Tratado de Las Reorganizaciones Fiscales de Empresas: En El Marco de Precedentes Administrativos y Jurisprudenciales de La Argentina y de Los Estados
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    Alejandro N. Haladjian
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    New Guide for Occupational Exploration: Linking Interests, Learning, And Careers (Guide for Occupational Exploration)
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      New Guide for Occupational Exploration: Linking Interests, Learning, And Careers (Guide for Occupational Exploration)
      J. Michael Farr , and Laurence Shatkin
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      Based on 16 U.S. Department of Education clusters. Interesting questions and 900+ job descriptions emphasize skills, education, earnings, and more.

      Medical Boards Step 2 : Made Ridiculously Simple (MedMaster Series)
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      2 out of 5 stars good for review, but not as up-to-date as it should be.......2007-01-09

      I found the concept of tables and visually organized facts good. However, this book should not be used as single source as many facts are not as current as they should be, e.g. treatment for hyperlipidemia without statins etc.

      Again, the book does a very good job in organizing key facts such as clinical signs and symptoms. Those are not subject to tremendous change over time.

      For clinical, especially therapeutic issues, please take care and consult another more "serious" review book.

      5 out of 5 stars excellent.......2005-12-29

      Excellent book. The information is in a very useful summary, and the CD allows to practice before the test, something extremely important. This book is the "sine qua non" for the Step 2. Do not go to the test without studying it .

      5 out of 5 stars Simple, what you need is here!.......2004-02-07

      In just one hour I read about 45 pages with ease, this book is intended for those who are short of time and need the facts in a simple clear way. It is not intended to be a complete resource for your usmle preparation but for sure it is a great help.

      4 out of 5 stars USMLE Step @ and the Ridiculous Book.......2000-04-03

      I just recently finished studying for the USMLE II. I received a passing score and was able to go on to an amazing residency. About my studying: I used a variety of resources, howvever, one instrumental tool was the Boards Made Ridiculously Simple Step 2 by Andreas Carl. I felt that this little book, seemingly insignificant, was really a brilliant text to supplement my other studying. At first glance, this book seems too limited in scope and difficult to understand how and where to integrate and understand the material. However, after studying other resources and taking a closer look at this book, one sees that this text is anything but limited. This book helped tie together many loose facts from my other studying and also, due to the many charts and tables, repeats key concepts and ideas that by the end of my studying, these phrases were etched into my memory ready or the TEST ITSELF. Thus, I highly recommend this book to anyone who will seriously study other resources as well as this book because I found that, alone, this book does not help at all, but, together with other sources, it proves to be a unique way to tie in and bridge together seemingly unrelated facts and topics to give you a better overall understanding of what fits in where. So, buy this book if you are seriously going to study the correct way!

      5 out of 5 stars Simple, what you need is here !.......1999-12-30

      In just one hour i read about 45 pages with ease, this book is intended for those who are short of time and need the facts in a simple clear way.

      It is not intended to be a complete resource for your usmle preparation but for sure it is a great help .
      Medical Boards Step 2: Made Ridiculously Simple
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        The Role of VLBI in Astrophysics, Astrometry and Geodesy (NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry)
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          A masterly survey of the last 13 years of Very Long Baseline Interferometry, reviewed in light of the most advanced astronomical observations. Topics covered include: Nonthermal emission from extragalactic radio sources; Principles of synchrotron emission in relation to astrophysics; Theory of relativistic jets; Young, powerful radio sources and their evolution; Scintillation in extragalactic radio sources; Radio and optical interferometry; Radio polarimetry; Unified schemes; Deep fields; Tropospheric and ionospheric phase calibration; Supernovae; VLBI for geodesy and geodynamics.

          Gay-Lussac: Scientist and Bourgeois
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            Maurice P. Crosland
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            Gay-Lussac is best known for his chemical work but also made important contributions to other physical sciences and technology. This is the first work to examine critically both the scientific work and the man behind it. Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850) lived through three revolutions in France and his life reflected the social transformations taking place around him. His education and early progress in science depended on the Revolution of 1789 and on the patronage of the chemist Berthollet, a close associate of Napoleon Bonaparte. Gay-Lussac may be seen as the first ‘professional’ scientist and indeed, throughout the book, Professor Crosland emphasises that he knew how to use his science to solve practical problems and was able to profit considerably from this application.

            Darwin im Reich der Maschinen: Die Evolution der globalen Intelligenz (Computerkultur)
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              Darwin im Reich der Maschinen: Die Evolution der globalen Intelligenz (Computerkultur)
              George B. Dyson
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              „Beim Spiel von Leben und Evolution sitzen drei Spieler am Tisch: Menschen, die Natur und Maschinen. Ich bin entschieden auf der Seite der Natur. Die Natur, vermute ich, ist aber auf der Seite der Maschinen.“ George Dyson führt vor, dass das Leben, nachdem es sich zunächst durch die biologische Evolution entwickelte, nun noch einmal entsteht, diesmal durch die spontane Evolution der Intelligenz innerhalb unseres rasch expandierenden Informationsnetzes. Das Ergebnis ist eine digitale Wildnis, in der bisher unbekannte Geschöpfe entstehen – Geschöpfe, die uns in Hinblick auf Geschwindigkeit, Intelligenz und Langlebigkeit bald überlegen sein werden. Dieses originelle Buch zeigt, wie die Entstehung der Maschinen mit ihrem Eigenleben – und möglicherweise einem eigenen Geist – schon lange in der Literatur und Wissenschaft vorausgesehen wurde, nachweisbar in den Werken von Hobbes, Samuel Butler, Erasmus Darwin und anderen. Dyson beschreibt diese alternative intellektuelle Geschichte und erzählt, wie frühere Denker das durchgespielt haben, was dann zu den Entdeckungen der wissenschaftlichen Abenteurer des 20. Jahrhunderts, unter ihnen Alan Turing, Norbert Wiener und John von Neumann, wurde. Wie Dyson schreibt, handelt dieses Buch nicht über die Zukunft. Es geht darum, wo wir jetzt stehen und wie wir hierher kamen; was aufregend genug ist. Computer, ursprünglich entwickelt mit der Absicht, die Natur unter die Kontrolle des Menschen zu bringen, helfen nun der Natur dabei, die Gattung neu zu organisieren. Angesichts dessen, wie die Unterscheidungen zwischen Natur und Technologie immer undeutlicher werden, zeichnet sich für Dyson eine Erneuerung des menschlichen Geistes ab gegenüber einer Intelligenz, die größer als die unsere ist.

              The Optimist's Daughter
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              • Going home, again
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              Eudora Welty
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              ASIN: 067972883X
              Release Date: 1990-08-11

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              The Optimist's Daughter is a compact and inward-looking little novel, a Pulitzer Prize winner that's slight of page yet big of heart. The optimist in question is 71-year-old Judge McKelva, who has come to a New Orleans hospital from Mount Salus, Mississippi, complaining of a "disturbance" in his vision. To his daughter, Laurel, it's as rare for him to admit "self-concern" as it is for him to be sick, and she immediately flies down from Chicago to be by his side. The subsequent operation on the judge's eye goes well, but the recovery does not. He lies still with both eyes heavily bandaged, growing ever more passive until finally--with some help from the shockingly vulgar Fay, his wife of two years--he simply dies. Together Fay and Laurel travel to Mount Salus to bury him, and the novel begins the inward spiral that leads Laurel to the moment when "all she had found had found her," when the "deepest spring in her heart had uncovered itself" and begins to flow again.

              Not much actually happens in the rest of the book--Fay's low-rent relatives arrive for the funeral, a bird flies down the chimney and is trapped in the hall--and yet Welty manages to compress the richness of an entire life within its pages. This is a world, after all, in which a set of complex relationships can be conveyed by the phrase "I know his whole family" or by the criticism "When he brought her here to your house, she had very little idea of how to separate an egg." Does such a place exist anymore? It is vanishing even from this novel, and the personification of its vanishing is none other than Fay--petulant, graceless, childish, with neither the passion nor the imagination to love. Welty expends a lot of vindictive energy on Fay and her kin, who must be the most small-minded, mean-mouthed clan since the Snopeses hit Frenchman's Bend. There's more than just class snobbery at work here (though that surely comes into it too). As Welty sees it, they are a special historical tribe who exult in grieving because they have come to be good at it, and who seethe with resentment from the day they are born. They have come "out of all times of trouble, past or future--the great, interrelated family of those who never know the meaning of what has happened to them."

              Fay belongs to the future, as she makes clear; it's Laurel who belongs to the past--Welty's own chosen territory. In her fine memoir, One Writer's Beginnings, Welty described the way art could shine a light back "as when your train makes a curve, showing that there has been a mountain of meaning rising behind you on the way you've come." Here, in one of her most autobiographical works, the past joins seamlessly with the present in a masterful evocation of grief, memory, loss, and love. Beautifully written, moving but never mawkish, The Optimist's Daughter is Eudora Welty's greatest achievement--which is high praise indeed. --Mary Park

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              This story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations.

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              5 out of 5 stars Going home, again.......2007-05-04

              "The Optimist's Daughter" bears two of the great hallmarks of Eudora Welty's writing: meticulously recorded conversation and an emphasis on how "stories" shape our lives. Laurel, a young woman who left the South many years ago to pursue a life in Chicago, returns when her father is suddenly taken ill and requires an operation in New Orleans. There she waits out her father's long attempt at recovery in the company of her stepmother, a self-absorbed woman younger than herself with whom she has nothing in common. After her father dies, the two women accompany the body of her father, the Judge, back to her childhood home in a small town in Mississippi. Prior to the funeral a visitation takes place, and here we hear the authentic voices of all the townspeople as well as those of the Texas clan of the stepmother Fay who has claimed that all her relatives are dead. As each of these visitors pays condolences to Laurel the entire town becomes fleshed out in the words that each uses to describe his or her relationship with the Judge. Whole characters come fully to life in a single line of dialog. On the day after the funeral, some of the neighborwomen get together with Laurel to review the funeral (and discuss the stepmother). Everyone feels dissatisfied with how the funeral came off--all feel slightly uncomfortable with their own performance and those of the other mourners--demonstrating the awkwardness and stress of all funerals and the inadequacy of most people to express their true feelings of loss in these circumstances.

              Throughout the book, we see the importance of the "stories" that we tell about ourselves. Already at the funeral the townspeople begin to tell stories about the Judge, exaggerating his courage and turning him into a community hero. Laurel objects to the town rewriting her father's history, but is powerless to stop them, as her father ceases to be an individual and becomes a story. Fay has worked hard to convince herself and the rest of the world that she comes from better origins than is the actual case. She is a difficult character to care about with her selfishness, distance, anger, and envy, but, as we see and hear the stories of the members of the family she has tried to distance herself from, we begin at least to understand better why she is the way she is. On her last night in her childhood home, Laurel looks through the letters and papers of her long-dead mother, who was beloved by the town, her husband, and her daughter. Through these stories (based on Welty's own memories of her mother's childhood home in West Virginia and on her mother's stories of growing up there) Laurel comes to a deeper understanding of both of her parents, their marriage, and herself.

              The final theme in this simple, but profound book is the deep isolation of individuals, even when surrounding by family and friends. Laurel's father appears to have been deeply isolated emotionally despite his marriages to two women to whom he was devoted, and he draws into himself again as death approaches. Laurel's mother became increasingly isolated as blindness and mental disintegration drew her into her own world of pain and anger. Fay is loved neither by her family or the town to which her husband has brought her. Her only connection was to her husband and her anger at his death, which she sees as his desertion of her, becomes understandable. Laurel, long a widow after a brief marriage, has chosen to continue living alone in the city to which her husband took her, isolated from the community of love in which she grew up. Ultimately, however, Laurel discovers that memories can bind us to the past and prevent our moving forward. Before leaving her childhood home forever, Laurel burns all of her mother's papers. Having thus broken the hold of the past, she is now free to create a life of her own. Home will now be wherever she is.

              5 out of 5 stars Families and communities.......2006-01-12

              Judge McKelva, Laurel's father, had a slipped retina. The Judge, an optimist, felt Dr. Courtland, a former neighbor in Mount Salus, Mississippi, could do the operation. Dr. Courtland had had something to do with the care of Laurel's mother, who had died.

              Afterwards the Judge showed unnatural patience, reticence, and silence while he had to keep his head still after the operation. Reading NICHOLAS NICKLEBY seemed endless to Laurel. In wordless communication, Laurel came to understand that her task was not to read the book aloud to her father, but to pass the time at his bedside by reading it to herself.

              The Judge's new wife was probably younger than his daughter. Fay was from Texas and claimed that her family was deceased. She tried to rouse Judge McKelva and she was stopped from doing so by the private duty nurse. McKelva collapsed and died. Dr. Courtland said that the eye had been healing. The Judge had helped the doctor financially while he was in medical school he told Laurel.

              Laurel's bride's maids met her at the train and filled the house with food. The old Garden Club members were present, too. Adele Courtland, the doctor's sister, helped. It was a surprise to Laurel that Fay's relatives appeared at the Judge's funeral. The Judge had had no use for theatrics. Laurel was confused. The mourners were saying her father was a crusader, an angel.

              It came to Laurel that her father had liked Gibbon, not Dickens. Mount Salus Presbyterian Church had been built by the McKelvas. Fay decided to return to Texas with her family for a visit. Family members spoke her language. Laurel faced her father's library. Everything important was in there. (Fay was getting the house.)

              Laurel had married Philip Hand, an Ohio country boy. She was a widow, too, and would return to work in her field of art in another state.

              4 out of 5 stars The Quiet Optimist.......2006-01-05

              In Eudora Welty's book, The Optimist's Daughter, Laurel Hand, the main character, notices her father's clock has stopped. Her father has, of course, just died, and for Laurel this means that time has become an elastic proposition. If any 20th century author can be said to have the power to split a moment, it is Eudora Welty.

              The Optimist's Daughter is a study in grief and in love that carefully avoids cliché. Arriving from Chicago, Laurel watches her father let go of life after a seemingly successful operation. Meanwhile, his second wife, a younger woman named Fay who lacks the capacity for any kind of introspection, stages a display of raw anger. When they return for the funeral, Laurel watches again as the eccentric town, and Fay's even more eccentric family, converge upon the coffin of Mount Salus's first citizen.

              Welty, who spent most of her life in Mississippi, has an ear for small town vernacular, and dialogue plays an important part in the book. Yet she never permits the narrative to travel along familiar lines, and often the characters speak out into thin air, as if to themselves. Laurel's distinctive silence marks the minutes before she is able to confront the past, which she does once she is alone, examining the contents of the house.

              A storm, a trapped bird, and the fading correspondence of her parents' bring about the catharsis that she requires. She begins to understand the fallibility, the depth, and the complex nature of their love. `"Why did I marry a coward?"' her mother asks while dying, and Welty, as Laurel, continues - `then had taken his hand to help him bear it.'

              Of all the writer's precepts, perhaps the most difficult is simplicity, of knowing when to shut up. Welty walks a fine line between boredom and profundity at times, but as Laurel goes about erasing the traces of Fay's influence (the nail polish on the desk) and her own past (she burns her mother's letters and confronts her personal losses), we sense in her a woman of uncommon maturity. There are no literary flourishes in The Optimist's Daughter, which means that every word on the page is carefully used. Take your time with this book - it bears re-reading.

              4 out of 5 stars A Rewarding Experience.......2005-12-21

              I tend to agree with most of the glowing reviews and I can understand some of the frustration with the few negative reviews.

              The complaint that "not much happens" after the funeral is valid to a point. Today's readers want to see evil and ignorance vanquished, whether it's a genuine villian or just some hillbilly white trash grabbing up an old man's estate with both hands.
              But this is an evil and ignorant world, and Welty does a wonderful job of telling a story that feels not so much like a story but real life itself.

              To me, I was impressed with Welty's incredible economy to tell this story. Anyone assigned to read this for a class or trying it out on their own should keep that in mind while reading it.
              It will make for a more rewarding reading experience.

              4 out of 5 stars Concise and clear.......2005-10-14

              I picked up this book on a remainder table. I had heard of Eudora Welty, only because of this book, which won her the Pulitzer Prize.

              I was not dissapointed for the following reasons:
              1. The book is concise. Sometimes it is nice to get through a book in 3 hours rather than 3 weeks, or like some that really drag, 3 months.
              2. The prose is wonderful, the descriptions colorful. The storyline is simple, I could summarize the storyline in 3 sentences or less, but what was remarkable was the beauty of the writing and the short, descriptive paragraphs which made me go back and reread a few which I thought were particularly poignant.
              3. The storyline, although simple, is interesting. I could relate to Laurel; I could see the old house and recognize all the neighbors as they came to her father's wake. I am surprised it has not been made into a movie. (or has it?)
              4. The storyline and writing style reminded me of 'A Summons to Memphis" by Peter Taylor, another Southern writer.

              If you are looking for action packed, this book isn't it. Should you want to appreciate some of the finest American Literature of the 20th century, this is a good pick.
              Eudora Welty : Complete Novels: The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battles, The Optimist's Daughter (Library of America)
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              Eudora Welty : Complete Novels: The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battles, The Optimist's Daughter (Library of America)
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              This Library of America volume gathers all the long fiction published by the beloved Mississippi writer Eudora Welty. Throughout her long and storied career, Welty has been most famous, perhaps, for her short stories. But it's in her novels that she attempted some of her most ambitious and powerful creations: the idiosyncratic fable that is The Robber Bridegroom, drawing on legends, local history, folktale, and myth; the underrated, wickedly funny short novel The Ponder Heart; and Losing Battles, a familial epic 15 years in the making and begun in bits and pieces while Welty cared for her sick mother. In a strange inversion of the author's usual career trajectory, Welty's only attempt at a roman à clef came late in life, with the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Optimist's Daughter, the quiet, moving, largely autobiographical story of a woman coming to grips with her father's death. The novels alone earn Welty a place as one of the finest writers our century has produced; taken together with the Library of America companion volume, Stories, Essays, & Memoir, it's a body of work that William Maxwell calls "beyond human power of praising." Welty rarely strayed for long from the place of her birth, but her fiction is as capacious as the human heart itself. Like Faulkner, she has taken her own corner of Mississippi and made it encompass the world.

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              5 out of 5 stars Mistress of Southern Fiction.......2006-12-21

              Each new volume from The Library of America, the non-profit publisher that has become the de facto literary hall of fame, is a cause for celebration. Its goal of preserving in an enduring format the best fiction and non-fiction is a significant bulwark against the encroaching tides of cultural relativism that attempts to render any value judgments meaningless, as well as a consumer society that insists that if it ain't new, it ain't good.

              In the case of Eudora Welty, we're given two volumes: a collection of five novels ("The Robber Bridegroom," "Delta Wedding," "The Ponder Heart," "Losing Battles" and the Pulitzer-winning "The Optimist's Daughter"), and another of her essays, her memoir "One Writer's Beginnings" and her short stories. From her first published short stories, "Lily Daw and the Three Ladies" in 1937, to her last novel in 1972, Welty captures with her highly readable style and sharp eye and ear the varieties and eccentricities of Southern life.

              But while the South claims Welty as one of its own, she may not necessarily return the favor. Teh cause is both geographic and a matter of choice. Although she was born in Jackson, Miss., in 1909 and lived there all her life, her father was from Ohio and her mother from West Virginia, a state created by the Civil War that went for the Union. This isn't Margaret Mitchell we're talking about here.

              Then, in her essay "Place in Fiction," she stresses that while it is important for a writer to capture the feeling of an area, it is not the paramount goal in fiction:

              "It is through place that we put out roots ... but where those roots reach toward ... is the deep and running vein, eternal and consistent and everywhere purely itself, that feeds and is fed by the human understanding."

              But what pedigree does not provide, her environment probably did, for her work contains those elements poularly associated with Southern fiction. "Delta Wedding" celebrates the Southern family through the sprawling Fairchild clan and its passel of sons, daughters, cousins, aunts, great-aunts, nieces and nephews, all involved in each others' lives to a degree rarely seen today.

              Many of her stories revolve around characters marginalized by society, struggling to exist and reach out to others: the simple Lily Daw who tries to evade the determination of the town's ladies to either marry her off or send her to the asylum; the generous, slightly retarded Daniel Ponder who would give away everything he has at the drop of a hat; the demented Clytie in "A Curtain of Green," who rushes about looking in people's faces until, seeing her reflection in a barrel of rainwater, dives in and drowns.

              Eudora Welty was a sharp, perceptive writer, and her enshrinement by the Library of America is most welcome.

              5 out of 5 stars Greatest living southern writer.......2001-06-15

              I began my acquaintance with Eudora Welty's works in college with One Writer's Beginnings and fell in love with the lyrics of her writing. I moved on to her short stories where I believe Ms. Welty surely shines brightest, but her novels are almost as wonderful. Very few people have the depth of insight into the mind and motivations of southerners that Eudora Welty has. She is right up there with William Faulkner. She has the gift of seeing and conveying the universal experiences of her decidedly regional cast of characters.

              Since this is a collection of all of Ms. Welty's novels it is difficult to give a concise review. Suffice it to say that for reading pleasure you will not spend better money. The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize, but Losing Battles may be even better (the novel centers on all of the family stories told at a huge family reunion--great framing device for so many wonderful tales). The Robber Bridegroom is a southern fairy tale.

              Eudora Welty is a giant of literature. This is a great Library of America collection. Buy it!
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                A war widow who has returned to the South finally understanding her past, her parents, her marriage and herself
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                              Ice Cream for Freaks
                              Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
                              • THIS BOOK WAS WIGGIDY-WACK!!!
                              • The HOTTEST book I read in a long time!!!!!
                              • disappointed
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                              In the tradition of cult literary icon Donald Goines, Ice Cream For Freaks is written with a realness that accurately depicts the harsh realities of the story’s urban backdrop. Main character, Ice, has a reputation of being a brutal and daring stick-up kid, but when he lands in an upstate New York prison, both his reputation and his manhood come into question after an unforgettable and terrorizing encounter in his cell with a prison Homo Thug.

                              Customer Reviews:

                              1 out of 5 stars THIS BOOK WAS WIGGIDY-WACK!!!.......2006-08-08

                              I'm sorry Dejon, but this book was not good at all. It was all over the place. I guess its one of those books where inside of it, the world is just too small because all the characters connected in some way. But as far as the title, that had nothing major to do with the book. And yea, whatever happened to him while he was locked up didnt effect how he lived his life when he got out. And that my dear readers, is why the book was WIGGIDY WACK!!! Nevermind how everyone who got killed, the killings were so exaggerated...nothing really like real life.

                              5 out of 5 stars The HOTTEST book I read in a long time!!!!!.......2006-04-22

                              Dejon's first novel was crazy ill with alot of unsuspected drama and freaky sex! I couldn't put the book down because everytime I turned a page the plot had all kinds twists and turns that will throw you off guard everytime. Dejon I am very much looking forward to reading your second book MY SKIN IS MY SIN and Part 2 of ICE CREAM FOR FREAKS in the future. I'm sure I will read those books in under a day also. Keep up the good work! God bless.

                              P.S. My friends and I want to know when are you doing a book signing in our city?(Smile)

                              1 out of 5 stars disappointed.......2006-04-05

                              I didn't think this was good at all. There was no real plot! Do yourself a favor and save your money for a different book.

                              2 out of 5 stars Not all that great.......2006-03-25

                              This book was very slow read, not all that good at all

                              4 out of 5 stars Ice Cream for Freaks.......2006-03-15

                              When I first met the author, Dejon, he was hustling his book at Target parking lot in Brooklyn. After talking to him for a bit, I was reluctant. At first the title threw me off, I orginally thought "Another freaky street ghetto tale?", but I bought the book.
                              To my surprise the book is nothing like it's title. I must say it was a page turner! The whole situation with Ice in jail was something else. I mean we hear the stories about what goes on, but Dejon puts it in details! WOW!
                              After reading the book, I relized that whatever evil one does will always come back to bit you on your a**! Dejon, Good job on your first novel!
                              When I am ready to buy your next novel I hope to see it in the bookstore, if not I am always in Target on Sundays!

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