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The Enchanted Wood 11 reviews
Enid Blyton
Firebird Distributing, 1997
Wonderful
Any child that reads this book will enter into a magical world......I am now 34 yrs old....I read this book as a child and still remember liking the stories.......I am originally from Guyana formally British Guiana......I grew up on all Enid Blyton books....they are a delight to read.......this is one book I suggest you get for you children.
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Violent Cases3 reviews
Neil Gaiman
Firebird Distributing, 1998
Inimitable experience
This is the second book that I've read by Neil Gaiman. The artwork blows you away. This is what graphic novels should look and feel like. Violent Cases just captures the awe and fear of the unknown from a child's perspective. It seemed like I could smell the narrator's cigarette smoke and was transported back to the 80s (when this was written) to listen to his story. What is even better about the ...
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Airtight Willie and Me2 reviews
Iceberg Slim
Firebird Distributing, 2002
I couldn't put it down
Yo, the first thing you have to do when u get this book, is check out the slang. The slang is captivating, the metaphors make u visualize the anecdote. Iceberg Slim drop jewels and give u a more clear perspective on life. Plus the slick talk is charismatic....
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Assassination of Marilyn Monroe4 reviews
Donald H. Wolfe
Firebird Distributing, 1999
Marilyn's Murderers Uncovered!
This book was simply superb, and it contained a lot of hidden information unknown to me. For instance, the lovechild between Marilyn and Kennedy and the scandalous secrets about the ... Kennedys that led to her death. The author has a very introspective view of the complete chaos her life was in during the end, and of treacherous friends who had woven a web of deceit around her plying her with ...
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Summer Story Brambly Hedge Poppy and Dusty (Brambly Hedge)5 reviews
Firebird Distributing, 1995
Historical novel for the very young
Poppy Eyebright and Dusty Dogwood are mice that live near a stream. One hot summer they begin to date, and then they announce their engagement. They marry and have a very pleasant wedding ceremony with all of their mousy relatives. The book is quite interesting with its reminders of the customs of times gone by, like engagements and trousseaus. Kids can also learn from it how people use to ...
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Whole Story a Walk Around the World6 reviews
Ffyona Campbell
Firebird Distributing, 1997
A Soul Searching journey
I have just finished reading Ffyona Campbells brilliant new book "The Whole Story " and for the first time i have been unable to put the book down like no other . I bought this book for £1 in my local bargain bookshop and I consider it to be the best £1 i have or ever will spend .The journey Ffyona takes is truly epic in milage and emotional terms as she walks and confronts her true inner self ...
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Border Crossing On the Road From Peking2 reviews
Rosie Thomas
Firebird Distributing, 1999
This Is Not A Sunday Drive In The Country!!!
In September 1997 a woman by the name of Rosie Thomas set off in a modified Volvo with her co driver, Phil Bowen to take part in the re enactment of the first ever run International Motor Rally. Ms. Thomas has written this book about her very memorable LONG road trip. Along the way she hankers for a decent glass of wine in "dry" countries, argues with Phil and fantasizes about what kind of guy ...
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Finn and Hengest4 reviews
J.R.R. Tolkien
Firebird Distributing, 1998
Fin Hengeste / elne unflitme aththum benemde
For all of you Middle Earth fans, the appendices in "The Lord of the Rings" were just games. This is the real thing.
Tolkien was a heavyweight scholar before he published a word of fiction. In his admittedly narrow academic circle, he was a famous man before ever there was a Hobbit. This book is based on lectures delivered by Tolkien over a period of years. Tolkien being Tolkien, he never ...
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The Lord of the Rings1 review
J. R. R. Tolkien
Firebird Distributing, 2000
A laymans review
This Millenium Edition Lord of the Rings 7 volume set is amazing. It has black binding with red and gold Eye of Sauron and has JRR Tolkien's signature on the inside front page. It is by far the best version to date and very hard to find. The UK version comes with a CD which has JRR Tolkien reading exerpts from the story. Each volume binding has a letter of Tolkien's name. A must have if you can ...
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Little Miss Scatterbrain (Little Miss Library)1 review
Roger Hargreaves
Firebird Distributing, 1998
perfect for kids
I used to read these books when I was younger. There's an entire series of them and they are all perfect for kids. The illustrations are colorful and fun and the stories are cute and send good messages. I would read these now, as an 18 year old!
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Pork Pie Hat (Criminal Records)1 review
Peter Straub
Firebird Distributing, 1999
Improvization in strangeness
I am reviewing the novella, not the reader here.
A young graduate student is also a jazz fan, and he finds out that one of his favorite jazz saxophonists, "Pork Pie Hat," is still alive, and scheduled to play at a nearby Greenwich Village club. He goes to the club, and is mesmerized by how "Hat" improvises simple melodies into haunting sonnets of love and grief. Being a graduate student, he ...
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Rod Steiger1 review
Tom Hutchinson
Firebird Distributing, 1999
From a Friend's Perspective
Ever since seeing Rod Steiger in "Dr. Zhivago" and "Oklahoma", I've wondered what he was really like. Now that I'm in the midst of collaborating on a book about the 1940s-1950s era of live television, Mr. Steiger is again brought to mind. How skillfully he had played the title role in "Marty"! So I got Tom Hutchinson's biography of his friend Rod Steiger and sat down to read. It was difficult to ...
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Master and Commander 263 reviews
Patrick O'Brian
Firebird Distributing, 2003
Addicted to Aubrey - Maturin
I have lost count of the number of times I have read and re-read all 20 books in the Aubrey/Maturin canon (about 7000 pages) in recent years. O'Brian is a master storyteller with an unbounded imagination and razor wit. The action is fast paced, and his characters are richly drawn, compelling, amusing, heroic and flawed. O'Brian is 20th century Charles Dickens.
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Behold the Man (Sf Masterworks 22)23 reviews
Michael Moorcock
Firebird Distributing, 1999
Moorcock on Jesus
SPOILER WARNING!!
Many people say this book is a satire, but I disagree. This book is dead serious! If one studies theology (as I have done), one will find out that everything we know about the beginning of Christianity is built on guesses. Christianity is one of the major religious traditions in the world, but we hardly know how it started. As Moorcock explains in this book, all our knowledge ...
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Passing for Human Uk1 review
Jody Scott
Firebird Distributing
Lesbian interest science fiction
This novel and its companion piece "I, Vampire" are wild, fun rides, very playful and cleverly written. Very quirkily British. Special Guest Appearances. Even Emma Peel pops in!
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Letters of J R R Tolkien37 reviews
J.R.R. Tolkien
Firebird Distributing, 1999
An interesting and enlightening read
Do you want to understand J.R.R. Tolkien and his fantastic stories? I mean, really understand them? Then you must get this book. This book is a collection of letters from the great man, ranging from a World War I love letter to a note written to his daughter just before his death.
But, do not think that these letters are irrelevant. In fact, he discusses many things about his books, the ...
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Post Captain69 reviews
Patrick O'Brian
Firebird Distributing, 1997
What every "historical novel" should be
Many complain that this volume lacks sufficient adventure, focusing too much on the manners of the time. I can understand that sentiment, although I don't sympathize with it. Patrick O'Brian was not merely trying to write rousing adventure novels - pot boilers, as they're commonly called. This he could have easily done, and saved much paper. However, I wouldn't have read them more than once, if ...
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The Worm Ouroboros48 reviews
Eric Rucker Eddison
Firebird Distributing, 2000
Nothing like Tolkien - Best Description of Sorcery Ever.
This work of Eddison is brilliant. I happen to like English at it's most difficult, like when the author simply makes up words for the heck of it. Or else he talked like this everyday, which is not impossible.
But before you think "this book is for nerds" I must say that the description of the magical spell cast by King Gorice the XII with Lord Gro is the coolest one I have ever read.
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Through Gypsy Eyes Hendrix1 review
Kathy Etchingham, Andrew Crofts
Firebird Distributing, 1999
A Survivor Pulls No Punches
Not long after arriving in London in 1966, Jimi Hendrix met Kathy Etchingham and was immediately smitten. Before long, the two were living together. Through Gypsy Eyes tells the story of their relationship and provides a window into the past of one of rock's most important innovators. A significant part of the book deals with Kathy's broken family during her childhood and although these ...
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Hms Surprise49 reviews
Patrick O'Brian
Firebird Distributing, 1997
One of the best of the series
This book, third in the wonderful series, is the first that makes one think that perhaps some of the usual descriptions are missing something.
If you read the story and reflect upon it, do you possibly come to think that perhaps, in reality, the story of Jack Aubrey's career is mostly a peg on which to hang the complex life-story of Stephen Maturin?
So instead of the sea-captain being ...
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