Austin Reviews

I foun this book funny yet stupid. You have to like all types of books to like and understand this book. Some people will disagree with me. You have to read it for yourself to decide if you like it or not.

This book is one of the best books iv'e ever read. If you like Austin Powers than this is the book for you. It Austin Powers mad libs, trivia, and much much more.

It would please me very much if you would order this book today!

I think this book is the best book I have ever read and I am a girl But the funny part is I never actually read it!!!!!

WOW!!! The pictures of the roses in this book are unmatched by any other publication. I have for many years been a Hybrid Tea Rose fan, but after reading this book and after visiting several gardens with Austin's roses in them, I have been converted. I just ordered over 20 bushes and I cannot wait for their arrival next spring. I agree with a previous reviewer who commented that the writing is self serving at times, but Austin's passion for his plants can be understood. Austin's comments about group plantings and his recommendations concerning minimiums for plantings of each species, I found invaluable. I believe this book is well worth the price and will win you over to a relatively new breed of rose.

This book is what started my passion for roses and transformed me into a true gardener. I carried the book around with me for days, amazed that nature could create such beautiful flowers. Within two months I was watering my new English Rose garden comprised of 16 roses from the pages of this beautiful book! If you even think you love roses, you must get this book!

This book is a really beautiful book full of glorious photos of Davids Roses. We are given a brief family history on each rose and a rating for the overall assesment and fragrance of them. Full to the brim with color shots, this book would make a terrific gift for anyone who loves roses or as a special treat for yourself.

I love this series so much that I have had to replace the entire set three times. I lend them out and they disappear!

These are by far the finest novels that Ms. Austin has written. I was drawn into the story, and I just couldn't put the books down. Ms. Austin provides Scriptural references so it is easy to see what she is basing her story on. After reading the Scriptures, elements in the story that are taken right out of the Bible are easily discerned from those that the writer may be taking an artist license with. It breathed life into these characters and made them very relevant to me.

I immediately began reading the remaining books in the series, and every one was a delight. I enthusiastically recommend the series.

This is one of the best Christian fiction novels I've ever read. I found it suspenseful, enlightening, and full of realistic, tension-creating emotion. I am very familiar with the Bible and have been a Christian all my life, and yet I learned a lot about Old Testament from reading this book. I've also spoken with the author and she is a truly wonderful person. You won't regret purchasing this book!

This is the best, the book brings the old testament to life, you can see, smell, and feel what it is like to be there in ancient times. I could not put this book down, and looked forward to each new addition to the series.

This book may be ok for a phone sex consumer or someone looking for a cheap thrill, but as a professional phone actress it was very disappointing. I had been looking foreward to getting this book and after reading it twice it went in the trash. Austin talking about getting hot and bothered with callers doesn't ring true in my experience or any of my acquaintances in the business. The most preposterous claim in her book is being successful with a character that is supposedly asian, but using a whiny New York accent. Several phone workers I know and myself as well, have asian and other ethnic characters, when clients call them they want an exotic experience and expecting a very genuine accent. Although Ausin's writing is adequate and even marginally witty at times, her accuracy and take on the business is very sadly lacking.

All kinds of readers will be glad they've read *Phone Sex* by phone sex worker Miranda Austin. Want to try your own hand (voice?) at the job? This book will tell you how.

Always wanted some hot-and-kinky-and-twisted-and-downright-weird sex, but so far haven't had the nerve to try? This book will tell you how to take one safe, easy step by sharing your fantasy with a phone sex worker.

Want to use phone play to spice up the sexual life of you and your partner, whether long-distance or in the same house? This book will tell you how.

But in spite of the solid information, the happiest readers who will read *Phone Sex* will be those readers who enjoy funny, sexy, thoughtful writing. This book is a page-turning pleasure written by a woman with a pitch-perfect ear for both dialogue and absurdity. Of even more significance is Ms. Austin's blend of tolerance and self-knowledge, a blend that makes the book as thought-provoking as it is amusing and informative. A keeper, and an auspicious debut for a sexy new writer.

As a phone kitten - I definitely have to say that this book is right on!

I have to say I was nervous when I received this book - as most books make us girls look so freaking sad - this book seemed to celebrate phone girls, and the job!

And the part about the guy who fantasizes about the Author dumping him for a guy with monsterous biceps? I talk to him al the time! LMAO...

Way to go Miranda!

Versatile, convenient, informative, and easily understood. These are the four adjectives I would use to descibe this wonderful book. We are all educated people, we know that we need 3-4 days of cardiovascular work (walking, jogging, step aerobics, what have you) at 20-30 minutes a pop to help with fat loss. However, if you are thinking that just cardiovascular exercise will do it, you're wrong. You need to strength train your muscles, and this book is the bible for it. If you want long, lean muscles, buy this book. Having lower back pain? Wait for the pain to subside, get the dr.'s okay, and then buy this book. There are back strengthening exercises in here for all of us Linda-Carter-Wannabees (a.k.a. Wonder Woman) who conquer college, career, marriage and children. You need this book to feel better, look better, and gain that confidence you had when you were 16 in the dance recital. You need this book if you are a beginner, an intermediate exerciser, or an 'ol pro. People have mentioned that this book is detailed....that's an understatement. This book gives you explicit information on breathing during exercises, proper form, and the speed at which to execute the exercises. Yes, it's that good. Just as others have mentioned, Denise Austin's heart is in the right place. However, during her videos (of which I own at least 10), she may do 16 repetitions on the left leg, and then quickly change to the right leg. On the right leg, however, she may only do 12 repetitions! That annoys me, thus, I tend to shy away from the videos these days. However, with the book, YOU control the repetitions. You don't have to pause and rewind...you don't have to wait for cues that won't come, and finally, you don't have to deal with beats and rhythms (Denise has a hard time following those, too). So, on a final note, I give this book the ultimate praise. Run to your nearest book store and purchase it, or buy it right here, right now!

I have been using this book off and on for over 2 years now. I keep going back to this book when I need to lose weight and tone-up. The exercises are easy to follow and can be as challenging or low-intensity as you make it. I have trouble following other exercise books/videos and really recommend this to anyone who wants to lose weight and tone-up different areas of their body. Of course to lose weight you have to add aerobic exercise (fast walking/other) as she stresses in this book. I recommend this book for any age, but I'm 40 and find this book one of the easiest to follow and the best, so far, for me.

I own all the 'Hit the Spot' videos and have used them for years. This book has more or less all of the same great exercises. There is a lot of variety- she gives many variations to work the same muscle so you can pick and choose what you like. She also shows all different levels so you can start with this book as a beginner and still use it at an advanced level.In her videos, Denise often does an imbalanced set between right side and left side. She also tends to jump to the next exercise without any break. With the book I can work at my own pace and do the proper sets. Some complaints: the book doesn't stay open easily. I took the pages apart and put them in report cover sheets and a binder. Also, find out how to stretch all your muscles after you've worked them. This book shows stretches but does not cover stretches for all the muscles you work. This book could advise more about proper breathing and the pace to work at. But just find that out somewhere else and you'll be fine.

Frei does a marvelous job of telling the story of what truly was the GAME OF THE CENTURY. You may be surprised as to who suggested tha the game be moved from it's normal date to become the last game of the year. It was a time when Arkansas and Texas dominated the old Southwest Conference. Much went into the preperation and much came out of it. Frank Broyles, AD at Arkansas and the head coach at the time of the 1969 game has NEVER watched the tape of the game.

Excellent book not only for the coverage of the players and the game, but also for reminding us of the social issues of the time. A must read not only for college football fans, but anyone interested in the era.

Unlike reviewer Star (who for some reason felt compelled to slam the book because he didn't like the teams involved) I found this to be a great book about a unique era in college football. The book is well researched and the author doesn't take sides. The detail of the game itself and the coaches thinking is very interesting for those who weren't watching college football in those days.

Obviously Texas fans will enjoy it more than those from Arkansas, but they still might be interested all the same. After all, it was an epic game. For those Penn State fans who are still bitter about finishing #2 to Texas, answer this: Why did Penn State avoid playing Texas in the Cotton Bowl? Notre Dame was the bowl committee's second choice. If you don't want to play #1, you don't get to be #1.

Detective Martin Beck is back at work after a near-fatal event at work. A team of colleagues is attempting to solve a series of bank robberies that they are convinced are related. Beck is in the process of solving another case. His work and conclusions are more intriguing than that of the others and finally solved but not prosecuted. All crimes eventually can be all tied together even though they are not officially solved. The crimes are set in the Stockholm of the 70ies and integrated in Sweden's social problems of that era.

While I was expecting a masterpiece along the lines of Henning Mankell's criminal investigator Wallander this book did certainly not live up to my expectations. The stories are very fragmented, the sudden shifts from one story to the other are deliberate but destructive to the reader. I did not get hooked onto the book at all - because of its fragmentation it totally lacks suspense. It is hard to relate nowadays to the social problems of the time and they seem to overshadow the story lines in many instances. I concluded for myself that I could not get interested because of too many contemporary references, which will not make this mystery a classic of its genre. While Martin Beck fills the role of an interesting inspector he is pushed to far into the background even though he is supposed to be the novel's hero.

I have recently become a fan of this series of twelve detective novels, written in the late 1960's and early 1970's in Sweden by husband and wife team Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo. Wahloo, who died in 1975, did some reporting and the no-nonsense style of these novels reminds one of good reporting.

The Locked Room is somewhat unique to the series, in that the authors frequently shift their focus to the minor characters and criminals, in omniscient narrator style, giving the reader more perspective than is usual. The novel involves two crimes, a bold bank robbery in which a bank customer is killed, and the discovery of a retired man's decomposed body in his apartment, which appears to be locked from the inside. Beck, who recently returned to the force after recovering from a shooting, is assigned the locked room case and we see him trying to fit the pieces together of a seemingly impossible crime to solve.

A NY Times critic has recently praised the grim realism of these novels; if Beck drinks too much coffee on an empty stomach, his gets sick. After a broad daylight bank robbery, the police get starkly different eyewitness accounts, leading to a morass of seemingly unrelated clues, some of them way off. The reader is constantly reminded that in the real world, this is how crimes are really solved by big city police forces.

Some readers are a little put off by the Socialist leanings of the authors, which rises to the surface occasionally as they discuss current events of Stockholm 30 years ago including strikes, poor health care/benefits for workers, etc. However the rantings never seemed to me to get in the way of their story, and the novels are all written in a lean, sparse style with few wasted scenes or verbal flourishes. I recommend the series highly, beginning with the great Roseanna.

The seventh Martin Beck novel. Recovering from his misadventures in "The Abominable Man", Beck takes up a seemingly unsolvable case: a friendless, elderly miser, shot one time in the head in a one-bedroom apartment, with locked doors and locked windows, and no gun in sight. Meanwhile, his colleagues are investigating the high-profile shooting of a security guard during a daring bank robbery conducted, apparently, by a beautiful blonde woman.

Although the authors begin to get a little too heavy-handed in their social commentary, this is still one of the better Beck novels (in fact it is regarded by many as the best, though I think its predecessor is better.) The dual plot structure and the improbable connection between the crimes make for a great thriller. The characters are engaging, and the ending is wonderful. Read it.

If you know John Byrne, you know he likes to alter and change superhero origin stories, when the original stories done by the original writers were much better. This is such a case, Byrne takes Superman and basically makes him a Marvel-wannabe character. No wonder the Man of Steel has never recovered from this drek of a retelling of his origin.

John Byrne does not reinvent Superman in this collection. He returns the character to what he originally was. He strips away much of the mythos which only came into Superman's life after Siegel and Shuster left DC (Superboy, Supergirl, Krypto, multi-colored Kryptonite, god-like power levels, and Kryptonian heritage), and leaves us with the character as he was meant to be when he was created.

John Byrne's strength as a writer/artist is that he sees clearly to the heart of the character. Here, as he did with the Fantastic Four, he not so much re-invents as clarifies the character. All of the fat and foolishness is stripped away, and new details are added that fit so well that you wonder how the feature went fifty years without them. Byrne is totally respectful of what has come before, and yet makes it all fresh and new. This is truly Superman reborn and reinvigorated. Landmark comics, and also a great "starter" book for the fledgeling comics reader.

I got the original Born To Sing tape set as a gift 10 years ago, and found it more helpful than all my years of voice lessons in high school and college! Now I direct a church choir and am using the techniques with them. I Just ordered the 4 CDs + Book version of the Born To Sing Deluxe and their ABCs Of Vocal Harmony course. I can't wait to receive them.

I didn't think you could learn to sing. You had to be born with it. I really love it so I took a few lessons and that helped a little. When I found Born To Sing - WOW! I really made some major progress and I showed it to my voice teacher and she got her own copy and tells her other students about it. Try it - you'll love it!

I am impressed! This Born To Sing voice course teaches all the stuff I needed to work on and then some. I gained so much confidence & I really love singing more than I ever thought I would. My high range increased by 5 notes and I can hold notes longer than my friend Casey and he's a really great singer. So thanks for this great training. When I'm in Los Angeles, I would love to have some lessons with the masters, Mr.Austin & Ms. Howard.

This book provides no instruction as to how to achieve an "undisturbed mind" other than directing the reader to explore eastern religion and meditation.

The work is very carefully worded as not to offend "Western" (Christian values) sensibilities. It stands as an indirect promise the a pursuit of the eastern mindsets will provide one with an undisturbed mind.

However, the seeker will undoubtable find that the Eastern mindset is remarkable in terms of selfishness and unconcern for others.

"It is easy enough to convince the self that one is God, but it is a different matter to prove it to others." - Lawrence R. Barnes, (1965 to Present)

In The Eye Of The Storm: The Power Of The Undisturbed Mind, Austin Gordon draws upon his years of travel throughout India and the Far East where he exhaustively studied. He shares what he learned in order to reveal three main forces that disrupt natural human tranquility and clarity of thought. Each of these forces are carefully analyzed as he introduces measures that can be taken to reduce their pernicious influence in daily modern life. Enthusiastically recommended for anyone trying to deal with the stresses, strains, irritations, demands, disappointments, and distractions afflicting their lives, The Eye Of The Storm is an elegant, simple, accessible little book that can easily accompany and accommodate the busy reader with hectic agendas.

Perhaps the first of its kind, this little volume explains in clear and simple terminology the reasons why our minds are so fickle and out of control; why we get depressed; why we get angry; why we feel envious or jealous. And then Gordon draws on the wisdom of the East to tell us how to deal with these ups and downs, indeed, how we can become like the eye of the storm, calm while all else around us rages. This is a very valuable book for anyone seeking peace of mind (that includes most of us, I am sure). I can't recommend it enough. And it's only a little over a hundred pages, easy to read in one sitting. Well worth the time and lots cheaper than Prozac!