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Merryll Manning: The Health Farm Murders
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John Howard Reid
rastar
, August 05, 2009
It would be difficult for me to add anything further to the following review by Cherie Fisher in “Reader Views”, August, 2009, (quoted in full by permission of the publisher): “Merryll Manning: The Health Farm Murders” is a well-written story full of intrigue and suspense that will keep you turning pages until the final surprising outcome. John Howard Reid wrote this story twelve years ago, and now it is finally making its way into the United States market. It is the second of twelve in the Merryll Manning series. The story is written about a town called Happy Valley, but it is actually based on a real town called Blackheath, Australia, in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. The characters are fictional, but the events are based on actual murders that occurred in a few different places and venues. Merryll “Merry” Manning is taking a well-earned vacation from the Miami Police Department, or is he? He arrives at Sister Susan’s Health Farm in Happy Valley, Australia, excited at the prospect of doing something healthy and restful from his stressful job. He quickly finds himself in the middle of an investigation as the other visitors at the health farm start dying. Police Sergeant Lambert is quick to blame Jimbo Punter, a local who had an affair with the Sergeant’s wife. Merry is not convinced that Jimbo is involved and looks at everyone as a suspect. Each of the suspects is a very colorful character, but do they have the potential of turning into a deadly killer? The author does an excellent job of describing the local countryside in detail. The story setting is in a beautiful valley that was burned by fire. It includes a harrowing hike through the sometimes beautiful, sometimes desolate terrain that has many landslides, sheer cliffs and rivers – all places for people to meet unfortunate ends. As Merry is fully immersed in this nightmare, he finds part of the truth to what has been happening as he almost loses his life. The other part of the truth comes out later and is very surprising. I recommend “Merryll Manning: The Health Farm Murders” by John Howard Reid to mystery fans; it makes for a great summer read.
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Across the Long Bridge: An Anthology of Award-Winning Poetry
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John Howard Reid
rastar
, August 04, 2009
Everyone who loves fine poems or has an interest in poetry and contemporary verse will enjoy this award-winning collection, now available in a beautiful new hardcover edition. My own favorites include major Prize Winners like "Does Anyone Know I'm Here" by Daniel E. Speers ("It's funny how somewhere can become nowhere./Does anyone know I'm here?"); "The Window" by Marie Delgado Travis (the window "From where we saw /the Third Avenue El /and fell asleep /to its sound"); "Chefosaurus" by Graeme King ("A dinosaur went walking to see what he could munch; /Perhaps a small triceratops would make a tasty lunch?"; and "Sounds of Sailing" by Karen Taggart-Hatlen: "I watch the small boat slap the waves. /The groan of its motor /Sleeps beneath the sound of its smacking hull /and the solid thump on the water /Mesmerizes me with its cadence, until /It fades in the distance. /Gone. /Drumming with the wind."
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Write Ways to Win Writing Contests How to Join the Winners Circle for Prose & Poetry Awards New
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Howard John Reid
rastar
, July 25, 2009
There's a science to winning a big literary contest. And by "big" the author means a worthwhile contest that offers a prize pool at least 200 times a standard entry fee. If the standard entry fee is $15 for instance, the author stipulates you should expect a prize pool of at least $3,000. The author strongly advises submitting more than one entry. You may have written the greatest baseball story of all time, but if the judge has no interest in baseball, your entry, no matter how superbly written, is headed straight for the reject basket. Therefore another of the author's many tips is not to enter a contest where the judge is not known. And if the judge's name is available, try to find out something about him or her. Is the judge a published author or an academic? And finally I'd like to pass on one of the most important tips in the book: Read past winning entries. If you've written a brilliant story set in medieval France and you notice all the past winning entries are set in contemporary USA, your chance of winning a prize in this particular contest is close to nil.
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Hollywood Gold: Films of the Forties and Fifties
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John Howard Reid
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, December 20, 2008
Author/movie critic/film fan John Howard Reid is obviously an enthusiast for Hollywood's classic films of the 1940s, for this is his fourth book on this subject. (There could even be others, disguised under less obvious titles like "Movies Magnificent"). Of the four I know about, this one is probably the most useful for the fan who wants to move beyond the well-known classics like "Casablanca" and "How Green Was My Valley", and explore some of the lesser-known but equally fascinating product from Hollywood's golden era. "Letter from an Unknown Woman", for example, is one of my favorite movies. So are the Rita Hayworth-Fred Astaire musicals, "You'll Never Get Rich" and "You Were Never lovelier". So, most especially is "The Sea Wolf", "Tales of Manhattan", "Nightmare Alley", "The Adventures of Mark Twain" and "The Postman Always Rings Twice". Many others. And it's good to see that most of these classics have been (or soon will be) released on DVD for us all to collect and enjoy again and again. This book is a great guide for both movie fans and DVD collectors.
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Popular Pictures of the Hollywood 1940s
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John Reid
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, December 20, 2008
The synopsis doesn't tell us much about this book. What are these "120 popular films" the book details and describes? They are arranged alphabetically from "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" (1940) through to "Yellow Sky" (1948) by way of such masterpieces as "Adam's Rib", "Anchors Aweigh", "Buck Privates", "Cabin in the Sky", "Coney Island", "Dumbo", "Fantasia", "Homecoming", "How Green Was My Valley", "It's a Wonderful Life", "The Jungle Book", "The Keys of the Kingdom", "Love Happy", "Mildred Pierce", "National Velvet", "The Rains Came", "Roxie Hart", "The Sea Hawk", "Sitting Pretty", "The Talk of the Town", "Three Little Words", "Till the Clouds Roll By", "Under Capricorn", "A Walk in the Sun", "The White Tower" and many, many others. Each film is supplied with complete cast and camera credits, plus other essential facts, plus reviews and comments. In short, it's a must-have book for fans of Hollywood's major productions of the 1940s. It's also a most useful guide for DVD collectors.
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Memorable Films of the Forties
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John Reid
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, December 20, 2008
With a photo of a "Casablanca" poster on the cover, and an equally striking black-and-white reproduction of more "Casablanca" art on the very first page, plus posters of "Belle Starr", "Laura", "Yankee Doodle Dandy", "Cobra Woman", "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" on pages two through six, I knew this was a book I wanted to buy before I even glanced through the extremely detailed text with all the information anyone could possibly want to know on some of the most famous films of the decade. The book has only one drawback: -- it leaves you wanting more! Fortunately, the author has supplied just this in a following book called "Popular Pictures of the Hollywood 1940s".
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Movies Magnificent: 150 Must-See Cinema Classics
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John Reid
rastar
, December 20, 2008
Author John Howard Reid is obviously a fan of films made in the 1940s. He has written at least four books describing movies made in this decade. The others are "Memorable Films of the Forties", "Popular Pictures of the Hollywood 1940s" and "Hollywood Gold: Films of the Forties and Fifties". Although neither the cover photo of Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr in "Algiers" (1938) and the title of the book itself itself give any indication of the fact, this book is actually mainly concerned with the 1940s decade as well. True, like "Algiers", "Bird of Paradise", "Dimples", "Dinner at Eight", "Million Dollar Legs", "Winterset", "Dixiana" and "The Women", a few movies from the 1930s have crept in as well; but most of the films are from the 40s. Not that I'm complaining. The 40s is my favorite decade too. It's wonderful to see so many of my favorite films so lovingly detailed and described, but perhaps even more wonderful to receive so many pointers to other films that I may equally well enjoy. I'll keep a watch out for them on TV or DVD.
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Award-Winning Films of the 1930s
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John Reid
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, December 20, 2008
So far as movies are concerned, when it comes to the 1930s, most people think of only a dozen famous movies such as Gone With the Wind, Grand Hotel, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Stagecoach, It Happened One Night, The Wizard of Oz, Lost Horizon, San Francisco, All Quiet on the Western Front, Stagecoach, Goodbye Mr Chips, and The Adventures of Robin Hood. All these movies won awards. But there were other pictures from the decade that were equally prized and also won strings of awards. Some like "Kentucky", "Spawn of the North" and "Hold That Kiss" are forgotten. Others are only half-remembered. But they all won awards, and they are all lovingly detailed and described in this book. Some of these half-forgotten gems have already been re-issued on DVD and more will follow in 2009 and 2010. This book is a great guide for DVD collectors who want information and are keen to buy the movies they know they will enjoy the most!
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Hollywood Movie Musicals
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John Howard Reid
rastar
, December 16, 2008
This delightful book not only brings back many happy memories of Hollywood's most pleasing musicals like "Annie Get Your Gun", "White Christmas", "The Sound of Music" and "Singin' in the Rain", but serves as a valuable guide to purchasing many of these glorious delights on DVD. After all, musicals can be enjoyed again and again, but how often do you want to see a murder mystery over and over?
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These Movies Won No Hollywood Awards
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John Reid
rastar
, December 15, 2008
Many people imagine that all Hollywood's famous films won multiple awards and were recognized as superior entertainments at the time of their original release. This belief, alas, is often wide of the mark. In this unusual, well-researched book, the author examines in detail 142 movies that won no Hollywood awards. Among the surprises are such highly regarded movies as "Carrie" (often cited as director William Wyler's masterpiece), which was acclaimed overseas but failed locally because it was released here in a cut version that eliminated an important scene. Classics like "Queen Christina", "Metropolis", "Grand Illusion", "The Glass Menagerie", "Footlight Parade", "Storm Warning", "Words and Music", "The Browning Version", "Pandora and the Flying Dutchman", all missed out! So did many popular musicals like "On Moonlight Bay", "Carefree" and "My Wild Irish Rose." Shirley Temple movies and comedies like "She Done Him Wrong" (which was actually nominated for Best Picture) fared poorly in the awards stakes too. All told, this book provides a fascinating footnote to Hollywood's much-publicized movie accolades.
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America's Best, Britain's Finest: A Survey of Mixed Movies
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John Howard Reid
rastar
, December 11, 2008
In my teenage years, I simply assumed that all movies were made in Hollywood. I was vaguely aware that other countries made movies too, but it wasn't until the success of "Bridge on the River Kwai" that I became acutely aware of the extensive two-way traffic between Britain and Hollywood. This massive, large-format, 326-page book exhaustively details a large number of movies ranging from spectacles like "Land of the Pharaohs" and "Tom Jones", to comedies like "On the Double" (with Danny Kaye and Diana Dors) and "Casino Royale" (with Peter Sellers and Orson Welles), to flings of horror like "The Man Who Changed His Mind" (Boris Karloff) and "Blind Terror" (with Mia Farrow), to mystery/suspense like "Bunny Lake Is Missing" (with Carol Lynley) and Alfred Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes" (with Margaret Lockwood and Dame May Whitty). A fascinating book, absolutely crammed full with facts and details, it misses out on only one score. The author has written so much text, there is room for only 16 pages of photos.
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Anyone for Love?
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John Howard Reid
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, December 10, 2008
Does anyone still read poetry today? I guess a lot of people do, because poetry contests are flourishing all over the country, and you can't write poetry unless you read a fair bit of it first! "Anyone for Love?" is an anthology of work by John Howard Reid, illustrated with the poet's own photographs. It's often hard to decide which are the more pictorially fascinating -- the poems or the photos. Many of the poems are cleverly arranged to form intriguing patterns. I know that the primary reason people are buying this book is to obtain an idea of Reid's own themes, writing style and preferences (he's the chief judge of two of our nation's major poetry contests), but his multifaceted verses are all worth reading simply for their own delightful novelty and/or intrinsic beauty.
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Movie Westerns: Hollywood Films the Wild, Wild West
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John Howard Reid
rastar
, December 10, 2008
This has to rate as one of the best value, as well as one of the most pleasing movie books on the market. Beautiful, full color covers (John Wayne on the front; Tyrone Power making his mark as Zorro on the back), enclose 272 large-format pages (including 50 photos) in which the author colorfully details the best of the west. There's even a complete list (with cast details) of all Charles Starrett's 166 movies, plus fascinating statistics of the most popular western stars from 1931 through 1954. The movies that Reid reviews, all lovingly detailed and described, cover not only "A" and "B" westerns, but even a few comedies like "Ride 'Em, Cowboy" and "The Boy from Oklahoma".
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Science-Fiction & Fantasy Cinema: Classic Films of Horror, Sci-Fi & the Supernatural
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John Howard Reid
rastar
, December 10, 2008
I was never a great fan of science fiction and horror movies, but I have to admit that this excellent book is something of an eye-opener regarding this genre. As well as all the detailed credits and reviews of many classic films, the author lists his "130 Top Flights of Film Fantasy". He regards "The Road to Rio" (number 23) as a film fantasy, and when you think about it (and after reading his excellent comments), that is precisely what the movie is. "Tarzan and the Amazons" is also less obvious fantasy, and so is "The Belle of New York" and "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes". Of course, Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Invisible Man are obvious contenders, and so are Francis, Chanoc, Peter Ibbetson, Scrooge, Santo, the Wolf Man, Pinocchio, Sindbad, Peter Pan, the Thief of Bagdad, and even the Perfect Woman (it turns out she's a robot like Robby in "Forbidden Planet"). All told, a fascinating book, well up to the lively but impeccably detailed and researched writing, as well as the lavish production standards of other books from this author.
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Your Colossal Main Feature Plus Full Support Program
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John Howard Reid
rastar
, December 10, 2008
Yes, I can remember the days when going to a cinema was the highlight of the week. When I was at school, the Saturday movie matinee was something every kid looked forward to with the greatest anticipation. Finally, I graduated to going mid-week. I tried to avoid Saturday nights when theaters were literally packed to the doors. So I opened this book with a great deal of anticipation. The front cover promised Bette Davis (always one of my favorites) as "Jezebel", while the colorful back cover featured the lovely Yvonne De Carlo as "Buccaneer's Girl"! Among the many films detailed and described in this nostalgic book, I well remember "Tarzan's New York Adventure", Deanna Durbin in "That Certain Age", Bing Crosby and Bob Hope "On the Road to Zanzibar", Charles Laughton as Captain Bligh in "Mutiny on the Bounty", Gary Cooper as "Mr Deeds Goes To Town" and as the town marshal in "High Noon", William Powell as "The Great Ziegfeld", and Tyrone Power of "Alexander's Ragtime Band" -- to mention but a few of the movies so lovingly detailed, described and discussed in this wonderful book. It's good to find so many of these movies now available on DVD.
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Cinemascope One: Stupendous in 'Scope
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John Reid
rastar
, December 09, 2008
This is the first book in the "CinemaScope" series by movie critic, John Howard Reid. While it is a very good book, it's not as impressive as the other two books in the series, namely "CinemaScope Two: 20th Century Fox" and "CinemaScooe 3: Hollywood Takes the Plunge". This one is not only less lavish than the other books, but, with a number of significant exceptions, many of the the films that Reid details and reviews seem either less important or less interesting. Reid also shows a tendency to bury important information. For instance, everyone would expect the author to provide a short account of the spectacular origin and eventual demise of the wide-screen process extensively promoted and advertised as "CinemaScope". And indeed John Howard Reid does just this -- but he buries the whole account in five big pages of closely printed notes on the obscure movie, "You Lucky People"! True, "You Lucky People" was the major factor in CinemaScope's demise, but few people would know this!
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Cinemascope Two: 20th Century-Fox
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John Reid
rastar
, December 09, 2008
This is the second of three books by film critic, John Howard Reid, detailing movies made in the "CinemaScope" wide-screen process. His other books in this series are "CinemaScope One: Stupendous in Scope" and "CinemaScope 3: Hollywood Takes the Plunge". In this book, as the title makes clear, Reid focuses entirely on the 'Scope films released by the 20th Century-Fox studio (although it should be noted that "released" is the operative word. Reid includes films made by other companies, such as Regal Films, that were not produced by Fox, but released through Fox exchanges). Just about all the famous Fox CinemaScope movies such as "The Robe", "How To Marry a Millionaire", "Anastasia", "Can-Can", "Carmen Jones", "Fantastic Voyage", "The Egyptian", "Von Ryan's Express", "House of Bamboo", "The King and I", "Carousel", "Daddy Long Legs" and "The Virgin Queen" are exhaustively detailed here with reviews, credits and background notes. As many of these films become available on DVD, such easily accessible information delivers a great bonus not only for cinema fans generally, but for DVD collectors in particular.
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Cinemascope 3: Hollywood Takes the Plunge
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John Howard Reid
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, December 09, 2008
This is the third book in the CinemaScope series by film critic, John Howard Reid. His previous books were "CinemaScope One: Stupendous in Scope" and "CinemaScope Two: 20th Century Fox". This present book is by far the best in the series. At 368 large-format pages (including 60 pages of original, black-and-white, cinema posters), it is not only the biggest and most engaging, but the most extensive and most interesting. However, you should be aware that the author's approach is somewhat unusual. Instead of providing a potted history of the anamorphic, wide-screen process, trademarked by the 20th Century-Fox film studio as "CinemaScope" (sic), Reid has chosen to focus on around 170 films released in this medium, providing not only reviews, but full cast and camera credits, and extensive background details. Now that many of these movies are making their debuts on DVD, this is indeed valuable information. This book is not only a godsend for movie buffs, but for all who collect classic and vintage movies on DVD.
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Traveling: An Anthology of Award-Winning Poetry
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John Reid
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, December 06, 2008
For all of us who enjoy the best of modern poetry, this book is a show-stopper. My favorite is "The Dark Room" by Elaine Winer, which deservedly won First Prize in the prestigious annual Tom Howard Poetry Contest. And from a feminist point of view, it's also pleasing to find that Mary Ann Wehler and Catherine De Laney carried off Second and Third Prizes respectively in the same competition; although I actually preferred Tina Richardson's Most Highly Commended runner-up, "Traveling" which gives its title to the whole anthology. Still, you can't please everyone, and one of the fun things about a book like this, is selecting the poems you think should have won major awards and not simply a "Commended" or even a "Highly Commended".
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In All His Glory
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John Howard Reid
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, December 06, 2008
Many good novels have used Ancient Egypt as an historical background for their stories, but few novelists know the area so well and in such fascinating detail as Bible scholar, John Howard Reid. For all his knowledge, however, Reid manages to keep his thrilling plot and his super-suspenseful story moving at high gear throughout his whole 282-page novel. A gallery of intriguing characters certainly helps, as does Reid's lucid writing.
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More Bible Wisdom for Modern Times: Selections from the Early New Testament
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John Howard Reid
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, December 06, 2008
Mark's Gospel was always my favorite because it is based on the personal account given by Simon Peter himself, to his secretary, Saint Mark. Here we have an impression of Jesus by an actual eyewitness, and a super important eyewitness at that! In his new translation, John Howard Reid, has powerfully used Peter's exact words, as recorded by Mark. The picture of Jesus that emerges from Peter's own lips is quite different from that presented by the other gospel writers. Unlike many other so-called "translations", Reid has here preserved what Peter actually said, not what many people (including Matthew and Luke) think he should have said! This is an essential book not only for all Christians, but for all who wish to learn the truth about Jesus, the Christ.
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Bible Wisdom for Modern Times: Selections from the Orthodox Old Testament
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John Howard Reid
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, December 06, 2008
By "orthodox" Old Testament, the author obviously means the Old Testament version of the Bible currently used by the Greek Orthodox Church. This translation from the Hebrew Bible was made around 200 B.C. Regarded as both authorized and authoritative by Saint Paul and in fact all the authors of the New Testament, it was used exclusively by the Christian Church until the 5th century when it was supplanted by a Latin translation made by St Jerome. This "orthodox" Old Testament contains a number of books that are not included in the Hebrew Bible, including the wonderful "Adventures of Toby" which Jesus Himself knew and quoted from. A very readable translation of "Toby" is included in John Howard Reid's book. I don't know that I would agree with Reid's claim that "Toby" is the greatest short story ever written, but it certainly goes close!
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Essential Bible Wisdom: GOOD NEWS by John, the Beloved Disciple, and John, the Elder
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John Howard Reid
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, December 06, 2008
What the translator has attempted here is very ambitious. He has attempted to reconstruct the original manuscript of John's Gospel as John, the beloved disciple, originally left it, before it came into the hands of a person known as John, the elder (or presbyter) who not only edited the manuscript and added comments of his own, but completely changed its sequence of incidents. Many critics would possibly disagree with the order in which familiar incidents now appear, but there is no doubt they now make sense and correspond to a greater extent with the accounts in Matthew, Mark and Luke.
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Sailing in the Mist of Time: Fifty Award-Winning Poems
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Reid, John Howard
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, November 24, 2008
As one of the prizewinning poets who contributed one of the 108 poems included in this Anthology, I am naturally a little prejudiced. In my opinion this is one of the best collections of modern American mainstream poetry currently available. So, without commenting on my own contribution, I'd like to say how much I admire Susan Keith's "Remembrance" which most deservedly won First Prize. This is truly a powerful tribute to Jackie Kennedy. It is very evocatively told as if Jackie herself were speaking. "Do you remember my voice?" she asks in the very first line. With so many wonderful poems, it's difficult to choose other favorites, but I was very moved by "For Jen" by Jessica Morrow, and "Central Park" by Noble Collins with its devastating last lines in St Patrick's Cathedral, "There, among tiers of candles, I was not alone."
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A Packet of Dreams
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John Howard Reid
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, November 24, 2008
In a varied collection like this, and when every entry is of such a high standard,it's not so easy to pick favorites, but first I want to say that the back cover photograph is one of the most beautiful and evocative I've ever seen. My favorite story is also the longest in the book, "Dead Man Walking". This is a gripping suspense thriller, set in modern Egypt, which comes to a really amazing conclusion. I also enjoyed the many humorous stories, in which the author's sly wit is often evident, particularly his "take" on "Beachcombing" and the hilarious parody of "Edwin Drood".
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