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André Gide praised The Asiatics as "an authentic masterpiece"; Thomas Mann called it "brilliant." First published in 1935 and virtually unavailable for years, this extraordinary novel tells the story of a young American--the unnamed narrator--who hitchhikes his way across Asia, from Beirut to China, living off the land and depending on the hospitality of the people he meets along the road. As Pico Iyer writes in the introduction, "[Prokosch] catches the peculiar logic that makes travel a land of alternative reality, a foreign state in itself that is an intoxication."
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The authentic aura of the lands east of the Mediterranean........2007-08-09
The negative (one star) review is far off the mark, and is as accurate as the incorrect title, "The Asians". I read this book while I was living IN Iran in 1962, after a lengthy stay in Beirut, driving a used VW across through Syria and Turkey, and working back, a year later, through Iraq, Jordan, and Syria, always utilizing the most basic of accomodations, including the dirt floors of rodent- and gecko-infested hovels. I felt that "The Asiatics" caught the atmosphere of the Middle East and its peoples wonderfully well, as did another superb book by Prokosch, "Nine Days to Mukalla." This is very hard to do if one has not spent time there and lived with the people, and I don't mean in a hotel, consulate, or embassy. I have read many books about the Middle East, and this is one of the few that ring true. For example, Michener's "Caravans"--perhaps the only book many will have read on the Middle East--has not one scintilla of authenticity. In my opinion travel writers like Bruce Chatwin and Paul Theroux fade into insignificance when compared with Prokosch. The negative reviewer has some axe to grind. Maybe he feels that Prokosch insulted his Asian (I'd guess Iranian) ancestors. My old paperback copy of "The Asiatics" (1960 Signet edition) is falling apart, and I have been hoping for a reissue of this work, so rightly praised by people infinitely more distinguished than that dispeptic reviewer. In my home "The Asiatics" is on a shelf between "Madam Bovary" and "Lord Jim"--right there with the classics.
The Asians.......2007-08-07
A book praised by the likes of Thomas Mann and Albert Camus, it must be good, if not great, right? Wrong. The only way I can think of it, was that this was an unusual book for the literature present at that time.
The protagonist is an unnamed American male, with an unknown past. We learn as much about him through his journey from Syria to China, and he does about the "natives," that is to say, little to none. Most of the time he refers to the natives with derogatory adjectives such as "lazy" or "ugly" or "stupid." With his colonial eye, he views them as an inditinguishable and pathetic mass, yet at the same time he tries to uncover the essence of Asia. Perhaps some of these things could be overlooked if some other basic elements were in place (plot, character development), but there are a host of other problems. Too many times, the first word out of a new character's mouth is about "happiness" or "death," or the meanings of such things. The coincidences found here put Dickens to shame. Too many times the narrator happens to find that one villager, say in remote Baluchistan, or the jungles of China, that not only knows English or French, but whose impeccable speech includes words such as "happiness" or "ephemeral" that enable them to discuss the meaning of life. I could go on....
I give the author credit for being able to give colorful descriptions, and the section, early in the book, about the Turkish prison, is probably the highlight of the book. From the sometimes detailed description of the geography, I actually thought he had travelled through the lands, but nonetheless he did a good job of doing his homework with a map and other travellers' accounts(some minor problems here and there, for example, when he mentions Hamdullah, an Indian Muslim as part of the caste system).
I came away confused not about what the book was about (there is nothing there) but that it should have been held in such high esteem at one time. If you want a travel novel, stick to Kerouac. If you want a travel diary on Asia, you might want to read Robert Byron's "The Road to Oxiana," though that book has some problems as well. I recommend reading this book only if you are writing a dissertation on Orientalism or Colonialism as it relates to literature.
Powerful writing, powerful images.......2006-05-30
I had to go to Asia after reading this novel about a young European's journey overland to Asia in the 1930s. It's all the more remarkable considering the author himself never travelled outside Europe and America. I haven't read the new edition with Pico Ayer's foreword but Pico's no slouch as a writer himself, should be worth reading.
A beautiful work of the imagination.......1999-03-16
Frederic Prokosch wrote this imaginary journey from Lebanon across Asia to Hanoi in 1931 before he ever set foot in Asia. In the novel, the narrator, a young American, travels in catch-as-catch-can manner across the exotic continent. The landscape descriptions are extraordinary. Everywhere he meets with adventure and exotic characters who lament the end of Asia as they know it (this in 1931!). The novel was a bestseller in 1934. I nominate it as the greatest forgotten novel of the 20th Century.
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African Literature in Defence of History. An Essay on Chinua Achebe
Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe
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A new essay focusing on the contribution of Chinua Achebe's writing to Africa's literary and political life, from the standpoint of the early twenty-first century, and the present state of Africa. The essay is interdisciplinary drawing on history, politics and economics, conflict theory and literary criticism. It is wide in scope, discussing a breadth of topics such as imbalances in trade relations between Africa and the rest; the inefficacy and hypocrisy of Western aid in light of debt and the arms supply from the West; genocide and HIV; and the implications of current US uni-polar dominance for Africa. In the context of his study Ekwe-Ekwe celebrates what he argues are the seminal dimensions of Achebe's writings: which affirm an African historicity; point to the futility of an unreconstructed post-colonial state in leading Africa's reconstruction; and advocate an African renaissance based on Africa's critical engagement with its rich cultural heritage. The author is a Professor of history and politics and Director of the centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, Dakar.
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The rise to global prominence of African literature, and particularly of the African novel, is one of the most vital and dynamic developments in contemporary world culture. In his book, Keith Booker provides an introduction to eight African novels written in English. The novels Booker examines include Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood ,Ayi Kwei Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy, Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter, Alex La Guma's In the Fog of the Seasons' End , Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Devil on the Cross, and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions. Booker uses these works to illustrate the scope and variety of the African novel and the general aesthetic, cultural, and political concerns that have motivated African authors. The selected novels also can be read and studied together thus making The African Novel in English and ideal textbook for university courses.
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- A gifted writer, spectacular in her love
- Fine story, wonderfully told, by truly gifted writer.
- A LYRICAL EVOCATION OF ELEPHANTS AND LOVE
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Elephant Winter: A Novel
Kim Echlin
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Elephant Winter is full of hushed wonders and harsher realities. When 30-year-old Sophie Walker returns to Canada to be with her dying mother, she thinks her stay will be temporary. While the two "settle into the daily business of waiting," she is drawn to her unlikely neighbors, the keeper of the Ontario Safari and his five elephants. Soon enough, in fact, Sophie falls for both Jo and his charges, and decides to record and explore elephant language and mores. Even in captivity, Sophie finds, these creatures strive for the greatest happiness and good for all, a far cry from the individualism of humans.
One visitor in particular is an almost allegorical representation of self-interest at any cost, and Jo seems incapable of banishing him. That would be Alecto Ryle. This unwelcome guest turns out to have made his reputation on sadistic experiments and autopsy reports, not to mention the massacres that enabled them--and now he's hanging around the Safari, waiting for one or more of the animals to die.
In her first novel, Kim Echlin can occasionally be expository, particularly in Sophie's five-part Elephant-English Dictionary. This is a very different beast from the glossary Barbara Gowdy created for The White Bone, but it also has its beauties. Describing one salute, Sophie admits that most keepers "hold in disdain people who romanticize elephants, but I have seen my elephants singing this evening song into the grey Ontario winter twilight. Their bodies appear to soften and shift like clouds on the rocky fields." Though Elephant Winter's human factor is itself gripping, Echlin's evocation of the intimate rapport between her heroine and the creatures she inherits can be sublime. After the matriarch, Kezia, loses her baby, she unshackles herself and escapes.
Through the darkness I finally saw her body, swaying down the road where horse farms and vegetable farms were strung like beads through the fields. She walked slowly and alone on that dark country road as if she were memorizing something. Drops of milk hung frozen from her breast.
Terrified that Kezia will panic, Sophie realizes that the best thing to do is let her take charge, and puts her arm out: "After an infinite five seconds, she reached out, hooked her trunk around my arm, slowly turned and began to lead me home." Readers not intrigued by elephants or by the possibility of deep communication will not be taken by this lyrical novel--but are there such people? --Kerry Fried
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Summoned home from Zimbabwe, Sophie Walker has returned to southern Ontario to nurse her dying mother. Her mother's farm borders on a tacky tourist spot called "Safari," and across from the kitchen window Sophie sees a herd of the immense Asian elephants playing in the snow. When the elephant keeper invites her to join in caring for the herd, she discovers a new human-animal relationship by recording and playing back the infrasound rumblings, bellows, and trumpets of the elephants. As she and her mother try to decode an Elephant-English dictionary, Sophie slowly uncovers an elephant culture, one which simultaneously honors the herd and the individual with Zen-like acceptance.
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A gifted writer, spectacular in her love.......2002-04-20
'Elephant Winter' is about a young woman who returns home to Canada to look after her ailing mother. Her mother is dying of cancer but is determined to continue to do things she would normally do. The daughter, tired of being inside the house with artwork and bugies, soon becomes friends with Jo, the keeper of the elephants. He's a quiet, shallow man who worms his way into Sophie's effections.
A novel about love, lust, family and elephants, it is amazing to see the sameness that mammels and humans have. I loved Saba, Keiaz and Lear, the elephants. The elephants were not protrayed as animals but as humans with feelings and understandings.
It would be so lovely to be an owner of an elephant and feel the fingers of the trunk on your skin. To become to understand this great beast of nature.
The majestic creatures were interpreted by Echlin through sounds and songs. I particularly enjoyed the dictionary that she provided so that we could learn along with her. Although we will never be able to understand an elephant, it was interesting to learn nonetheless.
The relationship between Jo and Sophie was incredible, rich with agony and love. Nearly pure love.
Read this tale for yourself and you too will fall in love with Echlin and elephants.
Fine story, wonderfully told, by truly gifted writer........2000-04-16
A fine story, wonderfully told, by a truly accomplished writer. Deeply moving tale seems more real than fiction. About a young woman who returns home to help her mother go through the last dying stages of cancer and herself becomes involved with a small herd of captive elephants living nearby at a private tourist attraction. I won't give away the details but urge you to read this book if you enjoy elephants and experiencing emotions.
A LYRICAL EVOCATION OF ELEPHANTS AND LOVE.......1999-09-07
How could any reader fail to be impressed by the originality and beauty of Ms. Eichlin's novel? A friend who has devoted his life to elephants gave me the book in Botswana's Okavango. I was immediately captivated by the author's almost mystical feeling for elephants. Her dictionary of elephant sounds is a triumph which several people who have spent their lives around elephants attest to. Altogether, this is a breathtaking opening act for a talent who will be around for a long long time.
Original idea........1999-07-22
I anticipated loving this book. I love Canada and I love winter, and I love good fiction. But I didn't love this book. I think the idea behind it is precious, but I was not satisfied by the content. The elephant dictionary was painful. The autopsy was shocking and dark, but not dark enough. The prose was not haunting or lyrical. So much more could have been described with the budgies and the artwork. The mute character was not developed to be dark until the end of the book. I was not suspicious of him in the least. The love interest Jo, what a shallow character. I would have omitted the dictionary and developed all the characters and visuals more. Rather than tell me what happened, I would have loved to have been able to feel the cold and taste the smells.
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The Captives of Kaag (Lone Wolf, Book 14)
Joe Dever
Manufacturer: Berkley
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ASIN: 0425133044 |
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Return to the Darklands!.......2000-03-15
The second book in the Lone Wolf Grandmaster series, 'Captives of Kaag' draws our Kai hero back to the Darklands - although, this time, it is a place of civil war and destruction. With the passing of Darklord Gnaag, the remnants of Drakkarim and Giaks are fighting for control of the cities. At present, the evil Nadziranim wizards are by far the largest influence over this chaotic anarchy. As the internal struggle continues, Lone Wolf must brave the hideous terrors and perils of Kaag in order to rescue his magician friend Banedon. However, as the gamebook progresses, this bold Kai mission reveals a more sinister shock! This is one of my favourite Joe Dever gamebooks, and marvelled at the former Darklord Empire, now reduced to warring factions - and yet still poses a sinister threat to Lone Wolf. It was clever how Bandeon's abduction provided the basis for a dastardly plot to conquer the rest of Magnamund. As ever, Joe's imagination in creating a variety of ghastly monsters, a cleverly devised combat system, and a tough challenge, offers the player an exhilerating adventure. It proves he is the undisputed crowned king of gamebooks. Magnamund and Lone Wolf are certainly the best cult fantasy inventions of recent years.
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The Captives of Kaag
Manufacturer: Berkley Pub Group
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This Week: A hideous misshapen creature releases a butterfly. Next Week: The consequences of this simple action ensure that history follows its predicted path... Sometime: In the swirling maelstrom of the Time Vortex, The Council of Eight maps out every moment in history and take drastic measures to ensure it follows their predictions. But there is one elemental force that defies prediction, that fails to adhere to the laws of time and space... A rogue element that could destroy their plans merely by existing. Already events are mapped out and defined. Already the pieces of the trap are in place. The Council of Eight already knows when Sabbath will betray them. It knows when Fitz will survive the horrors in the Museum of Anthropology. It knows when Trix will come to his help. It knows when the Doctor will finally realize the truth. It knows that this will be: Never.
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Just stop.......2004-11-13
I'm actually shocked by how much I disliked SOMETIME NEVER... There are some decent set pieces. Some boring set pieces. Things unfold because the author decides that what needs to happen. There's some corridor-running. Worse, there's some technobabble-laden corridor-running. But overall, the whole exercise just lacks oomph. Not only is it a poor resolution to a, frankly, terrible story-arc, it's not even a decent book in its own right.
First of all, can I state how tired I am of the whole "a butterfly's flight changing the course of a hurricane" thing? Yes, I liked Ray Bradbury's "A Sound Of Thunder", but I am absolutely sick to death of encountering and revisiting these references in time travel fiction over and over again. Maybe this is a sign that I need to vary the fiction I read. But, look, this sort of stuff was clever the first million times I saw it; can't we just grab hold of some other idea to beat to death?
Getting to the book's specifics, this is a story where The Universe and/or History Itself is threatened. Again. Yes, in resolving a story-arc in which each uninteresting story concerned threats to Everything, we are presented with a story in which there is an enormous threat. To Everything. You can only go to that well so many times, and I think this aspect of the story-arc overstayed its welcome at about, oh, the third or fourth time out. Yet there we go again. A universe populated by utterly uninteresting characters is again faced with absolute, total, and certain destruction. There's something wrong in a book where I, the reader, find myself cheering on the collapse of everything only because I wanted to see something (anything!) interesting happen.
The resolution to the story-arc is vaguely logical, but totally uninteresting. The back of the book tells us of the Council of Eight. And now that I've read about them, I'm disheartened to report that they are exactly as boring and stereotypical as their initial description would suggest. They're mysterious. They have a mysterious plan. They live in a mysterious fortress which is mysteriously cut off from the rest of the universe. There's very little that's original here and, thus, all attempts at forging a creepy or fearful atmosphere fail. And what original material exists is utterly lacking in soul. The plot unfolds dryly, with no passion or imagination.
For a book about predictability, predetermination and events unfolding logically, SOMETIME NEVER... strangely feels random as hell. And worse than that, it feels awfully contrived. Villains delay attacks long enough for the Doctor to explain the plot to the dumb humans. Exposition is given by having two characters explain things to each other that each is already aware of. This is not what you expect from an author whose résumé is as long as Justin Richards' is. Richards has written much better than this before. Richards has written much better than this in situations where he's slapping something together at the last minute to fill the book schedule. What's the excuse here when the book was presumably planned out literally years ago?
Oh, and that weird reference at the end utterly baffled me. It wasn't until I started wandering around the Internet that I found out it was a tie-in to SCREAM OF THE SHALKA. Um, couldn't we have had a reference to something that was actually good? What is the bloody point referencing a dull story in the middle of another dull story? Boredom raised to the power of banal. Oh, and what was up with that bizarre AN UNEARTHLY CHILD thing? I mean... What?! Why?!
If not for the fact that the Internet has informed me that future stories in this book series are more standalone (and indeed will eventually be replaced by Ninth Doctor Adventures), I think I would be giving up now. It's depressing to think that this is the book that the series had been leading up to. This whole arc has been a series of failures at both the individual book level (save for some worthy exceptions such as the brilliant EMOTIONAL CHEMISTRY) and of the overall meta-story. Thank God it's over. And let's hope that the powers that be have learned from their mistakes. Here's to the future.
Must Read.......2004-04-09
Exciting and fascinating, this book never fails to entertain! The Doctor is at his best, Fitz is great, Trix is well rounded out as a character.
The Council of Eight is chilling to the bone, with their plans and schemes. The Schroedinger Cells are an interesting concept. I would like to see the Swiss Cheese Palace some day.
Nice resolution in the end.
Best 8th Doctor Adventure in a while..........2004-02-20
Sometime Never... The 8th Doctor, Fitz and Trix get entangled in the secret plot of a secret society bent on controlling time. Sabbath's role in the Doctor's life is finally explained, and his story arc is concluded. With some mystery still floating in the Doctor's life in the end, this epic tale kept me reading late into the night.
Recent Doctor Who novels, especially the Eighth Doctor's adventures, have been somewhat depressing lately. "Hope" and "Reckless Engineering" are two of these. But, like "Timeless", this book has elements of depression that don't weigh down the story. The use of time travel in "Sometime Never..." is provacative and interesting, and the book comes to a terrific conclusion, with the Doctor's cunning mind tricking the enemy yet again.
I can only hope that the Eighth Doctor novels to come are as good as this one.
Brilliant.......2004-02-20
Fantastic tie up of lots of loose ends from the last year or so of books in the 8th Dr. Series. A must read for all fans of the BBC books!
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"Sometimes in the Wrong, but Never in Doubt": George S. Benson and the Education of the New Religious Right
L. Edward Hicks
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Includes the first publication of Peake's "Boy in Darkness", a tale of Titus Groan.
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The Tenth Edition of "The Bear" builds on a strong and distinguished sales history, loyal users, and a well-known author. In this engaging and comprehensive text, Lefrancois explains, applies, illustrates, and investigates psychological principles and classroom practices in a way that is concise and informative as well as encouraging and entertaining. Based on the most recent research in human development as it relates to learning, teaching, and thinking, this book presents a well-rounded, thorough, and relevant discussion of psychological principles. PSYCHOLOGY FOR TEACHING motivates, engages, and inspires?overall, an excellent model for teaching.
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This book is a look at how or about a man who has suffered all his life with many "mental health disorders" biological unhappiness and I feel that it is an important area that needs to be seen in order for us all to realize what it's like to fight the media, and the public along with the illnesses, medical staff that you may have to face not to mention the negative stigma that those of us with an illness have to face everyday, once we are branded! It is my hope that this may help someone in some area of mental health or those treating someone in the mental health arena and that may lead to someone's healing of the negativity that is so common place all around, and to also aleviate some of the negitive stigma and press, and bring us into a brand new area where it is OK to have a mental health disorder! So why don't you please take a look down the path that not many have ever seen, it's the me that I really don't want you to see and you really should not see ( IT SHOULD STAY PRIVATE, DAM THIS IS GOING TO BE EMBARRESSING! ) Yet it is vital for all those with mental illness and those treating mental illness and all those that want to understand the menatally ill, that you take a look at the me you should never see. Why don't you come on in and see a side of me that not many have ever seen and some shall never see, yet it is vital that you have a look. Come on in and take a look at what a life or a time in ones life's, that would classify as having mental health disorder is like and all the negativity that goes along with it, how your own family won't understand, how everyone will think you aren't trying hard enough! How a life of pain can lead one down a path that you should never see and that is very embarrassing to show you indeed, yet for the good of all man kind and for the advancement of the cause in giving those with a mental health disorder a better chance at a full recover, I believe this story needs to be seen,by everyeone, so please have a look at ME the uncensored version. I should mention the foul language in this book, this was not put in the book to gain readers or even to reach the younger generation. It was simply added to the book because that is how I used to be and would act with alochol in the picture and I believe you are starting to get the picture and the tone of my life at the time and REALLY FEEL how a severe mental health disorder litterally can take over and run your life, and some never recover they are stuck in a never ending cycle pain and suffering. So yes this is tuff and I feel this sort of language does not need to be used and I now refrain from using it in my life at all and I feel that you should never see but it is impairetive that you have a look for all those waiting and wanting to understand what a metal health disorder is all about! So when you are reading this try to understand where and at what point I was at in my life and please know that I am now set free, from all this negitive lifestyle!
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Raelene: Sometimes Beaten, Never Conquered : The Raelene Boyle Story
Garry Linnell , and
Raelene Boyle
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The candid memoir from one of Australia's greatest track and field athletes who brought audiences to their feet for more than 14 years of international competition. Raelene, whose refusal to use drugs in the 1970s cost her several Olympic gold medals as she ran against athletes later found to be drug cheats, details her battles to beat breast and ovarian cancer, as well as her ongoing fight to overcome severe depression.
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Sometime -- Never
Clare Leighton
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Sometime . . . Never
Manufacturer: Sphere
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Sometime Never
Manufacturer: Ballantine
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ASIN: B000I5UB3S |
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Sumptuous Thai dishes you can make at home!
Thai cuisine creates a harmonious blend between spicy hot and comparatively bland ingredients from age-old Eastern and relatively new Western foods. Featuring both outstanding traditional recipes and cutting-edge crowd-pleasers such as Spicy Fried Rice Sticks, Salmon Toast, Chicken Satay, and Thai Crab Cakes, The Everything® Thai Cookbook guides you through preparing meals as good as you'd find in your favorite Thai restaurant.
The Everything® Thai Cookbook is perfect for both vegetarians and meat-eaters, offering an eclectic range of spices, flavors, and aromas. Whether you want to prepare a meal for one—or an entire feast—The Everything® Thai Cookbook will have you serving up tasty fare to tempt even the most critical food connoisseur.
Featuring mouthwatering recipes for:
·Banana Fritters
·Chicken-Vegetable Rice
·Coconut Curried Chicken
·Fresh Oranges in Rose Water
·Pad Thai
·Pumpkin Rice Custard
·Spicy Rice and Shrimp Salad
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preposterous.......2006-08-02
I have not yet tried any of the recipes but felt I must respond to the critic who lambasted fish sauce-how ridiculous. Does he (she) not know that all Thai and most Vietnamese dishes have fish sauce in them? Perhaps the reviewer would be happier having a Thai dish from McDonald's or someplace similar.
Great Recipies and Easy to Follow.......2006-04-30
This book is super easy to follow and has tons of great tasting recipies.
No photos - Not authentic enough - Okay for Americanized Thai.......2006-01-21
Purchased this book with high hopes based on other reviews. I was very disappointed in the fact that there are NO PICTURES at all. I am a visual person, and enjoy seeing pictures of dishes; especially ones that can be a bit complex. The substitutions of Thai ingredients completely change the dish. Ginger is not the same flavor as Galangal....I could go on and on. The authentic ingredients are not too difficult to find these days. You can order online or just go to a specialty Market. It IS worth the trip to get the right stuff to cook these dishes with. If you like more authentic books with pictures, pass on this one. Try templeofthai.com for a great website and supplier.
I like it.......2005-02-27
I like the recipes in the book overall. So far I have only tried the pad thai and it came out delicious. I made a double batch and have been eating it all week, mmmm its so good. I have a tip on getting any hard to find ingredients, try natural food stores, they stock asian stuff sometimes.
The recipes I've tried have been GREAT!.......2003-06-06
I was a bit intimidated to try to cook Thai food. It just seemed like it would be so difficult! The other Thai cookbooks I've looked at seemed a little too scary- how am I supposed to shop for the ingredients if I don't know what they are? This cookbook did a GREAT job of explaining things to me- from the ingredients to the cooking methods involved. Even better, the food is AWESOME! The meals are similar to what I get at my favorite sit-down Thai restaurant. This book is well worth the money for anyone who enjoys Thai food.
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- The Elagin Affair: And Other Stories
- The Empty Room: Surviving the Loss of a Brother or Sister at Any Age
- The Enchanted April
- The Encyclopedia of Flower Arranging: Decorating With Fresh, Dried and Pressed Flowers
- The Farewell Symphony
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