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A Life in HellReview Date: 2001-04-30
Terrifying VoiceReview Date: 2000-11-22
This is not a novel that I would recommend because I "liked" it; it is a novel that is uniquely constructed and well deserving of recognition. Take a risk. Lock your door. Read Sudden Times....
"Are you telling the court that all that happened to you is based on chance?"Review Date: 2005-07-01
Ollie has just returned to Sligo, almost mute with shock from unspoken, terrible events which have befallen him while in London, where he has been working as a day laborer on construction sites. The narrative shifts back and forth in time and location, revealing Ollie's paranoia through flashbacks, brief scenes, and dialogue, which sometimes seem to have no context other than their revelation of his suffering. He is clearly trying to hang on to his sanity--and is only marginally successful--as he talks to the reader in quiet, almost confessional tones. Using unadorned, simple language, he describes things he sees that are not there and voices that no one else can hear. Never wasting a word, his earnest narrative forces the reader to share his thoughts while interpreting his state of mind.
Gradually, the reader learns of Ollie's almost paralyzing experiences in London, where he lived with a friend, Marty Kilgallon, in a trailer at an old construction site. Through Marty, Ollie learns firsthand about the protection rackets and extortion on construction sites, the common use of murder as a weapon of enforcement, and the unsympathetic judicial system. When his friend disappears and does not return for six weeks, Ollie gets caught in a whirlwind of violence and learns the true meaning of hell.
By the time he returns to Sligo, he has come to believe that there is a "glass sprinkler" machine, operating at night, which sprinkles glass over the streets of London, that the flecks in people's eyes are aliens, and that his own image in a mirror is someone imitating him. Though Healy's style is often difficult to follow, as the reader tries to piece together the events that are responsible for Ollie's current state of mind, Healy's use of detail is stunning. Casually inserted, bizarre observations about common aspects of life help create Ollie's inner life and illustrate his existential helplessness. The essential unfairness life, the power of chance, and Ollie's victimization catch the reader in a whirlwind of emotions, and his plaintive voice, crying out from all this, is unforgettable. Mary Whipple
read dermot healy and shower him with awardsReview Date: 2000-12-28
I have never read anything like thisReview Date: 2000-08-05
The book is written in the first person and that is about the only conventional aspect of it. The book is laid out in an eclectic manner. Actually it is presented in a bewildering pattern less structure that initially left me lost. Going back and reading a passage again does not help, because the subject of the book is lost, and the Author puts to paper the thoughts of what a person in the various frames of mind this individual goes through, would look like were thoughts visible. Once you get in step with the Author and his character everything makes sense, what seemed random is not, what was seemingly fragmented becomes perfectly assembled. This book does not say what it is like to feel a certain emotion; it causes the reader to feel as though he or she was experiencing the events themselves. The feeling when the book is read goes beyond the vicarious to something more akin to immersion.
The Author then demonstrates how masterfully and with what range he can craft language, how versatile he is, when, toward the end he lays down courtroom conflict between defense counsel and witnesses that is as well done as any such exchanges I have read. The dialogue is sharp, terse, and delivered in a hyperactive exchange. The Author demonstrates with ease what so many crime story pretenders struggle to produce and generally fail.
The book is brilliant, the Author a writer of incredible range, and he offers a reading experience you will not forget, and one that you will be hard pressed to repeat.

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So, you thought our health care was the best!Review Date: 2009-04-06
A wonderful book!Review Date: 2008-05-30
The Reference on Gender & HealthReview Date: 2008-06-05
This book will soon become required reading for researchers, policymakers, and others interested in understanding men's and women's health.
Top Gender & Health BookReview Date: 2008-05-13
A must readReview Date: 2008-05-11

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Excellent, clear, great summary at the end of each chapterReview Date: 1999-02-25
Written for the non-scientist reader.Review Date: 1999-02-17
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New and age old approach to world peaceReview Date: 1997-11-14
Fascinating, hopeful and rigourousReview Date: 1998-07-12
Then I read the whole book. It is well-written, well-argued, and based on what seems to be very good research. It looks like there may be some truth to this unbelievable claim - if enough people practice this form of meditation, social indicators improve. Less crime, less "noise" in the society, more coherence.
This is a genuinely hopeful book. I'm glad I read it.

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A good short introduction to radiative forcingReview Date: 1995-10-14
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history about workplace hazards in New JerseyReview Date: 2008-11-03
The first chapter pertains to neurological shakes among hat-workers during the 19th and early 20th centuries. A mercury-containing compound was used to cure furs into water-resistant felt. Workers breathed mercury vapor caused by a hot workspace. Hatters suffered, across many countries. In 1904, New Jersey enacted a law to require better ventilation for hat-workers exposed to mercury vapor. Mercury continued to be used in hat-making in the US until 1942, when the metal was reserved for military priorities. (Similarly, workers making alkyl-lead to reduce auto engine "knocking" suffered neurological harms.)
Chapter 3 recounts bladder cancers among workers in the synthetic dye industry during the 1920s-50s. Dupont physicians began to recognize the problem in 1932, about 30 years after this phenomena had been discovered in Germany and many had died. OSHA introduced benzidine dye regulations in the 1970s and production shifted outside the US.
Chapter 4 discusses scrotal cancer in petroleum workers who pressed wax, until a new manufacturing technology in 1951 eliminated previous exposure.
Chapter 5 recounts the tragedy of women who painted clock faces with radioactive radium so that they glowed in the dark. In the 1920s, radium was considered good for health, sold as a tonic. Horrors.
Chapter 7 recounts harms to chromium workers.
In general, as a fundamental rule of pharmacology, high exposure to any material can be dangerous. Fortunately, technological evolution has enabled more automation and cleaner workspaces. Occupational health programs have become more advanced and can draw upon vastly more medical knowledge. Protective apparel is more common nowadays.
Despite safer workspaces in modern times, it is welcome to have historical perspectives about past tragedies and how some persisted much too long. This book sheds valuable light on past injustices.

This is for crazy peopleReview Date: 2008-11-10
I found it rather Scary..


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First of all, the author shows courage in starting a book with events that make little sense, trusting that the reader will not give up on him. Secondly, he shows incredible imagination in placing us into the tortured soul of this young man and succeeding in making us feel it. And, in addition, the language is superb.
This is a must-read!