2010-06-16
By Mary J. Webster
The Vortex has some very good points, but I skimmed a lot of it due to the repetition of exact words & paragraphs ad infinitum. I am doing the exercises, though, and hope to get good results from them.
2010-03-21
By Challenger Nuke (Santa Fe, NM)
There is not much more to be said about this 3rd installment of the "Fate of the Jedi" series than would I've said in my reviews of the two books that preceded this one. A repetition of the same story line -- young Jedi gone mad. Talk about beating a dead horse. I guess that there is no shame among these writers and editors. They just want your buck and will put out 2nd rate garbage to get it. However, I did like the funny chapter featuring Han and Allana in the Falcon near the end of this one. The thing that I hated the most was the "over description" of the settings. Some times less is more. Apparently, these authors and editors were out to lunch the day that topic was taught in creative writing. This book is a bore; don't waste your money.
2010-06-20
By Heather Braun (Victoria, BC Canada)
Another great addition to my Law of Attraction DVD library. This episode contains poignant questions about death and suicide and startling answers from Abraham that move me....literally!
If you are looking for connection with Source Energy, this material is guaranteed to take you home.
There is nothing more important than getting into the Vortex and I am deeply grateful for this material.
Thank you Abraham, thank you Esther and Jerry, thank you, thank you, thank you!
2002-12-29
By K. Wyatt (St. Louis, MO United States)
From Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising collaborator and best selling novelist in his own right, in his first novel Red Phoenix, we are treated to Larry Bond's second masterpiece in military/political thriller fiction in Vortex. Larry Bond once again proves his research capability in his studies of all of the cultures of South Africa and their strengths and differences. He has once again, melded his research, his fluent and poignant writing style into a classical work of fiction. In Vortex, he has essentially taken almost every conceivable aspect of a world crisis situation and crafted it into this masterpiece.
Where Tom Clancy draws all of the accolades and acclaim, Larry Bond continually produces superb military/political thrillers that are of the same caliber and in the case of Vortex, much larger in scope and overall detail.
If you're a Tom Clancy, Harold Coyle, Dale Brown, Stephen Coonts, or one of the many other fine military/political thriller author's fans, you would do well to pick up on Larry Bond and his superior work.
The premise:
Taking into consideration that this novel was written in the late 80's and early 90's, Larry Bond absorbed the headline news of the time to craft a conceivable real world situation where the boiling point of South Africa could've turned into the very Vortex, of the title, and brought the entire worlds attention to its internal struggles. There could've been no more apropos title for this novel than "Vortex." Vortex as defined in the Webster's dictionary (A situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it.)
Essentially, Vortex is the story of one man's twisted desires to bring total apartheid to its maximum fruition in Karl Vorster. Through chance and his own machinations, he effectively seizes control of the South African government and begins to bring to realization his perverted dreams of total apartheid and the destruction of his opponents or anyone else who gets in his way. Given South Africa's mineral wealth and that strategic importance to both Western and Eastern powers, this quickly draws their collective attentions.
What follows is a tour de force of flurried action, suspense and outstanding military fiction, which brings many players to the table to include; the United States, Britain, Israel, Russia, Cuba and Libya. Hence the title of "Vortex." Where these many players are all drawn to South Africa and its mineral wealth. {ssintrepid}
2010-03-20
By B. Lifeguard (Dubuque, Iowa)
My husband actually read this book and he is usually very critical of his reading material. He liked the story very much which is really saying something!
