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Good as a compliment to child's regular curriculum. If U home school, U may need additional Material. Excellent for grades 3-6.

My 12 year old daughter and I are really like this program. We take time every night to choose a lesson and enjoy it together. Learning through this system is actually fun, it is not teadious boring book work.

UGH! For my first 15 minutes of reviewing the DVD, I choose the math portion as that is where my children need the most help. I selected Fractions & Decimals, a critical base knowledge needed for all following math instruction. You'd think that out of the 3 or 4 example problems in each section there would be no errors, but there were in fact a few. Inexcusable, obviously nothing was reviewed. First impressions, make me feel that the rest of the instructions were probably put together with the same thought and care. Not good enough.

We purchased this software for our nieces, who started using it right away. In just a month, we've already seen an improvement in their grades and in their scholastic performance. Their parents attribute it to the software, and so do we. The other review is just plain wrong. This software works, and you won't be disappointed if your children use it.

Buying this for my daughter, I just went through it only to find that it's just like the videos I was forced to watch as a child in school. The graphics are updated but many slides and videos are narrated by a voice so slow and calm that it almost caused me to sleep while just looking through it. If you are looking for something that will stimulate your child's curiosity or at the very least get to the heart of the subject efficiently, this is not the package for you!

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This Is a Good book. I got it on my Kindle ,The storie is so good I lover it. You might like it to give it a try! It is very easy to read.

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Dracula is one of my all time favorite vampire novels and I have thoroughly enjoyed having it everywhere I go with my kindle. Thank you amazon.com for making it available to me by kindle.

I'm not a thriller fan and don't think I've ever watched the dracula movie all the way through so it's not surprising that I don't like this book. I'm just 80% through with this book and every page is an effort. I try to read one chapter every day (about 10 pages), but it's very easy to put down before I get to the end of the chapter. It is wordy, repetitive, boring. I hate the half-page sentences and page-long paragraphs. On the plus side, it does have a story that follows logically and doesn't have daisies blooming in January. My perception is that the theme is good vs. evil although I'm aware that there are other views. The book is sprinkled liberally throughout with bits of wisdom, and it contains numerous Biblical references. The good guys are bound by a sense of duty. Count Dracula is evil personified. I think editing it and cutting half of it out would improve it a great deal. However, it is a classic and has lasted more than a century so who am I to judge.

Very original. I wasnt expecting it to be good but hey it was. Hey guys its not Twilight. There is no such thing as vegeterian vamps in this book :)

This is a book that you have to read all the way through. There is no going back in case you missed something. So if you missed something six chapters ago you better book mark each chapter so you can get back to it. Good luck.

After reading this book, I can understand why it remains popular. I was captivated almost immediately by the story. Although written over a century ago, it is not "outdated". I found this fascinating since it was written by someone who lived during the period as opposed to "historical" novels that attempt to create the atmosphere of a time they never experienced. I highly recommend this book.

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I really enjoyed this book. It is an apt sequel to Soul Identity. The characters have grown and gotten deeper as their new adventure plays out. The Kindle edition is formatted perfectly, combining with the author's excellent research and prose to make this an easy reading book. The story flows well, the dialog is smooth and believable. I am looking forward to more adventures for these characters! This book is recommended for fans of science fiction, historical fiction, and mystery/thriller fans.

Reviewed by Natalie Novak for Reader Views (01/10) Second in the "Soul" series, "Soul Intent" by Dennis Batchelder gives us another venture through a whirlwind of uncovering the mystery taking place in 1946. The story centers around characters brought in from "Soul Identity" and choices they made at that time. Timely for what many are accepting now, Batchelder's writing brings in reincarnation. Although fiction, I was intrigued in the actual proof and possibilities that emerge in the storyline. For example, by taking photographs of a person's retina and the overlaying it with one that has passed, the image is the same (no different than a fingerprint.) There may be more to the quote "seeing the soul through the eyes" - this may have more meaning than we take, literally. Batchelder is a talented writer and I would easily put him into the same category as Dan Brown. Character development is at its prime and as a reader I was able to visualize them in full color. The story moves along very quickly, never boring the reader, yet slow enough to know what is going on. I was totally absorbed from the beginning to the end, finding it very hard to put the book down to do essential things. For me, when I put the book I'm reading over other important things I have to do denotes how good it is. While I'm still exploring the possibilities of reincarnation, "Soul Intent" catapulted me to a place of much questioning, and closer to accepting it as being part of life. I look forward to the next book in the "Soul" series by Dennis Batchelder.

I totally enjoyed this 2nd book in the "Soul" line. The first in the series was terrific, and I was pleasantly surprised to be equally satisfied with "Soul Intent". I can't wait for the next in the series!

I recommend the original effort Soul Identity. The key to that plot is clever, original and the author fleshes out some nice characters. This book, Soul Intent, attempts to keep the ride going, further leveraging that plot and those characters without adding anything particularly clever--it's all just a little too convenient and the way the book presents history and then has a current character retell the story often feels a bit slow and awkward.

1946 Nuremberg German - Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering faces the death penalty for the atrocities he has carried out in the name of Nazi Germany. After learning of "Soul Identity", Goering makes arrangements to have his entire ill gotten gold fortune bequeathed to his soul line for retrieval by future soul carrier. In the present, Soul Identity overseer Archibald Morgan discovers that Goering's gold has been stolen. In order to solve this mystery, Morgan once again turns to Scott Waverly who must recreate the actions of those taken in 1946 in order to uncover the secrets held at the highest level of the company. While Soul Intent is the sequel to Soul Identity, this offering by Batchelder is much different from the first. The backbone of this story centers on Madame Flora and Archibald Morgan's early days with Soul Identity on how each of them made choices to further their causes which they have had to live with for over fifty years. Batchelder takes the reader on an alternating journey through 1946 Germany and the present day as events of the past unfold through actions in the present. He brings back some of my favorite characters from the first book including, Scott, Val, Archibald, Flora and her granddaughters all who must journey back to Germany to once again find and retrieve what has been stolen. I also found it interesting how Batchelder wove in Waverly's discover of his own soul line and how intertwined he and the others at Soul Identity have been throughout time. If you liked "Soul Identity" you'll find this an even richer and more entertaining chapter in the series.

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Having previously read David Moody's brilliantly harrowing Autumn series and David Wellington's Monster Nation trilogy (which I felt ran out of steam by book 3) I was keen to get my teeth into another committed relationship with another worthwhile author. But what was this ? A female author of a zombie trilogy ? And the main characters both women also? I was slightly concerned that I might have to dig into my feminine side to have any kind of affinity with these two hellcats as they slew their way across the Texan wasteland that Rhiannon Frater so evocatively bought to life amidst the living dead. But you know what? She hooked me in from the very first chapter, the urgency of those opening chapters did not let up and the neither did the ever expanding cast and narrative. I think for me the true beauty of this trilogy is the ability to be able to identify with such a large cast of characters and to find an empathy for most and even a hatred for a few. I loved the fact that Rhiannon Frater has created two such rich literary characters in Jenni and Katie and that to me, as a male reader, to bond with them, to even feel protective toward them speaks volumes for her writing style. I found it a refreshing change that the story doesn't take the usual assumption that all power and running water along with the internet vanishes within the first 24 hours of the plague starting. Indeed I emailed the author those very thoughts and was not anly surprised to receive a reply but to be told that she had researched that fact and had been assured that that may very well be the case that power could survive along with a percentage of the population. The concept of the of the varied and colorful occupants of the fort town that eventually becomes home and the efforts taken to defend same kept me spellbound throughout all three volumes. The cool headed Nerit, the ex Isreali army sniper is another fantasticly strong narrative and Peggy, Katarina and host of bit players make such a strong ensemble cast. I enjoyed that whilst the main characters are female there was careful consideration not to make the male leads ineffectual and simply additions to their female heroines. They sprang to life on the page, Travis with his can do commonesense approach to fortification of the town and Juan the TexMex sidekick and major facilitator of getting things done in the most efficient manner. Bill with his beergut and calm cool and sweet Ken the haidresser all keep you hoping for humanitys' survival and that is the main magic involved in this trilogy Even Crazy Calhoun has you rooting for him until the very end. All in all the most satisfying Zombie literature, let alone trilogies, I have ever read. Ms Frater hints at the end that she may revisit the fort and the survivors in a post "As the World Dies" book, I for one would love to know where these characters go and what they achieve in the years ahead.

I've been reading every zombie book I can get on my Kindle, and this one was pretty disappointing. I generally enjoyed the first two in the trilogy. They had their shortcomings, but they weren't anything you couldn't get past by turning the page as the story moved on. That just wasn't the case with this one. You turn the pages, waiting for the story to get back on track, but if never really seems to for more than a few pages. It lacked continuity with the others, as if the author's interests had changed. "I'm tired of zombies, I want to talk about ghosts, but this is supposed to be about zombies, so I'll have to work them in somehow." It was a completely different type of book, on a completely different subject and felt clumsy and awkward. After I read the first one, I immediately bought the second one. After I read that, I again immediately went onto the this one. After I read this one, I decided that I need to become more discerning with future purchases.

I really enjoyed all three books in the trilogy. The author has a good writing style: easy to read, good characters, and makes you want to keep reading. Highly recommend this book for anyone interested in the zombie genre.

This book is only recommended for the most hardcore zombie fans. You have to be able to forgive the editing errors and duplication of phrases. If a character "gently strokes" a hand you can guarantee that 3-4 paragraphs later there will be a satin sheet "gently stroking" a cheek. It actually happens so often I started reading them to my wife to make sure I wasn't just seeing similarities where there were none. Of course she couldn't understand why I was reading the umpteenth zombie novel anyways. Actually, I can forgive the editing and comic duplications, but the main problem is character development. People think and act differently. It is hard to believe that a black ex-army guy, ex-israeli special forces grandma, ex-lesbian lawyer, and ex-abused housewife turned badass could have the same personality. They were seriously channeling the author. At least I feel like I know her pretty well. My only regret was buying all three books at once to save on shipping! Oh well, at least my local library now has the trilogy.

I agree with what others on here have written. The ghost stuff was just way too unbelievable. At the end of the book there was only 1 or 2 charcters that I liked left alive. Way too many killed off way too quickly. I don't think I would read another book on this because the characters that I had come to like are now gone.