Mr.Wonderful Writes:
Speaking of beautiful artwork on paperback book covers, this has one of the best, and it is why I purchased it. However, since I only managed to read a page or two every night, I found the plot and the characters hard to keep track of. And unlike, the 567 paged Kiln People which I am now reading, this book began to drag half way through. This was the first book in memory that I did not understand the ending. I've sent it to Ms. Wonderful in Texas to do a quick read and to tell me what I read.

Mr.Wonderful Writes:
All I can do is display a piece of the poem that drew me to purchase this very slim, 36 page book of poems:

"Cut grass lies frail:
Brief is the breath
Mown stalks exhale.
Long, long the death
It dies in the white hours. . ."

From the Publisher:
This groundbreaking book pulls back the shroud of awe and the cloak of time enveloping FDR to prove convincingly how flawed his economic policies actually were, despite his good intentions and the astounding intellect of his circle of advisors. In today's turbulent domestic and global environment, eerily similar to that of the 1930's, it's more important than ever before to uncover and understand the truth of our history, lest we be doomed to repeat it.

Mr.Wonderful Writes:
In attempting to codify human behavior from the banks of the Potomac, Roosevelt and his jack-booted thugs enforced price-fixing, established monopolies and legislated compulsory union membership. They ignorantly transformed a cyclical economic recession into The Great Depression spanning a decade. Knowing it could take the Supreme Court two years to reverse his decrees, Lord FDR issued more Executive Orders than all the President's following him combined. Learn about the dry cleaner who spent six months in jail. His economic crime? Charging 35 cents to starch a single shirt rather than the Washington, D.C. decreed amount of 40 pennies . . .

From the Publisher:
Social psychologist David G. Myers has reviewed thousands of recent scientific studies conducted worldwide in search of the key to happiness. With wit and wisdom, he explodes some of the popular myths on the subject and presents specific techniques for finding true joy in living.

Mr.Wonderful Writes:
In 2003, remembering back when I read this book years ago, I recall learning that pretty much what Abraham Lincoln said more than four score and seven years ago is still true and that is, a man is about as happy as he decides to be. A good book to have under your reading belt.

From the Publisher:
"Richard Feynman was a great scientist, a winner of the Nobel Prize, remembered equally for his laboratory work on liquid helium and his wonderful, unquenchable vitality and sense of humor. His lighthearted approach to life made his lectures a delight and his scientific accomplishments all the more intriguing. Feynman was interested in everything. He painted, traded ideas with Einstein and Bohr, calculated odds with Nick the Greek, accompanied ballet on the bongos. Here is Feynman's astonishing life story -- a combustible mixture of high intelligence, unlimited curiosity, eternal skepticism, and raging chutzpah."

Mr.Wonderful Writes:
Years ago I read this book about Richard Feynman. If you don't remember him, he was the person who discovered the cause of the very first NASA space shuttle disaster. Very entertaining and interesting read of a remarkable man, whose addiction to cigarettes and early death deprived thousands of us from discovering his wit and wisdom he was alive.

From the Publisher:
Bestselling author of The Vampire Collection with Anne Rice, Katherine Ramsland goes undercover and has conversations with mortuary assistants, gravediggers, funeral home owners, and other so that readers can delve into the fascinating and often morbid world of cemeteries. From the moment a hearse gets called to embalmings to putting bodies in the ground, Cemetery Stories gathers funny, strange, and often disturbing tales from cemeteries—and other places of the dead—all over the world.

Mr.Wonderful Writes:
Once again here is a title that I originally had bought to give to my adult daughter, but became intrigued by the words and the feel of its cover, read it, and instead, added it to my own library. An easy and entertaining read. Very informative. From every book you can easily remember one fact and from this one I will always recall that no matter who you are Princess Di or Prince, when you die, over a short period of time after your body's burial, your entire innards will exit out your anus.

From the Publisher:
The Mind of a Mnemonist is a rare phenomenon -- a scientific study that transcends its data and, in the manner of the best fictional literature, fashions a portrait of an unforgettable human being.

Mr.Wonderful Writes:
In March of 1996, during my search to discover why, as an actor, I couldn't remember my friggin' lines, I read Mnemonist. The subject of the book, a man known to us as only "S", had an unlimited memory and could only forget anything by a conscious act of will. This is an easy read and a must read for anyone interested in learning more about how our incredible minds work. The font, cover and layout of this title is more akin to a scientific paper than a modern paperback, but don't let that keep you from reading it. Mnemonist is a created word referring to the art of improving or developing the memory.

From the Publisher:
"I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco..." So begins Fatima Mernissi in this exotic and rich narrative. With a magical tale-spinner's words, this world-renowned scholar, one of the most eloquent voices of feminism in the Muslim world, weaves her own memories with dreams and fantasies of the women who surrounded her in the courtyard of her childhood. It is the magic of recreating a world of one's own, navigating beyond the frontiers, that Mernissi describes with great wit and color. In a book as evocative as anything found in A Thousand and One Nights, she writes of the politics of seduction and the harem as metaphor. Peopled with marvelous, wise, and funny women - all individualists - Dreams of Trespass is a provocative book whose rewards go far.

Mr.Wonderful Writes:
In an effort to learn more of the culture of the Middle East, I purchased this book back in 1995. This book demonstrates why we must keep reading books and not relying on fifteen second news blurbs or columns in the newspaper or a few pages in a magazine. There is much I learned of the Persian culture and the place of females in it by taking the time to read this book.

From the Publisher:
In this groundbreaking new book, Jones shows how some of the major determining leaders in modern thought and culture have rationalized their own immoral behavior and projected it onto a universal canvas. The main thesis of this book is that, in the intellectual life, there are only two ultimate alternatives: either the thinker conforms desire to truth or he conforms truth to desire. In the last one hundred years, the western cultural elite embarked upon a project which entailed the reversal of the values of the intellectual life so that truth would be subjected to desire as the final criterion of intellectual value. In looking at recent biographies of such major moderns as Freud, Kinsey, Keynes, Margaret Mead, Picasso, and others, there is a remarkable similarity between their lives and thought.

Mr.Wonderful Writes:
This title exposed Margaret Mead's 1925 work Coming of Age in Somoa as a total fabrication. It also detailed how so many accepted and oft cited scientific studies and research that mostly refuted generally accepted moral (and for the most part natural) behavior are frauds perpetrated on American society by individuals who demand no limits on Man's passions, actions or desires.