Monday, December 9, 2019

Forced to Cooperate Free Pdf

ISBN: B081WBV93V
Title: Forced to Cooperate Pdf A Dark Bratva Romance (Mafia Masters Book 3)
I'm going to make her pay. Then I'm going to make her mine.

Willow Church is not the first person who tried to put a bullet in me. She's just the first I let live. Now she will pay the price in the most shameful way imaginable. The stripes from my belt will teach her to obey, but what happens to her sore, red bottom after that will teach the real lesson.

She will be used mercilessly, over and over, and every brutal climax will remind her of the humiliating truth: she never even had a chance against me. Her body always knew its master.

Publisher's Note: Forced to Cooperate is a stand-alone novel which is the third entry in the Mafia Masters series. It includes spankings and sexual scenes. If such material offends you, please don't buy this book.

What happens when an assassin is caught? She is an assassin sent to kill. He is the heir to the Bratva. They meet at a celebration and in a dark corner passions flare, but she still has a job to do.Unknown to Willow, Aleksei found out who she was three hours earlier. He knew what she was planning he just didn't know the effect that seeing her, touching her would have on him. Willow had been researching Aleksei for two years, little did she know how his dominant personality would effect her as well once she came face to face with him.When she finally went to kill Aleksei by order of her brother, he was there waiting for her and Aleksei gave Willow a choice give him HER and help take down her brother or die.Willow had been the one in control of so much of her life, as well as out of control of so much, when Aleksei gave her the choice she fought how she felt inside, the anger, the desire, the need, the frustration, the betrayal. She fought all this as long and as much as she could, even though she wanted to give in to Aleksei's control, his utter dominance and strength.Then one night, something turned the tides, a change happened and their feelings were shown, and walls came down. Secrets are slowly uncovered about Willow, Aleksei, and Peter (Willow's brother). Finally peace for now is seen on the east coast, or as much as can be with the Russian Mafia, as Willow and Aleksei make their vows to one another forever.This story does have some triggers in it, but it is an amazing story and I would highly recommend it!I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.4 1/2 Intensely Passionate Mafia Romance Stars! Willow's killing spree for her brother Peter abruptly ended with her meeting with Aleksei. Not the typical unsuspecting mark, as Aleksei was one step ahead of Willow from the get go.This mafia romance was dark, but not gruesomely violent and bloody as some of these stories can be. I liked the way the author balanced the intense connection and passion between Willow and Aleksei, with the mafia drama that swirled around this couple.Aleksei made for a great alpha hero with a dark edge. Deeply enmeshed in his bratva role as the sole heir under his father, Willow's brother played a bigger role in their drama than first expected.Lots and lots of high tension suspense and drama with betrayal, evil, and death. In the midst of all of this, were the intense scenes that played out between the main couple. Willow's and Aleksei's backstory were slowly released during their building relationship that centered around Aleksei's dominance over Willow. Her backstory enhanced her need for his complete control which was slowly achieved with his punishment that was always mixed with pleasure.BDSM scenes that were more erotic than cruel and sadistic which I was very grateful for. The author included a lot of graphic detail that were steamy hot.The tone of their relationship constantly grew more and more intimate as their lives were thrown into heightened chaos and danger.I loved that this was a stand alone. A sweeping Mafia Romance that was certainly worth the read!I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.a maze of twists and turns Willow Church had been commissioned by her brother Peter, head of Church Exports to assassinate Aleksei Petrov, a kingpin in the Philadelphia Bratva. Willow knew her brother had a vendetta against Aleksei for years, she just didn't know the details as to why. When the night of the assassination was to take place, Willow finds herself in the position of being set up and Aleksei waiting for her. When the bullet goes astray and Aleksei has taken complete control of the situation, she's given two choices: 1) Hand over complete obedience in all things voluntarily or 2) She watches Peter die and then she will. Not only that, but now Aleksei is telling Willow her brother is dealing in illegal drugs and white slavery! That certainly couldn't be true, could it? What a maze of twists and turns this storyline takes with two strong characters, several mafia families, deep, dark secrets, and a passion-filled chemistry that lights up the pages. This was such a terrific read that I recommend to anyone to enjoys a good mafia genre.

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Sunday, December 8, 2019

Official SAT Study Guide 2020 Edition Free Pdf

ISBN: 1457312190
Title: Official SAT Study Guide 2020 Edition Pdf
Author: The College Board
Published Date: 2019-05-07
Page: 1300

Review every skill and question type needed for SAT success - now with eight total practice tests.

The 2018 edition of The Official SAT Study Guide doubles the number of official SAT(R) practice tests to eight - all of them created by the test maker. As part of the College Board's commitment to transparency, all practice tests are available on the College Board's website, but The Official SAT Study Guide is the only place to find them in print along with over 250 pages of additional instruction, guidance, and test information.

With updated guidance and practice problems that reflect the most recent information, this new edition takes the best-selling SAT guide and makes it even more relevant and useful. Be ready for the SAT with strategies and up-to-date information straight from the exam writers.

The Official SAT Study Guide will help students get ready for the SAT with:
- 8 official SAT practice tests, written in the exact same process and by the same team of authors as the actual exam
- detailed descriptions of the math and evidenced based reading and writing sections
- targeted practice questions for each SAT question type
- guidance on the new optional essay, including practice essay questions with sample responses
- seamless integration with Official SAT Practice on Khan Academy.Age range: Teen

Ideal for realistic & organized practice with official paper SATs, including 2 new exams. I’m a Harvard grad with honors and professional tutor/coach since 2002 (SAT, ACT, LSAT, GRE, GMAT). I have attained perfect scores on the SAT and ACT, with every question answered correctly, and 99% scores on the LSAT, GRE and GMAT (see my website for proof). I have been now teaching SAT for 21 years, ever since I worked as an instructor for Harvard's "Get Ready" community service test-prep program in the fall of 1998. I am the founder of McElroy Tutoring, who has employed over 500 tutors since 2002, and the r/SATACTprep subreddit, with nearly 1,000 subscribers and growing. I am also the former employer of another tutor with a highly-ranked review that's very similar to my 2016 and 2018 reviews of this book. In short, I'm the one who wrote the recipe for the jam...but you know what they say about imitation.The Official SAT Study Guide 2020 Edition (currently $19), despite not having changed much from the 2018 edition, is still the most essential SAT preparation book on the market. This is neither because the book contains useful SAT strategy advice, nor because the answer explanations are particularly helpful or easy to understand—the strategy advice is almost nonexistent, and the answer explanations are sometimes insightful but far too often convoluted, simplistic and/or incomplete. Instead, the book’s primary value lies in the fact that it includes 8 full practice SATs for only about $.02 per page.How is this book different from the 2018 edition of the Official SAT Study Guide (https://www.amazon.com/Official-SAT-Study-Guide-2018/dp/1457309289), of which you can also read my detailed Amazon customer review (#1 on top)? The first 294 pages of the book (the portion before the tests) are exactly the same. 6 of the 8 tests are the same—though the order has been reversed. And the two new tests—which show up as the first two tests in the book—are the October 2018 and October 2017 SATs, respectively, which are not yet available for download through College Board but can be found easily with a Google search. SAT practice tests #2 and #4 are gone, though you can still find them easily with a Google search. If we agree to call the October 2018 SAT test #10, and the October 2017 SAT test #9, then the tests are in the order 10,9,8,7,6,5,3,1.Although 6 of the 8 the tests in this book are indeed free to download from the College Board / Khan Academy websites and print out at home (I expect the other 2 to be available as free PDF downloads soon), the cost of doing so would most likely exceed $19 unless you have a free/low-cost printing option. In addition, there is significant value in having all the tests literally bound together in one place—it makes it easy to stay organized, and since the SAT doesn’t provide scratch paper, you can practice by taking all of your notes right there in the book.In fact, I would suggest that you buy 2 copies of this book: one for taking notes, and the other to keep blank, so that you can review questions later without bias. This is known as the “blind review” method and it works wonders.You will notice that there is no Kindle version of this book, but again, you can download PDFs of the individual tests, scoring guides and answer explanations from the College Board / Khan Academy websites for free, which is far easier than the Kindle format anyway. That being said, it would be nice if the College Board would put a PDF of the entire book on its website as well--the first 300 pages of the book do include some useful advice on the essay, for example--though again, that advice could be vastly improved.Of course, these 8 official SATs are just scratching the surface of what’s out there in terms of official SAT practice material: as of this writing I’ve counted 36 official SATs and PSATs in the new format that are publicly available online—and that doesn’t include other test forms that have been leaked.Finally, in 2015, I also wrote an exhaustive Amazon review of the original (2016) edition of this book (https://www.amazon.com/Official-SAT-Study-Guide-2016/dp/1457304309), which I’m happy to say is also the #1 review of that book on Amazon. Please feel free to give that review a read as well, and to google “SAT Action Plan: How to Study and Prepare for the SAT College Entrance Exam” for a full list of my personal SAT prep recommendations.Best of luck on your SAT and beyond. Please leave questions or comments below, and I will be happy to respond.-BrianVery thiccc book Thicker than Kim Kardashian

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Friday, December 6, 2019

Creative Calling Free Pdf

ISBN: B07VWZ2F7C
Title: Creative Calling Pdf Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work

Life isn't about "finding" fulfillment and success - it's about creating it. Why then has creativity been given a back seat in our culture? No longer.

Creativity is a force inside every person that, when unleashed, transforms our lives and delivers vitality to everything we do. Establishing a creative practice is therefore our most valuable and urgent task - as important to our well-being as exercise or nutrition. 

The good news? Renowned artist, author, and CreativeLive founder, Chase Jarvis, reminds us that creativity isn't a skill - it's a habit available to everyone: beginners and lifelong creators, entrepreneurs to executives, astronauts to zookeepers, and everyone in between. Through small, daily actions we can supercharge our innate creativity and rediscover our personal power in life. 

Whether your ambition is a creative career, completing a creative project, or simply cultivating a creative mindset, Creative Calling will unlock your potential via Jarvis's memorable "IDEA" system: 

  • Imagine your big dream, whatever you want to create - or become - in this world. 
  • Design a daily practice that supports that dream - and a life of expression and transformation. 
  • Execute on your ambitious plans and make your vision real.
  • Amplify your impact through a supportive community you'll learn to grow and nurture.

Inspiring and Actionable There are so many great bite-sized gems in this book along with actionable takeaways. This is great to keep in your ears and revisit again and again.What I loved most was how Chase, again and again, brought clarity to creativity: what it is, why it matters, and how to find.Often we make things so muddled and complicated and masters are those that can communicate clearly and concisely. Chase does that and more in this book. Whether you are going to apply this to art or leadership, this is must-have in your collection.Creative Truth Bomb! I can't recommend Creative Calling highly enough. The book came at a perfect time for me, as I'm returning to my mixed media work after a long, unexpected hiatus due to illness.  Chase speaks a soulful truth that touches a deep knowing inside. We are ALL creative. Expressing creativity is not a luxury, it's both healing and VITAL.I love the message of taking small, imperfect steps daily. Each small step will reveal the next step, and the path is created. Using your own inner compass, no map is necessary (or even useful for that matter)! Exactly what you end up creating will be something that you could not have planned. You don't fake it until you make it. You get your of your comfort zone and MAKE it until you make it. Daily creating generates positivity and a feeling of aliveness. I happened to be on day 45 of 100 days of creating when I listened to the audiobook. It was synchronistic as the ideas in the book mirrored some of what I was experiencing with my creating. The book gave me the inspiration to keep going and reach beyond my normal limits. For example, I ended up doing a 20 ft chalk art portrait on Michigan Avenue in Chicago... something I wouldn't have pushed myself to do otherwise. Now I'm working on a tiny 4-inch piece. Can't wait to see what's next.  The audiobook was so inspiring that I also ordered the hard copy. Attending the live online class that went with it was the icing on the creative cake! Thank you, Chase! You don't know how much I appreciate this wonderful gift coming at the perfect time. This book does belong in schools and I'm sure you will make it happen!Now onward... daily art-making is calling...Dear undercover creative: this one's for you In Creative Calling, Chase puts forth the thesis that creativity as a practice is as important to our health and well-being as nutrition or exercise. Whether you a professional, a hobbyist, or an undercover creative - whether you even consider yourself creative at all - this book will broaden your perspective on how powerful creativity can be."Only by embracing your innate creativity will you begin to see the life you are truly capable of creating for yourself"If you're not familiar with Chase, his work as a renowned photographer, or as the head of CreativeLive, it would be a mistake to chalk this book up to yet-another-book-telling-me-what-to-do-with-my-life, but it is not a "what to do" book, but instead a "how to". As in, how to scratch your creative itch, or how to pay attention to that quiet voice in your gut.What it is, is Chase's own story following his path as an artist, while deconstructing lessons gleaned from his own process.Now, it would be easy to write this review breaking down Chase's carefully crafted and imminently practical frameworks: IDEA or DEAR, but I don't believe it captures the essence of this book, so I'll leave that for you to read yourself. To me, the true value lies in Chases' raw storytelling, and how he's able to weave a tight narrative into an entertaining read.In short, this book is a signpost for anyone who's looking to rediscover the feeling of magic that goes along with creating something out of nothing. Chase is an excellent guide and is a hell of a storyteller.Creative Calling is as timely as it is timeless. I read it in three sittings and cannot recommenced it any higher.

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Wednesday, December 4, 2019

The Amber Spyglass Free Pdf

ISBN: B0000W6SPO
Title: The Amber Spyglass Pdf His Dark Materials, Book 3
***** Just announced! THE BOOK OF DUST, the long-awaited new work from Philip Pullman, set in the world of His Dark Materials, will be published as a work in three parts, with the first volume to arrive in October 2017! *****


The unforgettable His Dark Materials trilogy that began with The Golden Compass—the modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an "All-Time Greatest Novel" and Newsweek hailed as a "Top 100 Book of All Time"—and continued with The Subtle Knife, reaches its astonishing conclusion in The Amber Spyglass.


Throughout the worlds, the forces of both heaven and hell are mustering to take part in Lord Asriel's audacious rebellion. Each player in this epic drama has a role to play—and a sacrifice to make. Witches, angels, spies, assassins, tempters, and pretenders, no one will remain unscathed.

Lyra and Will have the most dangerous task of all. They must journey to a gray-lit world where no living soul has ever gone and from which there is no escape.

As war rages and Dust drains from the sky, the fate of the living—and the dead—comes to depend on Lyra and Will. On the choices they make in love, and for love, forevermore.

A #1 New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the Whitbread Award
Winner of the British Book Award (Children's)
Published in 40 Countries
 
"Masterful.... This title confirms Pullman's inclusion in the company of C.S. Lewis and Tolkien." —Smithsonian Magazine

"Pullman has created the last great fantasy masterpiece of the twentieth century. An astounding achievement." —The Cincinnati Enquirer

"War, politics, magic, science, individual lives and cosmic destinies are all here . . . shaped and assembled into a narrative of tremendous pace by a man with a generous, precise intelligence. I am completely enchanted." —The New York Times Book Review

"Breathtaking adventure . . . a terrific story, eloquently told." The Boston Globe

An ambitious trilogy that falls just short of a classic Phillip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy is such an ambitious undertaking that I wondered if he'd be able to pull it off. The answer is: sort of. The quest is momentous, the stakes high. The premise and themes are as lofty as you can get--the very purpose of human existence.If I were to compare this trilogy to The Lord of the Rings, I'd say the story is more nuanced than the good and evil of LOTR, the plot less linear. And while no world building can match Tolkien's, the worlds that Pullman's creates are amazing: Citegazze with its specters and the inventors of the subtle knife; the world with the Mulafa, who learned to travel on wheels, developed in a symbiotic relationship with trees; Lyra's own world, so similar to ours but so different; the world of the dead; and our own world juxtaposed with all of these.The writing is good and seemed to improve with each book. And yet despite all of this, it failed to rise to the level the premise deserved. Why? Emotion comes not just from plot but from how the characters react to it. And in this regard, the author failed to let us deep enough inside the characters to fully experience what the situation deserved.The premise should feel more cataclysmic than LOTR, not merely the triumph of good over evil, but a more multi-layered conflict between seekers of knowledge and those who would deny the human race growth. So why doesn't it feel more powerful? The answer lies in how close we get to know Frodo and Sam, the intensity of their relationship, and the depth of the secondary characters.Mr. Pullman doesn't let us that close to his characters, perhaps due to his choice of omniscient perspective. But I can't help thinking what this series might have been.The author's diatribe against the church is mild and not pro or con religion, but for or against open-mindedness and the quest for knowledge. There are believers and agnostics that come down on both side of these issues.This trilogy was broad, original, well-written, dramatic and with lofty themes. But stories are told through their characters. And whether it be Lord Asriel or Mrs. Coulter, Lyra or Will, I never felt deeply about them. This is a great series that rises well above most of what we see today in fiction. With a bit more it could have risen to the level of a true classic.A little preachy but otherwise a fine conclusion to an amazing series The Golden Compass brilliantly invents a fantasy world full of adventure, action and allegorical lessons regarding religion and life. The two sequels smoothly carry on the story line and largely continue to keep the readers absorbed and satisfied, but I cannot say that they are as perfect as the original.While the author successfully introduces new environments and characters through the series to keep it fresh, I cannot help notice that his preaching of liberal values grows more naked as the series progresses. Make no mistake, I am happy that this series exists to serve as a counter-weight to the typical Christian fundamentalist propaganda parading as young adult literature, e.g. Narnia, but I have to admit that some story elements in this final volume push the envelope a little too far and make the book suitable for mature audience only, which is quite regrettable as the first two books have been great for even very young kids. Specifically, the climax of this book involves the protagonist, 13-year-old Lyra, committing "the original sin" with her boy friend in the woods within the sight of the last surviving bad guy, a zealot priest on a mission to assassinate her. The ex deus machina comes about when the priest is killed just in time by a gay angel sworn to protect the boy. Yes, you read me right. This book features gay angels (as well as horny ones by the way). The author certainly cannot be accused of a lack of imagination.My other complaint regards plausibility. We are talking about a fantasy series here, so I am not trying to apply real physics to the story. It is the motivation and behaviors of some characters that bothers me. For example, the ghosts and harpies talk, interact and respond in ways totally illogical and unrealistic. But they are minor characters non-essential to the core plot, so flipping quickly past these parts is not difficult.Despite these flaws, I still enjoy reading it tremendously. This series is truly one of the best in its genre.A challenge, but worth every minute This is a challenge to get through and one hat requires a good deal of thought on the part of the reader. It is well worth the effort. Pullman's views on organized religion are a challenge to anybody of faith, but it needs to be kept in mind that he is not opposed to a particular faith, merely to the limits that religion can put on consciousness, knowledge and curiosity. The passage of the dead to their release into the living world, where they are liberated and made part of new life, is intriguing. Especially so in the description of the reuniting of the parts of Lee Scoresby with his beloved daemon, Hester. This is my third time reading the trilogy, this time to my 13 year old grandson who amazed me with his insights and understanding of the plot. I am just about to start reading the first book of the next trilogy to him, La Belle Sauvage.

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Tuesday, December 3, 2019

The Way I Heard It Pdf

ISBN: B07QBCVZBB
Title: The Way I Heard It Pdf

Emmy Award-winning gadfly Mike Rowe presents a ridiculously entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episodes from America's number-one short-form podcast, The Way I Heard It, along with a host of memories, ruminations, and insights. It's a delightful collection of mysteries. A mosaic. A memoir. A charming, surprising must-have. 

Mike Rowe's The Way I Heard It collects 35 fascinating stories "for the curious mind with a short attention span". Five-minute mysteries about people you know, filled with facts that you didn't. Movie stars, presidents, Nazis, rank traitors, and bloody do-gooders - they're all here, waiting to shake your hand, hoping you'll remember them. Delivered with Mike's signature blend of charm, wit, and ingenuity, their stories are part of a larger mosaic - a memoir crammed with recollections, insights, and intimate, behind-the-scenes moments drawn from Mike's remarkable life and career.

Party history, part memoir, equal parts interesting and funny! By far one of the best books I've read so far this year (and I've read a lot of books already this year)! Part history (the fascinating kind, not the boring I need to learn it for a class kind), part memoir, always fascinating (a lot of those aha moments) and frequently funny (like laugh out loud kind of funny)! Inspired in part by his fascination of and admiration for the legendary Paul Harvey, this book is a collection of short "stories", none of which seemed to have anything in particular in common with ones another but then are inexplicably and expertly woven together in the most amazing way 😁 On several occasions Mike instructs us to "Google it, I'll wait" and Google it you will. Including his final page instruction to go to "Google it." That "it" is a video clip that will leave you laughing, make you want to binge watch every episode of Dirty Jobs, pull up old QVC clips, check out Evening Magazine, and wish the book wasn't ending! Maybe there'll be a sequel... 😁I love his humor! A fantastic book by Mike Rowe! I love his humor (and always have), I love the stories he tells, and now, I love his mom and dad too. It was really neat to try to figure out "who is this person" in each story before he tells you.Really great read! I love this book!!! Mike’s stories are funny and poignant. Such a great read. Highly recommend!

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Sunday, December 1, 2019

Blank Comic Book For Kids Download

ISBN: 1539660419
Title: Blank Comic Book For Kids Pdf Create Your Own Comics With This Comic Book Journal Notebook
Author: Blank Books 'n' Journals
Published Date: 2016-10-20
Page: 106

This Blank Comic Book for Kids is the only book they need if kids love to create comics....

This book helps you to make your own comics and with over 180 reviews, we know that kids love making their own cartoons and comics because of the ease of using the pre-formatted comic book paper inside.

They spend hours designing, drawing and writing their stories, you will be surprised at what they come up with when given the right tools. Filled with blank comic book templates of various styles, with over 100 pages, this blank comic notebook will keep budding artists busy for hours.

Book Details

  • Can make your own comics with the good variety of pages / templates
  • Quality white paper, templates suitable for any art medium
  • Can create one page comic strips or can be used for larger plots with multi-pages & scripts for kids to write stories
  • Notebook style with cool Comic Book cover
  • Perfect drawing book for kids of all ages

This is a big comic book, 8.5" x 11" so a large space with lots of room for them to immerse themselves in their own creativity. It is the perfect gift for the holidays as kids will have the time to sit down and draw. Ideal for kids to write stories about their own life and make them the action hero or heroin. Click to look inside at the layout.

Suitable for all kids, girls and boys as well as teens and older children too. Even adults love our Blank Comic book pages and use them in a creative way to draw about the funny things that happen in family life.

Unleash their creativity by letting them create their own comics. Every child loves our comic books so why not order a few for family and friends. Order your Blank Comic Book for Kids today and just say to the little ones 'go and create and draw your own comic'.

Pretty cool book for someone getting into comics Pretty cool book for someone getting into comics. The pages do make it difficult to create your own story because it places thought bubbles for you.My 9-year-old loves graphic novels and has been practicing drawing ... My 9-year-old loves graphic novels and has been practicing drawing a lot, so I got this for her as kind of an encouragement/reward. She's been slowly adding to it. The format is flexible enough to inspire without dictating what must go on the pages.OK I like that all the drawing/text boxes are different sizes. The only thing I'd change is that there are talking bubbles placed throughout. I was hoping to allow my son to make his own where he wants. If it had been specified in the description, I would have purchased a different one.

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Wednesday, November 27, 2019

The Man in the High Castle Pdf

ISBN: B005MZN2B2
Title: The Man in the High Castle Pdf
Now an Amazon Original series
 
Winner of the Hugo Award

“The single most resonant and carefully imagined book of Dick’s career.” —New York Times
 
It’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war—and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.
 
This harrowing, Hugo Award–winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to wake.
 

Great book...for its day, might be disappointing to modern readers The reason I rated it four stars is because I'm sure, that to readers of the 1960's for whom this book was written, and most of whom lived through the actual WWII, the ending was extremely satisfying, if a bit bizarre. To me, a child of the '70's and '80's who grew up with my fiction a bit more lengthy and involved (Think 'Star Wars and the Beverly Cleary books for kids), the ending comes as, if not a full deus-ex-machina, then extremely anticlimactic.Without giving anything away, let me say that, through nine-tenths of the book, Dick builds the story (and the readers) up to this heart-wrenching climax--and then doesn't deliver. The effect was like being ushered into a great and grand house, all designed and built around a single unifying theme, each room a better, more nuanced expression of that theme. Then, just as we come to the doorway to the central chamber--the ultimate expression of the theme which we have been led, by degrees, to understand throughout the entire tour--we run into a white sheet with the words "THUS FAR AND NO FARTHER. THANK YOU FOR YOUR VISIT--THE DOORMAN WILL SHOW YOU OUT." printed on it, and we are promptly hustled out the side entrance, the door slammed behind us.Long story short: If you came here expecting a novel-form of the excellent series of the same name based on this story, produced by Amazon and overseen by Philip K. Dick's family and estate, you'll be very disappointed. What Amazon and the. Philip K. Dick family have done is taken the premise, a few of the excellently written characters, and the story question of this novel, and allowed the story to run, filling out a great riverbed, rather than constricting it to the bathtub-size which was this commercial volume.TL;DR Watch the series instead. It is definitely inspired by this book, but much more detailed and suited to those who want an in-depth story.Things are not always as they seem. Skim milk masquerades as cream. As I progress through life, and accept that I'm not young any more, I also realize that the younger generations do not ingest books the way I do. If you look at the reviews for this book, especially at the 1 and 2 star ratings, you'll find a deplorable pattern. "It was too slow." No, you're not considering what you're reading. "The author is a racist." Definitely no, he's almost drawing a caricature of them to shine a great big spotlight on facism and bigotry in order to persuade the audience of just how evil these things are. "The ending was too abrupt." or "He obviously meant to write a sequel." No and no. After many thousands of words placed in thought provoking ways, the author challenges the audience to decide what the story means. And gives us license to pick the ending that we think fits the best.This story was written in the 60s, and is set then as well. What if the Axis won World War II is the major premise behind the setting. The conflicts highlight the extreme to which Japanese and German cultures could have gone, and the possible effects of living in a land under the control of one, and strongly influenced by the other. Imagine the Japanese concept of place, mixing with facist bigotry, overlaid on oppressed Americans living in a totalitarian world. PKD thoroughly denounces facism, bigotry and xenophobia.But the story is more than that. The plot is hidden from the reader as we see events from several points of view. And the narration ends with barely a paragraph of denouement. If you are not driven to contemplation about the meaning of life or the nature of reality by this work, you should read it again, slowly.Boring as Hell... incredibly horrible crappy writing and stupid. This book is excruciatingly slow and pointless. So incredibly mundane and boring, and I wonder if the author was on meds. Why the acclaim? I’ll never know. Enough about Japanese conquerors obsessed with buying American Civil War memorabilia. Enough about Germans landing on the moon and Mars, and German rocket ships used as commercial airlines that take you halfway around the world in 45 minutes. These are all briefly mentioned in passing, as the focus is on the turgid descriptions of stupid people consulting the I Ching, etc. This junk may have passed for an intellectual challenge in 1962, but it sucks. I put it down after page 60. I flipped around and the pages ahead contained more of the same appallingly boring content. This novel sucks.I refuse to donate this book to Goodwill, as I would not want to subject anyone else to reading this horrible crap. I threw the book in the recycling bin.

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Sunday, November 24, 2019

Wine Simple Download

ISBN: 1984824252
Title: Wine Simple Pdf A Totally Approachable Guide from a World-Class Sommelier
Author: Aldo Sohm
Published Date: 2019
Page: 272

“I always feel so at ease drinking wine with Aldo. While he is a renowned sommelier, he always helps me learn and listen to the wine, and this book will make you fall in love with wine again.”—José Andrés, chef/owner of ThinkFoodGroup “This is undoubtedly the best introduction to wine that I’ve ever encountered. I wish I’d had access to a book like this when I was beginning my journey as a wine lover. Aldo Sohm makes oenophilia fun without making it dumb, proving yet again that he is one of the world’s greatest sommeliers—which is to say, a great teacher.”—Jay McInerney ALDO SOHM is the James Beard Award-winning wine director of Le Bernardin and a partner in the eponymous Aldo Sohm Wine Bar. Sohm was named Best Sommelier in the World in 2008 by the Worldwide Sommelier Association, Best Sommelier in America in 2007 by the American Sommelier Association, and Best Sommelier of Austria four times by the Austrian Sommelier Union. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. CHRISTINE MUHLKE is a contributing editor at Bon Appétit, the founder of Bureau X food consultancy, and the creator of the newsletter Xtine. She has authored cookbooks with Eric Ripert, David Kinch, and Eric Werner.

From the world-renowned sommelier Aldo Sohm, a dynamic, essential wine guide for a new generation

Aldo Sohm is one of the most respected and widely lauded sommeliers in the world. He's worked with celebrated chef Eric Ripert as wine director of three-Michelin-starred Le Bernardin for over a decade, yet his philosophy and approach to wine is much more casual. Aldo's debut book, Wine Simple, is full of confidence-building infographics and illustrations, an unbeatable depth of knowledge, effusive encouragement, and, most important, strong opinions on wine so you can learn to form your own. Imbued with Aldo's insatiable passion and eagerness to teach others, Wine Simple is accessible, deeply educational, and lively and fun, both in voice and visuals.

This essential guide begins with the fundamentals of wine in easy-to-absorb hits of information and pragmatic, everyday tips—key varietals and winemaking regions, how to taste, when to save and when to splurge, and how to set up a wine tasting at home. Aldo then teaches you how to take your wine knowledge to the next level and evolve your palate, including techniques on building a flavor library,” a cheat sheet to good (and great) vintages (and why you shouldn't put everything on the line for them), tips on troubleshooting tricky wines (corked? mousy?), and, for the daring, even how to saber a bottle of champagne. This visual, user-friendly approach will inspire readers to have the confidence, curiosity, and enthusiasm to taste smarter, drink boldly, and dive headfirst fearlessly into the exciting world of wine.

Advance praise for Wine Simple

“If you’ve ever felt like you ought to be smart about wine, this is the book. Aldo makes wine approachable and never dumbed down.”—Madeline Puckette, co-founder of Wine Folly

“A meal at Le Bernardin is always an incredible experience, especially with Aldo’s expert knowledge and effortless charm! It can be intimidating to choose wine, but with Wine Simple we can all feel like world-class sommeliers.”—Chrissy Teigen

“Whoever thinks wine is all about snobbery and intricate complexity should open this book! In less than 300 pages, Aldo Sohm manages to open the doors of this universe with wit, fun, and great pedagogy. A perfect, personal beginner’s guide by a legend in our industry, Wine Simple will surely be the bedside book for a new generation of wine lovers.”—Pascaline Lepeltier, Master Sommelier and managing partner, Racines NY

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