Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Free Pdf

ISBN: B06XYT9CXZ
Title: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine Pdf A Novel

Number-one New York Times best-seller and the perfect holiday gift.

A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick

"Beautifully written and incredibly funny, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is about the importance of friendship and human connection. I fell in love with Eleanor, an eccentric and regimented loner whose life beautifully unfolds after a chance encounter with a stranger; I think you will fall in love, too!" (Reese Witherspoon)

No one's ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine.  

Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. 

But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond's big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one.

Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the smart, warm, and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes. . . 

The only way to survive is to open your heart.  

Wonderful read So this book sweeps you right into quirky but sad Eleanor's life and for me, I was glad of it. I loved the way the book has just the right amount of detail and let's Eleanor's ways reveal moments of humor, sadness, strength, and vulnerability. I laughed and cried and cherished the journey with her to the end.You will fall in love with Miss Oliphant Eleanor Oliphant is one of the most interesting characters that I have read in a while. She is blunt. Very blunt. She lacks social skills and tends to spout off facts to people just having conversations. She likes her routine. Every Friday, stop and buy pizza and vodka. And every Wednesday, she talks to her mother. Those are never very good for Eleanor. Her mother is mean and angry and leaves her feeling less than. Something happened to Eleanor when she was a child. Something that left her with a scar on her face and moving from foster home to foster home. Does she remember it all or is it her coping mechanism? Things start to change in her life when her company’s IT guy, Raymond, and Eleanor help an old man who has passed out in the street. Family is the one thing that she has been missing.There is so much to Eleanor. In the beginning, I thought that I didn’t care too much for her but as time went on and she opened up, well, I fell in love with her. I would venture to say that she is on the autism spectrum. What a sad story she had lived and what a wonderful world opening up for her. Beautifully written and just a lovely story, you will fall in love with Eleanor too.A story of abuse and trauma/Empaths Beware! At first I was interested by the idea of seeing the world through the perspective of someone on the Autism Spectrum, but then it becomes apparent that this is a human in excruciating psychological pain. How anyone could actually read this and refer to it as funny is beyond me. As the picture of the abuse and trauma that Eleanor suffered at the hands of a mentally ill mother unfolded, I felt emotionally assaulted by the author. Finally, we are supposed to believe that a few therapy sessions and a nice man will quickly undo all the damage and Eleanor will be healed, instantly stop drinking, and start living like a 'normal' person.I read it to the end for book club, but it left me feeling like crawling into the back of a dark closet and sitting there for a day or two. (I went outside and tried to recover with some therapeutic gardening instead)

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The Valedictorian Mindset Download

ISBN: B07MTRBML8
Title: The Valedictorian Mindset Pdf Secrets To Successful College Preparation
A year ago, I was just like you… overwhelmed. After all, when trying to balance rough classes, difficult teachers, extracurriculars, sleep, college applications, and scholarships (AHHH!!!), some things are bound to go a little haywire. Oh, and did I mention that you also want to become valedictorian? Look, I didn’t want to waste your time, so this short book has everything you need without any “fluff.” It will change your life.

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Great Book My neighbor bought this book for his son and mentioned that it had an excellent influence on him. Being that my granddaughter needed a little push in school, I ordered the book for her. She said she loved it. It was easy reading with a touch of humor. It was also informative. My granddaughter, who wasn’t doing well in school, couldn’t put the book down. The simple suggestions in the book helped improve her entire way of thinking. Truly, this is one of the best purchases I have ever made!!!!Helpful knowledge for both parent and student Well written and informative for every parent and student who needs positive reinforcement. As a parent of a child who needs an extra push, this book presented a very easy to understand and fun perspective on how to deal with problems in high school, both with grades and social acceptance. The book has a great section on developing studying patterns that seem to really help the student.Good read for both of us. I bought this for my son. I thought it might help him to see inside the mind of a recent valedictorian. The book is an easy read with some practical advice. I read it myself and felt motivated when in was done.

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Bird Box Free Pdf

ISBN: B00JLMU4IQ
Title: Bird Box Pdf A Novel

Something is out there....

Something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from.

Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remain, including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house near the river, Malorie has long dreamed of fleeing to a place where her family might be safe. But the journey ahead will be terrifying: 20 miles downriver in a rowboat blindfolded with nothing to rely on but Malorie's wits and the children's trained ears. One wrong choice and they will die. And something is following them. But is it man, animal, or monster?

Engulfed in darkness, surrounded by sounds both familiar and frightening, Malorie embarks on a harrowing odyssey - a trip that takes her into an unseen world and back into the past, to the companions who once saved her. Under the guidance of the stalwart Tom, a motley group of strangers banded together against the unseen terror, creating order from the chaos. But when supplies ran low, they were forced to venture outside and confront the ultimate question: In a world gone mad, who can really be trusted?

Interweaving past and present, Josh Malerman's breathtaking debut is a horrific and gripping snapshot of a world unraveled that will have you racing to the final page.

Creepy, Ominous, and Occasionally Violent Story of the End of the World as We Know It You know that feeling you get when you are walking up the stairs out of a dark basement? You know the one – that something unspeakable is lurking behind you, ready to pounce, and that to turn and look will only confirm your worst fears? And you rush to find a lighted place, leaving said lurking creature in the darkness? I’m sure you do.Now, imagine an entire world where that feeling is with you always, and there are not enough lights in existence to chase it away. That is the mood of Bird Box for the entirety of the novel. The premise is simple – that something unnatural has entered the world as we know it, and that to look on whatever-it-is for even a second drives a person into immediate murder-suicide insanity. The story follows a small group of survivors who hole up in a house with all the windows blacked out, and who never venture outside unless sufficiently blindfolded. To raise the tension, the novel interleaves two stories of the protagonist, Malorie, between the past and the present – the present consisting of her escaping with two four-year olds on a river to a hopefully “safer” place, and the past of the how she survived the world going mad and killing itself. The telling is crafted in a manner that would lend itself to a very creepy and disturbing cable series or horror film.So – if you are into creepy, ominous, foreboding, oppressive, and occasionally unspeakably violent stories, then you will love Bird Box. I could not put it down. In fact, I may have been afraid to put it down because of the unspeakable thing lurking behind me …Thrilling read, but leaves something to be desired *This review contains minor spoilers.*I just finished Bird Box and I'm quite torn about it. The novel is fast-paced and a real page turner. I devoured it in just a couple days and couldn't wait to see how it ended. But now that it's all said and done, I'm left with a tinge of disappointment. I feel like the ending left something to be desired.The good:- The author wastes no time getting the action going. From the first chapter, I was invested and needed to know what would happen. There was no long hike to get to the good stuff; it was already there.- The plot is quite fast-paced, alternating between flashbacks and present-day events. You find yourself torn between needing to advance the story, and know where Malorie is headed with her children, but also desperately wanting to know the backstory here and how this dystopian future came to be. The author provides both, satiating you nicely.- The feelings of desperation, fear, anxiety, and helplessness that Malorie feels are palpable to you as the reader. I felt legitimate sorrow and fear for her. I felt quite invested in her well-being, especially after learning her backstory. She is a respectable, strong, and likable character.The not-so-good:- The "creatures" really could have used greater development. Their behavior is inconsistent and erratic, making it feel almost as if the author doesn't have a clue about them either and is just as much in the dark (no pun intended) as the characters.- In a similar vein, I found it very strange that everyone seems to know that, before the madness sets in, people see something. How would anyone know? Those who see it immediately kill others and/or themselves. Who is offering this news? How is this confirmed? Did someone see one, start to go mad, call the local news, explain what he/she saw, and then go on a killing spree? This plot hole felt a bit lazy.- Malorie's children are the strongest, most intelligent four-year-olds on the planet. I would have found them more believable had they been six or seven, not four. Also, they are not superheroes. Explaining that the boy has the ability to closely identify the page number of a book his mother is on after hearing her flip through it is ludicrous.- Finally, just how unbelievable the survival of some of these characters would be. Imagining wandering a neighborhood or driving a car without sight, and always managing to come back with great new supplies, was just a little too much for me. Swinging a broomstick around as you walk and hammering a small stake into the ground to note your residence...I had a very hard time believing these activities would be as simple and effective as the characters would have you believe.So, overall, give it a read if you're up for something spooky and thrilling. The book is quite unsettling and eerie and the author sets that tone very well. I just feel that more detail could have been used to really propel the story to the next level. I would definitely read more by this author in the future.

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The Complete Sherlock Holmes Download

ISBN: B0795Z238F
Title: The Complete Sherlock Holmes Pdf
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of deductive reasoning (somewhat mistakenly - see inductive reasoning) and astute observation to solve difficult cases. He is arguably the most famous fictional detective

Each of these six volumes is VERY SMALL compared to an average hardcover book This review is for The Sherlock Holmes Collection: Slip-cased Set HardcoverI'll give this five stars for design, packaging and because it does contain the original Strand Magazine illustrations by Sidney Paget (and possibly others.) The package is, in fact, rather beautiful. But potential buyers should be aware that each of these six volumes is VERY SMALL compared to an average hardcover book - each book is the size of a small paperback (7" x 4 3/4"). I bought this collection because the print in my 1986 edition of The Complete Illustrated Sherlock Holmes was now too small and dense for my aged eyes and I was a bit worried at the size of these books when the box set arrived. Thankfully, the font used is clear and large enough for me. Might be a consideration for those readers with poor eyesight however.Pictures The picture does no justice. I really like this product and have uploaded 2 pictures to show what it really looks like. It has that new book smell, thin pages, and it feels nice.Extremely Well Written and Enjoyable I have thoroughly enjoyed reading the Sherlock Holmes mysteries by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I am an avid reader of the Special Agent Pendergast novels by Lincoln and Child and these stories appear to me to be the precursor for the Pendergast novels. The character of Holmes in much the same as that of Pendergast albeit somewhat less aloof. They are very well written and I am not bothered by the somewhat antiquated English prose that are employed in these stories. In fact, I find that I am expanding my reading vocabulary because of it. The length of these mysteries are just long enough to read in one sitting and I've read one each night before retiring. The characters are unique and well-developed and add much color to these tales. The stories include just enough detail to support the plot logically but do not bog the reader down with unnecessay description. Because of my reading of these tales, I have sought out other gothic-type mysteries that I hope will continue in the genre of Sherlock Holmes, i.e. "The Father Brown Mysteries", "Wuthering Heights", etc.

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Undisputed Truth Download

ISBN: 0142181218
Title: Undisputed Truth Pdf
Author: Mike Tyson
Published Date: 2014-10-28
Page: 608

“A masterpiece … grimly tragic on one page, laugh-out-loud funny on the next, and unrelentingly vulgar and foul-mouthed. Reading Tyson's memoir is like watching a Charles Dickens street urchin grow up to join Hunter S. Thompson on a narcotics-filled road trip — with the ensuing antics captured on video by assorted paparazzi.” –Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times “Undisputed Truth is raw, powerful and disturbing—a head-spinning take on Mr. Tyson's life…Unlike other sports memoirists, he doesn't pull punches, offering up slashing comments on people who were once close to him. His narrative reminds us of just how far he has come from his rough beginnings, and, in a way, how close he remains to them. He had a punch like a thunderbolt from Zeus, but there have been a lot of big bangers in boxing; Mike Tyson's came with a pulsating story line like few others.” --Gordon Marino, Wall Street Journal “Parts of [Undisputed Truth] read like a real-life Tarantino movie. Parts read like a Tom Wolfe-ian tour of wildly divergent worlds: from the slums of Brooklyn to the high life in Las Vegas to the isolation of prison…. Mr. Tyson’s idiosyncratic voice comes through clearly on the page here — not just his mix of profane street talk and 12-step recovery language, cinematic descriptions of individual fights and philosophical musings, but also his biting humor and fondness for literary and historical references that run the gamut from Alexandre Dumas to Tolstoy to Lenin to Tennessee Williams…. A genuine effort by a troubled soul to gain some understanding of the long, strange journey that has been his life.” –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “A hefty autobiography that might be the most soul baring book of its genre ever written … a fascinating look into a life that up until now had already been well chronicled … It’s raw and profane … but it is also quite funny.”—Associated Press   “Undisputed Truth, which is, without a doubt, one of the grittiest and most harrowing memoirs I’ve ever read.” –Flavorwire “Most readers are familiar with [Tyson’s] tumultuous life and career—the bizarre behavior in the ring, the sordid behavior out of it—but what’s most surprising about the book is the introspection and self-awareness displayed … it’s raw and profane but also smart and witty … A fascinating and frequently surprising autobiography.”—Booklist   Mike Tyson lives in Las Vegas with his wife, Kiki, and their children.  Larry “Ratso” Sloman lives in New York City.

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“Raw, powerful and disturbing—a head-spinning take on Mr. Tyson's life.”—Wall Street Journal

 
Philosopher, Broadway headliner, fighter, felon—Mike Tyson has defied stereotypes, expectations, and a lot of conventional wisdom during his three decades in the public eye. Bullied as a boy in the toughest, poorest neighborhood in Brooklyn, Tyson grew up to become one of the most ferocious boxers of all time—and the youngest heavyweight champion ever. But his brilliance in the ring was often compromised by reckless behavior. Yet—even after hitting rock bottom—the man who once admitted being addicted “to everything” fought his way back, achieving triumphant success as an actor and newfound happiness and stability as a father and husband. Brutal, honest, raw, and often hilarious, Undisputed Truth is the singular journey of an inspiring American original.

More than an autobiography: an experience People who consider Mike Tyson to be a villain have never truly studied him, and have probably never encountered true villainy. Those who consider him to be a hero have never studied the real nature of heroism. And those who consider him to be an illiterate brute simply don't know what they're talking about. In my sixth decade, after a lifetime of reading, I think that "Undisputed Truth" is the most honest autobiography I've ever encountered. An official of the New York Public Library has likened it to Augustine's "Confessions," but perhaps a more apt comparison would be to "The Education of Henry Adams."Although I'm a boxing fan, I never liked Tyson when he was fighting. I believed, and still believe, that his boxing skills were vastly overrated. He was certainly not an ornament to the sport when he wore the heavyweight championship belt. But who, including Cus D'Amato, ever thought of this infinitely complicated man as merely "a boxer?" They thought of him as a wrecking machine, a savage, "the baddest man on the planet." He certainly did bad things, and was an utterly abysmal "role model" (something he never aspired to be), but he was more than that. Most people who know his story know of his beginnings in life, which were not merely humble, but squalid and unimaginable to most of us. (Charles Dickens would have understood.) And Tyson himself has never stopped talking about those beginnings, or about the heartaches and cruelties that molded him; but his recollections of a troubled youth and a scandalous young manhood have never taken the form of a whimper or a cry for sympathy. When cursing out virtually the entire human race at times, his outbursts have been genuine, inimitable howls of rage. But there's more to the man than the rage, and that's what this book is all about.Whether recounting his most scandalous missteps, or calmly reflecting on kindness, love, and his own lifelong search for such things, Tyson has always been, just perhaps,one of the most honest men on the planet. There are plenty of other candidates for the title "baddest."He is also a genuine intellectual: not necessarily someone gifted with a high I.Q., but a man to whom ideas matter: a man of vast reading and vast contemplation. In describing his adoration of his wife Kiki and his youngest children, he quotes a long love letter from Napoleon Bonaparte to his Josephine. He has not merely read such writers as Dostoevsky and Nietzsche, but has internalized and incorporated many of their ideas into his own life. Their books may gather dust on his shelves, but their ideas come to his lips as readily as a profanity or a sigh. It is typical of life's ironies that this "thug," this man who won the world's acclaim by battering others with his fists, is in fact a man of ideas. This book tells very little of the history of boxing, but it is stunning and unexpected in its honesty. The title is perfect.Note: Tyson's stage show of the same name, and its adaptation by Spike Lee, bears virtually no relationship to the book. In the show, Tyson is a wisecracking entertainer; in the book, he is a naked soul, and as complex as a soul can be. It is unclear from the heart-rending epilogue whether or not Tyson has yet attained happiness. If not, one cannot read this book without hoping that he does so.Baddest man on the planet writes the best book of the year The day this book was released, I read an excerpt posted somewhere or another wherein Tyson strangles Don King from the back seat of a limousine that King is driving. That sold me - I thought I was going to read a couple hundred pages of Mike Tyson telling insane stories. What I got was immeasurably better.This book is Mike Tyson's life story, in Mike Tyson's words, as told to a writer. It might not be the undisputed truth, but it is his truth, and it's his entire truth. It is brutally, unforgivingly honest, and while he has few kind words for the likes of King, Robin Givens, and Desiree Washington, no one fares worse in these pages than Tyson himself.Whatever you may think of Tyson, he is without a doubt one of the most fascinating sports figures of the past hundred years. He's a study in contradictions: a terrifying boxer with a temper that one could charitably describe as "mercurial" and yet he speaks softly, almost effeminately, with a lisp. The man said he was going to eat Lennox Lewis' children and praised Allah in the same sentence. He was paid tens of millions of dollars for fights that often lasted less than one round, and was bankrupt within ten years. Of course this guy's story is going to be great.But the two episodes in his life that he's most known for, his tumultuous (and allegedly abusive) marriage to Robin Givens, and his rape trial after a night with pageant contestant Desiree Washington gone horribly, irreversibly wrong, aren't glossed over. At all. If anything, he talks about them - the trial in particular - in detail that's simply uncomfortable. And it has to be. If he's to have any absolution, any redemption in the public's eye, he has to be able to tell his side of the story for those who want to hear it, those that wonder if perhaps his in-ring persona was unfairly turned against him.Undisputed Truth spends many, many chapters on how that persona developed, from both his cruel childhood on the streets of Brooklyn, to his being taught by Cus, the only father figure he'd ever known. Tyson's relationship with Cus is a well-known and oft-romanticized slice of boxing history, and the realization that everything that he learned from his childhood and from Cus that made him the tremendous fighter that he was being precisely what ensured his time at the top was so short and why he was so ill-prepared for life as Iron Mike had to have been painful to come to and write about.Whether you find Tyson as fascinating as I do, or want to learn more about the man behind the glove (and there's much, much more to him than I expected), or just want to know what in the world he was thinking with that tattoo, you absolutely must read this book. Don't expect 500+ pages of back-patting. All too often, memoirs are just a remembrance of happy times, rough patches smoothed over or omitted entirely. It's refreshing to read someone so well-known write something so unflinchingly honest about himself. This dives headfirst into the realm of absolute self-loathing. However much you might despise Mike Tyson for some of the things he's done in his life, he despises himself so much more for them.I want to think that this is the time he gets it right. That this is the time he has another chance and doesn't throw it away. That he's able to wipe away a little of the stain from his legacy, to be able to provide for his family, to find some peace. After reading his story, I'm not sure, but I'm rooting for him. Just like the old days.

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