<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2702299069593201287</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2024 12:11:45 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>Computer/Internet</category><category>Make Money Online</category><category>Business/Investing</category><title>Digital Books Review</title><description>Enhancing Knowledge</description><link>http://digitalbooksreview.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (digitalbooksreview)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>9</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2702299069593201287.post-3372422175376477190</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-09-28T21:53:32.836+07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Make Money Online</category><title>Make Money Online: Roadmap of a Dot Com Mogul by John Chow</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;iframe align=&quot;left&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; marginheight=&quot;0&quot; marginwidth=&quot;0&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot; src=&quot;http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=digitaleboo00-20&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;p=8&amp;amp;l=bpl&amp;amp;asins=1600376738&amp;amp;fc1=000000&amp;amp;IS2=1&amp;amp;lt1=_blank&amp;amp;m=amazon&amp;amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;amp;bc1=000000&amp;amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;amp;f=ifr&quot; style=&quot;height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&quot;Don&#39;t judge a book from it&#39;s cover&quot;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Although the title like general book about making money online, please wait until you read the back of the book, you will find more interesting in make money from blog.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;John Chow the author, describe step by step how he turn his blog from zero dollars to $ 40.000 per month. In this book John talk about the first time he start to make money using blog. Wordpress is his choice to monetize the blog, since it&#39;s the best platform than others.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;In term of promotion John talk about something such as social media marketing and other marketing technique, and not to forget mentioned also about search engine optimization tips in his book. Since many experiences blogger not expert in google adsense, he mentioned the technique to optimizing google adsense in the last chapter.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://digitalbooksreview.blogspot.com/2010/09/make-money-online-roadmap-of-dot-com.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (digitalbooksreview)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2702299069593201287.post-3181397263210054422</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-09-27T23:22:52.493+07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Make Money Online</category><title>Auto Traffic Avalanche</title><description>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dbeb5yv6robrmy84y4x52w3kcw.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=AUTOTRAFFIC&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab309/dicky_5195/autotraffic.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;If you&#39;re struggling to make money online, this software is exactly what  you need. Kieran Gil and Imran S reveal their secret in their website &lt;a href=&quot;http://dbeb5yv6robrmy84y4x52w3kcw.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=AUTOTRAFFIC&quot;&gt;www.autotrafficavalance.com&lt;/a&gt;. They abandoned &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;expensive   advertising like Google Adwords, Pay Per View &amp;amp; Media Buys, and  put an end  to tiresome traditional traffic-getting tactics like SEO,  Twitter and email  marketing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Simple setup and no need deep knowledge to implement.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;;&quot;&gt;What would you  do with  that kind of cash being siphoned into your account on a daily basis?   Whether it’s paying the mortgage, funding a new car or having the  freedom to  take more holidays, I’m guessing this’ll make a real  difference to your life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dbeb5yv6robrmy84y4x52w3kcw.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=AUTOTRAFFIC&quot;&gt;Read more .......&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Arial&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://digitalbooksreview.blogspot.com/2010/09/auto-traffic-avalanche.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (digitalbooksreview)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2702299069593201287.post-7130640166924435285</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 01:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-09-27T09:52:22.198+07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Make Money Online</category><title>Blogging To The Bank by Rob Benwell</title><description>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab309/dicky_5195/bloggingtothebank.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://869560o4yj9sd0dx8jfndk8z3r.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=BLOGTOMONEY&quot;&gt;Blogging to the Bank 2010&lt;/a&gt; - The Truth!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Blogging has been around for a few years now. Most people use blogs to  record their thoughts and lives, while a select few use them as a free  way to make a fortune.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;One guy who uses this to his advantage is Rob Benwell. In 2006 he dished  the dirt on the tips and tricks to making a fortune using blogging. But  as time passes the old systems become obsolete and new techniques are  required. This is where his brand new, fresh off the press &lt;a href=&quot;http://869560o4yj9sd0dx8jfndk8z3r.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=BLOGTOMONEY&quot;&gt;Blogging to  the Bank 2010&lt;/a&gt; system comes into play.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;For those who know who Rob Benwell is like me, you’ve probably made a killing using blogs.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;For those who don’t, he’s the story:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Back in 2005 he was struggling to make any profit online, had dropped  out of college and was getting deep into debt. He was trying all the  techniques the gurus tell you and wasn’t getting anywhere fast. All of  that went in the bin and he started using his own techniques and started  making more and more money using simple blogs. In early 2006 he shared  this with the world and had a great ebook called blogging to the bank.  Tons of people got rich from using these techniques (including me). He  then spoke at Online Marketing Legend Yanik Silver’s underground Seminar  where he revealed even more of his underground strategies. Then July  2007 he released Blogging to the Bank 2.0 which showed users his new  methods to creating online wealth using blogs. In total both versions  have been read by over 50,000 people across the world.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;But as I said earlier, the techniques used in these ebooks are now  showing there age. Some of them are not even working in the slightest!  This is where &lt;a href=&quot;http://869560o4yj9sd0dx8jfndk8z3r.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=BLOGTOMONEY&quot;&gt;blogging to the bank 2010&lt;/a&gt; comes into play.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;It’s full of great new techniques that work online right now!  Everything’s explained in plain English with all the fluff cut out. I  got hold of an advanced copy of the book for a much higher price than  what it actually sells for and it has been worth every single cent! I  got it in the afternoon and by the evening I was creating new profitable  blogs. Within a couple of hours of them being active I had made a nice  little profit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://869560o4yj9sd0dx8jfndk8z3r.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=BLOGTOMONEY&quot;&gt;Blogging To The Bank 2010 &lt;/a&gt;teaches you Robs new step by step blueprint to  creating highly profitable long term niche blogs using the newest  optimization techniques. There’s even a section on advanced Search  Engine Optimization. Most people think SEO is difficult but Rob explains  this nice and simply so even the blogging newbie will understand it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://digitalbooksreview.blogspot.com/2010/09/blogging-to-bank-by-rob-benwell.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (digitalbooksreview)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2702299069593201287.post-4734081264866544895</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-09-27T17:36:14.756+07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Business/Investing</category><title>The Six-Figure Second Income&quot; How To Start and Grow Succesful Online Business Without Quiting Your Day Job</title><description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;iframe align=&quot;left&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; marginheight=&quot;0&quot; marginwidth=&quot;0&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot; src=&quot;http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=digitaleboo00-20&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;p=8&amp;amp;l=bpl&amp;amp;asins=0470633956&amp;amp;fc1=000000&amp;amp;IS2=1&amp;amp;lt1=_blank&amp;amp;m=amazon&amp;amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;amp;bc1=000000&amp;amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;amp;f=ifr&quot; style=&quot;height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;Review from www.amazon.com&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Proven methods for building an online income stream&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;You  don&#39;t have to quit your current job, or already have piles of money, or  be 24 years old, or riding a booming economy, in order to start a  successful online business. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Six-Figure Second Income&lt;/i&gt; explains how to start or grow a business even when you think you have plenty of strikes against you.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;In the course of building an eight-figure real estate information  marketing business, David Lindahl and Jonathan Rozek tested dozens of  tools and techniques. This book is centered around principles they  derived from all the tests they ran, tools they used, and money they  spent.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;If you&#39;re tired of the gimmicks and skepticism that  anyone can really succeed online, this book will give you the no-hype,  no-nonsense advice you need.&lt;/div&gt;Maybe you dream of making money with an online business, but haven&#39;t  tried so far because you&#39;d have to quit your current job and enter the  risky world of Internet startups. Or because you think you need lots of  capital and way too much time. Or you think the field is maxed out and  overcrowded. Or that you need to be age twenty-four—with an amazing  invention to sell. Or just because the economy&#39;s too bad right now.       &lt;br /&gt;
If these reasons sound familiar, Dave Lindahl and Jon Rozek beg  to differ. Having done so themselves, they know you can create a very  significant side income online, and their new go-to guide The Six-Figure  Second Income shows you exactly how!    &lt;br /&gt;
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Filled with  common-sense advice and proven tips, this book supplies you with a  complete toolbox to take the things you know or do best and sell them  online for a profit—all in your spare time, working at your speed.  You&#39;ll get a no-nonsense approach to creating and selling simple,  effective information products that will, with time and work, produce a  sizable income stream. You&#39;ll also discover:Ten false barriers on your  road to onlinebusiness success      &lt;br /&gt;
Six very real dangers to your  successReady-made ideas for quick andprofitable productsHelpful tips  for creating saleable contentquickly and easily      &lt;br /&gt;
Seven building blocks of a good Web site      &lt;br /&gt;
Common  marketing mistakes and their fixesHow to use Google tools and other  online resources to discover new trends and markets      &lt;br /&gt;
Secrets to creating an upward profit spiral      &lt;br /&gt;
If  for some reason you object to making money, don&#39;t read this book.  Otherwise, pick up The Six-Figure Second Income and start building a  rewarding and growing stream of online profits today!      &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 7.5pt;&quot;&gt;Books of The Times&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;War, Revolution and a King Who Says ‘By Jove’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 7.5pt;&quot;&gt;By JANET MASLIN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;A lot happens on the first page of Ken Follett’s “&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Fall-Giants-Century-Trilogy-Follett/dp/0525951652?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=digitaleboo00-20&amp;amp;link_code=btl&amp;amp;camp=213689&amp;amp;creative=392969&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Fall of Giants&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; src=&quot;http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=digitaleboo00-20&amp;amp;l=btl&amp;amp;camp=213689&amp;amp;creative=392969&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=0525951652&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;.” King George V is crowned at Westminster Abbey. A Welsh boy named Billy Williams turns 13 and begins his wretched life as a coal miner. And Mr. Follett, who was once a Welsh boy himself but grew up to become his generation’s most vaunted writer of colorless historical epics, kicks off a whopping new trilogy. His apparent ambition: to span the whole 20th century in blandly adequate novels so fat that they’re hard to hoist. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;“&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Fall-Giants-Century-Trilogy-Follett/dp/0525951652?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=digitaleboo00-20&amp;amp;link_code=btl&amp;amp;camp=213689&amp;amp;creative=392969&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Fall of Giants&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; src=&quot;http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=digitaleboo00-20&amp;amp;l=btl&amp;amp;camp=213689&amp;amp;creative=392969&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=0525951652&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;” begins on June 22, 1911, a time, as Follett fans may longingly note, nearly 100 years before the invention of the e-book reader. But the march of lightweight book technology is hardly its main concern. Mr. Follett has devoted this tome to the implosions of the British, Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires around the time of World War I. It was also the era when the Ottoman Empire had its last sultan, but Mr. Follett overlooks that; after all, he has only 985 pages’ worth of storytelling space. Given the pacing that he prefers, that leaves “&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Fall-Giants-Century-Trilogy-Follett/dp/0525951652?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=digitaleboo00-20&amp;amp;link_code=btl&amp;amp;camp=213689&amp;amp;creative=392969&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Fall of Giants&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; src=&quot;http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=digitaleboo00-20&amp;amp;l=btl&amp;amp;camp=213689&amp;amp;creative=392969&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=0525951652&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;” no room to spare.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;It is the method of “&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Fall-Giants-Century-Trilogy-Follett/dp/0525951652?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=digitaleboo00-20&amp;amp;link_code=btl&amp;amp;camp=213689&amp;amp;creative=392969&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Fall of Giants&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; src=&quot;http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=digitaleboo00-20&amp;amp;l=btl&amp;amp;camp=213689&amp;amp;creative=392969&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=0525951652&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;” to integrate large events (e.g., anything involving King George V) with small, personal ones (e.g., Billy’s first wearing of long pants). That’s how it tries to coax forth a grand panorama of history from a mosaic of everyday lives. And the political must become personal, as when the heartless coal mine owner tells Billy: “I don’t like socialists. Atheists are doomed to eternal damnation. And trade unionists are the worst of the lot.” Not surprisingly, Billy will grow up to fight for the rights of the little people.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;“&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Fall-Giants-Century-Trilogy-Follett/dp/0525951652?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=digitaleboo00-20&amp;amp;link_code=btl&amp;amp;camp=213689&amp;amp;creative=392969&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Fall of Giants&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; src=&quot;http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=digitaleboo00-20&amp;amp;l=btl&amp;amp;camp=213689&amp;amp;creative=392969&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=0525951652&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;” is so besotted with stark economic contrasts that the mine is located near the lavish Ty Gwyn, said to be the largest house in Wales. This is the country home of Earl Fitzherbert, who is called Fitz and is said to be the ninth-richest man in Britain. Fitz is married to the selfish Russian-born Princess Bea, a one-woman explanation for the Russian Revolution.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;In the kind of remarkable coincidence that abounds here, Billy’s cheeky sister Ethel works at Ty Gwyn and catches Fitz’s eye. “What a pretty girl you are,” he says to her one day. Then he asks, “Have you ever heard of droit du seigneur?”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;At this early stage in “&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Fall-Giants-Century-Trilogy-Follett/dp/0525951652?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=digitaleboo00-20&amp;amp;link_code=btl&amp;amp;camp=213689&amp;amp;creative=392969&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Fall of Giants&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; src=&quot;http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=digitaleboo00-20&amp;amp;l=btl&amp;amp;camp=213689&amp;amp;creative=392969&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=0525951652&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;,” Ethel hasn’t heard of anything. (The book has a real penchant for short, perfunctory sex scenes in which men deflower instantly breathless virgins, as Fitz does Ethel.) But she will be a fast learner. The major female characters in this novel, most notably Fitz’s headstrong sister, Lady Maud Fitzherbert, are eager to achieve suffrage and assert their rights, even as they spawn enough babies to populate the Follett book scheduled for 2012, the trilogy’s World War II installment.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;The women wind up in childbirth, the men in the midst of historical turmoil. And the more simultaneously these things happen, the better. So one Russian baby is born on the very night her father is personally helping Lenin and Trotsky carry out the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Mr. Follett patiently develops Russian, Welsh, French, German and American principal characters and plotlines. These people’s circumstances vary greatly, but their stories all feel similar somehow. Whatever their nationalities, most of Mr. Follett’s main characters enjoy amazing front-row seats to the great historical events of their day. So the Russian revolutionary Grigori Peshkov spends enough time around Lenin to describe him as “a real killjoy.” And Gus Dewar, an American with a low-level White House job, is the employee charged with awakening President Woodrow Wilson at a time of crisis, as the World War looms. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;“President Wilson came out of the bedroom,” Mr. Follett writes, “putting on his rimless glasses, looking vulnerable in pajamas and a dressing gown.”)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Fitz comfortably spends time with “Little Winston” Churchill and with the king, who speaks fluent king talk (“Dear me,” “Quite so,” “By Jove”). Walter von Ulrich, a German military attaché, is in contact with the kaiser. And Ethel bears a son (Fitz’s, of course) who winds up in Trafalgar Square one fateful day, close to the king’s carriage as it passes by. “Hello, king!” says the boy. “Hello, young man,” the smiling George V replies.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Mr. Follett has more than enough temerity to engineer such encounters. What he does not have is any great talent for capturing real human interaction — not until his characters have mingled for hundreds and hundreds of scenes, and he has developed some semblance of a story. So this book is full of objective descriptions of meetings, battles, rallies and negotiations, with one Follett character playing Zelig on the sidelines. Frequent use of phrases like “Billy saw,” “Walter heard,” “Fitz noticed,” “Grigori watched,” and “Gus learned” do not make these events any more meaningful than they would be without Billy, Walter, Fitz, Grigori or Gus hanging around.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Mr. Follett, whose wife is a member of Parliament, writes far more easily about British people, places and politics than he does about the book’s other settings. He spikes the Russian sequences with bits of historical data about the revolution and uses none-too-subtle atmospheric touches to establish Russianness. (“There was a samovar hissing in a corner, and an old woman in a shawl selling smoked and pickled fish.”) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;On the other hand, his Americans, particularly Woodrow Wilson, spout a strange, peppy brand of Americanese. When Gus returns from what he thinks is a failed European mission, he gets the following reception: “&amp;nbsp;‘Failure?’ said Woodrow Wilson. ‘Heck, no! You got the Germans to make a peace offer. It’s not your fault the British and the French told them to drop dead. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.’&amp;nbsp;”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;And readers can be led to Mr. Follett, particularly on the strength of his most recent books, “&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Pillars-Earth-Ken-Follett/dp/045123281X?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=digitaleboo00-20&amp;amp;link_code=btl&amp;amp;camp=213689&amp;amp;creative=392969&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The Pillars of the Earth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; src=&quot;http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=digitaleboo00-20&amp;amp;l=btl&amp;amp;camp=213689&amp;amp;creative=392969&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=045123281X&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;” and “&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/World-Without-End-Author-Follet/dp/B002RN5I3M?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=digitaleboo00-20&amp;amp;link_code=btl&amp;amp;camp=213689&amp;amp;creative=392969&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;World Without End&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; src=&quot;http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=digitaleboo00-20&amp;amp;l=btl&amp;amp;camp=213689&amp;amp;creative=392969&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=B002RN5I3M&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;.” He had the building of a cathedral, the Middle Ages and the Black Death to hold interest, but “&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Fall-Giants-Century-Trilogy-Follett/dp/0525951652?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=digitaleboo00-20&amp;amp;link_code=btl&amp;amp;camp=213689&amp;amp;creative=392969&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Fall of Giants&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; src=&quot;http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=digitaleboo00-20&amp;amp;l=btl&amp;amp;camp=213689&amp;amp;creative=392969&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=0525951652&quot; style=&quot;border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;” is less exotic. It is most memorable as a test of readers’ fortitude, a step-by-step World War I primer and a breeding ground for the characters who will appear in subsequent installments. However two-dimensional these characters first seem, and however much they spout talking points rather than human conversation, they have begun to develop interesting baggage after 1,000 pages roll by. If only they had gotten off to a less plodding start.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 7.5pt;&quot;&gt;A version of this review appeared in print on September 24, 2010, on page C32 of the New York edition.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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