Simplifying Account Language: Don't Lose Your Balance!
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Simplifying Account Language: Don't Lose Your Balance!
Jeffrey Slater
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5 out of 5 stars Simply Wonderful!.......2002-01-18

The last time I had an economics course was during the academic year 1967-68. Since then, many of my courses included major components of economic theory and readings in economics. In addition, as a director of a program, I am held responsible for the managing a budget. I've never had an accounting course. I am able to manage my budget with my computer knowledge and by directing questions to two friends who are accountants.

If you are like me, Slater's work SIMPLIFYING ACCOUNTING LANGUAGE is great! The book accomplished two critical goals. First, it breaks down accounting to its simplest components. Anyone who has completed an accounting course will find the book too elementary. Anyone who hasn't, but is forced to manage a budget will find the book to be refreshing. Second, if one has to ask dumb questions to an accountant, SIMPLIFYING ACCOUNTING LANGUAGE will provide a person with an appropriate vocabulary to sound coherent. Like all professionals, accountants have a language all of their own. One needs the proper vocabulary to speak to them.

As I write, one of the biggest news items is the Enron scandal. Apparently the Arthur Andersen accounting firm mismanaged the books. This entire fiasco has had a major effect on several sectors of the economy and has place many aging working in financial jeopardy. As I monitor the CNN web site, I must acknowledge that substantial amount of my understanding of news items comes from my reading of Slater's fine book.
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                                5 out of 5 stars Wow, Burgess has written other books! And they're good!.......2006-08-17

                                Anthony Burgess wrote a book called A Clockwork Orange in 1962. Some may have heard of it. It was made into a movie that was a tad popular in its day, and all the press made it sound like it was the only book Mr. Burgess has ever written. Lo and behold, he wrote over 40 books! This one is the book he wrote directly after A Clockwork Orange. It's a very funny and extremely interesting take on the future society where homosexuality is officially encouraged as a way of dealing with over population, and the leadership of the country has to have clandenstine relationships with the opposite sex. There is also a war going on to unite the population. It's a very good read, and Burgess's other works should be better known. He was always ticked that A Clockwork Orange was the only book that anyone ever knew about. Read this one, along with Earthly Powers and Honey for the Bears.

                                4 out of 5 stars A Cautionary Tale.......2006-07-08

                                The Wanting Seed is a cautionary tale along the lines of 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale. The novelist's objective is to get the reader to suspend disbelief, but I'm not sure Burgess completely achieves that here. His description of a British authoritarian society changing is a little too fantastic, but his characters do redeem the book. I enjoyed this, but unlike another reviewer, I think A Clockwork Orange is a better effort, though that novel does require the reader work a little harder than here.

                                5 out of 5 stars a favorite.......2006-01-31

                                A Clockwork Orange is better known, and I'm sure it was harder to write, but this book is perhaps Burgess' best, a highly entertaining story, written in crystal-clear prose, that asks some Big Questions. For example, when society faces a crisis, should the Government ask every citizen to bear some of the burden, or should they implement a horrible but 'necesary' solution in secret, and let most of us live in happy denial? And does God have a role? The treatment of God as just another inscrutable character has been copied by Philip Pullman, without the wit or sublety of Burgess. Fairly easy read, enjoyable, funny, and thought-provoking. I love it.

                                5 out of 5 stars Better than Clockwork Orange... Yes!.......2005-12-17


                                (Written for Worm's Sci Fi Haven by countezero, more of his reviews can be read here: www.wormsscifi.com/haven)


                                Had Anthony Burgess done something more than write novels that read like fiendishly clever jokes played out at the expense of the literati, he may very well have found his name among the titans of 20th century writers when he died in 1993.

                                Of the innumerable works Burgess wrote, only a handful of titles remain in print today, all of which share a delicate connection, of some sort, to other literary genres or to actual titans themselves. There's Re Joyce, which I'm sure everyone can easily attach to its provocateur, Nothing Like the Sun, an homage to a certain William Shakespeare, Honey for Bears, which tackles Cold War paranoia by producing a humorous comedy of errors told with the serious confines of a spy novel. All struggle to escape the impressive geometry that is both the foundation and the catalyst for their narrative.

                                If you are unfamiliar with these works, rest assured you are not alone. The larger world, science fiction fans and film enthusiasts included, know Burgess only for a curious exercise in language he conducted called A Clockwork Orange, a novella whose merits and flaws long ago drowned under the powerful imagery and arresting violence of the Stanley Kubrick film that bears the same name. Having tackled both the morality play and the bildungsroman at the same time with A Clockwork Orange, two genres I feel certain Alex and his devilish little droogs were meant to be making fun of, he set his sites firmly on the theater of future in novel called The Wanting Seed (1962), which can be summed up as a dystopian comedy, if there is such a thing-and if there isn't, so much the better for the punch line of Burgess's grim joke.

                                To write a dystopian novel, one must seize on some sort ideology or philosophy or another and forecast its ultimate (evil) end, as George Orwell did with socialism in 1984 and Aldous Huxley did with liberalism in Brave New World. True to a novel whose vocabulary often relies on words like rosacea (which means "of roses," according to my Latin dictionary) to describe a person's acne, Burgess has chosen the (somewhat obscure) theories of Thomas Malthus, whose influential Essay on Population (1798) is known, perhaps, to only the most rigorous academics. The nearest mention of Malthus in popular culture is just a few lines above this one, for Huxley called his morning-after birth control agenda the Malthusian-drill in Brave New World. How best to describe Malthus' pessimistic theory of the future? Above all, his writing searches in vain for a "balance between population increase and natural resources." The failure of such balance, which Malthus, like any good prophet of doom, foretold, is the fulcrum for the plot in The Wanting Seed, a devastating novel of practical appraisals that opens with Tristram Foxe and his wife Beatrice-Joanna, the main protagonists, voluntarily putting their child to death at something called the Ministry of Infertility. "One mouth less to feed. One more half-kilo of phosphorus pentoxide to nourish the earth," the doctor says to assuage the grieving mother.

                                This is the world of rampant overpopulation, where disease, old age, war, pestilence, poverty have all been conquered-to the apparent detriment of human existence. Because of the boom in healthy living, children are almost forbidden and fornication with the opposite sex frowned upon as a waste of energy-"it's sapiens to be homo," a government billboard proclaims in the first few pages of the book.

                                But as it turns out, Beatrice happens to be something of a woman who enjoys sex with randy men. "She needed two men in her life, her day to be salted with infidelity," Burgess writes. Unbeknownst to her husband, she has taken up with his brother, Derek, a man of some importance at the Ministry of Infertility, who also happens to be masquerading as a homosexual, lipstick, public effeminacy and all, because he is bucking for promotion. Before their tryst, and Beatrice's subsequent impregnation, can be fully discovered, society, as all the Foxes' know it, begins to flake and crumble from an ever increasing inability to feed everyone. The eventual results are both comical and serious. While Tristram rots in jail (thanks to his brother's manipulations) and Beatrice escapes to her sisters to give birth to twins, greater England fantastically reverts to a desperate bacchanalian state of existence, with lavish orgies that anticipate participation in cannibalistic dinners. The totalitarian government recognizes a good thing when it sees it and embraces the new trends, reinstalling religion and warning of a war brewing on the nation's collective horizon. Tristram, freed from jail and on the road searching for his wife, recognizes the shift in politics, but is incapable of doing anything about it-as with all dystopias, this is not a novel of heroes and happy endings, but of people "making the best of things" in circumstances well beyond their control. Like everyone else, he must eat. His stomach eventually leads him to the army, where he suddenly and unexpectedly finds himself fighting in this foreordained war-a war with no enemies and no political goals, and whose actual purpose is one of frightening utility.

                                Like its author's career, The Wanting Seed suffers, I think, when compared to the lofty peers it shares a particular playing field with, but even so, I've never found a book anywhere that is as penetratingly ironic and humorous as this one. One doesn't laugh when they read Orwell or Huxley, but the reader finds him or herself forced to chuckle when in the midst of this novel's various tribulations. As is the case with most forms of laughter, with The Wanting Seed, we laugh out of self-defense and from familiarity.

                                Is it as good as A Clockwork Orange? No, it's better.

                                Five out of Five

                                2 out of 5 stars Meh.......2005-08-10

                                Your typical dystopian novel offers some sort of clue as to how the world got to be the way it is in the book. They also seem eerily possible, as if our own world could become like the book's. This book did not have either of those things.

                                I did not feel like any of the characters were all that human. It seems like the reader is supposed to identify with the male protagonist (I can't remember his name), since he is portrayed the most as a victim of this futuristic dystopia... but he's kind of a bastard, and kind of dumb. In fact, so many people in the book act irrationally that it seems difficult to see what kind of a message the author is trying to convey.

                                And as funny as it is to read, "It's sapiens to be homo," the state's advocation of homosexuality betrays a deep misunderstanding on Burgess's part. Admittedly, the novel is 40 years old, and things have come a long way since then, but it's still bothersome.

                                Overall, I did not enjoy this book. (I only read it because of a friend's recommendation.) There are better dystopian novels in this world. Skip this one.
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                                            New York Review of Books "...A mechanically contrived and clumsy novel; its gimmick is the population explosion, and it relies on no other allurements--neither plot nor character nor style nor atmosphere. All the foreseeable grotesque horrors are here...." Times Literary Supplement "Wildly and fantastically funny....Here too is all the usual rich exuberance of Mr. Burgess's vocabulary, his love of quotations, and literary allusions....A remarkable and brilliantly imagined novel, vital and inventive."
                                            The Wanting Seed
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                                              The Wanting Seed
                                              Anthony Burgess
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                                              The Wanting Seed
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                                                The Wanting Seed

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                                                A Malthusian comedy--its underlying theme: the problem the whole world may soon have to face. Over-population--its technique, fantasy, and caricature.
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                                                  The Wanting Seed
                                                  Anthony BURGESS
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                                                    Australian bankruptcy law
                                                    A. N Lewis
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                                                      Garry Hamilton
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                                                            Eugene Francis McDonald
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