The Get Back into Your Jeans Diet Pan ( 08 January, 1999 ) Book Our Price : £ 4.99 Prices subject to change. Availability Unknown

Another hit from Birch

Good to have the focus this time on the alluring Amber, whos usually a slightly enigmatic and aloof object of desire in the other books written in this authors characteristic first-person style. Typically, the reader is drawn into the protagonists psycho-sexual ebb and flow, and while the action is graphic when required, there is a subtle increase in the limits to which Amber allows herself to be pushed, so that not all the highest cards are played too soon (as sometimes detracts from the work of that comparable mistress of the genre, Yolanda Celbridge). There is enough plot to invite supension of disbelief, while the descriptive writing is predictably fine, adding to the realism of for example the outdoor scenes - you can identify with even the more mundane discomforts depicted. For this reader it is Ambers unexpected heterosexual encounters which really hit the mark - her scenes in the coveted woodland and the fetish club in particular - and it is the psychological detail recounted that is especially telling. As in "Plaything", the book end with a clever twist. More please!

funny, strange, deeply true

Whether this account is for real or not is up to you to judge, but it is one of the best written books ive ever read. The book is funny, strange, whimsical and utterly astonishing. I raved about it when it came out, still rave about it now. Prechtel writes with astonishing evocative power of the absurdity and wonder of life. His adventures are wonderful. Especially good is the bit you do not expect - his meandering journey to Guatemala before he met his teacher, which will have you laughing at the complete fantastical impossibility of so many coincidences. And a truly heart-stopping description of a tapir in the jungle. There is not a hint of that self important over-reverent attitude to shamanism found in books like Castenadas. It is a glorious, compelling flight of colour, and though it may not change lives, it certainly brightens them up. This is a must read. Buy it and smile.

Fantastic

A fascinating insight into an alternative way of thinking and of our world.