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- Lyrical questions
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- A Journey to the Rivers; Justice for Serbia
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A Journey to the Rivers: Justice for Serbia
Peter Handke
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In Europe, where it has been seen as pro-Serbian, journalist Peter Handke's meditative essay on ethnic conflict in the former Yugoslavia has been stirring up a great deal of controversy. But Handke, a German and a longtime resident of Paris, disavows nationalist partisanship. Instead, he works to unravel the tangles of ethnic hatred, snarled over generations and centuries, to discover whether peace is possible in the Balkans, and he reserves his enmity for the European media, which, he maintains, has systematically misunderstood the collapse of the former communist world. This book is impressionistic and short--you can read it over coffee in about an hour--but also deeply thoughtful, and deeply unsettling.
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A SHORT work,thought provoking and yet............2001-12-09
Things work out strangely on ones journey through life. Picture me stranded with broken fan belt on the way home from work on my wife's birthday. That morass overcome,and truck in shop, I drove the family car to work on Thanksgiving morning, departing earlier than usual for whatever reason. On a sixty-five mile drive, what do I encounter but a broken down vehicle in the same exact spot I languished in just a few days before. Now only five minutes from my office and well ahead of schedule, I was transporting a brother and sister to a nearby apartment. They were fresh from Kosovo. Speaking little english, we bade each other farewell and they were in my thoughts often in the coming weeks. Christmas shopping for year 2000 led me to a discount bookstore where I found this work as well as a stack of others on the Balkans. I would rate this book more highly were it not for the price (...) It was admitted to by the author in the preface to the American edition:the text apeared on two weekends in the Suddeutsche Zeitung. It is a mere pair of clippings,granted.
On to the merits of the book: Handke states the war was the reason for his journey, and that he was "drawn" to the country (Serbia) of the disintegrating Yugoslavia "least known to me". In my impression, he observes and questions constantly all aspects of the situation. He has experienced, from Germany, through the slant of the media lens what he sees as distortion. Here he tries hard to gain a proper perspective during the short journey he has through the countryside. A worthy read and best read twice, as I am about to do.
Lyrical questions.......2001-08-20
I know nothing about Serbia beyond what the press commonly reports. This book is the first I have read about that country. It makes no apologies for Serbian atrocities. It does, however, lyrically call journalists and journalism to task.
Written in German in late 1995 for a European audience, this 82-page book applies equally to the U.S. I speak as a former journalist who, during 25 years of largely national U.S. writing, plumbed every side to every question before reaching conclusions--always over-reporting to find nuances, and often reaching conclusions only as I wrote. It was a handicap not easily overcome.
That is not how many, perhaps even most, journalists work. The fault is built into the system. Editors expect reporters to have an angle before they present an idea. Without a hook, assignments are often not made. Editors will deny it, but they expect reporters to have reached some conclusion before they begin reporting, and to report to prove their points. In other words, they routinely ask journalists to put the cart before the horse--an especially troubling phenomenon in this era of political correctness.
Reporters say they are after truth and good. Most are in fact after the big game, the story to make them famous, a kill. Nowadays CNN hires television actors as news anchors. You get the picture. Ironically, on big stories covered by throngs--which I intensely disliked and avoided, and which of course include wars--reporters tend to mimic each other, to sit around after they file, bragging about their prowess. The largest braggarts are also often the least talented.
Institutionalized problems have a depressing effect on journalism. Few stories are black and white. But most present that illusion, although they are products of very little, if any, deductive thought. Certainly, nuances do not surface in short sound bites feeding most news wires. Peter Handke seems to know all this--and a great deal of philosophy.
Serbia aside, this book shows, in near-poetic language, that things are not always as journalists portray them. For that alone, Handke's tiny volume is worth its weight in gold. Alyssa A. Lappen
mike.milakovic@mailexcite.com.......2000-03-15
I don't know how these last few people have been able to write reviews of this book because I've been trying to get my hands on this book for about a year now and all bookstores online are out of them. If anyone who is reading this can figure out a way I can have a chance to read this book, please email me at the address mentioned above. I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks All!
A Journey to the Rivers; Justice for Serbia.......2000-02-27
An excellent book for those who wish to want to have an alternative prespective and source of information with respect to the conflicts in Yugoslavia.
While the editorial reviews were negative, they are also hypocritical, as it is appears unlikely that either of the two editorial reviewers have any first-hand information, but instead are regurgitating information from the western press (one of the key points which Handke raises).
finely crafted magic.......2000-02-26
Once again, Handke tackles a difficult issue with masterful language. Upon its publication, the book received numerous negative responses by many critics who clearly had not read the piece. This carefully constructed book never "sides" with anyone, instead it attempts to seek out questions rather than answers. It is a dense difficult piece that is made very accessible by Scott Abbott's fine translation. I strongly recommend it and urge you to read it with an open mind.
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- Eh. It was okay.
- Superb horror, fantasy and comic Dickensian story-telling in one package!
- House in the High Wood
- Absorbing book, frustrating universe
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The House in the High Wood: A Story of Old Talbotshire
Jeffrey E. Barlough
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Jeffrey E. Barlough, acclaimed author of the weird and wonderful Dark Sleeper, returns with a novel as charming-and chilling-as a good old-fashioned ghost story...
Strange things are afoot in the town of Shilston Upcot. A mysterious owl hovers in the sky. Mournful voices cry out for a lost child. Townsfolk are besieged by nightmares. And only one man, the reclusive squire Mark Trench, dares to investigate the strange omens to face the truth: The horror has returned.
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Eh. It was okay........2006-02-10
I picked up "The House in the High Wood" because I had read and enjoyed "Dark Sleeper". I was drawn in by the Dickensian language and mysterious "event" that somehow changed the landscape of this alternate earthlike place and the dark & mysterious adventures of its cast. Especially Mr. Pumpkin Pie.
Sadly, HITHW is just more of the same. While the writing is technically marvelous, a dead ringer nineteenth-century style and syntax, the tale itself seems padded and out of place.
Superb horror, fantasy and comic Dickensian story-telling in one package!.......2005-10-23
In The House in the High Wood, Barlough has crafted a compelling and unique novel that defies classification. One can say, I suppose, that it represents a delicious blend of Lovecraft, Collins or Poe's version of tension and horror, Brooks ideas of a modern, dark, urban fantasy and the very best of Dickensian characterization, complex and intricately described environments with superbly comic dialogue and story-telling. But to say that is to suggest somehow that Barlough's efforts are derivative and that is selling him far too short. These thumb-nail descriptions of style can only serve to whet an appetite and, I hope, encourage a potential reader to pick up a novel that I guarantee will be impossible to put down!
Shilston Upcot is a small town set high in the mountains nestled in a volcanic caldera which, like so many other small communities, has its share of dark secrets. Long-time residents like Mr Shank Bottom, a stone cutter by trade and the parish sexton, or Mr Nim Ives, the good humoured landlord of the Village Arms take exception to newcomers or outsiders seeking to open the door to any closets that might contain long dead skeletons. But Mark Trench, the squire of Dalroyd, and Oliver Langley, his long-time friend and confidant, have tumbled onto one of these skeletons in the story of a young girl, pregnant out of wedlock, who took her own life almost thirty years earlier. Mark becomes determined to get to the bottom of the story as he comes to believe that her suicide is somehow related to the untimely death or disappearance of his own father so many years ago.
I suspect that, like me, many readers will be quite surprised when they come to the realization they've been frantically turning pages on a novel whose plot actually moves at a positively glacial pace. But, they'll also quickly understand that it's the compelling, sustained level of tension, the superb characterizations, the exquisitely detailed descriptions of scenery, people and the minutiae of their daily lives, the masterful use of foreshadowing and exactly the right doses of the creepy stuff - ghosts, a mysterious owl hovering in the night sky, mournful voices, eerie nightmares, the suspicious house on the hill with the new reclusive tenants - that actually is what is keeping you awake reading until the wee hours!
Readers with eclectic tastes will be thrilled by this one! And the ending, by the way, is worthy of the finest horror flick!
House in the High Wood.......2002-11-23
Where have all the people of the village on the lake vanished away to? One man remembers the horrific truth...
Barlough creates an astonishing--one hesitates even to call it an imitation--believably nineteenth-century gothic style in this novel, which is more horrific in theme than its similarly styled prequel. His chosen style means that Barlough sacrifices something in characterization perforce, but he manages to do a fair amount. In this second book the plot is less unwieldy than in the first, and is timed and handled gracefully. Though the style will put off some readers, I found this an enjoyable book, strikingly original in its combination of period and fantastic detail.
Absorbing book, frustrating universe.......2002-09-10
Barlough's virtues have been well listed by the other reviewers. His characters are compelling and his style, often compared to a Dickens-Doyle-Lovecraft blend, is different and absobing. The world of these books, however, is a bit odd. Although sometimes described as psuedo-victorian, in fact it feels older, perhaps 18th or early 19th Century. Curiously, unless I missed it, there appears to be no gunpowder, and the cities do not have railroads or any other late 19th Century devices. And how does the "sundering," be it comet strike or something else, explain those prehistoric animals? Perhaps the next book will explain, perhaps not. In any event, these are certainly worth a look.
A dark and compelling fantasy.......2002-05-24
Over the span of two novels Jeffrey Barlough has become one of my favorite writers. Barlough's strengths lie in his picturesque depictions of a world in the aftermath of a great cataclysm (that either hasn't been fully explained yet or that I have unfortunately missed) and his marvelously vivid characters. Barlough's charming characters have great names like Mr. Nicodemus Binks, Mr. Shank Bottom, Miss Cherry Ives, and Mr. Alfred Snorem.
Barlough writes with a non-traditional writing style. Both of his current novels read much like a Charles Dickens novel. But Barlough's novels have entertaining plots too. In _The House in the High Wood_, Barlough introduces the reader to the small town of Shilston Upcot, which has a dark and mysterious past. The reclusive squire, Mark Trench, sets out to uncover the hideous secrets behind the disappearance of his father many years past.
I think that a reader coming to this novel without a great deal of patience will not fully appreciate it. Barlough's story moves at a leisurely pace with frequent digressions to explain a character's backstory. One of the complaints that I heard frequently with regards to Barlough's first novel, _Dark Sleeper_, is that the plot was subsumed by Barlough's characters. Those who agree with this statement will likely find much of the same in this novel. Those of us who enjoy intriguing characters and wonderful stylistic differences will love both of Barlough's first novels.
_The House in the High Wood_ is one of my favorite fantasies of 2001. Highly recommended.
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The need to ensure effective protection of the Soviet airspace in areas lacking adequate cover by ground radars led the nation's aircraft designers to start working on airborne early warning systems. The Tupolev OKB was the first among the nation's aircraft design bureaus to create an µeye in the sky', evolving the Tu-126 AEW aircraft from the Tu-114 long-haul turboprop airliner. The aircraft entered service in 1961, filling an important role with the Soviet Air Force until replaced in the early 1980s by the Ilyushin/ Beriyev A-50 AWACS based on the IL-76MD transport. In addition to these two types, the book describes the highly unorthodox Antonov An-71 with its tail-mounted rotodome (intended for operations from a large aircraft carrier which eventually never materialized) and the Kamov Ka-31 shipboard AEW helicopter. Due mention is also made of projects that never got off the drawing board the Tu-156, IL-150 and Yakovlev Yak-44.
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Star Ka'at
Manufacturer: Archway/Pocket
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great kid's book.......2006-12-16
This is a story about 2 kids who have "dropped through the cracks". They manage to find each other and befriend several cats--whom they discover are actually Ka'ats, visitors to our planet sent to rescue any of their kin that can be saved before we humans finally succeed in destroying the earth. The Ka'ats decide to save the 2 kids (one boy, one girl) and take them back to their own world. There are 2 more books in this series--Star Ka'at World and Star Ka'at and the Plant People--that any kid would love. These are about 6th grade level I think. My 8 yo and 10 yo grandson's both enjoyed the books, but both read very far above their grade levels.
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- 3rd in the Star Ka'at series for children.
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Star Ka'Ats and the Plant People
Andre Norton ,
Dorothy H. Madlee , and
Jean Loewer
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3rd in the Star Ka'at series for children........2001-02-19
The Star Ka'at books are intended for children, but they hold up pretty well (STAR KA'AT itself is the best of the lot). Some enterprising publisher could easily fit all 4 novels into a single volume, even with the illustrations.
Jim and Elly Mae have settled into life on Zimmorrah after the events of STAR KA'AT WORLD. They're now helping the Ka'ats explore the ancient, desolate city of the Hsi (a.k.a. the People), now that its automatic defenses have finally been shut down. Although they're kids, they have the advantage of Hsi-like hands and vocal chords, so they are a tremendous help in analyzing Hsi-built machines, which were often voice-activated. (Up until quite recently, the city *did* have working robots, who presumably kept up the maintenance although their masters were long dead.)
The Ka'ats, who have been using Hsi stockpiles of metal for years, now have an urgent need to unlock the Hsi records - the stockpiles are finally running out, and existing Ka'at flyers and other devices are giving out due to metal fatigue. The answer to the question of where the Hsi got the metal to make their machines is presented quite logically, but it's not what you might expect.
This is a good story, but it leaves at least 1 question that isn't addressed. The Ka'ats first visited Earth, after the Hsi left the scene, in the days of ancient Egypt, if not earlier. Even if we assume that this was immediately after the Hsi sealed themselves into their city, that's a *long* time to run a space-faring civilization using only stockpiled metal, without any apparent idea of how to obtain it in nature.
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- AMAZING FANTASY TO REMEMBER
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AMAZING FANTASY TO REMEMBER.......1999-07-02
It is a wonderful story with the idea of cats as aliens come back to earth to collect their cousins. (earthling cats) It is a wonderful story where a boy and girl hear them thought-speak to their cousins to come home and learn too much. It is a MUST READ.
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Star eternal
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- A weak Norton offering.
- Even Ka'ats don't always live happily ever after
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Star Ka'ats and the Winged Warriors
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A weak Norton offering........2007-10-01
I LOVE Andre Norton, but this is weak, even when considered as a (very) juvenile book. For Andre Norton, this book (Winged Warriors) is extremely weak as are the other Star Ka'at books.
Even Ka'ats don't always live happily ever after.......2002-03-07
As recounted in _Star Ka'at_, the Ka'ats discovered Earth thousands of years ago as they explored the galaxy. They befriended humanity, some of whom could 'hear' and understand their mindspeech, and some Ka'ats settled on Earth. After many years and wars in which the humans who could communicate with them were killed, the Ka'ats had to abandon Earth in the face of human persecution, stranding some of their own kind in the process.
Upon their cautious, secret re-exploration of Earth in the present, the Ka'ats, alarmed at a human political situation that might lead to nuclear war, began systematically evacuating as many of their people as they could - all the cats whose mindspeech was clear enough to understand the rescue summons. But in the process, two Ka'at scouts - Mer and Tiro - found two human children, Elly Mae and Jim, who had enough innate ability at mindspeech to be capable of full partnership with the Ka'ats, and the scouts adopted the children, insisting that they, too, be rescued. (Both kids were orphaned, one very recently, and without family, so this was OK with them.)
In the other volumes of the series, we've seen some of the trouble that the kids have had adjusting to life on Zimmorah, but, of course, the cats were able to settle down happily with no problems, right?
Wrong. The Elders are alarmed that some cats form a distinct subculture among their people: hunters with a taste for sport in a world where hunting is culturally unthinkable, who refuse to completely abandon the uncivilized ways they needed to survive on Earth. Having had a terrifying reminder, while reconnoitering Earth, of the dangers of factions coming into conflict, the Elders now propose an experiment: that some of the Earth cats should join an expedition to re-establish contact with a long-lost Ka'at colony on another world, where dangerous situations may make their survival skills valuable.
Mer, Elly Mae, Jim, and Tiro accompany the expedition as well, to find a world on which the plant and insect life no longer quite matches their records; the insects are now of gigantic size! (Many of the insects are unimaginatively similar to familiar insects on Earth, making it relatively simple for the explorers to identify dangerous ones and think of ways to cope, at least at first).
The surviving descendants of the Ka'at colony, when found, need help. (They don't want to be evacuated, by the way.) Apparently the Ka'ats weren't the only explorers who thought this world would be a good place to settle...
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- 2nd in the Star Ka'at series for children.
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Star Ka'at World
Andre Norton
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2nd in the Star Ka'at series for children........2001-02-19
For practical purposes, this picks up where _Star Ka'at_ left off. Jim and Elly Mae were adopted by Tiro and Mer, respectively, and rescued from the threat of atomic war on Earth along with refugee cats (descended from Ka'ats who were stranded on Earth thousands of years ago). These two children show potential for learning the abilities of Ka'ats - Elly Mae in particular has a greater talent for mind-send than humans have shown for hundreds of generations.
After being taken to Zimmorrah, the Ka'at homeworld, in suspended animation, they are processed much like the rest of the newcomers. They're decontaminated, given their own quarters, and sent to school. Here the curriculum is centered around learning to use psychic talent, something even Ka'ats have to be taught, and important facts about dangerous animals and the like on Zimmorrah - for instance, the abandoned city of the Hsi, another intelligent species that once shared the planet. Cause of death - xenophobia, which flared up at the discovery that Ka'ats were an intelligent species. All Ka'at technology was originally derived from Hsi technology (any questions about how Ka'ats manage a spacefaring civilization without hands are covered by this volume).
As it turns out, though, the machines that the Ka'ats now operate by thought will not work for the children. They are dependent on the older Ka'ats even for the food they eat. Then Jim has the idea of running away to explore the old Hsi city...
The children's rash decision to try to enter the old city can be explained (considering that they're only about 10 years old), and they quickly discover that it was *not* a good idea. There are other points that can't be explained away quite so easily, though. The senior Ka'ats explained very carefully to Mer and Tiro in _Star Ka'at_ that they would be held responsible for the children's actions, so the conclusion of this book seems too painless, even if you accept how easily some really dangerous situations were resolved. Also (nitpicking, now) why did the ship land, let the kids out, *then* call them back inside and move to the landing facility? Why not just go through decontamination in the first place?
All in all, this is an OK sequel to _Star Ka'at_ (which is the best book in the series to date).
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Deep, dark, and fudgy. Moist and luxurious. Seductively rich.
For award-winning author Lisa Yockelson, chocolate has long been an obsession, a craving, a calling. Now she fulfills the calling in ChocolateChocolate, a dream cookbook that blends how-to information and more than 200 sublime recipes with a delicious collection of chocolate essays and reminiscences.
ChocolateChocolate reveals baking with chocolate as a sweet and simple art, one that is both rewarding and accessible. The book's unique "baking diary" format arranges chapters by theme, reflecting Yockelson's fresh and personal approach to baking. From comforting Brownie Style favorites to dashing Double Chocolate and Mudslide confections, temptation beckons from every page.
The book can be used in several ways - to find a recipe for a sweet that's just packed with chocolate, to learn how chocolate behaves in the baking process, to gather information on the various types and uses of chocolate, and, of course, to simply rejoice in what surely must be the most luxurious of all flavors.
Complemented by 155 stunning color photographs that artfully express her specialties in all their chocolate glory, here is a timeless reference all home bakers will return to again and again as a source of instruction, inspiration...and sheer indulgence.
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Disappointing.......2007-06-18
I should have listened to the reviewer who commented that the recipes lack variety. She's absolutely correct. It seems the recipes are one variation of a basic recipe changing only proportions and mix-ins. I call it Dairy Queen baking - change the chips, chocolates and candy and voila! A new recipe. For a book this price I expected more. Also I understand the author loves coconut but that doesn't mean she should include it in so many of her recipes. As an experienced baker I can substitute and modify the recipes to suit my taste but what about budding bakers who may not be confident enough to do that? Besides if I buy a book only to modify the recipes in it, shouldn't I be better off buying a different book? One whose recipes I already like?
I wish I could return this book. I was seduced by the gorgeous pictures and interesting anecdotes. In the end I found out the hard and expensive way that it was more form than function
Chocolate Chocolate.......2006-11-17
I bought this book at the bookstore-very expensive! But the recipes are absolutely wonderful! There are so many great recipes. I bought this book for my boyfriend for Christmas because he LOVES chocolate. I have bought him several chocolate/dessert cookbooks in the past and we can never agree on what to make, but with this book he loves ALL the recipes and I love most, so it works out great!
chocolate chocolate.......2006-07-18
Very nicely written. Almost like a text book, but prettier. Good recipes.
I want this book!.......2006-01-16
I checked this book out of the library and have loved reading through it. The pictures are breathtaking! The recipes are very straightforward and detailed. There is a beginning section describing different kinds of doughs and batters and detailing how to best handle chocolate in all its forms. I tried the recipe for "Coca-Cola Cake" and it was sublimely wonderful. The cake turned out perfectly and tasted even better the next day. There are at least 10 other recipes that I am dying to try, including "Blackbottom Brownie Tart" (which features a shortbread crust, brownie layer, then swirled cheesecake topping), and "Bittersweet Chocolate Truffle Squares" which are a brownie/truffle hybrid. I am a cheapskate but I truly believe I will get $29 of baking pleasure from this book so I'll have to break down and buy it...
Basic and Beautiful.......2006-01-16
I couldn't wait to create some of the beautiful recipes from this lovely book. I have made two of them so far and they came out perfect. Easy to read recipes and lots of photos. I liked that not all of the recipes were purely chocolate, there was a good combination of coffee cakes and muffins that had a good balance of chocolate to other ingredients. I only have a few complaints. One is the authors love of coconut. I hate coconut and wish the author would have remarked if the coconut was required or optional as she does with nuts. Also, some of the recipes require odd sized pans like a 10 inch square or a 9 inch tart pan that it 2 inches deep (most are one inch). I wish she would have included a substitute pan guide. Overall this book is practical and very pretty, a great addition to my collection.
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