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A baseball player who ran the bases backwards, an indoor hockey game cut short due to fog, a basketball player who scored for both teams in the same game, a football quarterback who passed the ball to himself, a golf tournament with only one holetruth is stranger than fiction, especially in sports! Today show regular Len Berman showcases the funniest and most amazing stories in the history of sports in this collection taken from his popular Spanning the World TV segments. Sports fans of all ages will love reading and sharing these bizarre tales.
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a good read-one time through.......2007-04-10
Don't get me wrong, theres some hillarious stuff in here, but not enough of that sort of thing to balance out the far less interesting anecdotes. Books feels padded, though a pretty good bathroom book.
Good,.......2006-07-27
This book is a very interesting and funny bunch of sports stories. There is a story about a animal running onto a college football game and scoring a winning touchdown! There's a story about a guy who ran through a plywood wall to get a baseball! There are a great amount of stories sure to crack you up! My only problem is that they don't have any stories about soccer. If you like sports, you should definitely buy this book!
Made my son a reader!!.......2005-11-03
Usually it's a struggle to get my 10 year old son to read. He could not put this book down and has spent the last few days reading it aloud to me and citing different stories. Now he wants me to look for similar books. A success!!
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Nobody True
James Herbert
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James True was not there when he died.He returned from an out-of-body experience to find that he'd been murdered and mutilated. He had no body to go back to. But who murdered him? The serial killer terrorizing the city-or someone closer? True had no enemies, at least none that he knew of.To discover the truth, James True must track down his killer. The initial horror of True's experience is followed by an even greater terror . . . . his family are the murderer's next targets.Without a body, True has no substance and no real power. No one can see him, no one can hear him, and no one except his murderer even knows his spirit still exists.How can he save his family?
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Good Story, Poor Delivery.......2007-04-08
This is my first book by James Herbert and though I was impressed by the story itself, the delivery reminded me of nearly every example of how not to write a novel. The delivery truly was tedious, as another reviewer stated, to the great detriment of the story. The story also failed to end when the action did - I skimmed the last twenty pages or so as they pertained more the author's metaphysical fantasies than to the story. The very last chapter was not only unnecessary but ended the book on a ridiculous note that left a bad taste in my mouth (I was reminded of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books of my youth).
I may give James Herbert another chance, but my first experience has definitely left me feeling that this author should spend more time developing his technique.
Good idea -- tedious delivery........2007-01-09
Herbert had a good idea here, but his delivery is so agonizingly tedious that I hated him by the end of the book. I'm one of those people who can't quit in the middle...If I were, I would have. He can take many pages to describe in the dryest manner some of the most uninteresting things...even things like describing exactly how the person's fingers wrap around an object in order to pick it up. So many times I simply wanted to scream "Get on with it man!!!" The two stars are for his imagination. The idea of a person dying while of on an OBE was fascinating in itself. There were horrifying moments, but I had difficulty relating to the characters and the ultimate resolution was less than satisfying.
Very, very, very, very S..L...O...W.......2006-10-18
I lost interest in this book about 100+ pages into it. The pace in this story is very slow, which would have been fine if there was some important detail being introduced. However, James Herbert beats us to death with repetitiveness. How many times do we need to be reminded of how it feels like to travel while he experiences his OBE?? Many times he refers to it as a "Star Treky" trasporter experience. The narrator keeps harping the sadness he feels looking in on his daughter and putting his arm around his wife as she is sleeping (he's touching her, but not really touching her). It's as though James Herbert is trying to fill up space by constantly repeating his main character's thoughts that it makes you feel as though you're reading what was on page 33 again on page 82. I'm a big fan of keeping books around if I lose interest, in case I get another spark to go back and give it another chance. I actually threw this book away. Even a story like this one, which follows the thought process of a man who's been robbed of his body and life, needs to have momentum. I will give the author another chance, but this book (as the British would say) is "bloody boring".
TRUE TERROR.......2006-10-09
NOBODY TRUE is James Herbert's best work in years, arguably his best yet. It is also one of the most original and compelling "horror" books in the past decade. Herbert takes what could have been a preposterous plot, and through brilliant narrative and several twists and turns, makes it a must read for genre fans.
The hero, James True, is capable of OBEs---out of body experiences which enable him to leave his physical self behind and wander around. Unfortunately, during one of these OBEs, he is brutally murdered and mutilated apparently by a vicious serial killer who has claimed four other victims. So when James returns from his OBE, he has no body to go back to.
Herbert skillfully approaches the many aspects of his story: the business partners/friends who he finds he may not have really known; his wife Andrea (kind of funny, if you remember the Andrea True Connection and MORE MORE MORE?), who also has dark secrets; his little girl, Primrose; the horrifying serial killer, horribly disfigured and vicious; his somewhat looney mother and his estranged father. All are interwoven into the exquisite plot, and the reader will find by the time the book is over, he may be a little sad at its inevitable tragic but fulfilling conclusion.
NOBODY TRUE is good writing and good reading; let's hope Herbert continues to show a resurgence in his writing skills.
Out of body puts you out of mind!.......2006-03-22
I like James Herbert when I'm in the mood for something not too heavy but entertaining just the same.
The idea that you could be killed whilst out of body on an astral jaunt is pretty darn good.
The guy becomes a ghost - and it seems his path has been crossed with a horrible thing called Moker - person, monster type thing...committing atrocities left and right and an innocent knitting needle being employed to do the final dead of stopping the heart. Interesting.
Well then.
The poor man is then left with the very real possibility that whatever happened to him, his family could be in danger and he is really at a loss at what to do. He has some capabilities when it comes to moving a body with his energy but the main problem is, it has to be a corpse!
The bad guy doesn't turn out to be who you think anyway and a shock ending ensues with the monster being thwarted and the guy finaly relinquishing his attachment to his still lving family.
If I tell you much more it won't be worth reading!
Enjoy.
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Nobody's Child: The Stirring True Story of an Unwanted boy Who Found Hope
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The miraculous story of a boy abandoned at the age of four who was eventually reclaimed by God's grace and now runs a program to help kids left alone as he was.
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An Olympian who sacrificed a medal to save a competitor, a professional soccer player who was bribed out of retirement with pizza, a runaway pig who disrupted the start of a baseball game -- truth is stranger than fiction, especially in sports! In this sequel to his first compilation of sports bloopers and unbelievable stories, And Nobody Got Hurt, Today Show regular and Emmy Award-winning sportscaster Len Berman shares more of the funniest and most amazing stories in the history of sports, including favorite moments from his popular Spanning the World segments on NBC-TV.
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The Book Nobody Read
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Michael Seed 's childhood was nothing but a daily ordeal of unspeakable neglect, misery, and abuse from a father whose tyranny of fear stole Michael's formative years from him and drove Michael's mother to suicide. After years of silence, he now feels ready to tell a story that, though shockingly painful, is a testament to one human's remarkable ability to triumph over the most appalling of circumstances. Living with his adoptive parents, life for Michael was hell from the start. Long before his school days, the only lesson he learned was to try and avoid being noticed by his alcoholic father. More often than not, though, his dad would find time to ensure that both Michael and his mother felt his wrath together. Then, one awful night, Michael realized that the abuse was escalating to another level when his father began the sexual abuse that would continue for years. The abuse did not stop at home. Once he began school, Michael once again fell victim to terrible bullying and a teacher who violated him repeatedly. Michael, it seemed, was destined for a life of inescapable misery. Yet, despite the horror of these years, Michael was ultimately saved by his own will to live and which inspired him to move on and seek a better life. This is the remarkable story of an individual who, against all the odds, managed to preserve his own dignity and finally escape the horrors of a stolen childhood.
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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on July 28, 1997. The length of the article is 2892 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: 'El flamenco puro no hace rico a nadie'. (José Menese, cantante de flamenco)(TT: 'Nobody gets rich from true flamenco') (TA: José Menese, flamenco singer)(Interview)
Author: Víctor Márquez Reviriego
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Super Reader.......2007-08-04
Tarzan goes Ivanoe! Two guys on a hunting/photography expedition, and get separated. A lost medieval colony and some Arab slave trades also feature. Tarzan runs around keeping an eye on people after being captured at the start and being rescued by an elephant and a gorilla.
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"And so it was that Tarzan of the Apes, clad in chain mail, and armed with lance and sword, rode down into the Valley of the Sepulcher just as Bohun put his foul scheme into execution and carried off the Princess Cuinalda."
Lord Tarzan.......2004-12-10
Tarzan has a run in with beduin raiders early on in the story.They fail in their attempt to murder him.They will rue the decision.The beduins are on a raid to loot the treasures of Nimmr a midevil castle in a remote valley in Africa inhabited by The Knights of Nimmr and Seplucher.We learn Prince Gobred of Nimmr is a good chap.Young King Bohun of the Seplucher is a man whom appears to have little honor much to the consternation of several of his own valiant Knights.
A safari has also entered Tarzans domain without his permission and he has a run in with them as well.Wilbur Stimbol is a rich blowhard in the Trump mold. James Blake is a twenty something playboy twenty years younger than Stimbol.The two have a falling out over Stimbols brutal treatment of the native porters.Tarzan orders Stimbol out of his country making an enemy of the old rascal.Stimbol later is taken in by the beduins and is involved in a plot to slay Tarzan.
While on safari tragedy befalls Blake and he is captured by the beave men of Nimmr.He is soon taken in to their society of Brave Knights and is accepted by all but one jealous would be suitor of Gobreds lovely daughter Princess Guinalda.Blake is the perfect depiction of a midevil Sir Knight with the exception of the .45 Colt automatic he wears about his waist.
At the great Tourney where Nimmr and Seplucher Knights compete for prizes of horses,weapons,armor and lovely maidens something goes wrong.The treachorous Bohun steals Guinalda and ride off toward his castle.At the same time the beduins strike.Also at this time Tarzan enters the valley in search of Blake.Tarzans rank of Lord endears him to these men.Soon Tarzans courage and great strength make him a legend amongst these warriors.
The novel follows the pattern set by ERB but I think it will be enjoyed by the fans of Tarzan and midevil enthusiasts.Know this is not the cave man Tarzan of the horrible movies and even more worse Disney cartoon.Tarzan of the novels is an articulate and chivalrous man of mythic proportions.Also keep in mind the story was written over seventy five years ago so it is not PC.
LFS
Lost Crusade.......2002-10-27
I first encountered this book via a very loose adaptation as an episode of the Saturday morning cartoon _Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle_, namely, "Tarzan and the Knights of Nimmr", which took the idea of a lost civilization founded by Crusaders, then oversimplified it while coupling it with a different plot (that is, changing the specific characters involved and the manner in which an outsider discovers the lost valley).
Burroughs often played with the idea of civilizations in which two cities, locked into patterns of eternal warfare, remained cut off from the rest of the world, but they're all different. The two cities occupying the isolated African valley where this story takes place were settled centuries ago by a few shiploads of lost crusaders, who had picked up some women on their travels, soldiers being soldiers even on crusade. The Crusaders split into rival factions when they discovered the valley, one faction (insisting that they had achieved the Holy Grail and thus the Crusade) founding the City of the Sepulcher, the other (denying it) founding the city of Nimmr, guarding the valley's only exit and preventing the rival faction from going home.
While officially the issues haven't changed, in fact the two cities continue to fight because that's what they've always done. (That seems realistic enough, considering Ireland, the Middle East...) The valley is the only home they've ever known, and if either ever really 'won' the war, they know that proceeding to either the Holy Land or to England would be fraught with problems. They've made accommodations with each other for survival, some of which are very far-sighted. For example, periodically a truce is declared and a great tournament held between the two cities, in which the grand prize provided by the losing city to the winner includes 5 highborn maidens. The winning city's ruler arranges honourable marriages for them - thus ensuring that the valley's population doesn't become dangerously inbred.
The specific details of how an outsider stumbles across the lost valley are somewhat less happily handled, although once he's in, the story smoothes out. James Blake is an American explorer with a bad guy for a partner, and their 'native' support team is handled in a stereotypical manner - although the bad guy is the racist, so one might be able to cut Burroughs some slack for the sake of the Nimmr/City of the Sepulcher bulk of the story. (On the plus side, the local villagers are nobody's fools.) Tarzan becomes aware of the party passing through his territory, and when Blake is separated from his crew, Tarzan takes a hand. Tarzan's really a supporting character for most of the story - Blake is the protagonist.
Tarzan discovers Crusaders in the Valley of the Sepulcher.......2001-06-16
Tarzan orders Arab slave traders to leave his jungle and follows them to make sure they obey. They all end up in the lost Valley of the Sepulcher, where there is a community of Knights Templar who have been isolated for over seven centuries. The slavers want to loot the place, the Knights want to resume their Holy Crusade to free Jerusalem, and Tarzan wants to rescue the lost James Blake. Despite the title, this 11th Tarzan novel spends more time in the Lost Valley than it does in the Jungle, which is its major problem. Having success with the fabled Lost City of Opar and its beautiful high priestess La, Edgar Rice Burroughs did several Tarzan novels where the Lord of the Jungle discovers other lost cities. This time around it is Crusaders, in two more novels it is Romans, so on and so forth. When Tarzan starts jousting with knights, you know that this is a below average novel in the series.
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Two tribes of frightful warrior women, the Kaji and the Zuli, war with one another for possesion of the men they lure into slavery. Their mysterious hypnotic power comes from the magnificent gems they worship - an emerald and a diamond, each as big as a human head. Will the Lord of the Jungle be immune to the strange power of the Kaji and the Zuli? -- from book's back cover
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Tarzan #224 October 1973 By Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Tarzan #239 July 1975 By Edgar Rice Burroughs
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