Book Description
Shortly before she died, Jane Austen started working on a new novel, but did not live to finish it. There have been a few attempts to complete this work, but none have captured the true magic of an Austen novel until now. Julia Barrett has emerged with this literary treasure, holding true to the characters and theme designed by Ms. Austen.
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Hoo boy! This. Is. Not. Good!!.......2006-06-07
I have often wondered what would have become of Sandition, Jane Austen's last work had she finished it before her untimely demise. I heard that several authors have written a completed version of the aforementioned novel. I decided to pick up Charlotte because Julia Barrett entertained me with her novel called Presumption, a Pride and Prejudice continuation starring Georgiana Darcy. Ick! This book is bad, very bad. Talk about inconsistent! The eleven chapters that Austen wrote of Sandition (no one is sure if this was the intended title for the novel) center on Charlotte Heywood and her impressions about the town of Sandition during her stay at the Parkers' estate. There we meet the sort of colorful characters that have become Austen's signature style and their attempts to turn Sandition into a touristy place that would rival Brighton and others. Austen introduced a few couples and some romantic possibilities between Charlotte and Sidney in narrative and dialogue that are witty, insightful and entertaining. Then enters Barrett's takeover of the storyline and new characters and situations are introduced that, to be frank, have nothing to do with what Austen had in mind.
This "completion" of Jane Austen's unfinished effort is a disgrace. The characters' actions are so incongruous to what Austen created in those short eleven chapters that it is offensive to even presume to let the reader think that these alterations belong in a Jane Austen classic or that they are in any way consistent to the aforementioned work. Charlotte, Lady Denham, Thomas Parker, Sidney Parker, Clara Brereton and Sir Edward Denham show no resemblance to Austen's characterization. There was a complete overhaul once Barrett takes over. Thomas Parker is the worst alteration here, in my opinion. I couldn't believe the character assassination! The storylines aren't any better. The whole thing about the gambling and bootlegging is ridiculous! I have no idea what Austen had intended for the rest of this novel, but I'm sure that she would have never written something so preposterous. The writing style is rather strange. Everything seems to be fragmented and we are only shown bits and pieces of the subplots here and there. It is all very bizarre. Charlotte is so underdeveloped once Barrett takes over the writing that I'm none the wiser about her by the time the novel ends. Ugh! I'd never read a more frustrating attempt at completing an unfinished effort by a beloved author. I had based my decision to read this on Barrett's Presumption (pun intended). The aforementioned novel wasn't great, but I thought it was a fair continuation of Pride and Prejudice. This, however, is just awful. I have nothing against the author, but she shouldn't have touched this one. I have purchased Barrett's The Third Sister (continuation of Sense and Sensibility) and might as well give it a whirl. I only hope that it'll be better than this one. As for reading any more completions of Sandition, I think I'll give the one written by "Another Lady" a whirl. For I have heard and read great things about that one.
Overblown and Messy.......2005-12-02
While Julia Barrett touches on the language "spoken" in Jane Austen's novels, it's not expressed with any feeling or wit. The words seem to be a jumble of Austenique words placed to look good, but not sound good. After chapter 11 the book goes into a million different directions, is narrated from several characters points of view, leaves almost no room for the main characters (Charlotte Heywood) views to be expressed, her feelings to be voiced and is just plain messy.
In most of Austen's novels, you have an opportunity to see the relationship grow between the main charactor and her "intended". In Charlotte, you wonder how they fell in love at all. They rarely see one another, they rarely speak and when they do, it's mostly short and nonsensible.
Then there is the plot line, or rather shall I say lines for there are several (thank you Mr. Collins). There is the plot to save Sandition by gaining a physician, by adding a Crescent, allowing racing gentleman and their horses (and then the sub-plot to this to keep them out)and then the smuggling and bootlegging. Dear me! How did anything get done? I confess, I got bored and just scanned the rest of the book! Honestly, I was disgusted.
If you love Austen's last novel and would like to see how she may have ended it, let me recommend a book far superior to Charlotte. Instead try Sandition.
Sandition does tend to get a little flowery in some places. Charlotte Heywood does tend to get a little flustered and unable to speak her mind around Sidney Parker. However on the whole, it's a much more convincing end to Austen's last attempt. The characters actually grow. They learn. Here is an example.
In Charlotte: Arthur Parker is an "invalid" who learns that perhaps he is not so invalid and then spends the rest of the book remarking to his intended, also thinking herself an invalid, about how herorically he withstands his difficulties with stomach ailments. To which she agrees and says that they only can know how much each endurs to live with this horrid desease. And then they proceed to expound on how proud they are over their problems and attempt to live with them. (sigh).
In Sandition: Arthur Parker is an "invalid" who realizes that perhaps, not only is he NOT an invalid but that there are people fairing far worse then him and do not complain. He falls for a young woman who truly is fragile but makes no complaints, only attempts to live each good day she has to the fullest. He learns from her what it is to be healthy. They both grow and support each other in a common goal that gets them out of a smoke filled tea room and into the fresh sea breezes. He collects and she draws what he collects. He learns to protect her (instead of whining over his bouts and supposed illnesses) and she learns to be stronger.
Sandition is also a book in which you can actually SEE Charlotte and Sidney fall in love. You can watch her struggle over "does he or does he not". It's a much more delightful alternative to all the "our herione" and "our hero" and "my herione" and "my hero"'s that go on in Charlotte (if I read one more of those I thought I would choke).
So, to sum up? Don't Don't Don't waste your time, money or energy on Charlotte, but DO get Sandition. It's a welcome addition to Jane Austen's library.
Disappointed.......2005-03-04
I really wanted to like this book, but it pains me to say that is was terrible. I am mystified why the author chose to call the book Charlotte because after JA's portion, Charlotte is rarely mentioned. The rest of the story is a collection of rambling, tedious speeches by minor characters. The story becomes ridiculous when the author introduces piracy and horse racing into Sandition. It ends with the inevitable, but unbelievable uniting of Charlotte to Sidney. It is unbelievable because they have barely had 2 or 3 superficial conversations in all of the author's addition to JA's fragment. Don't waste your time on this one, check out Sandition instead.
I will never read another book by this author.......2004-04-23
As I was reading this book, I could tell to the sentence exactly where Jane Austen left off and Julia Barrett began. The plot became confusing, and characters began to be inconsistent. Lady Denham, whom Charlotte finds to be very mean (stingy) suddenly decides to fund a lavish entertainment. Sidney Parker enters the scene just before the break, and it is implied that they will see more of him in just a few hours. However, somehow Charlotte doesn't see him again until the aforementioned entertainment, a chapter or two later (even though she is staying with his brother). The rest of the novel is incredibly fragmented, with whole chapters dwelling on some of the very minor characters, with practically no character development of the two protagonists, whose love story covers at most five pages. Instead the novel dwells on some very unlikely developments involving horses, gambling, and smugglers. It was a very disappointing read. _Sanditon_ was a much more satisfying completion.
Skip this book entirely, and read "Sanditon" instead.......2003-12-04
As a JA lover, I was excited to receive a copy of this book, and eager to like it. Unfortunately, that was impossible, as Barrett's continuation on Austen's chapters is exceptionally poor work. Barrett introduces extraneous characters for no apparent reason, wastes pages outlining their motives and mental states in tedious detail, and then leaves them to accomplish nothing in particular. You know something is seriously awry with the plotting and pacing when the heroine's relationship with the hero hardly makes an appearance until the final 2.5 pages of the book!
The writing, too, is extremely disappointing, with convoluted sentence structures and seemingly random chapter closures. Worst of all, the work completely lacks Austen's understated and sparkling wit.
I strongly recommend skipping this work altogether, and reading "Sanditon" instead. It's a charming and satisfying completion of the JA fragment that, unlike "Charlotte," remains true to Austen's original characters and prose style.
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- One word: Ugh!
- Don't Buy It For The Artwork...
- A solid story
- Batman seventies style - The way it's SUPPOSED to be
- It's not great but it's not a disappointment either
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Batman: Dark Detective
Steve Englehart
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Book Description
Writer Steve Englehart and artists Marshall Rogers Terry Austin set a high standard with their acclaimed run on DETECTIVE COMICS in the late 1970s.Now that team is back with a new collection that pits the Dark Knight against the most famous and feared members of his Rogues Gallery, including The Joker and Two-Face.
Customer Reviews:
One word: Ugh!.......2007-08-28
So here is the much-hyped reunion of Englehart & Rogers. Don't believe the hype. A lot of people look back fondly on their Bat-stuff from the 70's (collected in the Strange Apparations trade), but I'm not one of them. You can read my review of that book to find out why, but let me say that Strange Apparations - for all its (many) faults - is a lot more enjoyable than this dreck.
The story arc in Strange Apparitions at least had the great, iconic artwork by the late Marshall Rogers. I believe Dark Detective was his last project, and I'm sorry to say that this just wasn't up to par with his influential 70's work. More distressing, however, is Englehart's writing. It was the lousy writing, plotting and lack of belivability that sank Englehart's 70's writing for me, and it looks like he didn't get any better over the last three decades. His dialogue was, and still is, incredibly hokey.
Comics have come a long way, and so has Batman. Maybe I expect more after the greater sophistication that began with The Dark Knight Returns. Maybe others will enjoy this "old school" approach more than I did. Regardless, I didn't feel like there was any depth to this story or the characters. Silver St. Cloud comes and goes from Bruce Wayne's like yet again, and I'm left wondering what the point was. I also tired of watching the mighty Batman, expert martial artist that is, get pummeled and knocked around by lesser opponents on page after page. Aside from some nice political humor early on, I can't think of a single thing I liked about this series.
I'm just grateful that the bookstore I bought this from was kind enough to let me return it. There are a lot of great Batman tales out there. Try something other than this one.
Don't Buy It For The Artwork..........2007-01-14
As a huge fan of the original Rogers/Austin run, with its clean, meticulous detail and sophisticated style, I was shocked at the poor quality of the artwork in this collection. Hints of the old flair are very few and far between, and most of the book is simply unattractive. Additionally, the lettering is atrocious. Once the disappointment wears off, you've got a halfway decent story to enjoy.
A solid story.......2006-11-15
In the story, Batman is reunited with possibly the closest he's ever had to a real girlfriend, Silver St. Cloud. She is engaged, however, to a candidate for governor who is campaigning in Gotham. However, a late write-in candidate threatens the man's campaign... the Joker! His slogan: "Vote for me or I'll kill you!" Batman must try and prevent the murder of many innocent people at the hands of the Joker.
I think this writing team has put forth some of the best Batman stories ever made. The 1970's was a good decade for the Batman character. Many of the writers had gotten sick of all the campiness of the TV Batman, and returned the character to his dark, mysterious, gothic roots.
This team also knows how to write a good Joker story. I believe these are the same guys that wrote "The Laughing Fish" story, an infamous Batman tale. The characters are all pretty accurately done, and the mysterious "Joker house" laden with death traps is a sinister twist at the end of the story. This is a good story.
Batman seventies style - The way it's SUPPOSED to be.......2006-09-17
There has been some criticism here about the storytelling here - that it's old school, etc. It's SUPPOSED to be that way. This is a sequel to Englehart and Rogers' classic run on DC's Detective Comics from the late '70s.
One criticism was that the lettering was done by hand. Well, back in those days, it was done that way. You could tell back then just by looking at a word balloon or caption who did the lettering. It was distinctive, unlike generic lettering done by computer.
If you liked the classic stories from the '70s, this is a fine reprise of that period's storytelling conventions (thought balloons, expository captions, etc). If you are looking for a modern approach to the Batman, there are several alternatives that can be found here.
Enjoy this story for what is - a fun, colorful revival of a great period in comics storytelling by the people who were there in the first place.
It's not great but it's not a disappointment either.......2006-07-18
I just happened to see this in a local bookstore while browsing the other day and my first thought was, when did this come out? At first I thought it was a collection of old books. I was pretty excited to see that it was new however. Like the other reviewers I was a fan of the Englehart/Rogers Batman and just a huge fan of Marshall Rogers period. I loved his deceptively simple, elegant artwork and it remains a pleasure to the eyes still. I am really happy to see Terry Austin return as well. He was one of the first inkers I really started to notice when I was a kid. As a young boy you tend to pay more attention to the artist than the inker but Terry always brought something extra to the titles he worked on. So it goes without saying, although I will that the art is satisfying on this title. It's a little uneven at times but it takes me back and has a classic feel to it. And it looks like Geoff Darrow may have been influenced a little by Marshall.
Where I have some trouble is the story. Steve Englehart was a writer I always enjoyed when I was younger but I also wasn't very discriminating as a child either. I was reading any comic I could get my hands on but I do remember his name being on several titles I liked back than. The story itself is a mixed bag I guess. I like the classic feel of Batman here. He's not as brooding as when he's at his grim worst. The theme seems to be more Batman: Year One then The Dark Knight Returns which I like. I don't think the story offers anything new however. We are presented with the same rouges gallery we always get. It seems like there are too many villains stuffed in here. It makes for a "classic" tale while at the same time giving us the same old thing. I got a chuckle out of some of the Joker's rants but at the same time felt some of the dialog was stilted and a little awkward.
I would say it's not as good as some of the best Batman trades out but it's better than the majority of stuff out.
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Two comics constituting the incredible two-part series, "Engines," from Batman Legends of the Dark Knight. Printed over a decade ago, these two comics are a must have for any collector. Their graphics are amazing!
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Creative titans Frank Miller, Jim Lee & Scott Williams continue their striking new vision of the Dark Knight in this tale of young Dick Graysons transformation from orphaned acrobat into the Batmans first sidekick: Robin, the Boy Wonder!
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Incredible Batman derivative series. Incredibly vivid artwork and dark plot. A must have for any Batman, DC comics fan!
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Batman #458 Comic January 1991
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A BRAVE NEW WORLD
New York City, 1939. Crack investigative reporter Polly Perkins unearths plans to create a violent new World of Tomorrow.
A BRASH NEW THREAT
Soon after, gigantic mechanical robots are unleashed upon New York and other major cities of the world, meting out death and destruction in their wake.
A BOLD NEW HERO
The call goes out to Joe Sullivan, leader of the heroic Flying Legion, to save the day. As Joe and Polly circle the globe, encountering mutant creatures, monstrous mechanical machines, and dangerous tentacled robots, they are drawn ever closer to the lair of evil genius George Totenkopf. Together, they must battle the forces of the World of Tomorrow in order to savethe world of today.
Customer Reviews:
A mediocore novel.......2006-10-12
Okay, I didn't see the film and I picked this book up because I thought it would be a quick, but interesting read. It was quick, but I didn't find it all that interesting. It reminded me WAY too much of the bad movies back in the 50's. It just was flat-out borefest to me. I like Anderson's other writings but this one didn't cut it for me.
I suggest this for fans of bad 50's movies or some one looking for an easy read.
PARTY ON, DUDES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sky Captain is fun, 30's style film.......2004-09-14
I saw the film at a screening in Plano, TX about 3 or 4 weeks ago. For the first 10-15 minutes I thought that it might fall apart as it just seemed a little too "corny". However, once you realize, and accept, that the characters take things seriously, there's no irony and treat it like a old-style comic adventure it really takes of and was a fun Buck Rogers/Flash Gordon/Wizard of Oz type film from there on out. My favorite "fun" film of the year by a longshot. I heard Roper on Ebert & Roper complain about Angelina Jolie's "bad British accent". When I was watching I thought she sounded just like all the old English soldiers in films like "The Four Feathers" or "The Charge of the Light Brigade". She sounded over the top becuase that's how she was SUPPOSED to sound Richard! Anyway her role isn't much more than a cameo. A great looking film that also is very entertaining.
EL MUNDO DEL MAÃ`ANA FUE AYER.......2004-07-19
Algo es cierto: Si la pelicula es tan buena como el libro, vale la pena ir a verla.
Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow, (por ahora solo en ingles) es un buen libro, sin más pretención que divertir. Tiene todo el estilo de los Pulps de los 30's y 40's y las imagenes que trasmite nos remontan a las portadas de estas mismas. Desde la metropolis de Neva York, hasta las profundidades del oceano, pasando por los Himalayas y una isla olvidada por el tiempo, Sky Captain cumple con lo que promete.
El libro, aunque de encargo, esta bien escrito y es bastante recomendable... eso si. Sugiero que lean el libro antes de ver la película. No te arriesges a no encontrar el mismo nivel de calidad. Además, siempre son buenos los pre-estrenos, más cuando tu los produces en tu imaginacion.
A good, fun read.......2004-07-15
A novelization version of the upcoming film, "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" is set in 1939 New York City. The story follows Lois Lane-like reporter Polly Perkins, who's always looking for the latest scoop, as she covers the disappearances of many famed German scientists. After an interesting meeting with a stranger, who claims he's "the only one left" and leaves Polly with just a name (Totenkopf- German for "Death's Head") and a blueprint, the city falls under attack by giant trampling robots, but the day is saved when Sky Captain and the Flying Legion enter the scene and ward them off. Polly, naturally determined to find out what's going on, teams up with Sky Captain as they both fly around the world to search for Totenkopf, aided along the way by Sky Captain's right-hand man Dex and old-time friend Captain Francesca "Franky" Cook.
As I'm anticipating this film very much, my thoughts on the book may be a bit biased, but I found it very entertaining and simply fun to read. It probably could have been written a bit better, though we're not asking for the next Lord of the Rings, here.
To appreciate it fully, you need to read this in the right state of mind. As a homage to the old and slightly cheesy "LOOK! UP IN THE SKY!" types of sci-fi serials of the 1930s and 40s, the storyline is obviously going to be full of cliches and missing backstory, and might even seem a bit ridiculous at times. It's these kinds of thing that you just have to accept and move along with and let your imagination do the rest.
If you like pulp, camp, sci-fi, or just a good (and predictable) classic mystery, (or even if the film just interests you), you may want to try this book out.
As for the film, see you in September!
Can't wait for the movie!.......2004-07-09
Kevin Anderson is a fantastic writer (Dune series), and he makes this a book that's a lot of fun to read. Can't wait for the movie!
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Heretical Imperative.......2005-09-06
I have not yet begun to read the book but it was the fastest delivery I have ever seen.
Well informed intellectual religious thought.......2004-12-23
The first edition of The Heretical Imperative by Peter L. Berger appeared in 1979 and I do not have a more recent version. Chapter 1, Modernity as the Universalization of Heresy, attempts to define the modern situation. Fate used to determine lives. Now so many people respond to questionnaires that every nervous Prometheus is not only sure to be outvoted, but any question could become the Copernican revolution about which the future is made to revolve for as long as no one dares to agree about anything else. Copernicus is the individual each of us is due to be compared with. "As an analogy, even if one could demonstrate that Copernicus was an absolute fool with regard to the social realities of his day, this demonstration would not strengthen the theory that the earth is flat and that the sun moves around it." (p. 144).
People are subject to dynamic cycles, and students of humor are likely to think that the major difference between people is that they know different jokes. This book was written in years in which war and religion were considered different kinds of experience, and war, in particular, was even subject to multiple interpretations from a religious point of view. "Thus the alleged moral teachings of Christianity may be abstinence from extramarital sex or universal tolerance for all expressions of sexuality, total pacifism or self-sacrifice in just wars, racial . . . and so on almost ad infinitum." (p. 115). Surely there are polls to establish how well the people who claim religious views of one kind or another also adhere to a variety of ethical positions. The present is a time when participants in war might even be quizzed on how well the Crusades are going right down to the day, hour, and minute in which journalists who have been hit turn to the camera and proclaim, "I'm dying." It turns out this book approaches that experience. "Life has never been the same for me since the death of my mother." (p. 40).
Societies have similar experiences, and it is not uncommon for intellectuals to mix up one experience with something quite different. For example, Germany was winning territory in Russia and France in World War I, while enduring some starvation, before the American troops attacked the German lines at a few places in France. Asking for an armistice then was hardly like being conquered by the Allied armies in 1945, but this book reports:
"This safe world collapsed once and for all in that war, which may well be described as the collective suicide of European civilization. What is more, the fact of this collapse did not take long to sink in. It was visible right away, starkly and frighteningly, as were its moral and intellectual consequences. Not surprisingly, this was especially so in central Europe, dominated by that German culture that was now linked to a nation that had been catastrophically defeated." (p. 71).
Many other defeats in the twentieth century were as mild: the United States in Cuba in 1961, and soon thereafter in Laos, Nam, and Cambodia; The Soviet Union in Afghanistan; Argentina in the Falkland Islands. Letting down defenses before September 11, 2001, was part of a strategy of pretending that everyone was equally vulnerable to anything catastrophic. This book was just taking a bleak view of Europe after World War I, noting the decline of bourgeois triumphalism to provide a need for religious revival. "In any case, there is no dispute that its central, indeed overpowering figure was the Swiss theologian Karl Barth." (p. 71). In contrast to the "Manifesto of the Intellectuals" (p. 72) which German theologians signed in 1914 "endorsing the German war effort" (p. 72), Barth supported a "Theological Declaration of Barmen" in 1934, which repudiated political moves in that direction and "remained decisive in showing the capacity of Barthian theology to stand up to the pretensions of the modern age." (p. 72).
This book is not afraid to mention Freud, humor, jokes, Nietzsche, sex, and many of them on the same page, as the index indicates:
Humor (the comic), and reality, 39ff
Jokes, and reality, 39
Sex and sexuality, . . . orgasm and reality, 39
Such experiences are used to identify who an individual is as much as any other, and religion for an individual can be as great a reason to carry on in an intellectual fashion, though modern communication methods may differ in determining which topic is likely to bring more fame in the popularity contest that a society based mainly on entertainment values is rapidly becoming. While the number of people capable of engaging in intellectual activity on the level of this book might not be any less than when the book was written, for those who have aged, the opportunities to engage in rethinking the religiously elevating experiences of Schleiermacher are likely to be few and far between. But for this book, "Everything that followed Schleiermacher was either a development or a refutation of this position, which amounted to a Copernican revolution in theological thinking. . . . The turning inward of religious reflection must be seen in the context of the social and ipso facto psychological weakening of outward authority. Put differently, the quest for certainty on the basis of subjective insights is the result of the frustration of this quest by what is socially available as objective reality-definition." (p. 69).
It has been a long time since the instance recounted in this book in which people who were "within a tradition to which they were personally committed turned upon it the full arsenal of critical scholarship and let the theological chips fly where they might." (p. 70). That is what makes us so modern, not to mention heretical.
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