Sterling Reviews

The characters are believable and have enough depth to hold one's interest and the story moves at a good pace to keep one's interest. I like the idea of this kind of result to a nuclear holocaust - some hope long in the future for a positive humanity. I found this book in 1988 first and enjoyed it then. I just re read it. I am pleased that Mr Lanier has written more on the subject! Oh, boy a new story by an old friend!

Mr Lanier - thanks for some super writing!

Believable, imaginative, engaging. An extremely satisfying read from start to finish. I've read the book at least ten times, each more enjoyable. While based on a world atomic disaster this is an uplifting, feel-good story. The next volume, Unforsaken Hiero, keeps up the pace and adds more dimensions to Per Hiero, our hero. While each book tells a complete story, the saga is incomplete. It has been frustrating waiting for years for the third volume. Despite the lack, the two books are incredible.

I read this book in the 1980's and loved the story of adventure and futuristic mayhem. When recently searching for the sequels, recalling it was supposed to be a trilogy, I could not find any mention of such an author or such a book. Thanks to your reviews I now know the title of the sequel and plan to re-read the first book also.

This is a truly wonderful book. I will not discuss the content here, although I loved everything I read. What I wish to express, in this review, because I don't think the previous reviewers made it clear, is the amazing transformative power that Kirael has. As you read this book, your mind is in mental contact with Kirael's mind. This contact has an amazingly powerful ability to help you evolve, spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and even biologically. This evolution is priceless, because it is so positive and effective.
As with other books of this nature, this is a book that will transform you just by your holding it. Why? Simply because holding it is a manner of coming into contact with Kirael, and Kirael is an immensely advanced and benevolent entity. Even if you only read the book once, your contact with Kirael will remain for the rest of your life, and this is something that can be counted as a huge blessing.
By the way, there are other books, channelled from advanced entities, that have similar effects. I mention this so that people don't become convinced that Kirael is unique in this respect. For those who are curious and want to find other benevolent spiritual teachers and guides, I would mention in particular the following books: "The explorer race"; "The Hathor material"; "The nature of personal reality"; and "the Pleiadian workbook". They all are outstanding works of immense wisdom, yet they present very different paths to spiritual growth. Enjoy your reading!

"Kirael: The Great Shift" is an extraordinary piece of work. It provides the reader with the insight about personal and planetary changes. Simply put, Kirael and Fred Sterling have gifted us with a message that will change everything we feel and believe in...for the better. It is time to heal, read this book!

Kirael, "The Great Shift" has provided me valuable insights to life's questions which I have always wanted to ask, but never knew where. We can all relate to the fascination which the new millennium brings, man's eternal search for the beyond. Since Biblical times, it has been written of a great change to come, a time of love, peace, and serenity. Kirael answers questions to both past and present, tying in topics from Jesus to the Extra Terrestials. This book is essential reading for anyone living in the 90's in search of their eternal truths.

I highly recommend this book.It will liberate you from the
now recent obesession with gender "differences" and you will
see the world around you in a new light.
The book is pleasant and does not talk down to the reader
as many of the "gender difference" books do.It isn't
preachy or arrogant,instead it makes the reader think about
how the world around them has been so manipulated to keep
status quo thinking going.
This is not a gender differences book,it's a book which
let's us know we are all complex and not actually
limited by gender specific behavior,as the "researchers"
call "appropriate" behavior or apptitudes which people have
been labeled.

Fausto-Sterling will take her place in feminist history as the leading embryologist, and perhaps even, the leading scientist, doing gender studies in the latter 20th and earlier 21st centuries. Who would have thought she could excell beyond her ground-breaking text, "Myths of Gender"?

This time she takes on her own scientific field, exposing how blindered, sexist, heterosexist, and flat out stuck and harm-inducing it has become. Given that she presents her arguments in the body of the text in a very reader-friendly language and style, and has nearly a separate text of endnotes of hard-core feminist critical analyses ta boot, we've got in this great work of hers a text reminiscent of Virginia Woolf's "Three Guinneas."

Anne Fausto-Sterling's special interest this go around is science's primary complicity in the (hetero) sexing of psycho-medically dominated and controlled bodies. She provides one of the best feminist analyses of Gender Systematicity as the key politically shaped, shaping, and biased torture device for transsexual and intersex people today.

This is a very important text for sexology, feminist, gender, queer, US, cultural, and transgender studies, history of science, and anthropology of medicine and science. It's a brave read, if not deadly on point. Probably best for graduate scholars, but should be required for any professional in sexology, gender specialist, or medical personnel before they lay one hand or idea of treatment on transsexual or intersex people!

Humans, God's remarkable creation. It seems as though man's curiosity can't help but destroy the creation. This book is very educational and full of information to all sexes. For centuries, intersex children were outcasts, and poked fun of with evil jeers. This book tells and shows you about the intersex gender, and its existence. The book is rated E: for everyone.

I first read this book about ten years ago and the MOST delightful Hiero's Journey a short time before that. There is no doubt we are all in agreement that a third book would be welcomed with open arms. Hiero's Journey and the just as wonderful Unforsaken Hiero rank in the top 3 of my favorite books of all time. My mother introduced me to these books and I would love to be able to share them with others but that's not an easy thing since they are so hard to find (I can't trust them with just anybody). I've never had any luck finding another copy of either, but I'm still looking. The ones I've read belong to my mother and I'd really like a copy of both for myself. Aside from that, hers are so old and well read that they are falling apart. So, if the people or persons with the publishing rights to these two books are listening, please republish these books ! These are the kind of books we want to be able to share with others and pass down to future generations. These books should never be forgotten and they are so hard to find now that in five years they will be all but extinct (they practically are now). How completely sad that would be. Mr. Lanier, if you are out there, we implore you to write number three. If you are not able to, maybe you could collaborate on the project with someone who can. I'm sure any of the top novelists in the sci-fi genre would be proud to be a part of such a timeless and amazing piece of literature. Anybody out there who hasn't read these books and comes across the opportunity to do so, I recommend them highly, even without the long awaited and painfully anticipated number three.

I originally read "Hieros Journey", and "The Unforsaken Hiero" years ago and enjoyed them so much that I kept them safely tucked away to reread again. Well, I've just finnished and all I can say is "WoW!,Do I love these books!!!"
Please, Please, Please Mr. Lanier won't you finnish the story !?! Those of us that Love your books BEG you !!!!

I have read these books many times and continue to go back to them. They are at the top of the genra. It seems Mr. Lanier has been in ill health for some years, and is unable to write.
It would be wonderful if someone could continue the saga. I have to order more books, as my other ones have worn out from too many readings.
I highly recommend all 3 of his books.

"True Blue Forever" is an excellent read. The characters transport you back in time to your own High School days. The fast moving pace keeps you riveted as you turn each page. Your soul is touched by each one of the four High School characters leaving you rooting for each. The author makes the story of young love poignant and believable while conveying each characters nuance. Joyce Sterling Scarbrough is truly a gifted writer and I can't wait to read her next novel.

I have just completed a warm, moving, thoroughly enjoyable novel, penned by one talented lady by the name of Joyce Scarbrough. (No need to write her name down... I predict that, over the next couple of years, hers will be the one that will pop into your head whenever you think of 'relationship' novels.) Now, for a brief glance at the power of her novel 'True Blue Forever,' that is the basis of my claim. Anyone can devise a plot. This is why Aunt Bertha, the best friend, and the next door neighbor all approach an author with the story that the author 'just has to write, the story that can't miss!' The fact is, as any author or reader can tell you, a novel is developed to stand on its own or fall in failure based on how real, how authentic, in short, how love-worthy and hate-worthy the characters are. The breadth of the characters in 'True Blue Forever' is why this novel will 'stand' -- will stand for a long, long time. Jeana and Mickie have an enduring quality to their love that you know, from their first embrace, will enable them to climb over and move beyond any obstacle. And the obstacles they face are monumental, and for the reader, compelling. That speaks eloquently for the strength of their love. But, of course that strength is meaningless until tested. Enter the antagonist. I guess the true test of the antagonist, as a character, is how to make him fearful, dangerous, and a worthy opponent to the one (s) you are pulling for without making him so evil that he becomes a caricature to whom the reader can not possibly relate. The author excels with the development of a completely believable Wade Strickland. You grow to hate him, you really do. You want him to suffer for his wrong-doings, to suffer greatly! Then, at about the moment you wish him dead, wiped off the earth, the author, with uncanny timing, gives the story a tweak and you see Wade in a different light. Maybe you'll give him another chance -- if it's not too late... I want to go out on a limb, here, and predict that 'True Blue Forever' will be a summer reading hit. Look around you at the beach or shore. If there's any fairness in the world, I think you'll see it in the hands of sun-worshipers from coast to coast. I'm sure your friends will be reading it. You'll be able to borrow a copy from them. But do yourself a favor and buy your own copy. This is a book you'll also want to cuddle up with in front of your winter fireplace. As long as there's love left in this world there should always be room on your books-to-be-Re-read bookshelf for 'True Blue Forever.'

Tired of bills, traffic, telemarketers, and--my biggest pet peeve--those dad-blasted blister packs that require The Jaws of Life for opening and always end up sticking me under a fingernail? Well, forget about it all for a few hours and read True Blue Forever. You'll find yourself in a world of first loves and first kisses, surrounded by blue-eyed hunks, super-cool muscle cars, moonlit nights on Gulf Coast beaches, and so much 70's music and culture it'll have you sporting a 'fro and searching for that Heatwave 8-track so you can listen to "Always and Forever" while you read.

Whether you're in high school now or it's a distant memory, and regardless of whether you loved it or hated it, you'll love meeting Jeana, Mickey, Wade, and Billy Joe: four atypical teens who will each win your heart in their own way. They deal with plenty of teenage angst, just none of the banalities featured in so many books--like the dreaded zit on picture day and having two dates for the prom. These are teens who make mistakes and are subject to raging hormones like everyone else, but they're smart enough to look at the big picture and take responsibility for the choices they make. You'll laugh and cry with them, seethe and long to soothe them, and when you get to the end of the book, you'll want to go back and read it again so you can visit with them a little longer.

True Blue Forever is more than just a novel: It's an introduction for readers to four new lifelong friends.

The Daddy Decision was terrific, Donna Sterling at her very best. The plot was original and the characters were wonderful-both major and secondary.

Ms. Sterling is definitely one of today's most gifted romance writers. I can't wait until her next book comes out!

Well, this one has it all...a reunion theme, unrequited love, a reformed bad boy hero, and a heroine who wants a baby, but not a husband. Both a little gun shy about relationships after their torrid affair ended 15 years prior, Laura and Cort meet again and old passions are rekindled. A fun, sexy read!

The overpowering emotional intensity this story evokes is nothing short of magical. Donna clearly is a gifted novelist who is getting sharper with each release. I have found great enjoyment in reading this and all of her previous books. Keep them coming!

Donna Sterling has done it again...won my heart to her characters. I adored Cole--who wouldn't--but I thought Tess a warm, yet honorable woman who knew her own heart and did not let anyone mess with her head. Brava, Ms. Sterling!

TOO many times, a female writer, writing from a feminine perspective, gets caught up in her lady characters though a slight foray into the man's emotional make-up is expected. I was absolutely blown away by Cole, the perceived "playboy," and the gut-wrenching emotions he dug out of himself and even me. His passion is incredible, his outpowering of love, devotion, and fidelity balances a trembling fear that after learning to love for the first time, he might not be able to keep the woman he never knew he wanted. Wonderful book! It completely wrung me ragged.

Donna Sterling's books keep getting better and better. She writes with charm and grace, creating characters the reader can't help but enjoy. Above all that, Ms. Sterling has a strong and real understanding of how to create a wonderful romance. Delightful!

THIS BOOK TURNS YOU IN EVERY DIRECTION SO THAT YOU'RE NOT SURE WHAT'S NOT TRUE. And especially with some of the things happening in the news that are in the book. It makes you think, laugh (some times out loud!!!), cry, and wipe your brow and go "WHEW" in diffrent ways.
The book has money, politics, sex (& birth control), education, some profanity (not near as much as some books)for more expression, families, history, holidays, music, military, disabilities, sports, humor.
There's different things going on in both stories but the two stories are related; and the stories can be read together as one complete book even starting from the back with the modern day scifi story that has politcal undertones and then read THE Bonus at the front a modern day contemporary story that also touches on politics so that the book becomes a complete scifi book.
But you can also switch and then read THE Bonus from the front through SISTER at the back and get an entirely different and complete story that becomes all TODAY and contemporary. Or read just one of the stories and still get a complete story. It's like having three different books all in one but still telling one story.

FRank, honest, open look at life. With twists and strong support for education, family, relationships (friends, couples, families).

i've read the book a couple of times and keep getting something different each time. the last time and though the short scifi story Sister Planet at the end of the book was supposed to be part of a dream taken from contemporary The Bonus this time when i read the entire book again i got the impression that Sister Planet was really the main story that pulled in The Bonus which is the longer and more detailed story at the beginning. you can read the book from front to back or back to front and get two complete stories and not sure which complete story is really the lead story. it's a book that i'll read again because it follows the calendar and pulls in sports, summer stuff, holidays, and also has EXTREMELY detailed relationships between adult couples and families. some funny dejavue and true to life stuff that kicks off the holdiay seasons. some stuff that's actually happening in the news today is also in both stories which makes this book good and based on when it was written which might make it seem true scifi but also nonfiction.

This story is a bit of a autobiography. At times it jumps around in an attempt to describe several parallel thoughts but it gets a bit confusing. It serves well as a "period piece" of sorts revealing the social and cultural elements of the author's youth and early adulthood. The story has less to do with sailing and more to do with the author's search for himself. Interesting and fairly well developed story line. Sometimes I got the feeling that this book was some kind of catharsis for the author in order to make sense of his unorthadox life. He battles against a world with order and goals that values expensive houses and big retirement accounts at the expense of enriched experiences.

Despite being marketed as a maritime book, "Wanderer" is as much a description of one man's inner wanderings as it is a travelogue of Hayden's travel to Tahiti.Throughout, Hayden comes off as a resolute man of principle and insight.I have read the book three times and always glean something new from it. Highly recommended.

Just replace the word 'Wanderer' with 'Philosopher' throughout this book and you will get the idea of what the author is unconsciously trying to say. The autobiography WANDERER (c.1963, 2000) by Sterling Hayden, is a narrative written in the first and third person of a man who became enamoured with working sail at an early age, and in its pursuit, acquired a multitude of diverse life experiences few people have achieved, and/or, depending on your viewpoint, would want.

The author has compiled a litany of accomplishment simply by writing about the lifestyle he loved best. Sterling Hayden was a dory fisherman in the Grand Banks as a teenager; captained a two masted brig from Boston to Tahiti at age 22; he then became one of the youngest Master Mariners at age 24; sailed around the world twice; sailed to Tahiti several times; was the protege of the top men in his field such as: Robert O. White (Instrument Maker); Irving Johnson, Lincoln Colcord, and Ben Pine. He was also a mate on board the Gloucesterman 'Gertrude L. Thebaud' in its historic race against the big Canadian saltbanker'Bluenose'. He dined with the President of the United States; became a movie star; married a movie star; starred in two Stanley Kubrick productions; became wealthy and became broke; was an enlisted man then a Marine Corp officer; test-ran some of the first PT boats for the U.S. Navy; became an intelligence officer in the Balkans during W.W.II with the nascent O.S.S. and met with its founder 'Wild Bill' Donovan; and testified before the Senate Committee investigating un-American activities in Hollywood. Even from his best jobs Sterling Hayden would willingly descend down the social ladder as drifter, vagabond, and working sailor, because to him they were all interchangeable.

Taking his natural abilities and high innate intelligence for granted, Sterling Hayden essentially gravitated to the forefront of every occupation he fell into, and didn't know why. This is one source for the author's angst, that is, his unconscious attraction to the elite, and then when excelling in that particular field with a talent he is unaware and doesn't understand, developed a mental fugue and leaves.

Such is the nature of the existentialist who collects life experiences to build his character rather than material goods to increase his mercantile wealth. Sterling Hayden measured his wealth in a different way and just as a rich man might judge a man who lacked money, Sterling Hayden judged men throughout WANDERER who lacked character.

Yet Hayden fled from a broken home and his nomadic existence and unstable environment came with a price; the author suffered from alcoholism, depression, conflict, obsessive guilt, and anxiety neurosis. His autobiography is tinged with regret.

But Sterling Hayden's autobiography is valuable for the first hand view of Grandbanks fishing schooners during the 1930s; the actual terminology of the fishermen he represents; his first hand accounts of depression era Boston - his experiences in East Boston and South Boston, his employment with fisherman on Boston's old 'T' wharf; and his friendship with Lawrence Patrick Joseph O'Toole (of the South Boston O'Tooles) who pushed Hayden into his acting career; and Hayden's account of Hollywood agents and 'B' movie contracts.

The autobiography WANDERER by Sterling Hayden, should be required reading in any philosophy, sociology, psychology, or political science course; and it also makes fascinating reading of the interesting life of a complicated man.

John Carter, Dejah Thoris, Tars Tarkas, they are all here! This is the totally unbelievable story of a man who got transported to Mars basically, because he thought it would be cool to go, so he wished it, and POOF, he's there. Then, there's the fact that the planet itself and the life on it are also completely ridiculous. FORGET ALL THAT! Read it to be swept up in one of the greatest adventure series of all time. John Carter goes to Barsoom (Mars, to the Martians) rescues the most beautiful woman in the universe and (later in the series) conquers an entire world through the power of his will and the strength of his right arm. Handsome, powerful heroes, beautiful half naked captive princesses just panting to be rescued, Villians, so evil you want to go back in time to strangle their parents, Big ugly friends, (What are you laughing at, remember Chewbacca?) strange beasts, stranger aliens, wierd science, epic battles, betrayals, great reunions. This one's got it all. The best of Burroughs' body of work, the most action packed series from the true master of the action story. Edgar Rice Burroughs is the creator of Tarzan. Don't ever pick up his work expecting an intellectual workout. Just get in and hang on for the ride

You want imagination?..adventure?..a few dabs of science(remember it was written in 1912)?..an ageless hero?..an absolutely beautiful damsel in distress?..a whole new world?..with a language all it's own?..inhabited with strange new creatures?.. friends and foes?..battles royal?..This book, and all 10 or 11 sequels, have it all! ER Burroughs was the early master of science fiction, adventure, and imagination; a man ahead of his time, and he gives the reader a roller-coaster ride of incredible adventures. Join with us now as John Carter meets, rescues,and captures the heart of the INCOMPARABLE Dejah Thoris, Princess of Mars!, and eventually, along with his friend Tars Tarkas, follows suit with the entire red planet, Barsoom to its wild and whacky inhabitants.

Is this intellectual literature?..of course not. Is it non-stop fun and enjoyment, the original page-turner novel?...You bet it is! Pick this book up, start reading, and I guarantee: you won't put it down until you're finished!..and then you'll run out the door and be hunting for the 2nd book in the series, The Gods of Mars, and then # 3, The Warlord of Mars, and on through the series. Be warned: make sure you have access to #'s 2 and 3 before you start The Princess...you'll be sorry if you don't!

I first read the Burroughs Martian novels(there were 10 known to me then) as a graduate student studying Physics, some 40 years ago. They provided the perfect escape from the rigors of courses like Quantum Mechanics and E & M. Now I reread them,and I continue to enjoy. You will too.

Retired confederate soldier and southern gentleman John Carter is pursued by Indians, and through unexplainable circumstances finds himself transported to Barsoom, also known as the planet Mars. There he finds a dying planet of brutal and untamed savagery, contrasted sharply with the rich cultures of ancient races. Arriving alone, naked and friendless, "A Princess of Mars" tells the tale of how John Carter, with the aid of his earthly strength and agility, sets forth on an incredible adventure against enormous odds to rescue the beautiful Dejah Thoris, the incomparable Princess of Helium.

One of Edgar Rice Burrough's earliest works, the first chapter in the Martian series is also one of his finest. A page turning adventure with lots of action make John Carter one of Burrough's most beloved heroes. His imagination ran wild in creating the martian landscape, and this is a delight to read for all ages.