Customer Reviews:
Very historic.......2007-09-27
When I purchased this book I had no idea of all the historic facts in it. I have learned so much about the houses and fragrances. I reccomend this book to anyone in the fragrance industory or anyone interested in the fragrance world. So much historic information in this volumne.
Wonderful on legends, stories, perfumers, houses, packaging, and everything about perfume, but a bit light on the scents . . ........2007-06-20
This is a beautiful book and a great read on the legends and stories behind the great perfumes and perfume houses. I learned more about the perfumes, the packaging, the designers, the design culture in France, etc. etc. etc. than I ever would have expected. There are some pretty good descriptions of the scents themselves, together with triangle diagrams of head, heart and bottom notes.
I would have liked to see more "how to buy perfume" information, such as the different formulations of EDT, EDP, etc., and maybe some more comparative information on the various fragrances.
This book has been an invaluable resource for my blog, [...]
the best of the best perfumes.......1999-07-31
This extrordinary book covers the most impacting fragrances on both the public and the industry. From conception to development to launches, it gives a thorough history of these wonderscents.Each chapter is a spesific scent, covering the designer, the fragrance creators, the bottle development and all the dirty little secrets of how they got to the top. The book thoroughly covers 45 perfumes (I think he missed a few) including greats like Chanel #5, Shalimar,Anais Anais and Angel. Mr. Edwards also gives a composition rundown, But this is a little confusing if you are not familliar with his Fragrance Manual. Required reading for any fragrance nut.
A truly comprehensive treatment of a fascinating subject.......1998-04-22
At first glance, Perfume Legends is a beautifully illustrated coffee table book packed with fascinating stories about the creation and evolution of some of the greatest fragrances of the century. Dig deeper and you discover it's a valuable reference tool for anybody involved in the fashion or beauty business. Perfume is an art form, it captures the spirit of the times, and it's an eye-opening exercise to trace the evolution of fragrance through the history of the 20th century. It's also intriguing to read about the scientific breakthroughs that gave rise to new perfume notes, which greatly expanded the perfumers' repertoire. Michael Edwards obviously knows his subject intimately and he manages to share his knowledge in a readable way. He has clearly spent years researching the true stories behind the myths. The clever combination of scholarship, anecdote and brilliant pictorial material (some of it never published before) makes this book a must for anyone interested in the subject. Even people who just love fragrance will get a lot out of Perfume Legends. It's the only truly comprehensive reference on the subject of French female fragrance classics that I've been able to find. I heartily recommend it. It is ironic that Michael Edwards, who lives in Australia, was born in Africa and educated in England, seems to have beaten the French at their own game. They must be furious.
Book Description
A superb reference book and an ideal instructional textbook for classroom use, this beautifully illustrated guide is organized into units that reflect required courses at leading design colleges. Twenty step-by-step exercises cover methods of finding inspiration, developing observation techniques, and creating fashion drawings in both color and black-and-white media. Separate sections are devoted to getting started and understanding figure proportions, planning and designing garments, and creating and assessing flat specification drawings. The book also features cross-references to its various art instruction techniques, a designer's glossary, and a helpful index. This book guides students through their first steps in fashion illustration, covering everything that is presented in the best college-level courses. It makes a fine starting point for all students of fashion, introducing them to fashion drawing as a first step toward a career as a creative costumier. More than 250 illustrations in color and black and white.
Customer Reviews:
misleading title; glad I checked it out from the library before purchasing it........2007-06-04
The title is an absolute lie. There aren't even general sketches to look onto as templates! This book, chock full of details on how to become "inspired", may help if you need assistance focusing on what motivates you--but otherwise, it's not going to teach you at all about fashion illustration.
fashion drawing.......2007-03-22
This is a well done and well illustrated book,and can be used by novices in Fashion drawing,or by professionals.
Great Book.......2007-02-11
My daughter loves this book...she gets a lot of information and down to the basics. thank you
Excellent.......2007-01-10
Takes the beginner the next step. Gives good information on and basics on being a fashion designer. It is the book you keep in your library and go back to as a reference.
Focuses more on the Creativity and not the Technical.......2007-01-06
I gave this book four stars because it did what I wanted it to do.Granted I would've loved it even more if there were thorough instructions on figure drawing. The book only skims over the basics of drawing the fashion figure so if you need help with the more technical aspects don't start here.This book is great if your like me, someone who already knows how to draw the fashion figure but needs to find an edge, more ideas... It should be called the fashion illustration drawing course because it does focus more on turning someone into a better illustrator.
In my opinion buy the book.For the price you will learn some really creative and whimsical techniques.
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The questions plaguing Captain America's dreams and memories have been answered in the most brutal way possible. And in the wake of this brutality, General Lukin makes his first all-out assault - tearing open old wounds and threatening to make new scars that will never heal! Collects Captain America #8, 9 and #11-14.
Customer Reviews:
Captain America: Winter Soldier, Vol. 2 .......2007-06-08
A fantastic read, I couldn't put the book down.
On par with the first volume.......2007-05-27
The second collected storyarc in Ed Brubaker's relaunched Captain America series is pretty much on par with the first volume. That means, if you enjoyed Brubaker's first collection, you'll dig this as well. However, that also means that if you didn't like Brubaker's first collection, this one won't win you over. Continuing where the first Winter Soldier collection left off, Cap learns that the Winter Soldier is indeed his old, thought long dead partner Bucky; resulting in a face off between the two. Throughout this TPB, there are also appearances from the Falcon, Nick Fury, and a hint in regards to the "death" of the Red Skull. The book is well paced and full of espionage and action, while Steve Epting's artwork is pretty solid as well. All that being said, there's nothing really special about the second volume of Brubaker's run on Captain America, but it's not as bad as some reviewers are making it out to be. Yes, no one in comics stays dead forever (ironic considering Cap himself recently bit the big one), but at least it gets to be moderately entertaining from time to time.
Finally...Back from the dead.......2007-03-17
It is not unusual to kill off a comic book character. What is rare is to have the departed one stay dead. DC was successful in killing and reviving Superman and has recently brought both Green Lantern and Green Arrow back from the land of the almost dead. Marvel is giving us a look at their first Captain Marvel again.
One of the few characters who managed to stay dead was Captain America's original partner: James Buchanan Barnes. Aside from a pseudo return in the fifties, Bucky has remained safely frozen in the past. According to artist Mike Perkins, Marvel editors were skeptical about the pitch by writers to revive Bucky, but were convinced by the strength of the proposed storyline.
Winter Soldier is fun to read with the usual Cap elements: Nick Fury, Sharon Carter, WW2 flashbacks, Red Skull with the Falcon thrown in for good measure. The artwork is dark or sepia-toned and blends well with flashback pages. There is the usual Cap soul-searching and shield-slinging. I did find his black ops work a little disturbing as I can remember Cap changing his identity to Nomad when disillusioned over Watergate revelations. In the pages of Winter Soldier, however, he mentions disappointment in the current administration because they are too committed to the rule of law.
However, it is just a comic book and not an editorial. So, regardless of the reader's ideology, if you are a Cap fan, you will enjoy Winter Soldier. If not, this arc is a good way to reconnect with the character and to read the background to Cap's own shuffling off of this mortal coil (at least for a while.)
Believe the Brubaker hype!!.......2007-02-17
Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting's WINTER SOLDIER arc for Captain America is as defining for the character of Cap as it is for the agents of SHIELD and for those who believed that certain characters shouldn't come back from the dead. It's a great story with great development and it truly is a great arc.
not so good..........2007-01-13
part 2 is a total mess (pt 1 wasn't much better). overall if you are a captain america fan you'll probably hate this for many reasons, if you are a casual comics fan you might think its ok, if you read a lot of comics and are tired of the same overused garbage from the big two publishers you'll hate this.
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Book Description
Fans of P. G. Wodehouse's comic genius are legion, and their devotion to his masterful command of the hilarity borders on an obsession.
The Mating Season is a time of love, mistaken identity, and mishap for Bertie, Gussie Fink-Nottle and other guests staying at Deverill Hall-luckily there's unflappable Jeeves to set things right.
Customer Reviews:
On a dreary afternoon...........2007-04-05
or a sunny one for that matter. P.G always delivers!! If you haven't read him don't wait!
I was deeply bucked.......2007-03-06
This is one of the lightest and brightest of the Jeeves and Bertie novels, from 1949, smack dab in the middle of Plum's acquaintanceship with the half wit and his gentleman's gentleman. Other reviewers have capsuled the insane plot admirably; let me add a few happy notes. The author limns a number of his ensemble cast quite handsomely in this book, but one who takes center stage, literally, and steals the show is Bertie's lifelong female friend, now a famous Hollywood star, the beautiful willful handful, Cora "Corky" Pirbright. I am madly in love with this character, and not just because she's a gorgeous celluloid ingénue. Her ferocity of purpose is matched only by the nonchalance with which she pursues it. For instance, the way she gets Gussie to do her bidding would be cruel were it not carried off with such whimsy. Her honest friendship with Bertie, whom she clearly likes, is as refreshing as a spring breeze. Corky is actually kind. She tolerates an endless visit with a matronly fan, only later revealing to Bertie that the woman is the final and interminable authority on Hollywood. "She even knows how many times Artie Shaw has been married, which I bet he couldn't tell you himself. She asked if I had ever married Artie Shaw, and when I said No, seemed to think I was pulling her leg or must have done it without noticing. I tried to explain that when a girl goes to Hollywood she doesn't HAVE to marry Artie Shaw, it's optional..."
As the story's climax approaches, Wodehouse takes the reader inside a small English village amateur show, a benefit for an extraordinarily tired church organ. The account is almost as long as the show; the master really takes his time. The funny thing is: every line. It's a tour de force, and exemplifies why we read PG Wodehouse. Not to rush to the finale, not to find out what happens, but to sit as one sits before a warm clear sunrise, to take in every word and phrase and let it slowly bring its own chuckling light into your heart.
OK, I'll put a sock in it now. By the way, Plum uses that phase in this book just the way we use it today. I wonder if it's his creation.
Wonderful, wonderful Wodehouse.......2007-01-22
If there is a master of the feel-good book - one of those novels that elevates your mood every time you read a page - it must be P.G. Wodehouse. Yes, his stories may not be deep, but they are always delightfully entertaining. And nowhere is Wodehouse better than with his incomparable Jeeves and Wooster tales.
These stories are typically narrated by Bertie Wooster, a well-meaning but not-too-bright fellow who tries to enjoy the life of the idle rich. Since he isn't all that sharp, he constantly gets into trouble, which is where his valet Jeeves steps in. In any crisis, the omniscient Jeeves is unflappable.
The Mating Season again puts Bertie in the soup. This time, he is coerced by his fearsome Aunt Agatha into visiting Deverill Hall, a mansion filled with a bunch of elderly aunts; they aren't Bertie's aunts, but Agatha has given him a phobia about all such relations. Bertie's friend, Gussie Fink-Nottle, is also supposed to intend, but an unexpected incarceration spoils that. This threatens Gussie's engagement to Madeline Bassett, and Madeline has made clear that she intends to marry Bertie if ever Gussie doesn't work out. For Bertie, there is only one choice: he goes to Deverill Hall impersonating Gussie.
Complications, of course, ensue. First of all, Gussie gets out of jail early and goes to Deverill Hall impersonating Bertie. Meanwhile, there is a tangle of romances that could still well-endanger Bertie's beloved bachelorhood. Corky Pirbright wants to be with Esmond Haddock, who in turn is wooing his cousin Gertrude (to make Corky jealous) who in turn is in love with Corky's brother, Catsmeat. Gussie falls for Corky, Catsmeat gets mixed up with the maid Queenie who is on the outs with the police constable Dobbs.
This comic soap opera plays out perfectly with Wodehouse's adept plotting and even more adept use of language. The only bad part is it eventually must end. But until that conclusion is reached, there are few reading pleasures quite like a Wodehouse book.
"All that befalls you is part of the great web": Jeeves quotes Aurelius to Soothe Bertie's Soul.......2005-08-06
P.G. Wodehouse's _The Mating Season_ is very entertaining. Wodehouse's wonderful, comic writing is sure to bring smiles and laughter. _The Mating Season_ is filled with hare-brained schemes plotted by the likes of Bertram Wooster and his chronies, disguises and impostors, and tales of weak-willed men, who quail in the presence of imposing Aunts and fall in love (in swoons) with precisely the wrong young women. And, of course, there is the resolute, unflappable man-servant Jeeves. Jeeves "shimmers" in and out of the book at just the right moments, devising ingenuis solutions to extricate Bertie and his friends from their troubles.
As the other reviewers have noted, the story is intricate with four romantic plots and four characters--Berties, Jeeves, Gussie Fink-Nottle, and "Catsmeat" Pirbright--variously impersonating each other at Deverill Hall, an estate dominated by five Aunts. Bertie, the narrator, helps the reader keep track of the story by explaining to characters how things stand as the plot twists and turns. In the final chapter, Bertie gives the reader a final chart, hilariously assembled, of how Jeeves has managed to sort out "the great web."
There are many wonderful scenes, including one where Jeeves literally plays the "deus ex machina" with a "blunt instrument knowns as a cosh" and another where Bertie, mistaken as a burglar, is nearly shot. There are hilarious, laugh out loud sentences like this description of Rev. Sidney Pirbright: "A tall, drooping man, looking as if he had been stuffed in a hurry by an incompetent taxidermist." Bertie's way of telling the story, peppered with latin phrases and exclamations of "Right Ho!," is always funny.
For readers unfamiliar with Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster characters, I would recommend as a starting point the anthology _The World of Jeeves_, a great collection of Jeeves short stories. These stories introduce all of the major and minor characters, including the unforgetable Aunt Agatha.
About ten years ago, my uncle lent me his copy of the _World of Jeeves_ before a long summer trip abroad. Not only did I enjoy the stories immensely, but my friends loved them, too. Living without TV for a few months, these stories became like episodes of _Seinfeld_ to us. I'm still "borrowing" my uncle's book.
One of the Best and Funniest Books Ever Written.......2005-03-28
Evelyn Waugh, a tight man with a compliment for his fellow authors, referred to P.G. Wodehouse as the Master, and nowhere are the reasons more apparent than in The Mating Season.
There is never a dull moment as Bertie Wooster impersonates Gussie Fink-Nottle, Claude Cattermole ("Catsmeat") Pirbright impersonates the non-existent Meadowes, to appear at Deverill Hall as Gussie's personal gentleman (Bertie is impersonating Gussie at the time), Gussie impersonates Bertie, with Jeeves in tow, no fewer than four pairs of sundered hearts are re-united, as Bertie once again escapes the matrimonial trap, and Esmond Haddock, the landed proprietor of Deverill Hall, defies his five aunts to marry Claude's sister, the celebrated Hollywood actress Corky. With all this action and imposture, however, Wodehouse's writing is so skillful that the reader, with no effort, keeps the characters and action straight. There is, of course, time for Wodehouse's unexcelled magic with the English language. To put it more briefly, this novel provides one whale of a good time.
Wodehouse wrote dozens of hilarious, wonderfully-written, and intricately-plotted novels. It is high praise indeed to note that The Mating Season would almost certainly rank in the top five in any poll of Wodehouse fans.
Book Description
Bertie Wooster's friend Gussie Fink-Nottle must spend two weeks in jail for illegal fountain wading. Worse, Gussie's fiancee Madeline, a volatile young woman who turns to Bertie when Gussie upsets her, will probably not take the news very well. Bertie's idea of impersonating Gussie triggers an array of comic complications in this witty romp. As always, Jeeves, who dons his own disguise, comes through to save the day.
Customer Reviews:
Not up to usual standard........2006-03-15
This is not P.G. Wodehouse at it's best amd this,I think, is due to the narration. For me, Jonathan Cecil just cannot compare with Martin Jarvis as a narrator.
nopunctuationinthewhole5cds.......2005-10-14
I have several Jeeves CDs and many, many, many Rumpole CDs. I put both in the same genre because they're written lightly but with a brilliant sense of humor. Unfortunately with "The Mating Season," either Wodehouse forgot to include punctuation or the narrator, Jonathan Cecil, was in a hurry to get to dinner. He's better suited as a disclaimor reader at the end of automobile commercials.
Try "Carry on Jeeves" - or "My Man Jeeves" both narrated by Martin Jarvis, or ANY Rumpole narrated by Leo McKern.
Nix on this one.
Wodehouse+Cecil=Perfection.......2005-07-06
We have sampled most of the narrations of Wodehouse's books over the years - from cast dramatisations from the BBC with Richard Briers to Jarvis to Jonathan Cecil and can tell you that Cecil comes out on top.
I can comfortably tell you to ignore the blighter who most ill-advisedly recommends Jarvis over Cecil. Jonathan Cecil brings consistency and clarity to some incredibly convoluted passages, the voices and affectations are appropriate and help the narrative. Pure joy is the only way to describe our experience of Cecil's reading of Wodehouse.
On my last rip to London, I picked up the remaining Wodehouse audiobooks narrated by Jonathan Cecil for our next long driving trip. One of joys was discovering that the U.K. release includes the narration of the preface/introduction written by P.G. Wodehouse (now missing from most paperback editions).
As for Wodehouse - All hail the master. I hope that your lives can slow down long enough to let the gentle humour and joy of his stories cast its spell on you.
Delightful.......2004-07-04
Do yourself a big favor and disregard the ill tempered blighter that gave this CD a poor review because of Cecil's reading...he preferred Davidson. Amazing! Yawn.....
Cecil is brilliant and far better in his interpretations than most others. A master of his art. A sensational deal too! Hear for yourself.
Great book--try the Frederick Davidson version instead.......2004-04-29
Jonathan Cecil isn't the best reader of this material. His Bertie is all right, but his Jeeves is all wrong. Cecil gives Jeeves an almost flamboyantly snooty accent that overplays the comedy and spoils the gentle irony of Jeeves' remarks. Also, the other male characters (besides Jeeves) sound too much like Bertie. Cecil also gives every line the same emphasis, as if he were putting an exclamation point at the end of every sentence, which becomes monotonous.
My advice: avoid Cecil and go straight to the version read by Frederick Davidson. Davidson reads this delicate material with just the right feeling. He doesn't push the jokes too hard, and lets Wodehouse's beautifully bizarre phrases do their own work. His Bertie is somehow more "real" than that of Cecil, who sometimes seems to be reading his lines one word at a time from a distant cue card. Davidson's Jeeves is far superior as well--more reserved, and at the same time much funnier. And Davidson gives each of the characters a unique, interesting, but non-irritating voice--especially the aunts. His Aunt Dahlia (who appears in some of the other books, but not this one) is astonishingly good.
I'll put it this way: if your favorite TV comedies have a laugh track, you'll probably prefer Cecil's reading. For a defter touch, I recommend Frederick Davidson.
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6 volumes in the Jeeves & Wooster series
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