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Title: A House of Straw: A Natural Building Odyssey by Carolyn Roberts ISBN: 1-890132-30-6 Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub Co Pub. Date: June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Chicken Soup for the Soul, for the Straw Bale Builder...
Comment: Chicken soup, that is, with a lot of nuts and bolts thrown in for extra fiber!! All though this is, more of a what happens to you in the process book, than it's a "how to do it" book? It should be the second book following "Build it with Bales II," that you should read. Even if written from the female perspective? It will give anyone invaluable insight regardless of your gender, to build your dream home (right). Without needlessly killing yourself or your spouse (or kids) in the process. Her centering herself in spirit and connection to the earth pulls her through, as it will you. After buying and reading this book, you can move on to the other coffee table books on the topic.
I'll admit bias, I was there in the early stages to help Carolyn get her dream up, and out of the desert dirt. I am "Spuds" (Chapter 9). Until I read further into the process, I couldn't believe she would have had more difficult times? After working hand and glove, sweat and toil with this absolute dynamo of a woman? I can tell you she writes it as it happened and her writting, reads just like she speaks.. honest, straight forward, focused, sincere and connected to her purpose. By keeping focused on the goal, she surmounts obsticles that most of us would cave into. But not her. Due to her indominatable connection to spirit, she, rejects "no" for an answer. It didn't take me long to learn that aspect of her persona first hand.
In the previous reviews, short shrift was given to the envolvement of community and personal commitment in the process.
Carolyn, would be the first to step forward with a long list of names. The point being, Staw Bale, by it's nature is a event that "makes" community happen, and long lasting friends.
Of all the books written of the topic, this one alone stands as the testimate from the beginning of the dream to the; blood, sweat, tears, fears, and toil it takes... It's just not that easy. If you think it is? Read this. And, if you take her path, you'll eventually feel the same gratification, and relief that is "almost" done....
I'll sum up her book in one word.. backbone! She's got it. If she can get it done, so can you. If you doubt it? Start reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: Building a simpler life
Comment: This is a great book of building dreams and manifesting your own destiny. As I read I was brought out into the hot sun, crying, sweating and blistering along with the builder. It has never ceased to amaze me what human beings can bring about if they really put their mind to it. Carolyn Roberts is truly a warrior of life and creates a reality we can all live with. Keeping life simple allows one to focus on realizing one's dreams. And Carolyn's dream is one of giving. Giving back to Mother Earth and giving us a good example of how simple, healthy, loving life can be.
If you are interested in building a house, especially one of straw, this is a must read. It prepares you for the pitfalls and the joys of accomplishing challenges you never thought you could.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Emotional How-To Manual For Building Your Dream Home
Comment: This truly is a great read whether you're building a house of straw, wood, recycled soda bottles, old tires or anything else. Although I wouldn't consider this a how-to-manual, it really does provide the reader with a great deal of information you wouldn't usually get your hands on unless you paid a building contractor or consultant. This is a fantastic story of a very brave woman who bucks the system and builds a house on her terms, her way, and largely by herself. You experience the highs and lows, mania, confusion and every other human emotion as she devotes her very being to the birth of her house. Overall, I found this to be an amazing story, written by someone with an inner strength and conviction few of us seem to possess in this day in age. Very inspiring and a must read to anyone crazy enough to embark on a similar journey.
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Title: The Beauty of Straw Bale Homes by Athena Swentzell Steen, Bill Steen ISBN: 1890132772 Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub Co Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Serious Straw Bale: A Home Construction Guide for All Climates (Real Goods Solar Living Book.) by Paul Lacinski, Michel Bergeron ISBN: 1890132640 Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub Co Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Straw Bale Building by Chris Magwood, Pater Mack, Elisabeth Ohi, Peter Mack ISBN: 0865714037 Publisher: New Society Pub Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Straw Bale House (A Real Goods Independent Living Book) by Athena Swentzell Steen, Bill Steen, David Bainbridge, David Eisenberg ISBN: 0930031717 Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub Co Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Build It With Bales: A Step-By-Step Guide to Straw-Bale Construction, Version Two by S. O. Macdonald, Matts Myhrman ISBN: 0964282119 Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub Co Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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