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NONFICTION 1. The Complete Book of Running, Fixx (2) 2. All Things Wise and Wonderful, Herriot (1) 3. The Book of Lists, Wallechinsky, L. & A. Wallace (3) 4. The Second Ring of Power, Castaneda (4) 5. Gnomes, Huygen & Poortvliet (6) 6. Looking Out for # 1, Ringer (9) 7. An Autobiography, Christie (10) 8. Life Is a Banquet, Russell with Chase 9. The Amityville Horror, Anson (7) 10. My Mother/My Self, Friday
...Second Ring of Power, Castaneda...
...songs advertised the state (Fun, Fun, Fun) and its people (Eight Miles High). Thousands of teen-agers headed west and were hailed by older Californians seeking a formula for perpetual youth. Together they began an inner-directed search for a separate reality. Some trekked into the desert looking for Castaneda's ephemeral brujo, Don Juan. Others sought to gain an identity through encounters in the Esalen Institute's steamy communal baths...
...time of lowered sights and the repackaging of conventional verities. Thomas Williams, who won the National Book Award in 1975 for The Hair of Harold Roux, now gives us a fantasy spun from the loose threads of The Lord of the Rings, The Whole Earth Catalogue, Carlos Castaneda and the Environmental Protection Agency. Set on a timeless, mythical Western frontier, the novel cultivates a modern delusion. As the author says, "It is a story that I hope might remind its readers that at our best we remember and feel as only children sometimes seem to do: openly, untainted, without guile...
After leading two games to one, the wearied Castaneda was burdened by her inability to return her opponent's service and her multiple misconnections in many vollies...