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atkinson grimshaw.......2007-05-13
it has enough information and the images are good, but there is rather almost 50% in black and white, but those that there are in color they compensate by its beauty in dealing with the subject nocturnal painting, surpluses of getting late, reflections and light of moon.
Exceptional Biography and Pictures.......2000-07-06
This book is as informative as it is beautiful. The author has done a great job researching Grimshaw's life. He also tracked down about 100 of Grimshaw's works. It's a great compilation.
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Now in its fourth edition, Electricity and Controls for HVAC/R equips readers with the information needed to work effectively with all types of motors and control devices found in the heating and air conditioning industry. Prior knowledge of electricity is not required as this book begins with discussion of essential basic electricity and electrical circuits concepts. Numerous schematic diagrams, plus step-by-step troubleshooting procedures, are included to acquaint readers with all of the different types of circuits commonly encountered in the HVAC-R field. With an eimphasis on electrical safety, plus an all-new troubleshooting unit, this edition of Electricity and Controls for HVAC/R also features expanded information on thermostats, short cycle timers, heat pressure controls for refrigeration, variable frequency drives, and more!
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text book.......2007-01-17
This is a book for students. Some fairley good information, has quizes after each chapter. Useful infermation
THE HVAC DA VINCI CODE.......2007-01-04
wow this is the book buy it now. look at a part/component in the field and look it up in the book read the short and clear chapter and move on to greatness. this book is well worn and scribbeled in! did i say buy this book?
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Garth Ennis Unleashed! John McCrea Unrestrained! Two of comics' most popular creators weave a strange tale of two jaunty friends and their mad escapades. See what these crazy fellas will do for a beer or even a laugh. If you thought Preacher was outrageous and Hitman was gratuitous, then wait until you see Dicks! Graphic Novel, fully illustrated in black and white.
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Demented and delirious.......2007-08-19
It's no secret that Garth Ennis (Preacher, Punisher, Hitman, The Boys) has never been the most subtle when it comes to sick and twisted humor, and Dicks has it in spades. Dicks tells the incredibly vulgar adventures of wanna-be private detectives Ivor and Dougie: two Northern Ireland natives who hang with a motley crew and get themselves into all kinds of mayhem. Naturally, there is much vulgarity and release of bodily fluids, as any reader of Ennis would come to expect. Avatar Comics truly lets Ennis and artist John McCrea go wild with no restraints whatsoever. At the end of every issue, we are treated to single to double page spreads involving certain moments in history, and a charming girl named "Trio". Ennis knows how to shock and amuse at the same time, but there are plenty of times when it just feels like too much being thrown at the reader. This is helped by the black and white artwork of his longtime collaborator John McCrea, who manages to do his work free of consequence or restraint as well. As you can tell by now, Dicks is not for all tastes to be sure, and even some fans of Ennis' more sophisticated work may find this TPB to be too much as well. Despite that though, Dicks is a wonderful celebration of the uncensored comic form, from one of the most notably darkly humerous writers to ever grace the comic book medium.
If You Get Offended By This Book, Your DICKS.......2004-12-05
This is one of the wildest books I have ever read...EVER. I don't think I've ever read so many occurances of the "f" word, or laughed so hard, or out load, doing it. To say the content in this book is for mature readers is both true and false. I think it would be better to say: "for immature mature readers."
Dicks is the story of two lads from Belfast, Dougie and Ivor. After accidently killing his Uncle Shuggie, Ivor inherits his house, along with his problems. Mainly an order for moonshine to a mobster. Finding his uncle's recipe, he fills the order, and the mobster decides to continue buisness with Ivor. Needless, to say Shuggie's ghost, who shows up from time to time just to yell and curse, is not pleased.
Dougie moves in with Ivor after leaving his wife. Aside from the moonshine, Ivor gets it in his noggin that he wants to start a private detective buisness. They shall be called "The Dicks."
Dougie doesn't think this is such great idea, bringing up the point they have no experience, and they don't know how to find a case. Well, this is easily solved by way of a man at the front door with a knife in his back. He instructs our heros of secret meeting and dies.
At the meeting our heros stumple across a drug deal with THEM ending up with it. Ivor comes up with the idea to sell the drugs to the mobster, instead of the moonshine, not knowing they were the mobster's to begin with.
It should be noted that a good ninty percent of this book is written so that the characters speek in an Irish dialect, but it just adds to the charm. You quickly get accustomed to it. If there's something you don't understand, look in the back, a glossery is provided, along with probably the sickest pictures in the book.
This is definatly not a book for anyone who gets offended easily, or even not so easily. You have to just keep reminding yourself: "IT'S JUST A JOKE!" If it's true that everyone has a limit, "Dicks" aims to find it: either with the language, the art, "The History of Wanking," or maybe even with "Trio:The F-ing Whore" who can't help but take on three guys at once.
Yest, it is over the top. Yes, it is dis-tasteful. Yes, it is crude and vulgar...BUT THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT! It tries to find every button it can, and like that annoying little kid at the elevator, it just keeps pressing that button. I've never been a fan of the term "pushing the envelope," but this, my friends completely sherds and spits on it.
On the back of the book it says that this guarentees it's creaters Garth Ennis and John McCrea (The team that brought us Hitman from DC Comics) a place in hell, and if you read it you'll be sent there too. Well...I've read it, I loved it, I hope theres more some day. If that condems me to burn in a lake of fire, then I hope I get to meet those two.
The sideshows far outshine the main event.......2004-08-27
PLEASE NOTE: This TPB contains quite a bit of naughty language, psyche-scarring sexual situations that leave nothing to the reader's imagination, and cartoonish, over-the-top ultraviolence that makes the films of Quentin Tarantino look downright tame. This booger is DEFINITELY for adult readers only!
On with the review...
Some time back the owner of the local comic shop I frequent threw this into my saver box as a recommended book. He figured that, since I was generally into the four-color scribings of Garth Ennis, I'd likely also dig this collection of bizarre situations and over-the-top dark humor from the mad Irishman and his 'Hitman' cohort, artist John McCrea. Unfortunately, I found the misadventures of the two titular pub-hoppers goin' 'round Dublin (or was it in Belfast, Northern Ireland? I forget...), gettin' into all sorts'a weird jams and raising a general ruckus a little TOO strange and over-the-top for my tastes. Maybe I'm not Irish enough to appreciate it, who knows. And it didn't help that McCrea decided to make the artwork ludicrously cartoonish, which-- despite the fact it gave this weird comic the proper look and atmosphere to a degree-- didn't look nearly as professional nor as carefully drawn as the renderings he did for 'Hitman'.
On the upside, Ennis & McCrea threw in several mini-adventures that I got some good laughs out of. One set of three-page shenanigans involves "Trio the (eff)in' Whore", whose very presence seems to cause men to lose all control of their libidos. I never thought I'd find the term "bacon flaps" funny until I read the Trio shorts.
Hee hee... "bacon flaps"...
See what I mean?
Then there's the "worst idea ever for a comic book superhero", The Aborter™. With aspirator in hand he flies around the big city on his never-ending mission to terminate the unwanted unborn, as well as put those pesky pro-lifers in their place. The Aborter's adventures usually end with the sudden destruction of the offices of the comic book's publisher. Which just goes to show that The Aborter might not be ready for his very own solo title just yet...
Bottom line: If you're looking for a truly funny funnybook written by Mr. Ennis that has all the ludicrously strange predicaments and hilariously horrific blood-and-guts that you've come to expect from the man... well, I suggest you check out 'Adventures in The Rifle Brigade' (www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1401203531/qid=1093554258/sr=1-44/ref=sr_1_44/103-1978159-0347843?v=glance&s=books) instead of this mass of confusion. Although `Rifle Brigade' isn't quite as sick or twisted as `D!cks' is, it is easier to follow, and funnier.
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Sick does not even begin to describe this tale..........2004-06-01
... of two Northern Irish reprobates, Dougie and Ivor, who decide to become (hopeless) private detectives, and along with their friends Willy, Spence and Wanker, get into a hell of a lot more trouble than they bargained for, thanks to their acquaintance Big Billy, a mysterious man called Bell, and Ivor's ex-uncle (I say ex-uncle because he appears as a ghost... but you can find the details out for yourself).
I've never seen a comic so depraved. Then again, I've never seen a comic so funny! Excellent stuff, but definitely NOT for the easily offended.
fun and wicked!.......2000-10-21
garth ennis rocks!no other author,except neil gaimen and john irving,makes me feel all giddy inside when i read their books.ennis is hilarious and very creative when he comes up with jokes. read this wacked out tale of two best friends and explore the zaniness of ennis' world.
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- frankly not worth reading
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Frankly, My Dear (Timeswept)
Sandra Hill
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Sandra Hill is an author to watch. Her innovative romances are some of the hottest and sassiest on the market. And her hilariously funny time-travel romances are cutting edge; they're always just a little too racy, raunchy, wild, and funny. If you haven't read Gone with the Wind or seen the movie, you will still laugh out loud at this half take-off, half homage to one of America's greatest love stories. Sandra Selente ("Selene") is a supermodel whose favorite movie of all time is Gone with the Wind. When she finds herself transported back in time to the old South, Selene's only point of reference is the movie. She quickly learns she is not cut out to be a Southern belle. When James Baptiste rescues her, she declares him to be her very own Rhett--until she discovers he has a penchant for blondes. Thank goodness that for Selene "tomorrow is another day."
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frankly not worth reading.......2006-06-18
The heroine gets on the bad side of a voudine and is sent by curse back into the pre civil war south where she is mistaken for a Quadroon, a light skinned woman of color.
The plot is boring even dragging. The characters are two dimensional. And when it comes to period this book does the job badly. The authress should have done better research. It gives the reader hardly any feel of romance and nothing of what life for quadroons was like. Not a feel of the Quadroon balls where they saught white protectors among the southern elite to become their concubines nor the slave market where they were sold as Fancy Girls. It does not even give us anything of the relationships of these women even though their exoticness gave them the reputatation of being the most beutiful women of the south.
Better reading would be The Quadroon by Mayne Reid written before the civil war or Old Creole Days by George W. Cable written after the civil war.
Supermodel Goes Back in Time to Pre-Civil War Louisiana Bayou.......2006-04-05
So far, I've read three romances by Sandra Hill, all which I found funny and endearing. However, this book, FRANKLY, MY DEAR, is my least favorite of the three, mostly because I thought it cheesy. Entertaining, but cheesy.
Inspired by "Gone with the Wind," FRANKLY, MY DEAR is a time-travel in which a supermodel from 1996 named Selene is swept back in time to New Orleans circa 1845 by a voodoo curse. At first, she is mistaken for a quadroon (and then a runaway slave), but is saved by handsome James Baptiste, a plantation owner who grudgingly employs her as the governess for his young soon, Etienne. James is no Rhett Butler; at first, he is unbelievably overbearing and rude, but the two quickly fall in love, despite their differences and the fact that Selene intends to return to her own time.
What I enjoyed most about this book was its humor and the repartee between James and Selene, especially at the beginning, when she'd just arrived in the past and was trying to adjust to a backwards culture.
What I enjoyed least was its predictability (the identity of the murderous ghost was pretty much given away at the beginning) and its easy-outs. Almost from the start, Selene learns how to return to her own time, so there is no conflict there. She is also sent back in time with her make-up kit (rather convienently, I might add), which provides the answers to everything.
There were also some characterization issues that bugged me a bit. Etienne seemed too mature for a 5-year old, unrealistically so. Also, there were some things that James did that bothered me immensely, including the scene with the prostitute. Unlike Selene, I was not turned on by this. Turned off, is more like it. Yuck.
Anyway, for all its faults, I still found the book entertaining and easy to read. I also enjoyed the descriptions of life in the Louisiana bayou, and enjoyed being taken back in time to a land of voodoo, mint juleps, and snarly alligators. It sure beats reading about the ton.
Oh, I also learned that there are two time-travel romances related to this one by Sandra Hill. SWEETER SAVAGE LOVE is about Etienne all grown-up and DESPERADO is about the mysterious couple that appears in Selene and James' epilogue.
Gone with the Wind, it ain't.......2006-01-15
I read this one over last summer, and I was very enthusiastic to do so. I wanted, so badly, to like this book. But it just wasn't to be.
The things that stuck out in my mind as things that highly annoyed me, was:
1. The heroine. Never have I read about any heroine crying anywhere nearly as much as she does. She is truly the 'watering pot' of the book! She'd have guts to get things done one minute,
then be sobbing wildly about something, some slight, the next!
Drove me bonkers!
2. The hero. Yuck! I never really felt he cared that much about her, really. I just felt like he took her for granted and
took advantage of her upon occassion. I had no really caring for this man at all. And to think, she wasted all those tears on this jerk!
Well, there you have it. Though the time travel aspect was interesting (the reason this book gets 2 stars & not 1), it just was not enough to save this stinker.
Superior time travels:
The Bushwacked Groom by Eugenia Riley (or any time travel by her)
A Perfect Love by Sandra Landry
Enchanted Time by Amy Elizabeth Saunders
I'm not sure what the wide appeal of Sandra Hill's books is suppossed to be, but if the others are anything like this one,
why bother?
1-10 scale: 3.0 find something worthwhile to do like watching the grass grow. It would be more productive!
Stars: Only 2, and that's only because it wasn't totally without merit, but mostly!
Best Yet !!.......2005-03-24
I loved this book and have read it over 3 times.. Sandra Hill knows how to add the right mixture of sassy sayings and fun in her books. I will never get tired of her books she is an Auto- buy for me.. I highly recommend this book to all who love a great time travel and alot of laughs..
GREAT!! FUNNY, WONDERFUL.......2003-12-30
I love Sandra Hill and this book is one of her best. I can not believe that some people did not love this story. The combination of the humor mixed with romance makes it one of the most enjoyable books I ever read. I did laugh out loud in parts, the characters are great and the story interesting. i highly recommend.
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A book to revel in.......1999-05-16
A wonderful book that brings all the magic of the movie to life. The picures are beautiful and it is good to see some that never appeared in the finished film. It is truly a book to be enjoyed by those who love this epic film. One can reread it and every time find fresh enjoyment.
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It’s a collection of the funniest, most acerbic, most insulting lines ever uttered by the wits of the film industry—as well as by equally witty outsiders whose opinions of Hollywood are usually less than flattering. Clint Eastwood once described the movie capital succinctly: “If I lived there, I’d move.” But many quotations say less about Hollywood than about the people who happened to be passing through. For instance, a brief conversation between Clark Gable and Nobel-prize-winning novelist William Faulkner went as follows: “Do you write, Mr. Faulkner?” “Yes, Mr. Gable. What do you do?” And Bette Davis, in one of her bitchier moments is known to have said: “I always admire Katharine Hepburn’s cheekbones. More than her films.” With sound bites overheard from the earliest Hollywood celebrities, and extending to Woody Allen, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and many others on today’s scene, Frankly, My Dear documents filmdom’s declarations of envy, greed, talent, pomposity—and most of all, humor. Or as George Burns once said, “The most important thing in acting is sincerity. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” Includes 12 pages of black-and-white photos from famous films that include Gone With the Wind, The Godfather, On the Waterfront, The Wizard of Oz, The Terminator, A Few Good Men, and others.
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Hilarious descriptions and observations........2006-04-20
Fans of Hollywood will relish FRANKLY, MY DEAR: QUIPS AND QUOTES FROM HOLLYWOOD. It's a light-hearted look at the Hollywood language which has steeped past the screen and into everyday life. Reflections by George Burns, Ingrid Bergman, Michael Caine and more involved in Hollywood productions make for a fun gathering of some of the most insulting, scathing and hilarious descriptions and observations on screen. Quotes from all eras and all walks of Hollywood life, from actors to directors and observers, make for a lively collection.
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A Fun Book.......2004-01-21
I found this book quite amusing, it is full of interesting stories and quotes, but it got slightly boring as it neared the end. All in all a good purchase.
Frankliy my Dear.......2000-04-11
This book was a surprising book. I use the combacks to people that are rude to me. I use the insults for anyone. It is a pretty good book and I'd recomend it to anyone who has trouble standing up to bullies. This book also made me laugh all over. Read it today!
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Who said that? What movie is that from? Wow isn't that the truth!? This book is full of funny, clever and thought- provoking quotes.
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Fantastic!!!.......2003-09-24
It has been a long time since I read such an enjoyable book. Instead of just familiar lines that don't stand on their own, the book is, as the authors say, full of funny or thought provoking quips. This book covers a wide range of movies, ie. the 30s to the present day. For its low price, there is no better gift for family and friends. I highly recommend this book. Buy it and have fun!!
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Jeff Bloch writes in the introduction to this tome that "Frankly, My Dear is a celebration of women in their best moments in the movies--their brilliance, their wit, their guts and passion, their sadness, even their tragedy." Though this book of quotations was compiled by a man and sports a title line of Clark Gable's, readers will find plenty of zingers here delivered by women. No volume of this kind would be complete without Helen Broderick's "the only difference in men is the color of their neckties" (Top Hat, 1935), Kathleen Turner's "you're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man" (Body Heat, 1981) or Madeline Kahn's "is that a ten-gallon hat--or are you just enjoying the show?" (Blazing Saddles, 1974). But that's just for starters. Readers can expand their repertoire to include some of the hundreds of queries, ripostes, jabs, and jests that promise to spice up any occasion, as well as some pretty stiff ammunition for those still-all-too-frequent times when the, er, fairer sex needs defending. --Raphael Shargel
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Title: Rogue...light? Oddly named crossover capable, attractive, but frankly, my dear, it's no Clark Gable; Oddly named crossover capable, attractive, but frankly, my dear, it's no Clark Gable.(Autos - Reviews)
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