Westerns Books

Griffin's text is well written and easy to follow. It is extremely thorough--that is, he provides details and examples that help exemplify the material. Many of my classes require poorly written textbooks that are unclear or jump all over the place, but Griffin's text is effectivly organized. Although it's expensive, as most are today, this is by far one of the best textbooks I've owned. If your professor doesn't explain things thoroughly, you'll probably still learn all you need to learn about management essentials through this text.

I bought this book through the marketplace thinking I was purchasing the text book. Wrong! The description needs to be updated to indicate this is a study guide workbook. The text is over [$$$] new.

Leif Enger's "So Brave, Young and Handsome" is a very well-written novel about a novelist who's lost his "mojo," and how he finds it again by taking an interest in the world around him. This novel is set in 1915; the historical research is excellent and the sense of place is profound, but the reason this novel succeeds so well is because Mr. Enger has figured out what makes us all human -- our need for interpersonal relationships, and our even greater need for redemption.

Both the writer, Monte, and the outlaw, Glendon, are searching for redemption. Monte wants to write again and wonders if he's a flash in the pan, while Glendon wants to apologize to the wife he ran out on -- he was a bank robber and killed someone by accident, and ran from his wife because he was running from the law.

At the start of this novel, we're in Minnesota; Monte's working at farming, as is Glendon. No one knows that Glendon is an outlaw, so when Glendon reveals this to Monte and his family, Monte feels a sense of personal responsibility. Monte believes in fair play and wants Glendon to be treated like a man, not like a hunted animal; that's the main reason Monte goes along with Glendon on the journey to find Glendon's former wife and apologize to her. But the secondary reason is that Glendon feels his life has been wasted -- he can't write, he knows writing is his life's work, and he feels terrible about it, so going along with Glendon is something akin to the last straw; Monte hopes this will re-start his writing career in a rather spectacular fashion, and his wife is too kind to shut his dreams down as she knows her husband needs a change.

At any rate, the rest of the plot proceeds quietly, like a river; the inexorable conclusions are drawn early on. People matter, even when they've made huge mistakes. And people can change -- redemption is possible.

And, the biggest and most helpful message of all -- our greatest talents are never completely lost, even if they're occasionally misplaced due to other circumstances.

I highly recommend this novel and believe it's one that everyone will enjoy; please don't allow the fact this novel is a Western to fool you. This is an outstanding work, one of personal growth, life choices, and redemption; also the abiding power of creativity.

Five stars, highly recommended.

"That is how you want to be remembered, my friends. Take a picture in your moment of conquest, when your luck is high and bullets still bounce off. That will do for the ages." - Monte Becket

Monte Becket lives with wife and young son in rural Minnesota along the Cannon River during the second decade of the 20th century. To date, Becket's one claim to wealth and fame is his wildly popular pulp Western, MARTIN BLIGH. His publisher wants more, but, lately, Monte's muse has failed him. Becket is drifting and anticipating failure as a writer, husband and father. Then one day, out of the fog on the river, a white-haired old man paddles his boat past. Enter into Monte's life boat-builder Glendon Hale, formerly Glen Dobie of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang.

Hale was once married to a Mexican girl named Blue. But, sought by the Federales, Glendon deserted her never to return. Now, years later, he desires to go back and apologize to the woman he truly loved. He invites Monte to accompany him on the journey, and the latter, fearing the stagnation in his life, accepts. Along the way appears Charles Siringo, also once of the Hole-in-the-Wall, but now a self-anointed lawman of some legend, mostly constructed from books that he himself has written. Charles, now an old man himself, is in relentless pursuit of Glen Dobie for past crimes.

SO BRAVE, YOUNG AND HANDSOME is a coming-of-maturation story by Leif Enger. Its characterizations and narrative pace are reminiscent of Larry McMurtry's novels of the West, e.g. the superlative Lonesome Dove: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics). Here, Becket rediscovers not only himself and the talents within, but also learns something about the nature of honor, friendship, love and public fame.

In the McMurtry style, the plot of Enger's book doesn't evolve to a climactic and dramatic ending. Rather, random and relatively mundane events accumulate over time to give meaning to the protagonist's life, much as they do in the real lives of you and me. Enger's writing talent enables him to tell his tale with sympathy for each of the characters while demonstrating a keen eye for the story's time and place. What results is not a thriller in the popular sense, but still a book that I couldn't put down. Like Lonesome Dove, it could translate to an intelligent and absorbing film of deep emotional impact.

This book starts out with the lure that action and drama will follow. It is interesting and eloquent. Then, at about page 140, it flat-lines, as in dies. The character who narrates the story becomes boring, letting people treat him like dirt for...whatever reason. He's a wimp, I guess. He just can't defend himself, even verbally. The eloquence becomes tiring, just a bunch of strained metaphors. Coincidences occur, seemingly in an effort to juice up the story. It never gets juiced. It drags along for another 150 pages, to an unpredictable but uninteresting ending.

Leif Enger is back. His "Peace Like a River" is such a phenomenal book, and while this one doesn't quite measure up to its predecessor, it presents us once again with some down-to-earth but often colorful and complex characters who get caught up in events that frequently escalate. I sometimes wondered why the main character kept pursuing his neighbor--not sure that was well-developed enough. Yet it is a point that would be good for discussion, and perhaps that is Enger's reason for not pointedly stating it. It also stirs up consideration of the wanderlust that may exist in many hearts. Enger's narrative is again wonderful and beautifully wrought. It was often a pleasure just to read the beautiful way he put words down on paper. This is one author I will look for again.

I was so very disappointed with this novel. After reading Enger's debut novel, Peace Like a River, I had high expectations for his new work. Unfortunately, I found it to be a dull read. It was disjointed, the characters were not compelling and the fine craftsmanship evident in his initial novel were simply missing. I slogged my way through the book, hoping for the best, but it actually got worse as I continued. What an incredible disappointment!

Great book, very informative and the CD has a lot of good info on it as well.

This is a very good book on managment. I read this book and enjoyed it.
The only reason I rated it 3 and not 5 is because I'm not very interested in managment. I don't want my recommendations to full of manamgent books.
I'm studying computer science and this was the text for a required class. It is a very good book though.

This book is a great book, don't get me wrong. But the book I ordered was supposed to come with a CD-ROM...didn't get it. And I also received an Intructor's Edition instead of the student version that I ordered, and the student version comes with a project management module which I need for my class and did not get! And the student version also has an access code on it which i need to be able to access my assignments online, and the intstructor's edition doesn't have one of those either. So I can't do my homework for my class. So basically what im saying is, don't believe what the book descriptions on here tell you, because I thought I was getting what I needed and I was wrong!!

I am very dissastisfied with their service as of now, and I probably won't get as much money for the book when I do try to return it, so now I have worse problems than I had before! Thanks a LOT amazon.com

Bought this book used for my on-line class. Have to say for it being used, it was great! No marks, but I think I got lucky on that one.

Useful information, when first trying to figure out which area in bussiness you want to concentrate on.

Hints and Examples, are very helpful too.

This book has been updated from front to back with relivent examples. Keeps teaching the relivent information while keeping it interesting.

It is very helpful and interesting.

I'm taking an on-line college course, and this is this textbook. It's full of up-to-date information that relates well to today's business world. An excellent introduction book to the fascinating world of business.

This book is hot could not put it done even though its very thick and each page is a turn on right from the beginning its worth the price.
Will keep this forever. Told friends about it. Devin maybe a bad man but hes so good at being bad The author did a very great job on the story. The other remaining lovers were so great all three were hot I loved the part where Megan held a gun on Devin and told Caleb to get undress and told Devin to watch. This author closed all the story with no what ifs Its great I just wish it was longer and its long already. I would liked to have read about where Caleb and Megan And Devin and the girls all moved to Boston and I wanted to read about the wedding. I didn't want it to end.
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I really enjoyed this book... I am a big fan of erotic romance, this book satisfied all my interest's. I definitely rate this book (Devils Pact) a 10.

Bad boy meets good girl who turns out to be a bad girl, it had everything that I wanted in a book of this sort. The characters made sense and the chemistry between all three gelled. It was a well written book.

I really enjoyed this book as a great escape and think that if you are a fan of erotica and the alpha male/bad boy type of man then this book will be a great read for you

This probably is one of the HOTTEST books I've read in a while. It was sort of like when I first discovered Lora Leigh. A definite eye-opener. The author writes very steamy scenes and has actual plot. This book is expensive and suprisingly thick but I am so glad I finally broke down and bought it instead of getting the ebook version, beacuse if I got the ebook version first I would have immediately bought the print version and I spend far too much money on books already. Well, I cannot recommend it enough, especially if you enjoy Erotic Westerns. This book is already on my keeper shelf. The hero is very alpha, if you purchase this book I know you won't regret it! If the author reads this, please write faster!!

One of the dryest books I've ever had to read. "Real world" examples are far-fetched and worthless in my opinion. They just add more pages to the book. The writers use some type of fancy style rather than straight-forward English, which adds to the confusion while trying to understand the material.

Bottom line: What can be said in 3 pages takes 20 pages in this book. Do authors get paid by the page today? The 800+ page book should be no more than 300 pages in my opinion, and it would still get the same point across.

It may not be the best textbook in the world but its not the worst. Actually, I can't find anything wrong with it except for the coffee stain I left while studying.

The text comes with a CD that contains Excel worksheets described in the book. Regardless of whether examples in the book are relevant to everyday life, they explain the situation.

Minus one star for not having a study guide to go along with it. Thats all, other than that... decent book.

The examples of these book are not in synch with real life. Much of it is a vague attempt of creative writing.

I had to use this text for a sophmore level management science course. While the book is extensively detailed, it is written for graduate school level course work. The program that comes with the text is much more useful for the undergrad student tackling business statistics.

This book is an essential guide for every graduate student. It makes mathematical and technical concepts of management science understandable and useful.

I recieved the book in good time and it was in the shape that I was told.

It came in a timely matter and the condition was great. I would order from you guys again