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Electroanalytical Stripping Methods (Chemical Analysis: A Series of Monographs on Analytical Chemistry and Its Applications)
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A monograph on the theory of this procedure and its application to environmental monitoring. Considers all variants of stripping methods as a group of techniques used to study and analyze both solutions and solids. Reflects new qualitative standards attained by recently used electroanalytical stripping methods.
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Part of the Cold Spring Harbor Symposia. Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory of Quantitative Biology. Collection of stories, told by some biologists whose work and careers were strongly influenced by Max Delbruck.
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Peyton Place and Return to Peyton Place (Modern Classics)
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Return to Peyton Place
ASIN: 0517204770
Release Date: 1999-09-14 |
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Peyton Place, published in 1956, has sold over 10,000,000 copies world-wide and remains the fourth biggest selling novel of all time. Its sequel, Return to Peyton Place, published in 1959, was a national best-seller for many, many months. Considered scandalous it its time of publication, Peyton Place, stirred controversy with its explicit—for the time—depictions of sex and sins in a small New England town. Today, the once shocking novel and its sequel seem tame, and are taught in college English courses as classics of their time, well-written and honest in the evocation of the passions, jealousies, and secrets of small-town America.
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Shocking 1950's Blockbuster Is Still A Pageturner .......2007-09-25
When PEYTON PLACE was published in the late 1950's it was a phenomenon. Those of us who are over forty or so still recognize the title as being synonymous with a locale filled with scandal and gossip. Aside from its historic notoriety this is a very readable novel with realistic characters and several intriguing plots.
The setting of the novel is Peyton Place, New Hampshire a small mill town in the 1930's and 1940's. The book focuses on several young people in the town as they grow from early adolescents to adulthood in this small hypocritical community. The female protagonist is Allison a young woman with literary ambitions. Allison's mother has a closely guarded secret about Allison's birth which will seem silly to modern readers but was apparently scandalous in the 50's. Allison's schoolmates include Selena, a smart ambitious girl from the "shacks" with a horrible secret of her own, Rodney the overly indulged son of the mill owner who rules the town and a nervous boy named Norman. This book is not just about teenagers though as the stories of their parents and other townspeople are also told. Serious problems and tragedies occur in the town and the writing is suspenseful enough to keep the reader turning the pages.
PEYTON PLACE is often compared to another novel of small town secrets KINGS ROW. Though PEYTON PLACE is not quite as well written as that novel they do share the theme of the hidden lives of respectable seeming small town residents. The hypocrisy of the residents and the fear many of them live in of being gossiped about and the choices they make to not "be talked about" are the two elements of PEYTON PLACE this reader will remember.
Other Books.......2007-09-03
A really pretty tame book about a particular town, where the author through an author character looks at the peccadilloes of various people in the town of the time.
These range from sex, to being a scumbag employer, to drunks, wife beaters, all the usual stuff you would expect to find in a place in the country, as the Great Detective would tell you.
Fairly dull.
A Great Piece of Pop Culture History.......2007-07-26
I read this book for a class I took on pop culture fiction and was pleasantly surprised. The book is set in a small New England town mysteriously called Peyton Place after a castle set high above the village. The book follows a wide array of the inhabitants of the town, from the upper crust that bring to mind images of southern gentlemen to the 'shack dwellers' straight out of hicksville, to the run of the mill guys and gals of the teenage set. The main message of course, is that nothing is ever quite as it seems...
With that in mind, the book is very much the predecessor to the soap operas of today. There are several main characters, but every character whether mentioned over a few scant pages or in every chapter, resonates in some way to the various climaxes sprinkled from start to finish. If you are a fan of soap operas, or even dramatic television, romantic novels, or chick lit, you'll find this book and its twisting and turning storylines extremely entertaining.
What the book is notorious for is its 'naughty bits', that were quite shocking for the time period it was written and distributed in (the 50's) and even moreso for the time period the book is set in (30's-50's). I can tell you the book doesn't disappoint in the sense that it is very willing to deal with sexuality and taboo subjects in a blunt matter - made even more interesting by the knowledge we have today of life for women in the 50's and 60's.
Overall this is a great book - there are far too many plot lines to delve into in a simple review like this, but you will not be disappointed if you are looking for a nice summer read or a engaging soapy page turner.
LIFE IN A QUIET TOWN .......2007-04-11
"Rodney Harrington, wearing a white jacket and with curly black hair well slicked down with water, sat on the edge of a chair in the Mckenzie living room. Constance had left him there while she went upstairs to see if Allison was ready, and now Rodney sat and stared morosely at the braided rug on the floor."
Thanks to Grace Metalious and Ardis Cameron we can now enjoy this book in print once again.
Peyton Place was one of the soap operas nobody wanted to miss when it was on televison. It was for this reason that I drew this book out to indulge in a bit of nostalgia.
It was a wonderful read with all our favourite characters, I could hardly put it down for too long. Hope others find that joy that I did reliving Peyton Place.
Reviewed by Heather Marshall Negahdar (SUGAR-CANE 11/04/07)
great book.......2007-02-13
What a great book!! The writing is fabulous!!! It's amazing what a "stir" it caused when it was first published years ago.
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In 1956 Grace Metalious published Peyton Place, the novel that unbuttoned the straitlaced New England of the popular imagination, transformed the publishing industry, topped the bestseller lists for more than a year, and made its young author one of the most talked-about people in America. In 1959 the sizzling sequel, Return to Peyton Place, picked up where Peyton Place left off: Allison MacKenzie, now the author of America's #1 bestseller, is thrown into the glamorous whirl of the smart set of New York and Hollywood. At home, the rest of the most controversial characters in 1950s American fiction continue to create a stir in this ongoing expose of sex, hypocrisy, social inequity, and class privilege in contemporary America. Peyton Place, the small, seemingly respectable New England town, is revealed as a vividly realistic cauldron of secrets and scandal. Peyton Place and its sequel, Return to Peyton Place, the books that readers used to hide under their mattresses, are now recognized by scholars as the Silent Generation's Perfect Storm and predecessors to the women's liberation movement. Treat yourself to this rediscovered classic.
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Return to Peyton Place
Manufacturer: Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000GSKV64 |
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An Interesting Look Back at "That" town........2007-04-11
Thoroughly enjoyable continuation of the town everyone's heard about. I'd love for someone to write a continuation.
From an Inside Flap.......2006-01-24
"Peyton Place, published in 1956, has sold over 10,000,000 copies world-wide and remains the fourth biggest selling novel of all time. Its sequel, Return to Peyton Place, published in 1959, was a national best-seller for many, many months. Considered scandalous it its time of publication, Peyton Place, stirred controversy with its explicit--for the time--depictions of sex and sins in a small New England town. Today, the once shocking novel and its sequel seem tame, and are taught in college English courses as classics of their time, well-written and honest in the evocation of the passions, jealousies, and secrets of small-town America."
A COLDER WELCOMING.......2006-01-18
Part two of the Peyton Place saga finds Allison living the life of a best-selling author in New-York and putting her heart on her sleeve when love abounds. She soon faces litterary consequences when trouble arise back home. Quick cash-delivery seems to hover over RETURN TO PEYTON PLACE, despite Metalious attempt to win us over with a fast rhythm and a clear prose. Her characters, as her plot, end up falling mostly flat. Nothing really lifts up except maybe her main protagonist's decision to save her stepdad over her in-print mistakes. Too bad Metalious couldn't save herself from this less-than inspiring (and so thin) delivery, and that, despite its world-wide popularity.-----Martin Boucher
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Return to Peyton Place
Grace Metalious
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Requiem for a Dream: A Novel
Hubert Selby Jr.
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Over twenty years after its first publication in 1978, Requiem for a Dream makes it to the big screen in a major motion picture starring Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, Jared Leto, and Christopher McDonald. Directed by Darren Aronofsky, the highly acclaimed director of Pi, the movie was released in November 2000. In this searing novel, two young hoods, Harry and Tyrone, and a girlfriend fantasize about scoring a pound of uncut heroin and getting rich. But their habit gets the better of them, consumes them and destroys their dreams. "Selby's place is in the front rank of American novelists. His work has the power, the intimacy with suffering and morality, the honesty and moral urgency of Dostoevsky's....To understand Selby's work is to understand the anguish of America." -- The New York Times Book Review
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Prepare yourself before you read.......2007-01-30
You need to be ready before you read this book. Upon finishing this little dandy I was physically shaking. I can't think of any other book that has made of shake. The manic style and never ending punch in the face flow of this Hubert Selby Jr. masterpiece will stay with you for the rest of your life. If you saw the movie and so decided to not read the book, you are making a mistake. The book is a totally different experience then the movie. Each is a masterpiece in a completely unique way. It's amazing how real this book is. You will feel insane compassion for the lowest of individuals. You will want to reach out to these amazing characters. I don't know how Hubert Selby Jr. does it. His mind must have been a dark but beautiful and loving realm. If you want to be a book this one will make you its own. Read it.
AMAZING.......2006-09-30
by far the best book i have ever read about the troubles about addiction. and the movie was also the best movie i have ever seen. i recommend to do both. this story is so moving, and it introduces drugs, and addiction in a way i have never witnessed. the book is so descriptive, your reading about addiction, and at the same moment your so addicted to the book you cannot put it down for even a split second. the movie is a masterpiece, it is so emotional, you feel the pain, all the emotions the characters go through, you feel like you are there when you watch the movie. its amazing, Requiem for a dream takes four main characters, with the same excruciating addiction to drugs and creates a vivid illustration of what they deal with, words cannot describe how beautiful this story of reality is. and lastly after you watch this movie, you will be madly in love with jared leto.
The Movie.......2006-09-15
I happened to see the movie before I read the book, and I know that there are people who frown upon that. I've seen the movie a ton of times and it's a stunning piece of work, which made me finally decide the time was right to read the book. All I can say is the book is very intense. Had I not seen the movie first though, i'm not so sure i'd have been able to follow the book. Selby is a genius authour, but if you have not seen the movie or read his books, you might get a little lost. There are no quotation marks when people are speaking and that can get a little confusing.
Wow.......2006-07-21
I'm currently on page 233. I'm going to finish this book tonight and edit my review, but I had to type this. I never thought I'd read or see anything that matched the movie, but this has matched it, and may surprass it when I'm done reading it. It offers a lot more insight into the downfall and the reasons for it that the movie does. Excellent piece of writing.
Though, Selby could have used some quotation marks, but after a while, you start recognizing who says what.
Remarkable.......2006-01-27
Though i wouldn't recommend this book to everyone, i mark it as
one of my favorites. I have read most of Selby's work and I am
once again amazed by his talent to keep his readers. If you liked
Requiem for a Dream I would also recommend his other work.
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From the writer/director of the acclaimed film Pi, the screen-adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr.'s classic cult novel.
Requiem for a Deam is a modern-day fable set on the rusted mean streets of Brooklyn's Coney Island that follows the stories of four people desperately in pursuit of a better life. Oscar-winning actress Ellen Burstyn stars as Sara, a widowed mother obsessed with her waistline and addicted to diet pills and the thought of appearing on television. Her son Harry (Jared Leto), his girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly), and his best friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans in a surprising dramatic debut), are junkies in search of the American dream-only in their world fortunes are won through a successful score and sell operation and the three long to lay their hands on the pound of heroin that, once unloaded, will finance a legitimate business of their own. Soon enough, though, their earnest pursuits begin to take on horrifying dimensions; and, even as their world crumbles around them, Sara, Harry, Marion and Tyrone refuse to let go, plummeting with their dreams in a nightmarish freefall not soon to be forgotten.
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Best ever.......2004-05-15
The book, the movie. Best ever. I have never seen such a good movie or experienced such an incredible story. really
just like the movie...almost.......2003-04-02
this is the screenplay of the movie..if youd rather read the movie than see it (altough there are pictures) then this is your book...it is good, there are a few noticable differences between this and the movie, but it is great if you are a fan of darren aronofsky....if you do like darren aronofsy you should chekc out his "book of the ants"
A Dark, Sobering Whirlwind of a Book.......2001-09-11
Let me say this up front - Requiem is very, very dark - the setting, the characters, and the message of the book are pretty bleak and hopeless. So why should you read it? First, the characters - Selby has drawn each of the four participants in this race to hell with stunning precision - after reading the book (and seeing the largely faithful movie) you feel as if you honestly know these people. Second, the terrifyingly accurate portrait of the downward spiral of addiction. Each of these characters reacts differently to his/her being hooked, but, with the exception of Sara, the brutal truth finally becomes too evident to ignore, at least until the next "little taste". The isolation of the addict is brilliantly rendered as Sara declines to go out, Tyrone gladly says goodbye to his "fine fox", and Harry and Marion lose the intensity of their love for each other to their more urgent love of heroin. Finally, it is Selby's gifts as a storyteller that provide the main reason for this book's classic status - I have read "stream of consciousness" before, but never have I been so riveted by it. The final 50 pages or so just go by in a horrible blur. Don't expect a light at the end of the tunnel - Selby doesn't celebrate dreamers, he condemns them for obscuring their view of what is with delusions of what could be. Powerful stuff.
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Requiem for a dream
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The Requiem: Book Two of the Dream Series (Dream)
Jessica Barone
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The Requiem is the confessional journal of the vampire, Jason Maura. It is the story of how he was made a vampire; the conflicts he had to face which sculpted him into what he became. It is a tale which spans across continents and time, from Europe to America, from the year 1677 to 1995. Excitingly frightening and filled with vampiric seduction, it is a novel that readers of The Dream Series will not want to miss.
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EXCELLENT VAMPIRE NOVEL.......2002-12-04
This novel by Jessica Barone is excellent! I really enjoyed traveling through history with such complex characters caught in their world of the "undead". Barone's characters reveal genuine human struggles packed with every possible emotion; a most compelling tale. I look forward to the next in the series.
Growth as a Writer.......2002-08-17
Ms. Barone has produced an engaging and gripping tale. It is clear that she has grown tremendously as a writer. He first work was good -this one is excellent! Her descriptions and plot line make you experience what her character sees, things and feels. I look forward to her next piece.
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Title: More jazz than not.(The Music)(Sound Recording Review)
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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on April 21, 2002. The length of the article is 1475 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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