Wolfsbane

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Wolfsbane leaves you waiting for the next book.......2000-03-27

I enjoy reading Mr. Johnstone's work, especially those in the horror genre. While "Wolfsbane" is not the best example of his work, it certainly isn't the worst either. My main complaint is that the ending leaves you waiting for the next installment in a series that never comes. This doesn't keep you from enjoying the book, but it does disappoint you somewhat at the end.

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Disappointing and confusing
What happened to the Doctor?
Buy it!
There's a wolf at the door, and it's coming for Harry!
It's all about ...

Wolfsbane (Doctor Who)
Jacqueline Rayner
Manufacturer: BBC Books
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ASIN: 0563486090

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Harry is dead. Having left him abandoned and alone in pre-war Britain, the Doctor and Sarah try to solve the mystery of his death. But the only witness is in a lunatic asylum, driven mad by what he has seen. He tells of murder and mutilation, of living trees and long-dead legends, of wolfmen and war...And of a mysterious stranger known only as the Doctor. Can it be true that Harry discovered the last resting place of the Holy Grail? Why are the flowers and trees in a Somerset village in full bloom at Christmas? And is it just a coincidence that Harry died under a full moon? This adventure features the Fourth and Eighth Doctors, Sarah Jane and Harry.

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Disappointing and confusing.......2006-06-18

It started out ok. The title Wolfsbane got my interest and Harry was a good companion in the series but the ending was confusing and the eighth doctor doesn't really do much at all. Most eighth doctor books pretty much make him more human than a time lord. I wouldn't recommend it.

What happened to the Doctor?.......2005-12-02

I may only be ten, but I know enough about Doctor Who to know that the Doctor does NOT drive a sports car! The book was pretty good at first because it actually included the doctor a little bit, But after the first three pages it may as well have been called
"Harry Sullivan: Wolfsbane".

Buy it!.......2005-09-02

I just finished reading this book and it is AWESOME!I would not reccomend it for children under 10 because of VERY few inapropiate scenes and slight language. Overall, it's a wonderfull book and I would highly recccomend it.

There's a wolf at the door, and it's coming for Harry!.......2005-02-10

Wolfsbane does something that not a lot of Doctor Who stories do: explore the question of what would happen if one of the companions got left in a time period when the Doctor and the others take off again. This means a bit more in the era of the Fourth Doctor, when the TARDIS wasn't as controllable as it became in later seasons. However, Rayner gives him a bit of control to make the story feasible. Wolfsbane is one part werewolf horror novel and one part comedy of manners in the English aristocracy. The meeting of the two is sometimes ingenious and sometimes jarring, but always at least slightly interesting.

One of the strengths of this book is the beautiful characterization of the regular cast, at least for the most part. The Fourth Doctor, notoriously hard to "get" in a novel (Tom Baker's performance on television is hard to catch in prose form), is actually pretty good. He's moody at times, always quick with an absurd witticism when it seems appropriate. The escape from the scientists' lab is one beautiful sequence showing the Fourth Doctor at his best. However, there are times where he seems a little too distant. He barely seems to register the fact that they've left Harry behind, and Sarah's understandably angry with him. However, while the Fourth Doctor is decent, the Eighth Doctor is wonderful. This adventure takes place, as far as he is concerned, during his 100 years stranded on Earth, with his TARDIS slowly growing back from a featureless blue box and with no memories of who he is or what he was (explaining his not knowing Harry), Rayner captures him beautifully. Especially noticeable is the need to fight evil wherever it is, even if he doesn't quite know why he must do so.

However, this is not either Doctors' book. Instead, it is Harry and Sarah's. Harry is the perfect person to be stuck in a "proper" English household, always trying desperately to do the right thing, use the right spoon, and not intrude on private moments. He even has the language down, with "very good of you...but, mustn't intrude - house of mourning and all that." He and George Stanton make a wonderful pair for dialogue when they're in a scene together. Harry's comfortable allowing the Doctor to lead the way in the investigation into what's going on, but he keeps having doubts that this is *his* Doctor and so has trouble trusting him at times. Harry blunders along, trying to avoid the passes that Emmeline Neuberger, a German woman who appears to be looking for a man so she can stay in England, and Harry would make the perfect match. He shows a wonderful mixture of intelligence and naiveté that is the hallmark of Harry. Sarah, on the other hand, is determined, willful, and the perfect embodiment of what Lis Sladen brought to the role. She is independent, but understandably scared when something really awful happens to her. She's a wonderful character that springs off the page whenever she's on it.

The plot is a smorgasbord of stuff, from werewolves to Arthurian legends, along with the aforementioned British aristocratic comedy, and the tone of the book is slightly off at times when Rayner doesn't seem to be able to control the mixture. The scene transitions are jarring at times, from the dark foreboding of Sarah's search for the truth about Harry's death to the Stanton family and their stiff upper lip. While the overall atmosphere is very well done, it doesn't always fit. The other problem is one that may not be a problem for some. This is a Doctor Who novel solidly in the horror/fantasy genre. There is no rational explanation for any of the things that happen in the book. Instead, all of the explanations are magical in some way, either nature spirits or the werewolves themselves. If you're a Who fan that can't stand any kind of "magic" in your stories, you will hate this book. Personally, I'm on the opposite side of the fence, but I think Wolfsbane went a bit too far toward the magical side.

That doesn't take away from an otherwise excellent book. The characterization, aside from the regulars, is rather spotty and thin, but the intricate plot and atmosphere shine off the page. While reading, the plot doesn't really seem that intricate, but I loved how Rayner sometimes related the two different timelines; Sarah finds out something in her investigation and then we see the real story of what happened for that event with Harry. This often makes up for the jarring transitions. Especially atmospheric is the story of the Night of the Long Claws, where the Germans rounded up the werewolves, starved them, and then set them loose on a town outside Munich on the night of the full moon. This chapter, told by the wolf, is exceptional, and well worth the read by itself.

So, Wolfsbane does what it sets out to do: tell an entertaining story with a good use of the Who regulars. While it's not a standout, there are enough excellent bits in the story to definitely make this worth a read.

David Roy

It's all about ..........2004-12-30

It's hard to input more than my fellow readers have but I feel I must. For a Fourth Doctor devote, I was a bit disappointed by the disjointedness of the story. Of course Tom Baker is disjointedness personified and so perhaps I sought too much. Werewolf (?), there wolf, there one heck of a story. Take some time and a cup o' and you'll get through this but don't expect to come out of it the same person you were before.

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Wolfsbane

Manufacturer: Bantam Books
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3 Titles By Craig Thomas : Wolfsbane - Emerald Decision - Wildcat

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3 Titles By Craig Thomas : Wolfsbane - Emerald Decision - Wildcat
Craig Thomas
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ASIN: B000WU2QL4

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5 Titles By Thomas - Emerald Decision - Winter Hawk - Wolfsbane - Lion's Run - Wildcat

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5 Titles By Thomas - Emerald Decision - Winter Hawk - Wolfsbane - Lion's Run - Wildcat
Craig Thomas
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5 massmarket paperback Titles By Thomas - Emerald Decision - Winter Hawk - Wolfsbane - Lion's Run - Wildcat

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Green Moon and Wolfsbane
Sandra Morris
Manufacturer: The Book Guild Ltd
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Binding: Hardcover

Marvel Comics Presents #22 : Cyclops, Black Panther, Wolfsbane, Mirage, & Starfox (Marvel Comics)

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Marvel Comics Presents #22 : Cyclops, Black Panther, Wolfsbane, Mirage, & Starfox (Marvel Comics)
Bob Harras , Don McGregor , Sue Flaxman , and Peter Gillis
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The New Mutants #1 Vol. 1 March 1983
Chris Claremont
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"Initiation!"

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The New Mutants #14 Vol. 1 April 1984
Chris Claremont
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"Do You Believe In--Magik?"

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

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Inspiring and Much Needed in the Jewish community!
An extraordinary collection of stories

Jewish Tales of Holy Women
Yitzhak Buxbaum
Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass
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ASIN: 0787962716

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What is a "holy woman," or a holy man for that matter? According to the Jewish mystics, a holy person is someone who has not lost the holiness that every baby is born with. A holy person is someone who fulfills it. Stories about Jewish holy women have rarely been collected in such an engaging and entertaining form. The tales display a specifically female Jewish spirituality, giving us a peek into a world of devotional beauty that focuses on kindness. These stories of laughter and tears, humility and bravery, striving and trance, have an appeal spanning the denominational spectrum: they are spiritual nourishment for the soul. The rabbis say there are both male and female angels and angels are on earth as well as in heaven. These tales enhance our appreciation of the female angels on earth.

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Inspiring and Much Needed in the Jewish community!.......2002-12-17

This book was wonderful, full of tales and folklore about powerful and holy Jewish women who often did not have the chance to tell their own stories. The author, Yitzhak Buxbaum, has a great respect for holy women and this becomes evident in his interpretations and comments about each tale. The stories are inspiring and fascinating - what makes a Jewish woman a holy person or "tzaddika" is not always what modern society thinks of when they describe powerful women, but these women are strong and courageous in their own right and deserve to be recognized. A book such as this one is long overdue. Recommended to anyone needing some added inspiration and heart warming stories added to their lives.

An extraordinary collection of stories.......2002-09-23

Kol Hakavod to Yitzhak Buxbaum! This is truly an inspirational and extraordinary collection of stories that will lift the spirit. The stories are mostly about rebbetzins (rabbis' wives) who are holy women and the selfless and spiritual actions that helped to define who they were and how they lived holy lives. This book, G-d willing, will help inspire all of us to do more good in this world, for our role models were indeed "Holy Women."

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