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Any talk of The Namesake--Jhumpa Lahiri's follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning debut, Interpreter of Maladies--must begin with a name: Gogol Ganguli. Born to an Indian academic and his wife, Gogol is afflicted from birth with a name that is neither Indian nor American nor even really a first name at all. He is given the name by his father who, before he came to America to study at MIT, was almost killed in a train wreck in India. Rescuers caught sight of the volume of Nikolai Gogol's short stories that he held, and hauled him from the train. Ashoke gives his American-born son the name as a kind of placeholder, and the awkward thing sticks.
Awkwardness is Gogol's birthright. He grows up a bright American boy, goes to Yale, has pretty girlfriends, becomes a successful architect, but like many second-generation immigrants, he can never quite find his place in the world. There's a lovely section where he dates a wealthy, cultured young Manhattan woman who lives with her charming parents. They fold Gogol into their easy, elegant life, but even here he can find no peace and he breaks off the relationship. His mother finally sets him up on a blind date with the daughter of a Bengali friend, and Gogol thinks he has found his match. Moushumi, like Gogol, is at odds with the Indian-American world she inhabits. She has found, however, a circuitous escape: "At Brown, her rebellion had been academic ... she'd pursued a double major in French. Immersing herself in a third language, a third culture, had been her refuge--she approached French, unlike things American or Indian, without guilt, or misgiving, or expectation of any kind." Lahiri documents these quiet rebellions and random longings with great sensitivity. There's no cleverness or showing-off in The Namesake, just beautifully confident storytelling. Gogol's story is neither comedy nor tragedy; it's simply that ordinary, hard-to-get-down-on-paper commodity: real life. --Claire Dederer
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Jhumpa Lahiri's debut story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, took the literary world by storm when it won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. Fans who flocked to her stories will be captivated by her best-selling first novel, now in paperback for the first time. The Namesake is a finely wrought, deeply moving family drama that illuminates this acclaimed author's signature themes: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the tangled ties between generations. The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of an arranged wedding, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Ashoke does his best to adapt while his wife pines for home. When their son, Gogol, is born, the task of naming him betrays their hope of respecting old ways in a new world. And we watch as Gogol stumbles along the first-generation path, strewn with conflicting loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. With empathy and penetrating insight, Lahiri explores the expectations bestowed on us by our parents and the means by which we come to define who we are.
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This from a Pulitzer winning author?.......2007-09-28
I have to admit I was surprised at the accolades heaped on this book...it is simply a bland but well-written description of an immigrant family experience in America, a theme previously touched by numerous Indian-American authors (such as Bharati Mukerjee). I felt that the writing was very passive and disinterested, as if the author didnt feel the need to engage the reader with a more compelling storyline, and who instead felt that a quaint description of an exotic cultural experience would suffice to make it a worthwhile read.
And I couldnt help comparing this book to another novel released at the same time which also delves into immigrant experience but within the context of a gripping, heartwrenching story--The Kite Runner (which has received over 200 reviews in Amazon). There, the reader was able to appreciate the Afghani culture and historical context as the author deftly combines it with his storytelling. In the Namesake, the reader is put in the position of an anthropologist, curiously observing a culture from outside. An Indian friend of mine, majoring in Sociology, jokingly referred to the Namesake as a dissertation in immigrant experience. Interestingly, none of my Indian-American friends thought highly of the book!
Heavy on sensory description, light on story.......2007-09-23
Lahiri has created an evocative masterpiece, a minutely detailed world that the reader can imagine tasting, smelling and hearing. The description begins in the first paragraph with a vivid account of a heavily pregnant woman and her unusual cravings. Other reviews cite Lahiri's gift for chronicling the outsider experience; I have never lived anywhere other than the US but I think everyone has felt slightly different at times, and she captures that sentiment perfectly. It is remarkable that the more specific a piece of writing is, the more universal it can feel. On the whole, lovely description of a family's experience; the reader should expect no cliffhangers here.
Caught between two cultures.......2007-09-15
"The Namesake" is the story of Gogol Ganguli, a man born to Indian parents who moved to America shortly after they were married. Gogol's name has always been a source of deep resentment for him, as it is neither Indian or American. Eventually Gogol opts to have his name legally changed before he leaves for college. In addition to adjusting to his new name, Gogol continues with a struggle he's faced his entire life: How to relate to and maintain his Indian culture while living on American soil. Gogol rejects most things about his heritage, preferring to lead a more "Americanized" lifestyle. His choices create a barrier between him and his family, but try as he might, Gogol never feels completely at ease within the American culture, either. He establishes a successful career for himself and has has several serious relationships, but Gogol never really finds a comfortable place for himself in this world. Eventually he finds happiness with an Indian woman, of all people, who relates to him on so many levels. However, Moushumi has her own way of rebelling, and at the end of the novel we find Gogol back at the very place his life began, where he begins to rediscover himself.
I fell in love with this book after reading the first few pages, and I couldn't put it down. I enjoyed it even more than author Jhumpa Lahiri's collection of short stories, "Interpreter of Maladies." Lahiri writes in a simple yet emotional style that is rich in detail. Although the novel revolves around Gogol, Lahiri occasionally shifts perspective and gives the reader a glimpse of the story from the eyes of Gogol's parents and Moushumi. All of the characters make a lot of mistakes, but I was able to easily relate to and empathize with each of them.
This is a book about family, identity, heritage, and self-discovery. You don't have to be the child of immigrants in order to relate to the process of pulling apart from your family and discovering the person you're destined to become. I think this book has something to offer everyone, and it also happens to be a beautiful, poignant story. "The Namesake" is a must-read.
the struggle with traditions.......2007-08-31
I just finished reading "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri and I am still trying to figure out if I liked it or not. There was no story, per say. There was no mysterie to solve, no one to really root for, no hero. The story is a 30 year slice of life of the Ganguli family - how the husband and wife married, how the wife joined her husband in America while he was in school, them having children and the children growing up. The book was slow, sometimes even boring and it was easy for me to not like the main character, Gogol (the son), because he was never happy about anything and he was always whining to himself about something. But through all this, Lahiri is illustrating the importance of traditions and how they can be simultaneously comforting, necessary, burdening and sometimes hated. This, I believe, is what Lahiri is trying to show her readers. I ended up really liking this book, but it didn't move fast enough for me and at times felt like a chore. The content of traditions and family values and relations is in there - in fact it is quite strong at times, however the way that Lahiri presented it was too slow for me to want to seek out her other works. One thing that stood out for me with this book though, was the food. Lahiri made me so hungry in the way she described the food in how it was prepared and what was in it, describing how it tasted and what it looked like. I wrote down some of the foods so that I can look them up and try them out.
Lahiri takes you deep into Bengali culture, American culture and all that brings to fore........2007-08-29
We meet a couple who are married and must set off to America for better employment. They are quite young. Soon, they have kids, he has a job at MIT and she stays at home. It sounds tame but the tale is exquisite in the detail it uses to describe common staples of Bengali life, American life, the issues immigrants and first generations face. All the characters are loveable even when they are lost. You become shocking intimiate with them all before you turn the last page. Their family haunts you because while you read, you became that immigrant mother worrying about her son dating an American. It's a great tale of immigration, assimilation, struggling between cultures.
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Original essays and glorious photography, stunningly designed in this unique moviebook from the director of Monsoon Wedding and Vanity Fair—a Fox Searchlight release.
In her essay "Writing and Film," the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jhumpa Lahiri writes about the experience of seeing her novel "transposed" from paper to film. "Its essence remains, but it inhabits a different realm and must, like a transposed piece of music, conform to a different set of rules….To have someone as devoted and as gifted as Mira reinvent my novel…has been a humbling and thrilling passage."
Mira Nair's essay, "Photographs as Inspiration," begins with the provocative comment: "If it weren't for photography, I wouldn't be a filmmaker." She explains how photographs help her crystallize the visual style of her films and which particular photos influenced her vision for The Namesake.
These two essays, written exclusively for this Newmarket Pictorial Moviebook, introduce an amazing panoply of images of people and places shot mainly in New York and Calcutta during the making of the movie, accented by excerpts from Lahiri's bestselling novel. Six Indian and American photographers' works are represented.
Brilliantly illuminating the immigrant experience and the tangled ties between generations, The Namesake tells the story of the Ganguli family, whose move from Calcutta to New York evokes a lifelong balancing act to adapt to a new world while remembering the old. The couple's firstborn, Gogol, and sister Sonia grow up amid these divided loyalties, struggling to find their own identity without losing their heritage. Kal Penn (Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Superman Returns) stars as Gogol.
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A Gem.......2007-08-22
Beautifully and gently written, this book holds and builds your interest as you read on. It is a study, on one level, of people from India in the USA; on another level, it is a wonderful study of the life history of families everywhere. Highly recommended (and I am completely baffled by the low-star review here). The movie is also excellent, but I think you must read the book first, because the movie cannot capture all the nuances of the fine writing in the book. Her volume of short stories, which I read after this, is also a joy, and I eagerly await her next book.
Missed Opportunities.......2007-02-17
Despite the conventional wisdom on this novel from the Pulitzer-prize-winning Lahiri, (it has been called "quietly dazzling" by at least one reviewer), I'm afraid I was disappointed. The story of an expatriate Indian couple, and, more specifically, of their son Gogol, is languidly expository for page after page, offering little insight, surprise, or sensation despite so many rich opportunities to do so. At times, the story reads like a diary: "This is what it's like for an Indian couple who has relocated to the U.S. in the 1970s." This is what the house looks like; This is what the husband's career is like; This is what the Indian community does on Saturday afternoons. Larger and more interesting issues such as the social conflicts facing the children, responses to the politics and social mores of the adopted country, and the deep emotional struggles between members of the family, are only scratched at. Time passes quickly, and we get virtually all of the story through the ever-imposing, almost maternal voice of the author, rather than through the thoughts, feelings, actions, and sensations of the characters. As such, for me, the book is lacking in narrative momentum and pretty unsatisfying.
A powerful story of the consequences of one's actions .......2006-07-16
The most wonderful thing about this book is the writing style. The book moved along at a strident pace but it did not lack any detail. It was a great story of assimilating into a different country and culture with the yoke of a name (shared by no one) constantly harnessed about himself. The story was lovely and the writing grand. The characters were so well-defined that I felt like I knew them, like I could easily picture them in my mind. I loved the book and look forward to reading her first book.
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What's in a name? Apparently everything.
A killer is targeting women in the Los Angeles area who share a name with Sydney Bristow's former aliases. Sydney wants the case, but she's already hot on the heels of a terrorist armed with a secret formula for a super-explosive.
While Sydney and Dixon try to prevent the terrorist from creating a man-made tsunami aimed at the United States, Weiss and Nadia are tasked with catching the Alias Killer. Jack and Vaughn quietly embark on their own investigation into the alias killings and begin to suspect that the murderer may be an ex-coworker resentful of Sydney for shutting down the shadow organization SD-6 years ago.
As Sydney struggles to stay focused and stop a ruthless man with mass destruction on his mind, she can't help but wonder, Will APO find the Alias Killer before another one of my unsuspecting namesakes pays the price?
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Good Read, Entertaining.......2006-08-03
This series so far has been pretty entertaining, obviously more so if you were a fan of Alias. It's an entertainig story, well written and easy to ready. It won't win any awards so don't expect a classic, but it's worth the price and you won't be disappointed. I was a huge fan of Alias, so honestly, I may be a bit biased, but like I said, the story was entertaining and the series is a winner.
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The Namesake, the Ganguli family emigrates from Calcutta to Cambridge to the Boston suburbs at the end of the 1960s, shortly after their arranged marriage. An MIT engineering student, Ashoke is progressive and ready to enter American culture, while his tradition-bound wife, Ashima, desperately misses her Indian home and resists the new world. When their first child, a boy, is born, they give him the pet name of Gogol, after the Russian writer, whose writings Ashoke believes were instrumental in saving his life. This tale of three generations sensitively explores the profound conflicts between cultures and generations, the child's search for cultural identity, and the power of acceptance
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Why are large, illustrated works offhandedly relegated to gather dust on the corner of your coffee table? Sure, you will want to put Good-Faeries/Bad Faeries in an obvious place, somewhere your friends will see it and pick it up, but it's far more than mere decoration. Froud's illustrations have delighted readers since his first book, Faeries, introduced us to the little people of folklore. Good Faeries/Bad Faeries is a doorway to the faery realm of the 20th century, where you'll meet delightful characters like Quempel, who dances to celebrate when something is done well; or the Buttered Toast Faery, who decides which side of a dropped piece of toast will hit the floor--faeries who will call you back so often that Good Faeries/Bad Faeries won't have a chance to gather dust. --Brian Patterson
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"Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life as vibrant, luminous beings, permeating my art and my everyday existence, causing glorious havoc...."
In the long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller Faeries, artist Brian Froud rescues pixies, gnomes, and other faeries from the isolation of the nursery and the distance of history, bringing them into the present day with vitality and imagination. In this richly imagined new book, Brian reveals the secrets he has learned from the faeries -- what their noses and shoes look like, what mischief and what gentle assistance they can give, what their souls and their dreams are like.
As it turns out, faeries aren't all sweetness and light. In addition to such good faeries as Dream Weavers and Faery Godmothers, Brian introduces us to a host of less well behaved creatures -- traditional bad faeries like Morgana le Fay, but also the Soul Shrinker and the Gloominous Doom. The faery kingdom, we find, is as subject to good and evil as the human realm. Brilliantly documenting both the dark and the light, Good Faeries/Bad Faeries presents a world of enchantment and magic that deeply compels the imagination.
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Fairies!.......2007-06-08
This is another great book by Brian Froud. Beautifully illustrated, as I've come to expect. I like the way that the good fairies are on the front of the book, and the bad fairies start the same way, but on the opposite end / side. Very interesting idea.
More Than I Excepted.......2007-02-05
Like several others, I bought the book for the illustrations. They are not disappointing. There are color illustrations and pencil sketch illustrations in quantity.
What I did not expect was a dose of depth psychology. Faeries are manifestations, according to the author, of unconscious aspects of a person. Faeries are not purely good or purely bad. A Little Panic, who is a cute boy-goat hybrid, causes confusion and free-floating anxiety but also reminds one s/he is part of nature. By accepting and befriending faeries in both their good and bad aspects, one has a easier time of it. Faeries ignored will do all sorts of things and it is best to see to it the faeries do not have to work as hard to get one's attention.
Good Faeries and Bad Faeries by Brian Fround.......2007-01-27
Great pics & storlines, makes you believe we are all really living in an actual "Faerieland"!
Definetly recommend to "Faerie Folk".
amazing.......2006-12-21
amazing book
dive into the realm of fairies and you will never want to leave :)
Lacks the soul of original Fairies book.......2006-06-17
While I thought that this book was not horrible, I was rather dissapointed. I especially was looking forward to the bad fairies, but they, as well as the good fairies were under described and some illustrastions disappointing. The made up fairies (of random life) were kind of cute...but seemed like filler. If you are looking for another Fairies I fear that you won't find it here. In fact a lot of Froud's newer work is rather lack luster in comparison to Fairies. Can you believe that they are making a Dark Crystal 2? As much as that sounds neat, don't hold your breath. I felt like a lot of the work felt very streched out. Not to mention the actual layout of the book if far less appealing than that of Fairies. It hardly owns of to a sequel status. A library checkout at best.
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Fail.......2007-10-11
I'm a big fan of post-apocalypse and the book started decently enough to get me interested, however after about midway it loses its sense of direction and lets down your expectations. The climax was just dull and the conclusion just pissed me off, because there was none. It seems like the author got tired and said "alright thats good enough, the end"
Pass on this.
Another Keeper!.......2006-11-12
This is a book that I enjoy reading again and again, about a man's journey across the country with the wolf who has adopted him as a packmate.
Don't get me wrong, there are some flaws. One of the best things about this book is the detail it goes into concerning survival in a post-apocalyptic world. But, it seems to have a lack of balance concerning these details. Sometimes it goes overboard, giving huge amounts of information about things that have nothing to do with the situation. The amount of knowledge that Jeebee happens to have is a bit extreme -- every time he needs to know something in order to survive, it's an amazing coincidence that he just so happened to learn about it, before.
Yet, at the same time, it completely ignores other details that I felt were vital to the story. For example, at one point Jeebee is attacked by a bear. He figures out how to use the nearby river's freezing water to help the massive bruising, he takes antibiotics, makes a crutch out of a tree branch, gets Wolf to bring him food, all these things to survive the ordeal, and yet there is no mention of the need to stitch the wounds closed! His scalp was hanging in front of his eyes, but after he pushes it back in place, there's no mention of it again, not even to describe the huge scar it must have left.
No timeframe is given, so that you don't really know when the story takes place. There's no mention of television, or computers, or music, or anything modern that the characters might be missing (aside from electricity and gas). And, it skims over things that I would have found interesting, such as the romance between Jeebee and Merry, and also how she survived, how she dealt with the lack of feminine products, birth control, etc.
Beyond that, it is an excellent story. It covers a lot of ground, goes into a lot of detail about survival. I wish there was a sequel, to tell the further adventures of Jeebee, Merry, and Wolf!
okay if you're really into wolves..........2004-04-04
Not a bad book,but not very good if you are a fan of Apocalypse fiction.The book concentrates on one man's journey from Michigan to Montana,in a Dark Ages USA after a World Financial Collapse (which isn't really explained).It is well written,but the book doesn't really go anywhere.The hero avoids any contact with people on his journey,so there is very little action or interaction.He hooks up with a wolf as a travelling companion,and from then on the book seems to become a study of wolf behavior.I'd recommend it only if you are into wolves or really into survival stories.
Take a journey into purgatory with an unusual friend........2003-03-02
I've read several of Dickson's novels, including the famous "Dorsai" books, but my favourite is "Wolf and Iron." It loosely falls into the post-apocalypse genre but focuses on one man's struggle to survive in an era when everyone has turned on each other. Interestingly, Dickson has not relied on nuclear attack or disease to erase society but simple economic collapse, (to my mind, a much more likely cause).
Jeeris Belamy Walthar, or Jeebee, was a scientist researching quantitative sociodynamics. Despite foreseeing some sort of collapse, he finds himself less that perfectly prepared for the harsh new world born of riots, murder and isolationism. He is not one of the sort who takes to the times with such fervour; those who's morals are subservient to self-interest. Despite this, he pushes toward his brother's ranch, on the other side of the country. There, he hopes he might preserve his studies and thereby protect the future from continuing the otherwise inevitable cycle of growth and collapse.
There are many stories told of loners fighting against incredible odds. What makes this one special is Jeebee's tentative travelling companion, a semi-domesticated Wolf. The two of them are thrown together following a narrow escape from a town that looked too good to be true. Wolf chose Jeebee on the tenuous basis of his smell, a result of his wearing a scavenged leather jacket, previously owned by Wolf's dead owner. Over time they managed to form a supportive arrangement that benefits them both. However, this relationship in no way resembles pet and owner.
I particularly enjoyed the way Dickson researched wolf behaviour and how that behaviour translates in combination with humanity. Wolf turns out to be just as important a character as Jeebee and because of that, the novel is almost a buddy story. Perhaps being a science fiction author has inclined Dickson to treat Wolf as a fully-fledged entity, much like one might approach an intelligent Alien race. Wolf may think differently but he has the same rights we are due and is just as worthy of respect. This is not a Disney story but many readers will see the folly of placing humanity on a pedestal above the Animals. No matter what we like to think, we are not so different.
A waste of time.......2002-08-08
Gordon Dickson has written one of the most boring books of all time. The story moves at a snails pace, lacking supporting characters, our main character is Jeebee (what kind of a name is that!) he is to weak a character to carry the story by himself. The other main is Wolf (again, what kind of a name is that?) He is just an animal, Gordon doesn't even make him special, just a wolf. The story ends in a most unsatisfacory fashion, there is no hope for a future, no real redemptive quality.
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A veteran reporter of American labor analyzes the spectacular and tragic collapse of the steel industry in the 1980s. John Hoerr’s account of these events stretches from the industrywide barganing failures of 1982 to the crippling work stoppage at USX (U.S. Steel) in 1986-87. He interviewed scores of steelworkers, company managers at all levels, and union officials, and was present at many of the crucial events he describes. Using historical flashbacks to the origins of the steel industry, particularly in the Monongahela Valley of southwestern Pennsylvania, he shows how an obsolete and adversarial relationship between management and labor made it impossible for the industry to adapt to shattering changes in the global economy.
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Thank you!.......2005-08-05
My dad - who died a couple of years ago - published this book. He was very proud of it, and I think he would have been very pleased to see that Amazon customers are responding to it favorably.
Sad, true, and cautionary.......2001-08-14
I read this years ago, and I thought it was an excellent analysis of the collapse of the steel industry in Pittsburgh, filled with compelling tales of individual people.
The books feels like a Greek tragedy, in which the protagonists are doomed to a slow slide towards the edge of a cliff. Institutionalized conflict overcomes the efforts of people from both labor and maangement to halt, or at least slow the inevitable slide.
For people who think that the current dot.com crash is a serious downturn, this book offers a very good counter-perspective. When an area loses 100K jobs in 10 years, and whole towns essentially close, that's a *real* downturn.
On the other hand, there's always hope. Pittsburgh has bounced back, and has a much more diversified economy. The last time I visited, I could see the sky, which was more difficult in the steel days. To grasp those days, either see the early Tom Cruise movie "All The Right Moves", or for depth, read this book.
good book.......1999-07-21
This is an excellent book for anyone who wants to learn about what went wrong in this basic industry. Not only a study of the collapse of the steel industry in the Mon Valley, the book is also a study of the pain of postindustrialization that swept the country in the 1980's. Esentially, the author is writing about a national trend, but focuses on the Pittsburgh area, which is really a microcosm. It is also a good look at what happens when unions and management can't get their acts together.
Final closing: LTV.......1998-05-30
Coke works at Hazelwood closing chapter on demise on steel in entire region. Read also: Homestead, with new forward by author, best one-town summary
Product Description
Ironwolf issue #1. The complete Howard Chaykin Classic. 1986.
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Iron Maiden (Guitar Recorded Versions)
Wolf Marshall
Manufacturer: Hal Leonard Corp
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0881887773 |
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Nuala and Her Secret Wolf (Drumshee Timeline Series Book 1)
Cora Harrison
Manufacturer: Wolfhound Press (IE)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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| Ages 4-8
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ASIN: 0863275850 |
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3 Titles By Gordon R. Dickson : Masters of Everon Way of the Pilgrim Wolf and Iron. three mmpb books.
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A great new book from Blue Moon Press translated from the German.
Clear explanations and clarifying photos/drawings(over 500!)in Blue Moon's proven style.
This step-by-step approach gives the adventurous beginner confidence
and surprises the expert with new insights.
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One of the most accurate ever!.......2005-07-17
This book was a major part of my guitar education. I still practice out of it. I hope that it comes back into print for all those you didn't get a chance to play out of it.
The solos are tabbed with every whammy, haramonic, and sliding nuance.
Incredible
This book should be re-released.......2003-12-25
This is one of the best tablature books I have ever purchased. It is tabbed by Wolf Marshall, who is always dead-on (he was the man who also tabbed out the Ozzy/Randy "Tribute" book).
Every song from Powerslave and Somewhere in Time is contained here. Every solo is provided. As an added bonus, it offers some bass and synth lines adapted for the guitar.
With this book and a bit of practice, you should be able to accurately play such Maiden classics as "Two Minutes to Midnight", "Rime of the Ancient Mariner", "Wasted Years", and "Stranger in a Strange Land", to name a few.
A Really Great Compilation (1975-1985).......1998-12-12
Well, this books really changes my point of view about Iron Maiden since I read it for first time, it's a big compilations about almost every events thats happened to Iron, Really good, especially Rachel and her two BIG friends...
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- Great folktales for every audience
- A beautiful book!
- A real Adams
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Iron Wolf
Richard Adams
Manufacturer: Penguin Putnam~childrens Hc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0140058451 |
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Great folktales for every audience.......2003-03-06
Richard Adams presents folk tales to the reader in a clever way.
Ths book is hard to find in good condition, but if you can get a hold of one, I highly recommend purchasing it!
It is called 'The Unbroken Web and 'The Iron Wolf and other stories'. I am a fan of Richard Adam's work, and so I treasure this book like I do all of his.
The illustrations are unique and wonderful. The introduction is beautiful and changes the way I percieve stories. The first story 'Cat in the Sea' is great! It explains why cats hate water.
This book also includes 'The Legend of te Tuna' which is also called 'The giant eel'.
A beautiful book!.......2002-04-02
Richard Adams unique collection of fables is intriguing and thought-provoking...to see ourselves and others in each is a rewarding challenge -- well worth the effort! Also, I must mention that the illustrations in this book are absolutely exquisite -- something the previous reviewer made no mention -- a rarity in this day and age of simple graphics and line drawings.
A real Adams.......1998-11-04
This Book is not a story, but a collection of some interesting and little-known fairy tales. Some of them are good, some of them not so, but in general, this is a very good book and worth reading. As you can see, it is out of print in English, but it is still available in German (Der Eiserne Wolf: phantastische Märchen).
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The Iron Wolf
Richard Adams
Manufacturer: Allen Lane
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PRL2U0 |
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Best Prayer Guide.......2000-01-26
Mission 2000 is a day by day prayer guide that will guide you in prayer until the year 2010.
It has a page a day format that starts with a verse of scripture, followed by a short "real life " story. Also you'll find a few thought provoking questions and a quote for the day.
I know that sounds like a lot of information for a page-a-day book, but it packs a lot onto an easy to read page.
This is your best bet for an all around prayer guide.
Comforting.......1999-06-21
This book is easy to read and very spiritual. It allows you to use the scripture every day in a readable format. I recommend to everyone!
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