Book Description
An irreverent and lucid sojourn through the facetious, twisted burps we call sophisticated society, captured by the camera-quick and ruthless eye of the ever-vigilant third person, Madame Realism. Each fiction has a terse analytical agenda, surgically dissecting the mundane, forcing quotidian life off the canvas, out of the museum dioramas and into our laps.
Customer Reviews:
Madame Realism Complex is Great Art Criticism.......2001-04-07
This is a little known classic in Tillman's work, a collection of her essays written from the point of view of the character "Madame Realism," often for Art in America magazine. Madame Realism is one of my favorites among Tillman's characters; she's a little bit like a wise grandmother who goes to art museums and comments about the work she sees there. There's more to these pieces than the seemingly funny views of a quirky observer, however, although even that would be enough. Tillman, who really knows her theory, makes many complex notions about art and its reception easily accessible in these very humorous pieces. I used one of the essays in a college course I teach on "writing for the arts" and the students really loved it.
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Graphic SF Reader.......2007-09-03
Garth Ennis has produced a hilarious, over the top war story parody. Imagine if the Whizzer and Chips type kids grew up and joined the army, and you might get something like this. Gerta Gasch the evil nazi, and a completely crazy commando trouple, all mad, most of them incoherent.Through all that, they do manage to kill Rocky and Indiana Jones.Great stuff."Hitler, he only had one ball"
Bawdy War stories as they should be written!.......2007-06-03
A great storyline with great characters. Monty Python fans will really get the most out of this story. Ennis manages to show the insanity of war and violence in his usual ingenious satirical style. His War Stories Vol. 1 and 2 are even better, as well as Bloody Mary, but only because Ennis just gets better with practice. Ennis has already tackled the great Sgt. Fury, think of what he could do with Sgt. Rock and Easy Company!
Has potential but never quite delivers.......2005-08-22
Sometimes humor, especially in a comic book, succeeds by being extreme (think Three Stooges, or Monty Python on a bad day), but this send-up of World War II special-ops commandos, unfortunately, isn't one of them. The first half of the book, which is the first three issues in the original series, introduces the six cliched characters, including an upper-class git as the captain, a gay lieutenant, a pathological giant as the sergeant, a lower-class corporal, "Hank the Yank," and (for some reason) a Scottish piper who is the captain's family retainer. Three of them never say anything beyond a single cliched phrase, and the piper never speaks at all. The Nazis are similarly borrowed from Warner Brothers. The second half of this collection is about the quest to capture the Fuhrer's mystical missing testicle, and it's somewhat better, if only because of the song everyone sings to annoy the Germans. But still. Bugs Bunny did it better.
Goose-stepping Nazis & big-breasted SS dominatrices beware!.......2004-12-26
The Dirty Dozen are about to get their position usurped as the most efficient fighting division. Adventures In The Rifle Brigade marks the debut of a new British Commando Unit that has all the wits and charm of the Monty Python team. Written by Garth Ennis, who has turned murder and gore on titles such as Punisher and Preacher into a side splitting laugh fest, this book is recommended to all who enjoy their humor a bit wacky.
The six members of this ragtag crew are paratrooped in Berlin during 1944 on an ultra top-secret mission. The things that these fiendish and cunning misfits pull against goose-stepping Nazis would make Mel Brooks and John Hughes so proud. Their hilarious hijinks come to a halt when they are captured by Gestapo torturers who plan to bring them in to be interrogated by big-breasted SS dominatrices.
Garth Ennis does a great job of capturing the absurdities and gags of a Peter Sellers Pink Panther type movie and blending it with the thematic slant of war films like Saving Private Ryan. The off the wall British stereotypes attributed to these characters, who loyally serve England and its King, brought on a few chuckles right from the very first pages. Their idiotic personas have all the elegance of a homicidal John Cleese and a funny Charles Bronson. I had one hell of a giggle when a Panzer commander wanted two frauleins to fiddle with his "main armament".
Carlos Ezquerra's caricature art style is perfect to deliver Ennis' outrageous story. The characters' anatomies and facial expressions are exaggerated and give this book the proper tone. From ski ramp like noses to insane empty smiles, Ezquerra captures all the quirks and silliness of this lovable bunch.
If you get a laugh out of people getting killed by eight foot tall creatures who have acid for blood (and are generally unpleasant) and believe that A Fish Called Wanda is a great comedy film, get this book and be prepared for zaniness at its best.
Book Description
To Napoleon's troops, the sharp shooters of the 95th (Rifle) Regiment were 'the rascals in green', famed throughout Europe for their bravery, skill, and dash. Kincaid's Adventures in the Rifle Brigade was the first book to be published by a veteran, recounting the amazing escapades of this legendary unit in the war against French armies in Portugal and Spain. His second volume, Random Shots From a Rifleman, is just as vivid and memorable as the first, and finishes with a remarkable first-hand description of the Waterloo campaign from the ordinary soldier's point of view. The two volumes, here bound together in abridged form, add up to one of the most enthralling eyewitness records of regimental soldiering ever written. Although other Rifles memoirs quickly followed, none achieved the commercial or critical success of Kincaid's collection of unforgettable anecdotes.
Book Description
The real life memoirs of the man who inspired the famous "Sharpe" novels and films. The text is informative and perceptive, containing hard fact mixed with humor, and a vivid portrayal of battle in the Napoleonic Wars with one of the most famous regiments in the British army. From the seesaw campaigns in the Peninsula to the field of Waterloo, an insightful and entertaining read. This is a facsimile edition of the 1835 book with a new introduction by Ian Fletcher.
Customer Reviews:
Sparkles with verve and wit.......2000-03-12
This man is irrepresible. Another biography you have to thank the publishers for realising it was worth reprinting.
There has been a lot of interest recently in the Peninsular War - and it seems the laconic and witty officers of the 95th (later the Rifle Bridgade) were amongst the best in retelling their experiences. Perhaps it was that they were a different breed of officer - the 95th starting off as an experimental 'light' regiment, a corps established as skirmishers. They didn't fight in line, column and square and so didn't need to spend the hours on the drilling square. Instead they were encouraged to think for themselves and trained to take advantage of every piece of ground for harrassing the enemy.
And for light and witty reflections on Peninsular life, Kincaid is the master. He has a marvellous line in self-deprecating wit that you just can't help liking. For all its humour it is nor short on detail though and it is easy to take your mind back to life as they must have experienced it - at war in a foreign country 200 years ago.
A must buy!
Lively & touching personal account of early 19th c. warfare........1998-04-24
Kincaid's thoroughly entertaining account of his participation in some of the major campaigns on the Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars makes for lively, sometimes funny reading, though Kincaid never loses touch with the grim realities of warfare. His self-depricating humor, heart-felt patriotism, and sensitive reactions to death and destruction bring him to life, and makes the reader wish he/she had known him. He spends most of the book describing every-day life in Wellington's army, the hardships of traveling with an outnumbered and ill-supported force. His accounts of the battles are vivid and engaging. This work was extremely well-received at the time of its first publication, and is one of the sources for the popular Sharpe's series by Bernard Cornwell. It makes a wonderful companion book to anyone who appreciates Cornwell's ragtag officer.
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Wellington's men, some soldier autobiographies: Kincaird's "Adventures in the Rifle brigade" ;"Rifleman Harris" ; Anton's "Military life"; Mercer's "Waterloo,"
W. H Fitchett
Manufacturer: Smith, Elder & Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
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- The long lost standard for adult science fiction
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Spaceways 1 Of Alien (Spaceways Series, No. 1)
John Cleve
Manufacturer: Berkley
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0425060616 |
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The long lost standard for adult science fiction.......2000-05-17
If you're reading this review because you've never read any "Spaceways," and you have the rare opportunity to actually aquire a book from this great series, my first statement to you is "GRAD IT QUICK! " Long out of print, and highly collectible, these books are to science fiction what the equially impossible to find "Man From O.R.G.Y." series was to spy fiction, the absolute pinnacle of the genre in its ADULT form. John Cleve (aka Andy Offitt) is the first and last word on explicit, genre-specific, adult storytelling. Offitt started out ghost writing books for John Norman's "Gor" series, then followed them with his magnificent medieval adult series "Crusaders." But it's with the nineteen book epic "Spaceways" series that Offitt reaches the height of his storytelling art. The first book, "Alien Bondage" introduces the reader to just a few of the series fantastic characters (you won't meet them all until book 6! ), especially Captain Jonuta, the dashing interplanetairy space pirate who makes Han Solo look like Peter Pan, Kenowa, his lusty but insecure first mate, and Janja, the beautiful blond haired woman stolen by Jonuta from her native planet and sold into sexual slavery, who will come back to haunt him in later novels. If you have the opportunity, read them in order, for the series evolves into a storyline as complex and well developed as anything written by Larry Niven or Joe Strazinsky (Babylon 5), even containing a dictionairy at the end of each book to help the reader translate the series' abundent futuristic slang (a la' Anthony Burgess). In fact, the only thing that sets this series apart from the finest science fiction epics is that it's VERY X-RATED! If you're looking for explicit adult science fiction these are DEFINATELY the books to read. Nothing written in the fifteen years since they went out of print has bested them, and certinly nothing before, but beware, books #14-16 were NOT written by Offitt, and are not up to the series' otherwise high standards, also books 18 and 19 were published in very short print runs and tend to be by far the most difficult to find. Finally, if you like sexy feline characters, in the style of Lucianne Norman, then books #6 and #17 are a must. Book #6 "Purrfect Plunder" is my personal favorite, and in my opinion the best of the series, though fortunately, one of the easiest to find.
Book Description
The wildly popular culinary team of Hugh Carpenter and Teri Sandison prepare robustly flavored meals from the versatile wok, served in a flash—the perfect fare for weeknight cooking. With their emphasis on short ingredient lists and plenty of make-ahead tips, the recipes in WOK FAST are tailored to accomodate tight schedules, without sacrificing flavor. Dinners include Blackened Shrimp with Tangerine Garlic Essence, Crunchy Celery Chicken with Peanut Glaze, Baby Bok Choy in Spicy Garlic Sauce, and Cantonese Wild Mushroom Pasta. A delicious collection of marinades and sauces can be paired with any of the recipes, creating endless flavor variations. So grab your wok and set your table—dinner will be served in minutes!
Customer Reviews:
Wok Fast (Fast Books).......2007-08-15
The recipes for the various sauces in this cookbook are really good. This is a great beginner book for people new to wok cooking.
great book!.......2007-07-08
This book was really helpful on getting started with a wok. Great tips for cooking with a wok for any type of meal. The book really encourages you to make your own recipes and offers great tips on the proper order for cooking things. While we don't really use the recipes exactly, we draw from them to create the meals we want. I am really not into making my own sauces, so I buy pre-made sauces that are similar or just use a sauce I know I like. I have made several dishes from the book, and they have all been great! I mainly bought the book for the tips in the front, not the recipes, but overall the recipes have been great for inspiration for fun meals.
The very fact that I used the wok and this cookbook for lunch/dinner for 2 weeks and wasn't bored, tired, or frustrated at all is a sign of a great cookbook. This book is defiantely going to be a staple in the kitchen for years to come.
Not impressed.......2007-01-04
My husband bought me a wok for xmas last year. He also bought me an incredible cook book on Thai cooking that is truly wonderful but a bit time consuming. I wanted a cookbook that teaches some basic recipes for simple and tasty stir fry without too many weird ingredients. This seemed like a good choice. Sadly, I haven't liked a single recipe that we've tried. The sauces are often too sweet and most seem to have a similar taste. I thought it might be the sherry that is often called for, but even after trying a sauce without the sherry I was disappointed with the flavor (very bland). There is nothing worse than cutting up tons of good quality meat and vegetables only to have them wasted in a poor tasting sauce! I do appreciate some of the tips in the beginning of the book, but beyond that I have nothing positive to say.
Better than a Chinese Restaurant.......2005-08-18
True story: Frustrated by a lack of quality Chinese cuisine in my new neighborhood, I ordered this book. I read through it on a Saturday afternoon, and by early that evening, after a quick trip to the supermarket's international section (the book includes detailed instructions on the key spices and such to buy), was home cooking dinner for ten people. The three recipes I selected (one shrimp, one beef, one chicken) were fast and easy to prepare, and were loved by all. And the food was fresher and higher quality than any of the restaurants I'll never return to.
Wow! My book shows wearout faster than other cookbooks!.......2004-03-11
This is best WOK cookbook I ever have! This book gives me "100" ways to make a dinner. You just need to set up with different bottles of sauces, vinegar, etc., then you are ready in no time with any meats or veggies. I like the most is to clean up my refridger, especially the veggie drawers. If I see the vegetables are on verge to get spoiled, I take them and cook up with thawed frozen meats. We always are suprised with how the dinner comes out!
About WOK pan, yeah, it is true that Carpenter suggests one with long handle. I have a short handles one I received as free thru Chef's Catalog. I almost burned myself with this cuz it's very speedy cooking with this WOK FAST. My husband gave me a Calphalon Anodized Wok with long handle last Christmas. It is very comfy to cook with and no needs to use hot pads. One funny thing is about rice. I have to set up and cook rice in the rice cooker or pressure cooker 5-10minutes before I start cooking the wok dinner OR we will have dinner ready while waiting for rice to be done.
I already ordered Hot Pasta and Hot Chicken. I will see if they are the same with this book.
If you like to spice up your life with dinners, GO for this book!
Book Description
The wok is easily the most versatile cooking vessel ever invented. Its one-pan approach saves time and trouble—and makes clean-up simpler, too. But what gives woks their worldwide popularity is the unbeatable food they produce—as these 365 luscious dishes so richly prove. Wok-steamed fish delivers more taste, and wok-fried vegetables preserve more of their nutritional value than other methods. Better still, each of these tempting curries, stir-fries, and soups can be prepared in minutes. The lavishly illustrated recipes include green vegetable curry and spiced noodles, mussels in tomato broth, Hoisin duck with pancakes, and sesame and tahini spinach, and represent a range of great cuisines from Chinese and Indian to Thai, Vietnamese, and Japanese.
Customer Reviews:
Wok 101.......2007-02-14
Very easy to understand and a variety of recipies. I bought one for one son and this one is for the other. If you want to make your Wok cooking sucessful, start with this book and you won't be disappointed. Binding makes it perfect for laying on the countertop (pages stay open)and easy to read your favorites, or maybe a "new" one to try. Lots of them to choose from.
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- great intro to oriental cooking
- A Flash of Delight In its Own Right
- Easy to follow, great recipes, generously pictured
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A Flash in the Pan: 100 Fast and Furious Recipes for Wok and Stir-Fry
Shirley Gill , and
Liz Trigg
Manufacturer: Lorenz Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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Special Appliances
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| Quick & Easy
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Wok Fast (Fast Books)
ASIN: 1859674801 |
Book Description
Stir-frying is an ancient cooking technique with origins in the Far East, but its popularity has spread throughout the world and its benefits are thoroughly modern. With this Comprehensive book in hand, home cooks can assemble and cook delicious dishes in minutes, using very little oil, meaning ingredients lose almost no nutritional value and are astonishingly love in fat. Recipes such as Beef Sukiyaki, Duck and Ginger Shop Suey and Stir-fried Turkey with Sage can be prepared in an authentic wok or pan with a heavy base and are uniformly fast, healthy and satisfying.
Customer Reviews:
great intro to oriental cooking.......2003-01-24
I have purchased this book a few years ago after a few not too successful attempts at oriental-style cooking.
The book is wonderful in the fact that it covers techniques, gives tips and explains main details of stir-fry and wok cooking for people who are not necessarily great chefs and/or have not learned oriental cooking in their mother's kitchen. It is also important that it gives recipes from all over the Orient, and does not concentrate on just one cuisine, allowing for variety that was very enticing to me, as a beginner home chef at the time.
The recipes are wonderful, easy to prepare, and very satisfying to both, eyes and palate. The dishes lend themselves to presentation at casual dinners or luncheons with friends, or an intimate dinner with a significant other (cooking these together is a lot of fun!). The book is written for the average person, and does not contain strange uneplained terminology or unexplained names of styles that confounded the younger me in many more "serious" cookbooks.
I would definitely recommend this to anyone who would like to learn the basics (and more!) of oriental cooking without specializing into one cuisine. If you are already a pro, this book can still provide plenty of ideas and inspiration.
A Flash of Delight In its Own Right.......2001-02-13
This is my most favorite stir-fry cookbook. I love the way this book is organized. It is wonderful to have the introduction chapter address equipment, fresh produce, herbs and spices, flavoring ingredients, and techniques for preparation and frying. The step by step food preparation guides are helpful and the color photographs are beautiful. This presentation makes it easier for anyone who may be new to wok cooking and helpful for long-timers. There is a beautiful full-colored photograph for each dish. If you love stir fry recipes and wok cooking that has a strong essence of imagination, great taste, a sundry of uses (casual and for company) this is a "must have" for your collection. Enjoy, you will not be sorry!!! Great job Shirley and Liz!!!
Easy to follow, great recipes, generously pictured.......1999-07-23
Offers lots of recipes with ingredients and spices the novice in Asian cuisine never felt tempted to try. This book introduces techniques and ingredients in recipes. It entices you to try at home what you did not want to ask in a restaurant, the 'How did you do THAT?'. The recipes range from quick starters (Salmon in Teriaky, 3 minutes) to full blown menus that may take up to an hour of your time and needs to be prepared a day in advance. My mother loved it at first sight and even more after a thorough review. Now I am trying to get a copy, because I gave her mine and she is asking for four other copies, because her guests want copies, too.
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Hardcover and Paperback.......2007-09-08
This book apparently comes in both hardcover and paperback editions, with the same ISBN. Check listings or ask Seller before ordering.
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Fast and Easy Oriental Wok Cooking
Jacqueline Heriteau
Manufacturer: Plume
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0452259851 |
Customer Reviews:
wok cooking.......2007-04-19
Recipes include sour-and-hot soup, egg drop soup, bird's nest soup, india omelet, chicken cakes, canton, vinegared rice, japan, lo mein with vegetables, transparent noodles and shrimp, shrimp with vegetables, steamed sea bass, scallops with peppers, little fried fish, chop suey chimney hill, chicken with tiger lillies, ginger beef and much more. 150 recipes from China, India, Japan, Java, Malaya, Thailand, Vietnam.
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Oriental cooking the fast wok way
Jacqueline Heriteau
Manufacturer: Hawthorn Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
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ASIN: B0006C5JUI |
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