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1 comments about Don Forest: Quest for the Summits.

1. If you are an outdoors person, particularly in the North American west, this is a great read. Sure, it's not long on psychological insight or personal conflict, but as the story of a remarkable outdoorsman it's a sure motivator, and is especially fun to read as you tour the Canadian Rockies. I suspect many of us learned to love the outdoors on outings with our fathers, and while most fathers can't compare with Mr. Forest, his and his family's experiences will bring back your own fond memories. This book isn't just about Mr. Forest's prodigious climbing career, it's about how he shared his love of the mountains with others.
   
   Another reason I liked it is because the book is definitely home-spun. These aren't stories about maladjusted peak-baggers or misanthropic daredevils of the mountains, they're stories about the kind of people you or I might share a rope with. And the kind of people who aren't just good in the outdoors, but are also down to earth enough to be likable. In short, it's not death and desperation a la Everest, it's good times in the wilds with your pals. I admit prejudice because I'm familiar with some of these folks, but I'm sure anyone would identify with the characters here.
   
   Lots of good pictures too.

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5 comments about Td: Dreams in Motion: The Memoirs of the Denver Broncos' Terrell Davis.

1. After reading this book I felt like I wanted to become a professional football player. Just reading about Terrell Davis's life, I didn't want to stop; it was so interesting. It seemed like this book just couldn't be long enough.
   This is an autobiography that Terrell Davis, a superstar running back, told in the first person. This book starts out by Terrell explaining how he was feeling during the Super Bowl XXXII. During this game he got a migraine that took him out of the game for the second half. This is a game he would never forget.
   Terrell Davis is the youngest of six; all children are boys, Terry, Terrell, Bobby, James, Reggie, and Joe. Terrell was born in San Diego in 1972. His father, Joe Earl Davis, was a very violent man, one night he came home drunk about 2 A.M., and he pulled each of his brothers out of bed, lined them up against the wall, pulled out his .38 Special with black electric tape around the grip, and just started shooting right above their heads. On April 17, 1987, his father died of Lupus, an immune-deficiency disease in which the body doesn't recognize itself and starts to attack itself.
   Terrell played baseball but wasn't much good at it. But football was different for him. He started out playing Pop Warner as the Velencia Park Saints, in Velencia, he played high school ball at Lincoln High School, and went to the University of Georgia and played College ball their. He wasn't the best football player in college, but his senior year he stepped it up to get into the NFL, especially his last two games in college. He was chosen along with fifteen other running backs to go to an annual NFL's scouting combine, it's another chance to make an impression on a team. For the physical he was stripped down naked, walked out on a stage, while the Teams' trainers took a closer look.
   Terrell Davis was drafted to the Denver Broncos, a team he thought would never take him, during the sixth round of the draft. While on the Broncos he was a sixth-string running back and only went in a little bit during the pre-season his rookie year, but when he was in he did good enough to start at running back during the regular season. After his rookie year was over, he rushed for 1,117 yards, caught passes for 367 yard, for a total of 1,484 yards. During his next two seasons, the Broncos won the Super Bowl, for two years straight.
   Terrell Davis still plays for the Broncos, and still continues to break records. He is one of my favorite players and I had the opportunity to meet him in 1999. I really admire his determination to the sport.
   If you have ever read one of those books where they stay on the same subject forever, then don't read this book; he talks about the same thing forever. But this book is great for football fans, and even better for Broncos fans. I really liked this book since I could relate to Denver, since I used to live there, and it was really fun to understand where and what he was talking about.



2. In today's football world, Terrell Davis is known as a superstar, but not in the literature world. He was trying to accomplish this literature superstar role when he co-wrote his own memoir with Adam Schefter. An all pro athlete and a sports writer, a very thoughtless combination in the literature circuit. Throughout this novel, we hear some about the struggle of growing up in a bad neighborhood for Terrell Davis, but not nearly enough. This is mostly a story about football and migraines.
   
   Terrell Davis had a troubled past and had to overcome it all to be a Super Bowl M.V.P. He wrote this book to let people all over the country know that they can overcome their troubled lives and turn a negative view of life into a positive one.
   
   This book had its ups and downs, but for the most part it was down. It seemed, for the first half of the book, that every chapter went back to migraines and the repetition was incredibly boring. In the second half it was football and also came across as mostly uninteresting. I don't think that Terrell Davis was ready to write a book. He does not have the concept of grabbing the readers attention. Also, only having played two years in
   the NFL, he wrote this book way to early in his career and could have made it much more interesting if he had let more of his career in it.
   
   One thing that was good about this memoir was hearing his passion for football. If there was any sort of true writing in this book, it was when he was going deep into how he feels for the game. This is probably the one thing that keeps this book from being bought and then placed in the garbage.

   So as a memoir, I believe this would be a poor choice for a well written piece of literature. Overall, this book ultimately shouldn't have been published for anything other than having Terrell Davis' signature put on it. But for sports fans, a Terrell Davis memoir with his signature on it would be a definite must have.




3. Terell looks good and I bought the book for the pictures. I hope his future books have lots more pictures!



4. TD Dreams IN Motion is a great book. It is TD's memories in his pop wanner day's, College and NFL days. The book starts off when he plays for a pop wanner football. TD had a hard Knock life growing up. His dad was always in trouble with the law and his mom had other thing that she had to do. When his parrents split apart from each oher he was seperated from his mom except for on week ends. His dad tought his brothers and TD to be tough.Evently he played college ball but when his first collage cut the football progarm he went to gergia and played O.K. After his senior year he was drafted to the Denver Broncos and the 196 pick. He worked hard and went from 6th string to 1st string. John Elway and TD took their team to the supperbowl twice and won both of them.



5. Buy this book, read it, make your children read it and their children read it. At last a top flight sporting superstar who can truly be called a role model. Terrell's life story makes a great read and shows how hard work, determination and humility can lead a person to accompalish their goals.

   The football stuff makes interesting reading, covering Terrell's first season, the loss to Jacksonville and ultimately SuperBowl glory.

   It is the 'off-field' stories which really reveal Terrell in his true light- A Man, A hero and a Role model.

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1 comments about It's a Buck! Whitetail Deer Hunting Stories and Tactics for the Weekend Hunter.

1. I ordered this book for my husband for Christmas. I received it so quickly that I was able to give it to him early when he went to deer camp. The book was a great read, easy to follow, and wonderful funny stories.
   
   This is REAL deer hunting, not hunting on some fenced farm, paying for a chance to pass up a "mere" 6 pointer. I hope Mr. Clute continues with more stories for the true hunter!
   
   The only negative I found was that the photos in the book weren't crystal clear, but I still give the book 5 stars!

2 comments about King of the Gypsies: Memoirs Ofthe Undefeated Bareknuckle Champion of Great Britain and Ireland.

1. This book was magnificent and must for any fight fan it is dark and the details are incredabley graphic i couldnt put this book doown once i picked it up....READ THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!



2. The ship hit a rock...Oh what a shock the boat nearly turned right OOver...turned 9 times around and the poor old dog was drowned ....Now I'm the last of the Irish rovers'!

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