Book Description
A superb collection of field recordings and descriptions offer unparalleled access to the sounds and calls of numerous popular and less well-known amphibians. The book and CD provide an introduction to the sound repertoire of species living in eastern and central North America. A variety of calls from each species are included, along with an in-depth description and explanation of their significance. In addition to color photographs of the most common species, the text offers a fascinating look at the science of amphibian calls, making this guide an indispensable aid for the outdoor enthusiast.
Customer Reviews:
Entertainment and education for everyone!.......2007-08-07
Now I know what some of those strange sounds are out there and WHO's making them! I enjoy listen to this in my car as I'm stuck in traffic. This CD and the book are both fun - young and old will enjoy them. My extremely active son and my more laid back mother both have enjoyed these. It's a winner!
I also purchased the Birds CD/Book and the Insects CD/Book. These, too, are an excellent purchase. The Insects CD actually put my son to SLEEP in the car!
Calling All Frogs!.......2005-08-12
The real value in this compact field guide is not in the very clear photos and descriptions, but is in the remarkably clear and useful recordings of amphibian calls. Since frogs and toads are active at night, they are generally identified by their calls - and this is the most useful guide I have obtained. Great addition to any naturalist's field guide collection!
excellent work on frogs of eastern and central US.......2002-12-17
...which is why the previous reviewer did not find the Pacific Treefrog...
What about Pacific Treefrog?.......2001-03-31
The CD is very well organized. The tone qualities are very good. As an amateur herpetologist, I deeply appreciate this audio archive of North American frogs and toads, especially the rana, bufo and hyla familes. Amphibians are going extinct and/ or disappearing rapidly from our planet. Mr. Elliot has compiled such an extensive audio library with great care and detail. All nature lovers and herpetologists must get this tape.
Nonetheless, Mr. Elliot failed to include the most widespread frog here in California... the Pacific Treefrog. This is the most well-known as the Hollywood frog. It is used widely to underscore background nature sounds in films.
Customer Reviews:
Not Just for Game Players.......2005-10-26
This is one more (and belated) addition to a series of fantastic fiction titles merchandised by Chaosium as a background for their celebrated role-playing game about the Cthulhu mythos. The books, however, stand on their own and may be considered -- to a certain extent -- "serious" weird literature. The problem, as always, lies with the selection, and while the original Clark Ashton Smith tales about the transuranic toad-god Tsathoggua are still quite enjoyable, not all the contemporary stories that have been added to complete this offering are up to their standards. All in all, a "must have" for Smith completists and players of the game, but not just for everybody's taste.
Worth a look, typical for the Chaosium cycle books.......2005-10-22
Man oh man it's finally here. The saga of The Tsathoggua Cycle is very familiar to those of us who haunt the Lovecraft usenet groups regularly. This book was compiled in the late 1990s for a 1998 release when certain unfortunate financial realities kicked in for Chaosium. At last things turned around for the small press icon and after a lengthy delay we have the finished product. And it was actually finished back in 1997-1998; this is not an anthology of stories new in the last 5 years.
List price is $14.95 but Amazon's price is $10.17, and eligible for free shipping if you buy $25 worth of stuff. It is a standard trade paperback with 220 pages. This does not include a 6 page introduction by Robert Price but it does include an introduction to each story. Production qualities are reasonable. The cover art however, continues the dreadful, shameful tradition of the Chaosium cycle books, which have notably poor artwork. The picture looks like pitiful claymation of a dinosaur. After stunning artwork in modern mythos books like Hive, Horrors Beyond and Night Voices, Night Journeys this effort by Mark Achilles White leads me to wonder how much he got paid and that maybe I could become an artist too.
The introduction by Robert Price (the workhorse of the Chaosium cycle series) was actually very useful. It laid out the entire history of the creation of Tsathoggua by Clark Ashton Smith and also discussed various pronunciations. Best of all, there was a photo of a sculpture of Tsathoggua by CAS! This would have been a great cover! In fact more CAS artwork throughout the book would have been most welcome. I also think the individual story introductions, also by Price, were mostly good, although not as good as the book introduction. My advice, however, is to read them after each story as the do contain minor to major spoilers. I also get fatigued by Price's constant comparisons and allusions of mythos stories to Biblical authorship. Give it a rest for at least one book!
Here are the contents:
From the Parchment of Pnom (Clark Ashton Smith)
The Seven Geases (Clark Ashton Smith)
The Testament of Athammaus (Clark Ashton Smith)
The Tale of Satampra Zeiros (Clark Ashton Smith)
The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles (Clark Ashton Smith)
Shadow of the Sleeping God (James Ambuehl)
The Curse of the Toad (Loay Hall and Terry Dale)
Dark Swamp (James Anderson)
The Old One (John Glasby)
The Oracle of Sadoqua (Ron Hilger)
The Horror Show (Gary Myers)
The Tale of Toad Loop (Stanley C. Sargent)
The Crawling Kingdom (Rod Heather)
The Resurrection of Kzadool-Ra (Henry J. Vester III)
My comments follow, with possible minor spoilers, so don't read any more if that bothers you.
I will say from the outset that I think CAS was a unique American prose master. I acquired his Hyperborea and Zothique from Ballantine many years ago, edited by Lin Carter. My favorite compilation is A Rendezvous in Averoigne from Arkham House. I urge everyone to get a copy of this title. I am eagerly awaiting the complete stories from Nightshade Books (yes I couldn't help preordering it). Rereading the Smith tales enclosed herein was like encountering old friends after a long separation. CAS had a gift for language, scene painting and shading horror with humor. But I must also voice a complaint. Any HPL collector likely already has A Rendezvous in Averoigne. I can understand the desire to get all the Tsathoggua stories in one volume but this was really needless duplication. On the other hand, except for Sargent's contribution the rest of the stories here were new to me. As for commentary on The Tale of Satampra Zeiros and The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles, I simply must direct you to Dan Clore's brilliant discussion of timeline inconsistencies: search on Google Groups for alt.horror.cthulhu and then search that group for posts by Dan Clore. I will note that The Seven Geases made an indelible impression on me when I was a teen, first discovering CAS and HPL, with the fate of the protagonist giving me quite a shock, after all the happy ending fantasy I had been reading. I sometimes wonder if why I like CAS and HPL so much is I was swept off my feet by them in my formative teen reading years. I've been enamored ever since. Finally, I must also contradict myself. For me From the Parchment of Pnom was just about unreadable. I don't think CAS ever intended it for print. I really can't stand mythos genealogies. They don't ring true for me; at least I don't enjoy them at all.
Shadow of the Sleeping God by James Ambuehl - You may know of James Ambuehl's other story in the Satampra Zeiros canon, In the Court of the Crystal Flame found in Lost Worlds of Space and Time volume one. That story was very enjoyable. Alas I just didn't find this (written earlier?) 1998 effort to be nearly as good. This story is a direct sequel to The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles. I don't like it when the story bludgeons you over the head with the fact that it is mythos, and that there is a mythos, instead of the mythos entities/trappings being props for the story. Also there is no way the avatar of Tsathoggua would not have consumed all the protagonists. In the intervening years Mr. Ambuehl's prose has become much more polished. Check out The Pisces Club, for example.
The Curse of the Toad (Loay Hall and Terry Dale) - The premise of this story was pretty good, with a disdainful great white hunter cursed by a shaman of Gua (Tsathoggua for short...). Unfortunately the execution was not so hot. Writing a sentence in upper case does not give it more weight any more then the old trope of the italicized ending. The prose here was fair at best but I'll admit to enjoying the denouement, nicely concealed by indirection.
Dark Swamp (James Anderson) - In this tale, HPL makes an appearance as himself, at least one of his experiences does; the setting is a place where HPL actually spent an afternoon looking, unsuccessfully perhaps, for Dark Swamp. Price's introduction was particularly useful spelling all this out for those of us unfamiliar with all the details of HPL's life. Years later the protagonist wants to walk in HPL's footsteps and to his chagrin manages to find the swamp. He then wonders if HPL had actually seen the denizens of the swamp and if this inspired his fiction. I really find the appearance of HPL and his fiction inside mythos stories to be a tiresome plot device, particularly when the implication is that his fiction wasn't really fiction. The prose was OK, the denouement was OK, none of it jazzed me. And I'll have to reread beacuse I missed just where Tsathoggua makes an appearance and how the story fits in this anthology...
The Old One (John Glasby) - Oh well, another typical HPL pastiche type introduction about a scientist/archeologist warning us all about the veil of reality and how he wished he never peeked behind it, yadayadayada. In this case the ancient city Yuth is discovered on the ocean floor near Bimini, and so is a temple of Tsathoggua. Some intrepid (or mostly trepid...) scientists investigate, including one who knows the awful truth... You know, this was a perfectly agreeable story with perfectly agreeable writing. I mostly enjoyed it. It just wasn't very original.
The Oracle of Sadoqua (Ron Hilger) - I really like Roman times mythos stories. Others I can think of offhand include the novel The Gardens of Lucullus (used copies available on the internet) and The Golden Keeper by Ian R. MacLeod (available in the collection Eternal Lovecraft from Golden Gryphon). The friend of a Roman lieutenant stationed in Gaul disappears. Suspicions run high against the druids who are the guardians of the Oracle of Sadoqua (I actually enjoyed the use of different names/spellings for Tsathoggua in this book; it nicely dovetails with the uncertainty, blurred distinctions, contradictions, human inability to completely perceive these Lovecraftian type entities. I liked the construction of the story, the setting and the prose. Keep up the good work, Mr. Hilger.
The Horror Show (Gary Myers) - I am unfamiliar with Gary Myers but I have to fix that. The Horror Show was a gem, clearly my favorite in the anthology (of course, not including the CAS stories). Great prose well developed tension, great plot. A chance encounter in a pretentious and contrived Goth club causes a young lady to accept the persuasions of a young man to see a real horror show...
The Tale of Toad Loop (Stanley C. Sargent) - Ancient Exhumations was originally published by Mythos Books in 1999; the new edition, Ancient Exhumations +2 (with a real cool cover!) was published by Elder Signs Press in 2004. This is where The Tale of Toad Loop made its first anthology appearance. The basic plot is very familiar mythos territory. A sorcerer or dabbler in sorcery opens a gate to allow an outré being to impregnate his wife (as usual for very obscure reasons), Toadaggwa in this case. Sargent spins a fine yarn with this common premise, with deft plotting, nifty prose and an unexpected ending.
The Crawling Kingdom (Rod Heather) - Another well written story cleverly plotted. A professor studying toads in the woods inadvertently observes a rite of worship of Tsathoggua. A nosy college reporter uncovers what the consequences were to the professor, and maybe to himself from that unhappy chance.
The Resurrection of Kzadool-Ra (Henry J. Vester III) - More CAS like than HPL like, this story was set in Zothique, where an acolyte inadvertently discovers an alter dedicated to Zathogwa. He decides to resurrect worship to the dread god... A very agreeable read.
So what is the mythos fan to do? As usual in the Chaosium cycle books this was a mixed bag. Some reprints everyone probably has, some stories that were not so hot (although no really complete dogs) some minor gems and one that knocked my socks off. It is inexpensive, compiles almost all the Tsathoggua stories in one place and will keep your cycle book collection complete. Go for it!
Ia ! Ia ! Zhothoqquah.......2005-09-14
The long and the short of it...I loved the book. Ok, that was the short...
here's the long
Here are my opinions on the tales.
From the Parchments of Pnom: Clark Ashton Smith
The first tale is more of a setup for the other Tsathoggua tales, the idea
of how he came to earth, his relatives and other bits of tale that gets
more detail in the stories. Never read this one before now, but I knew all
the data already. Still, nice to read it in CAS's own words.
The Seven Geases: Clark Ashton Smith
First tale that Saint Toad actually shows up in, a hunter is cursed to be a
snack for Tsathoggua, but instead he's sent on a series of weirder and
weirder geas meeting various critters of ancient Hyperborea. Amusing tale.
The Testament of Athammaus: Clark Ashton Smith
How the city of Commorian was rezoned for amorphous beings. Not the best
tale, but still worth the read. Proof that loosing your head over some
things is a bad idea *wink*.
The Tale of Satampra Zeiros: Clark Ashton Smith
First appears of Satampra Zeiros, thief of Hyberborea. Why stealing from
the temple of a nearly forgotten god can really disarm you. ;)
The Theft of the Thirty Nine Girdles: Clark Ashton Smith
Not really a Tsathoggua tale, but staring Satampra Zeiros and set in Hyperborea.
More like one of Fritz Leiber's Gray Mouser tales, but enjoyable.
Shadow of the Sleeping God: James Ambuehl
Third tale of Satampra Zeiros, a wrap of the other two tales, plus with a nice
heart to heart with Tsathoggua.
The Curse of the Toad: Loay Hall and Terry Dale
Basic Mythos tale of why travelling can be bad for you. Not the best of
the stories in the collection, but amusing.
The Dark Swamp: James Anderson
Follow up to a real roadtrip taken by HPL looking for a swamp in
Rhode Island,that he never talked about afterwards. So, the
author filled in the blanks. Not really about Tsathoggua or kin,
other than swamps = toads I guess.
The Old One: John S Glasby
I found this one interesting, since it's framework is about a archaelogist
looking for proof of a prehistorical civilization, like Atlantis, Lemuria or...
Hyperborea ;) Other than that, it's a fairly normal Mythos tale.
The Oracle of Sadoqua: Ron Hilger
This was my favorite tale, set in CAS's Averoigne (France) in Roman times. The
idea is cool, sorta like a demonic Oracle of Delphi. Kind of predictable in the
ending, but it's a Mythos tale...most of the endings are fairly obvious what's
going to go horribly wrong ;)
The Horror Show: Gary Myers
Creepy tale, short, sweet, to the point...and leaves you wondering what happens
to the poor Goth girl ;) For those in Dallas, it would make you wonder about
going to the Church anytime soon ;)
The Tale of Toad Loop: Stanley C. Sargent
Tsathoggua meets Dunwich Horror. While it's a common tale in the Mythos,
Elder God meets Girl, Elder God fathers unspeakable offspring on Girl, Girl
looses mind...but Mr Sargent does it rather well.
The Crawling Kingdom: Rod Heather
You'll never hear the chorus of frogs and toads calling the same way again.
Fairly long build up to the story, but it works fairly well, though the
narrator being fairly insane by the end is a little overdone.
The Resurrection of Kzadool-Ra: Henry J. Vester III
One of CAS's other worlds is Zothique, the last continent on Earth many years
in the future. The author added Tsathoggua into this world, with his one
remaining worshipper, and why when a god gives you some advice on what not
to do, why you should listen.
There wasn't a 'bad' tale in the bunch, some seemed to fit better than
others, but all in all it was one of the better collections from Chaosium in
a while. My favorites were The Oracle of Sadoqua, The Tale of Toad Loop and
Shadow of the Sleeping God. If you like weird fiction, give it a shot.
Book Description
A German art historian and a Polish art restorer find adventure and love in the cemetery business. Their vision is to offer plots in Gdansk to those Germans who had been exiled after World War II. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Line drawings by the Author. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Customer Reviews:
pretty good, but..........2002-02-02
The writing was nice (though of course in translation) and the eye for detail and dialogue are both top notch. My ability to "connect" with this book, however, was not so good. Maybe that's my fault (ok, it is my fault), but I'm sure that others in America will have the same trouble. I can understand Nobel consideration just on his ability, but I'd have to read more than just this one (all I've read) to say I agree with the award. I just don't know anything about Poland or Germany. I'm sure that many others don't either. If you don't, you can still enjoy the writing, but that's probably where it will end, since the whole book will end up feeling very foreign. For me it was a distraction. If you want to read some Grass, I would recommend starting with something else...I wish I had. Overall, just average, I'm glad I read it, but I had higher expectations than it was able to meet.
For Danzigers by a Danziger.......2000-12-01
It's an interesting book... if you know Gdansk or Poland. It is interesting because in this book Grass goes beyond his usual calls for Polish-German reconciliation. He suggests -- in no uncertain terms -- that if Poles want the Germans to accept the Polish authority over Gdansk, they themselves have to accept Lithuanian authority over Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, which belonged to Poland for a number of years between the two world wars. Making this observation is very important given that we, Polish people, usually see ourselves as victims of history and rarely as culprits.
One of the main qualities of the story is that it creates a very detailed picture of the very near future of Gdansk -- a future in which a park near the Gdansk Polytechnic gets converted into a German cementary, where certain German-Polish-Lithuanian reconciliation efforts are under way. Reading all the detailed descriptions of all the things Grass sees changing in Gdansk convinces me of his good knowledge of the city. The drawback of it is that the book is heavily time-stamped and probably not that interesting to those who do not know Gdansk or, at least, Poland.
On reconciliations and departures........2000-02-14
Reconciliation and forewell. As in the "Danzig trilogy", canvas of exclusively humane interplay of reconciliation's, changes and departures are painted. Grass commands knowledge of Polish and German things. Be it geography, local idioms, smell of the country sides. Descriptions of farmers market, streets and places, details of the appearance of mushroom (Boletus edulis), even description of soil is vivid. For a reader who, in his past, lived in Gdansk and knows first hand conditions of life in Poland, this book is a nostalgic trip into memories, source of reflections. There is this poetic melancholy in accepting changing world : ideals replaced with organised greed; Families decaying and destroyed; Brick wall coming down, walls between people building; Lakes desacrated by developments, their waters no more holding crawfish. Author is a keen judge of new world. He ackowledges manipulative genius of a great leader, and shallow pettiness of small; he regrets indiscriminate killings and impersonal wars of present.; he see ingrained prejudices (Polish vitriolic russophobia, German xenophobia) even in otherwise good people. Mellow and enchanting account of fast changing world. - For better ?
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Don't Call Me Toad
Mary Francis Shura
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Book Description
Explore the fascinating sounds of the night with this unique audio guide featuring 60 night-active mammals, birds, reptiles, and insects of North America. Includes a 65-minute audio cassette and 40-page illustrated booklet. This exciting collection of field recordings gives the listener unparalleled soundprints of each night-dweller's distinctive calls. Each species is introduced by a short narrative on the audio, followed by examples of its calls. The illustrated companion booklet gives detailed descriptions of each species' sounds along with life history information.
Customer Reviews:
What goes bump in the night.......2007-04-29
If you live in the woods or country and are curious about what goes bump in the night, this book and CD will explain those noises. We kept hearing a wonderful creature but had no way to identify it. Turns out it was a screech owl (they don't hoot nor do they screech). This book has also helped identify several frogs & night birds. As a bonus, Lang has a very pleasant voice and the CD is well made.
Nice, but covers to large an area.......2006-01-12
It's nice to listen to in the car (for a while, at least). It's pretty useless, though, since the geographical area is not limited enough. There might be a couple of those 60 animals in your area, but about 50 of 'em won't be. This should be a series of CD's: one for the northeast, one for the southwest....and so on.
Soothing and informative.......2001-10-01
I love Lang Elliott's voice. It is very soothing and doesn't detract from the bird, reptile and insect sounds. I was able to identify a Horned Owl from the CD, so it is informative, too. The sounds are grouped on different tracks so it's easy to find the category you want, much better than a cassette tape.
Unique and wonderful nature guide by Lang Elliott.......2000-03-29
This is a truly special release from Lang Elliott, the author of numerous nature CDs and books (including the splendid "Music of the Birds" and "Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs.") On this compact disc (or cassette) and its accompanying booklet, he introduces the sounds of common North American night animals. To my knowledge, no one else has compiled a field guide to the sounds of night animals with sounds from many groups of creatures all in one place (i.e., birds, mammals, amphibians, etc.)
The recording is a constant delight and will probably make you aware of the source of many sounds you have heard but not identified before. Don't be surprised to say, "So THAT'S what that is" many times while listening to the tape or CD. Also be prepared for surprises. Think you hear cats fighting outside your window at night? They may be cats, but they also could be raccoons, which often sound remarkably like angry felines. That strange, ghostly hiss or scream you may have heard at night in the country? An angry cat perhaps, but it might be a barn owl. And there are many other special sounds identified here: the rhythmic calls of nightjars like the whippoorwill, the trills and croaks of amphibians, the surprisingly snort of the white-tailed deer.
If you spend a lot of time outdoors, you must have this guide. Take it on a camping trip with you, if you have a portable CD player or cassette player. Those night woods will not seem so forbidding anymore once you know that most of the time, the strange and fascinating sounds you hear are made by completely harmless creatures.
Product Description
An audio guide identifying 38 species of frogs and toads that occur in the Rocky Mountains and Southwestern states and provinces: Yukon, Northwest Territories, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico. The one-hour cassette is accompanied by a 28-page booklet with descriptions of calls and breeding habitats for each species as well as information about the different types of frog calls. Includes tips on learning and identifying calls. Includes an audio test section and a detailed booklet with illustrations. This production is a collaboration between the U.S. Forest Service and the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. Audio CD.
Customer Reviews:
a pleasant surprise.......2004-07-02
Before I bought this book, I must have picked it up and put it back on the shelf at least on ten different occasions. I normally don't read contemporary fiction, let alone ones with a religious background. However, I'm glad that I gave it a try after all, because it was probably one of the most enjoyable books I've read in a while.
Stewart Carl's strongest point by far is her character creation and development. Thomas Beckett, the sinful saint who let someone else die in his place and has lived with this moral flaw for centuries, is simply fascinating. He is sinner and saint, scholar and warrior, human and angelic ... all in one. The author manages to combine all these traits into what has become one of my favorite fictional characters ever.
Her skills also become apparent in the rest of the cast. A middle-aged university instructor, who is deicated, smart, and witty, but who is also thoroughly disappointed with life and men. A young girl who embodies goodness and purity while still being human and likeable. And so son.
The plot is fascinating as well, a classical good vs. evil story set in modern-day Britain. The author manages to include enough new ideas, interpretations, and twist into this 'old' story that it is a joy to read it all over again. Every page is a pleasure to read, and I could not put the book down until I was done in one night.
original good vs. evil tale.......2003-10-01
Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury did not die a martyr's death in 1170 as the history books proclaim. At the last minute, he decided to escape and an innocent monk named David willingly gave up his life for the cause. As his punishment for his overwhelming pride, Sir Becket was granted eternal life so he could atone for his sins.
In the present, he is living in Temple Manor in Glastonbury guarding one third of the Holy Grail. His path crosses that of Maggie Sinclair and Rose Kildaire who, along with Scotsman Mick Dewar, are the key to finding the stone, the second part of the grail. On the eve of the new millennium these four reluctant warriors are enjoined by the Lady to unite the book to the stone and the cup to ensure another millennium of life for humanity. Trying, to stop them is Robin Fitzroy, a being who long ago allied himself with the dark principalities. If Robin can stop them, the world will enter the End Times.
LUCIFER'S CROWN uses the archetypes from many different cultures, legends, and myth to create an original good vs. evil story line. The characters are what make this plot so unique because all the protagonists are fatally flawed yet reject evil again and again even when they are tempted beyond measure. Hearts will go out to Becket, a man who has lived eight centuries and never loses faith even though he has yet to find his own ease of heart.
Harriet Klausner
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- Good, but REPRINTS
- Boy, thanks for delays and customer reviews.
- A Reprinting of Two Great Stories
- Sorry, I agree with everyone else...
- Repackaged books can be great
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The Ship Who Saved the Worlds (Mccaffrey, Anne)
Anne McCaffrey
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Customer Reviews:
Good, but REPRINTS.......2005-06-15
I agree with the reviews. These two novels are great additions to the BrainShips series, but Amazon SHOULD INFORM when some book advertised as new is merely a reprint. It happens all too often with many popular writers. I would hate to buy a supposedly "new" story and find out it was one I had already read. Norma.
Boy, thanks for delays and customer reviews........2005-04-13
I bought this book for our collection, and was sent a "shipment delayed" notice by Amazon. Lucky for me. When I came back over I saw the two other customer reviews indicating that it is just a compilation of two old novels. Thanks to these customers for informing me of this so I could cancel this order instead of having to send it back.
A Reprinting of Two Great Stories.......2004-03-26
There are a number of reviews that are negative simply because these stories were previously published as 2 separate novels, The Ship Who Won and The Ship Errant. They are missing the point. The point is that both of the original novels were wonderful! As always, Anne McCaffrey creates a rich and detailed universe and draws you into it on page one. If you already have both novels separately, then you don't need this one. If you don't, what better way than together in a shiny new hardback!
Sorry, I agree with everyone else..........2004-01-11
I bought this book, not realizing that It was just a re-hash of her old books.
I noticed that the publisher is doing this with a LOT of McCaffrey's books. I had added these on my wishlist before they were published, because it *looked* like they were new stories. Too bad. I should have waited for the synopsis.
Repackaged books can be great.......2003-12-28
I hate to see a book containing two great stories receiving negative reviews simply because these stories were published previously. There are hundreds of great science fiction stories that have gone out of print over time. I think that these books being made available again is wonderful opportunity for readers to explore and enjoy great works from sf's past.
Book Description
In some cooking circles, cast iron gets a bad rep – people think it's old-fashioned, heavy, and hard to take care of. And really, how often do folks nowadays need to hitch up a mule and wagon and leave civilization and Teflon-coated sauté pans behind?
True, cast iron is old; it's been around since the Middle Ages. And it is heavy. No one can dispute that even a small, cast-iron pot has a heft to it that no other cookware has. Nevertheless, cast-iron cookware has a place in today's kitchens, and that doesn’t mean simply hanging on the wall for decoration. Cast iron has much to offer modern-day cooks; it's easy to use, easy to care for, economical, versatile, and durable, and let's face it, it has a nostalgic appeal that no other cookware has. But more compelling than all those reasons is that it's a great cookware that makes great food. In fact, most cast-iron cooks will tell you that food cooked in cast iron tastes better than food cooked in anything else!
Cast-Iron Cooking For Dummies is for those cooks who may want to inject a little adventure and variety into their cooking. If you've never even thought of using cast-iron cookware, or you have a few cast-iron pots lying around, you'll discover all you need to know about making great food using cast iron. Here just a sampling of what you'll find in Cast-Iron Cooking For Dummies:
- Selecting the right cast-iron cookware for you
- Seasoning a new cast-iron pan
- Caring for your cast-iron cookware
- Discovering techniques to enhance your cast-iron cooking
- Enjoying cast-iron cooking in the Great Outdoors
- Tons of delicious recipes, from main and side dishes to desserts and international dishes
- Top Ten lists on ways to make your cast-iron cookware last longer, the best dishes suited for cast iron, and tips for achieving success in cast-iron cooking
So, whether you're a cooking novice or an experienced chef, you can find plenty of enjoyment from cooking with cast iron – and Cast-Iron Cooking For Dummies can show you the way.
Customer Reviews:
Great Info.......2007-03-21
I'm not overly crazy about the lay out of the book, but the amount of info in here is worth the cost of the book alone.
Very few recipes call for processed pre-packaged foods (mostly just a few of the desserts).
Its a good starter book for both the info and the recipes.
Cooking for dummies.......2007-01-10
A lot of good advise on taking care of cast iron and redoing old abused cast iron but was kinda dispointted with the recipes.
Another "For Dummies" Winner.......2006-07-30
I needed the info and once again "For Dummies" gave me that and more. If you're interested in this subject, "For Dummies" has got you covered!
Good introduction to cast iron.......2005-12-14
This is a very good introduction to cooking with cast iron. The first couple of chapters give you the basics of using cast iron (seasoning, how and what to buy, caring for and using, etc.). The second part of the book has all the recipes with chapters on meats, poultry, seafood, vegetables, breads/cornbreads, desserts, and non-traditional dishes. There is also a chapter on using an outdoor dutch oven and some recipes to go along with that.
Overall, the recipes are good but do use more bacon fat and butter than I would like. Every recipe is accompanied by its nutritional information so you can decide if you need to substitute some of the ingredients or not. The hushpuppies recipe has slightly more than 50% of its calories come from fat so let the cook beware.
Definitely buy this book if your are new to cast iron cooking. If you are a pro, I might hold off as the book will probably be too introductory.
lovin the iron.......2005-09-19
Thanks for the great book on cast iron cooking. The book was in great shape, and I already bought one more piece of cookware, because of recommendations from the author.
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