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The chronicle of a trip through the excesses of cocaine, sex, marihuana, and alcohol against a backdrop of cynicism, pain and numbness. Matías Vicuña is a 17 year-old member of the elite in the 1980's Chile, a politically-charged era of Chilean history, when many people were struggling against the country's dictatorship. Matías struggles with the political situation at the same time as he tries to find himself.
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The first post-Pinochet Chilean novel.......2002-05-31
Fuguet is the first author of a new generation of Chilean novelists who do not refer explicitly to our recent political past. Although many elements of the society of those years appear in his first novel, the plot is constructed along much wider concepts. The story evolves around the typical problems of a western teen ager, aggravated by his dismembering family. If one excludes the continuos references to places and people of early 80's Santiago, it could be said that the story is pretty 'universal'. As to Fuguet's influences, he recognizes his indebtedness to JD Salinger's 'The Catcher in he Rye' and Marcela Paz's Papelucho saga. On the whole, Mala Onda is a very good novel (with a great ending) that offers a different point of view and writing style to Latin American literature. If you like this one, you should definitely go on to Fuguet's later works.
less than zero.......2000-03-16
I did find this book to be very interesting and badly needed in Chile. So much upper middle class denial in youth of the reality that is present all around them. It approaches pathological proportions in Chile. The narrative style did seem similar to Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis which was published in 1985. Fuguet's novel was published in 1991. I wonder if Fuguet has read Ellis's novel?
Nace la nueva narrativa chilena.......1999-12-23
Leí mala onda hace poco, y luego, impulsado por severas críticas a la versión inglesa -bad vibes-, leí tb menos que Cero y American psycho y el guardián entre el centeno; y, en verdad, aunque les enconmtré la constancia de narrador (el tiempo usado), no creo que este libro sea una copia de menos que cero, teniendo en cuenta que mala onda su publico un par de años después de estar escrito y salió a la venta casi a la par con el libro de ellis; o sea, éste sería algo más antiguo... Pero es bueno, no sé si lo entendí más porque soy adolescente o qué, pero el hecho es que ,e llegó de una manera distinta a los de Vargas llosa, siendo que me identifico con los libros de ambos (como que en, por ejemplo, la ciudad y los perros uno se ve reflejado en las acciones, mientras que en mala onda, yo, al menos, me sentía identificado con las "ideas" que llevaban, finalmente, a esas acciones). Fuguet recién esté empezando, y si de verdad quieren comprenderlo, DEBEn leer por favor, rebobinar, Tinta Roja, Sobredosis y mala onda, porque no es un escritor de un sólo libro.
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Alberto Fuguet's newly translated novel Bad Vibes introduces this popular young Chilean writer to English-language readers. Written in the engaging and intelligent voice of Matias, an alienated, rich, teenage kid, Bad Vibes is frequently described as a South American Catcher in the Rye. Fuguet's story is set in 1980, a politically-charged era of Chilean history, when many in the country struggled against the country's dictatorship, including 17-year-old Matias. Meanwhile, Matias is also breaking up under the strain of an adolescence in a collapsing family, of cutting classes and snorting cocaine, and of the pursuit of love, sex, and meaning.
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Bad Choice.......2004-05-31
Whenever I travel to other countries I like to take a novel that helps acquaint me with the people and culture of the country. Although my voyage to Chile was motivated by Isabel Allende's "My Invented Country, A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile" I was determine to find another Chilean writer to take on the trip with me. I searched the internet for a few days trying to finalize my selection. I was excited to find a copy of "Bad Vibes" at my local library. The reviews that I read seemed promising. "Like Catcher and the Rye", some reviews touted. "A contemporary Chilean coming of age story", was touted by other reviews. I found the characters dull and the story slow. After one hundred pages, I couldn't invest any more time with Matias and his group of drugged up self absorbed friends. Perhaps this is exactly what life was like for the privileged class of Chile during the 1980s but the real challenge for Fuguet is how to reveal that story to the reader (i.e. non-Chilean reader) in a manner that is engaging and enjoyable - neither came through in the novel.
In contrast, my visit to Chile was wonderful. The country is rich in history and culture. Thanks to very knowledgeable tour guides and local people, I was able to get a feel for the country that I wasn't able to obtain through the novel. While Allende is still my favorite Chilean author, I remain open to new experiences with literature from this country. Unfortunately for me, "Bad Vibes" was a bad choice.
Fresh........2002-03-18
I read this book years ago and recently saw the film "Y tu mama tambien", which made me come back to Bad Vibes. I recommend them both. Mala Onda represents the new voice of Chilean writers, and of kids all over the world growing up amidst drugs, malls, boredom, etc. This book certainly tells a different story of Pinochet than all the history books I've read on the seventies and eighties in Chile.
When will more of Fuguet's novels be translated into English?
great.......2000-01-07
I think that Alberto Fuguet has so much to say. He is the only who tell all the trut about Chile. Maybe he is a "bad copy of Sallinger" but we are in Chile and he try to make a different type of writing and he definitly is making that. Chile is so "cartucho" that Fuguet is the better writer in Chile.
fuguet.......1999-12-09
i think that fuguet is a great writer, but bad vibes is so bad, is a kind of bad mixing of sallinger, bukowski and the chilean politic. but read it is a help to undesrtand one of the reallitys un chile
Good book.......1999-03-02
I, as a chilean, can say that the novel refects exactly the moment that Chile was in the 80's and how that determinated the thoughts of an 17 year old boy, that belonged to the most powerful social class in Chile.
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Dunstan, the long-neglected Music Director for "The City," decides one day to blow Gabriel's forbidden Trumpet, unwittingly disrupting the string vibrational patterns which govern the universe. The "Underling World" scientists, pursuing nature's final mysteries, slowly realize that something has gone horribly wrong. Can they restore the strings to proper working order in time to save the universe?
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Bad Vibes.
Alberto. Fuguet
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Combat isn't everything -- it's the only thing.
The masters of armed and unarmed combat, fighters and monks, come into their own in this book. It's packed with ways to customize fighter and monk characters, including:
New feats, prestige classes, weapons, and equipment
Information about special organizations such as the Red Avengers and the Knight Protectors
Maps of locations that fighters and monks frequent: guard towers, monasteries, and a gladiatorial arena
Indispensable to both players and
Dungeons Masters, this book adds excitement to any campaign.
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Good book.......2006-02-02
While I don't think you have to run out and get this supplement, I also feel like it adds a lot to the game. Not only are there some new feats, equipment, and prestige classes, but of even greater value are some of the sections which discuss new spins on existing rules. There's a few pages, for example, which go into the ways in which large fighters(or monks... scary), such as giants, can use the class feats and abilities to make the most of their size. For me, just the fact that I took another look at the existing rules would've made it worth the money I spent.
Mediocre product.......2004-07-12
Sword & Fist is a neat book, and for 10 bucks, i would have considered it an excellent buy. But unfortunatly, for 20 bucks, it is highly over priced.
There are some new feats in here that are pretty neat, but most of the feats are geared towards Monks. Some feats also have no value whatsoever, such as "Dirty Fighting" which lets you make a single attack as a full-round action, adding +1d4 to the damage.
The prestige classes are either excellent or horribly worthless. My personal favorites though, is the Weapon Master and Duelist. All the others are generally meant for certain organizations, or as antagonists, such as the Ravagers, the Red Avanger, and the Ninja of the Crescent Moon.
The tactics section is utter garbage. It just gives you the "proper usage" of feats like Cleave and Spring Attack. It also gives out pointers as the hit-ratio percentage of using the monk's 'Flurry of Blows.' Theres also some strategies about using Monstrous Fighters and Monks and mounted opponents and such.
One fine section of the book, which is the new weapons and equipment, was pretty intriguing. They seem more powerful then the weapons in the Player's handbook, but all the ones represented in SaF are exotic weapons, and thus require the Exotic Weapon Proficiency feat. The mercurial swords, Whip Daggers, and the Orc Shotput are some definite winners.
Overall, a useful book, but dont pay 20 dollars for it.
The ultimate suppliment.......2003-12-15
I found that this book contained everything I've been looking for: great new weapons, very useful feats, and lots of new prestige classes (I always wanted to make a Samurai!) "Sword and Fist" also contains various buildings which can be useful for DMs to base, for instance, a guard tower or an elf house on. If there is anything I was dissapointed about was how little information there was on chariots, but then, the book would also be better a thousand pages long. FIVE STARS!
Aspiring to Mediocrity and Failing.......2002-12-13
Sword and Fist is the first book in one of the worst series of supplements to ever be released for D&D.
Sword and Fist has the following significant problems:
1) There are six pages of errata for a 95 page book.
2) An excessive amount of space is wasted in repetitive charts.
3) The feat section is a handful of feats that seem to have been chosen at random for their "cool" factor.
4) Many of the feats are either incredibly useful, or not useful at all. For example, Power Lunge could allow a third level character to inflict 14 extra points of damage with a single attack while on the other hand Dirty Fighting requires that a character forego all his extra attack to get 1d4 extra damage. These benefits are not equal in any way, shape or form.
5) Some of the prestige classes, like the Fist of Hextor and the Ravager, absolutely can not be used by a player character, so why are they present in a player oriented book?
6) Other prestige classes, like the Duelist, Devoted Defender, Ghostwalker, and Gladiator are obviously copies of movie characters without giving any credit to the source of inspiration.
7) Some of the prestige classes, like the Fist of Hextor, Knight Protector of the Great Kingdom, Ninja of the Crescent Moon, Order of the Bow Initiate, Red Avenger and Warmaster are tied to specific organizations and/or locations. It simply makes no sense to put them in what should be a relatively generic source book. For example, the Warmaster and the Knight Protector should be in a supplement for the Kingdom of Furyondy or the Great Kingdom respectively.
8) The organization section takes some of the organizations from the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer and rewrites them, and then adds new organizations that have nothing to do with the World of Greyhawk. Focusing either on Greyhawk material or on generic material would have greatly improved the book.
9) The "Game within the Game" chapter is just a basic tutorial on tactics. Not very interesting and it's recommendations are mediocre at best.
10) The tools of the Trade section is probably the single worst section of the book. The stats for most of the weapons are wrong, and many of the weapons are either bizarre, inappropriate or both. The "cool" mercurial weapons are a joke, because mercury reacts with steel to create a brittle alloy. Thus the weapons are not only impractically difficult to manifacture, they'd be worthless in combat.
11) This is a player oriented book, thus there is no reason for any magic items to be in the book at all.
On the upside:
1) The Cavalier, Duelist, and Weapon Master are among the best prestige classes in this entire series. They are generic enough to be adapted to any campaign world, and useful enough to be worth the costs to a variety of character types.
Overall, I received the impression that the author did not try to write "a good book", but merely one that was "good enough". He failed. I heartily recommend to anyone who is thinking of buying this book:
Save your money and buy something good.
Too pricey for a little book like this.......2002-11-27
Honestly the only reason to buy this book (or any of the Class Guidebooks)is for the new Feats and Prestige Classes. Instead of creating different books for the different Player Classes they should have just created a Feats and Prestige Classes book.... I'll never understand why a flimsy little paperback, black-and white book like this cost as much as the core rulebooks which are hardcover and have color art. So ends my gripe session.
Now the good things about this book are indeed the new feats and prestige classes. They really let you customize your character to get just the Fighter or Monk character that you want. Want to play a Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon style of Monk? No Problem. There is a Prestige Class for it. How about a true blue Cavalier... again, no problem. By adding Prestige Classes that a Monk can freely multiclass with give a little more depth to a terribly limited character class (by the Core Player's Handbook all Monks have pretty much the same abilities).
I'd have rated this product higher if only Wizards of the Coast didn't try to gouge us gamers with the insanely high price.
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Regent Lansur is clearly trying to thwart the coronation of the crown prince of Sharnu. Then the regent throws Daystar's navigator into the castle dungeon. How does this all fit into the mysterious and dangerous white dragon that flies around in space? Join in the excitement as the Daystar crew learns to trust God more deeply amidst this dangerous mission.
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For Christians afraid to let their children read REAL books.......2004-07-15
If you want your children to be hit over the head with someone's idea of what every Christian child should read, then this is the book for you. Every stereotype is represented in this book. The fat "glutton" who is not so subltly named "Heck" is obviously a non-Christian, so it seems to be okay for kids and adults, including the Captain of the ship to ridicule him. The Christian children are all good looking. They are the elite, while the majority of the crew are called "grunts" who are of limited intelligence and potential. There are a few non-Christian kids on the crew, who all have some sort of flaw, and present an opportunity for the Christian members of the crew to beat them over the head with their views. The Asian is the one with the brains, and presumably the math skills. Every character who is physically ugly is also evil. Every so-called Christian view that is stated by a character is awkward--the dialogue never seems believable when the author is attempting to express his views on the world. Do people really believe that separation of church and state is "a direct attack on the truth of Jesus Christ?" or that "the people who wanted to forbid prayer had no problem if it was a prayer to Buddha. Only prayer to Jesus" as the author states on page 91 (paperback version?)How sad. This book is light on plot, fails to capture the readers interest, and offends any reasonable reader of children's fiction with it's poorly developed characters, criminally simplistic stereotypes, and heavy handed manner. If you are afraid to let your children read REAL books that aren't heavily laden with someone's idea of what constitutes Christian beliefs and don't care that they may be turned off by reading forever, then go ahead and support this hack. Although this is a thin paperback and should be a quick read, I had to force myself to continue to read the book to the end in the hopes that somewhere it would redeem itself and actually turn out to be interesting, fun, entertaining, educational--anything but a thinly disguised rant of someone who is writing not for the children, but for the peace of mind of parents who believe that somehow that if a pastor peppers a book with a Christian point of view then it will be "safe" for their children to read. I have hope that kids are smarter than the author believes them to be. I can't believe anyone would ever read this entire book, much less more than one of this series.
Interesting.......2001-07-27
This isn't my favorite of the Daystar Voyages series, but it is a very good book. The White Dragon is creepy and the more you discover about Mei-Lani's family, the more intriguing it becomes. I liked the crystals and the part when Ringo kisses Raina.
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Narnia Beckons is an elegant coffee table book rich with photos relating to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and other C. S. Lewis stories. This book will be full of profound, enlightening, inspiring, and discerning information and stories about the book from which the movie has been drawn. Also included is information about previous television adaptations of Lewis's children's masterpiece as well as interviews with some of the key players producing the movie and leading Lewis scholars.
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Mayra Calvani -- TCM REVIEWS.......2006-12-03
This beautifully illustrated hardcover is the perfect gift this Christmas for fans of C.S. Lewis's The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.
Having reviewed the other three books on C.S. Lewis published this autumn by Broadman & Holman, I can't help thinking that this one is the culmination of the others. Filled with lovely, black & white illustrations of the story characters, as well as fascinating photographs about Lewis and his time, this is one of those books that not only will look great on your coffee table, but will definitely attract lots of attention as well.
The book is a treasure of interesting facts, quotes and anecdotes--in sum, everything you ever wanted to know about C.S. Lewis's most memorable work. It is divided into four parts. The first part offers a profile of Lewis's life; the second part dives into the fantastic world of Narnia; the third part looks at some of the most fascinating hidden meanings and allusions in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe; the fourth part offers a glimpse into this work through the eyes of television and the movies.
Though the authors' language is laced with a heavy Christian tone, this is a work that can be enjoyed by anybody, no matter their religion. Intriguing, informative, and a pleasure to look at, Narnia Beckons is a valuable reference book, especially for schools and libraries.
Narnia Beckons .......2005-11-01
C. S. Lewis was able to communicate the mysteries of the Kingdom of God by following the example of Jesus Christ who spoke in parables. His writings were uniquely inspired by the Holy Spirit who is the master communicator reaching beyond the veils that blind the eyes and minds of mankind in a world of darkness. The sword of Truth alone is able to divide between darkness and light, and set the captives free. Ted Baehr and his son Jim are to be commended for creating a magnificent synopsis of the life and literary works of C. S. Lewis in "Narnia Beckons." We thank the entire Baehr family for the great influence they contribute to the realm of communication.
Exceptional!.......2005-10-22
Narnia Beckons is truly a wonderful work. Packed full of information, photos and stories about C.S. Lewis, his life, his writings and some inside information on characters in his book that I found fascinating. I read this book in one sitting and reread it just for the enjoyment of the read.
I was literally charmed by this work. If I could put it in simple words, this is not a heavy read, but a delightful run through of a master writer, a model Christian, dotted with information that will enhance your enjoyment and understanding of the works of C.S.Lewis. A definite must have!
Shirley Johnson
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