speech communication)

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Alvin A. Goldberg , and Carl E. Larson
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Prentice Alvin - The Tales of Alvin Maker III

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Prentice Alvin - The Tales of Alvin Maker III
Orson Scott CARD
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Prentice Alvin 1ST Edition :Alvin Maker 03

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Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
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Prentice Alvin The Tales of Alvin Maker III
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card
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