Customer Reviews:
The Final Draft.......2005-11-25
If you loved THE ENGLISH PATIENT, then you'll probably appreciate reading the screenplay. It matches the film so this is either the final draft or it's more of a transcript of the final cut of the film.
If you're really interested in seeing how it originally read, you can look for the "Revised Draft: 28th August, 1995" version at screenplay websites and read it there. It's obviously an earlier draft with some interesting scenes and sequences that didn't make it into the film.
For example, the order of some scenes have changed. A pompous rival named Fenelon-Barnes who insists on riding camels to explore (and keeps a young sex slave girl tied up in his tent) is cut. There is also an interesting scene where an enraged Kip draws down on the Patient with a rifle after hearing about the Hiroshima blast.
The published version is the film you see. Both are worth reading if you're interested in how Anthony Minghella adapted the novel. Or if you just loved that movie.
the screenplay.......2002-02-23
If you love movies and writing than the screenplay is an interesting companion to the movie and book. Read along to the movie or figure out what a character really said, you can take this along with you anytime and enjoy the movie all over again. Filled with photos from the film and comments by Minghella, Zaentz, and Ondaatje, this is an excellent addition to your English Patient collection.
carefully crafted masterpiece.......2000-05-14
Anthony Minghella has re-created one of the most remarkable screenplays of our time by giving a new dimension to the original work. It is more concise, but has kept the essence of the novel. It portrays a journey of several people; Hana, Kip, Caravaggio and Almasy who met each other perhaps by chance. But Minghella's work is not an outcome of a mere chance, but a carefully crafted masterpiece like the novel it is based on.
If you have enjoyed the book and the film, then you must somehow other read the screenplay to better understand and appreciate both the book and the film. I have read it over five times and will read it again and perhaps again!
In the words of Almasy: "A Good Read.".......2000-04-13
Although it is different from the original novel, this screenplay does round out the film quite well. The intense feelings of the characters are conveyed very well through the script. However, I have a feeling that this book only appeared as a result of the massive publicity given the movie. I recommend watching the film prior to reading this, or perhaps reading it while watching the film. Whatever you do, enjoy it!
A Love Only a Movie Can Give.......2000-01-04
Unlike most, I find this book intriging; something only a movie can provide. I've read the book The English Patient and have to say I like this much better. When I first saw the movive I instantly fell in love with it. It's about a man who is burned in a plain shot down by Germans in WW2. He is marked "English Patient" by the hospital caravans. Through his long journey he has flash backs of his life with Katherine; of his intimate and intense affair with the only woman he has ever loved. The one problem is, she is married. He carries with him always his book, The Histories, by Herodotus, the father of history. Through reading The Histories, and hearing the people around him speaking, bringing back memeories of a life he wants no one to know about, he finally reveals the sad and tragic end to his love that will make you wet the pages with your tears. I recomend this for all hopeless romantics. But, before you read the screenplay watch the movie. It will bring tears to your eyes even more seeing the actors playing the scenes out in your mind. Love, passion and tragic death. Great combinations!
Customer Reviews:
Obsessive Love is a great read!! .......2007-09-09
The award winning movie did not begin to do justice to this book. Part of a triology about French Canadians, The English Patient is simply one of the most compelling and spell binding novels I have ever had the pleasure to read. I do not like the parts concerning Hana the nurse, Kip the sapper and Carravagio the thief as I think it takes away from the central story. The way the novel is constructed I was able to literally remove all the parts that did not center around the Hungarian desert explorer Count Lazlo Almazy and his married lover, Catherine Clifton.
The brilliant, music loving but anti-social Almazy is the title character, the English Patient, so-called because he is horribly burned in an airplane crash and ends up in a British hospital where he refuses to reveal his identity. A skilled linguist, they think he is one of them. The chapter where Almazy falls in flames from his plane into the desert and is rescued and treated by Beoudins is probably the most original event I have ever read. His visage of grass haunts me to this day.
Author Michael Ondaatie weaves a spellbinding tale of the rememberance of adulterous love and the horrors of WWII. Alternating between a villa in war torn Italy and the North African in the 1930s, the author reveals his arcane and wonderful knowledge about the Great Silk Road; the Florentine Madonnas; various desert winds and the great Jango Reinhart. Stick with the hard to follow plot lines because it is all here-pedophilia, homosexuality, necrophilia, drug addiction, murder and a love story so compelling and so tragic you actually pity these fictional characters. Poor Almazy is a man who has fasted until he finds what he wants and when he finally secumbs to love with a married woman, he is a man possessed.
Literature doesn't get better than this.......2000-10-27
I read Anthony Minghella's sublime, lyrical novel some time after seeing the Oscar-winning movie and I was struck by the seamless similarities in both genres. The novel has a dream-like quality as it shifts in time back and forth, sifting through the memories of the dying patient and the other inhabitants of the Villa San Girolamo. The cinematography of the movie has the same fluid continuity, no mean feat when one considers how difficult it is to keep a story flowing with constant flashbacks. The film of The English Patient was described by one reviewer as almost film noir. Well, the book is novel noir. This not a romp, it's intricately multi-layered and intended to be savoured.
The story is based in the abandoned villa on a hilltop in central Italy. It is 1944 and the Allies are advancing yet the scent of victory is overwhelmed by accumulated shell shock. The central characters in the villa: Hungarian Count Lazlo de Almasy, Canadian nurse Hana, the Indian sapper Kip and the thief Caravaggio are all burned out by war and in de Almasy's case, literally and mortally burned. Hana is nursing her mysterious dying patient who gradually details his life as an explorer in the desert of northern Africa and reveals his doomed, magnificant, obsessive, life-altering love affair with Katherine Clifton, an English rose with the tenaciousness of a lioness. Hana, who has lost everyone she dared to love, tries to insulate herself from the world but in the presence of Kip and the less noble Caravaggio, she reaches out once again. This is a story of love's expectations, and the shifting loyalties of friends, family and nations in times of war, of deadly betrayals and being rescued by strangers, of healing wounds and preparing for death. In short, all the stuff top class literature is made of and, strangely, pretty much what happens around us every day although the settings might not be as exotic.
Minghella has constructed a vast canvas of human experience, yet he does not waste a word. He peels away the exterior visage of his characters to reveal their joy and pain with an exquisitely bare, poetic use of language. The consequences of their lives remained with me long after I had put the book down. I pick up The English Patient from time to time and the magic is always there.
Brilliantly moving and dynamic.......2000-07-01
This is the first screeenplay i've read and i understood it clearly. In regards to the books content i was in tears by the end and it pushed me to buy the film after i read it. A must for any shelf.
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October 1994 draft
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Virtual Music is about artificial creativity. Focusing on the author's Experiments in Musical Intelligence computer music composing program, the author and a distinguished group of experts discuss many of the issues surrounding the program, including artificial intelligence, music cognition, and aesthetics.
The book is divided into four parts. The first part provides a historical background to Experiments in Musical Intelligence, including examples of historical antecedents, followed by an overview of the program by Douglas Hofstadter. The second part follows the composition of an Experiments in Musical Intelligence work, from the creation of a database to the completion of a new work in the style of Mozart. It includes, in sophisticated lay terms, relatively detailed explanations of how each step in the process contributes to the final composition. The third part consists of perspectives and analyses by Jonathan Berger, Daniel Dennett, Bernard Greenberg, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Steve Larson, and Eleanor Selfridge-Field. The fourth part presents the author's responses to these commentaries, as well as his thoughts on the implications of artificial creativity.
The book (and corresponding Web site) includes an appendix providing extended musical examples referred to and discussed in the book, including composers such as Scarlatti, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Puccini, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Debussy, Bartok, and others. It is also accompanied by a CD containing performances of the music in the text.
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A fascinating overview of machine musicanship.......2004-07-19
This book gives a fascinating overview of machine music as seen through the eyes of the author, who has been actively involved in this field for many years. The reading of this book is recommended for anyone who is interested in the extent of machine musicianship and musical creativity. Not being an expert in music theory should not dissuade one from its perusal. In fact, not possessing extensive knowledge of musical theory may be an advantage, in that one can read the passages and listen to the musical compositions on the accompanying CD with minimal bias as to what constitutes enjoyable or "good" music. Indeed, if one were to approach musical listening, musical composition, and music theory from the standpoint of being exposed only to `virtual music', what would one then think of music composed solely by humans? Would one then judge "machine music" to be better than "human music"? As virtual music becomes more integrated into entire knowledge base of music, as it will in this century, there will be many who will be exposed to it more often than human-composed music. It will come to be accepted as beautiful music to listen to, and debates as to its "authenticity" will disappear. Even more interesting is the question as to what musical preferences the machines themselves will have. Will they debate among themselves about music theory and what constitutes compositional excellence? It will be interesting to see what kinds of music theory are generated (or preferred) by these machines, and if they are as biased to certain forms of music as their human musician counterparts frequently are.
The author characterizes `virtual music' as being a category of machine-created composition that attempts to replicate the style of existing music. He points out that virtual music has predated the advent of computing machines, but that these machines have allowed, at a much larger scale, the composition of music in a pre-selected style. Early instances of virtual music discussed in the book include the `figured bass' of the Baroque period, wherein composers could produce music that adhered to a particular composer style but would still be original. Another (fascinating) example is the `Musikalisches Wurfelspiel', or "musical dice game" of the eighteenth-century. To obtain a composition, one constructs a matrix, with rows representing the results of the throw of dice, and the columns representing successive measures of music. To get a measure of music, the dice are tossed, and from the result in the correct row the measure is obtained from the column. Also mentioned is the work of Iannis Xenadis, which uses mathematical models to compose music, and the work of Kemal Ebcioglu, which uses first-order predicate calculus to create chorales in the style of J.S. Bach. In addition, the author mentions the work of Dominik Hornel and Wolfram Menzel, who make use of neural networks to create music with stylistic similarities to composers of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Early in the book, the author introduces what he calls "The Game" in order to warm the reader up to his study of virtual music. This game requires the reader to identify styles and composers of various examples of music, the notations of which are included in the book, and the actual music on the accompanying book. One of the objects of "The Game" is to be able to distinguish human-composed music from machine-composed music. Another goal of "The Game" is to determine not only which works are human-composed but also which ones (they are chorales) best follow the style of J.S. Bach. The third goal is to see whether four mazurkas are really in the style of Frederic Chopin. Players are scored according to their answers, and the author quotes a statistic with large groups of listeners between 40 and 60 percent on the average. The author notes that experts in musicology have failed to recognize many of the machine music examples.
For the philosophy-oriented reader, a debate between Douglas Hofstadter and the author is included in the book. It is the opinion of this reviewer that such debates do not add too much to the field of artificial intelligence, and that those who are involved in this field should declare a moratorium on philosophical debate, and instead spend their time on creating better thinking machines. Philosophical debate is best left to those who like to indulge in it: the philosophers. There are many like Hofstadter who do not want to accept the musical creativity and abilities of the machines. Convincing these individuals of these abilities is typically difficult, and requires large expenditures of time. This time is better spent on the development of more sophisticated musical machines.
There are many interesting discussions in this book, too many to be reviewed here in the space allotted. One of the most fascinating of all the topics is the author's discussion on musical patterns. He believes these patterns are critical to the recognition of musical style, and therefore designates these patterns as "signatures". These signatures are contiguous note patterns that recur in at least two works of the works of a composer, and are found by using pattern-matching algorithms from artificial intelligence. Interesting in this context is the use of what the author calls "controllers", which allow variations of patterns to count as matches. As the name implies, these controllers may be set by users or by the machine itself.
Besides signatures, "earmarks" are another device used by the author to do pattern-matching in musical compositions. Earmarks are a kind of measure of the "inevitability" in some musical works. The machines analyze the music in their databases for earmarks and then make sure that these are not placed in inappropriate locations in the scores or omitted entirely. The author views them as "principles rather than data", and so a pattern-matching algorithm that finds them must return an "abstraction" representing the type of material used rather than actual musical events. Detecting earmarks can be very difficult says the author. More research is needed.
Not much difference from previous books by the author.......2003-10-26
Mr Cope's work is fantastic. But as a reader of his previous books - from another publisher (A-R Editions) - I was rather disappointed with this one: it does not add much new content to the subject. If you have his other books, there is no point in buying this one.
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BradyGames Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001 Official Fighter's Guide features coverage of all characters including the new and hidden characters and the two bosses. Comprehensive lists of each fighter's moves, combos, and profiles are included, plus game secrets are revealed!
Customer Reviews:
Wow! This guide is awesome!.......2001-12-05
Not only does this guide have tons of strategy for each and every character, but it also has several pages of artwork that is just gorgeous! Definately pick up this guide if you are a fighting game fanatic!!
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John J. Murphy has now updated his landmark bestseller Technical Analysis of the Futures Markets, to include all of the financial markets.
"If one could read only one book on technical analysis, this should be the one." --Knight-Ridder Financial Products and News (on the first edition, Technical Analysis of the Futures Markets, 0-13-898008-X)
This outstanding reference has already taught thousands of traders the concepts of technical analysis and their application in the futures and stock markets. Covering the latest developments in computer technology, technical tools, and indicators, the second edition features new material on candlestick charting, intermarket relationships, stocks and stock rotation, plus state-of-the-art examples and figures. From how to read charts to understanding indicators and the crucial role technical analysis plays in investing, readers gain a thorough and accessible overview of the field of technical analysis, with a special emphasis on futures markets. Revised and expanded for the demands of today's financial world, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in tracking and analyzing market behavior.
"One way to get started in technical analysis is to read a good book on the subject. One of my favorites is Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Trading Methods and Applications by John J. Murphy. It's an easy read." Ralph J. Acampora, CMT, Managing Director, Prudential Securities Inc.
Customer Reviews:
Reference.......2007-08-13
If you use the charts to look for trades, you have to buy this book. It's an awesome reference for charting.
Good Even for a Random Walker.......2007-07-22
This book is a very well written introduction to the Technical Analysis of the financial markets. It covers a lot of ground and for a text book style layout, it is surprisingly easy to read. Murphy starts with a solid introduction including the philosophy of technical analysis and a defense against the criticisms from academics and followers of the Random Walk Theory. The meat of the book is a comprehensive treatment of the core components of technical analysis including Trendlines, Reversal and Continuation Patterns, Moving Averages, and Oscillators. The author continues to dig deeper with Point & Figure Charts, Japanese Candlesticks, and Eliott Wave Theory.
As a big fan of Malkiel's "Random Walk Down Wall Street," I started reading this book with some healthy skepticism. While I was not converted to the chartist's philosophy, I felt like I did pick up some tools that could still be useful in a buy-and-hold strategy.
Everything a beginner needs to know.......2007-07-07
John Murphy's book explains nearly everything anyone who is looking to understand the technical side of the market could ask for.
PROS: Easy to follow. Starts from the ground up into the complicated stuff. Feels like a year's worth of college courses finished in a few weeks time. This is far and away the best overall stock book I've read to date. I'm making money now!
CONS: Spends a bit too much time on futures trading (for which the book was originally written) Doesn't get far enough into how much time should lapse as a pattern unfolds. Doesn't get much into the psychology of the trader's mind. Somewhat outdated on computer advances (not a big deal)
Classic Technical Analysis Book.......2007-06-28
I received 4 copies of this book during my course work at the NYIF, its an excellent referance manual for anyone applying Technical Analysis to the financial markets.
Excellent introduction to TA - an easy read.......2007-06-27
This is the first book I bought on TA and, honestly, it looked intimidating. It's not. Open it up and it reads cover to cover very quickly. Not too technical - not too basic. Just right. This is an excellent introduction to technical analysis: easy to read language, large print, nice heavy bright white pages. Oh, and the content is excellent as well: worded well, good organization, understandable examples and illustrations.
Customer Reviews:
Get the book but not the study guide........2006-06-26
Let me just start by saying that the book Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets by John Murphy is an excellent book; truely a classic which I highly reccomend. However, I found the study guide to be a waste of my time. It is filled with a bunch of quizes which are vaguely worded and won't do you much if any good. I guess they can help you to see how well you comprehended the chapters, but it has no supplemental information or sumaries on important material. It's just a bunch of multiple choice and matching. There was no further understanding of the material in my experience. Save your money, just buy the textbook, not the studyguide.
This is a stupid book about a non-sense theory.......2004-07-17
This is a stupid and non-critical book about a non-sense theory. Since the theory is able to predict everything it is completely meaningless!
For example: When the price approaches a support- or resistance- line, it will either bounce back, or, -believe it or not- break through the line. The theory does not even tell which event is most likely!
The java-scripts on my web page
( www.ragnarius.com/en/hokus/index.shtml ) demonstrates that everything the book says about the stock market also applies to random-walks.
Waste of time.......2003-11-22
John Murphy is a market technician with well deserved notoriety. The textbook, Technical Analysis of Financial Markets is excellent, the workbook is garbage. Poor questions, unclear statements and vaguely annotated charts muddle the text. The textbook covers 19 plus chapters, the workbook only goes to chapter 12. Disappointing.
Helpful but the questions may be too simple.......2001-07-23
This book is helpful for the readers who read John Murphy's classic. But I feel the questions may be too simple. If you read the text then you can answer most of them. They are not very challanging.
An invaluable self-study manual in Technical Analysis.......2000-08-12
This self-study manual with "Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets" is the best way to starting studying the technical analysis. This is, without doubt, the Bible!
It's easy-to-follow, step-by-step method leads you through each of the book's chapters and provides objectives that give your reading focus.
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